Puffy and Biggie responded in "Vibe"'s September 1996 issue. Puffy summarized, "All shit aside, Tupac is a nice good-hearted guy," actually "a nice guy from "New York." Denying that he felt threatened, and depicting himself as victim of merely "a lot of moviemaking and a lot of entertainment drama," Puffy remarked about real threats, "There ain't no record gonna be made about it." Himself asked about "Who Shot Ya?" as motivating "Hit 'Em Up," Biggie asserted, "I wrote that motherfucking song way before Tupac got shot. It was supposed to be the intro to that shit Keith Murray was doing on Mary J. Blige's joint. But Puff said it was too hard."