

It was just that things got misconstrued,’” Nas said during a 2012 interview with Steve Stoute, that Tupac told him. “‘Me and you are never supposed to go at it.

Their conversation at the MTV Awards was meant to clear this up and have Pac and Nas maintain a relationship, but they were never able to fully reconcile due to Pac’s murder in the following days. Then they came askin’ me my name, what the fuck? Somebody take this biscuit ‘fore the cops come Heard shots and dropped, son, caught a hot one On the song, Nas rapped a verse about being shot in the leg early in his career, which Tupac felt was directed at him, following the five gunshot wounds he sustained in 1995. What Nas is referring to is his July 1996 song “The Message,” which landed on his sophomore album, It Was Written. We had a great convo… He thought I was dissing him on the song ‘The Message.'” “Where I was coming from really wasn’t an all-love place ‘cause there was a rumor Makaveli coming out, so I really wanted to check the temperature with him… It was necessary for us to address the situation… We had to step to our business. “ was in New York and there was a lot of tension flaring,” Nas told Ebro Darden during a Hot 97 interview in 2021. During this instance, Nas addressed rumors that Pac was planning to diss him on his upcoming album, The Don Killumanati: The 3 Day Theory, under the alias Makaveli. In fact, less than two weeks before Pac was gunned down in 1996 in Las Vegas, he had a run-in with Nas at the MTV Awards. While Nas doesn’t specify when this moment happened, it likely came before the rivalry between East Coast and West Coast rap erupted in the mid-1990s, ultimately leading to the deaths of both Pac and The Notorious B.I.G.
