During an interview with Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes reflected on his close friendship with 2Pac. Around 26:30 into the interview, the Flipmode rapper described building a friendship with 2Pac while he was with Leaders of the New School and Pac was with Digital Underground.
While speaking on the friendship, Busta Rhymes told a story about 2Pac getting into an altercation with a soundman during the Leaders of the New School's soundcheck.
"Interesting story about one of the early Pac interactions," Busta said. "We had a college date to do, to do a show at one of the colleges. Digital Underground was performing and Leaders was performing. We only on our first album, and we had to do soundcheck. So we get to the soundcheck a little late, Digital had already done their soundcheck. I think Pac and Money B was still in the neighborhood."
"We getting ready to do the soundcheck, but the soundman was on some bull****," Busta continued. "He's shutting s*** down and acting like he's getting ready to leave. We kinda on some 'damn, we really want to get this soundcheck done.' The crazy thing is that Pac saw there was a little bit of friction going on. And he just came and involved himself in the situation. Pac turned to this white man and he was like 'yo, I need you to cut this mother****** soundboard on. Leaders of the New School are going to get their soundcheck done, right now. F*** you talking about you ain't turning on the equipment?'"
"He just started spazzing on dude," Busta said. "The man wasn't trying to hear what Pac was talking about, so Pac just ran up on this mother****** and started choking him. 'You mother******!' So we had to grab Pac, cause we ain't askin' for all of this, we just want a soundcheck! This ain't war! But that's the type of dude Pac was. He went out of his way to extend love."
When Fat Joe stated that he always saw 2Pac involved in violence, Busta Rhymes added, "You know what it was, bro? It's a little frustrating for me, but it's the truth. I think Pac really felt - he took on more of this responsibility to have to prove his love, when he really didn't need to. The love he felt he needed to show people, that he wanted in return, he was already getting it. I don't know why he felt the need to go above and beyond to the point where he would get himself in trouble, just to prove to somebody he got love for them. That's what ended up getting him killed."
