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>Acts like Jay and Big and 2Pac had no interest in
>putting on the overground acts like The Roots and
>Common and Mos, not that they were even looking to
>make an effort to appeal to the mainstream.
I think that was the only time a real big rapper put on another group, I know Mr.15 was the happiest when he mentioned it in here they was working on a show with Jay, that kind of opened the doors for them (and Jay helping them get signed to DefJam) cause that started the whole Roots collaboration phase, with artists such as Pharrell, Al Green, Betty Wright, not to mention that Dave Chappelle dvd concert kind of helped them as well, plus Questo DJing gigs, which got the attention of Jimmy Fallon and them becoming a tv show band, then doing more collaboration albums with people like John Legend, Elvis Costello, doing the remix Hamilton soundtrack, etc.
With biggie & tupac I don't think were in situations to put anybody on except their own crew cause at the time they were still getting bigger & bigger stars every month, with them dying is what made them bigger than life, but tupac was too busy making enemies rather than friends right before he died.
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