Johnny J: I donāt know. Like, he saw it coming. I mean out of the songs that we- you know, out of a lot of the songs that we did, you know, for him to talk about death, death, death, death. I mean, he would talk about it all the time.Ā
Itās like youāre happy about having successful records with Tupac, producing him and all that, but at the same time, itās like, heās not here to enjoy what youāre enjoying while you know, while Iām alive.
Ray Luv: He always thought he was going to die prematurely. He said, you know, āwhen Iām dead, and when Iām gone, you know what Iām saying.. hold these and then let everybody know this side of me as well as whatever Iāve already exposed. ā And thatās prophetic typic shit, man. God let him know that he only has so much time to make an impact.Ā
Shock G: He was a pre-thinker. You wonder how could he make a song, ā God bless the deadā praising Biggie after Biggie died and Pac died first. Because he was a thinker like that. He was always plotting. āIf I die this way, put this out. If I die this way, I want you to put this out.ā He was thinking, and he wanted to cover all those bases. Thatās game, aināt it? He was playing to win. He has a plan E much less a plan B.Ā
Quincy Jones: Kidada couldāve been sitting there right next to him, you know. He called her and told her that he would see her later on, cause after the fight they had a fight with a crip and he didnāt want to jeopardize her, so he must have felt something too.
Mopreme Shakur: I walked in the room to visit him, and he was trying to tell me something. That will always be one of the mysteries in my life. I donāt know what he was trying to tell me, but he was trying to tell me something, and he was shaking the whole bed. He was a warrior, you know, to the end.
Snoop Dogg: He wrote his death before his death happened. He shot the video āI Aināt Mad At Chaā a week before he got killed. Like, why would you do a video about you gettin killed? And then a week later you get killedā¦why would you write songs about, you know, āāDear mama, and being a loving son to your mamaā.ā And all these things kick into a play now. He knew it. He worked like a fucking race horse. The way I work now, I aināt half as what he was like. To me, it was like, why the fuck was he working so fast, and so hard, and trying to finish all these records up? He had to know.
Money B: My first thought was like, āwhen he come out of this one, he really going to think he is invincible.ā
Treach:Ā However it went down with them taking him away, heās still not gone and still is going to be here for a loong time to come and even if music still wasnāt coming from all the albums thatās out now, we got enough to hold us over for centuries.
LeilaSteinberg: You know, could we have done something different? Could we have said more? Could we have stood up to the forces? And all of us shoulder some of the responsibility.Ā
Quincy Jones: It just appalls me that nobody has been arrested for those two deaths. You know, and itās just been a, like- itās like a big cloud with a question mark on it. You know that somebody in Las Vegas and Los Angeles or both know exactly what happened.
Yanni Stokes: He was obviously with people that didnāt love him. He was supposed to have been protected.
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