A lot of people don't realize Napoleon's parents were murdered when he was a kid. He met Tupac when he was like 14 and when he told Tupac about seeing his parents killed Tupac cried. Then Tupac basically adopted Napoleon and treated him like a son.

Napoleon seems like he was a real loyal soldier to Tupac and the Outlawz. Even after his conversion to Islam and putting his past life behind him, he still brings these past stories up with a strong sense of loyalty he maintains today.

Tupac & Prodigy are the two greatest minds of hip hop to ever live

all them dudes were sneak dissin Pac, but since he was the only one bold enough to call mfs out & say names, they paint him as the bully. he studied the game like War, he was catchin all subs 💯

Never knew Tupac and Xzibit knew each other back in the day

Prodigy always showed he got heart. Outnumbered he still stepped up.

Loving every minute of this interview. Another classic interview with Napoleon.

Rip Bandanna P!. Prodigy and Pac really had the same mindframe. Just on different sides of the map.

Napoleon a real one! So far he confronted Haitian Jack, Jimmy henchmen and mobb deep.

"I definitely wanted to get a fight out of it" Mu really loved to scrap lol 😂

RIP to Prodigy a true legend 🎤

“I learned to love Tupac after his death,but man if we woulda bumped heads it woulda been a mess” -Prodigy “Bad blood” RIP PAC & Prodigy

I respect Napoleon and I’m a big Pac fan. But what he fails to understand is that he went at Mobb Deep because of the beef they had with Snoop and the Dogg Pound. Mobb Deep had no problem with Pac. When he’s saying Mobb Deep said “Thug life we still living it” they weren’t talking about Pac. Pac was showing loyalty to Snoop so that’s why he went at Mobb Deep. And no, Drop a Gem was done before Pac died and was getting burn on the radio before he was shot. When Pac was hit, they had the radio take it off. Saying things like this is the reason why people think Mobb Deep was dissing Pac after he died and that’s not true. What Napoleon also may not know is that years later, Prodigy became close with Emoneybaggs and Majesty who was real close to Pac and Prodigy became a Pac fan when he discovered his notebook. Peace to all the fallen soldiers; Pac, Prodigy and Emoneybaggs.

Pac and prodigy both knew E money bagz, one of prodigy homies told him that him and Pac was similar

Mutah a real one

Lil Mu is and always has been a real certified G fo sho 💯💯💯💪💪💪

Man Pac stories is like Wine gets better with time. Long Live 🐐 Makaveli The Don aka Tupac Amaru Shakur Pinnacle of this Rap sh** Yes Sirrrr 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

Pac was beefing with everyone he did not give a fuk me against the world 💯

I always wondered if Tupac and Xzibit knew each other.. now I know!

Mutah was and is a true friend ❤️👑

*R.I.P Bandanna P • Banana Clip P!!*

Wasn’t a mobb deep fan because I was a pac fan. I was a youngin and I’m out here in the west coast but I came to appreciate their music. RIP Pac and prodigy 🙏🙏.. 2 great hip hop minds.

Drop a gem on ‘em was out 3 months before ‘Pac died, I remember because I was listening to 89.9 on Thursday nights in NY when Stretch Armstrong broke the record. Napoleon is right still technically because Hell On Earth dropped on November 19 in ‘96 and Pac died September 13th - I remember it vividly since I cut class to buy that CD when I was in high school. I was a Mobb fan through and through, still am and always will be but one thing for sure I ALWAYS respected the Outlawz aka Dramacydal

Much love to the entire Outlaw family. One of the worse day of my life when I heard 2Pac passed.

Dropped a gem on em came out on the mixtapes while pac was alive

Love Napoleon when he gets on the platforms!!

I love when real niggaz come and talk amongst grown men

Back at it again another GREAT interview 👑💐

The Mobb Deep & Pac beef should've never happened but Mobb Deep wanted to be heard and felt the need to step into a battle they had no part of. Pac was in prison telling the guard who knew Mobb Deep he had love for them yet they still decided to diss Pac. It's funny though because in the end Prodigy realized how much him and Pac had in common, even EMoneyBags who knew them both told Prodigy he would've squashed their beef. They even gave him a journal of Pac's to have. Prodigy even said Pac was a powerful cat and he doesn't believe his death was gang related, you can look that up on KZfaq when he was driving around the city.

So this dude T booked Mobb Deep for a a show then tried to set them up, roll on them with guns.. snake move 100% . Good thing Napoleon was real enough to take a different approach. RIP to 2 PAC & Prodigy. Peace and Love

Shouts to Muta for putting this out there. Big man shit

this brother shows his growth keep give us these bangers Dialogue salute

Drop A Gem On Em was getting radio play. Even in Cali. But when Pac passed away, Prodigy told the radio station to stop pushing that out of respect for Pac and his family. Art, you should’ve also asked Napoleon if what Bokeem Woodbine said was true. He said on XXL Magazine that Pac told him he wanted to squash the beef with Mobb Deep cause he ain’t mad at them like that anymore.

