Napoleon of the Outlawz has been out of the spotlight for some time, but he recently popped back up and shared some thoughts on Biggie in a new interview.
On Monday (May 18), The Art of Dialogue shared a clip of 2Pac’s former artist being asked about Biggie coming to Los Angeles months after ‘Pac passed. In Napoleon’s opinion, the move was a mistake that cost Big his life.
“I think that was a very miscalculated step on his part, you know what I mean?” Napoleon said. “I think he underestimated the people’s love for ‘Pac. And I think it was a little arrogant, to be honest. Of course, we don’t wish death on nobody. And I’m not saying that this is what he gets. These not the words I’m saying but, I heard the radio!”
Napoleon went on to discuss how a radio interview made Biggie a target.
“I remember listening to the radio station and the phone calls that was coming in, the threats!” he continued. “Like people was threatening him. I think they asked him, ‘How you feel about Pac?’ and it was almost from an arrogant standpoint of view where he was like, ‘You know I got my own problems, I’m not worried abut dude’ or something like that, and the people took it as a form of disrespect. So I think for him, it was a little arrogant and it was disrespectful. No doubt it was disrespectful.”
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For Napoleon, he feels that maybe if Big would have just showed a little more love, he may still be here.
“I think when he was doing that, saying he’s coming back to Cali and he was doing these type of things, the people probably would have showed him love if he would have showed more love towards Pac,” he explained.
Listen to the full interview above.
Lets these men RIP.
Fuck that…Fat Boy needed to die for being cocky….Glad he’s worm food now….too bad that Puffy didn’t join him
Wow, that’s really scary man! There’s nothing righteous on this earth that calls for you to wish so much ill will upon other people. Sometimes, we curse ourselves by what we say with our mouths. I wish you well so I pray the hurt you feel goes away. Blessings and love to you.
I’m glad they’re both dead.
Pac had dissed the shit outta BIG .. im sure he was still salty by that .. aint no way BIG was going to show more love to PAC .. Biggie was gonna get killed no matter what he did .. im sure Biggie knew that as well ..
No need to show love but if you gonna turn up in rival coast and gloat and act like you the man then you gonna get burned. Should have just stayed your ass at home but didn’t cos he thought he can do what he wants and still gloat and make disses about a dead man and then play them on la radio – long kiss goodnight, and not expect anything. If you go nothing nice to say then don’t say shit esp if dude you talking about is dead. Have some respect.
Yep. Even J. Prince warned him, which he was and still is connected to the streets in LA since he gave Harry O the seed money to start Death Row. If an OG like that was telling you to watch yourself, you might want to listen instead of being on some ain’t shit gonna happen to me tip.
2pac dissed Biggie viciously and sparked the entire East Vs West rivalry. Why should Biggie give a crap about 2pac or avoid an entire city? That makes absolutely no sense. I love 2pac, he’s my favourite rapper dead or alive. But he was a very flawed character. And to accuse Biggie of being arrogant after the way 2pac went after him…. Napoleon is stupid as shit.
So is fine to let your boy that helped you so much get robbed and shot?
It doesn’t matter if he liked him or not. If you in a beef with some one and one of the people in that beef dies then the beef dies.
No one asked Biggie to go out west to the area which his rival was repping and start doing subliminal disses on the the radio, playing long kiss goodnight, also hanging out with gang members who were complicit in PACs death and to top it off to waltz around la like you the king with your gold cane (he hurt his leg in car accident) then what do you expect gonna happen??
You obviously want more smoke if you are moving like that. And that’s what Biggie got, he poked the fire while it was still hot and got burned. Simple as that. No if’s or buts, if you move like that you either think you are some untouchable/king or you some dumb ass who made the wrong moves. Either way got it coming. Nothing against big but that’s the way it is.
Napoleon who are you and who gives. A shit what u think you made no hits RIP BIGGIE
Napoleon was in all eyes on me one of the greatest hip hop album of all times. Napoleon also was super loyal to Pac.
He was one of the closest people to pac. He was an outlaw. Need I say that his catalog was bigger than BIG’s too?
Everyone been knowing this. Biggie Smalls was begging to get smoked by having his album release party in LA. But I wouldnt doubt Puff Daddy was the one who chose to have it in LA. Puff is a snake.
Oh. It was Puff’s idea all day. BIG’s mom was apprehensive of that move and kept calling duke to get out of LA ASAP but homeboy was feeling himself. Look how that turned out.
LA is known for killing and robbing out of town rappers. It dont matter if you try hiding in the nice areas. Bigggie Smalls got killed on Whilshire and Fairfax it aint even hood over there. Pop Smoke got killed in Beverly Hills. Tekashi snitch 9s music video set in Beverly Hills got shot up. Young Dolph got shot at in the tourist area on Highland and Hollywood Blvd LOL If you aint checking in and paying taxes you getting shot and robbed
Nipsey was checked in and paid taxes yet he was murdered here.
Nipsey got killed by a snitch from his hood after he told him to kick rocks.
