Tyrin Turner’s friendship with J. Prince kept him from possibly going toe to toe with Suge Knight once upon a time.
The Menace II Society star recalled the beef in a new interview with The Art of Dialogue published on Tuesday (May 2). While the issue started right around the time 2Pac died in 1996, Suge held the grudge for nearly a decade and revisited it at the first chance he had.
“This was right after 2Pac had passed away and he called Dalvin from Jodeci phone and said, ‘I wanna talk to Tyrin,’” he began. “I’m at Dalvin house and Dalvin like, ‘It’s Suge!’ I get the phone and Suge was talking his Suge stuff or whatever. I think it was over a female or something. I said on the phone, ‘I thought this was money over bitches? Doesn’t MOB stand for money over bitches? That’s what I thought. I didn’t know.’ And Suge said, ‘Oh you a comedian? You think shit funny.’ And then I hung up the phone, he went to jail. He never forgot that conversation.”
He continued: “Nine years later he came back. We at the club. I’m in the club, he sees me, we catch eyes. He pushes Busta Rhymes out the way to get to me. It’s like he’s just in slow motion – cigar, shoulder moving like that. He said, ‘Why you looking hostile?’ And I’m just looking at him. He got like a gang of bloods around him. We just looking each other. He’s like, ‘If I wanted to, I could have something done to you.’
“Dalvin over there looking like, ‘Tyrin, please don’t do this shit that you usually would do. But I’m not dumb. Like I told you, it’s defense right? So you got to know your surroundings, know the energy and know the world. I look at the situation and energy and I’m like, nah, this ain’t the right time to do nothing weird, but I just didn’t feel right after he left.
“I just felt weird, like did the n-gga just punk me or something? That was the first time in my life I felt like a buster. And I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t think, everything…
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