2Pac apparently once yelled at Suge Knight over a sizeable check owed to him for a movie he starred in.
Director Gobi M. Rahimi â who was behind iconic 2Pac music videos like âHit âEm Up,â â2 of Amerikaz Most Wantedâ and âHow Do U Want It,â as well as the 7 Dayz documentary â recently sat down with the The Art of Dialogue to reflect on the late rapperâs relationship with Suge and Death Row Records.
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Rahimi claimed that he witnessed 2Pac âscreamingâ at his then-label boss after he took a $700,000 check that he earned for his role in the 1997 film Gridlockâd.
âA lot of people have said they were like brothers or whatever. I only got to see the experiences of him yelling and screaming either at Suge or Death Row employees trying to find out where he money was,â he said.
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ââPac was supporting like 40 people. âPacâs family was not small, right. He was supporting a lot of muthafuckas. âCause at one point, I remember hearing that 2Pacâs $700,000 check for acting in Gridlockâd had also gone to Suge. And âPac was on the phone yelling and screaming âbout, âWhy the fuckâs my movie money coming to you?â
âFriendships and brotherhoods and all thatâs great, but if your business and your moneyâs not good⊠come on bro, you gotta feed your family.
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He continued: âWe know posthumously that all those things that 2Pac thought he owned, he ainât own any of it. And there was real estate bought in his name in Miami. Everything he had, the house in Calabasas, the house on Wilshire, those were all rentals. He thought he owned all that.
ââPac was weekly on the phone chasing his money with Death Row over Suge.â
Tupac's music director, Gobi M. Rahimi, says Tupac cursed out Suge Knight for taking his $700,000 'Gridlock'd' movie check.
Gobi M. Rahimi, also reveals Tupac had weekly arguments with Suge Knight and Death Row Records staff about his money.
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Diddyâs ex-bodyguard Gene Deal previously claimed that 2Pac had suspicions that someone at Death Row was stealing money from him, implying the culprit hired dirty cops to carry out his murder in order to silence the rapper.
âWhatâs the root of all evil? Money,â he said in a separate interview with The Art of Dialogue. âSomebody wanted control of some money. Some people were spending money that they shouldnât have been spending money. Some people were stealing money that they shouldnât have been stealing. Some people had money that they shouldnât have had.
âI think, if I heard correctly, 2Pac put an audit in two or three weeks prior to his murder and started firing people and trying to figure out where his money was at and where it was going. So now, if youâve been stealing money and you inside and everything could be connected to you, what are you gonna do?â
As for his own relationship with 2Pac, Gobi M. Rahimi explained how met the All Eyez On Me rapper during an interview with CanvasRebel Magazine earlier this year.
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âI met a girl at a wine tasting in orange county that used to produce gangsta rap videos,â he said. âWithin a month I was going out with her, moved in with her in L.A. and started out as a production assistant, then a production manager, and then a producer on gangsta rap videos.
âShe also introduced me to 2Pac. For whom I had an immediate affinity. He saw something special in me that no one else had ever seen. The thing about working with rap videos is that it gives you the ability to problem solve and put out fires continuously.â