It actually pays homage to "Biggy Smallz". Biggy Smallz (1979 - 1994) was a Los Angeles rapper and songwriter known for the few collaborations he had with famed hip-hop producer Johnny J. He is the subject of Tupac Shakur's controversial tribute song “God Bless the Dead”. This person should not be confused with The Notorious B.I.G., who went by a similar name: Biggie Smalls
@kns57002 жыл бұрын
Makes since sense Christopher Wallace died after Pac. That confused me. Lol
@NOSTIXVASQUEZ2 жыл бұрын
Tim Bigelow
@boatfromvsg80622 жыл бұрын
RIP Tim
@angelicupstart232 жыл бұрын
No. No it isn’t. It’s about Stretch’s friend Drik who went by Biggie Smalls. The song is dedicated to him
@bananasandfarts99452 жыл бұрын
@@angelicupstart23 this song is dedicated to biggie smallz a white teenage rapper who was shot before he could make it big, he was the notorious biggie smallz not B.I.G. I would really recommend listening to a few of his songs, they were pretty good for his time
@daniellenogales54526 жыл бұрын
("Don't worry if you see God first tell him shit got worst I ain't mad.") Probably the most badass line a rapper could say. It means his life was hard and fucked up living poor in the ghetto. Instead of God making it better it just got worse but he ain't mad. Can you imagine calling God out on that. 2 pac was real. Only a legend would say true things like this.
@ericl39312 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love that line. Imagine telling god to his face “bruh…it’s getting WORSE. But I ain’t mad” So legit
@BIGWILL65IMPALA8 жыл бұрын
Pac was the best hands down
@aidenchillin80385 жыл бұрын
@Jarrel Ely Pac
@aidenchillin80385 жыл бұрын
@Jarrel Ely PAC
@ruckficky14105 жыл бұрын
What do you mean "was the best"? HE'S STILL THE BEST
@ayemy3 жыл бұрын
him and skee-lo
@tpxly66715 жыл бұрын
I can listen to this track all day all years. 'God bless the dead'
@Kimeikus2 жыл бұрын
*2Pac’s word choice makes it seems like he’s talking to you.* I feel like that’s the reason why some people underrate his lyricism. It blends in with what he’s saying.
@RickyBeePhenomenal2 жыл бұрын
But....HE IS talking to YOU. His word play is powerful.
@newage2infinity Жыл бұрын
Great point that was surely part of his genuis
@TERRORBEATSinstrumentals10 жыл бұрын
There has been much confusion about this song as 2pac and The Notorious B.I.G. were famously enemies; many 2pac fans interpret this as a sign of Shakur’s psychic abilities (either that or really weird coincidences). This is not, however, an intimidating mock funeral for Biggie, but rather an actual memorial of one of 2Pacs friends. There was another rapper (never really made it, so really just another guy in the struggle) who went by the name Biggie Smalls: a Thug-Life-affiliated fellow named Drik who grew up in Queen'sbridge with Stretch and died in the early 90s. A legend of hip-hop culture tells that the lesser-known Biggie Smalls was the reason that the more famous Biggie Smalls changed his name to the Notorious BIG as a favor at the request of his then-friend 2pac, who was trying to keep his boy Drik from being upstaged, whereas the change to Notorious BIG was actually motivated by a law suit from the makers of the film Let’s Do It Again which featured a character named Biggie Smalls. (RapGenuis)
@elijawood897510 жыл бұрын
bro this song is not about drik
@juelzxxl10 жыл бұрын
Please don't reproduce... please
@TERRORBEATSinstrumentals10 жыл бұрын
illixer encoded this is from the site rap genuis, its all fact.
@TERRORBEATSinstrumentals10 жыл бұрын
ihatemakingusernames h i never said it was, people are saying that this was about biggie smalls the biggie we know but what i pasted above is the actual story.
@peterjohansen815710 жыл бұрын
thanks for stating the fact cause many does not know... pac dident even make music with stretch after the studio shooting stretch was also shot to death while pac was serving jail time
@Veganphobic2 жыл бұрын
I can see my sister right now in heaven with a blunt and brew. Never knew that line would one day mean something to me
@DrFabioz12 жыл бұрын
coolest voice ever at 1:59 "in my mind i can see it coming"
@MaryJaneManson14 жыл бұрын
No doubt! It gives me chills, you can straight up FEEL Pac's angst & frustration in that line, definitely one of the reasons God Bless The Dead is my favorite Pac song. For sure that struggle comes through in Pac's voice in this lyric.
