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Last Man Standing: how Hollywood became obsessed with the Biggie and Tupac murders

Nick Broomfield’s new documentary is the latest film to investigate the fatal east coast/west coast beef, but are the retellings muddying the waters?

Rumour has it Marion “Suge” Knight, fearsome supremo of Death Row records, once said Tupac Shakur was “worth more dead than alive”. Sadly he may have been right. We are coming up to the 25th anniversary of the killing of Shakur, likewise for Biggie Smalls, killed less than a year later. And in the intervening decades, their inextricably linked deaths and the east coast/west coast beef that led to them have been cemented into the foundations of hip-hop mythology, especially by the movies.

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