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The East Coast vs. West Coast (excuse me, the Least Coast vs. the Best Coast) rivalry is primarily one that was engendered by hip hop superstars Tupac Shakur and Christopher "Notorious B.I.G., a.k.a. Frank White, a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. Big Poppa" Wallace.
For those of you who don't follow hip hop, the rivalry began when Tupac Shakur was shot five times and robbed of his jewelry at a Manhattan recording studio in 1994. Shakur claimed he saw the aforementioned Mr. Wallace following the shooting, and immediately fingered him and implicated others involved with Mr. Wallace, including record label Bad Boy Records.
In his major label debut, Mr. Wallace released the track "Who Shot Ya?", perceivably implying that Wallace had been involved in the 1994 robbery. Shakur believed this to be a confirmation of his suspicions and released numerous tracks disrespecting the East Coast, and in particular, Bad Boy Records.
Then, like a huge wave of a young ...
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