Havoc Explains 2Pac’s Disses Towards Mobb Deep on “Hit Em Up”
Havoc of Mobb Deep has finally revealed the reasoning behind 2Pac’s disses aimed at the duo on his iconic track “Hit Em Up.” Speaking on Drink Champs, the New York rapper explained that Tupac felt slighted by Mobb Deep due to a combination of factors in their music and public statements.
Havoc said, “I believe it was a combo of things. On ‘Survival of the Fittest,’ we [rapped], ‘Thug life, we still livin’ it.’ At the time, [2Pac] had an article in Vibe magazine when he was like, ‘I don’t want to do this thug shit anymore.’ So he probably thought we were like, ‘Thug life, we still living it, fuck what he’s doin’.’ It piled up on ‘L.A., L.A.’ and it was like, fuck these n-ggas.”
On “Hit Em Up,” 2Pac delivered one of his most aggressive lines directly at Mobb Deep’s Prodigy: “Oh yeah, Mobb Deep, huh, you wanna fuck with us? / You lil’ young-ass motherfuckers / Don’t one of you n-ggas got sickle-cell or somethin?” Tragically, Prodigy later died in 2017 from complications related to sickle cell disease.
In a related development, Keefe D, a suspect in 2Pac’s murder, was recently sentenced for his involvement in a jail fight while awaiting trial for the rapper’s killing. Keefe D received a sentence of 16 to 40 months. During the trial, he claimed he was acting in self-defense, stating, “I was attacked. It was wrong, I know not to fight in the jail. The guy attacked me.” He added, “My parents brought me up to protect myself, and that’s all I was doing, protecting myself, and this is totally wrong, man.”
Keefe D will remain in custody until the trial for 2Pac’s murder, which is scheduled to begin in February. Legal filings indicate he intends to challenge the charges, citing a lack of corroborating evidence. His motion to dismiss argues, “A conviction cannot rest solely on an uncorroborated extrajudicial statement. The State has offered nothing to corroborate the trustworthiness of Mr. Davis’s alleged statements, and nothing independently connecting him to the murder itself.”
The revelations from Havoc provide new insight into the motivations behind one of hip-hop’s most notorious feuds, while the ongoing legal proceedings in 2Pac’s murder case continue to draw global attention.