Thats 100% 60s fault for letting that snitch still go around their hood and Nipseys fault for not having body guards. Fuck outta here out of towner LAME
Checking in Los Angeles? Bro stop it!!! I was born in Los Angeles off 108th Ave and Broadway Ave. You need to stop it. None of these dudes had to check in. It’s brothers like you who starts a whole bunch of bs. Nip got killed because he thought he was Slauson Ave and Crenshaw Blvd. Nip should’ve had like 2 to 3 armed bodyguards and armed security guards at his plaza 24 hours a day!!!
Nobody who is a functional adult needs to check in anywhere. That’s just for retards who go around “beefing” with people.
Yep. It’s a long history still going on today with the recent murders of Nip and Pop Smoke by the streets. Even Pac had beef himself with the streets when he first moved down there that the OGs had to squash for him. B.I.G. found out the hard way not to fuck around out there.
How much love can u show for a cat that claimed to sex your wife?
I understand Biggie for not having love for 2pac but to go to LA and perform Long Kiss Goodnight on the radio and think nothing would happen?
Yeah that was probably the stupidest shit i ever heard, no wonder he got hit up
Outlawz turned out to be all bark no bite
They were literally little kids when they were running with Pac. It was a rap group.
End of the day all them nigga know BIG did not have nothing with 2 Pac getting killed, 2 pac was responsible for his own killing, messing with a real gangster and find out real G do not play, niggas kill BIG and some bullshit, being Jealous
People don’t care if Biggie had anything to do with PAC death. Biggie was bedding PAC, someome touched PAC which meant there had to be revenge and it doesn’t matter who some one needs to pay the price is you touch one of mine and we’ll touch one of yours. Simple facts if Biggie stayed at home he would be still alive, plus he had hurt his leg that’s why he was limping around with his cane, come on dude you just involved in a car accident, stay at home dude and get better. Don’t jump on a plane while you limping with a cane and go out west to potential danger and you not even fully fit. Come on dude
Bottom Line is Biggie Smalls would never have got killed if he stayed away from LA. He pulled up to the city and got sent back to NYC in a box just like Pop Smoke.
The reason Biggie was killed had nothing to do with the 2pac murder. Diddy had issues with nigga from harlem who had ties with the crips on the westcoast. They were the same ones who were the protection for badboy when they visit to california. The hit was done from a westcoast nigga but the order was from a newyork nigga. It wasn’t meant for biggie,it was for puff.
BS. You don’t know squat. Just keep quiet. There’s no need to go over the nonsense that lead to his death again but it ain’t the gibberish you just posted.
I understand what Napoleon is saying. To be honest, I would’ve steered clear of LA for a while if I was Biggie. Somehow the timing didn’t seem right. Moreover, if he had to visit, I always felt that his security was very light for someone who had enemies on that side of town. His assassins caught him riding shotgun in a GMC Suburban with no tinted windows, side escort, bulletproof vest and inadequate bodyguard cover. What more can I say!? One can live by a G Code or whatever code they want, but whatever they choose must not defy common sense.
My angel doesn’t pick or choose. If you’re next you next.
..who shot ya
It is all facts. Biggie was talking mad shit about Pac in 95′ when he was locked up. And waited to diss him in 97′ when he was deceased. He had a album release party in LA, and it was very apparent to me he wanted to disrespect 2pac very much so after he died Long Kiss Goodnight. The man was a coward. Biggie is a great rapper, but he was a bitch. He wasn’t having no smoke for Pac’ in 96 when he came out the dude was scared asf. I’m not saying he deserved to die, but his arrogance showed that he was ready to die no pun intended. He tries to get Snoop, DPG shot up in Brooklyn he on the radio clowning on Pac after the studio shooting we need to stop acting like Biggie did absolutely nothing to receive 2pac’s wraith Biggie was a punk.
There is no conspiracy theory here. Biggie’s arrgoance got him killed much like 2pac in Vegas stomping out Baby Lane the difference here is Pac was wrapped in gang shit. Biggie tried fighting the whole coast with the level of disrespect.
It is all facts. Biggie was talking mad shit about Pac in 95′ when he was locked up. And waited to diss him in 97′ when he was deceased. He had a album release party in LA, and it was very apparent to me he wanted to disrespect 2pac very much so after he died Long Kiss Goodnight. The man was a coward. Biggie is a great rapper, but he was a bitch. He wasn’t having no smoke for Pac’ in 96 when he came out the dude was scared asf. I’m not saying he deserved to die, but his arrogance showed that he was ready to die no pun intended. He tries to get Snoop, DPG shot up in Brooklyn he on the radio clowning on Pac after the studio shooting we need to stop acting like Biggie did absolutely nothing to receive 2pac’s wraith Biggie was a punk.
There is no conspiracy theory here. Biggie’s arrogance got him killed much like 2pac in Vegas stomping out Baby Lane the difference here is Pac was wrapped in gang shit. Biggie tried fighting the whole coast with the level of disrespect.