@mmtapez1073 жыл бұрын
Yes bro exactly what x did as well rip 🐐
@morphine20023 жыл бұрын
Dude pac sing with his soul not his voice alone.....he put feelings with the words !!.......like no other...
@morphine20023 жыл бұрын
Haha take a 8 yrs reply !!
@kteam4u4 жыл бұрын
I just finished listened to a few of my favorite Biggie songs and I tried listening to those I’ve never heard and it hit me hard as a freakin rock that Tupac was definitely light years ahead of Biggie so now I’m back here jammin to my man Pac!
@LJ-qf9pi4 жыл бұрын
Spoken like a true up in smoke pac head
@S3verusMyG2 жыл бұрын
The Biggie mentioned in here was the original to don the name, he was killed in 94
@TheAnon71711 жыл бұрын
Second verse is fucking killer. One of the best ever.
@gavinmagz43110 жыл бұрын
Pac kilt it
@macklane41274 жыл бұрын
Sure did
@googleinvestigations2332 жыл бұрын
Tupac was referring to the white boy "BIGGY SMALLZ", who was shot and killed in the early 1990's. Not the Notorious BIG.
@nikosofidemporas2 жыл бұрын
No he wasn't. The guy changed his name to "Shadowcast" and has made songs under than nickname. Here is a 96 song kzbin.info/www/bejne/d56WoqJnfdyWmLM The song was intended to honor the memory of Big Dric, who was a close friend of Tupac and the Live Squad. and had nothing to do with the musical world, he was a graffit artist from Queens.
@bash2345s2 жыл бұрын
This song is actually dedicated to Tim Bigelow who's stage name was biggie smalls.
@seancagney13692 жыл бұрын
Biggie Smallz I believe, different spelling but there was another one you are right. I saw a video he did on youtube someone posted from the mid 90s.
@angelicupstart232 жыл бұрын
It’s dedicated to Drik. Who was also called Biggie Smalls. It’s not about a 15 year old white kid.
@nikosofidemporas2 жыл бұрын
Tim Bigelow was not dead when this released. He changed his name to "Shadowcast" and had songs after 1994.
@Xemeets949 жыл бұрын
Damn, the old days are so much better than the shit they play in the fucking radio.
@DaRealSavage999 жыл бұрын
True
@Xemeets949 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah dude. This is badass rap.
@DaRealSavage999 жыл бұрын
+Xemeets94 Yea today's music is plain garbage
@DaRealSavage999 жыл бұрын
+vmm805 I only like a few today's artist but I like the 90s rappers a lot more
@javiersoriano6719 жыл бұрын
+Thug Nation Records same here
@JP-no3yr9 жыл бұрын
2pac is fucking untouchable. God bless him.
@dolliehyatt748611 жыл бұрын
I love this song! Pac was ahead of his time. I truely miss him. He was definitely one of the realest rappers of all time.
@Sin2ThaSizzee11 жыл бұрын
This song proves Tupac was a true prophet, and that's what got him killed. God Bless The Dead!
@donalljacksonville21117 жыл бұрын
2pac was ahead of his fucckin time homie rip goat🙏🏿
@timothykangethe77002 жыл бұрын
One of 2pacs Illest Flow on an Insanely great Beat 🔊🎶🎯
@newage2infinity Жыл бұрын
That 2nd verse 🔥 looking back in my year book all the years took half my peers
@johnnapadano199311 жыл бұрын
The greatest rapper I have ever heard, the instrumental back round has a mix of so many emotions, the lyrics perfectly goes well with every beat, pure amazement.
@pennysworld43537 жыл бұрын
" my epitaph will read - was the last of Gs" the guy was a genius!
@LAXHAHA13 жыл бұрын
this track is banging !
@bigwinboard4 жыл бұрын
2pac is a legend.
