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A Tupac Shakur diss track Nas recorded 25 years ago called 'Real N-ggas' has surfaced online.

Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Nas Spews Ether Bars At 2Pac On Unreleased Track With Fake Thug, No Love' Sample Published on:Jul 22, 2021, 9:48 AM by 19 A diss track Nasrecorded 25 years ago called Real N-ggas has surfaced online. His target? The late Hip Hop legend Tupac Shakurwho beefed with the Illmatic mastermind prior to his September 1996 death. About midway through the verse, he spits, From tube-socks in Timbs to blue rocks and Benz/Who got the ends, the type of n-gga 2Pac pretends/To all n-ggas who shine, guess who got revenge. The track is preceded by a sample of Nas opening bars from 1996s The Message, the track that initially sparked their discourse. 2Pac took shots at Nas on the Makaveli cut Against All Odds with lines such as, This little n-gga named Nas think he live like me/Talkin bout he left the hospital, took five like me/You live in fantasies, n-gga, I reject your deposit. He later accused Nas of adopting his entire persona with, Hey Nas, your whole damn style is bitten/You heard my melody, read about my life in the papers/All my run-in with authorities, felonious capers/Now you want to live my life, so whats a chazzer Nas? As previously mentioned, the tension between Nas and 2Pacerupted following the release of The Message from Nas 1996 album It Was Written in which he raps, I got stitched up, it went through, left the hospital that same night, what, a reference to the infamous 1994 Quad Studio shooting in which 2Pac was shot. Naslater clarified it wasnt intended to be a to diss and the two ultimately made amends. addressed their beef last August while doing promo for his Grammy Award-winning album Kings Disease. While speaking to Beats 1 host Ebro Darden, he talked about the moment they ran into each other backstage at the 1996 MTV Vide Music Awards. was asked about Snoop Doggs version of the story. Im walking backstage and I see him and Im like, Yo, alright, do your thing and he said, And you do yours because he knew where I was coming from wasnt an all love place cause there was a rumor of Makaveli coming out, he explained. So I was really wanting to check the temperature with him but it turned up, my brother and them, they seen em and the Outlawz shout out to the Outlawz and they had some words or whatever. Read more