Suge Knight is Determined in his protective stance towards his deep connection with 2Pac, often outspoken against those he perceives as capitalizing on the late rapper’s legacy. One of his recent targets has been Warren G.
The inaugural episode of “Collect Call With Suge Knight” premiered last week through Dave Mays’ Breakbeat Media. In this half-hour segment, the former head of Death Row Records referred to ‘Pac as his “little brother,” taking the opportunity to clarify the nature of Tupac’s relationship with Warren G.
In particular, he addressed a statement Warren G made in a late August Drink Champs interview, where the G-funk pioneer shared his intentions to step in when ‘Pac was incarcerated in 1995.
“I was gonna try to bail [2Pac] out. I got beat to the punch,” Warren G explained. “I was going to put up the money and I didn’t want nothing, I swear to God.”
“Warren G, best stop lying — you didn’t fuck with ’Pac and ’Pac didn’t fuck with you,” Knight responded to the claim. “On top of that, you couldn’t take care of yourself, how were you gonna get ’Pac out of prison? Everybody, all of a sudden, they want to get ’Pac out of prison…”
During the same Drink Champs interview, Warren G contemplated his potential to alter hip-hop history. In his conversation with N.O.R.E and DJ EFN, the “Regulate” hitmaker delved into an opportunity he had to mediate the East Coast-West Coast feud of the ’90s.
“I pulled up. Biggie was right there, we was chopping it up about everything,” he recalled about a conversation he had with The Notorious B.I.G. “Music with him and 2Pac, them having beef and shit. He was just like, ‘He tripping on me.’ He was telling me everything.
“So I said, ‘How about this, this what I’ll do. When I get at ‘Pac, I’ll say I talked to this n-gga Biggie, and this what he said. You n-ggas get this shit together and stop that shit.”
The 52-year-old continued: “But I couldn’t get to [2Pac] because it was all the other muthafuckas that was around, to really talk to him about what [Biggie] said. I was trynna get the message to him.”
Noreaga then chimed in, asking if Warren G could’ve somehow stopped the feud between Biggie and ‘Pac.
“It probably wouldn’t have been as bad,” the Long Beach native agreed. “Well, I would’ve pulled [2Pac] to the side and really talked to him. Like, ‘Look, this what this n-gga told me.’”