You’re a retard. Long Kiss Goodnight was just a song. It wasn’t a subliminal diss to Pac, no matter how hard you groupies wanna spin it. You know why Big didn’t really want to beef? Not because he was a coward, dumbass. Because Big was a REAL street dude, who understood that there were consquenses for that shit. Why would he throw everything away like that? Pac, on the other hand, had beef with a bunch of motherfuckers on both coasts. It wasn’t Big who made a bunch of diss tracks against west coast artists. You can tell who the Pac Stans are, fake tough guys just like their idol lol.
There’s no such thing as a song, long kiss goodnight is a diss to pac, listen to the lyrics he even mentions dungarees (who wore dungarees back then, name all the famous rappers that Biggie could have been taking about who wore dungarees, he also talks about being mad at cha who had a song called that, how many other rappers? Plus other disses, all subliminals cos that’s how most east coast rappers unless you’re Tim dog was addressing any beef, no directs just indirects and the people that know will know what he’s saying.
Doesn’t matter even if you don’t think it was a diss. He still can’t go to west coast six months after PAC died and act like he the king out in LA, people in West coast took it as a diss to them by Biggie coming there acting like he couldn’t get touched. He dared them by going out there and they the west coast dudes were saying well if that’s what you wanna do while pain is still raw the come over homie and we’ll see. So went over and got murked, simple facts, eye for an eye. You take one of ours even if you didn’t do then we gonna take one of yours.
You are braindead
Biggie was no saint. Retards saying that Tupac fueled this. They ain’t saying that Biggie wasn’t loyal to ‘Pac. They ain’t saying Biggie put out Long Kiss Goodnight after ‘Pac died.
Bruh I don’t believe any of you had any ears for music before the two GOATS passed.yall should STFU
This weed carrier thinks Big was arrogant for coming to Cali? Like it was somehow disrespectful to Pac? What a fucking retard. Big didn’t want anything to do with that beef. That was all on Pac. The irony of all this is that Big was the one who really was a street dude, not Pac. Pac was an actor who played a gangster in a movie once and just ran with that persona. He got gassed up on his own hype. Big understood what was at stake, that’s why he never really responded. Big used rap to get out of the streetlife. Pac used rap to get in. Huge difference.
Who this mase?little cease,kim?stop acting like you knew these dudes or was in they circle,cant stand when u dudes speak on this ahit lie you got first hand information oh and you’re wrong by the way,sound lie a sour biggie fan who mad pacs the goat.
What am I wrong about exactly? Big never even responded to ANY of this bullshit. Not once. Your boy Pac on the other hand, was beefing with fucking everybody it seemed like. You know who does that? Wanna-be’s trying to look tough.You know who doesn’t do that? Real dudes from the street who understand that real beef has real consequences.
These dude was disrespectful while he was in jail laughing @ PAC starting rumors and shakur was supoose to let that slide? You are sucker BIG wanted no part of PAC because he knew tupac was crazy and feared NO ONE. Pac never lied about his life he put everything out there just go listen to “Dear Momma” “Holla At Me” “Death Around The Corner” what was he pretending to be man dude told you his life in his Music. Never ever disrespect the GOAT EVER!!!
Biggie laughing and pac and starting rumors? I don’t think so
2pac played gangsta? You know fuck all he was in the streets way more then big you could tell just by the energy
Saying Pac wasn’t a street nigga… U krazy, Pac used to buy crack for his Mom. Pac was already in the street life, grew from it. U need to get your facts straight, dumb nigga.
Man this was just a mess. As much as I love pac, my intuition tells me that Pac is the one that took it too far. I mean, Pack thinks Biggie has something to do with him getting shot and robbed, I just don’t believe it. But at the same time, Biggie’s response to Pac sounded arrogant and discerning. Pac blew up after that, but pac could’ve just left it as it was. Pac took it waaaay further than it should’ve gone. But rip to them both. I miss those dudes man. And I LOVE biggie, but Pac was the most heart-felt dude in that era man
Both Biggie and Pac were and still the best rappers of all time no matter what they went through but thanks them both rap became very popular music in the world.
From Cabinda, Angola
Goes out my shout out to them kings of rapshit
This Art of Dialogue Platform is a 2Pac support platform. Big should not have gone to Cali. And if so, he should not have do that Long Kiss Goodnight verse. But let me say this : 2Pac came to New York at went at New York cats in interviews. That’s every bit as arrogant as what Biggie did. And Napoleon had no problem with that. They both did right and they both did wrong.
That that bro
Big was alive then and didnt do shit, that was Pac bring a man. 2pac passed when Big finally had heart to pull that shit. Do your history next time …
If not for Pac’s bullshit Biggie would probably be around today. 2Pac was toxic and had issues with damn near everyone. Forced a beef with Badboy who weren’t even interested in him. Dude was bad news, it’s a shame he took Biggie down with him
Outlawz said that pacs last convo with them was he wanted to squash the beef with biggie that it was done and he just wanted to teach him a lesson. Pac was right, he was reaching out to biggie on who shot him thats all he wanted to know one on one but who was the one to stop the communication? Puff daddy off course its clear as day in the biggie movie too. He the reason why bug and pac never hashed it out.
Never trust a man who wears sunglasses at night time.
Hey, f**k you man.
-corey hart
Gene Deal can tell you all that happened. Ya’ll sleepin’ on the OG