Editing Tupac Shakur (section)

=== The Notorious B.I.G. and Junior M.A.F.I.A. ===
{{See also|The Notorious B.I.G.}}
In 1993, while visiting Los Angeles, [[the Notorious B.I.G.]] asked a local drug dealer to introduce him to Shakur and they quickly became friends. The pair would socialize when Shakur went to New York or B.I.G. to Los Angeles.<ref name="Westhoff-2016">{{cite web|last=Westhoff|first=Ben|date=September 12, 2016|title=How Tupac and B.I.G. went from friends to deadly rivals|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/tupac-biggie-friends-to-foes/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814121519/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gqkqz3/tupac-biggie-friends-to-foes|archive-date=August 14, 2020|access-date=May 16, 2020|work=[[Vice.com]]}}</ref> During this period, at his own live shows, Shakur would call B.I.G. onto stage to rap with him and Stretch.<ref name="Westhoff-2016" /> Together, they recorded the songs "[[Runnin' from tha Police]]" and "House of Pain".

Reportedly, B.I.G. asked Shakur to manage him, whereupon Shakur advised him that [[Sean Combs]] would make him a star.<ref name="Westhoff-2016" /> Yet in the meantime, Shakur's lifestyle was comparatively lavish to B.I.G. who had not yet established himself.<ref name="Westhoff-2016" /> Shakur welcomed B.I.G. to join his side group Thug Life, but he would instead form his own side group, the [[Junior M.A.F.I.A.]], with his Brooklyn friends [[Lil' Cease]] and [[Lil' Kim]]. Shakur had a falling out with B.I.G. after Shakur was shot at Quad Studios in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Anderson|first=Joel|date=October 30, 2019|title=The Moment Tupac and Biggie Went From Friends to Enemies|url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/10/slow-burn-season-3-tupac-biggie.html|access-date=December 12, 2021|website=Slate Magazine|language=en}}</ref>