@konatemodibo156010 жыл бұрын
Respect from " France "
@ivansantana77324 жыл бұрын
Crazy 25 years later and there still no justice in the court/jail systems
@chrismurray15582 жыл бұрын
Because he's not dead pac always talked about faking his death and in nevada it's legal to fake you're. Akil the mc is tupac in prison tupac talked about splitting his nose and growing his hair out and doing some crazy shit. Pacs homies even said that wasn't pacs ashes they smoked and what gives it away most is the autopsy report he wasn't 6'1 215lbs. Too many things point to him being alive than dead.
@marthamas11 ай бұрын
🖤🖤🖤🖤God Bless The Dead 🙏🏽🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🌹💯R.I.P. 2Pac🙏🏽🖤🖤🖤🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
@shinjiroukurama52604 жыл бұрын
I'm 13 years old and I wish I meer him 🥺💜🇵🇷🇩🇴
@vo31674 жыл бұрын
same bro
@ItsCheesy924 жыл бұрын
Same😥
@0okcin6052 жыл бұрын
meer
@mastermariogameryt2 жыл бұрын
same
@ammy5482 жыл бұрын
meer
@rphilly19127 жыл бұрын
Greatest of all time I swear still gives me chills..🙏💯💯🙌
@grosgorillequimangedesbana182512 жыл бұрын
thumbs up for the best rapper ever R.I.P bro Still Ballin
@LynnE507 Жыл бұрын
Listening for my dearly departed friend. He passed many years ago and I was there and couldn't save him in time. It's a fucked up and different type of grief, to survive something that your brother didn't. Much love to everyone here who has lost someone. ❤🕯🕊
@Pbofficial74312 жыл бұрын
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@losthart55772 жыл бұрын
2022 and still undisputed
@stuartwilliam6010 Жыл бұрын
“He shoulds had the guage in the trunk” 💯 👌🏻
@BlazenSkill12 жыл бұрын
he fully says "Rest in peace to my nigga biggie smalls." biggie smalls is un-mistakable
@DarkSoldier91611 жыл бұрын
This song was recorded in late 1994, before 2pac's imprisonment in February 1995.
@MDFANXD11 жыл бұрын
Good lyrics and the beat is really good. God bless the dead!
@rohinikumar79723 жыл бұрын
G.O.A.T period
@vinashkanhai73977 жыл бұрын
one of my favorite rap song ever
@tede.8113 жыл бұрын
Hardest core rap ever! These dudes meant business…but senseless killing all for nothing. Love the music, hate the violence. Peace out.
@yankeerojas972510 жыл бұрын
lets keep it real pac was better then biggie
@alizafar507210 жыл бұрын
BIG was talented, but not on Pac's level. Pac was a genius. He was multi-faceted. He was Prophetic, innovative, poetic, original, influential, and the person who took his life had no clue that they were robbing all of us of precious poetry.
@hafizulhaq73839 жыл бұрын
It doesnt matter how good biggie is but end of the DAY TUPAC IS WAY BETTER THAN BIGGIE
@derrickrosewiththewinning37159 жыл бұрын
Ok big would and the lox would destroy pac and the outlaws, take hit em up for example. How many times did they say fuck? Over 35 times
@tiaimanijohnson77839 жыл бұрын
yankee rojas thank you
@nvalenc19 жыл бұрын
yup
@earthwormjxm11 жыл бұрын
the realest ever
@lalohernandez59376 жыл бұрын
this real short, but real hard
@usmanhassanusmanhassan38462 жыл бұрын
I like this song too much 🙏💯
@24tupac6 жыл бұрын
What a song 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@ciskopike672310 жыл бұрын
Ffffffing love this G.O.D damn song, keep it coming.
@FlawlessGamingMedia11 жыл бұрын
Thank you...
@jr3034712 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite tracks hands down
@michaelblue61503 жыл бұрын
Deep and prophetic
@ogjohn33462 жыл бұрын
To the original Biggie Smalls(Tim Bigalow)... God bless the dead, this wasn't about Christopher Wallace!!
@MMAGUY009 жыл бұрын
This song is not for The Notorious B.I.G. This is for a guy called Drick, who was close friends with Streach and also was hangin around with 2pac. Drick was also called biggie smals but it was written biggy smalls.
