Bun B Explains How Pimp C’s Respect For Tupac Almost Kept Him Off “Big Pimpin” Because Of Jay-Z Beef

Twenty-two years in the past, Hip Hop was hit with a brand new single that may quickly take over airwaves worldwide. It was then that Jay-Z shared “Big Pimpin,” a monitor that hosted unforgettable appears to be like from UGK, however in response to Bun B, it was a collaboration that nearly did not occur. On the time, Hip Hop was nonetheless reeling from the deaths of iconic rappers Tupac Shakur and Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, and Pimp revered Pac a lot that he wasn’t initially on board with “Huge Pimpin.”

“I speak to Jay-Z on a regular basis. We talk very regularly. We have now that shared expertise,” mentioned Bun in an interview with Steven Sulley. “We actually had the No. 1 document on the planet.”

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“So, Tupac was not a Jay-Z fan, that is very well-known. Tupac was not a Jay-Z fan in his profession, and when there was a West Coast, East Coast beef, he felt Jay-Z was a part of the collective that have been his enemies. Jay-Z was good [friends] with Biggie, good mates with Biggie who was [with Puffy], who Tupac felt betrayed him when he bought shot.”

“‘All people that is cool with Biggie, I don’t f*ck with none of them.‘ And Pimp C didn’t wish to f*ck with those that Tupac didn’t f*ck with, as a result of he thought Tupac was the perfect decide of character, proper? So, if Tupac did not such as you, I do not such as you, ‘trigger I am like Tupac. I feel like Tupac thinks, I transfer like Tupac strikes.”

“And so, actually, when the decision got here, I keep in mind Pimp used to have this huge portray on the wall. And this was when the primary name got here—when the primary name got here from Jay-Z, ‘trigger that occurred once we was in Atlanta, we was in the home in Atlanta, and he appeared up on the wall and he simply stared on the image.”

Bun mentioned after watching Pimp C stare into area, he questioned his pal about what he was doing. Pimp was mentioned to have replied, “I am considering, what would Tupac do? And Tupac would not need me to f*ck with him.” Bun added that it was a “litmus check” for Pimp C to see his “character.”

“Tupac was a person of very excessive private requirements of character and didn’t have lots of mates, as a result of he knew that everybody didn’t transfer and carry themselves in a method that he did, and Pimp C felt the identical method.”

Watch Bun B element the connection between the late Rap legends under.

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Supply: HotNewHipHop