CL Smooth on Tupac, Biggie, and the Dangerous Vibes in LA

[@CottonClubRadio2024]

This was a good energy Interview. Smooth didn't disrespect Pac or Big he just paid them respect in stories of remembrance. Like a G should. That's Love.

[@EroticxxYT]

Great stories and much respect to Smooth🫡

[@Amidat]

why would he diss either??? He's not a "stan". But really it's usually Pac "stans" I hear diss Big. Plus remember back then Pac was seen as a NY dude who just stayed in Oakland. Pac was still very NY back then and was friends with all the NY rappers. That's why Pac loved to be in NY movies. He felt like he was back home. That changed after he got shot - but people around back then remember Pac was still a Harlem/Bronx dude with a little Oakland mixed in.

[@TheBulletzgottishow20]

@@Amidat facts

[@nigelryan5658]

@@AmidatYeah bruh that’s bullshit😂😂😂😂 We looked at PAC as a west coast nigga stop it

[@paulyoung1505]

Pac still gives people numbers which is why anything hip hop has to mention Pac which is why he's the GOAT 🐐

[@conduitofthegospeldarrellb9154]

So many beautiful stories of PAC and Big showing love to their brothers. RIP.

[@HYBRED247]

I like CL Smooth, he seems truthful, honest and sincere when he talks, besides he has a nice voice and a good way to tell stories.

[@brucegreen5781]

Rip 2Pac💯

[@jetcrews97]

PAC💯👏🏾

[@boonboon9118]

WHAT CL SAID !!! 2PAC GREATEST ARTIST OF ALL TIME

[@Stevearinno-n3z]

P rock ,c l smooth ,still listening 25 years later, awesome beats

[@comikaze8]

"Allllllll the spaces and places I've been". Wow.. the Main Ingredient is one of the most purest hip-hop albums I've ever heard in my life. Was the second CD I ever bought

[@mojojackson9390]

It was the soul train awards.. and I remember that day I saw it on tv and felt that energy that he was in trouble 💯💯 Rip big

[@richardmartinez2973]

Huhhu

[@leonbass3468]

Yep.. he actually said " what's up cali" and all you heard was booooooo,boooo RIP BIG

[@thesupervisor3270]

The crowd boo’ed BIG. Ppl always leave that out

[@StayTurnt]

CL Smooth got one of the GOAT voices in hip-hop. If ever a name was warranted, it's CL Smooth😄

[@mgee1723]

Facts

[@J.B.Whiteside]

He had me reminiscing

[@jdmghost2371]

This right here was the deepest interview yet! 💯💯💯👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@exillens]

CL and Common both got that smooth, deep voice sound

[@biggerthanhiphop7641]

2pac was wilder way before deathrow ..he caught all his cases and drama before deathrow . People try to rewrite history. The only thing he did on deathrow was diss songs

[@terrancerobinson20]

Right! 👏🏽 Nore tried to paint it like it’s 2 different Pacs. Digital Underground Pac and Deathrow Pac. Everyone that really knew Pac said he was the same from day one, intelligent, crazy and wild until his death.

[@PremeDibiasi216]

Pac only lived 25 years & 28 years later after his death it’s still a new story every week

[@motherofdragons33]

*every day

[@romeod7549]

BIG only lived 24 years & 28 years later after his death it’s still a new story every week.

[@dayou6353]

@@romeod7549nobody checkin for him

[@dayou6353]

@@romeod7549what up LA ;)

[@JujuxNavis]

@@romeod7549 Not that much man, maybe once a six months. There's less to say about BIG. He was a very good rapper, one of the best and a good guy. 2Pac was not the best rapper but was a meteor, poetic, militant, artist, politic, funny, touching, generous, crazy...

[@M0ngz]

Cl smooth one of the smoothest emcees ever

[@late10ppot41]

One of the best to ever bless the mic. He should have followed up American Me with another banger.

