In a new interview, will.i.am touches on his fellow Black Eyed Peas member apl.de.ap’s hilarious encounter with the late 2Pac.
Speaking with DJ Whoo Kid in a recent podcast chat, the songwriter and producer was asked if he had any “weird interactions” to detail regarding either 2Pac or Biggie. While he “never met Biggie,” Will explained, he did have a decidedly funny story to share regarding 2Pac. In short, apl.de.ap was enjoying a meal at Roscoe’s with his girlfriend at the time when a simple hand gesture from 2Pac spurred a change in plans.
"I never had any interaction with 2Pac," will.i.am. said toward the top of the interview. "But apl.de.ap in the Black Eyed Peas, he had this girlfriend—I don’t wanna name her name or put on her blast—and they were eating at freakin' Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles. She was hot, bro. Like, she was a beautiful Puerto Rican young girl when we were kids."
Apparently, 2Pac was also at Roscoe's, resulting in a semi-sad but ultimately understandable moment for will.i.am's collaborator.
"2Pac did like this [hand gesture] and she was like, 'Oh my gosh, I’ll be right back,'" he recalled. "And then apl.de.ap was, like, 30 minutes later—[the] chicken and waffles got all cold, freakin' syrup got all freakin' stiff, butter’s gotten freakin' liquidy. And he’s like, 'She ain’t coming back.'"
Elsewhere, will.i.am looked back on early touring days with Macy Gray and the lessons he’s learned about attracting “other frequencies” in one’s art.
Meanwhile, 2Pac's biological father—Billy Garland—recently made headlines in connection with his comments over his late son's "Dear Mama" track. In the song's second verse, notably, Garland is referred to as a "coward" by the artist.
“At first, I was upset,” Garland told Delray Richardson on The Art of Dialogue. in June. “Because I’m trying to see you. But then it hit me. For one, I ain’t dead and so you really didn’t know me. Because if you would have known me, you would have known that that I wasn’t dead. So I knew there that someone had lied to him from that point. So later on when I found out that someone did lie to him, that song made perfectly good sense. I understood it totally.”
