Before Tupac was gunned down in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting, the Death Row rapper was planning on releasing a collaborative album that would’ve seen him bringing East Coast and West Coast rappers together during a time of heavy friction. It’s been talked about for years that Pac’s “One Nation” album was going to feature collaborations with E-40, Outkast, the Outlawz, Smif-n-Wessun, Greg Nice, Buckshot and others. However, a name never mentioned before was Biggie. Until now.
Fader chopped it up with Bokeem Woodbine recently and the Fargo star said Pac had plans to hash things out with Big. While on the set of Pac’s “I Ain’t Mad At Cha” video which starred Woodbine, the prolific actor claims Pac told him he was working on getting Biggie and Mobb Deep on his unity album.
“He had a plan to put everybody together on one record and just squash the beef,” Woodbine said. “He wanted to take the power away from the labels that were exploiting the situation. It angered him that they were profiting; he wanted to stop the cash flow. It wasn’t something I was supposed to tell people about, you know what I’m saying? I honored that, and I just waited for that record to come out. But unfortunately, as you know, it never did.”
Boot Camp Clik’s Buckshot somewhat said something similar in a recent interview with Billboard about the mythical album.
“It hurt me to know that eventually that whole thing with Biggie was going to die out. ‘Pac was a real motherfucker man. Real n***as don’t hold grudges,” says Buckshot. “I know we would’ve all moved on. It wouldn’t have been One Nation except for New York, One Nation except for Brooklyn, One Nation except for Biggie. It would’ve been One Nation, and it would’ve been all of us.”
While I don’t know if I particula believe any of this, who knows what truly could’ve been if both rappers squashed their beef before their untimely passing.
(via The Fader)
