Yeah, cause this video is clearly a direct shot...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsk9c1xoaMU
And who in that video looks like Treach? Unless De La were psychic and knew Treach would cut his braids a year and a half later, I don't see A nikka in the vid that looks like him.
Honestly, I don't even believe this is what Pac had a beef with in '96. Cause it wouldn't make sense to take offense to this in '93, then shout them out on a song in '95, only to get upset about a three-year-old video in '96. I'm pretty sure this is the explanation people have run with as their own reason.
I think Pac's issue with De La was their conflict with Treach over the misinterpreted line in their song from the '96 album (which was later resolved).
And even more so, I just think it was Pac's '95-'96 sensitive nature. ny:
I know he had dissed sum nikkas just for the fact they wuz criticizing the direction hiphop wuz goin ie gangsta rap....I think u right,I don't think he felt they dissed him personally.....but certain nikkas wuz dissing the TYPE of music he as well as others made as if it wuznt real hiphop.....I think he considered them and a few others to be sum haters.
Not much different than why Cube threw a shot at Common,Common didn't get specefic but we know what I Used to love Her wuz sayin....wuznt neccesarily just about the west coast gangsta rap but it wuz a shot......Cube decided to get specefic,and Pac decided to get specefic
Hometown shyt talkin wuz had to be at a all time high....I know Pac said he heard Qtip on the radio and i remember a vulgar azz Slick Rick interview shyttin on the west with the host instigatin
Look at it this way,he definitly thought the word "thug" wuz synonomous with him at the time in terms of hiphop....he even thru a slight dig at Bone Thugs in that interview in harlem for havin "thugs" in they name too....which maybe it ain't fair to think that,but I remember just recently nikkas swore that "what's a goon to a goblin" line by Wayne wuz a plies diss when Wayne wuz a known Plies stan.....but the word "goon" at the time wuz Plies thing,since he started usin it its now becom one of the most excessivly used words in hiphop....just like thug and thuggin has been since Pac,but I don't think we wuz there yet back in 96

...and for themto think they could use the word "thug" and "life" back to back and say "we still livin it" when Pac said he don't wanna live it no more had to have Pac

....and in fairness he sent the dudes to the show becuz he wuznt sure if it wuz homage or not bcuz it could be taken either way.
Maybe if we had twitter it would have been easier to clear shyt up back then,instead most would throw a subliminal out there to see if dudes really felt sum kind of way or not which lead to a lot of cold wars back then

...thank god subliminals wuznt Pacs strong suit

...now Cube and LL originally I think did get dissed for no reason by Pac,plain fuked up for theCube diss no matter the reason,it wuz a dumb reason to me and moreso Cube blessed Pac on S4MN,gave him the blueprint to get his foot in the door.
Most sensitive/quickest to think you talkin about me list all time
1.KRS
2.Yukmouth
3.Pac/50
I

them all and give a

to a few of those beefs they had.