The Ballad of Biggie and Tupac
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur had a famous beef with one another in the mid-90s. It was so intense, it sparked an even wider rivalry between the East and West Coasts. In just a few years, both men had been murdered and the music world was changed forever.
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| 0:54.1 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. So this is a good old-fashioned stuff you should know. One of our ongoing hip-hop editions. Yeah. I feel like a dork anytime I say hip-hop, so I usually say rap. Yeah. But regardless, that's what we're talking about. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, we're talking about Biggie and Tupac, and we want to issue a warning and a trigger warning. |
| 1:18.8 | Not, no pun intended there, but this one's obviously going to, because we're talking about the lies of these two guys who were in many ways in many ways, uh, real gangstas. |
| 1:28.9 | Um, a lot of stuff went down, including, uh, sexual assault and, uh, gun play and, uh, murder. And it's, uh, you know, it's probably not appropriate for, for the younger listeners. And so you just want to get that out there. Hopefully, if you know anything about Biggie and Tupac, |
| 1:44.2 | you know that there's some more adult content coming your way. |
| 1:47.7 | Nice C-O. So we just wanted to get that out there. Hopefully, if you know anything about Biggie and Tupac, you know that there's some more adult content coming your way. |
| 1:47.7 | Nice COA, man. |
| 1:48.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.8 | So, yeah, we are talking about Biggie and Tupac, and they are pretty well known. |
| 1:54.3 | If you listen to either one of them or even kind of have a passing awareness of hip hop, especially in the 90s, you probably know that Biggie and Tupac had probably the biggest rivalry in the hip hop world. |
| 2:06.8 | It's referred to as a beef between one another, so much so that it actually triggered or caused, at the very least, popularized the East Coast versus West Coast thing of rap in the 1990s. |
| 2:21.7 | That was huge. |
| 2:22.6 | It was the central focus of rap during basically that whole decade. |
| 2:27.9 | Yeah. |
| 2:28.0 | And sadly, would leave both of them dead from violence. |
| 2:34.4 | I hope that's not a spoiler for anyone. would leave both of them dead from violence. It was, |
| 2:35.5 | I hope that's not a spoiler for anyone. |
| 2:38.7 | But yeah, |
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