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During the spring of 1996, 2pac was in the advanced creation process of his The Don Killuminati, The 3 Day Theoryproject. It got to the point where Pac was done with the entire album, except his single, “To Live and Die in L.A.”
Pac had just seen the original action-crime film and fell in love with it instantly, screaming out the title. He planned to do a movie and a project themed from the film (To Live and Die in L.A.); which would’ve happened the following year.
Like, he was just in awe of everything from the movie. However, in the midst of that, he came across the original Jay-Z demo tape that was being passed around behind-the-scenes, due to his affiliations with Bad Boy Records. The Death Row Outlawz paid close attention to competition, as well as others they planned to work with like Pimp C and Goodie Mob.
On the song, “22 Twos,” Jigga said “Too much West Coast dick licking, And too many niggas on a mission, doing your best Jay-Z rendition.” An animated Makaveli played the track in-front of the rest of the Outlawz and said laughing, “Ya’ll heard that, he just dissed the west coast. Ya’ll gonna allow that to happen.”
So, after hearing the track, he made sure to say Fuck Jay-Z on a slew of tracks before his demise. This was the same sentiments he had for LL Cool J and Ice Cube as well, who he was at odds with weeks before his death. Jay even engaged back with responses for “Dead or Alive,” as well as the infamous Apollo track that was erased from history.
However, Jigga would later cite that their beef ended with 2pac’s unfortunate passing, and he would never diss a dead man.
Years later, a famous rapper was in Los Angeles, in late 2001, which resulted in him allegedly being kidnapped by local street cats at a hotel.
The situation reached the ear of Suge Knight, as the men in a room wanted to beat up and rob the out of town rapper. Surprisingly, Big Suge told those people to not touch the famous rapper. At the time, the New York rapper felt that Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre had the streets, which was not the case.
So, he felt he could move freely and quickly learned about his need for hiring elite security. The hostage situation lasted a few hours, as the out of town rapper was thankful for being released. As a thank you, Suge Knight was granted a royalties check to remake Makaveli’s infamous “Me and My Girlfriend.”
A single, music video and personal thank you to Mr. Knight happened the following year. This was one of many stories Suge did to protect east coast rappers, when they came out to Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
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Disclaimer: This story is all allegedly. . .