2Pac refused to collaborate with Micheal Jackson after alleged disrespect
About 15 years before the era of social media, in the 1990s, there was a veil of mystery surrounding some of the biggest musical artists of that time.
Two late pop icons, late rap legend Tupac Shakur and the sadly missed King Of Pop himself Michael Jackson, have been the subject of intense rumors.
One in particular claims that 2Pac truly turned down the chance to collaborate with Michael Jackson because he felt disrespected in the recording studio.
According to a recent Cam Capone News interview with Outlawz member Napoleon (seen above), Pac was once given the opportunity to lay down a verse for a MJ song in the same vain of his equally missed rap rival The Notorious B.I.G.
While the Biggie x MJ collab actually came to fruition on the 1995 commercial juggernaut HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, Pac’s opportunity ended before it even began due to the “Hit ‘Em Up” emcee choosing morals over being starstruck.
“He told his mother, his family — he was excited,” says Napoleon, going on to recall the chance occasion by adding, “He went to the studio and he’s like, ‘Where’s Michael Jackson?’ They said, ‘Oh he can’t come. They want you to lay the verse.’ He got up and left.”
Napoleon made the emphasis of it being the Michael Jackson that 2Pac walked out on, further proving that status had nothing to do with his decision to not accept disrespect. He later put himself in Pac’s perspective, speaking on his behalf by adding, “He wasn’t man enough to come say hi to me and speak to me? I don’t want to get on his song.”
Ironically enough, a separate story regarding these two also began circulating recent. The tables were turn around in the version told by producer and music heir Quincy “QD3” Jones III, who according to HipHopDX says it was Jackson who turned down a collab with 2Pac out of loyalty for Biggie after recording the aforementioned song “This Time Around.”
Hip-hop soul veteran Danny Boy denied those claims in an interview of his own with The Art Of Dialogue, which you can watch a clip of below. Can we just let our fallen music legends rest in peace?!
