Big Gipp: LA Was All In on Biggie's Death, Black Hollywood Died & Never Recovered Afterward (Part 8)

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In this clip, Big Gipp recounted being at the party in LA the night Biggie was murdered and said he felt a bad vibe upon arriving. In response to Vlad saying he still has no idea who killed Biggie, Big Gipp said LA as a city was all in on BIG’s murder, which is why the real story never surfaced. According to Gipp, it was as if the city was retaliating for the death of Tupac.

[@jamaaldaynitelong8367]

I'll never forget watching Biggie interview in LA...Everyone was like why is he out there, it's too early something is going to happen.

[@telldetruth9259]

When being too cocky goes wrong..

[@jamaaldaynitelong8367]

@@telldetruth9259 WAAAAAAY too early...It seemed like they were almost trying the west coast...Unfortunate situation.

[@abc876]

@@telldetruth9259 well, Puff convinced Big to go to La

[@CrazyBronxBomba]

@@telldetruth9259 That was on Puff, BIGG didn’t really wanna be out there like that, not that soon anyway but Puff wanted to promote the album! Puff n Suge are the ones to blame because they were the ones beefing but using PAC n BIGG as pawns!

[@ZYaKnoe249]

Y’all gotta stop making excuses for Biggie. Both him & Tupac need to be held accountable for their actions as well

[@abdullahhassan9195]

Music is forever and so is death ~Big Gipp

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

Yea

[@ZYaKnoe249]

VLAD, I don’t know if you know this but Gipp was in a legendary rap group that had multiple albums

[@CrazyBronxBomba]

Right, Gipp can probably tell us some unheard Goodie Mobb stories, Atlanta stories, Dungeon Fam stories, etc etc etc, Vlad ain't asking him nothing about that...

[@triplebeans4159]

I only know him for talking about jay z all the time.

[@wallbanga17]

But yet he chooses to talk about Jay-Z or 2pac in every interview

[@chamgra]

Bro you trying way to hard to get Vlad attention.. Maybe you should start doing interviews

[@DLM323]

lol right huh.

[@bgrod3205]

You can tell Big Gipp spent a lot of time in LA LA LAND........everything he said was truth.....that part about the party go dark comes from the house parties that used to get lit up.....crazy💯😔

[@matthewbush2371]

RIP Brooklyn finest biggie 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏

[@ToasterForLife]

They underestimated Tupac’s influence and the love he had.

[@envyops]

I don't think those bullets flew at BIG from a great sense of love.

[@XAVIER4703]

@@envyops the order was out of love and hate especially from suge

[@studentoflife3501]

It wasn’t for pac it was for the city. You fans think more of pac then any gangbanger. Especially the crips they don’t give a f*ck.

[@Kalifornia_Dreaming]

@@envyops They did from Suge

[@mobmoneytelevision]

We on the west coast was going crazy when pac died

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

If you was not related to him or his friends thn yall just stupid.

[@GR8119]

Gipp speaking facts!!! I was a teen at that time, when both died, the coasts got silent. That gave the opportunity for the MidWest and the South to rise. Nelly came, Cash Money and No Limit, etc. It was a really change in music back then.

[@markeithcash]

Gipp dropping knowledge

[@yankee291]

Gipp is right. LA hip-hop got silently blackballed for at least two years after Biggie got killed. The industry blamed LA for all the drama and Biggie's death. The west didn't come back till Dre hit with Chronic 2001 in late 1999 and started working with the Dogg Pound again and no new LA artists got on until Game in 2004, like Gipp said.

[@space_dogg]

That's correct. Death row got straight up blackballed it wasn't even silently, their stuff was bush league because they didn't got backed by the industry at all Somebody like crooked i or a kurupt solo abum would've sold like bread in 94. Dre and them had like a second era from 1999 to 2005. The documentary was the last of that era

[@Marcus_shawn]

But it was puff fault 😂

[@bigolbabyhuey]

It was more than two years. The industry had no other choice but to blackball La hip hop, because La rappers were active gang members

[@angelicsoulz]

L.A. shxt just got old. Every song sounded like Foe Life or Black Superman.

