Snoop Dogg remembers the biggest lesson he learned from Tupac

ABC/Kelsey McNealSnoop Dogg took to Instagram this week to celebrate Tupac, and share the biggest lesson he learned from his friend.

Tupac died on September 13, 1996 from gunshot wounds sustained during a Las Vegas drive-by shooting. More than a decade later, he still remains as one of the most powerful voices in hip hop and music.  In the ’90s, both Snoop and Pac were “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted”, as labelmates on Suge Knight‘s Death Row Records.

On Wednesday, Snoop posted a video clip from an interview that, according to the New York Times, was conducted in 1998 or 1999, around the time Snoop was on Master P’s No Limit Records — which is why he’s rocking a huge No Limit chain in the video.

In the clip, an interviewer, referring to Tupac, asked, “What did you learn from a figure like that and being friends with him?”

“I think what I learned from Tupac was a different sort of work ethic. I always had a good work ethic about myself as far as being timely and on point and being a professional,” Snoop explains.

“But he just showed me how to be a little more faster with it, as far as getting to the meat of it all and not really just listening to it all the time, not absorbing it, but more or less just doing it.”

“Just keep doing it and doing it,” Snoop adds. “Let the engineers mix it and master it and not fall in love with it. But fall in love with the craft to being able to do it and continue to do it. That was something that was passed to me and now I’m showing it in my own work ethic.”

“wise words from pac to dogg 2 y’all,” he captioned the post.