People think I just got out of jail, and was like just because I got shot on the east coast, I'm like, "fuck the east coast"... Half the rappers from the East Coast was there when I got shot, and nobody knew a thing.. That's just like you coming to the hood and the police ask what happened, and everybody be like I don't know.. YOU KNOW THEY LYING!!! And all I was doing, was like, give me my proper ethicit..
If Biggie was out here on the West Coast, and he was in the studio with me and we homeboys, and he got shot.. You know I wouldn't tell him who did it, but either way, I wouldn't go ride on the niggas who did it, but he'd wanna know who did it.. And I'll be like, "look man, these niggas Farock did it, and they wide, they wanna talk to you".. wam-wam-wam, that's how I'll do it..
Just like when the niggas on the 60's wanted to get Tretch, I went to him personally and talked to him.. I do it by the rules of ethicit.. So, I got shot I was like, "yo what happened?, come see me in jail".. Biggie all on the air talking 'bout, "yeah Pac was woo-woo", but NOT serious.. My homeboy Stretch is going to Biggie's concerts.. Niggas is like ABANDONING ME! But all on the air and on T.V they was like, "yeah Pac, you know, keep ya struggles on".. I was like, "yo I'm starting to turn into like Slick Rick".. Niggas is just gonna act like I'm a just be in jail, and they gonna give me shout-out, and try to take my position.. And if you watch, that's what Biggie did..
Listen to his Album.. I was there, I trained the nigga.. He used to be under me like my Luitenent.. I use to come to New York, I use to do shows and let the nigga come on before I do Keep Ya Head Up and Get Around.. Cause nobody knew the nigga in New York.. And I use to tell the nigga, "yo if you wanna make yo money, you gotta rap for the bitches".. Do not rap for the niggas, I told the nigga, don't rap for the niggas, rap for the bitches.. The bitches will buy your record, and the niggas want what the bitches want.. So all of a sudden he changed from being, listen to party and bull-shit.. Listen to his style, he changed from that, to Big Poppa, because of me.. He had my Album Me Against The World was the second one, he had the first one.. I changed everything cause Ready To Die came out, and it sounded like my Album.. All my Album was about, you know, dealing with death.. And then he came out with Ready To Die, I had to switch it.. That's why it was less East Coast rappin', East Coast Beef, because Biggie had took my shit...
That's true. You can listen to it, cause he took like West Coast sound too..
I told him that, I trained him. He was supposed to be Thug Life. All while he was coming up, I use to let him come on stage. He was screaming Thug Life. He was like, "I hate Brooklyn, I hate New York, I'm not with them niggas, Puffy cheating me, woo-woo-woo"... All of a sudden he blew up, and he wasn't saying Thug Life. So I started gettin' mad. And I was seeing the nigga places, he was hugging me, "yo Pac, yo thank you, you was the only one, woo-woo-woo..." And he told me, about week before I got shot, and he knew the nigga who shot me. He told me, "yo Pac don't hang around this nigga, he don't mean you no harm" we walked in with the nigga that shot me, who ended up shooting me. He was like, "Pac", cause I knew the nigga too, he was my co-???? I was like, "what you mean", he was like, "I'll talk to you about it later". And we didn't talk. The next time I saw him was at the studio where I got shot. So I knew he knew what happened. So I was like, "Biggie what happened?" He kept sending me messages like a Bitch, like, "nigga I'm a come see you". I'm like, "no nigga, what happened?" While I'm in jail, strangers is telling me, "you don't know? Biggie homeboy shot you". Cause they bragging, they telling they niggas in jail like, "yo, we just got Pac, woo-woo-woo". And my cousin was in jail, cause in New York I got family out there. He sitting right there, while the niggas in the car going, "yo my homeboy just jacked that nigga Tupac". So that's how I knew who shot me, what happened, and everything...
They mad because I know what happened. You notice Biggie and them never ridin'. That's why, what I'm doing, I know what I'm doing. I'm destroying him. I fucked his wife, I'm fuckin' him up in the game, I'm destroying him. He lives by the rules of the game, he lives off of maphia image. I'm bringing him, showing him how you do it. He totally disreguarded the rules of the game, and it's everything, but a maphia.
Reinventing it...
Right. If anybodys a maphia look at me. I fucked yo bitch, I took five shots, I went to yo crew, I'm like what? I went to New York, they don't do shows out here. I did Saturday Night Live, yo I forgot. Live, in New York when everybody knew I was gonna be on stage, no problems.. went to the clubs, everything. In the middle with my West-Side ridahs. Because I'm real about it, I don't hate New York, but if yall don't understand it, then fuck you, you can get rolled over too. Because I hear yall. I was in jail and I heard what they was saying on the radio. You know how we got the Wake Up Show, they got they own shows. They got they little mixed shows, with Red Alert and Flex, and I swear to god dog, they use to dis the West Coast. They had these commercials, where they use to be like, "hey dog, what's up dog".. I use to be like, in jail in New York with my radio and be like, "oh shit". You know how you would feel if you heard yo homeboy go home and would just clown you? I was like, "oh man". And all my homeboys would be like, "yo Puffy just did a show out here".. and I would be like, "how was it?" They was like, "good, we gave him love, we gave this, we gave that, he was talking all this unity shit". But when they go home [they be talking a lot of shit], Q-Tip, they made all these underground tapes dissin' us. [Q-Tip??].. Yesss, Q-Tip! But then when niggas ride back, then they wanna talk about the culture and be hip hoppers again. But that's not fair. How you gone be bold? And that's what they all do. They all play bad.
