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

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 track is bookended by interviews that provide a haunting meta-commentary on their rivalry. 2Pac discusses the "election" for the "nigga kingdom". Runnin' (Dying To Live) - 2Pac (feat. Notorious B.I.G)

The song is a posthumous remix of the 1994 track " Runnin' from tha Police ," originally produced by during a brief window when 2Pac and Biggie were friends. Eminem stripped away the original guest verses and

Featured verses from 2Pac, Biggie, Stretch, and Dramacydal over a lighter, up-tempo beat with a hook by Lil' Vicious. The song is a posthumous remix of the

While the original 1994 verses focused on "runnin'" from law enforcement, the 2003 remix reframes the lyrics as a struggle for survival within the violent culture that eventually claimed both artists.

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.

expresses shock at Pac’s death, recorded just weeks before his own murder: "I would never wish death on nobody... because there ain't no coming back from that" . Critical Legacy