[@uj210]

ONE OF MY FAVORITE RAPPER STILL BUMPING AMERICAM ME CL SMOOTHE

[@Strong_Trustworthy]

This man is a great story teller

[@lrodnyc9047]

I saw CL Smooth in the Bronx when I was a teenager(1991/92)...he came to the sneaker store on Gun Hill Rd by the train station...he was cool & said wassup...salute to him

[@Amidat]

WOOOOWWWW!!!! I remember that sneaker store!!!! Right by the corner? The side going toward the Bronx River Parkway (not the side of the projects)? But yeah I saw him in the street before other places. Yeah he was a chill dude. Some dude he ran with here hotheads though - lol

[@lrodnyc9047]

@@Amidat that's the one!!

[@Amidat]

@@lrodnyc9047 Ahhhhh - thanks for the memories!!

[@NotOrdinaryGX215]

This was 🔥

[@mofo8480]

I'm really looking forward to this interview

[@GODs_Son777]

Love it. Visually pictured every moment of it

[@tymonb1734]

Richie Rich was the real weed man back in them days. 2pac and rich were close friends... Salut to double R real bay area legend

[@capricekobain2996]

That song with Pac and Rich Ninjas done changed, and Pac and Spice 1, the jealous get me strapped are bay area all time classics to me from my child hood

[@ceedee7647]

Pete Rock and CL Smooth love that duo 🎤 🎧 🎛🎚

[@Undeniable2018]

You can see the clip now, 1997 Source Awards... As soon as Big spoke all you heard was Boo's, from then it was ill advice for him to hit up any part in L.A.

[@jakobbraumann256]

Soul Train Awards 97

[@tonybandanna4895]

Wow that happened to CL Smooth. Pete abd him need to do another project together. 70% of the newjack fans wouldnt know who they are sadly but the real headz would love it

[@Burnette-gi8jl]

My guy CL,,,🙏👍,,didn’t think he used the word b-ch😊,,, when they reminisce over you/my God❤️my sh

[@albertdaley9093]

Lil cease said he wanted some of pacs weed too yeah pac must of had that skunk most people who chilled with him says the same pac had good weed

[@alonzosmith485]

Called cali weed duh

[@albertdaley9093]

@@alonzosmith485 nigga i ve been to cali trust me i know nigga im from ny calin def got some good zaza

[@KevondrickBailey]

​@@alonzosmith485but he from New York City

[@NoNo-ng9sl]

​@@KevondrickBaileyNorthern California is notoriously one of the best places in the world for quality weed. Pac always had his NY/Oakland connection.

[@JuwanAnderson58]

@@KevondrickBaileybut was out in Cali most his life if you’ve paid attention

[@jonathanharris9321]

Why is that every interview they mention 2Pac , u cant compare no o e to Pac CL is a legend to the culture Mount Vernon Legend along with Pete and Heavy RIP 2 Pac n Heavy

[@dwaynecarter736]

love the weed guy story. it adds to what snoop said abt 2pac getting him weed (with madonna) while snoop is on some television thing and leaving. just a simple "there u go man, I gotta go now".

[@laurenpenn3634]

THIS INTERVIEW WAS 🔥 🔥 🔥 DEFINITELY TOP 5 CAUSE CL DROPPED ALOT OF GAME IN THIS INTERVIEW

[@melvinalucas5103]

Biggies Mother said she Hates Los Angeles and I understand

[@Reefhomie_Jon]

Well I hate New York 🤷‍♂️

[@wedongo]

​@@Reefhomie_Jon😂😅

[@77Creation]

LA is where rappers go to die. Even when they're from LA.

