This recent thing goes more into detail on the Mase issue.
The Complex article from awhile ago delved slightly into it but not with much detail.
On what should have been Lamont Coleman's 40th Birthday, Complex investigates one of hip-hop's greatest unfinished legends, Lamont "Big L" Coleman.
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Fat Joe: Big L was no punk. Whatsoever! Cause he was a little guy, and he was famous, people would try to start problems with him around his block and stuff like that. One time he put me on the spot. This is the first time I'm telling this story anywhere. We in The Tunnel and I'm in there with like 50 guys and Big L runs up on me. He says, "Yo, Joe, I got beef, man. Come with me. I got problems." So I go in, I got all my goons with me a shyt and when we get there it's Mase. They had some type of argument or misunderstanding and fukkin L threw me in the shyt.
Mike Boogie: [
On the song "Me & Big L"]
:"Remember when you and Mase was beefin/Mad that you never put him on that '8 iz Enuff'."
Fat Joe: The nikkas start screaming on Mase. "Yo, I'll fukk you up right now. I'ma smack the shyt outta him. Tell 'em Joe." This, this, that. Crazy shyt is that I was hangin' out with Mase the night before. I was like, "Oh my God." You know, Big L was my guy so he put me in a messed-up position. We worked it out though.
I heard it awhile back. I'm 40 years old so I read this 20 something years ago. Him and his brother were shot execution style I meant....but I could be wrong. It was over some shıt his brother did.
The early news reports had Big L as an innocent in it, but it looks like he got himself involved in the beef and paid the price.
According to his brother Donald, Big L went along on a murder attempt that their other brother Big Lee had sent from jail.
The hit failed, Gerard Woodley saw L as one of the guys who tried to kill him, so he killed L in return.
I don’t really think Donald would lie and make his beloved brother look bad.
Cam rapped about it too after people gave him shyt about going to Gerard’s funeral