Snoop Dogg Called Out By Outlawz Rapper Over ‘Wild’ 2Pac & Nas Story

Snoop Dogg apparently had a bit of revisionist history going on when he told a story about a confrontation between 2Pac and Nas – or so says Outlawz member Young Noble.

In an interview with The Art Of Dialogue earlier this month, Noble respectfully called Snoop out for his retelling of the pair’s interaction at Bryant Park in the 1990s.

“What I don’t like is over the years how that exchange all these different stories,” he began. “The truth is Nas walked up – it was about seven of them, it was about 30, 40 of us. He didn’t skip a beat. He didn’t tuck his head. He walked up. He wanted to talk to Pac. The truth is it was as gangsta as it get. He walked up and they had a conversation. Pac all sweating, Nas was cool. The corny shit, though, is afterwards all the amazing wild stories. Twenty fucking years later, everybody got a wild story about what happened that night.

“[Nas’] brother Jungle [talking about], ‘I was about to shoot 2Pac.’ He wouldn’t have made it out the fucking park! They was surrounded. It was nothing they can do. Anybody can be outnumbered. It’s nothing special about that. It was no winning in this situation. So the amazing wild stories that I done heard over the years. I’ma start with Snoop Dogg. Nothing but love for Snoop Dogg. He told a wild version.

“When Kendrick […] was saying to Snoop, ‘I hope it was the edibles’ – I hope it was the edibles when he said this one. Because he had a wild version of the story like Nas had Pac surrounded and all that. But to Snoop defense, he didn’t come with Pac to this park. Snoop got there in his vehicle, his security however he did. So I think all the n-ggas that we had with us, they was outside the venue – all our Jersey n-ggas. Them n-ggas an’t come inside the awards. They was outside waiting for us to come out. So in my mind, I’m thinking maybe Snoop don’t realize all these n-ggas is actually with 2Pac. They not with Nas.

“So to his defense, I’ma say that. But he told a wild version of the story. It was a long time ago when I saw what he said but […] it was almost like Nas could have snapped his finger and it was over for Pac. […] Snoop’s version by far was the most off version.”

You can hear the full story below.

In 2020, Nas himself also spoke on Snoop Dogg’s retelling of the situation after the West Coast legend had shared his versions of events in an episode of Untold Stories of Hip Hop with Angie Martinez the year prior.

“I heard Snoop told the story a few times, but he had it wrong a little bit,” he began. “He had said that ‘Pac stepped to me. Rest in peace ‘Pac. But he was in New York and it was a lot of tension flaring, right? And nobody was really there. I think he had gotten into it with Jungle, my brother, at the award show [1996 MTV Video Music Awards]. I seen him backstage and I’m like, ‘Do your thing’ and he was like, ‘And you do yours.’ I was like, see, I know it’s some funny [laughs] … he was about to go present an award, so he couldn’t really turn around and get with me and talk to me because he’s about to walk on.

“But I’m walking backstage and I see him and I’m like, ‘Yo, alright, do your thing’ and he said, ‘And you do yours’ because he knew where I was coming from wasn’t an all love place ’cause there was a rumor of Makaveli coming out. So I was really wanting to check the temperature with him but it turned up, my brother and them, they seen ’em and the Outlawz — shout out to the Outlawz — and they had some words or whatever.”

As Nas continued, he noted “this is an old story” but carried on nonetheless.

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“At that point, it was necessary for us to address the situation ’cause it was in the city and we had to step to our business,” he said. “There was a lot of tension. They was in New York and they chest was out, they was doing they thing, Death Row signs, so we had to go and step to them.”

Ultimately, both parties had a conversation that cooled the rapidly boiling blood between them.

“We had a great convo, man,” he added. “He explained he thought I was dissing him on the song ‘The Message.’ He thought I was dissing him and I heard he was dissing me at clubs. [Pac was the] last person I was even thinking about when I wrote that record. I was just going at everybody. So, he thought that.

“He was like, ‘Yo Nas, we brothers, man. We not supposed to go through this’ and I was like, ‘That’s what I’m saying.’ We had a plan to squash it in Vegas, so I was out there when he was in the hospital and praying for him to come through. Rest in peace to ‘Pac.”