Napoleon is one of my favorite members of the Outlaws, Good to see he found his calling and grew into a man spiritually ✨

Watched a lot of these now, really insightful and interesting, me being a pac and outlaws fan I'm thankful for the content. 🤜🏻🤛🏾

Loyalty and Truthfulness. That’s Gangsta ! Respect to brother Mutah !

Grown man stuff! 💙💙💙Mutah. I love his growth as a man.

mobb deep was one of the few artists with chino xl, king sun, dmx to diss tupac when he was alive

Dope interview napoleon

Napoleon confronted everyone back then he weren't playin... Wild kid. O4L 🔥🔥🔥

The day when the blackman realises we are stronger together is the day the paradigm shift changes the world

Keep up the good work Art❤️

Thanks for the video, THE ART OF DIALOGUE

Great interview Art U ask questions I would've asked them..

I love that outlawz went around handling all the rappers that had beef after pac died

P stepped up like a real one rip

“Drop A Gem On ‘Em” was on mixtapes when Pac was alive.

Napoleon Dropping Dimes The Truth Needs To Be Told I'm Finding Out So Much More

This is how you know he is a 90"s Irvington NJ dude. He was really willing to shoot a fair one (have a fair fight) that's how we did it. And you both would walk away and may the two of them live on and not be mortal enemies. RESPECT

It sounds like he left some details off about what all happened when he confronted Mobb Deep.

Its amazing how so many ppl be ready to jump into other ppls beefs

Love this brudda, can just see he tells the truth on both sides

Pac first and foremost was a loyal dude and good friend. Cant deny that.

Such a entertaining and informative interview

This man is gold. 🙌🏿

Tucson AZ Represent

Pac understood war. That’s why he studied everyone and knew everything

Foh, you don't know who Prodigy is exactly... "He the one that died?"

Smart Play Napoleon, That Was Apart Of Your Growth An Development Brother

Such a humble soul

Let’s go 🔥🔥

Rest In Peace Prodigy

Drop a gem on em was released before Pac died. Mobb Deep pulled the song off the radio when he got shot in Vegas.

Napoleon is a stand up dude💯

I loved Drop A Gem On Em... Prodigy kept it g... RIP Prodigy

Edi and Xzibit just dropped a video

Shout out to my Cubans and my Mexicans I took a lost but yall the reason I can flex again 💪🏿

Bro keep it real

Bro next time ask mutah about the time he fought tyrin turner

Tupac was alive and well when Mobb Deep released "Drop a Gem on Em" And Tupac initiated the Mobb Deep beef. "Following Shakur's death shortly after the song's release, Mobb Deep pulled "Drop a Gem on 'Em" from radio airplay out of respect for Shakur and his family." Quote is from Wikipedia. It's kinda strange how Napoleon don't remember certain facts especially since Mobb Deep were the only east coast rappers to release a diss track.

Pac show mad love to The East Coast artists and he shouted out every last one of them on his "Me Against The World" Album. I remember like it was yesterday.

Drop a gem on em came out August 1996, he was still alive. Keep it real.

I’ve been watching almost every interview with this man in it and HE’S BEEN A TRUE FRIEND INDEED TO PAC! His stories never iffy to me it’s always from the heart and from him being there. You can tell when someone is being truthful and this man never lied since his first interview he respectfully keeps Pac’s name alive with upmost respect. Normally, I be so in defense for Snoop but to watch his interviews and how he is towards Pac it’s like he never was Pac’s friend to begin with. It’s like he was just bragging bout Tupac and somebody finally said something. And that person was Napoleon. I’ll always have respect for Napoleon bc not once since Tupac’s death did he switch up and he always made us remember the fondness of Tupac. The world tried to make Tupac into this “thug” and a man who didn’t care but when you listen to Napoleon and how he breaks everything down, Tupac was just like your favorite ass cousin, brother, uncle.

I remember meeting Napoleon at a club kalled "The Rock" in Tucson,Az he performed 2pac's Makavili "Bomb 1st" with his verse on there & I Believe he made a longer version with him rapping dissing Puffy & Bad Boy,He was at da Bar in da club I was grabbing a drink & kame across him & he gave me dapp & I told him how much of a Pac fan I was since da Beginning of his career & told him dat was a tight song of Da longer version on 2pac's Bomb 1st & was like Hell Yeah! Fuk BadBoy Dis is BadBoy Killa & ran in2 in another club in Tucson & said Wats up,He was koo dude he wasn't cocky & arrogant,I Believe da clothing store he was talking about was "Hot Gear"

1:45 @Napoleon u are rugged 🙌🏽

“All I want is money , fuck the fame” is the correct lyric.

Drop a gem came out before pac died, Drop a gem was the lead single released on August 25th 1996

Drop a Gem On Em was released when 2pac was alive but when 2pac got shot, Prodigy called up the radio stations telling them to take that track off the radio out of respect to 2pac's mom and to 2pac. Prodigy said that he liked Hit Em Up and said Hail Mary was his type of song and even though Keep Ya Head Up wasn't his type of song he respected it and thought it was cool

Nuthin’ But Love ❤️

On Point Right There A Real Brother

Out here in Chicago, early summer 96', radio station 106 jamz was playing drop the gem on em before the Hell on earth album came out. It was most definitely before Pac's death.

