I remember when I first heard Hit 'Em Up when the How Do U Want It maxi-single came out, I was all on that West Side stuff and I was against Biggie, Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, etc. (but not Jay-Z or Nas though, since when those disses came out Pac was already dead and it just wasn't the same). In hindsight, it was ignorant for me (and my friends) to stop being Biggie fans at the time, but Pac was just that convincing. I still bought Life After Death right when it came out, but to this day, who am I still bumping on a daily basis? Exactly.
But one thing I hated was that even though I was born and raised in SoCal, the lunchtime DJs at my high school would ALWAYS play Biggie songs... Juicy, Hypnotize, etc... but never Pac stuff. I'd even walk up to them and request it and even bring some of the bootlegs I had bought at the time (and I even reversed the cusswords to make "clean" versions) but the bitches were all on that Biggie shit