DJ Clark Kent says that Jay Z recorded a Tupac diss track.
“It never came out because out of respect for the fact that he died,” says longtime Jay Z collaborator DJ Clark Kent on A Waste of Time podcast with ItsTheReal. “Jay did a record going at ‘Pac, but right as it was about to come out, son died.”
Tupac died in a still unsolved 1996 shooting in Las Vegas.
DJ Clark Kent, who brought Jay Z and The Notorious B.I.G. together, says that Hov’s pride led him to perform the Tupac diss track at the Apollo Theater, a famous concert venue in Harlem, New York.
“It was scathing,” DJ Clark Kent says. “Like crowds was like, ‘Oh shit.’ Like it was super hard, super hard. If he was alive, there woulda been no coming back. Nothing. This was so tough. Like it, to me, it probably was one of the hardest diss records I’ve ever heard. ”
The producer says that few people have heard the track and that there has been temptation to release it.
“I didn’t want a copy of it,” he says. “I didn’t want a copy because I know I would’ve been compelled to figure out how to play it because it was nasty.”
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Don’t believe for a second that Jay Z would have ended Pac’s career, the man was too talented to be held down period.
Sure pal.
So he would have destroyed Pac’s career…the same way he did Nas? Come on now, get real. It would have been a good battle, but in no way was Jay gonna kill Pac’s career.
He couldn’t even beat nas.
There is no way Jay would kill Pac’s career. Especially back then.
ahhahah he is obviously lying. and just for the record, this is like the 10th artist to have said this ‘oh we made a diss song but then he died and it never got released’
It’s obvious? Where are your facts to back up he’s lying? He didn’t say he was the only one to hear it. Maybe the 10 or so artists are the ones who heard it. Lol Keyboaed superstars. I mever heard anybody say Jay had a PAc Diss. He even new the title of the song.
Pac discs jay z on songs so how it wouldn’t been a come back? Stop the bullshit Nas beat jay so hang it up
Nas don’t even believe that he won so stop the bullshit.
As someone who heard it I agree the joint was hard, the bklyn kings could have offed pac lyrically, but pac wasn’t no nas with the pen. let’s just leave it the way it is w/o a bunch of emotion fuckery involved on your behalf nerdikins.
Lyrically?!!lol I can’t recall a lot of diss songs with crazy lyrics as far as being a little complex.Diss songs are more straight forward raps. Hit Em UP was just straight forward and it’s top 3 diss songs ever. Jay-Z had plenty of time to make a diss track when Pac was alive. He chose not to. Jay wasn’t even top in NY. Mobb Deep and NORE was the only ones responding. Why? They could back the raps up in the streets. Pac even had east coast rappers riding with him. Jay-z didn’t want to feel the repercussions off wax.
end of the day, just like I said, it’s all emotional opinion based on circumstantial and what might of been. at least I heard the track
Pac would have eaten jay z no question he has no ammo for a song like he did with nas pac would have destroyed him compared to pac jay is average
If he performed it at a venue already,obviously people have heard it so wtf he worried about it being released for?why tease the people when u not gonna put it out?a straight sucka move.
Where did it say Jay said anything about a diss record. This is coming from someone who says he heard it. You sound dumb
gay z going at Pac , ninja please……
I’m not a Pac fan at all but even I know Clark Kent is just dickriding. There wouldn’t have been no coming back because had Jay released that diss Jay would be on his back looking at the stars. Gtfoh he trying to start some shit
PAC couldn’t fight so who was going to put Jay on his back?
