Had to pause it a minute and change in.
About the NY NY vid, I may be mistaken, but didn't Snoop and them say they didn't shoot the footage of Snoop kicking down the buildings until after Big had them Red Hook nikkas shoot up the set?
The song itself was meant as a tribute.
"New York, New York big city of dreams, but everything in New York ain't always what it seems (it's gutter, gangsta), you might get fooled if you come from out of town, but I'm down by law, and from the Dogg Pound"
Nah.
The whole premise of the record was a diss/satire.
Having Kurupt on there doing his Keith Murray, lyrical miracle shyt was a in response to east coast nikkas acting like NY was the only place with real lyricists and west coast was only getting by on gang banging and sensationalism.
You got crip nikkas in NY, kicking over buildings, spitting like NY nikkas spit, it was a diss.