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Article: East Coast-West Coast rivalry question resurfaces: Biggie looms large
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- Washington Afro-American
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- March 15, 1997
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Washington Afro-American
03-15-1997
East Coast-West Coast rivalry question resurfaces: Biggie looms large. after death
New York rapper Biggie Smalls didn't follow his own advice last week in Los Angeles and it cost him his life.
In the rap-reggae cut "Respect" from his 1994 debut album "Ready To Die" Biggie warned his fellow hustlers turned rappers not to allow prosperity to stop them from doing the things they had done to survive in the world of rocks, Glocks and Techs.
"Still tote your vest, cause n -- be tripping.
On the street without a gap?
Naw, n -- you slipping."
Biggie Smalls, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was killed in the early morning hours of March 9, when multiple rounds ...