This play draws from the ethos of hip-hop, African cosmology, and Western staples of theatre. The play explores the impact of two prophets and our impact on their legacy. How they changed the world and were changed by it, even in death. Tupac and Biggie were trying to make sense of the burning house that is America, and in kind, America aimed its capitalist fire at them. Their deaths were minted, literally and figuratively, in the American Zeitgeist. Their alleged beef became a prototype for young black men in the music industry to live and die by. And as the influence of Hip Hop grows, and profits skyrocket, it seems this new peculiar institution is reliant on the death of its best and brightest to feed its power. But beyond myth and misogyny, exploitation and violence, a timeless poetry echoes through the world. Pac and Biggie were two brothers in an endless family of creatives professing truth over everything. This play imagines the transition of these two Love Supremes and the glory they fearlessly and generously manifest.
Biko Eisen-Martin.
Playwright
