With the renewed interest in Rap beef — thanks to Kendrick Lamar’s verse on “Like That”- Busta Rhymes shared a new story about the infamous feud between The Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac.
The latest revelation about the two late icons’ historic beef comes courtesy of Busta, who recalled being present for the creation of one of Biggie’s alleged Rap verses taking aim at 2Pac.
During an appearance on “All The Smoke,” the Brooklyn rapper detailed an instance in which he attempted to get Biggie, Method Man, Nas, and himself on a track, but Biggie missed the first two studio sessions due to a broken elevator. The Bad Boy emcee suffered a severe leg injury during a 1996 car accident that prevented him from showing up for two back-to-back studio sessions.
Busta also said Meth and Nas never recorded their verses, and when the third studio session came around, both men opted out of attending.
“I got to Soundtracks [on] the third day. Elevators fine,” Busta remembers. “Big and [Lil’] Cease come. They pull up. Meth and Nas came two days in a row now. No Biggie. So, they was not coming on the third day.”
“We in the motherf**kin’ stu[dio] at the time, Branson is selling the most incredible bud in the hood and he would sell them in these jars that look like motherf**kin’ pickle jars… mason jars,” he recalls. “Cease would roll the blunts and Biggie would come with the Branson jars. He rolling weed. Blunt after blunt after blunt and Biggie just sitting in one of the studio chairs.”
Busta continued, “One hour, two hours, he just smoking. He ain’t writing nothing. About three hours in I’m like ‘My ni**a you ain’t going to do this verse my ni**a?’ That ni**a said, ‘I’m ready Buss.’”
According to Busta, as Biggie recorded his verse, he quickly realized that Biggie’s lyrics included subliminal disses aimed at 2Pac, which he recited.
“Diamonds on my neck, chrome drop-top/ Chillin’ on the scene, smokin’ pounds of green/ Oooh-wee, you see, the ugliest/ Money-hungriest, Brooklyn Loch Ness/ Nine millimeter cock test, wan fi’ test?/ And the winner is, not that thinner kid/ Bandanas, tattoos, my skin never bruise/ Land still cruise, Frank White…”
“I told Big, ‘I ain’t puttin this out. I ain’t puttin’ this out, man.’ Because Pac was my friend too. Pac choked the sound man out for me at a college show when we was [the] Leaders of the New School because we got there late. The n**ga turned the equipment off and wouldn’t let us get a sound check. This n**ga Pac ran up on this man and just choked him,” said Busta.
Hear the full story in detail in the clip below.
