Ice Dice will get candid about assembly Tupac Shakur throughout his roadie days for Digital Underground in a current interview. The rapper stopped by the Folks’s Get together podcast to speak with host Talib Kweli, alongside different West Coast legends, Snoop Dogg, Too Brief, and E-40, to speak about their OG supergroup, “MountWestmore.” Throughout the chat, Dice shared that he met Shakur as a younger, hungry rapper and that N.W.A closely impressed him, and he even needed to make music reflective of the music by Dice and the legendary rap group.
“He would all the time inform me like, you realize, ‘This Digital sh*t is cool, man, however I wish to do information like y’all.’” He mentioned, “‘Trigger the place I dwell at, sh*t is f*cked up. what I’m saying? I wish to speak about how the sh*t is.’”
Dice famous that he nudged the rapper to maintain going and forge his path. He remembers that Shakur was a “enjoyable dude with a whole lot of vitality” and reminiscences on humorous moments with the “California Love” rhymer.
The mature rapper additionally shared what it was like watching Shakur’s star rise earlier than the later years of his profession, which had been steeped in controversy resulting from a sequence of occasions together with a number of arrests, his involvement with Demise Row Information, and the beefing with Biggie Smalls, which launched a regional conflict between the West and East coasts. The stress would come to a head, resulting in the dying of each Smalls and Shakur in fast succession.
Take a look at the complete interview above.
