Actually, your man passed the Gat to me

from The Notorious B.I.G. – What's Beef? Lyrics on Rap Genius

Meaning

A “Gat” is a term for gun, originally from shortening the word gatling gun, a Civil War era gun that looked like a wheelbarrow

Biggie has enough influence in the streets that he can convince your own friends to betray you (by lending him a gun). This could be read in two ways:

  1. Your friend gave Biggie the gun you depend on for protection so as to leave you defenseless against Biggie
  2. Your friend accompanied Biggie when Biggie came to kill you and even handed him the murder weapon

“Your man” is probably 2Pac. BIG is telling the listener that ‘Pac was scared of getting busted on a weapons charge so he gave BIG the gun(s) to hold. So, basically, hey guys… Tupac ain’t as hard as you would like to believe.

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