Napoleon Claims Snoop Dogg Sneak Disses 2Pac Using False Praise
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Napoleon accused Snoop Dogg of sneak dissing 2Pac with false praise. During a recent The Art of Dialogue episode, the former Outlawz emcee was asked about Allen Hughes speaking on Shakur and Snoop’s relationship. Hughes asserted that Snoop “dimmed his light so that Pac could shine,” to which Napoleon claimed, “these individuals didn’t even like Pac.”
“Some of these individuals, they very slick,” he said. “You have the Hughes brothers, you have certain individuals like Snoop, for example — they have a way where they’re acting like they’re praising Pac, but they putting him down…Like [Hughes] said, ‘[Snoop] dimmed his light for Pac to shine.’ They do it in such a slick way so you can be like, ‘Oh wow, he’s not a hater.'”
In April, Napoleon spoke on Snoop being “jealous” of the late rapper. He told The Art of Dialogue that the Doggystyle emcee was outshined by Shakur while on Death Row. As a result, he believes that’s why Snoop has been actively speaking positively about him in the media over the years.
“It’s sad. And one of the reasons why I always try to correct this is because him and Pac weren’t friends. I already know why he doin’ that, bro. Imagine if you’re the biggest star on Death Row, and Pac come and take all your shine, you understand?
“And 25 years later, Pac died, and every time you do an interview, that name is brought up. So maybe he’s just trying to take that shine from Pac. You know what I mean?…Maybe some of the things he couldn’t tell Pac face-to-face, you know, he can do it in these interviews,” Napoleon said of “Tha Doggfather.”
The interview the former rhymer refers to is Snoop’s appearance on Big Boy’s Untold Stories. During the conversation, the West Coast icon admitted he didn’t like Pac’s “Hit’ Em Up.” The 51-year-old rapper recalled the discord between himself and Pac in the days leading up to his tragic death in September 1996.
“Man, I’d say a week before he died, we was best of friends,” Snoop told the radio legend. “Two days before he died, I don’t think he liked me. Because we was in New York and sh*t had happened. New York ni**as had shot at me and did all kinds of sh*t to me, just the worst sh*t you could think of, and I forgave ’em. Then I went and did an interview and was asked how did I feel about Puffy and Biggie. I was like, ‘I like them ni**as, I wanna do some music with’ em.'”
“And that just rubbed cuz the wrong way, like, ‘Nah, f**k them ni**as, them ni**as tried to kill me,'” Snoop continued. “‘Nas shot at you, and you talking about you wanna do a song with them ni**as?’ Even when he played the video for me to ‘Hit ‘Em Up,’ even when he played ‘Hit ‘Em Up,’ the song, I didn’t like the song. I didn’t like it. I didn’t like the sh*t. It wasn’t the sh*t to me. Like, you buying more problems, cuh. You buying problems. Gangstas is everywhere. They make ’em everywhere.”
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