Slow Burn

Biggie and Tupac | 2. Cops on My Tail

11.06.2019 - By Slate PodcastsPlay

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In 1992, Ronald Ray Howard shot and killed Texas state trooper Bill Davidson. His lawyer argued he’d been driven to murder by the music he’d been playing in his car: a dubbed copy of Tupac Shakur’s first album, 2Pacalypse Now. 

On the second episode of Slow Burn’s third season: How gangsta rap and law enforcement found themselves at war. 

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