How the Q-Tip and 2Pac rap beef started

Q-Tip was the frontman of A Tribe Known as Quest, a hip-hop collective that modified hip-hop’s panorama within the late Eighties and Nineties. Inspired by his counterpart, Phife Dawg, he led what was dubbed a “jazz-based hip-hop revolution.” The motion noticed a soulful and jazz-inspired sonic adopted and a shift away from the offended anti-establishment aura of artists akin to Public Enemy and N.W.A.

A Tribe Called Quest were an integral part of this incredible shift. However, few noticed Q-Tip ever coming into into beefs. However, in an interview with Fats Joe, Brooklyn emcee Busta Rhymes claimed that Tip (actual identify Jonathan Davis) was as soon as at odds with West Coast icon Tupac Shakur.

Whereas talking with Fats Joe about 2Pac, Busta Rhymes defined, “I had an unbelievable relationship with ‘Pac. Me and ‘Pac was friends since early Leaders [Of The New School] days. Before he put out his solo shit when he was just still dancing with Digital Underground.”

As a Brooklyn emcee, Busta didn’t see a variety of 2Pac when he settled in California. However, Busta (actual identify Trevor Smith) did find yourself going to high school with Biggie Smalls and located himself in a clumsy place when the well-known battle between the 2 late legends was raging.

Talking about his loyalties throughout that interval of the mid-90s, Smith informed Joe, “When you’re friends with two people that are conflicting, you’re supposed to be the neutraliser. You’re supposed to be the one to do whatever you can to squash it. You ain’t supposed to pick no side. I’m not gonna lie; I was closer to Big because we went to school with Big. I was in Big’s home. I hugged and kissed Big’s mother. She hugged and kissed me. [Lil] Cease and all of ’em we grew together!”

He continued, “I knew ‘Pac, but I hadn’t been in ‘Pac’s home. I don’t know the late, great, beautiful Afeni Shakur, his mom. We didn’t have that same interaction based on us not living in the same proximity and space.”

Making the revelation about Q-Tip and 2Pac, Busta dropped a bomb on Fats Joe, declaring, “‘Pac and Q-Tip had beef! They had a very serious and a very intense beef. This is during the time I’m shooting the Higher Learning movie. Like ’93 or ’92 at The Source awards.”

He continued, “Me, 2Pac Omar Epps, we were staying in the Oakwood apartments, the fully-furnished apartments in LA on Hollywood Boulevard and fuller I stayed there before. In this particular crib, the buildings full of fully furnished apartments and ‘Pac was on one floor, Omar Epps was on another floor, I’m on my floor. We bouncing back and forth to each others’ cribs the whole time we out there shooting movies.

Explaining how 2Pac had to make an appearance on the East Coast, Busta continued, “2Pac, during this time frame, had to go to New York because he was performing at this particular source awards; this is when we were all performing off of DAT tapes. So you know, once that engineer press play on your DAT tape, it ain’t like you can stop [and rewind] that shit. You gotta go! 

Detailing the true origin of the feud, Smith vividly recalled, “So Tribe was doing their acceptance speech for ‘Best Group Of The Year’. They had one the award for that that year at The Source and 2Pac was supposed to be the next performance after their acceptance speech, and ‘Pac got introduced. So somehow the production person, the stage production manager, wasn’t paying attention to what was really happening, and the motherf*cker ended up pressing play in the middle of the Tribe acceptance speech, so ‘Pac just comes out there performing in the middle of their speech.”

Smith revealed that in his coronary heart, he knew it wasn’t Shakur’s however admitted it seemed horrible, asserting, “So that wasn’t ‘Pac fault, but it looked like a flagrant ‘Pac disrespect, and at that time ‘Pac had that reap for being a bit of loose canon. It was like, ‘Here he goes again’. So the beef starts ‘Pac comes off the stage Tribe there with Zulu Nation, and shit gets crazy. It didn’t lead to no blows, but the pressure was very intense between Tribe and ‘Pac at the time.”

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