[@yaMamaStillLuveMeTho]

i"ll say they never really recovered untill Jeezy went and got YG to be honest....Dre"s comeback was fueled by artist other than california"s I.E Eminem, 50 cent etc.....and Game just latched on to the G unit movement and vibe, but didnt exactly bring cali nor the vibes with him....even though alot of people worldwide didnt listen to him until after his death Nipsey helped usher in this LA's comebackin the late 2000s early 2010's....it was really probably the jerk era right before the Nip YG and ty$dollasign era that warmed the industry up to being receptive to LA music again.....it was a good 10 plus years before LA music was gettin any response...shit even in the streets

[@adesugbadapo]

My big cousin grew up and lived in new york but was always hanging around LA dudes when he went there for vacation cos of the weather..and he told me specifically how the mood changed when Pac died and his friends looked at him funny and the energy was just off when he flew to LA during that period..even as an immigrant from west africa..they still saw him as a new york nigga..bro had to cut that vacay short..

[@whatwhat9004]

And that shows just how foolish those guys were. Considering Tupac was killed by a dude who was from the LA. Not from NY.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

​@@whatwhat9004 exactly

[@Marcus_shawn]

He made a song called going back to Cali basically taunting Cali after pac died and Suge went to jail...ion know who thought that shit but they ain't think it through

[@itsascaryworld9788]

Yea, he used that westcoast beat and looking into it deeply DJ Pooh produced the original “going back to Cali” by LL CoolJ. Big kept saying he was paying homage to the west but if you listen to the song he was saying really making a statement about being unstoppable.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

No

[@upclosenpersonal100]

Idk it seems more like an opinion from a 2pac groupie, Paying Tribute & Taunting are entirely 2 different meanings 😂

[@Lil_tro_Vert]

@@upclosenpersonal100 so how about going on the radio and rapping “long kiss goodnight” which sealed his fate out here 🤷🏿

[@upclosenpersonal100]

@@Lil_tro_Vert who said that I ever said otherwise?? 😂 I'm only talking about Going Back To Cali, you're speaking of Long Kiss Goodnight ((which 2pac also dissed Big's homie Stretch from Live Squad "AFTER HIS DEATH" btw, if u wna take it there))

[@peacefulrage7102]

Vlad has the best content by far

[@ognak1]

Gippsland is right. You didn't have to be a genius to know that Biggie going to Cali in those days wasn't the best move.

[@randywatson1296]

Puff can keep drinking, and pedaling his liquor all he wants . But he’s going to eventually get his just due

[@TreeSnackz]

Still amazes me how comfortable Diddy is moving around the city

[@jamaaldaynitelong8367]

Because a lot of them dudes is dirty

[@zoomanx9661]

Professional licensed bodyguards

[@doggzone8904]

Diddy pays his taxes.

[@benjaminmarquez1994]

Diddy is well protected. Probably a fed

[@Marcus_shawn]

He lives there...why big killer is still on the loose...let that sink in

[@TRU.tv.]

He gave that sway freestyle that shit worth dying for😂😂

[@chadk890]

Shut up

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

Grow up

[@Lil_tro_Vert]

@@quanbrooklynkid7776 did he lie tho rip big, niggas have him a pass for a few months out here in La but going up on that radio and rapping that song sealed his fate

[@Smithryanjohn]

Wow someone who is willing to mention the FOI. Most people choose to forget their involvement in the rap/hiphop. Award shows, parties, industry contract negotiations. They made their power/influence known even to outsiders. But now its like they were not even that involved.

[@kf9926]

Remember people said it was a brother in a bow tie shoot big

[@Smithryanjohn]

@@kf9926 Eazy-E last days alive. FOI controlled who got to see him. Made sure who they wanted got to keep Ruthless.

[@kf9926]

@@Smithryanjohn that’s right

[@stevenjamesgiurbinojr6893]

💯👊

[@yungggbloodd3281]

NOI got they hands in a lot of murders & extortions since Malcolm X

[@theadskipper2928]

Sheesh that last sentence was a whole bar!

[@briangriffin2007]

4:21 Gipp made an interesting point. Death Row was so dominant that Snoop Dogg, one of the hottest acts in music, not just hip hop, had to go south just to keep his career going.

[@korancebland]

Biggie should have NEVER BEEN IN LOS ANGELES. IT'S INSANE.

[@ksrecordingsSTUDIO]

MUSIC IS FOREVER, SO IS DEATH...... DOESN'T MEAN THE 2 BELONG TOGETHER....... THNX GIPP

[@Mr.Mavericke]

Let's hear so more about Goodie Mobb

[@JC-nq3ux]

I'll say it again, I could listen to Big Gipp all day long

[@blackjesus6433]

Most fans knew biggie was going to get killed. 🙏🏾

[@Corbent15]

And Biggie absolutely deserved it, Puffy should’ve gotten the same thing too. They both should’ve died that night. “ A Boomerang Always Returns To The Individual That Threw It.”

