In this minisode of The Reckoning deep-dive series, we break down the chaos that fueled the infamous East Coast vs. West Coast feud - you know, the one the music industry profited from while pretending to be absolutely shocked every time someone got shot.

We unravel how a young Sean “Puffy” Combs helped create a hyper-toxic environment that pushed Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls from genuine friends to reluctant rivals. Between gang politics, industry manipulation, and enough ego to power the Vegas strip, this wasn’t just a feud - it was a powder keg everyone kept tossing lit matches onto.

In this episode, we dig into:

• How Puffy’s ambition turned Bad Boy Records into a pressure cooker where chaos wasn’t a side effect - it was basically the business plan.

• The slow, ugly unraveling of Tupac and Biggie’s friendship thanks to outside forces who couldn’t mind their damn business

.• The role of gang politics, industry puppeteering, and the “grown adults making terrible decisions” cinematic universe.

• Why the night in Vegas wasn’t just tragic - it was the moment everything snapped.

• How Tupac’s death was the predictable outcome of systemic failure… and how Biggie’s murder could’ve been prevented if literally ANYONE involved had two functioning brain cells and a conscience.

• Puffy’s very… interesting behavior after both murders and the accountability questions that still follow him like a badly trained dog.

• The eerie confessions and destructive patterns hiding in Puffy’s lyrics and legacy, now laid bare in The Reckoning documentary.

Sprinkle in some betrayal, a dash of manipulation, two devastating murders, and a music industry counting its money in the background and you have the tragic recipe that shaped hip-hop history.

And don’t worry… I added just enough dark humor to keep us from emotionally flatlining.

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