Napoleon mentioned Tucson Arizona Oh Hell Yeah MAKAVELI THA DON 👑

His laugh makes u love em

I read the lyrics to Drop A Gem On Em before Pac died…. That was when I first got access to the internet

This dude was a kid back then…leave it to him he was the hardest cat in hip hop…

Drop a Gem on Em came out on August 25th 1996. Two weeks before Pac was killed. My assumption is it went under Pac's radar.

great interview! love all of the interviews you do art, way better and realer than vladtv shout out to mutah too!

Drop a gem on em a classic

"Drop A Gem On Em" came out a week before Pac was shot. With the original lyrics saying Pac's name, which is no longer available.

One thing I can say pac was real big on loyalty, they don’t make them like that no more rip King

Real guy rite here.. Respect bro

This brotha is what you call a great example

Mobb deep released drop a gem days before pac passed and they pulled the record once it picked up steam on radio

Lets look at Tupac's life. (Deep comment copied from another video) - Spent his childhood running from the FBI due to the actions of the Shakurs. His step father Mutulu Shakur[3] who was on the ten most wanted list for domestic terrorism. His own mother, spent time in prison on a trial for plotting to blow up New York police departments with the infamous panther 21. His God father was geronimo pratt[4] who was targeted by the FBI illegal Cointelpro. And his god mother is Assata Shakur[5] who is also wanted for domestic terrorism, that Tupacs step-dad broke her out of prison and is now living in Cuba. Bush in 2003 put a $1 million reward on her head during the revival of targeting domestic terrorists at the start of the war on terror - At 16 became the youngest national Chairman of the New African panthers, himself then getting FBI attention. His FBI file, only 104 pages out of 4000 are released to the public, the rest 3896 pages are censored for "National Security". - Quit the New African Panthers when he believed the Nation of Islam infiltrated it, the next leader after Shakur was surprise surprise, a member of the NOI. - Got into a constant war of words with the Nation of Islam throughout his rap career. They would follow him everywhere, trying to make it look like they where associated with him. To get his approval, because he was a Shakur. Tupac hated the Nation of Islam because his family where connected to Malcolm X, and his family blame the Nation for his assassination. - Became famous to the general public when released 2pacalyspe now, becoming the legendary rapper. Immediately denounced by the Vice President Dan Quayle due to its anti-american political content. It was obvious they knew who he was by his second name, even if the average rap fan didn't. - Gets mentioned by name at the Republican Nation Convention From the help of Mutulu Shakur from prison, starts a movement entitled "Thug Life". Tupac helps enforce truces between rival gangs, including the bloods and the crips under "Thug Life". The plan was to get them to stop killing each other, unite, police their communities, and eventually fight the government. He was seducing gang bangers and trying to turn them into soldiers. After that his life turns to shit and seems to be getting arrested and targeted by police on a weekly basis, most of which is was baseless, but people only remember him getting arrested, not acquitted. His "out of control" image increases. - Two Police officers are beating a black motorist. Tupac approaches them and they fire shots at him. Tupac goes back to his car and gets his gun and returns fire, hitting both officers, one in the thigh and one in the buttocks. The charges are dropped against Tupac when it turns out both officers are intoxicated, and the gun they used to fire against Tupac was stolen from an evidence locker. Everyone else just remembers "Tupac shot two cops". - With the help of Dan Quayle and other Republicans, they persuade family members of slain cops to sue Tupac over his music, stating that his music causes the violence. Seriously, here is even a court video of one of the cases against him in 1995 - The republicans convince Time Warner to drop interscope records due to Tupac being one of their artists. - Two criminals, Haitian Jack and James "Henchman" Rosemand try to extort Tupac. He tells them to fuck off and ends up on their hit list. Both later turn out to be working for the FBI since the late 80s until the late 90s. - Haitian Jack (The FBI Agent) introduces Tupac to a woman, the same woman accuses Tupac of rape and sexual assault. Tupac gets shot by the orders of James Rosemand (another FBI Agent) 5 times in 1994, survives. - Goes to prison for sexual assault, but found innocent of rape. Released after 11 months when new evidence helping prove his innocence is found. The prosecution states they "lost it" and it was not deliberate. - The Jewish Defense League (JDL) threaten to kill Tupac due to his familys politics. He tells them to fuck off. This is in Tupacs (released) FBI files. - Tupac refuses to remain silent about Jimmy Henchman and Haitian Jack, announces them as FBI informers, and publicly humiliates any other rappers being extorted by them, or associated with them (Biggie, Puffy, etc)

Maybe I’m bias but this guy is gonna be the goat of these type interviews. Buddy,💐

Prodigy loved Pac. He said it himself.

"Drop a Gem on 'Em" if I correctly remember dropped in late august '96. Pac probably never had the time to listen to it though.

That song Drop A Gem On Em came out before Pac died. It was being played on the Radio, while Pac was alive, but when Pac got killed it was removed.

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Looking back, most of those "beefs" from that era were stupid as hell.