Nigga would’ve flopped like Tidal!! Jay got demolished so bad with “Ether”, responded & was weak as fuck lol how he gonna approach Pac? Well if it’s done release it you dumbass. But I’m sure it’s garbage. This is coming from a fan of both Jay-Z & Pac. Jay-Z is nice with the pen but maaaaan to further extent just keep that record tucked in deep in the corner with the cob webs. Don’t release that lol
Damn people still think commenting dick riding means anything. Lol He’s talking about the song that few have heard. He actually heard the music and he’s just explaining the song. He didn’t even say anything about Jay-z but just the song. So who is he dick riding? Like that fits better on a porno site? People with keyboards. Lol
Ether didn’t kill Jay, Super Ugly was better because it was some true stuff that happen and very personal. Your argument is weak ya dumbass
DJ Kent is Straight Outta DickRidin’
Only thing u should end is ur affair with rhiana lol…got ur bk Beyonce
lol fuck clark kent and jay z. -TUPAC MAKAVELI THE DON.
i dont care how nasty this Diss record was, Pac would have not lost.. I promise you that..
Release the record then man….
Clark respect but come on man… This is the most biased opinion possible. Fact is in 1996 No One cared about jay enough to enjoy that diss track. Pac was best out , highest current selling out & Jay was indy & looked at as a Big underboss. Hit em up is then & is now the most scathing doss ever. Very personal , very direct
God damn!!!!I mean all he said was his opinion because he actually heard the track such was unreleased. He’s one of the few that heard it. It’s not biased Bc he actually heard the track. Damn!!!Like people can’t even tell fans anything. It’s cool to even know that he actually has a Pac diss. Maybe we hear it one day.
That’s your opinion fuckboy,no one knows now go chill somewhere in the corner like us music fans and shut up
Maybe had it come out the world would have been saved from this tired ass cult worship that followed his untimely death.
Pack don’t project son ur dick ridden plain and simple.
This bitchass nigga talking bout he wouldn’t come,Kent get that sick out your mouth SON.
Fucking spell check .I said Kent get that dick out your mouth SON pac would always have a comeback if he was alive.
Jay-Z bought a lot of unreleased Tupac music and he stole so many Biggie lyrics and KRS-ONE ideas IDK why this man is even famous..Tupac would murder him and he did even after his death with a lot of songs from posthumous albums.
“Niggas talk a lot of shit, but that’s after I’m gone
Cause they fear me in physical form..” -Tupac Amaru Shakur
BTW Pac was a Diss Master there is no rapper that can top him he made so many Diss records and they all were hardcore straight fire that burn the shit out of them fake motherfuckers. Listen to Hit Em Up ,Against All Odds ,Watch Ya Mouth ,Lil Homies ,When We Ride ,This Is For My Niggaz, This Is How We Ride, Bomb 1st. , Fuck Friendz , Fuck ‘Em All , Street Fame ,Catchin’ Feelins ,This Life I Lead ,Made Niggaz, Street Life, Niggaz Done Changed, Don’t Stop, 4 My Niggaz and many more. Even the hardest part of “Ether” by NaS was the part where Pac said “Fuck Jay-Z” when I heard that I was like Daaaaaaaaamn this shit is done!
@wtfisthisish,
Yep, couldn’t have said it better. Pac just had a way of saying shit in a way that got everybody on his side. Dudes would have been with him regardless, but Jay-Z was ready to put out a diss record to him when he was having a hard time going gold? Highly doubt that. Pac allegedly dissed Snoop and they didn’t put it out. Dude was ready to go off on anybody at anytime, which is why people identify with that shit. That shit was genuine and not an act for the spotlight if you followed that dude from the beginning. kHe was whoopin’ dudes asses on movie sets and pulling guns on cops. He was still all about the black community. He was the genuine article as far as this rap shit go.
The original “Die Slow” was hard as fuck too.
Jay didn’t steal anyone’s verses and name what unreleased music Jay bought of PACs and has used. Stop making shit up. PAC is a goat but Jay can hold his own lyrically against anyone in the game.
Lol Please, clarkie kent actin’ like jay-z was the GOAT. (Not even close at that time) let alone now. He didn’t release it because PAC would have straight murked him. Simple as that. Jay was pullin’ a meek with that waitin to drop shit. He was scared, who wouldn’t have been?
Pac doesn’t have shit on Jay lyrically
What a touch of luck that Pac dies before Jigga killed him huh?