@01dyerm9 жыл бұрын
'the other day, i thought i seen my homeboy biggie saying shit dont stop nigga' Its about BIG
@1969Makaveli7 жыл бұрын
All of yall are wrong Shock G says it in the 2pac documentary " THUG ANGEL: LIFE OF AN OUTLAW. If you got the dvd of this movie look up scene selection 25. Predicting Death. Shock G says in the interview... " Pac was a pre thinker makes you wonder how can he make a song ( GOD Bless The Dead) praising BIGGIE after BIGGIE died when PAC died first?" "Because PAC was a thinker like that he was always plotting, If i die this way put this out and if I die that way put this out. He was thinking, he wanted to cover all those bases. That`s game ain`t it? Whew, he was playing to win, he had a plan E, much less a plan B." By SHOCK G ( Tupac`s best friend and producer
@amarithompson26787 жыл бұрын
iraklis perakis He didn't say biggie he said biggie smalls which is B.I.G
@johnapplegate40207 жыл бұрын
iraklis perakis I'm glad you know the truth. There is a interview with stretch and he explains when PAC shot the cops..because he was there .. and he says this song was not about B.I.G. But their homie from queens. Shock G got it wrong
@desmondsheerin3597 жыл бұрын
This isn't big Sounds like him but it isn't
@majestixamvs49177 жыл бұрын
Pac killed this track
@agtjd Жыл бұрын
This song is fucking chilling
@teeahtate12 жыл бұрын
What a poet!
@romainm583110 жыл бұрын
Soooooooooooo good !!!
@derrickhowardjr38725 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece 🔥
@sinopino28124 жыл бұрын
The part where he talks about what should be written on his epitaph got him killed.
@cinderellaman95144 жыл бұрын
if i die will they all shed tears that hits hard
@reneewhite75884 жыл бұрын
2020#still🔥
@james769411 жыл бұрын
thanx for clearing that up was slightly confused
@nathanevans41905 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece
@C-ann-886 жыл бұрын
God Bless Pac 2018
@lewismorcombe1211 жыл бұрын
great song
@NOmoneynohone7 жыл бұрын
this song just came to my head about it I haven't ate all-day
@lightbringer3304 Жыл бұрын
Such a sad song... It's about friends who died young. God bless and rest their souls. God bless all my friends who died young. Whether it was murder, accident or just natural causes or fate.
@debcks11 жыл бұрын
tupac is the best
@trungkientrinh7014 Жыл бұрын
Ket thu c kiên was nog nooit hier geweest Ban. Kiên phai cou mong kiên blijf in ban.
@miguellmoctezuma2 жыл бұрын
The past week of comments just learned the news from tik tok
@0312tanisha9 жыл бұрын
super duper cool
@Bbqluv78 жыл бұрын
holy shit, rest in peace to the mother fucking goat 2pac n on my grave Flatbush Zombies would resurrect this beat 🔥💯🔥
@WizKidChuckee11 жыл бұрын
Pac had an some sort of death complex. He knew he was going to die young, and that is why he grinded so hard. He was always hustlin, to make a name for himself and to make enough tracks for them to still come out, once he was gone. This is a song he wrote about Christopher Wallace, Biggie Smalls, because like he said he was his boy back a few years ago. He wasn't friends with him, but he never wanted him dead. He didn't want a East West rivalry either. He was always prepared for death.
@clifffasthorse85053 жыл бұрын
The star that burns twice as bright lasts half as long. Don’t do anything great if you can’t handle congratulations.
@yohanesparuntu49802 жыл бұрын
No. This isn’t for Christopher Wallace. First, Pac died before that biggie. Secondly, This is for “biggy Smallz” aka Tim Bigelow. A friend of PAC that died. Lol.
@S3verusMyG2 жыл бұрын
@@yohanesparuntu4980 You also saw that white guys vid? Lol
@yohanesparuntu49802 жыл бұрын
@@S3verusMyG what video?
@DaRealSavage999 жыл бұрын
how can he make a tribute song to biggie when he died before him?#Alive
@sahbirezig12769 жыл бұрын
+Thug Nation Records I was thinking the same damnit
@paddyod168 жыл бұрын
+Thug Nation Records there was a young white dude from LA named Biggy Smallz who was rapping for a few years until he was killed in 1994. I think he only released a few songs, there's 3 on youtube.
