The "Who Shot Ya?" instrumental section, itself now historic in rap, was produced by Puffy and one of his staff record producers. Puffy had first used it for a brief, rap interlude on Uptown Records singer Mary J. Blige's R&B album "My Life", released in late November 1994. The shared basis is a looping sample, a portion of David Porter's song "The Masquerade is Over" on his 1971 album "Victim of the Joke". In late February 1995, the "Who Shot Ya?" lyrics sounded much like a taunting of Tupac. In early February, Tupac had received a prison sentence, and in late November 1994 had been shot in a robbery by gunmen awaiting his arrival at a New York recording studio to record a verse for an Uptown Records rapper.'s April issue: Andre Harrell & Biggie Smalls on p 25, James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, aka "Booker", on pp 25–26, rapper Little Shawn on p 26, Sean "Puffy" Combs on p 27, and Randy "Stretch" Walker on pp 27 & 29.</ref>