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Snoop Dogg has revealed that 2Pac used to help the Doggfather raise his first-born son Corde before the Hip Hop icon was killed in September of 1996.
Talking to PEOPLE for a new cover story, Snoop recalled their time in the mid-1990s.
“I was working on [my 1996 album] Tha Doggfather,” Snoop said. “So when [Corde] was old enough able to pee and all that other shit, I started taking him to the studio with me. … So I’m raising him around all of the homies.”
He continued: “Tupac loved him. It’s like his nephew. Tupac was a better dad than me,” Snoop remembers. “We’ve been up here [in the recording studio for] three hours and we ain’t got him nothing to eat. It’s like I’m up here rapping and shit, I’m not being a father. [He was] training me.”
Back in July, Snoop paid tribute to 2Pac with his newly-opened weed dispensary in his hometown of Los Angeles.
Called S.W.E.D., which is an acronym for Smoke Weed Every Day — a reference to Nate Dogg‘s final line on Dr. Dre‘s “The Next Episode” — the fully licensed dispensary opened its doors with Snoop’s help over the weekend.
Through a limited edition release, Tha Doggfather is paying tribute to his late friend and collaborator by featuring 2Pac on a number of his Death Row Cannabis products.
The line features a premium blend of jarred cannabis flower and Alien OG, with customers also receiving an exclusive never-before-seen photo of the “Dear Mama” legend, as well as a matchbook recreated from the photoshoot.
Snoop Dogg previously revealed that 2Pac handed him his first blunt in 1993 at the wrap party for the film Poetic Justice, which starred ‘Pac alongside Janet Jackson.
“2Pac is the one who got Snoop Dogg smoking blunts,” he said, referring to himself in the third person, while inducting the late rapper into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.
Snoop also recalled that moment in a statement launching the 2Pac weed products: “That first blunt sparked a friendship that ran deep. We’ll always have his music, but this is another way I can bring what was meaningful to 2Pac to his fans.”
Snoop’s S.W.E.D. shop also offers fans the chance to see a Death Row electric chair, graffiti on the walls and various bits of music memorabilia including a section dedicated to his seminal album Doggystyle.
Whenever Snoop fondly reminisces about his times with Pac, it always comes off as if he’s exaggerating and clout chasing, giving more credence to the idea he’s jealous. That dispensary biz sounds less like paying tribute and more like trying to maximize profits with cheap ploys. Highly unlikely Pac would’ve signed off on that. Snoop has been vehemently trying to convince the world that he and Pac were best friends since he died; but the more he talks about their relationship, the more disingenuous it registers.
The CAP KING
How Pac have time to raise Snoop’s son when he was only on Death Row for, like, a year? The end of which they weren’t even speaking?
Snoop cappin again…
My pops didn’t love me neither 🙁
Snoop has said he met Pac after he joined Death Row. Pac joined in 1995, and died in 1996. So they knew each other for one year. And at that time, Corde Broadaus (snoops son) was 1 to 2 years old, as he was born in 1994. You mean to tell me Pac was bottle feeding or carrying the infant/toddler in a baby carrier or stroller, all while he’s making All Eyez On Me and touring nationwide? Yeah. Sounds like complete and utter BS.
PAC signed to death row in 1995 and died in 96 lol