Havoc has opened up about the origins of 2Pac’s disses directed at Mobb Deep on the iconic track “Hit Em Up.”

During his appearance on the Drink Champs podcast, the rapper from New York shed light on why 2Pac felt slighted by him and his group.

According to Havoc, the friction stemmed from multiple incidents. He explained, “I believe it was a combo of things. On ‘Survival of the Fittest,’ we [rapped], ‘Thug life, we still livin’ it.’ At the time, [2pac] had an article in Vibe magazine when he was like, ‘I don’t want to do this thug shit anymore.’ So he probably thought we were like, ‘Thug life, we still living it, fuck what he’s doin’.’ It piled up on ‘L.A., L.A.’ and it was like, fuck these n-ggas.”

In “Hit Em Up,” 2Pac unleashed particularly harsh lines aimed at Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, including, “Oh yeah, Mobb Deep, huh, you wanna fuck with us? /You lil’ young-ass motherfuckers / Don’t one of you n-ggas got sickle-cell or somethin?”

Tragically, Prodigy later passed away in 2017 due to complications related to the disease.