Former Outlawz member Napoleon had plenty of tales to tell when he sat down for a recent interview with The Art of Dialogue. While discussing Bay Area culture and then rap cohorts such as Coolio, E-40 and MC Hammer, the topic turned to Tupac Shakur who moved to the Bay in 1988.
‘”Pac was the hottest thing back then,” Napoleon said matter-of-factly. “He built a lot of good relationship where people that wasn’t even involved in the music industry had a lot of respect for ‘Pac and would go up there and visit him.”
When asked if Faith Evans once visited 2Pac at Can-Am Studios in Tarzana, California, the veteran rapper laughed and replied, “Yeah, bruh. But I don’t want to get into this because she was somebody’s wife. I don’t want to get into that controversy of Faith Evans-Biggie — I can’t do that. But she did come visit him.”
As Napoleon noted, Faith Evans was married to The Notorious B.I.G. at the time of the alleged encounter. Rumors of an affair between 2Pac and Evans had already been floating around prior to Biggie’s 1997 murder. ‘Pac even said it himself on the seething 1996 Biggie diss track “Hit Em Up” in which he raps, “You claim to be a player/But I fucked your wife.”
But in Evans’ 2009 book Keep The Faith, she deaded all speculation on the alleged tryst.
In a 2014 interview with VladTV, Faith Evans further expounded on the topic and admitted 2Pac did ask her for sex when she went to the studio to record his 1996 All Eyez On Me single “Wonda Why They Call U Bitch.” At the time, she claimed she didn’t know 2Pac was signed to Death Row, the label at the center of the Bad Boy Entertainment beef.
“I went to the studio, I realized there were a bunch of Death Row people there, so kind of in my mind I started figuring it out right there,” she said. “I didn’t think that was a good look just because of the fact of the Suge and Puff situation [at the 1995 Source Awards].
“Even though I didn’t really know a lot of the details about what happened, but it was clear he took a jab at Puff at the Source Awards and stuff like that. But I was pretty oblivious to the things that had gone on prior to that, until probably a few years later.”
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Evans then went to 2Pac’s hotel to collect the $25,000 she was getting paid for the collaboration and that’s where she said the proposition took place.
“[He asked] in a very surprising and offensive way for sure,” she explained. “By that time it was pretty clear to me, it seemed to me that that was kind of like a plan. I kind of allowed myself to be played and allow myself to get into this situation, because this is totally not how I operate, that ain’t how I do business and that was never up for discussion as far as that being an exchange. That’s not what it was about.”
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Corny. This dude I don’t know anything about him other than him talking about Tupac things from over 23 years ago.
He should drop a CD.
Napoleon doesn’t rap anymore. He is a Muslim and lives over there in Syria or some shit now. He washed his hands of the music industry but still is connected to the greatest rapper of all time.
Coolio is from Compton/LA, not the Bay
Coolio da underdog from Vallejo. ran with Mac Dre R.I.P.
2pac used to fuck with Ray Luv and Mac Mall heavy in their Young Black Brotha days.
Napoleon would’ve known them all as well
ah, wasnt familiar with him!
did 2pac have sex with faith evans.
Yes. Watch her Drink Champs and you’ll see her type. They all play innocent. Why you think BIG was so mad ?
They need to let these dudes rest. Release some music, stop talking bout the next man.
Everyone is still trying to stay relevant bruh, even if it’s not their own life story.
If Faith have twins, she’ll probably have 2 Pacs. Get it, two Pacs…
lmao i’m from South Africa but i know that line form Jay-Z’s Brooklyn’s finest….. Here you are with the same name…… Hip-Hop should be a strong culture with a solid history over there for u to reference Reasonable Doubt like that huh….
Faith gets caught in so many lies. In her own autobiography, she said that she was in bed with B.I..G. when Pac got shot and that she knew about the beef at the end of 94. Now, it’s she didn’t know anything about the beef. Then, it’s she didn’t know he was signed to Death Row even though it was the biggest news in all of the music world, a world she was in, and that he had beef with a label that she was signed to and that she had beef with too, the whole reason she was on the West Coast at the time, something she also confirmed in her autobiography. They had basically blackballed her in 95 as Sean did his thing of not paying artists like he always does.
Who cares. Biggie cheated on Faith so whats the deal. Biggie and Faith lived seperately.
@Kyle Eustice I like the phot of ‘Pac that you chose lol I see what you did there!! ?
Okay…… faith BEEN used up goods… she’s definitely a freak… talking about “that ain’t her style” you see who’s she in a relationship with now, right? STEVIE J… the dude who produced more than half of ‘Life After Death’ and worked closely with BIG…. She has no respect for that man. She’ll date damn near anyone.. How do you not know big and pac are beefing? It was literally the biggest thing in music at the time AND big was your damn husband ??♂️??♂️??♂️Rip BIG
Real talk
He sound like people who talk about high school memories and are 50 years old. Bruh, get a life.
Shut the fuck up lying ass bitch u know dam well u fucked Pac why the fuck he gotta lie about it?plus biggie was obviously butt hurt cuz he dissed u on Brooklyn’s finest and in the get money video
If you weren’t there then you don’t know
outlawz or gossip girlz
your mom…lol
Biggie cheated first??♀️