Vibe Magazine 1995 Stretch Interview
Me and Pac have been down from day one. Before he did Juice, before his first album. That's my man. So the interview he did in VIBE bugged me out. But I know him. He likes to talk a lot. Especially when he's upset, he'll say shyt that he won't even mean. And then he'll think about it later and be, like, "Damn, why the **** did I say that?"
We was kinda skeptical when we was going to the studio. We was, like, shyt don't seem right, something gonna happen. But when the four of us got to the studio and seen Little Caesar and them up in the window, it kinda threw us off. So we get around the corner and we see this nikka standing in front of the studio with an army fatigue jacket on. He sees us, looks at his watch, then looks down. There's somebody sitting inside by the elevators lookin' at his newspaper. We not really paying them no mind. So they buzz us in, and the kid that was standing in front of the building comes in behind us.
We wasn't rushing to the elevator. They had the iron out immediately. They had the drop on us real quick, and they was, like, "Y'all nikkas lay down." We just looked at each other like we was not laying down for shyt. 'Cause when nikkas tell you to lay down, you automatically think you ain't gonna get up no more.
So Pac turns around like he about to go for his joint, 'cause Pac was strapped. Then a shot went off, and it was, like, Oh shyt. nikkas is not playing. After the shot, boom, Pac hit the floor. Me personally, I only heard one shot. I didn't hear four, five, six shots. And he was saying that he got shot three, four times. None of us remember hearing four, five shots. When the shot went off, that's when we went down.
Pac's saying all this shyt in the interview, like, "I thought that Stretch was gonna fight. He was towering over them." Now, that nikka know I ain't never going out like no *****. But I ain't dumb. I ain't got no gun, what the **** am I supposed to do? I might be towering over nikkas, but I ain't towerin' over no slugs.
Tupac got shot trying to go for his shyt. He tried to go for his gun, and he made a mistake on his own. But I'll let him tell the world that. I ain't even going to get into it all like that. Pac's talking about nikkas "dropping like a sack of potatoes." How the **** is he going to know if nikkas dropped like a sack of potatoes if he was turned around to get his joint? He tried to turn around and pull the joint out real quick, but nikkas caught him. Grabbed his hand when it was by his waist.
When Pac was on the floor, his head was bleeding and his eyes was closed. Your man gets dropped and he falls right next to you that shyt bug you the **** out. The other nikka kept the joint on me and Zane, and the kid with the army fatigue jacket started takin' off Pac's jewels and shyt. He was calling Pac a *****-ass nikka, kickin' him and shyt.
After they finished robbing, they stepped out, walking backward and pointing the guns at us. I was looking at Pac, and all of a sudden his eyes opened and he said, "Yo, I'm hit." And Fred's saying he's hit too. So, boom, we go outside and Pac starts screaming for the police. We see a cop outside, rolling up real slow, but Zane got the other gun that Pac had, and we out on Times Square. So we ran back inside and got on the elevator and went upstairs. My man Fred stayed down there in front of the building, 'cause he was hit.
In that interview, Pac was talking all that shyt about Thug Life is ignorance and telling nikkas' names and all that shyt. I don't even understand why he went there. I've seen Pac mad times after the shooting and he never kicked none of that shyt to me. You know how he feels about the media, so why would he go and do an interview like that? He's supposed to be a street nikka; he should've kept it in the street. I mean, nikkas had to go and get their names changed. I want him to get a reality check. Recognize what the **** he's doing. nikkas on the street live by rules, man. And that rule right there, that's a rule that's never to be broken.