[@DJObiSmalls]

4:57 So this story CORRESPONDS with Fat Joe's story about everyone getting robbed at the entry to the Source Awards... LOOL

[@dianaprince7906]

I like this CL! And it was the Soul Train awards and then the Vibe party was the next night. Pac🕊️ Biggie🕊️

[@Mandown21]

PAC is unmatched. Stop comparing biggie to PAC. PAC is the greatest 🫡

[@brentlashley2138]

Stop it. ✋🏿

[@derrickgrays3109]

truth

[@PardaaawnMeee]

EXAAACTLY! It just goes to show how people blindly repeat stuff or subconsciously let themselves be GIVEN a standard. Pac was glaringly deeper, more reality driven and more of a representative of black male life in America

[@GabrielBenYisraEL]

Legends from a legendary era.

[@QPe323]

shout out CL...Pete Rock too. That T.R.O.Y changed my 16yr old life in 92, outta' South LA!

[@ddbrotherscontractors]

CL smooth is smoove!!

[@rayjross4776]

CL a real one

[@user-ku4cv1wo6t]

Nore hates on Pac subliminally just like Snoop smh 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@bruceogden6306]

Factz

[@miafire6628]

Why they keep trying to make it seem like Pac was a different person on death row. We all have different sides to us and different situations causes us to react in different ways but people that really knew him personally always say he was always wild.

[@DubbyDubois]

Pac ole Gemini head ass.

[@ninodean8099]

It’s the image he put out to the world. When Pac first came out his music was more about fun and teaching a message. Death Row Pac was more about the thug life and beef.

[@miafire6628]

@ninodean8099 What are you talking about, Media be brainwashing you. He shot at 2 cops before he even went to death row and had a whole album called Thug Life. And when he was on Deathrow he still gave us songs like Whitemans world, and Life goes on. My point is He always had both sides to him but when niggas shoot you and you get locked up right after you want him to not react? If you go to the club, you gonna start off. Happy and looking for some ass, but as soon as a nigga Step on your new shoes and spill your drink of course you're gonna get pissed. That doesn't mean you changed into a different person.

[@mach1one]

@@ninodean8099 then you dont know PAC

[@aqilmuhammad7637]

It's the Suckas that hate on Pac

[@Laughter184]

More CL Smooth Please

[@michaelgonzalez2656]

I was born in the Bronx and raised in wLA I’ve never been back home I wish I could ❤

[@ECW5320]

It's not too late.

[@allmediatv5541]

Nore can't do a interview without asking bwt PAC 😂😂

[@CreamyAmazon]

This man is a lyricist, period

[@Jay-j2f]

I miss bigge and Tupac

[@GenesisGunn]

Nore, pac was pac always

[@nigelryan5658]

FACTS!! I hate when Nore do that bs

[@oragbaikechukwu7458]

I have repeatedly corrected him but he just want to talk down pac's name

[@thefearofg0ds758]

At quick glance, CL Smooth reminds me of a street version of Jordan Peele from a Key & Peele skit lol

[@TheBulletzgottishow20]

lol

[@motherofdragons33]

Ion see it

[@romeod7549]

Nahhhh…. You’re reaching for nothing

[@alabamadog1981]

That’s Hilarious 😂😂😂

[@TheBulletzgottishow20]

@@motherofdragons33 🥰❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@starbucks1652]

Big should of been home. Like u said he was number one already

[@JohnSnowjrjr]

N.o.r.e always bringing 2pac name up .but hes a Pac hater off the show 💯

[@jetcrews97]

😂😂👏🏾

[@deesmith1323]

True!! I can tell nore isn’t a fan of 2pac! Nore is a hater!! 💯

[@jetcrews97]

2PAC was the realest💯💐💐✍🏾💽🔥💽🔥💽

[@JacobAlibi]

It's a gift. It's a sixth sense. I'm 44. I can sense when shit is about to go down as well. It be in the air. As soon as I left they beat the shit outta buddy. As soon as I left somebody got robbed. As soon as I left they started shooting. It's happened a few times in my life. Right after I left, the shit went down. It's like Spidey-senses. Listen to your inner voice. Listen to your gut. When it tells you to leave, just go. RIP Biggie & Tupac

[@KP43-08]

I’m still stuck on the fact Nore got hair again😂

[@brishawn8571]

He know that shit fake lol

[@KP43-08]

@@brishawn8571 😂😂😂😂

[@motherofdragons33]

Faded

[@Niffdaddy]

😂

[@ItWasEnnui]

tupac, when they reminisce over you, my god.

