ThaFormula.com - Do you feel that things got better or worse after Biggie and Pac got killed?

Proof - I think things got worse to me because by them two leavin’ we lost a lot of creativity and now you got a lot of people coat-tailin’ cause if Big and Pac was here there would be a lot of differences.

ThaFormula.com - What exactly would be different and do you think that Ja Rule and DMX would even exist right now?

Proof - You know what's so funny? I got a song called the ''BigPacology'' and it might not make the album. It might just come out on some underground shit where I speak like I'm Biggie and I speak like I'm Pac on each different verse and it talk about situations such as that. When 2Pac died you saw the rise of DMX, but I believe DMX could have still made a niche in the game somewhere along the line. I don't think that it's too effective on him but their styles are totally different to me. Now of course if DMX could have got affected by 2Pac, Ja Rule would be nowhere without DMX. DMX is the truth to me when it comes to MC shit compared to a Ja Rule, but that's just my opinion. I was in the music store recently and I was trying to look for some 2Pac vinyl cause you know I be spinnin’ now and then and shit like that. I grabbed these two vinyls without really lookin’ at them. They was Ja Rule vinyl's and he looked just like 2Pac on the covers. I swear!! This ain't even no made up shit man. I actually did this. Pac is a icon of our time and I feel that Ja Rule is robbin’ that. He is not no 2Pac.

ThaFormula.com - Now what about Biggie? Do you think that Jay-Z would be in the position he's in if Big were still alive today?

Proof - Biggie not being here, definitely made it easier for him because they had to put a new crown on a New York king and I think that Jay-Z was the closest thing to a Biggie at that time so of course Jay-Z would be dope, but he wouldn't be the king.

ThaFormula.com - Now here comes the big one. Would D12 and Eminem be in the position you’re in if Big and Pac were still alive?

Proof - See, now that's what's so great. The greatest thing about hip-hop is to add on. There is nothing that we have done that is stolen from either one of them Icons.

ThaFormula.com – A lot of people have called Eminem a white 2Pac?

Proof - They just now started callin’ him the white 2Pac. We talkin’ about the first Slim Shady records. No matter what you try to do we still comin’ to the door with that. That's a done deal. We added on. Shock rap, shock value that was us. Nobody can ever take that away from us. No one can say that their (Big and Pac) demise helped us. That first Slim Shady LP is comin’ through the door regardless. Now how they might have felt about it might have played a different game, but we will never know how they would have took it.

ThaFormula.com - Now you know how certain rappers periods come to an end as far as their time at the top. Do you think that Eminem would have brought 2Pac and Biggies time at the top to an end?

Proof - I don't think so cause to this day we have heavy 2Pac fans on our side and I remember when there was a point in time when I first brought him ''Str8 Ballin'' from 2Pac. We was playin’ Basketball and I was like “you got to hear this new 2Pac song,” cause they was in that underground hip-hop tip back then and I used to be on that rap is rap. There’s some rappers that ain't meant to battle, but some muthafuckas can put together songs you know what I'm sayin, and Pac was one of them muthafuckas to me that could put together good songs.

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