Last updated on November 28, 2025
Tupac’s Makaveli album was not released as he had originally envisioned. The unreleased back cover boldly portrayed Puffy in a pink skirt as a ballerina and Biggie as a pig, underscoring Tupac’s unyielding assault on Puffy and Bad Boy Records. Pac was relentless in his feud, and the artwork captured the intensity of his rivalry.
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“The album changed a lot when Pac died, it was no longer a mixtape and they made it into a studio album. The original artwork had images I did of Biggie as a pig and Puffy as a ballerina, because Pac was still at war with them. That all got taken out when it became this commercial project.” – Artist Ronald “Riskie” Brent
Thomas Dishaw is the creator of RapTherapy.co and founder of Artist Deserved, a platform built to help artists earn more. During his work at Royce da 5’9″’s Heaven Studios, he interviewed influential Detroit artists including Tee Grizzley, Babyface Ray, Payroll Giovanni, Royce da 5’9″, Icewear Vezzo, and Street Lord Juan.
A lifelong hip hop fan, Thomas launched his independent label Napalm Productions at age 20, releasing albums and mixtapes from 1998 to 2008.
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