Ice Dice Says Tupac Needed To Make Music Like N.W.A.

Ice Dice will get candid about assembly Tupac Shakur throughout his roadie days for Digital Underground in a latest interview. The rapper stopped by the Folks’s Occasion podcast to speak with host Talib Kweli, alongside different West Coast legends, Snoop Dogg, Too Quick, 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 wished to make music reflective of the music by Dice and the legendary rap group.

“He would at all times inform me like, you recognize, ‘This Digital sh*t is cool, man, however I wish to do data like y’all.’” He mentioned, “‘Trigger the place I dwell at, sh*t is f*cked up. You realize 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 recollects that Shakur was a “enjoyable dude with a variety of power” 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 Loss of life Row Information, and the beefing with Biggie Smalls, which launched a regional conflict between the West and East coasts. The strain would come to a head, resulting in the demise of each Smalls and Shakur in fast succession.

Try the total interview above.