Biggie vs. TuPac. XOM vs. CVX (chart of the week)

Growing up in the 1990s/2000s I came to love hip-hop music of the same era—especially the works of Biggie Small aka the Notorious BIG and TuPac Shakur.

Little do people know that despite the tragedies that ended their lives, they were once close friends.

Biggie was East Coast and TuPac was West Coast.

After the 1911 dissolution of Standard Oil, Exxon, would keep the legacy HQ at 26 Broadway in NYC while Chevron was the West Coast descendant.

Chevron (then SoCAL) would call on Exxon (then Standard of NJ) to help invest in a little-known region of the world called Saudi Arabia.