June 25, 2007 HHDX: On “U Ain’t No Gangsta” from your Intellectual Violence mixtape you say, “I really hung with Big, squared off with ‘Pac/Shook hands in the House of Blues before the shit popped.” When you say you “squared off with ‘Pac” are you saying y’all fought? Keith Murray: Well, squaring off means squaring off – fighting means fighting. What happened was we was in the House of Blues [and] Tupac came down there one night we was performing. Then his man, whoever his man [was], his bodyguard, whoever, was like, “Yo, my man wanna know if you talking about him in that song.” And I was like, “Who?” I just had said what up to ‘Pac, we spoke, and then [his man] said, “Pac.” I was like, “What? ‘Pac come here.” And [Tupac] said, “Nah, I ain’t steppin’ to y’all.” It was me, Redman, Erick, and all of us. And [Tupac] was saying, “Nah, I got shot five times. I don’t know who’s who.” ‘Cause I was on that record, [L.L. Cool J’s] “I Shot Ya.” So he thought niggas was all going at him. So we had a little moment, and then we shook hands in the House of Blues before the shit popped. God bless the dead. I love Tupac. http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/interviews/id.799/title.keith-murray-return-of-the-beautifullest-vocabulist-pt-1
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