[@brotherrootz1579]

@ Revolt Big Up CL SMOOTH!! Not many can fully handle a Supercat interview, he's too intelligent and golden, he'll hypnotize all ya'll with his aura and demeanor, HE LITERALLY RHYMES IN HIS SLEEP AND AS HE TALKS.... A TRUE DON DADA..

[@lilhypez97]

Supercat and Tupac uno 🇯🇲🇺🇸

[@nipvelithewise3523]

That's legendary

[@conscious258]

​@@nipvelithewise3523dead ass 😂

[@ritamix33]

I loves me some CL Smooth 😩

[@motherofdragons33]

I reminice i reminisce

[@TheBulletzgottishow20]

Cl smooth a real one

[@kg8472]

Nore keeps acting like a little girl here ! Too too too much giggles Noriega ! Come on son !

[@fuhyou3223]

“Tell ‘em if you ain’t from New York you’re soft”-CL Smooth. Even he was on that East/West mess back in the 90’s.

[@UmmYasmin91]

It wasn’t mess if you’re from that era!!

[@TheHumanBallsack]

I grimace every time I hear that joint, it's my favourite CL Pete Rock joint

[@77Creation]

NYC was real quiet after LA killed BIG though. No retaliation.

[@fuhyou3223]

@Nunya-r6e To be fair, he said that in 1994. I'm sure there were people in LA that heard The Main Ingredient album and knew he said it and who he likely was talking about. If they didn't knock him in his head for it back then, then good for CL.

[@AnalogDreamer]

I feel like Nore and Pac crossed paths at some point and it wasn't a great interaction. I've never seen a man at every turn tries to sneak diss a dead man. Just odd

[@nicmag7238]

So you say he's lying about never meeting Pac?

[@melvinalucas5103]

Vibe Awards was the Event

[@motherofdragons33]

The Source awards was even more of an event

[@diegocorrales4944]

The beef 🥩 was so thick then ……you can STILLLLL feel the animosity! ❤90’s . Real ninjas 🥷🏾 then

[@courtneyjeffries390]

Pac gave him a shout out in Representin’ 93.

[@Doublejeapardi2]

Tupac was a fan of cl smooth pac mention his name on the song Representing off strictly 4 my niggaz

[@TheBulletzgottishow20]

Yep that was his mans he used to be with cl heavy lord finesse grand puba diamond ag and showbiz Treach smooth b Greg nice busta stretch special ed biggie and puff before the beef a lot. Those was his guys for real on the east coast rap scene

[@GERARDSC12]

RIPower To Heavy D..

[@MegaZipOne]

Never throw dirt on a man that's not in your presence. Say it to his face respectfully so he can respond. 💯

[@romeusdracul9531]

EVERYBODY was SCARED of Tupac, when he was LIVING! Tell’em! BIG facts. Anyone saying different, but boy says that NOW. 30-Yrs AFTER his death. Cowards.

[@1120beats]

wow

[@jrallday]

Out The Gate! 😭😂‼️

[@rlewis3208]

I'm from Cali and depending on who say's "what's up" it gives different energy. If an outsider or enemy says what's up it can be taken in a hostile way. It can also be taken in a good way if it comes from a homeboy or someone you're cool with.

[@rlewis3208]

@Nunya-r6e I don't think it works out good for everybody. Just depends on the person, and the tone used. Also may depend on the time frame. Maybe not as bad now but in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s might have been worse saying that. Walking up to somebody and saying What's up back then when Biggie was around was different.