@nasirthesenatejohnson69358 жыл бұрын
He's definitely dead but he was like Rachel. The girl from the Columbine shooting. they were both good people who always knew how they would go
@yungg43588 жыл бұрын
well pac always plotted his ways of death friends say he has lyrics he wrote to be made into a song if something he predicted came true
@jonathanc41668 жыл бұрын
I think it was the latter. Stretch also said in his verse something about springfield hollis crew and that has some connection with biggie. I can't remember if it's an area in new york big lived in or what but i have herd biggie talk about it in his songs.
@7xcvy12 жыл бұрын
I do agree with you, Sir.
@StreetzCultureTV Жыл бұрын
Life is full of symmetry
@larbahmanow26954 жыл бұрын
Long kiss goodnight, reaction to big track before pac died.
@deeznutzz368012 жыл бұрын
this shit is eternal
@jantjepohlodko21583 жыл бұрын
Legendary
@trungkientrinh7014 Жыл бұрын
My role models We all good Never meant do God bless dea
@trungkientrinh7014 Жыл бұрын
Thriller ieder song hanh heun tei nhâ.t Song thang day la thang khoc day
@trungkientrinh7014 Жыл бұрын
Ont haar laatste dagen Erachter tp long lay 64 Until the end of time
@theloz90012 жыл бұрын
dis is like 2pac=eminem, biggie=prrof. when biggie died dis was pac's dedication while eminem's difficult is his dedication 2 proof who was his best friend back then
@Pacluv7112 жыл бұрын
Thinking of you sweet Angel (on today 9/13/2012)
@DWES41512 жыл бұрын
pac made a bunch of different songs for different situations... this was made in case biggie died. i honestly think he knew everything that was goin to take place. pac was intelligent like that
@applejackplays81332 жыл бұрын
Bruh this song was made for tim bigelow who rap name was biggy smallz and inspired a movie which inspired Christopher aka notorious b.i.g and that's why Christopher never officially called biggie cause tim already Made music under the name
@glenzapata11759 жыл бұрын
God bless the pac
@3AtomicJabez813 жыл бұрын
........Respect Each other.........
@rendericeib45137 жыл бұрын
stretch's rhyme ROCKS
@jzilla123410 жыл бұрын
This track is Truthfacts packaged into super high concentration 2 minutes of verse.
@trungkientrinh7014 Жыл бұрын
Dg fi .. kg sick boo Pneur fi... giung tha Ai tra 2001 64
@ikeuzor95343 жыл бұрын
Late 2pac was too real. Damn
@trungkientrinh7014 Жыл бұрын
And there is no accidents
@Emoney5596 жыл бұрын
Paranoid got me lookin in the mirror,behind me,life without my nine?id rather do the time
@qTxny4 жыл бұрын
Omg this guy
@OvercomingInstincts139 жыл бұрын
God bless the dead... RIP Tupac
@trungkientrinh7014 Жыл бұрын
Iha groene oog cheui vui cut Patrik
@EndritBeshi13 жыл бұрын
never had a friend like me.Rest in peace 2pac and biggie rap Gods
@smokeweedeveryday25012 жыл бұрын
thats so fuckin ill.. rip pac. god bless
@trungkientrinh7014 Жыл бұрын
Real raren toe.
@oldsport2122 күн бұрын
The song pays respects to stretchs homie big dric
@ashfight2238 жыл бұрын
This song is actually directed to a west coast rapper "Biggy Smallz"
@jackieace17918 жыл бұрын
no, biggy is east coast
@ashfight2238 жыл бұрын
Jackie Ace Yea but there are two biggys, possibly more I'm not sure, and this song is directed one of tupacs friends whos name is "biggy smallz" not "biggie smalls" or "The Notorious B.I.G"
@RiverPlayer25888 жыл бұрын
+AshFightMount that explains the confusion cuz Tupac pass before biggie so i was like huh?
@chicago_baby19728 жыл бұрын
+Jackie Ace he's talking about the one that pass in '95 that was part of his rap group thug life I believe
@JadaCheth8 жыл бұрын
thats why biggie changed his name to notorious big ,big poppa