Coolio: 2pac beat down King Tee for stealing bandana

[Hack Wilson - real]

Were you close with Pac? Do you have any stories?

What? I tried to mentor Pac. We were peers, but he was a lot younger than me. One night we were at Prince's club Glam Slam. [Compton MC] King Tee, he had a drinking problem, was there and he sees Pac wearing a burgundy bandana. Tee tells him to take it off, and Pac refuses. Then Tee tries to snatch it off of Pac's head, so — bam! — he gets socked in the face. The fight spills out of the club, and now they're separated. Pac crosses the street to where his crew is, but Tee follows him over there to talk more shit.

All these guys start whooping his ass, like...

[Stands and kicks the couch furiously with both legs; our recorder falls off the arm.]

So I run across the street and get over him. [On all fours.] And I yell, "Pac, make them stop!" He's like, "Cool, you saw him! He started it!" And I'm like, "You know he's a drunk!" So Pac calls them off and helps me up, like, "He's lucky you were here." And he was, too. I picked up Tee and pretty much carried him back.

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now we know the true story

[bouli77]

well for all we know Coolio's recollection may be inaccurate, I mean it's Coolio (with everything that it entails) and that story is almost two years old now

[Okka]

I don't know if you can believe this crackhead. You never know though.

[Blood$]

nobody believes Coolio 

"I tried to mentor Pac" - so did apparently every other west coast rapper from the mid-nineties that met him once or twice 

[Black Excellence]

sorry coolio I don't believe it.

[krzieg]

I heard about this scuffle back in like 01-02.

The story I heard was that King Tee punked 2pac for being a fake gang banger/wearing the red bandana.

I guess I believe this scuffle occurred but not sure who came out on top.

Outlawz also dissed Xzibit on 'Bomb 1st'...maybe because of this incident.

[Hack Wilson - real]

sorry coolio I don't believe it.

coolios word means more than your goofy ass

[Black Excellence]

sorry coolio I don't believe it.

coolios word means more than your goofy ass

his word means more than your life u inbred faggot.

[Hack Wilson - real]

and my life means more than yours


it's a totem pole, you pole smoker.

[Black Excellence]

and my life means more than yours


it's a totem pole, you pole smoker.

your life ain't shit honkey i'll always be more valuable than you'll ever be.

[Hack Wilson - real]

your life is lower than shit

[Black Excellence]

your life is lower than shit

your hoe ass mother is lower than shit !

[ironmike]

I heard about this scuffle back in like 01-02.

The story I heard was that King Tee punked 2pac for being a fake gang banger/wearing the red bandana.

I guess I believe this scuffle occurred but not sure who came out on top.

Outlawz also dissed Xzibit on 'Bomb 1st'...maybe because of this incident.

I thought edi mean of the outlawz dissed xzibit on bomb first, because of the paparazzi track.
"It's a shame niggas in the rap game only in it for the money and the fame"

Edi:
Got a little question for that nigga that made "Paparazzi"
If you ain't in this rap game, for the motherfuckin cash mayne
then what is your motherfuckin purpose?

[Black Excellence]

I remember reading in an old vibe where snoop said pac almost beat king t's ass not actually beatin' king t up. I can't picture king t lettin' tupac of all people beat him up.

[MOBNigga06]

nobody believes Coolio 

"I tried to mentor Pac" - so did apparently every other west coast rapper from the mid-nineties that met him once or twice 

Coolio should have a little more credibility than other rappers when they brag about their connection to Pac.

Pac met two members of Thug Life - Machadoshis and Rated R - through Coolio, so he must have interacted with him a good deal, spent enough time around him to get to know two of his homies and give them an opportunity to blow up.

To me, Coolio's story sounds believable. Sounds to me like Pac was rollin deep and King T was drunk - no surprise, then, that T was getting whooped. It doesn't make Pac an unbelievable gangster for his homies to beat up somebody who disrespected him.