T.I. Calls Out Funk Flex For Bad Mouthing Tupac

Funkmaster Flex’s recent comments alleging that the late Tupac Shakur actually shot himself during a 1994 shooting didn’t only upset hip-hop fans, it also got rapper T.I. angry.

T.I., who recently honored the rapper by recreating a signature look of his at the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, took to Instagram to call out the Hot 97 DJ. “Yo @funkflex respectfully bruh… on G-Code… regardless of what YOU THINK the validity of your statement is, I was taught never to speak down on a dead man,” he wrote.

The rapper went on to say that it wasn’t an east coast-west coast thing, as he would tell someone from Los Angeles speaking bad about The Notorious B.I.G. the same thing. “Considering they ain’t here to speak up for themselves. When he was alive, you was on da air then… that was the time to address this. NOT HERE, NOT NOW, NOT LIKE THIS!!!”

Funk Flex has yet to respond to T.I.’s comments, but on Thursday he tweeted that he would address the controversy on Instagram and Facebook at 9 p.m. EDT.

The DJ’s comments came Wednesday when he took to Twitter during the morning and tweeted about Shakur, who died in a different shooting in 1996. “Pac knew who got him… but blamed it on Biggie! That was easier than the truth,” Flex tweeted. The DJ continued tweeting, writing, “Pac put a whole bunch of people around him from ny that he couldn’t control!”

After a series of tweets, Funk Flex took to Instagram and claimed that Tupac actually shot himself. “They was never going to shoot him,” Flex wrote. Following the alleged accidental shooting, Flex claims 2Pac went on a “campaign” against The Notorious B.I.G.

“He knew why it was happening,” Flex wrote. “Yes I dislike him for that… Yes I feel a way… Because I know the truth… We all knew the truth… Big never did nothing to him… It makes me sick to hear u stans talk and worship that behavior.”

Following the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, T.I. spoke with The Philadelphia Tribune about the rapper’s legacy and where he would be today if he was still alive. “It’s an extreme honor,” he said. “I feel like, you know, as a kid, Pac was my favorite rapper since the first time I heard him, and you know, that’s the first person I ever, as an artist, hoped to pattern myself after.”

As for what Tupac would be up to if he was still around, T.I. could see him in politics. “Anything could have happened with Pac, man. Just his diverse intellect, and the way he thought outside the box could have led him anywhere in life,” he said. “He may have gotten into politics by now. Who knows?”