[@itsascaryworld9788]

When biggie was on the radio I remember people saying the same. I remember in school everyone was talking about killing biggie, I know it was childish talk but the fact that 12-13 year olds were talking crazy like that about a person they never was wild. People wanted to smoke biggie or puffy if they caught them slipping.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

​@@Corbent15 Grow up

[@mindbully]

I hate when out of towners speak on behalf of LA. Bro, shut up. The city wasn’t all in on anything. That was a rap industry beef. Period. Worry about ATL.

[@kenwood1971]

😅

[@MarcusChefMark]

I saw biggie death video it was to quick hear the shots 🌌🙏🏾

[@vontaeEastCide3539]

💯

[@DLM323]

Yeah the city and the music game was dark, never the same.

[@405boy4]

Why is James Worthy sitting over there looking all hood lol

[@telldetruth9259]

Because VLAD loves his Tupac/Biggie stories instead

[@bigolbabyhuey]

Yeah, I'm not use to seeing James Worthy without his goggles and beard

[@juliuspowell2999]

@@bigolbabyhuey right! Where’s his Laker jersey? 🤔

[@benjaminmarquez1994]

Biggie freestyle (long Kiss goodnight) on the radio was his death sentence

[@Marcus_shawn]

Nobody told him to not rap that stupid shit far as I'm concerned everyone involved with him is guilty for not telling him not to do that

[@cochrankalan]

Dissing a dead man on the west coast on radio is crazy

[@Marcus_shawn]

@@cochrankalan when said man is loved by that coast...one of his last songs was to live and die in La and obviously he had the song California love...puff Diddy dropped the ball 🤣

[@truthdude8849]

They were sending death threats before that. Those subliminal shots is not what did it

[@chitownmytownofficialonean6067]

The original hit wasn't even supposed to happen where it did it was supposed to be at the after party but the only difference is that they were going to take the whole party out it was gonna be a blood bath biggie dying that night is sad but the reality of it is his death saved alot of others from being killed. It was the Andre Harrell after party there was only one way in and one way out the calls had already been made but for some reason it happened where it did there is a interview explaining this all in detail from a person that is a neutral party and dealt with death row and bad boy along with other labels.

[@Hitman_Entertainment]

Black Hollywood was still alive and well after 97… especially for television.

[@pureuncut187]

Gipp be deep

[@sandisonzimande220]

im glad he mentioned @theGame

[@queensheebah8628]

Gipp is my boo. He’s being honest. It’s the truth.

[@telldetruth9259]

He’s being a chatty patty

[@CrazyBronxBomba]

Is he gonna talk about his career or maybe tell some Goodie Mobb stories??

[@visionaryentertainment3916]

Even the Squares in California know Cali is not to be played with

[@RJCH88]

The West didn’t get back on our feet until Game? Ice Cube, West Side Connection, Nate Dogg killing it with all the hooks, E-40 and Too Short. For someone in the rap game, he should know the West was still good.

[@anitamarie9056]

Puffy is responsible for big passing !!!

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

The person behind the trigger is...

[@XAVIER4703]

@@quanbrooklynkid7776 true but puffy was on a whole other level of stupid at the time big went along tho so can't fully blame him

[@telldetruth9259]

Gipp gonna act like he wasn’t on tour in 96 when Biggie was rolling with South Side? Lol there’s literally pictures online

[@33GLOCK]

So he keeping it FAKE REAL? 😹😹😹😹

[@ohiorichkidbeats]

He's intelligent

[@currylee4111]

I agree

[@mattsheezy5469]

I wish Vlad would have ask Gipp about his song “Race War” ….”Born color blind, but I changed my mind…”

[@CaneCorsoShow]

Down South = the only TRUE voice of reason.... Not even including Texas as a whole b/c they've lost their way big time trying to follow LA culture. Big Gipp, Jocc, Slim Thugg have been saying things people need to hear and about the only ones.

[@AshtonKusher]

Cap keep Texas out your mouth Geechie Asx East Coast Nga

[@AshtonKusher]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 following LA Culture when the people who created LA Culture is from Texas and Lousiana you big dum btch. Worry about them Fake New York Blood Sets y'all got over there on the East Coast before you speak on anything regarding Texas lil bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@saucejames2349]

@@AshtonKusher on God 💀💀

[@CaneCorsoShow]

​@@AshtonKusher lol Probably twisting up your fingers now as you say that

[@AshtonKusher]

@@CaneCorsoShow Cap you from South Carolina that's what them fake East Coast Bloods Crips and GDs be doing where you from 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@queenofnyc5584]

Gipp seem happier here than on aod

[@ZYaKnoe249]

Jay z made a call

[@willruiz305]

Vlad pays more 💰 😅

[@triplebeans4159]

​@M Simmons Art of Dialogue, a 2pac obsessed interview channel.

