Runnin' (dying To Live) - 2pac (feat. Notorious B.i.g) [TOP]

Eminem stripped away the original guest verses and replaced the upbeat production with a melancholic arrangement centered around a high-pitched sample of Edgar Winter's "Dying to Live".

The Edgar Winter sample— "Why am I fighting to live if I'm just living to fight? / Why am I trying to see when there ain't nothing in sight?" —acts as a philosophical inquiry into the "thug life" ideology. Runnin' (Dying To Live) - 2Pac (feat. Notorious B.I.G)

The track is bookended by interviews that provide a haunting meta-commentary on their rivalry. 2Pac discusses the "election" for the "nigga kingdom". Eminem stripped away the original guest verses and