Yeah, sounds like fairy tales from people. He might have said some slick shit to somebody, but dude ain’t put nothing on wax dissing nobody. We would have heard about it by now. It’s like that so called diss track “Dig Him up” people swore Biggie recorded that I just couldn’t see happening either. Both dudes really didn’t want it like that with dude because he was too big in the game. Everybody was bumping that Pac shit from the West Coast to the boroughs. I remember when I was in NY at the height of the beef in 95 early 96 and was expecting dudes to be on that fuck Pac shit, and they were bumping that shit too. I remember my college buddy was from Brookly and was like Biggie myd ude, but he don’t want it with Pac. Dude too unorthodox and nice with his on the mic with his without having to be technically sound.
Yeah, it would have been no coming back for Jay-Z. Pac sucked all the air out the room at that time and hardly anybody fucked with Jay-Z like that. Those are the actual facts, not the revisionist history version. A lot of people would have turned on him just for the principle of it because they stood with that dude like that past music and for what he represented to them, and everybody knew it who was alive and listening to hip hop at that time. I know people to this day who won’t give Nas his just due just because Pac dissed him 20 years ago, and to me dude is the best to ever do it, not to mention that they had squashed it right before he went to Vegas that week and was bumping his shit on the way up there according to everybody around him then. That’s the thing I hate most is that it sounds like those 2 were kind of linking up and might have started collaborating. That’s the rank Pac had when he got killed. Unless you had the nrleased stuff, you never heard him diss Jay that hard, and even on that unreleased shit he didn’t go at him too tough. Just love taps, which is why I question if this is true. Jay barely goes at people who have come directly for him, before or after he’s been big, but he made a direct diss track to the one dude who would have bullied him in the game with that rap shit? Doubt it.
you’re on point with this post. “no coming back”- i doubt it. Pac was the biggest rapper in the game at the time of his death.
Interesting info though. Wish Pac would have lived to see it play out.
Jayz first CD was a classic and alot of people did fuk with Jay and Nas. People have made up their own facts. PAC was the king at that time but the East coast loved Nas and Jay just like West loved PAC. PAC talking about Jay is not the same as bulling and pushing dude around. How many diss tracks did Biggie make when PAC was going at him? Was Big being bullied. Get real, they choose not to respond and it wasn’t out of fear
FUCK GAY Z he aint got shit on PAC or n e other rapper for that matter!!! PAC would of eventually ended that bitch ass niggaz career if that shit would of came out !!! listen to “all out” Pac smashed on that fake ass lil bitch I dare his lil punk ass to even try ??? Fuckin lame ass lop GAY z ain’t ever been through hard times let alone grew up n e hood!!! I gotz mad love for the east coast but that lil bitch should get 86th for realz!!! GAY z lol;)
Yo check out the original to “All Out”, called “Die Slow”. That one is so much harder man.
@ClapBack,
Funny thing about that original version is that Kim Kardashian’s first husband produced that track when he was early in the game because Pac had took him under his wing, but he had a deal with Babyface at the time,s o they put the production under Assassin. Beat knock way harder than the shit they released. I wish somebody would master it and release it properly. I wish they’d do that with most of the originals. It’s only a few songs I like that they changed like Fair Xchange. Most of the originals were always better and you saw the soul perspective or edge in some cases with the dis songs like on When We Ride on Our Enemies Pac was trying to portray at the time as opposed to the released version. Same thing with Play Your Cards Right. Nothing against the released versions, but taking out that Alicia Meyers sample took the soul of the song out, not to mention Michele or Hurt Em Bad on the hook, which ever one he was going to use had he released it.
It would have been interesting to hear back then, hell even now. I like hearing old 90’s Rap that I haven’t heard before. Jay-Z wouldn’t have ended shit though. Pac smashed on him repeatedly and Jay just took it. It’s good to be humble, but when you are in the midst of rap beef in the 90’s like that, you gotta hold it down, especially for all the shit talk you do in rap, back your shit up homie. But what’s done (or lack of) is done. In the end, wouldn’t have wanted to see Jay-Z go down in gun blaze as well.
