Tupac Shakur may be physically gone, but his legacy firmly lives on. Twenty-five years after his murder, he remains a consistent topic of conversation in Hip Hop circles. Case in point, Nas’ brother Jungle recently sat down with the Smoke Champs podcast for the debut episode where he revisited an altercation he had with the late rap legend and Death Row while attending the MTV Video Music Awards in the 1990s.
In the clip, Jungle explains it all started when 2Pac dissed Mobb Deep on “Hit Em Up” in 1996. To him, that translated to dissing all of Queensbridge where Nas and Jungle are from.
Around that time, that’s when the 2Pac-Mobb Deep shit happen … he didn’t say anything about Nas, but he shitted on Mobb Deep so you shitted on Queensbridge. And as a kid, KRS did that to Queensbridge and we don’t play that no more. We was at the MTV music awards and Nas had to give an award, so he went to the back. I was like, ‘I’m gonna be at the bar waitin’ for you.’
When I went to the bar, I seen this girl and I’m tryin’ to bag this girl. I’m like, ‘Where you going?’ She’s like, ‘I’m looking for my friends.’ I said, ‘Who’s your friends?’ and she said, ‘Death Row.’ I said, ‘Damn.’ So I was like, ‘You with me. Fuck Death Row.’ She was like, ‘What? They are deep. They’re gonna jump you.’ I was like, ‘What? I will take a chain. When I see them, I’m gonna take a chain.’ She was like, ‘You crazy. You better not try that.’
While the clip stops there, both Jungle and Nas opened up about that night during an interview with Ebro Darden in August. The story continues with, “I yelled it out, ‘Yo, Mobb Deep in the house. I will take a Death Row chain!’ They came right back with Pac, and he’s looking like, ‘Who said that?’ … And I was like, ‘Oh god.’ And I was with his guy, Moose, and Moose was like, ‘Man, yo, I got you. I see everybody and they don’t even know I’m with you.’
“And he’s like this karate expert from Queensbridge. … I said it again, ‘Mobb Deep, what’s up Pac? What’s up? I’ll take your chain right now.’ And then they surrounded me again. They surrounded me, all, ‘What’s up with you? All it is. And Death Row, we here to die. You don’t know Death Row.’ They had razors in their hands, everything.”
Nas Reflects On 2Pac Beef That Led To 'Death Row East'
But the situation was diffused by the time Nas caught wind of it.
“I’m in the seats at the spot,” Nas remembers. “And somebody came and said, ‘Yeah, your brother and them is getting it on in the lobby or whatever,’ or something like that,” explained Nas. “So I got up and I went out there, but it was already squashed at that point.”
The debut episode of Smoke Champs premieres on October 31. In the meantime, check out the Apple Music interview with Nas and Jungle here.
Always that one asshole in the group getting dudes killed over some macho man bullshit
They’ve rehashed this story ten times in the last year or so. Nas even made a song called death row east. Stop using Pac’s shine to get some publicity.
Why you Mf coming out after Pac’s dead , It just shows the truth about what he said , that you Mf feared him in the physical farm…. Cowards to keep speaking on a man that now can’t represent himself….. Pussies……Real Talk.. .. New Orleans checking in.. ..
LOL 2pac Lesane perish crooks was a CIA or FBI agent.
He def was a government straw-man and was tasked with the mission of turning as many young black males into super violent predators who are useless to any civilized society with his “thug life” mission.
It worked.
There are 2 main timelines in the hip hop world…before and after Pac, similar to Jesus.
The black race treats him like a savior to emulate as well.
This is the plan …to lead you all off of the edge of a cliff.
And it worked!!!
Meanwhile, tell me more about how whitey is the devil while black on black crime this year alone will claim more lives than ALL lynchings in the 19th century.
Blacks are so lost as a race, there is no wonder why they are being weaponized by the small hats and their bitch WASP counterparts who rule this country.
Using your argument, since whites have killed whites, Bin Laden wasn’t wrong for 9/11? Face it dude you just have a problem with African americans. So much so that you’ll come to a hiphop site to hate on them.
And ya little homie Jungle is a garden to me.
Started with a woman like every downfall story of men. Jungle trying to impress a woman who would have went and fucked one of the Death Row weed carriers that same night had he gotten smoked.
ofc it always ‘starts with a woman’. this is nothing more than some of that good ol’ pure misogyny right here. smh…
He’s not wrong tho
Ballerina Pac was shook when he saw Jungle at the MTV awards. Caught flashbacks of Quad studios.
The man took a bullet in the nuts and still walked around. He bucked two cops. The coward was biggie. Pac said he fucked his wife. Big screamed for peace saying if faye have twins she’ll prolly have 2 pacs. What a pussy.
Lmao u either wasn’t really around hip hop in the 90s or you are just a real idiot
U a clown man u and your mom’s must sleep in the same bed
its always the weed carrier actin the most rah rah….jungle…please disappear again…
Dude sound like he got shot in the nuts LOL. Pac woulda mashed this fella RIP Pac
Jungle tryna impress a biatchhhhhh
this is why you can’t have all kinds of loose dudes hanging with you bringing street nonsense into business situations – those are the same dudes extorting mcs and running to vlad once the honeymoon is over and guys get cut loose to make their own bread
Fuck Nas and brother. 2 lying ass kneegrows. They both feared Pac. Hussein Fatal tell a whole different story. Just like to of Fatal closes homies from Jersey. They were all out there that night it all went down. Nas is a liar his brother is liar and snoop bytch ass is liar too
Hussein Fatal tells a different story which is the truth
Can’t take hoods people anywhere…
That dude was a fucking child when this happened, pac and death row would fucked him up if pac was not a fan of nas music! Fake story!
Nas told that story. Death Row’s prowess and the fear of the label overshadowed this act of bravery.
Just listened to the other side. Now I’m like okay, it sounds like Jungle just wants some fame. But Nas just wanted to have peace. Nas wanted to work with Pac.
Also, Snoop was in the middle of a beef he really wasn’t feelin’, but he represented a certain side of the beef. This shit was just tense man. I don’t think Pac had anything against the east coast, but once pac surrounded himself with these real goons, it fucked up his image and he also realized he’d gotten n-2-deep. This is just my interpretation of all the interviews I’ve heard, because everyone has their side or view of how things went down. I don’t take anything from either, but facts.