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Suge Knight has been behind bars since 2018, but despite being incarcerated he’s been running a podcast from prison called Collect Call With Suge Knight for the past three years. On the show, he has attempted to expose several of his former signees, including Dr. Dre, Daz Dillinger, and even Snoop Dogg.

That said, he recently offered up some opinions for The Art Of Dialogue podcast and explained the fallout between 2Pac and Snoop Dogg in the weeks and months before the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur.

While speaking with The Art Of Dialogue, Knight claimed that 2Pac once tried to fight Snoop Dogg for what he perceived as disloyalty to Death Row Records. Suge spoke about the slow deterioration of the duo’s friendship and explained how it soured after a 1996 Snoop Dogg interview with Angie Martinez.

Recalling the day Snoop recorded the interview in which he praised Biggie Smalls, Knight remembered, “We back at the hotel, and I hear banging at the door. I throw my boxers on, open the door and ‘Pac just runs in my room. I’m like, ‘What’s up?’ He’s like, ‘You got a radio?’ He all pumped up, he put the radio on, and we listened to Snoop on the radio.”

While speaking with Angie Martinez that day, Snoop Dogg praised Bad Boy Records, Biggie, and Diddy and even stated that he wanted to do a song with them. Remembering the infamous interview, Knight continued, “Snoop is saying that’s ‘Pac on the bullshit. He’d do a song with Biggie, he’d do a song with Puffy, he’d do all these songs. ‘Pac was so mad because ‘Pac loved those dudes. He always would ride for them. And he brought it up.”

According to Suge Knight, 2Pac was extremely angry with Snoop Dogg and began developing a hatred for him and what he saw as a significant betrayal of trust. Recalling what the ‘Dear Mama’ emcee said after he heard the interview, Knight recited, “[2Pac] said, ‘Man, I just came to fuck with you, but I fuck with everybody on Death Row. I put everybody on my album. I’ll get on the frontline for them. For this fool to go up there and get on the radio and say fuck me, and he riding with them? It’s on!!'”

Knight explained that 2Pac became even more agitated when Snoop was shot at while filming his ‘New York, New York’ music video on the East Coast. A hit which Biggie allegedly ordered.

The co-founder of Death Row Records asserted that in the hotel lobby, as they were checking out and getting ready to go to the airport, 2Pac attempted to fight Snoop, concluding, “When we got downstairs, ‘Pac took off on Snoop. ‘Pac ran up on him, did what he did. Snoop ran this way, ‘Pac running behind me. I stopped it. ‘You ain’t finna be doing all this shit in New York, making us all look like we some idiots.'”