[@ricoflashy6438]

Mount vernon in the house 🎉

[@albertdaley9093]

Bigg was humble

[@FlyOrDie90]

No he wasn’t lol

[@MerciMercyMe-ec5xz]

Lies probably scary tho😅

[@deveralddryden4803]

How do you know? ​@@FlyOrDie90

[@thadjs1312]

SUPER HUMBLE , MET HIM WHEN I WAS A INTERN

[@KevondrickBailey]

Big sold hard. 😂😂

[@sydneyperryman7894]

And the main man mentions the name Chubb Rock 🤣 another former King of NY! 👑

[@kinglo3145]

🙏🏾

[@robertmendezsr1586]

Smoking that Bay Area!

[@StreetsAintNoMyth5]

Nore wanted to meet pac so bad. Made nyny and nobody outside nyc cared. And nore didn’t have anything to rob at the awards in la.

[@407Wild]

Super Cat da don...cl the legend...rip pac!!!

[@twanmack2686]

CL Smooth was cool with Pac before DR & after Digital Underground. Ppl forget Pac was always in NY from 91, 92, 93, 94, 95 up until the shooting. He was only on DR for just about a year not yearS. Pac was all over the 5 boroughs, New Rochelle etc. Bro was bouncing from LA to ATL to NY regularly. One week he's hanging out with E-40,Governor, Richie Rich, Spice 1 in the Bay. Next week he's in ATL with Erick Sermon, Left Eye. Next week he's in Quenns with the Live Squad, Ed Lover to BK with Biggie to Mt Vernon with Hev, Dj Alamo, CL & Pete Rock. Next week he's in LA with Warren G, Thug Life (the group). Next week he's in Texas with Scarface & Devin The Dude. He was national with his. Pac was all over these New York. Remember my uncle telling us he was in a basement party in Queens. Just some local shit and he was big name at the time. Remember seeing him at Manhattan Proper (Sports Bar + Stand Up Comedy) on 217th & Linden Blvd in Queens when i was hanging with my cousin who lived on that side of town. We were in Kams Kitchen (Chinese restaurant), saw him pull up and he had to walk past Kams. All my cousins and our homies were shook to say what up.... So I said it, he replied with 'what up lil' ni99a!' 'me: it's all good, Pac! Nodded his head and kept it moving. That was in' 95.

[@alonzosmith485]

9 months on the row

[@ManManYaheard]

Facts pac use to be in Jersey a lot too he was coming back to NY wit death row east to put NY and jersey and the south on one nation

[@amirsim2479]

@twanmack2686Couldnt have been 95 … he was in prison until october 95 then went to the west … he oonly went to newyork a few times in 96 for saturday night iive and the 96 mtv awards 3 days before he was shot …

[@BelovedSoulSeven]

During that time too, Pac was the ONLY rapper in the game that was connecting/working with so many artists coast to coast. Him being from NY then later CA gave him that edge. He set that trend. Whether it was with rappers from LA, the Bay, TX, ATL, NY, NJ, MI, etc., nobody else was really doing that until after he passed.

[@ManManYaheard]

@@BelovedSoulSeven that’s a whole fact

[@hahngnortsmra915]

CL Smooth was one badman on the mic

[@telldetruth9259]

Why Nore don’t ask the difference between Biggie who hit women and the Biggie who use to pistol whip them?

[@YoungJones-im8fn]

Tupac is Tupac deathrow or digital

[@bigprob8744]

And when he done ballet

[@YoungJones-im8fn]

@@bigprob8744 facts even when he done ballet 😂 he went to actin school and I think they do teach ballet and classical music and all kinds of other shit .

[@henrybiggs3113]

Y'all demons are soulless... He did not go to art nor ballet school...🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽 It was a performance & arts high school he was accepted into for his poetry... & he didn't even graduate high school... Y'all mad y'all went to a public high school for an education of belittling on social media...🤔🤔🤔 I just don't hear you cowards screaming this all over social media about Prodigy of Mobb Deep, who actually attended a dance school owned by his grandmother...🙄🙄🙄

[@matoscu]

​​@@bigprob8744 word and after school when he got bussed right back to the hoods of Baltimore where his ma was on drugs and his step father was a hustler.