[@novacain943]

​@@triplebeans4159😂😂😂

[@jackjill8129]

He just had a lot to get off his chest in his art interview

[@BrooklynBoyR60]

Duke became the new TK Kirkland smh

[@keithm9589]

Yeaa ppl don’t talk enough bout how The Game really saved the West.

[@tygur23]

Hip Hop has become predominantly a negative artform and when that energy is the main energy that is broadcast to the world it will come back to you

[@DIYD]

Is someone going to ask James a question?

[@YSuniverse856]

That’s not James Worthy.

[@YSuniverse856]

He’s King James Worthy

[@shadowgod7523]

We hve to be the dumbest people on earth and don’t even know it. What sense does this make?!

[@TheRealPMick]

Clear Qulk's name...we were at Suga Free's video shoot all day. Quik had nothing to do with it.

[@LeoGains]

Thanks Gipp for calling out Game. He carried the West for a long time and doesn’t get the credit. Dre left him off the Super Bowl. Ugh

[@UptownWatta]

Nah game left game off the superbowl

[@pudge-nyce2442]

It was Quincy Jones party. Pac was engaged to his daughter

[@thomaswalker3059]

Vlad it seem like you intentionally getting people on your show once Art had em on first. Your usual guest starting to come on his show but it seems more genuine

[@Sv_bleu]

Gipp talkn WAY different than that art of dialogue different he the one said puffy and them was acting like they way celebrating n bragging on pacs death

[@rayspruce1]

Biggie SHOULD have NOT been NO WHERE near L.A.🧏🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[@boohoova3430]

in LA celebrating an album called LIFE AFTWR DEATH!!? yeh.. cease to exist slowly my nigga. smmfh lol

[@modularman8528]

Born & bred Los Angelenos wasn't concerned about the 2pac biggie beef they was concerned about being blamed or focused on by the police over that bullchit as industry jealousy beef; at that time blacks & Mexicans was still beefing in LA all that music industry beefing don't mean nothing 2 noone in LA it's miniscule 🤏

[@thestemfiles]

Biggies murder was not gang related. It was too much of a professional hit.

[@Hitman_Entertainment]

Poochie killed him, fam. It’s open and shut

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

Maybe or maybe not

[@Hitman_Entertainment]

@@quanbrooklynkid7776 10000% did

[@fuhyou3223]

In February of 1997 MTV News said that Biggie was gonna be in California for A MONTH. That clip might pop up somewhere in the years to come but I personally recall seeing that on TV. That alone probably got back to Suge Knight. Let's be honest in saying that Biggie's death was a hit. I know "the west coast" likes to take credit for that but I believe it was done professionally. The shooter didn't blast up the car like they did on Pac and Suge. He rolled up saw who was in there let off about five shots in that one direction and he sped off. Bad Boy got a little too comfortable out there and some Death Row people probably infiltrated the business they had going on out there. From what's been said the decision to go to the VIBE party was a last minute thing so somebody told the shooter hey be out there at a certain time. Bad Boy is in here RIGHT NOW. All those people in there was probably on them giant brick cell phones back then feeding information to the guy and he followed up. We don't know who the shooter is but all the investigations have led to SUGE being the one who green lit the whole thing. Suge is doing 28 years in a California prison. If I was him and I really did it I'd admit it just to stick it to Puffy one last time. It ain't like they gonna ship him off to a New York prison. Them dudes wouldn't do NOTHIN to Suge anyway.

[@fuhyou3223]

He was in a car and pulled off afterwards.

[@truthdude8849]

If Suge admitted it, that migh be exactly what would get him hurt. People who love Biggie are still alive. Friends, Kids, etc

[@dawb86]

Diddy wouldn't care lol. Y'all didn't hear what Big Gene said Diddy said out of his own mouth before B.I.G. or even Pac had died? That main said 'I don't care if Pac or B.I.G. gotta die and if Suge gotta go to jail, SOMETHING gotta change...' Came out of that man's own mouth.

