A man named Gene Deal used to be Diddy’s bodyguard and has told a lot of lies about the Bad Boy mogul during his huge incident. But not all of the hip-hop history stories he tells are about Sean Combs. Deal recently talked to Cam Capone News and told an interesting story about Jay-Z and a show he had in Las Vegas in the late 1990s. It is said that the New York artist heard that Tupac Shakur knew about his Vegas show. This happened during the height of the East Coast vs. West Coast beef that also involved Biggie, Bad Boy, Death Row, and others. You already know what happened.

“Jay-Z wasn’t leaving that room,” Diddy’s former guardian said. “I don’t know how Pac found out that Jay-Z had a show.” His claims are that some people had to step up and help. Some of these are Suge Knight, Big D, Chaz Williams, and Eric B. “Suge told him, “Hey, man, that’s not me.” That’s Pac’s wild behind. Gene Deal said that Suge Knight told Pac to let Jay-Z go to his show because Jay wasn’t going to leave the room to do nothing.

But Gene Deal has supposedly told this story before; he did it on The Art Of Dialogue in 2022. This isn’t a fact, though, because nothing from then on or now backs any of this up. Deal also said that he doesn’t know for sure why Tupac Shakur supposedly wanted to talk to Jay-Z, but he thinks it might have something to do with Hov’s “Brooklyn’s Finest” collaboration with Biggie Smalls on 1996’s Reasonable Doubt.

He told Fat Joe in 2020 that he told Jay-Z not to record that track, which is kind of funny. “I was determined not to do it,” he said. “I told Jay, ‘Don’t do it, don’t do it.'” He asked, “Why?” I told Big, “He’s too strong.” Let’s take over the West Coast first, then the rest of the world. We need to take over the East Coast first, then New York, and finally Brooklyn before we can take over the West Coast. All of that belongs to him. I thought, “This n***a isn’t a wack n***a.” I was afraid that I would look like his little man, you get it?”