Kurupt Speaks on "New York New York", Bad Boy Beef, "L.A. L.A." and More.

[Hack Wilson - real]

what kurupt aint saying is that biggie called up to the radio station the day they was making the  NY video...and said(i can't believe  yall letting these niggaz come to NY and make a diss song about New York).after that interview went all over the ny air waves,thats when they trailer got shot up...words from pacs,and the dogg pounds body guard -Big Frank-

he probably forgot


but Biggie was a bitch for that, those were his boys.  it's not like it was a group that Biggie never knew that was coming up there to do that shit...Daz used to sell Biggie weed in 93/94 when he came to the west

[LAC/EASTSIDE]

Kurupt was my favorite growing up.

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

gotta respect kurupt for bringing up crooked i in this!

After Wayne

[BabyBird]

macho luv from 805 to dat 108

[One2free]

Im not buyin that bullshit. So, NY NY was a kind of eastcoast love track at start?

[HighEyeCue]

Im not buyin that bullshit. So, NY NY was a kind of eastcoast love track at start?

yeah I never bought that either. If it was why was Kurupt talking about how he served "2000 MC's" in NY?

sounds like a diss to me.

[One2free]

Yeee, looks like Kurupt is coming saying 'Hey that wasn't me or anyone, that was Tupac's fault'.. dude please... Like NY NY wasn't mean to be a diss, but they got shot at because of Biggie, & he's sayin he got nothing but love for biggie ?

Years after, seems like a bitch statement to me.. You did it, assume what you did

[bouli77]

Yeee, looks like Kurupt is coming saying 'Hey that wasn't me or anyone, that was Tupac's fault'.. dude please... Like NY NY wasn't mean to be a diss, but they got shot at because of Biggie, & he's sayin he got nothing but love for biggie ?

Years after, seems like a bitch statement to me.. You did it, assume what you did

well i always understood and thought that NY NY wasn't a diss per se... Kurupt isn't targetting anybody in the song, he's just doing the old egotrip kind of song that's always been done. it was Kurupt's way of responding to the critics who were trashing westcoast music for not being "lyrical" and "hip-hop" enough. by doing an east coast type of song concept wise and lyric wise, Kurupt was like "ok ima play by your rules and i'ma serve you all, showing that i can get down too"... if you look at the 2pac DVD at the House of Blues you have Snoop & Kurupt saying at the end of the song something like "no disrespect to the East coast, shout out to OG Melle Mell & Grand Master Flash"...


as far as biggie idk man, Kurupt's always been friendly with everyone in the industry except for a few cats he had beef with, Death Row & Bad Boy artists were tight in the beginning, they were on stage together, etc. and Kurupt doesn't seem one to hold a grudge forever, after all the shit Daz said publicly on him, after the beef with DMX & Ja Rule, etc.

[Fresh Bone]

'New York, New York' was a homage to the East Coast, not a diss.
The beginning of the song was what happened outside The Tunnel nightclub when Tha Dogg Pound were there in '93, like Kurupt said, smashing on about 200 East Coast rappers. Kurupt went hardcore lyrical on the track, showing West Coast rappers could do it too.
When it came to record the video, Tha Dogg Pound invited any + all the East Coast rappers.
The day of the shoot, Notorious B.I.G. went on Hot97 saying 2PAC + Tha Dogg Pound are making a diss video in Times Square, and someone shot at Snoop's trailer.
When Tha Dogg Pound got back to L.A., they added the parts with kicking over buildings because they had been shot at, when they were showing New York love.
When 2PAC signed to Death Row, this situation among about 10 others were the reason he went at Bad Boy. Biggie was seriously two faced.

[NewYork Pope]

i love how he answers so honestly about NY 87

even the Nas/Jay Z part was honest...

u dont see that these days with artists, cuz their afraid they might ruin network relationships etc..

word. i miss the days in hip hop where a muthafucka said what they wanted..... only a few do today.

50 cent the only one don't bite his tongue. That's why Kurupt like him the best, his wish he could do that. lol
50 dont care abut breaking network cause he create his domain so big that he still survive. Dude gets blackballed, most people dont' mess with 50 today, even fans, but he still does his thing cause the fans in his domain are big enough (tho not the same). Plus his paper long.

[NewYork Pope]

I do believe Ny NY was both a diss and homage, a lil more of a diss be cause of the hook, but that was a sample of Frank Sinatra's on own words, not DPG. But funny choice of word obviously kinda dissed NY.

The diss, however, I don't think was meant to this the WHOLE east or NY namely. It seem that i was about those in NY who crapped on them about lyrics skills etc.. hence Kurupt going to serve them on their level.
So it was sarcastic at the same time hence the "Yo B", Yo god" "what is it money" in the intro. Somehow I translate that them saying it's how Eastcoast cats sound on records before they spit and poking fun at same time. lol
The diss and fun are more at the dudes to criticized. It sound along the line of Westside Connection 's "New York Critics" song.
Their song was really about those from in NY who criticize the west, although it was taking as a diss to the whole NY.

Classic song either way. it made history on various levels.

[Okka]

I do believe Ny NY was both a diss and homage, a lil more of a diss be cause of the hook, but that was a sample of Frank Sinatra's on own words, not DPG. But funny choice of word obviously kinda dissed NY.

The diss, however, I don't think was meant to this the WHOLE east or NY namely. It seem that i was about those in NY who crapped on them about lyrics skills etc.. hence Kurupt going to serve them on their level.
So it was sarcastic at the same time hence the "Yo B", Yo god" "what is it money" in the intro. Somehow I translate that them saying it's how Eastcoast cats sound on records before they spit and poking fun at same time. lol
The diss and fun are more at the dudes to criticized. It sound along the line of Westside Connection 's "New York Critics" song.
Their song was really about those from in NY who criticize the west, although it was taking as a diss to the whole NY.

Classic song either way. it made history on various levels.

Have you heard the version of "L.A., L.A." that has an intro? Now that's funny.