[@jackjill8129]

​@@Langston890 eeh it all depends. Suge could pay to keep people off his back

[@fuhyou3223]

@@truthdude8849 I don't know anything about where Suge is housed these days but assuming he's anywhere in California, nobody in there is gonna make an issue of him having Biggie taken out. If anything he'd get a lot of pats on the back and talks of how much they love Pac. Suge said despite the sentencing he's happy to be alive so I don't think he would care about getting more time. He could go through another trial or do an interview and say YEAH PUFFY I DID IT AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT HAHA! Suge has denied it all these years and there's other people involved so I don't necessarily know that he would go that route. The whole thing is crazy since there hasn't been one arrest and the theories that have come out might be true. The Amir theory or Poochie but we'll never truly know.

[@rellyperry]

Gripp be sounding like a hater a lot especially when he talk about hip hop

[@nickpapagiorgio3399]

Man ain't no black Hollywood

[@carinitolafountain5978]

One of the greatest Lakers right there.

[@rorodancer2254]

Vlad think he know for sure who killed Pac smh

[@quincyn2369]

He does. You haven’t watched the interviews?

[@rorodancer2254]

@@quincyn2369 lol you believe Keefe D and the rest of these characters

[@Makavel1p]

@@rorodancer2254 lol I can’t believe some people believ all that amc bullshit

[@hafizasaad9907]

Bro, it's been like 27 years ago bro. Move on.

[@2Faded247]

Naah

[@1993kim]

I agree! Lol let this old shit go

[@hafizasaad9907]

@M Simmons because it doesn't mean that I'm not a biggie and tupac fan bro

[@NoLineNoWait123AbC]

But still, why did you click? You can’t make somebody feel like you with a remedial comment, so why indulge in some shid you’re tired of. I’m sure it’s still fresh to his mama and other love ones.

[@hafizasaad9907]

@@NoLineNoWait123AbC Afeni Shakur is dead bro

[@elliot2177]

Hip Hop died when B.I.G. died.Period.

[@33GLOCK]

Naw

[@1993kim]

Nah

[@Corbent15]

“ HELL NO “, Biggie wasn’t loved like that outside of New York.

[@NoLineNoWait123AbC]

He didn’t birth it though. What are you typing? Do you have a father that you know? Does anybody in your immediate life get praise like this, and if so, if they passed, would life have to end for the rest the of the family?

[@elliot2177]

@@Corbent15 That is foolishness..Of course they do..He is in most top 5 goofy

[@kimbonumba9]

No we didn’t cause pac not from the east coast wth 🤦🏿‍♂️ he talking about 😂😂😂

[@deejohnson7198]

We tired of hearing this same story over and over, ask about how they came up with cell therapy!!! Beautiful skin….. tired of pac

[@datniggaeazye.5968]

Nate was at the party?

[@syrax101]

Big and ‘pac death was big… People that wanted the music, just wanted the rivalry… To this day, their music is influential.

[@bigolbabyhuey]

Big's death was more shocking than Pac's death. Everyone knew sooner than later someone was going clap Pac

[@33GLOCK]

​@@bigolbabyhuey exactly

[@ZYaKnoe249]

Biggie was in Cali for a month bragging and almost died in a car accident already.. he was clearly on a timeline as well..

[@abc876]

The ones that wanted the rivalry was media. As a fan of both in the 90's most of us just wanted the music not the beef

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

​@@bigolbabyhuey that's crazy

[@scottsimon769]

Last 🤬 💩

[@vladtv]

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[@ujimmamorgan1582]

It’s funny how people give death row A pass and are celebrated legends where crooked police alot of crooked people put together a record company built on dividing and they’re still celebrated at least Big was about the music what was suge night about?

[@fightgamer8311]

Biggie got smoked because of big jakes murder !

[@robbybrown6858]

We are our own worst enemy

[@telldetruth9259]

Co0n

[@queenofnyc5584]

Who’s we?

[@queenofnyc5584]

@@telldetruth9259 that word played out. Y’all black mofos hate the truth.

[@triplebeans4159]

Applies to all black people around the world.

[@marquesjohnson2903]

Suge pay for the hit ain’t no way around it

[@jaye5926]

😎

[@SONYLEGEND]

People have to understand Tupac was just going after biggie and he has said that in his lyrics All the Time... It was the media that coined the phrase "East Coast / West Coast Wars" .... And that phrase actually made it on the cover of a African American publication... Vibe magazine which is owned by Quincy Jones... So in many ways he helped fuel the flames that led to the demise of his daughter's fiance, Kidada Jones

[@sdotsloan4809]

First?

[@stokelyture589]

Nip put the West back on that level far as with me

[@TreeSnackz]

💯