East vs West

In anticipation of the Biggie Smalls move, Flicks.co.nz has a brief history of hip hops east coast vs west coast 'wars': Media beat up? Record company propaganda? Or real-life vendettas? The tale of hip hop's 'East vs West' conflict - with the death of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. at its centre - has a lot of ins, lot of outs. Biggie biopic Notorious is now playing in cinemas, and so we present this prelude - a brief history of music's most intriguing drama...