I always knew, or felt like, jigga was gonna come at ac. Jigga loved biggie so much I knew he had it out for Pac. But that’s dead dog shit now. I’m sure jigga is glad he didn’t get caught up too far in that late 90’s Hollywood drama. Or should I say I’m sure he’s glad he kept his mouth shut through that Hollywood drama
Hollywood Drama? What does that even mean? Pac and Biggie was 100 % street and people dont do drive by in a “Hollywood” drama. Jayz officially went Hollywood loooobg time ago. Marcy was over 25 years ago. Jayz and beyonce is the definition of Hollywood. Jayz did not want street beef
don jayz is my foverite rapper alive after 2pac..pac was a rappee of akind. he could come back to jayz in amore dangerous way with the greatest diss track of the generation of all times.. go ask the bad boys..
So weak. He didn’t have the balls to put it out back then. And he says stuff all the time jocking Pac. Pac would have destroyed Jay Z back then Jay was ugly as hell with his gold tooth and rat stache while Pac was a celebrity sex symbol
What does Jayz looks have to do with his skills. He didn’t put out the diss because PAC died, if he would have put it out people would have called him heartless. And PAC wouldn’t have destroyed Jay lyrically. Jay can hold his own against anyone even the Great Pac
Looks have to do with swagger which plays into any battle. Pac was about being real. Wtf could Jay say to Pac at that time. Pac was in movies, sold hit records, shit he was bangin Madonna. And Jay Z had a diss? Gtfoh, jay could have twenty Diss songs who cares he was still a musty lil punk at that time compared to pac pac would have laid a hit em up track and destroyed jay. And we would have all been done a favor as jay has ushered in an era of rap that is completely wack. Jay Z is the father or so called king of the absolute worst era of rap period. Fact. Shit I would have loved to hear a Jay Z hit em up by Pac
Pac was known to be in the studio everyday before he died trust me he would of released some shit and there probably would of been no Roc-A-Fella
2Pac is dead. Hov is still alive. Who really won?
Jayz’s lucky 2pac died. Jayzs career was stagnant and about to end before 2pac and Biggie died. Thats why he kept “retiring” after every album around that time.
Jayz career was far from stagnant and when Jayz retired PAC was dead for almost ten yrs. Try again
Truth. His career was very stagnant and hekep retiring, and he was about to but then he backstabbed dame abd viggs abd sold the company
Let’s Keep it 100.
Pac would have destroyed Jay-Z, especially if he was alive when the Makaveli album dropped.
“Bomb First” and “Against All Odds”.
Plus Jay-Z only became a real star because Biggie and Pac died.
Biggie was the King of New York and Jay-Z would not have taken that crown.
real talk.
Tupac tops jay z in nearly every aspect. Jay Z had good music before the beef but when it came. Tupac destroyed him. Jay couldn’t even sell his new stuff. Everyone knows Pac owns jay z. Apples to oranges my man. Tupac is a top 5 rapper, Jay Z is top 15.
I think, the diss track was average, if it was that nasty as he claim# then Jay z, would have erased that track by Nas- Ether; this guy just want attention!#myopinion
Tupac Amaru Shakur.. the baddest boy of all times…..
AINT NO NIGGA LIKE ME/FUCK JAY Z! RIP PAC. Cnt downplay a legend clark kent.
I got a diss record for Jay-z that will shock the world!
2Pac was murdered in 1996. Almost 20 years ago. Look how much love he still gets from his fans.
DJ Clark Bent, or whatever, says there would’ve been no come back.
-Says who? You? Shows you how much he knows. He isn’t even poppin’ right now. When was the last time Kent had a hit record?
GET OFF JAY Z’S NUTSACK, YOU OL’ WASHED, UP HATIN’ ASS DJ!
Remember me r u still down
Still Ballin in 15 in ghetto hev
Jay-Z had the balls to go at Pac,that only speaks volumes.We all dont know what would’ve been.I respect him for having a heart and not release (disrepect) when Pac Died.I think It would’ve been entertaining and I guess Jay recorded knowing that guns were involved as well.Jay could’nt have been stupid but calculative.
