njohnson747
11-19-06, 04:51 PM
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(This conspiracy theory / rant / memorium took me an hour to write this morning - so if you don't like hip-hop music then this one ain't for you.)
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I’ll never forget the moment I found out that The Notorious BIG was dead. Murdered, in fact. It was on the front page of the “USA Today” newspaper sold across the street from the graduate school I was attending. I went across the street to buy some smokes and whammo! I got hit with the shocking news and stood there, stunned. My mouth dropped open and I remember saying out loud, “Suge Knight is above the law.”
Marion "Suge" Knight was (and is) one evil bastard. A convicted felon and former University of Miami football player he stands at 6’5” and 350 pounds. He is a monster of a man and ruled his California-based Death Row record company with an iron fist. A man who feeds on violence this SOB once ordered the beating of a sound technician in his studio for rewinding a music track too far back during a recording session. Nearly beat the man to death. That’s how Suge Knight is still doing business to this day. He acts above the law and has the money and the muscle to survive both the court, prison and the gang ghettos of Los Angeles.
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Now for those of you who have never heard of the great Notorious BIG he was better known as Biggie Smalls. His given name was Christopher Wallace and by all accounts he had a heart of gold as big as his 300-pound frame. He was a hip-hop artist extraordinaire – a natural talent. He committed all of his rhymes to memory and could lace words between beats like no one else before or since. He was a rap master.
And now he’s dead. It will be 10 years on March 9th, 2007 when the final chapter of the deadly Tupac / BIG feud finally ended in violence. It was a misunderstanding – two former friends who were so powerful that (in BIG’s words) they famously “waged a coastal beef”. East Coast hip-hop against those in the West. Biggie represented the best of the East and ‘Pac furiously fueled the hate-filled fire of the West Side. It nearly ripped hip-hop apart for good. And for what? Record sales, mostly. But it was personal the war between the two of them – a Cain vs. Able for the modern day. One good-hearted man in BIG verses one paranoid delusionist in Tupac. Fueled by money and by misunderstanding it lead to both of them lying on the pavement – dead as Julius Caesar. Both murders remain unsolved to this day.:ftw:
But everyone knows what happened. Another cruel irony in this sad tale of misunderstanding and subsequent hatred.
Make no mistake - Tupac was killed in Las Vegas because he tangled with some L.A. Crip gang members who were feuding with Suge Knight’s Piru Bloods gang in Las Vegas. The Notorious BIG had absolutely nothing, nothing to do with it. Tupac and Suge’s group got in a huge melee (recorded by security cameras) in the MGM Grand lobby in Vegas wit those Crips who later blasted at them both with pistols at the Koval Avenue intersection a few blocks away. Those rival Crip gang members murdered Tupac - and now the Crip gunmen and the driver of their car are murder victims themselves. Suge had each of them gunned down in the LA streets one at a time within a year of Pac's demise. Every time another "suspect" in the Tupac murder was found dead it was always in LA, the body was always found in an alley and it always made MTV News for about 30 seconds each time. Caskets closed, case closed.
But peace-loving B.I.G., well, what did he do to deserve to die except take Bad Boy Records exec Puff Daddy's travel itinerary to LA? Good-natured Biggie never hit back at 2Pac when 'Pac bragged about bagging Biggies wife on the "Hit 'em Up" video, never engaged 2Pac in a war of words or anything else like it. As Snoop Dogg said later- "Biggie didn't want none (of the feuding)."
But the PR wizard Puff Daddy threw caution to the wind and booked Biggie for a whirlwind trip through LA to promote the "Life After Death" double disc in March 1997. The monumental stupidity of that Puffy public relations trip will haunt P.Diddy the rest of his Diddy-damn life.
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As soon as Biggie got off that plane in Cali he was a marked man, marked for death by Death Row. Even BIG's own mother said she begged him not to go. And with The Notorious One on West Coast turf (and with Tupac recently in the grave and off the Death Row roster) Suge Knight had to take out Bad Boy's top artist. He wasn't avenging Tupac's death - he'd already done that. Suge made a business decision. Like, "I lost mine - now you lose yours".
