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New Biography Reveals Biggie And Tupac Were Closer Than You Thought
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A life-changing new account of the Notorious B.I.G., Justin Tinsley's It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him, is expected out May 10, not long before what would've been the Brooklyn legend's 50th birthday celebration. On the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Tinsley takes us through the biography and too-brief discography of perhaps the best rapper of all time.

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Most fans realize that Biggie and Tupac were cordial before they became adversaries, yet it went way more profound than that."They in a flash hit it off," says Tinsley. "They were the two Geminis, so they were Gemini twins as it were. These folks were extraordinarily close. Tupac would have Biggie over his home when he was in L.A., [have him] rest on his lounge chair … Tupac regarded that Big was truly in the roads and he was doing what he was rapping about. What's more, clearly he adored the way that Biggie was a particularly gifted lyricist and scholar. In the mean time, Biggie truly valued the way that Tupac came from a political dissident ancestry, and he generally supported what he accepted were the wellbeing of Black individuals."

Tupac's cases on "Hit Them Up" of an undertaking with Biggie's better half, Faith Evans, were fiction, and becoming involved with the fight was destroying for her.Evans had gotten Biggie's approval for a studio cooperation with Tupac, with no thought how terrible the contention planned to turn into. "She went through some serious hardship in a conflict that she didn't request to be a piece of," Tinsley says.

A jazz performer named Donald Harrison was a youthful Biggie's Mr. Miyagi, showing him and his companions the insider facts of music-making."They would go around there and he would show them craftsmanship," says Tinsley. "'Here's where you stand before a mic. Here's breath control. Pay attention to these jazz craftsmen and comprehend, this is the means by which you can ride a beat."