Angie Martinez interview with 2Pac (Text excerpts from book)

[Dirty D]

@kingofnyc I lived in Saudi Arabia and knew who Tupac was, his movies and his music from 1992-95 before he got out of jail. He was an international star. You're either ignorant of or downplaying his stardom at that time. His career definitely slowed down after the rape case/shooting/jail and then exploded on Death Row.

I still remember MTV Asia talking about the rape case while showing clips of the Keep Ya Head Up video and thinking how could this same dude have done this?

 

[spliz]

@kingofnyc I lived in Saudi Arabia and knew who Tupac was, his movies and his music from 1992-95 before he got out of jail. He was an international star. You're either ignorant of or downplaying his stardom at that time. His career definitely slowed down after the rape case/shooting/jail and then exploded on Death Row.

I still remember MTV Asia talking about the rape case while showing clips of the Keep Ya Head Up video and thinking how could this same dude have done this?

Pointless. That nikka hates Pac and will NEVER give him props for anything. He's in every single thread mentioning Pac and I've yet to see it.

 

[Bolzmark]

He sayin biggie knew exactly what happened and it pissed him off when he tried to make it seem like he was just wildin for no reason which really set him off..

BIG said Pac was wildin on HIM for no reason which was true. Pac knew who set him up, BIG had nothing to do with it. BIG likely found out later what happened but what was he supposed to do about it??

 

[Edub]

Exactly. And thing's he's saying are things that I've heard/ready already. She's bluffing with this interview because she knows it's not groundbreaking. Problem is, at the time of the interview she held it back because of her alligence to Puff/Mary/people in the Bad Boy family tree. She felt like the interview was volatile and prolly misjudged it considering Pac said similar things in many interviews at the time.

The main things Pac spoke on in interviews was this:

-Puff/BIG didn't say or do shyt to warn him

-Puff/BIG didn't say who set him up (when they obviously knew Jimmy had a hand in everything)

-Puff said some slick shyt about Pac being a "thug" when it was convenient

-Mobb Deep stuck their noses in shyt that didn't concern them (for whatever reason)

-He had no beef with NY but there were obviously bytch-made dudes in NY that he wasn't feeling

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Puffy was slightly connected to mobb deep in the early stages after juvenile hell ....puff was actually in the shook ones video.

 

[Roovers410]

@kingofnyc I lived in Saudi Arabia and knew who Tupac was, his movies and his music from 1992-95 before he got out of jail. He was an international star. You're either ignorant of or downplaying his stardom at that time. His career definitely slowed down after the rape case/shooting/jail and then exploded on Death Row.

I still remember MTV Asia talking about the rape case while showing clips of the Keep Ya Head Up video and thinking how could this same dude have done this?

In Europe Snoop Dogg and Dre were bigger than Pac ever was.
Then came Eminem and everyone hopped on his dikk
Tupac was on Wu-tangs popularity level in europe. till his death..after changes came out there was a real pac hype going on...

I dont believe it when you say saudi arabia was all tupac while europe wasnt even into it like that

 

[Sir Brehsington]

she's irrelevant like your rant nikka

Glad you got that off your chest lil nikka.

Yet you still here.

That's really what's laughable.

 

[Dirty D]

@Roovers410 I didn't say Saudi Arabia was "all Tupac", just that he was a known star. Snoop and Dre were bigger there too.

 

[Edub]

So was it jack or jimmy that sent word thru stretch to tell 'pac


"Don't go to war unless you got your money right"

So basically while PAC was filming above the rim and dealing with that rape shyt Jimmy or jack or both intended to extort him on the low like they had managed to do with bad boy but PAC wasn't with it. Big possibly being hip to that extortion game sympathized with Jimmy and Jack and sat back as they extinguished his competition not saying this is true but this is Pacs belief. There's still a lot of unanswered questions to this shyt. I guess you'd have to have been privy to those late night club and hotel room conversations to understand what really was the root to all this beef.

 

[Renzo]

BIG said Pac was wildin on HIM for no reason which was true. Pac knew who set him up, BIG had nothing to do with it. BIG likely found out later what happened but what was he supposed to do about it??

We cant say what Biggie knew or didnt know...Pac was convinced up til his death Biggie knew for a fact..if Biggie is running with the dudes who set him up then Pac had a reason to be mad..esp if he sayin Pac would always be his man..even if Biggie didnt know..he put himself in that position to be shyt on..

 

[Bolzmark]

We cant say what Biggie knew or didnt know...Pac was convinced up til his death Biggie knew for a fact..if Biggie is running with the dudes who set him up then Pac had a reason to be mad..esp if he sayin Pac would always be his man..even if Biggie didnt know..he put himself in that position to be shyt on..

BIG didn't know Pac was even coming to the studio that night. Some cats in another studio knew (Lil Shawn I believe) but BIG didn't. I'm sure he found out quick but what was he supposed to do? And you say BIG was running with them...running with Jimmy Henchman? No. He may have known him, but you aint never heard they was cool like that. Point blank, Pac was paranoid. Maybe he had reason to be. But somehow, Jimmy having him robbed (the shooting was not even supposed to happen) turned into this whole I hate Biggie thing that eventually led to the worst time in our culture.

 

[Roovers410]

@Roovers410 I didn't say Saudi Arabia was "all Tupac", just that he was a known star. Snoop and Dre were bigger there too.

Ok my bad!

 

[Roovers410]

We cant say what Biggie knew or didnt know...Pac was convinced up til his death Biggie knew for a fact..if Biggie is running with the dudes who set him up then Pac had a reason to be mad..esp if he sayin Pac would always be his man..even if Biggie didnt know..he put himself in that position to be shyt on..

The problem is this...

Big knew but so did Pac...
Biggie really was down with pac..but couldnt do sh!t against Jimmy and them ..

Pac knew he couldnt do sh!t against him either...so he went on his rampage against big...

 

[Roovers410]

till this day...Suge is the biggest motherfukker of them all. he used pac...who probably was all ptsd'd up.... to get to puff. Suge was obsessed with puff after the jake robles thing

 

[seemorecizzy]

So basically while PAC was filming above the rim and dealing with that rape shyt Jimmy or jack or both intended to extort him on the low like they had managed to do with bad boy but PAC wasn't with it. Big possibly being hip to that extortion game sympathized with Jimmy and Jack and sat back as they extinguished his competition not saying this is true but this is Pacs belief. There's still a lot of unanswered questions to this shyt. I guess you'd have to have been privy to those late night club and hotel room conversations to understand what really was the root to all this beef.

where do you come up with these weirdo theories
big WARNED pac not to hang around with them on more than one occasional
pac didn't listen
i really don't no what pac expected from biggie
pac was acting like a star struck nikka that never experienced street life
once shyt popped off, he was embarrassed and started going on these temper tandrums that ultimately led to him getting shot up again

 

[Renzo]

aint nobody was tryna fukk up his career netherless shytted on him while he was in prison

u new nikkaz got this false sense of 2pac
da nikka wasnt even a platnuim recording artist & da movies he did were hood classic NOT mainstream

i swear yall nikkaz act like pac was '94 status cube







BIG didnt need to battle pac
my nikka was crown'd ghe king of new york
pac baited him & baited him & baited him -BIG didnt bite

so pac & his crew had to go to planB nas, mobb & jay etc...

Big aint need to battle Pac..that must be why he kept saying sneak shyt in interviews and in songs that whole summer huh? You obviously young as shyt..i recall that whole summer Pac had a foot on that nikka neck and wont letting up and him being the king of ny aint mean shyt...i fukk with both heavy so your dikk riding bullshyt dont work on me