Daz Dillinger reveals how Biggie’s radio comments sparked 2Pac’s wrath, leading to a series of diss records and an escalating feud between the East and West coasts.
Daz Dillinger opens up about one of the most pivotal moments in hip-hop history: the incident that ignited 2Pac’s wrath and led to a series of diss records aimed at The Notorious BIG
Dogg Pound’s producers were filming the “New York, New York” music video in Red Hook, Brooklyn, when everything changed.
While crews were inside the trailer, windows began to be shattered by gunfire.
“We were out there smoking, and all of a sudden the window blew out and something broke,” Dillinger explained. “But the n###### was still partying out there. You know what I’m saying? Next thing I knew something was shattering again. Street instinct kicked in. Get down on the floor.”
The shooting shocked Death Row Records. Security rushed in and asked where Snoop Dogg was, but no one said a word.
Once they were confirmed to be Death Row security, the crew left the place and ended filming.
But the real damage happened later.
“Because Funk Master Flex and Biggie came on the radio and told them that’s where they are. That’s the address. That’s where they are. Times Square represents New York. From that point on it was all over. Everything jumped.”
When 2Pac heard about the shooting, he was furious.
“Parker got out of jail, but he didn’t come. When he heard about it, he went crazy. He was just like home,” Dillinger recalled. “Then, you know, we started working on songs like ‘NY 187’ and a whole bunch of songs that I worked on that I hadn’t heard yet.”
In NY 187, Snoop Dogg shoots Biggie as a direct reaction to the trailer filming. The track became one of the fiercest responses to the East-West Coast feud.
Dillinger also revealed that despite the beef, there is still a connection between the coasts.
Before the two rappers died, Mays, Lil Seth and Biggie called Dillinger into the studio.
“Remember, Tupac was dead. Everybody was arguing, but we were still cool because they asked me to go to the studio and give him some weed. Biggie was there and I didn’t even sell him any weed. I just gave him two ounces. You know what I’m saying?”
Dillinger explained that Puffy was originally scheduled to remix the Dogg Pound album, but Suge Knight stepped in.
When asked about Biggie coming to Los Angeles so soon after 2Pac’s death, Dillinger called it bold.
“I’m not leaving New York. You know, you just have to learn gang culture and street culture. I don’t know what Puffy is thinking.”
