Due to his association with the rapper and business mogul, Gene Deal, the former bodyguard of Diddy, has emerged as the current interview sensation in the ongoing case.
He asserted in a recent interview that JAY-Z hid from 2Pac in a hotel room before playing at his Las Vegas show, and this accusation had nothing to do with Diddy.
“I don’t know how Pac found out that JAY-Z had a show, but JAY-Z was not coming out of that room,” he told Cam Capone News in an interview. Suge said, ‘Yo, man, that ain’t me. That’s Pac with his wild a**. Suge Knight told Pac to give JAY-Z a pass so he could go do his concert, because Jay wasn’t coming out of that room, you know, to do nothing,” he said.
Although Gene Deal was unsure of the exact cause of 2Pac’s discord with JAY-Z, he surmised that it could have something to do with Hov’s collaboration with The Notorious B.I.G. on the song Brooklyn’s Finest off his 1996 album Reasonable Doubt.
Though it had nothing to do with Pac, Irv Gotti claimed to have warned the Dead Presidents II rapper not to perform Brooklyn’s Finest on a 2020 Instagram Live with Fat Joe.
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“I was dead set against it. I was telling Jay, ‘Don’t do it, don’t do it’ and he was like, ‘Why?’ I was like, ‘Big, he’s too strong. Before we take over the world, we gotta take over the West Coast. Before we take over the West Coast, we gotta take over the East Coast. Before we take over the East Coast, we gotta take over New York. Before we take over New York, you gotta take over Brooklyn, and he owns all that,” Gotti said.
Gotti was concerned that Jay’s collaboration with him would make Biggie appear superior. Jay later played the diss track at the Apollo Theater, but DJ Clark Kent also disclosed to ItsTheReal in 2015 that the father of three recorded a song intended as payback for 2Pac, but it was never released due to his death.
Although nothing specific happened between Hov and Pac, this still doesn’t prove that they are at odds, but it does raise the possibility that things are going on behind closed doors that the general public is unaware of or hasn’t been made public yet.
