In Vibe, then, Puffy denied any aggression at Tupac, and Biggie called "Who Shot Ya" initially "the intro to that shit Keith Murray was doing on Mary J Blige's joint." Biggie's puzzling explanation indirectly spotlit Puffy's vocals, shouting East Coast, motherfucker!.
Out of prison, Tupac answered in June 1996 by the B side " Hit 'Em Up" -accusing and menacing Biggie and Puffy by name -which legendary " diss track" inflamed the rap community's East/West rivalry to its peak. Either way, the single's timing was suspect. Once a January jailhouse interview of Tupac, hinting the suspicions, was read in Vibe magazine's April issue, "Who Shot Ya" intervening, "the industry rumor mill was churning." The central persons all disputed Tupac's portrayal, and Biggie called "crazy" the rumors blaming him via "Who Shot Ya" lyrics. Tupac instantly blamed Rosemond, and soon suspected privity by Puffy and Biggie. Reaching the studio's Times Square building lobby, Tupac was shot resisting robbery by waiting gunmen. That day, James " Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, managing an Uptown Records rapper, booked Tupac to record a cameo. Murry Interlude," a brief skit on Uptown Records singer Mary J Blige's R&B album My Life, coproduced by Puffy, released on November 29, 1994. A "snippet" of the mixtape track, but Murray's verse, plays in "K. Beyond a synthesized kick drum added, the instrumental is simply a sample that "chillingly" loops a portion of soul singer David Porter's 1971 song "I'm Afraid the Masquerade is Over," album Victim of the Joke? An Opera. Sharing the mixtape track's instrumental, the single replaces the Murray verse with a second Biggie verse, and expands Puffy's "hype man" vocals. īiggie, when interviewed, explained his "Who Shot Ya" lyrics as portraying a rivalry between drug dealers. Recalled as "menacing magic" that helps "define New York rap," "Who Shot Ya" was "controversial and hugely influential." Widely interpreted as a taunt at 2Pac, the single provoked a "rap battle" between the two rappers, formerly friends. While this 1994 release climbed the Billboard Hot 100, its new B side "Who Shot Ya"-now Biggie's "most infamous classic," with an instrumental now iconic -revised some vocals of a "Who Shot Ya" track, rapped by Biggie and Keith Murray, already issued on a mixtape from a Harlem DJ earlier in 1995. Puffy's emerging record label, Bad Boy Entertainment, released it on February 21, 1995, on an alternate reissue of Biggie's single " Big Poppa/Warning," out since December 5, 1994. " Who Shot Ya" or often " Who Shot Ya?" is a song by Brooklyn, New York, rapper the Notorious B.I.G., also called Biggie Smalls, backed by Sean Combs as the " hype man".
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