Discussion on Music Awards and Rivalries

That's good. You cool?

No, I'm straight. I can share with you. We're down. I'm straight.

We straight. That's my dude. That shit nasty .

He trying to give me a

bungee jump.

I just wanted to clear my throat.

You lost Best Rap Video. You at all disappointed about that?

Oh, no, I didn't lose, see, 'cause I sold six

and a half million copies,

so I won.

He won.

When all these famous people get together, what's the one thing you take away?

Is everybody much shorter than you thought?

I know a lot of people find Snoop and say, you know, "6'4", I had no idea."

Oh, yeah.

But do people seem shorter? There a lot of attitude going on?

What do you, what's the one thing you take away?

Oh, it's a lot of attitude, of course, 'cause nobody thought we would show up

here.

But, you know, we, we always feel like we keeping it real,

not c- f- scratch that.

We always felt like we're being true to everything we've always stayed-

Exactly

... representing. And our audience is worldwide.

We not even on no, you know, we coming out here into some East Coast,

West Coast.

We got beef with the people we got beef with, but we could go anywhere in the

country because we are America's most wanted.

Exactly.

So you can't stop the flow.

Can't stop what America want.

Um, on that note, I know that Biggie and Puffy are here tonight.

Um, did you see them? Do you have anything to say to them at

all?

Nah, but if we, even if we saw him, we not, we are businessmen. We

are not animals.

It's not like we gonna see them and rush them and jump on them.

If they, they see us and they want drama, we gonna definitely bring it like only

Death Row could bring it. But we here as businessmen to enjoy a-

a- a- and-

And support the Video Music Awards

... support the Video Music Awards for MTV

'cause they support us.

So if they wanna come and use this business opportunity to get

on some gangsta,

you know, we do that better than anybody.

Can you envision a day when, you know, y'all, if not get together and make an

album, just peace- peacefully coexist?

There's no dream of making an album with Biggie and Puffy or none of them.

We not sweating it like that.

This is our family over here.

We, we peacefully coexist right now-

That's right

... 'cause we all cool. Everybody's here.

Everybody's, they make, they sell records, we sell records.

Well, I guess you could call that selling records what they do.

We sell large amounts of records, and they sell a few records,

and really there's

no, there's no competition. W- People are really making too much out of it than

it

is. It's really just, if you wanna talk, we're gonna make it specific as to

what you can talk about and what you can't talk about.

And the East Coast, West Coast thing is something that the journalists

and people

are making up just to get paid off this so it can drag out, so they're perpetuating

it so it can be drama, which I still love MTV, but when it all go

down, don't look at me and Biggie and be like,

"Why is there a big East Coast, West

Coast war?" When you're, you're shooting this to 30, 300 homes, 300

countries telling them about a East Coast, West Coast war that they would never

know exists. So that's where information becomes a

problem when MTV News gotta be-

And if it did, if it, if it did exist-

... the, gotta be the ones to let you know

... if it did exist, Pac, we wouldn't be here, so-

Right

... to let you know it's gonna exist

... and if it did exist, I wouldn't be sitting in New York talking

about it.

We'll try to be better, um, role models, and y'all try to stop putting

that drama out there. You got, you got a lot of power,

a lot of responsibility.

We both do. We both need to exercise greater

restraint.