Harlem MC Big L was tragically shot and killed in 1999, bringing his brief yet legendary career to an abrupt end. At just 24 years old, Big L was nowhere near done putting his lyrical talents to good use.

According to Big L’s former collaborator  DJ Ron G, the late rapper was planning on making a track with 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., and JAY-Z before his untimely passing. During a recent interview with The Art of Dialogue, Ron G was asked how the Big L single “Deadly Combination” featuring 2Pac came to be.

“His dream was he wanted to do a song with Biggie and 2Pac, and he was lyrically nice,” he says in the clip. “So before he got killed, we were sitting in my studio smoking, and he’s like, ‘Yo, I just want to do a song with JAY-Z, Biggie, and 2Pac.’ I was like, ‘Word.'”

Rawkus Records, DJ Premier, and Lord Finesse were working on a Big L album at the time and asked Ron G if he had a song that would help the album sell.

“I got a few songs with Big L, but I got a song with Big L that I want to put 2Pac on and Biggie on ’cause I have vocals with Biggie, too,” Ron G explained. “When they heard it, they flipped. They lost their mind … Even Premier was like, ‘This crazy, G.'”

After speaking to the Tupac Shakur Estate and Biggie’s mother Voletta Wallace, the song fell apart.

“She [Ms. Wallace] was like, ‘Take my son off of the song,'” he continues. “She was upset that I came to her with the song, and she was also upset that I came there with my lawyer. I never seen Ms. Wallace after that. I just was like, ‘Well, take Biggie off,’ and we left it like that.

2Pac did end up on Big L’s 2000 posthumous album, The Bigger Picture, on the track “Deadly Competition.”Check out the track below and stay tuned for more hip-hop news.