wasnt posted here so ill just go ahead...
E-40 Interview
Taking it back to the old school, what was your favorite memory about 2Pac?
We was shooting a video out there in Emmerville and it was at some apartment complexes on urban soil. One of my favorite memories was him actually interacting with all the kids, like picking up babies and holding them in his hands and taking pictures with em. It put a smile on everybody’s face to see him doing that because a lot of cats just didn’t know that 2Pac had a heart just like everybody else. He loved kids and that was one of my favorites.
How did you first meet 2Pac?
I got wind of 2Pac actually recognizing me through Richie Rich of the 415. He gave me 2Pac’s phone number and I gave him a call and he was acknowledging what I’m doing, peepin it out. Pac did a lot of traveling and always kept tabs on the Bay. I was like “its all love bra” and I acknowledge what you doin and I stayed in contact with him and we met. Damn, when was the first time we met? It had to have been 1993 or 1992. I don’t even remember the first time we met. Oh, I known when it was. It was jack the rapper. In Atlanta. We were talking on the phone and we met at Jack the rapper which was a big convention where all the rappers would come together with all the labels and everything and it was just a big convention of performances and everything.
What was the most interesting thing about 2Pac that stood out while you worked with him?
His work ethic and his ability to smoke blunts and drink Hennessey. He’d smoke 25 blunts, drink Hennessey and still be focused and knock out a song in 20-30 minutes. Knock out a verse in 10 minutes. I’m talking about a fresh verse.
Do you remember what year the footage of 2Pac rolling a blunt with you was?
Yeah, that was 1993 in the video for my song “Practice Looking Hard.” I practiced looking hard and he hung out all day through the whole video with me.
Too Short
What were your thoughts when you found out 2Pac was dead after being shot in Las Vegas?
I was one of those people that thought so much shit happened with Pac between the time when I first heard of him was when he ran into the Berkley Police department who assaulted him and he sued the Berkley Police department and he won. That’s the first time I ever heard of a 2Pac sensational incident. But from that time until before he got shot and killed, I was one of those people who said, this motha fucka can walk the earth crazy as hell and he can do anything he want. He’s just gonna be an old man, its just him. He didn’t seem invincible, more like lucky. Or someone with an angle on their shoulder. When I found out that he got shot, never did I have a thought that he wouldn’t pull out of it. I just knew the whole time, that “oh shit, we gonna be kickin it again” and whatever that’s just how its going down. But when he passed, you think back on it like an Elvis fan. You just find the conspiracy theory and say they didn’t do an autopsy, they didn’t have a funeral. The man is in Cuba chillin, they put out the movie Resurrection, he had on the new shoes, you can see he got older, gained weight. I’m with the conspiracy theories all the way.
Did you have a favorite memory of 2Pac?
My favorite 2Pac memory would be the moment I saw him doing interviews on BET. I knew Pac from Oakland, I had been around him, I knew his homeboys and I knew the people he hung out with all the time so I knew of his character and I knew that he was a comedian, cool, funny dude. The kind of guy everyone wanted to be around. All the girls like him and shit and I knew him as that. But I never knew he had these political/radical views about the system and shit. I’m sitting here watching BET and they are sitting down with these little girls asking him these entertainment questions and he went off into this Black Panther mode. And I was like “what the fuck?” I’m like one of those people who are interested in what’s going on around me in the community with social issues and shit and he was making sense. I was like damn, I didn’t know he knew it like that. So from then on, I kinda always paid attention to what Pac said in his songs and what he said in his interviews. It opened me up to what direction he was going to as a rapper. From rapper to rapper I was seeing where he was going with it. He was highly regarded as this thug with the tattoos, but if you really listen, people that know it word for word, the man was educating the whole time. Like every song was a handbook. A lot of people learned the words, but they weren’t really listening because they took out of it “thug till I die” and I think he was preaching about survival. You gotta make the best out of this situation, not just be as negative as you can. This shit can be better if you make it better.
Was there anything that stood out in your mind about 2Pac’s work ethic when you were in the studio with him?
The few times I’ve been around him in the studio, everybody says the same type of thing. He wrote the fuckin verse faster than anybody else and he just said it. He wouldn’t stop the track sayin “let me say it again,” he would just keep going. The Outlawz gave me the best insite saying that Pac would be like “we gotta goto the studio and make songs all night.” Engineers would be talking about as fast as they could pull it up Pac would be spittin and that just how it went. I ain’t never in my days of being a workaholic ain’t never did it like that.
