Philips Said He Didn’t Believe Biggie Connection At First

MTV News chatted with writer Chuck Philips on his explosive article in the Los Angeles Times Friday that fingered the Notorious B.I.G. as the man who pledged to pay Crips $1 million to kill rival rapper Tupac Shakur, and was killed himself by Crips when he only paid up $50,000 of the tab. “The revelation of Biggie was shocking to me,” Philips told MTV News on Thursday. “When this came up, I was just, … ‘I don’t believe it.’ So I went about trying to disprove it in various ways with various sources and that’s not what happened. What I ended up writing is what happened.” Read more.