Giants die cause they’re credited with a win before they do the actual hardwork.David & Goliath
Jay had Pac beat lyrically but Pac would have ended Jay’s career before it even started. Pac was a movement.
Lyrically? How? Pac was one of the best lyricist and jayz is never known for his lyrics, jayz is known for his bragging of what he got and you dont got.
@truth,
I know that’s the truth. You have these illiterate dudes always talking about how Pac was somehow outclassed on lyrics when the brother was one of the few street poets on the mic that made it mainstream and kept doing it that way when he got there. I think this dummy was meaning metaphors, wordplay, and all that other nerd shit that people bring up with this rap shit when it actually really comes down to do you know how to spit, are you spitting some shit that matters, and does it sound good? Pac checked all those boxes. Even Dre said when he was in the studio with him, this was the one rapper who didn’t need guidance cause he could damn near produce his own shit and had his own vision for what he wanted his shit to sound like, not to mention the stories of how he’d come up with some hard shit on the spot right after hearing the beat and actually making it sound good.
“Jay-Z not known for his lyrics.”
Breh 2pac rhymes “enemies” with “hennessy” on every song.
First off this goes to show how overrated Jay-Z is that line was weak as f**k and most of all untrue, Pac wouldn’t have needed a come back because jay-z would have never been able to get on.. he couldn’t even do nothing with biggie let alone Pac.
Yeah he just dropped a classic album during the time, and got features from BIG nd was featured on BIGs album…but he wasn’t doing shit.
Let me clear this up.He meant if he dropped the song he couldn’t take it back at the time.idiots cant read just see words
“Ni##as talk a lot of shit but that’s after I’m gone
Cause they fear me in physical form let it be known
I’m troublesome” THATS PACS WORDS Y DO U COME OUT AND TELL THIS SH&T NOW Y NOT BACK THEN
Preach!
Its cool jay z wack wen pac was out but to me it takes nothing from who he is today. Thats his story/come up I love the blueprint
Here comes the Pac stans……………………
Hey guys I love reading the comments section but if you heads could type better and use better vocabulary it would really make it better…mkay
Like I said early, no need for the emotional comments. You heard the song? No? Then chill. Some of the comments are from cats who were fans then of Hip-Hop as a whole, not certain personalities. They would also know that when Pac was eastcoast ranting he had the upmost love for Boot Camp, Wu, and Naughty. Never heard how Suge was trying to get Premo beats? Dudes need to calm down down and get some respect for the music, out here dissing Clark and everybody who say something you don’t know about because you stanning a rapper’s persona.
two of the most passionate fanbases in hip hop… perfect click/troll bait…. well played hhdx, well played….
Yeah whatever
I actually heard it. it’s on youtube. takes you back to the essence of reasonable doubt days. but it would’ve done jay no good to come out with it.
Whats the songs name?
Yea right. No way HOV could’ve ended PAC’s career. Not even close. If “WHO SHOT YA” didn’t do it and CHINO XL’s one line didn’t do it then HOV had absolutely NO CHANCE!!! People need to quit bringing up old bs. JAY Z is in a whole notha space and he had love for PAC and one of the OUTLAWZ said that PAC dissed JAY Z only cuz BIGGIE wouldn’t respond. Nothing more. Nothing less. R.I.P. MAKAVELI THE DON & f*ck DJ CLARK KENT for even mentioning this.
Gay z is trash his albums are all garbage and fuck dj clark cunt forever lil bitch
Fuck jayz!!!!!
Tupac was a fake thug ballerina who never lived that life he rapped about. He hid behind sugr and was never a shooter or a fighter. He was nothing more than an actor. Jay z is also fake rapping about how he moved big weight which we all know is false. Both of these guys rap about things they have never done yet you hypocrites call them real rap. Gucci mane is real rap he raps about facts not fantasies. He actually killed a man he beats people up. He actually sold drugs lives that street life. He is the last of the real niccas unlike all these other fake rappers. Free big guwop.
