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It's every Hip Hop Head's dream (sorry Biggie fans...). Tupac Amaru Shakur, the symbol of West Coast Rap and arguably the best rapper of all time, against Harlem's own legendary trash talkin' emcee, Big L. The two are featured on the track Deadly Combination from L's posthumous release, The Big Picture, which is absolutely hot fire. My dreams, however, of this seemingly perfect track always come into question when I get to thinking: is this a genuine track? Self-proclaimed "mix king" ron g tells the listeners at the beginning of the track, "I've got something the world ain't ready for" which I realized could mean one of two things. One, he was lucky enough to become the producer endearing enough to the ears of both Big L and 2Pac and have it all be a coincidence that they happened to have verses for the beat. Or two, he used his mixing prowess from a digging session in which he got his hands on some L and Pac a cappella tracks.
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