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Comparing The Murders Of Biggie Smalls And Tupac Shakur

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“Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur were murdered in similar ways, and their murders remain unsolved. Biggie and Tupac were both murdered in a drive by shooting, and both murders are surrounded by scandal and conspiracies. Biggie in Tupac had conflicts and afflation’s with Blood gang, Crips gang, and Nation of Islam. After Biggie Smalls’s and Tupac Shakur’s death there legacy lived on through the music, poetry, and movies they left behind.” On March 9th, 1997 Biggie Smalls was leaving from “vibe magazine party at the Peterson Automotive Museum”. (Randall 3) Biggie Smalls, Sean Combs, and the rest of Biggies entourage were on their way to the hotel. Sean rode in a white Chevy, with his driver Kenneth Story, and three bodyguards. “Biggie sat
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