Trick Daddy has offered a diplomatic response to a longstanding conspiracy theory about his connection to 2Pac prior to the rapper’s death in 1996.
In an interview clip shared by VladTV on Friday (February 23), the Liberty City MC talked about hopping on an unfinished song alongside the Hip Hop icon following his untimely passing.
Over the chat, host DJ Vlad even asked him about Pac’s bar on what became “Still Ballin’ [Nitty Remix]”: “’Cause Trick don’t give a fuck, where you coward n-ggas now?”
After clarifying that he wasn’t rapping in the big leagues during the Hip Hop icon’s lifetime, the 49-year-old refused to share how it came to be that Pac mentioned his name on the song.
“All I can tell you is I promised his mama that I won’t ever answer that question, and so I’m not answering that question,” the Florida rapper said.
In the same interview, he also revealed the backstory of the song by recalling that Afeni Shakur reached out and asked him to hop on the remix with her departed son. It went on to appear on the posthumous album Better Dayz.
“His mom reached out to me,” he began. “She said, ‘You remind me so much of my son. I got a record that y’all should’ve been did, and you need to finish it. Whatever it takes …’
“I said, ‘It don’t take nothing but [for] you to send me that record, I’d give it back to you. I did that record in 15 minutes.”
He continued: “So I called for two weeks: ‘What did she say about the record? What did she say about the record?’
“In three weeks, that bitch is on the radio. I was like ‘Woah! This is my favorite n-gga in the world.’ I respect this n-gga and what he went through more than I respect my brother, more than I respect my daddy. He was like a young n-gga in the hood; he was like our Jesus Christ.”
He also shared that his favorite 2Pac songs are “Brenda’s Got A Baby,” “Keep Ya Head Up,” and “Hellrazor.”
The original line is Kurupt don’t give a fuck.
They probably used where Pac said trick in another song and spliced it in. You could tell it wasn’t part of the original song. Kurupt was on the original version, and he’s the one Pac shouts out in that bar.
Exactly. If AI can mimic voices now, I’m sure means existed back then to splice and sow some audio of Pac saying “trick” into his original recording.
Yes. The means to splice audio clips on computers definitely existed in the early 2000s.
Simple…they just dubbed his name into the song. Trick Daddy just started smoking crack in 96.
I mean, yo mama died from PERCS and we ain’t say nothing.
Its not that deep! 😅
His love for Nickel Rocks is tho 😆
Someone say nickel rocks? Sheeet, I ain’t smoke rock in like six minutes, no cap. Sheeeet, saw this fuss about a show called Yellowstone- me and the rabble got to thinking they went and made a dockyamenchry about me. But all I seen was some cowboys.
They just threw the word “trick” in from another song. He used the word trick many times. It got me back in the day though, I admit.