Same thing with the Fuggees. They just dissin' you on the air on MTV.
Fuggees dissed you??
They not personally dissed the west coast, but it's just my people... they was like Tu... California Love. They say East Side is the best side. I seen them. All them niggas talkin' about how much they respect me and love me. See I HATE THAT!! Because I be dead serious.
Now Chino XL is talkin' about me. He got a rhyme, You know how always got these metaphors. He say, "you'll get fucked like Tupac did in jail". Now I'm tellin' yall before hand off the air, I'm beatin' his ASS. And everybody's gonna probably be talkin' bout how wrong I am, how I havn't changed, well what am I suppose to do when a nigga disrespect my man-hood, like that? See what I mean? It's like I can't get out the game. Just like Scarface. I wanna be legit. We got resturaunts coming up, with Allanis Morresset... Me, Snoop, Suge and Allanis Morresset opening up a resturaunt. I'm doing a soundtrack. My 1st soundtrack, I'm the music supervisor for this movie I doing, Gridlock'd I got Allanis on there, I got Michelle Incalashio, whatever her name is. All these alternative started to blow back. All this shit coming up, but what's gonna reign supreme in '96 an '97, is the ride that I'm bringing. And it's not like.. I feel like I'm doing it for Hip Hop. All I'm trying to do is get the impasters out.
I remember Biggie sleeping on my couch, I remember begging for Bitches.
Ha Ha Ha... Oh nooooo...
You feel me? [Yeah] So Big Poppa don't mean nothing to me, and he know it, he know it. That's why he can't fight me, that's why he can't battle me. You know what I mean? I can make songs talkin' exactly about him, and he can't talk about me, because he know. I'm the one that use to buy him Champaign. All that shit he talkin', that was me buying him that. He talk about my lifestyle on his Album. Cause when he was doing his Album he was broke. I was having money. The shit he was talking about was my life, Thug Life. All that Junior Maphia.. them niggas was young muthafuckas that use to hang around, that I use to give money to-to get on the train to go home, at night... Lil Ceaz and all them.
Lil Kim and all them?
Yeah. So now he rappin' against me, and you CAN IMAGINE FUCKIN' HOW I FEEL!! When I got arrested in New York, I got arrested for Biggie. Them guns in my room was Biggie's guns, cause them Cowards left the room when they heard the police was downstairs. And everybody left they guns in my room. So I got 4 guns in my room. Serial numbers scratched out. And I did not snitch, I took that case. So you CAN IMAGINE HOW I FEEL!! When I'm in jail, for that case, and he out there livin' a maphia lifestyle. Giving me no money, giving me no respect, giving me no tribute, rollin' with my Row Dog who was there when I got shot. I mean, come on man, I'm not paranoid, I'm not paranoid. Yall niggas know what time it is. What it is, is them East Coast drug dealers got them niggas under extortion. I came and fucked up everything. Cause I dissed them niggas in the Daily News, they put a hit out on me, when them niggas tried to robb me, which is all they wanted to do. I knew it, they told me. They was like, "Pac". They was sending me messages through my closest row dog.. they was like, "Pac, why did you fight that, they was just coming to take yo shit".. but I wasn't lettin' nobody take my shit. And I was strapped that day. I couldn't put in the bye... I had two double glocks on me. And when I pulled for mine, that's when I got shot. And the reason why I knew my homeboys set me up, was because my homeboys knew I was strapped. The dudes came straight for me, my homeboys was behind them niggas, they runnin'.. my homeboys is behind them niggas and they didn't do nothing, they knew I was strapped. All they had to do was grab the niggas, and I could've busted 'em. But they got guns, so niggas come up to me, these niggas is sittin', and they say, "get", and niggas drop to the floor. I knew it was a set-up. Nobody come downstairs til after I'm shot.
And then after you shot, now how did, after you shot you went up there and they looked at you like you was a ghost?
Yo, when I walked upstairs Sway, I seen it in they eyes, I could never describe this look, until you get shot, and you see it yourself. I walked out the elevator, cause I walked out the elevator I didn't know I was shot. They said I acted like I was in a movie. What they really tryin' to say is this nigga is RAW. I got shot 5 times, came upstairs, did not know I had got shot 5 times, I thought I only got shot once.
Damn dude it sound like you got a lot on yo chest??
I'm giving it to you straight RAW, cause you gotta go back and tellin' them this shit we had recorded. Not to tell them the specifics, but you know when somebody call, they gonna trust me. When you talk to them, "yo, blam-blam-blam, now yall know". Just like they niggas on they radio stations know. Cause what I was mad at, cause we didn't have a radio station. Me and Snoop got a o.k from 92.3 to start West-Side radio. I don't wanna do it unless it's right. What I really wanted to do, I was proving a point again. I want our radio stations to be true to us, and we'll be true to yall. If you want that type of love, you better give us some commercials every week, like they do onthe East Coast...
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