Snoop Dogg breaks down his hip-hop career in a new interview with Big Boy.
Snoop Dogg sat down with Big Boy for an exclusive Off-Air interview, where the Long Beach legend goes through his legendary rap career, which started from getting kicked out of his house at 17 to joining Death Row Records.
During the conversation, Snoop Dogg talked about his friendship with the late Tupac, and why he didn’t like the “Hit ‘Em Up” diss track for The Notorious B.I.G. “Man, I’d say a week before he died, we was best of friends. Two days before he died, I don’t think he liked me,” he began. “Because we was in New York and shit had happened. New York ni**as had shot at me and did all kinds of sh*t to me, just the worst shit you could think of, and I forgave ’em.”
He continued, “Then I went and did an interview and was asked how did I feel about Puffy and Biggie. I was like, ‘I like them ni**as, I wanna do some music with ’em.’ And that just rubbed cuz the wrong way, like, ‘Ni**a, f**k them ni**as, them ni**as tried to kill me. Ni**as shot at you, and you talking about you wanna do a song with them ni**as?’”
“I wasn’t thinking about [2Pac’s] emotions, I was thinking about the way I felt at the time. I wasn’t into no controversy. I liked them ni**as’ music, they was our friends, we was all friends at one point. There’s video footage of all of us hanging out. ‘Pac, Biggie, Puff, Suge [Knight], all of us together prior to Death Row, just on some regular sh*t. So that to me, I never seen myself getting involved.”
“Even when he [2Pac] played the video for me to ‘Hit ‘Em Up,’ even when he played ‘Hit ‘Em Up,’ the song, I didn’t like the song,” he said. “I didn’t like it. I didn’t like the sh*t. It wasn’t the sh*t to me. Like, you buying more problems, cuh. You buying problems. Gangstas is everywhere. They make ’em everywhere.” “I think he got to the mindstate that, ‘We the muthaf**kas, and ain’t nobody like us.’ Always people like us everywhere,” he added.
Kurupt, who was also part of Death Row Records, has recently shared his thoughts on 2Pac’s “Hit ‘Em Up” track. He stated that the song was recorded right after Faith Evans, the ex-wife of Biggie, visited the studio where 2Pac was working. “When ‘Hit ‘Em Up’ dropped, that was around the time everything was fresh. 2Pac and Biggie was fresh, because this was after Faith came to the studio,” he said in an interview with The Art of Dialogue. “She came to work and, you know, we was all looking like, ‘Damn! That’s Faith, cuz!’… Then he made ‘Hit ‘Em Up’ [laughs]. That fast.”
Check out the full conversation below.
