Diddy's former bodyguard just accused Snoop Dogg of inflating the extent of his friendship with Biggie Smalls. Moreover, Gene Deal inquired as to why Snoop's supposedly tight relationships with the New York rapper, as well as Tupac, weren't highly publicized until after their tragic passing. “That’s something that sounds good for the media,” Deal declared of Snoop's stories of friendship with the two. “You know, ‘I’m the peacemaker. I’m the one that’s showing love. I’m the one that’s out here when everybody else is dead, wishing that I coulda did something to put the s**t together.'
“It wasn’t all that love until ‘Pac was dead,” he went on in the interview with The Art Of Dialogue. “Wasn’t Big out in California three, four weeks and Snoop never saw him? Snoop never came and smoked nothing wit’ him. Snoop never came and ate nothing with him. But it was a lot of love? Come on, man.” Since the loss of the Brooklyn legend in 1997, the Dogg Pound leader repeatedly spoke on their relationship and mutual respect. For example, in an interview with the Rap Radar Podcast in 2018, Snoop recounted when he and Biggie discussed Tupac's death. After a shooting happened while Tha Dogg Pound filmed the "NY, NY" music video in Brooklyn, Snoop felt Big was responsible. Moreover, they didn't take action due to East Coast and West Coast tensions. However, the two rappers ran into each other in Atlanta and came to an understanding.
“It’s just me and him, one on one,” the Long Beach legend elaborated. “And he giving me the rundown about how much he loved Tupac and he didn’t wanna see cuz die. And a lot of shit that he said and did, he was wrong for. He just was apologizing like a man, to me. Just getting an understanding on what he did, ’cause I never tripped on him for what he did. That was a Dogg Pound video, that wasn’t a Tupac video. And we got shot at, and the direct shot came from him. But nobody got hit so we let it go. So with him apologizing to me, we became friends again.”
Meanwhile, Deal said that he couldn't corroborate whether that conversation actually happened, as he wasn't present. Still, he raised eyebrows at Snoop meeting Big in another city when he claimed they never linked in Los Angeles. “I can see you in Atlanta,” Deal said, “but I can’t see you in California in my own hometown? Huh? I’m so gangsta, I can come to your hotel room by myself in Atlanta. But in California, I can’t come and see you? Alright.” Check out the interview clip above and return to HNHH for the latest news in hip-hop history.
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