Krazy187 said:
what was the line thrown at LL in "Who Shot Ya?"... i dont seem to hear one...
You cant hear it. Its more of an "inside diss".
You see, as you probably already know, "Who Shot Ya" was originally supposed to appear on Mary J Blige's My Life album as a skit. It was originally supposed to be a collabo between LL, Keith Murray and Biggie they were present at the session for it (this is in both VIBE's Biggie biography and that Junior MAFIA DVD) - however, this concept was dropped from the MJ album, and replaced with the Keith Murray interlude. BTW, the "Who Shot Ya" original version w/ both Biggie and Keith Murray leaked on a mixtape last year.
But anyway, at the this session, Biggie and LL had some sort of disagreement, nothing serious but just something on a competitive tip. So in '95, the solo version of "Who Shot Ya" is released as a b-side to the Big Poppa single, and later that year LL's responds with "I Shot Ya" on his Mr. Smith (Im assuming LL responds on both of the versions of it on the album) - they keep it subliminal without sayin which other's names. However, this is bad timing since 2pac is still paranoid from the shooting and and hearing NY rappers talk slick about him and westcoast on their radio stations and mixtapes while in prison, believes both songs are about him.
And 2pac espeically felt that even is Biggie's "Who Shot Ya" wasnt about him, he shouldve known better than to release it at the time to keep people from thinking it was meant to be a diss. But I have feeling that Pac & LL at some point mustve patched things ups cause he doesnt diss LL on "Hit Em Up" (I personally never heard of Chino XL until Pac mentioned him on this song), the Makaveli album, any of his interviews, and plus LL said the last he spoke to Pac at the Soul Train Awarsd in '96 and it was on a peaceful note. Pac only dissed LL on two unreleased songs that he, for all we know, probably had no intention of releasing.
But.....from that point on, many 2pac fans, believing bullshit that they read off of 2pac fansites and "beef sections", acutally believed that LL dissed 2pac because he was tryna be "hard" or because he needed to make a "comeback". They also look at the fact that Prodigy from Mobb Deep is on the "I Shot Ya" remix, but if you really know, both Keith Murray and Prodigy were dissing each other on the song (which is why some of his lyrics are blanked out).
Just a lil trivia I picked up here and there.