E-40 Interview
Taking it back to the old school, what was your favorite memory about 2Pac?
We was shooting a video out there in Emmerville and it was at some apartment complexes on urban soil. One of my favorite memories was him actually interacting with all the kids, like picking up babies and holding them in his hands and taking pictures with em. It put a smile on everybody’s face to see him doing that because a lot of cats just didn’t know that 2Pac had a heart just like everybody else. He loved kids and that was one of my favorites.
How did you first meet 2Pac?
I got wind of 2Pac actually recognizing me through Richie Rich of the 415. He gave me 2Pac’s phone number and I gave him a call and he was acknowledging what I’m doing, peepin it out. Pac did a lot of traveling and always kept tabs on the Bay. I was like “its all love bra” and I acknowledge what you doin and I stayed in contact with him and we met. Damn, when was the first time we met? It had to have been 1993 or 1992. I don’t even remember the first time we met. Oh, I known when it was. It was jack the rapper. In Atlanta. We were talking on the phone and we met at Jack the rapper which was a big convention where all the rappers would come together with all the labels and everything and it was just a big convention of performances and everything.
What was the most interesting thing about 2Pac that stood out while you worked with him?
His work ethic and his ability to smoke blunts and drink Hennessey. He’d smoke 25 blunts, drink Hennessey and still be focused and knock out a song in 20-30 minutes. Knock out a verse in 10 minutes. I’m talking about a fresh verse.
Do you remember what year the footage of 2Pac rolling a blunt with you was?
Yeah, that was 1993 in the video for my song “Practice Looking Hard.” I practiced looking hard and he hung out all day through the whole video with me.
Too Short
What were your thoughts when you found out 2Pac was dead after being shot in Las Vegas?
I was one of those people that thought so much shit happened with Pac between the time when I first heard of him was when he ran into the Berkley Police department who assaulted him and he sued the Berkley Police department and he won. That’s the first time I ever heard of a 2Pac sensational incident. But from that time until before he got shot and killed, I was one of those people who said, this motha fucka can walk the earth crazy as hell and he can do anything he want. He’s just gonna be an old man, its just him. He didn’t seem invincible, more like lucky. Or someone with an angle on their shoulder. When I found out that he got shot, never did I have a thought that he wouldn’t pull out of it. I just knew the whole time, that “oh shit, we gonna be kickin it again” and whatever that’s just how its going down. But when he passed, you think back on it like an Elvis fan. You just find the conspiracy theory and say they didn’t do an autopsy, they didn’t have a funeral. The man is in Cuba chillin, they put out the movie Resurrection, he had on the new shoes, you can see he got older, gained weight. I’m with the conspiracy theories all the way.
Did you have a favorite memory of 2Pac?
My favorite 2Pac memory would be the moment I saw him doing interviews on BET. I knew Pac from Oakland, I had been around him, I knew his homeboys and I knew the people he hung out with all the time so I knew of his character and I knew that he was a comedian, cool, funny dude. The kind of guy everyone wanted to be around. All the girls like him and shit and I knew him as that. But I never knew he had these political/radical views about the system and shit. I’m sitting here watching BET and they are sitting down with these little girls asking him these entertainment questions and he went off into this Black Panther mode. And I was like “what the fuck?” I’m like one of those people who are interested in what’s going on around me in the community with social issues and shit and he was making sense. I was like damn, I didn’t know he knew it like that. So from then on, I kinda always paid attention to what Pac said in his songs and what he said in his interviews. It opened me up to what direction he was going to as a rapper. From rapper to rapper I was seeing where he was going with it. He was highly regarded as this thug with the tattoos, but if you really listen, people that know it word for word, the man was educating the whole time. Like every song was a handbook. A lot of people learned the words, but they weren’t really listening because they took out of it “thug till I die” and I think he was preaching about survival. You gotta make the best out of this situation, not just be as negative as you can. This shit can be better if you make it better.
Was there anything that stood out in your mind about 2Pac’s work ethic when you were in the studio with him?
The few times I’ve been around him in the studio, everybody says the same type of thing. He wrote the fuckin verse faster than anybody else and he just said it. He wouldn’t stop the track sayin “let me say it again,” he would just keep going. The Outlawz gave me the best insite saying that Pac would be like “we gotta goto the studio and make songs all night.” Engineers would be talking about as fast as they could pull it up Pac would be spittin and that just how it went. I ain’t never in my days of being a workaholic ain’t never did it like that.
Ill rep u in my mind now.....Go E-40 n the rest of the bay area rappers!!
