Havoc has finally revealed the origin of 2Pac‘s disses aimed towards Mobb Deep on his legendary diss track “Hit Em Up”.

Speaking on Drink Champs, the New Yorker explained that ‘Pac thought he had been slighted by the duo.

He said: “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.”

On “Hit Em Up”, 2Pac saved one of his most brutal lines for Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, with him rapping: “Oh yeah, Mobb Deep, huh, you wanna fuck with us? /You lil’ young-ass motherfucker

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