[@bigprob8744]

@@matoscu yes but pac didn't hang on the corner, he wasn't a drug dealer ect he was straight laced pac even said himself he never had a record until he made a record.

[@rob398]

Nore went from a bald head since he been famous to a low cut with waves in 3 days

[@TheDpmunoz12]

Hahaha holy shit man

[@JonesJohn-k2h]

When asked about pac erbody say the same thang that he a stand up guy kool all dat real shit so the haters need to stand down its over man

[@JosephBettie-wc4xx]

Happy Birthday Noreyago.

[@craigslocumb4684]

Cl Smooth has an abundance of wisdom.....God bless you my dude

[@DevonP.]

Nore stay hating. There was only one 2pac

[@karmbaksh7173]

🎨🖌👋🐯🖐📱🇻🇳 Pac was smashing the Westside peace. ✌️🐯🖐📱X

[@daboiwonder212]

NY forever

[@butch5419]

take that take that

[@Reese.410]

U know Pac had some 🔥 good ass weed

[@DialloMoore503]

Lil Cease said that too.

[@zneyvermachogrande778]

gotta love how C.L picks 2pac over BIG because what did he say? 2pac got all the bitches.. haha damn. so thats all this dude noticed with being around one of our generations greats. sounds real smart.

[@zneyvermachogrande778]

way past stupid answer.

[@zneyvermachogrande778]

but then again Drinkchamps is not a show where they let braincells flow.

[@laurenpenn3634]

HE DROPPED SO MANY 💎 THAT MUST'VE WENT OVER YOUR HEAD, IF THAT'S ALL YOU REMEMBER FROM THIS INTERVIEW.

[@TheBulletzgottishow20]

@@zneyvermachogrande778 what’s wrong with what he said

[@TheBulletzgottishow20]

@@laurenpenn3634 yep

[@jamesjones6340]

Dude weird ash the death row Tupac he the same man smh even after people that was around during and before death row says he was even worse before he still trying to imply he didn’t get tough until death row is crazy

[@alonzosmith485]

Pac changed after that 5th bullet then turn around and went to prison. Would change anyone. Deathrow couldn't tame pac.

[@2kgrindtime]

It's crazy work

[@r.i.p.kobeandnipsey8647]

Facts 💯💯💯

[@ewill9049]

He wasn't replying he was tough only with death row. Most ppl said death row elevated him made him more ruthless and a IDC attitude nobody saying he was a punk before death row but pac before jail is not the same as Pac after

[@Amidat]

you dudes are hilarious. anyone old enough knows Pac was a different person after being in Juice and then after going to Death Row. It's not even debatable. Pac stans are the worst.

[@biggame2175]

Keep leaving out the fact that puff cancelled his flight to London that's why he was in California longer

[@dawoobey7906]

CL Smooth talks and sounds just like his records

[@tirellv4938]

Cl is a legend but he was also talking mess about westcoast and im from cali. Again hes a legend and i own two of the cl and peterock albums. The thing a lot of newyork kats learned from the ones out here already. Just show more love and they will leave you alone. I grew up on eastcoast hiphop but dont think westcoast forgot how some newyork artist were acting back than. A lot of newyorker got tired of being in newyork and love the nice weather in cali so now they are forced to blend in from all the mess talked in the 90s. Of course not all newyork kats, but ill say out of all the regions of eastcoast newyork is the one the added fuel to the fire.

[@laurenpenn3634]

CL LOVES CALI THOUGH❤

[@johncullins4293]

Before I leave this earth I gotta smoke one with L 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️💪🏾💪🏾

[@hlonimahloko8969]

CL is sooo underrated it’s not funny

[@mishamarroquin3925]

Wow, he looks so different