Suge had dirty ex-cop affiliated with his own gang set - those Piru Bloods - stalk Biggie from the Vibe Industry Party in LA on March 9th, 1997. After the party a dirty cop (also a Piru Blood) met Biggies SUV caravan at an intersection and checked them one at a time for occupant identification. Then the dirty LAPD gang member fired four 9mm rounds into B.I.G.'s black suburban and killed him almost instantly. Then the dirty cop drove away - but was never charged by the LAPD. Lot's of cover up shit there - enough to fill another rant.
Poor Biggie. Tupac lingered for 3 days in a Las Vegas hospital before they took him off life support amidst a candlelight vigil by fans outside his hospital window. But Biggie, well, he fell out of his Suburban onto the street with blood pouring from his mouth and "Going Back to Cali" (his new CD track) playing on the SUV's stereo. He died right there on the pavement without another word. Gone. For nothing.
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"Who Shot Ya" was the unfortunately-titled B.I.G. track that sparked 2Pac's paranoid lunacy about a plot to murder him as supposedly perpetrated by The Notorious One. One thing had nothing to do with the other – Biggie never wanted any harm to come to Tupac and said as much. And even 'Pac realized after a while that it was the copious weed and the constant drinking of Hennessey that was fueling that personal suspicion, not facts. That, and Suge Knights well-cultivated aura of venomous hate in the Death Row camp. Hell, in the end they both could ask "who shot me" and the best answer to that would be the same answer. Marion "Suge" Knight. Bastard. He's the one that deserved the bullets - not them.
It's a crime of fate that it was Suge was in the driver's seat of that BMW in Vegas on November 13th, 1996 and not riding shotgun in the car like Tupac. Worse yet in my mind was the murder of The Notorious One at age 24. So it happened on March 9th, 2007. Yet another anniversary of the mindless killing of a promising young man – by a cold-blooded music executive.
Thanks for reading my rant / conspiracy theory / memorium to BIG. Even if you don’t love hip-hop you can agree with the need for law and order – even in the music industry.
(This conspiracy theory / rant / memorium took me an hour to write this morning - so if you don't like hip-hop music then this one ain't for you.)
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/4351/yardflexbiggiesu8.png (http://imageshack.us)
I’ll never forget the moment I found out that The Notorious BIG was dead. Murdered, in fact. It was on the front page of the “USA Today” newspaper sold across the street from the graduate school I was attending. I went across the street to buy some smokes and whammo! I got hit with the shocking news and stood there, stunned. My mouth dropped open and I remember saying out loud, “Suge Knight is above the law.”
Marion "Suge" Knight was (and is) one evil bastard. A convicted felon and former University of Miami football player he stands at 6’5” and 350 pounds. He is a monster of a man and ruled his California-based Death Row record company with an iron fist. A man who feeds on violence this SOB once ordered the beating of a sound technician in his studio for rewinding a music track too far back during a recording session. Nearly beat the man to death. That’s how Suge Knight is still doing business to this day. He acts above the law and has the money and the muscle to survive both the court, prison and the gang ghettos of Los Angeles.
http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/5364/marionsugeknightrapgallbr1.png (http://imageshack.us)
Now for those of you who have never heard of the great Notorious BIG he was better known as Biggie Smalls. His given name was Christopher Wallace and by all accounts he had a heart of gold as big as his 300-pound frame. He was a hip-hop artist extraordinaire – a natural talent. He committed all of his rhymes to memory and could lace words between beats like no one else before or since. He was a rap master.
And now he’s dead. It will be 10 years on March 9th, 2007 when the final chapter of the deadly Tupac / BIG feud finally ended in violence. It was a misunderstanding – two former friends who were so powerful that (in BIG’s words) they famously “waged a coastal beef”. East Coast hip-hop against those in the West. Biggie represented the best of the East and ‘Pac furiously fueled the hate-filled fire of the West Side. It nearly ripped hip-hop apart for good. And for what? Record sales, mostly. But it was personal the war between the two of them – a Cain vs. Able for the modern day. One good-hearted man in BIG verses one paranoid delusionist in Tupac. Fueled by money and by misunderstanding it lead to both of them lying on the pavement – dead as Julius Caesar. Both murders remain unsolved to this day.:ftw:
But everyone knows what happened. Another cruel irony in this sad tale of misunderstanding and subsequent hatred.
