Kurupt has revealed that 2Pac tried to enforce a “dress code” during the height of Death Row Records in the 1990s.
In a recent interview with The Art of Dialogue, Kurupt broke down Tupac’s militant mentality and how he wanted all the artists at Death Row to represent themselves in the highest manner.
“[2Pac] was strength,” Kurupt said. “Can’t nobody tell him what to do. He tells people what to do. He listens to people but he makes his own decisions. He was very strong-minded. And when he came to Death Row, he didn’t come just for his self, and all that.
“He wanted to change the image of Death Row, he wanted to add to everybody else’s table. He changed our work ethics, the way that we gettin’ to the studio and how many records that we get done during the day.”
He continued: “He wanted to change our apparel and how we looked, which, you know, that didn’t work. Because that’s you, ‘Pac, that’s y’all shit over here. We in khakis, cuz, you know what I’m saying? ‘Pac loved it, he respected it.
“It’s a fly-ass dress code, cuz. I could understand it if he was like, ‘N-gga, put on the army fatigues.’ This n-gga talking about, ‘Put on some Versace, n-gga! Get fly!’ … That shit didn’t work with us, cuz. We agreed with everything besides the gear. That’s not our shit.”
Kurupt’s recollection of 2Pac’s actions mirror those of Snoop Dogg’s during a December 2022 appearance on The 85 South Comedy Show. While on the show, Snoop reminisced about how ‘Pac changed his mentality about the way he dressed and carried himself once he became a rap superstar.
“I’m still dressing like a n-gga from the hood — khakis, Chucks,” Snoop said of his post-Doggystyle wardrobe. “That n-gga like, ‘Me and you finna have a meeting… We stepping our game up. We gotta change your look, Snoop Dogg. You a pimp, n-gga. Bitches love you. You fly. You gotta start showing your fly side!
“‘I’ma get you suited up.’ ‘I’ma call this n-gga Dion Scott, get your suits fitted, get your hair laid, get your nails done. Put some pimpin’ on screen, n-gga.’”
He added: “He dressed me up in suits, Louis Vuitton, Gucci — shit I couldn’t even spell or pronounce! All this Italian shit,” he continued. “Just look at how I’m standing next to cuh when I’m wearing it. I’m trying to figure it out! I’m like, ‘Do I look right? I hope I don’t look sweet ’cause these pants tight as a muthafucka!’
“Puts these tight pants on”
-2pac
As a fan, I noticed this change from 2 of Amerikas Most video and onward for both Kurupt and Snoop. Snoop was suited up throughout the Doggfather era, and Kurupt looked like a straight up R&B singer in the KURUPTION era.
Tupac: “Sweety?! Get your hair and your nails done and put on some Versace while I put on this gay ass leather vest made for women.” Tupac Stans! Your boy was a whole faggit! LGBTQ holler if you hear Tupac!
🤣🤣u stupid Tupac that nigga tho fr
Broad Name is Becky Nuff Said!!!!
Y’all want Pac to be sweet sooooo bad fellas. But the cold hard truth is he fucked 100× more pussy than all of you combined, you faggots
Pac was all the way gay.. just check out those early interviews when he’s at high school or drama school and see how feminine his tone and mannerisms are… not taking nothing away from dude, he was a bad ass rapper but those that say he was the realest weren’t around to see it!! He only got gangsta when he had a big black man standing behind him to protect him!!
U dummy I lived it too how old are u,he was young weirdo,and if u know Tupac history u like Alot of people who don’t know what they talking about, Tupac was Gangsta and a thug way b4 Shug night and death row , that’s why he has so many followers,ur a nobody,PAC is a legend and always will be. It’s hating jealous people like u that will NEVER be any thing but rather talk down on the Dead
Are you sure you’re ain’t the one who is gay cuz. I mean the man has a reputation of being known as the ultimate ladies man.
If you weren’t there to witness it then why speak on shit you don’t know?? 2023 ans u on here for what?? That to me is feminine speaking on another man is soft. Especially a man that’s been gone dame near 30 year’s. Smh weird ass people!!!!
Lol @ these pathetic commenters. People still haven’t figured out that Pac maintaining that fake gangsta image is what got his ass killed. Everyone from Ice T to Spice 1 has confirmed this.
No he wasn’t a gangster. Pac was a pussy and he got popped after the first gang fight he got into. FACTS.
Pac was set up and he beat the shit out of Orlando Anderson they couldnt see Pac with the hands lol
Niggas talk shit but thats after am gone. Cuz they fear me in physical form (by Tupac). Shit u gay muthfucker pussy
Dave, are you ignorant, talking stuff about Pac…You better hope somebody don’t try and track you down for saying something like that……just saying Playa!!!!
Dear Mama and Rapz Worldz: I wuz hella gay. Signed, Thug Life West Side LGBTQ Outlaw
@dave ur wierdo ur momma did not raise u right.Tupac wud slap u n front of ur momma