Were Nas and Pac really cool before Pac died?

[King Of The Greater Los Angeles Area]

Young Noble, talkin about "Me & My Girlfriend"

Young Noble: He got that concept from Nas. Remember Nas did that song about the gun["I Gave You Power" from the 1996 album It Was Written]? 'Pac used to like that song. When him and Nas Squashed their beef, I was happy. I grew up on NAS. Around my way, when Nas came out with "Live At The Barbeque" Shit. I could have been the first nigga promoting his ass. All the Outlawz were fans of Nas. 'Pac was too. He used to like Nas. That's all hip-hop do. You hear a nice idea, and you flip it and make it better. That was one of those shits. There was a lot of shit going on, and 'Pac was never a dude to hold his toungue. He put it out there. He felt like a lot of mutherfuckas was against him, and that didn't sit well with him neither. Muthafuckas made it like an East Coast/West Coast situation, when in reality 'Pac and all the Outlawz is from the East Coast. That was just one of those songs where 'Pac was riding on his enemies. 'Pac had nothing but love from New York. We was in New York for the MTV Awards two days before he got shot in Vegas. That's where we seen Nas and they squashed it. That was one of the happiest time I've seen him. He was happy to be in New York and feeling the love. We was all in New York Uptown, it wasn't like we was in the hotel all day We even walked for some damn blocks. in Manhattan somewhere. 'Pac said, "f##k it, let's walk." We could have walked for 30 minutes. People couldn't believe it. This nigga was giving bums hundreds of dollars and shit He had me holding a damn little briefcase with all this money. He was really happy to be back in New York. I think he wanted to get in touch with everybody out there - Rappers, and just the streets, period. He was happy about squashing the beef out there with Nas.

wow such a damn shame pac was killed i don't think i'm over it yet

[D-Nice]

Nas is somewhere reading this saying I tried to tell yall we squashed it, now do you believe me haha

[DeeezNuuuts83]

The main accounts of the story are from Nas, Fatal and Snoop.

Nas kind of mentioned his side of the story in "We Will Survive," but what he had said was that they met, squashed their beef and parted ways agreeing to not diss each other (which would include Pac removing the disses from Against All Odds, though that never happened, also being referenced on "We Will Survive" when he said, "I can't believe I heard my name on 'the realest shit you ever wrote'").

Snoop's side of the story was that everyone was pretty deep, but Pac went up to Nas and was pretty much punking him verbally, saying that he was going to diss him on his upcoming album (which obviously ended up being Against All Odds, though of course there were other songs), and that if he really didn't have a problem, he wouldn't say anything back.

Fatal's side was kind of like Snoop's, except I think it seemed like both crews were a little bit smaller than what had been discussed.  Fatal said his New Jersey people who were with them were all pretty much strapped and ready to pop off if Pac wanted them to, but he said to leave them alone.

Not long ago, Nas re-told the story slightly differently, painting a picture of him and his crew being a little more street than what had been described in the past, saying something about his whole crew also having been ready to go at it.  I think Fatal disputed it (maybe on Twitter or something) and even challenged Nas to tell him in person how it went down, since apparently Nas's crew wasn't holding their heads very high that day.

[Sccit]

nobody was gunna do shiet, everyone's frontin

[Hack Wilson - real]

didn't Snoop try to make it sound like Pac only had a fraction of the people with him that Nas had?  like he was outnumbered 100 to 20 or some shit? 

i think that's what pissed Fatal off cuz Fatal has/had mad pull in Jersey

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It went down just like this, minus the shootout: