Despite arriving in the middle of the fateful East Coast vs. West Coast beef, 2Pac‘s 1996 blockbuster album All Eyez On Me wasn’t without its contributions from the opposite coast as Method Man and Redman added their grimy, East Coast flavor to “Got My Mind Made Up.”
Unbeknownst to most rap fans until now, however, ‘Pac’s diamond-certified Death Row debut was supposed to feature an appearance from another New York rap icon. During his recent appearance on N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN’s Drink Champs podcast, Snoop Dogg revealed none other than Nas originally had a verse on “Got My Mind Made Up.”
After being asked by N.O.R.E. to name his favorite rapper between Kurupt and Method Man during the “Quick Time With Slime” segment — a tough question he refused to answer — Snoop let the cat out of the bag regarding 2Pac and Nas’ scrapped collaboration.
“You know they got a song together, right? Kurupt and Method Man, on 2Pac’s album … But guess who’s on that song first? Nas,” Snoop said at the 1:32:00 mark, prompting gasps of surprise from N.O.R.E. and the rest of the room.
“I’m telling you the truth. Nas came over to Daz [Dillinger]’s house and got on the song first, then Redman and Method Man got on that song. Then 2Pac got out the pen and Daz gave it to 2Pac and took cuz verse off, but left Method Man and Redman on it. Yeah, you heard it first, n-gga. And if you get at Daz, he may have the files.”
Nas wasn’t the only rapper to have been taken off “Got My Mind Made Up.” Fellow Wu-Tang Clan rapper Inspectah Deck, The Lady of Rage and RBX also had their verses pulled from the song, which started out as a Dogg Pound track before it landed on All Eyez On Me.
While Snoop Dogg didn’t explain why Nas’ verse was removed, the Queensbridge MC had a brief feud with 2Pac that was sparked by his It Was Written track “The Message.” ‘Pac felt Nas took shots at him on the song and allegedly confronted his brother Jungle backstage at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards, but the pair were able to smooth things over.
“We had a great convo, man,” Nas told Apple Music’s Ebro Darden in 2020. “He explained he thought I was dissing him on the song ‘The Message.’ He thought I was dissing him and I heard he was dissing me at clubs. [‘Pac was the] last person I was even thinking about when I wrote that record. I was just going at everybody.”
“He was like, ‘Yo Nas, we brothers, man. We not supposed to go through this,’ and I was like, ‘That’s what I’m saying.’ We had a plan to squash it in Vegas, so I was out there when he was in the hospital and praying for him to come through. Rest in peace to ‘Pac.”
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Last July, an unreleased diss song Nas recorded about 2Pac called “Real N-ggas” surfaced online, on which he rapped, “From tube-socks in Timbs to blue rocks and Benz/Who got the ends, the type of n-gga 2Pac pretends/To all n-ggas who shine, guess who got revenge.”
Years after ‘Pac’s death, Nas featured the late Death Row rapper on his 2002 album God’s Son. He also eventually landed a collaboration with Tha Dogg Pound on “Don’t Stop, Keep Going.” Ironically, there’s an earlier version of the song featuring a verse from 2Pac taunting The Notorious B.I.G. and Bad Boy Records.
Revisit “Got My Mind Made Up” below.
Saying NAS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON 2PAC’S ‘ALL EYEZ ON ME’ reveals Snoop smokes too much weed and is confused
my fathers birthday is a day after me against the world.
I don’t believe him.
he needs more people
No, he wasn’t. Snoop’s brain is fried. That song was supposed to be on the Dogg Pound’s album that came out the month Suge bailed Pac out of jail, Dogg Food, but it got cut at the last minute. The track list for Euthanasia and then what became All Eyez on Me has been out there for a minute, and in no form or fashion did this song appear in it. I don’t even think Pac laid his vocals for his version during those sessions. It was Inspecta Dek and Rage he took off of Got My Mind Made Up and put on his album.
Daz just put out a video correcting this
That’s not what was said..Snoop said this was a Daz song with Nas on it.Then Daz gave it to Tupac who took Nas off in place of himself..
They weren’t going to use it anyway, so he didn’t take anybody off of it. He just recorded another version of it. Kurupt’s lyrics are different on the two versions too. This was misinformed and Snoop trying to play to his audience like he often does, which ends up getting him in trouble when repeating stories he doesn’t remember or didn’t have much to do with to remember it like the principal players. He was barely in the studio those months Pac used to live in there, which people back then said caused tension because Pac always had both studios going and recording nonstop while Snoop was used to coming and going at his leisure and getting the place cleared for him to work when he wanted to. Pac was the higher priority because he was recording hits, and everyone listening knew it.
Is this about 2pac? The one that’s been dead 25 years? NO MORE, please: keep this man’s name out of your mouth… ???????
Of course he remove Nas verse for the same reason he removed inspector deck, they both smashed him on his own shit that’s why lol. God Knows Nas probably snapped
Inspecta Dek’s verse is hardly shit to write home about. That song is my least favorite on the album to begin with because it felt out of place, but of course only a NY dickrider would say some ignorant shit like that to begin with. Name one Dek quotable that anyone remembers 25 years later.
How bout the first verse of triumph lol goofy boy
Yes, that proves your point, naming a verse that 99% of hip hop fans have no idea about, and before you say shit about me being a casual fan, yes I know the song, and no, it’s nothing anyone remembers 25 years later. I don’t know why this is hard for some of you to realize that everybody wasn’t into your favorites. Even when people bring up Wu Tang, Dek is like the 15th person people think of, but you think he’d eat Pac on a track. Hell, Meth and Raekwon couldn’t eat him on a track, but okay. I have plenty of songs that I love that no one else cares about. It’s how the world works.
Yeah, Snoop got his stories mixed up, Daz Dillinger just put video out correcting this story. Pac was already pissed at Nas while in prison. Why would he come out and want Nas on his album? Snoops an og, but his mind slippin a bit.
I doubt it. Yes, Nas could eat Pac on a 16, but let’s Not NY pretend Nas was the better MC. Nas lyrically could dismantle Pac, but Nas don’t have Pac presence, command or charisma. Look @ any Nas performance, and then Pac’s @ House Of Blues, and tell me which show better. Pac energy alone matches Nas lyrics.
WHY ARE YOU SUPPORTING THIS FAKE NEWS?
Why Snoop always have Nas on his mind on interviews? Every story he has told so far is a lie about Nas. Dax has come forward already and said this is a lie!
Snoop is a straight buster.
(yawn) he on a song with 2puk (yawn)
Snoop jealous of Nas! Always will be… His wife must stated in bed one night that Nas is sexy or something. Dude always saying something shady on Nas. F you Snoop with that brain fog brain!
Our niggas for real