2Pac is considered one of Hip-Hop’s most well-documented artists, but it surely looks as if you’ve by no means actually heard each 2Pac story. Working example: we’re now getting a little bit unknown backstory on the late rap legend’s 1996 observe “Me and My Girlfriend.” A person on X (previously Twitter) shared a narrative about how his mother wound up making an look on “…Girlfriend.” The tune famously options 2Pac rapping a couple of gun prefer it’s his romantic associate, and the observe opens with a girl’s high-energy portrayal of the feisty weapon.
X person @Evolving_Eric — who claims his father is Eric B. — shared a video together with his mom, recognized on YouTube as Virginya Slim, explaining her position within the tune’s recording. A former Demise Row Information worker, she shared her preliminary interactions with 2Pac within the studio after she picked him up from a membership.
“All he wished to do was discuss this album that he was placing collectively, and this concept that he had for a tune referred to as ‘…My Girlfriend,” she mentioned. “He gave me the idea and the concept and he was speaking about how he wanted to convey the gun to life. It wasn’t going to be the identical if the gun didn’t have a voice.”
She’d tried to assist rent girls for the voice appearing wanted because the intro of the observe, however none of them labored.
“Engineers would come again to me every week later and say, ‘It didn’t work out, it wasn’t adequate, it didn’t have the fervour {that a} gun would have,’” she recalled. “So the album wanted to be turned in and the engineers have been like, ‘We nonetheless haven’t got the tune executed.’”
2Pac apparently requested her to be on the observe whereas they have been speaking within the hallway.
“Truthfully, I used to be nervous, as a result of I’m working — I wasn’t making gangster music,” she mentioned. She determined to smoke a blunt and deal with the job.
“I ain’t even know I had that in me, y’all,” she now says. “I made all of the gun photographs up in my head, all of the pauses…and all of that was simply me appearing it out.”
“Me and My Girlfriend” was featured on Pac’s multiplatinum 1996 album Don Killuminati: The 7-Day Idea. Although by no means launched as a single, the tune has had enduring recognition and affect; with Toni Braxton remodeling it for “Me and My Boyfriend” in 2002, and the tune later famously interpolated for Jay-Z and Beyoncé‘s hit “‘03 Bonnie & Clyde.”
