What's up, y'all? I'm Joel Anderson, and I'm here to tell you about the new season of Slowburn.

In our first two seasons, we looked back at two of the biggest stories of the late 20th century.

The Watergate scandal and the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

For season three, we're looking at another.

The creative lives and the tragic deaths of Tupac Shakur and the notorious Viaji.

Tupac kept ending every sentence with Wutti Wutti Wutti Wutti.

Because he was nervous.

I feel like he had the smoke cigarettes just to get through it because he knew he was downloading something

and very heavy.

We'll take you back to the 90s.

When hip hop took over pop culture, rap lyrics were used as evidence and murder trials.

And the vice president of the United States called on record companies to pull albums from stores.

And we'll tell the stories of Biggie, a one-time crack dealer from Brooklyn.

Biggie's brilliant.

He was someone who just outright was like,

I'm lyrically superior and I'll take your girl.

And Tupac, the son of a black panther who came up in the Bay Area.

He had every bit of street bonafide that he would ever need as a black panther baby.

But for whatever reason, Tupac thought that that wasn't enough for him.

In just a few years, they changed music forever.

They also went from allies to enemies.

I was there when Biggie and Tupac were friends.

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