View completely lost the argument by bringing up gucci mane in a conversation with Jay Z and 2 Pac get the f*** out of here sometimes peoples comments shows the intellect that they have or don’t have
Tha exactly why you didn’t get no likes…. #Dumbass !!
You sound like a moron.
You do know Pac shot 2 cops right??
Are you saying because he did ballet as a kid he aint no thug?
Some football players do ballet, are they not strong as s**t?
But then again I can tell you haven’t listened to Pac’s albums because if u did, u would understand what he means by Thug Life. He was more than just a Thug.
Do your rap history homework son.
oh, it would of been like “Ether” by Nas? Cus Jay still havent recovered from that. He end up signing the man, to calm the storm lmao hahahahahaha Love Jay Z, but Nas Ethered him! Literally! lol no way Pac career would have ended! jay Z might have been more lyrical with the wordplay but would have fallen with the onslaught of Pac disses. Pac dont stop, his emotions, and MOUTH would of been too much for Jay..
Was it Dead or Alive w Sauce $
Jay is smart for not releasing it, he could have lost his life too.
Jay-Z. don’t got shit on Pac never did and never will.
the truth is had jay-z released that 2pac diss when 2pac was still on this earth his career might not what it have been today .Part of the reason people know who jay-z is not only biggie but 2pac, 2pac probably did just as much for jiggas career as biggie did was 2pac as lyrically blessed as jay-z? of course not everyone knows that .Regardless he could spit that fire and he definitely would of ethered jay-z .Lets look at the facts here 2pac turned some of biggies fanbase against biggie and biggie was a bigger artist then jay-z was at the time .Jay-z played it smart but not releasin that track
I boned jay-z at rockefella center in 93
Pac rapped about real world issues not cars and champagne.
He also talked a lot of shit and is now dead and jay gettin all da money and groupies
Fuck that fat lips bitch
Jay-Z had the decency to not speak about it. Fuck clark kent for his bitterness such a sad ass nigga
Let that bitch nigga jay release the damn track, in fact let him write 1 for Eminem, someone thats alive and we’ll see who is the best MC once and for all, jay talks to much shit… Even bout eminem calling him the most over rated rapper of all time… Diss that white guy from D12, lets see what happens…
Jay z is a pathetic joke. He will never be as immortal as pac.
Immortal? Nigga is dead What the fuck are You talkin about?
lol…no coming back my ass.
but jay and puff had the last laugh. they worth hundreds of millions now and on top of da rap game. and 2pac? well, that nigga dead.
2pac was a dumb motherfucker…talk shit and get split. when youre dead, nobody cares anymore.
If he nobody cares, why people still talking about him 10 years after his death?
you must be a new school dude, no respect
Apart from this being old news; Jay z cant do a scathing diss. I suspect had it dropped and Pac had survived Jay z would have been buried under the sheer weight of the raw verbal backlash of Pac. Jay is just some rapper..Pac is beyond legendary
Why hasn’t anyone heard it then if its so great? Fuck outta here with that
I believe he recorded a diss against 2pac and everyone around him at the time believed it was “hot shit” cause they were loving the free piss, drugs and hos he was paying for to be popular. He couldnt even muster the pride to diss the game 15 years later when he was considered a “legend” after he was called out mulitple times. Jay is an excellent business man and he knows his strengths. Going against someone like 2pac would never be a good business move. He didnt have the lyrical ability, candance, flow, passion or sheer aggression to compete on the same level as 2pac in a battle and come out on top. Theres a reason it wasnt released because it was pathetic and would have damaged jays career more than 2pacs
niccas be talkin ‘lot of shit but that afta m gone cause they fear me in the physical form, let be known..
What about the 2pac return niggies?
Why perform it for a select few people? If you want it to be heard, then release the shit if it’s so good. People at your concert already heard it. Let the rest of the world hear it.
They need to release any diss or unreleased track in general, that’s in the vault.