Make no mistake - Tupac was killed in Las Vegas because he tangled with some L.A. Crip gang members who were feuding with Suge Knight’s Piru Bloods gang in Las Vegas. The Notorious BIG had absolutely nothing, nothing to do with it. Tupac and Suge’s group got in a huge melee (recorded by security cameras) in the MGM Grand lobby in Vegas wit those Crips who later blasted at them both with pistols at the Koval Avenue intersection a few blocks away. Those rival Crip gang members murdered Tupac - and now the Crip gunmen and the driver of their car are murder victims themselves. Suge had each of them gunned down in the LA streets one at a time within a year of Pac's demise. Every time another "suspect" in the Tupac murder was found dead it was always in LA, the body was always found in an alley and it always made MTV News for about 30 seconds each time. Caskets closed, case closed.
But peace-loving B.I.G., well, what did he do to deserve to die except take Bad Boy Records exec Puff Daddy's travel itinerary to LA? Good-natured Biggie never hit back at 2Pac when 'Pac bragged about bagging Biggies wife on the "Hit 'em Up" video, never engaged 2Pac in a war of words or anything else like it. As Snoop Dogg said later- "Biggie didn't want none (of the feuding)."
But the PR wizard Puff Daddy threw caution to the wind and booked Biggie for a whirlwind trip through LA to promote the "Life After Death" double disc in March 1997. The monumental stupidity of that Puffy public relations trip will haunt P.Diddy the rest of his Diddy-damn life.
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/9647/puffyandbiggiexq4.png (http://imageshack.us)
As soon as Biggie got off that plane in Cali he was a marked man, marked for death by Death Row. Even BIG's own mother said she begged him not to go. And with The Notorious One on West Coast turf (and with Tupac recently in the grave and off the Death Row roster) Suge Knight had to take out Bad Boy's top artist. He wasn't avenging Tupac's death - he'd already done that. Suge made a business decision. Like, "I lost mine - now you lose yours".
Suge had dirty ex-cop affiliated with his own gang set - those Piru Bloods - stalk Biggie from the Vibe Industry Party in LA on March 9th, 1997. After the party a dirty cop (also a Piru Blood) met Biggies SUV caravan at an intersection and checked them one at a time for occupant identification. Then the dirty LAPD gang member fired four 9mm rounds into B.I.G.'s black suburban and killed him almost instantly. Then the dirty cop drove away - but was never charged by the LAPD. Lot's of cover up shit there - enough to fill another rant.
Poor Biggie. Tupac lingered for 3 days in a Las Vegas hospital before they took him off life support amidst a candlelight vigil by fans outside his hospital window. But Biggie, well, he fell out of his Suburban onto the street with blood pouring from his mouth and "Going Back to Cali" (his new CD track) playing on the SUV's stereo. He died right there on the pavement without another word. Gone. For nothing.
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/2627/leftmainbiggiejw7.png (http://imageshack.us)
"Who Shot Ya" was the unfortunately-titled B.I.G. track that sparked 2Pac's paranoid lunacy about a plot to murder him as supposedly perpetrated by The Notorious One. One thing had nothing to do with the other – Biggie never wanted any harm to come to Tupac and said as much. And even 'Pac realized after a while that it was the copious weed and the constant drinking of Hennessey that was fueling that personal suspicion, not facts. That, and Suge Knights well-cultivated aura of venomous hate in the Death Row camp. Hell, in the end they both could ask "who shot me" and the best answer to that would be the same answer. Marion "Suge" Knight. Bastard. He's the one that deserved the bullets - not them.
It's a crime of fate that it was Suge was in the driver's seat of that BMW in Vegas on November 13th, 1996 and not riding shotgun in the car like Tupac. Worse yet in my mind was the murder of The Notorious One at age 24. So it happened on March 9th, 2007. Yet another anniversary of the mindless killing of a promising young man – by a cold-blooded music executive.
Thanks for reading my rant / conspiracy theory / memorium to BIG. Even if you don’t love hip-hop you can agree with the need for law and order – even in the music industry.