Mobb Deep vs 2Pac (mid-90s) resolves

Why it matters

The Mobb Deep vs Tupac beef ended on September 13, 1996, the day Tupac died in Las Vegas. That is the only way most of the East/West conflict ended for any of the people who were in it. Nobody actually negotiated a resolution. The death of one of the principals stopped the records from being made. The Mobb Deep half of the beef had started when Tupac, on "Hit 'Em Up," had personally attacked Prodigy by name and referenced his sickle-cell anemia. Mobb Deep responded on "Drop a Gem on 'Em" (released as a single after Tupac's death and pulled from circulation by Loud out of respect; later included on Hell on Earth in November 1996). The exchange would have continued. It did not, because Tupac was killed in the drive-by on the Vegas Strip the same week the Mobb response was being recorded. Mobb Deep has talked about the strangeness of that timing in interviews ever since. You do not get to finish the conversation. The conversation ends with whoever is still alive. That is the actual rule of the East/West era and most of the deaths that followed.