run into the studio and he was like, “I did two songs today.

” And I was like, “Oh, you did.

” He goes back to the studio and he finishes the song.

At the time, I didn’t know he was he had did and I didn’t know that he did me and my girlfriend.

Honestly, it was a fluke.

Wanted to pull everybody together uh to work on a couple of different projects.

He was tired of the beef, basically.

The woman behind My Girlfriend and Me has finally broken her silence, [music] exposing a 29-year injustice that was deliberately buried.

Her voice became legendary in hip hop while her name vanished without recognition.

Now she is speaking out, and what she reveals is shocking and brutal.

He was talking about ending the beef the night before, but he was still kind of in the beef.

So, he did that song that day.

For 29 years, the most iconic gun voice in hip-hop history had no name, no plaque, no royalties, and no justice.

The woman who said, “I’m the [ __ ] that’s keeping it live,” on Tupac’s record was never properly credited.

She was there.

She performed it.

She helped create one of the most talked about tracks on a legendary album.

And yet, on paper, she was invisible.

Promises were made.

According to her, promises were broken.

Then in June 2025, she finally spoke out and the silence cracked wide open.

Um, and then he was asking me if I remember the song.

Oh man, it’s a Prince song.

Hold on, let me think.

What was the name of Oh, if I was your girlfriend.

This is not nostalgia.

This is a 29-year trail of confusion, label chaos, and power moves that left one contributor behind.

He was at the studio the day that the engineer was telling me that story that he didn’t have anybody to to do it.

Like it wasn’t turning out right.

It was coming out really horrible.

Summer 1996 was intense for Tupac Shakur.

He was in the middle of beef, legal pressure, and non-stop recording.

One night on Sunset, he did not even want to be at the club.

He was standing outside when Eric B pulled up with Virginia Slim.

Instead of walking in with the outlaws and fans, Tupac jumped in their car and left.

He just wanted to talk.

Nightclub somewhere on Sunset and it was a night where he really did not want to be bothered with fans.

Like he just did not want to be there at all.

At Eric Bee’s house, the mood shifted.

Tupac spoke about ending the beef.

He talked about making peace with Nas.

He talked about changing his name to Maveli and what that would represent.

He referenced Prince and the concept behind If I Were Your Girlfriend.

Then he dropped the idea that would become hiphop history.

He said he wanted to write about his gun like it was his girlfriend.

Not literally, metaphorically.

The loyalty, the obsession, the protection.

It sounded wild, but it made sense in his world.

That concept was born in a living room conversation, not in a corporate meeting.

He used to be a big fan of Prince and he um started talking about he wanted to do a song um that kind of was metaphoric like like how Prince wrote um if I was your girlfriend um and I was like oh yeah I love that song so much too and he was like yeah but what I’m going to do is I’m going to write a song about my gun.

The next problem was execution at Death Row Records.

The track then called My Girlfriend needed a female voice.

Not singing, talking, attitude, energy.

Three different women were hired.

All of them failed to deliver what Tupac wanted.

Studio money was being spent.

The album deadline was approaching.

Macaveli was almost done and this track was incomplete.

People are going to think it’s about my girlfriend because I’mma be writing about my gun like it’s my girlfriend.

So the night continues on and he tells us all these oh he was going to change his name to um Maveli [laughter] and he was telling us giving us all this information about uh who Maveli was and what he was known for.

Virginia Slim was not thinking about being the solution.

She was the assistant studio manager.

She handled logistics.

She worked long shifts.

She was also an artist.

But nobody in that room saw her that way.

Tupac hinted that she should do it.

She did not take it seriously at first.

She was thinking like an employee, not a performer.

Then the engineers admitted they still did not have the girl.

So after clocking out from a 12-hour shift, she went to Track Record Studios in North Hollywood.

It was late.

The engineers Tommy D and Lance were smoking.

This was mid90s studio culture.

No money was available for extra talent.

She told them to pay her in a joint.

[music] That was the deal.

Um, so I go back into the studio and as I’m making my way back to studio A, there’s this long hallway from our office leading back to where Pac to get back to where Pac is, but he’s coming towards me.

And I’m like, you guys didn’t get nobody to do that song to you don’t have a girl.

And he’s like, please can you just do it for me? They loaded the reels.

She stepped into the booth.

There were no vocals on the intro.

They ran the track from the top.

She did it in one take.

raw, confident, aggressive.

[music] The engineer started celebrating.

She wanted another take because she is a perfectionist.

They refused.

They said it was perfect.

I’ll do it, but I got to do it after my shift cuz I’m clocked in.

Like, I can’t just stop working what I’m doing cuz there’s other projects being done.

There’s Nate Dog’s out first album being done.

The dog father was in production.

Um, so I’m like, I got to do it after my shift, which isn’t probably going to be till about 12:00 at night.

Then came the harder part, the gun verse.

She admitted she did not even know what a gun was supposed to sound like in real life.

She grew up in the suburbs.

She was trained in ballet and jazz.

Yet here she was working at the most feared label in hip hop.

She told them not to stop recording, no matter how corny it sounded, and she went off.

She ranted for nearly 2 minutes as if she were the weapon itself.

Later, the engineers cut it down using early ProTools and added gunshot sound effects.

So, he jumps in the car with us and we left that nightclub.

So, we went back to our house.

At the time, Eric and I had just I had just moved in with Eric B.

Um, so it really wasn’t anything that Pac wanted to do.

He just wanted to discuss some of the things and some of the plans that he had on his mind with Eric.

That iconic female energy on the record was captured in one exhausted smokefilled session paid in marijuana with no paperwork signed.

In August 1996, the Don Illuminati, the 7-day theory, dropped under the name Makaveli.

The track became legendary.

Then everything collapsed.

On September 13th, 1996, Tupac died.

That same day, Virginia Slim found out she was three months pregnant.

Death Row Records went into chaos.

Suge Knight went to prison.

The studio shut down.

She was laid off.

The voice of the gun was now a pregnant woman with no contract, no credit, and no clear path forward.

I called the engineers and I make my way.

It wasn’t at Can-Am Studio that I did these vocals.

We were actually using another studio at the same time and it was called Track and it was in North Hollywoods.

It was called Track Studios.

She tried reaching out to people at the label, Roy Norris, anyone who could help.

But the chain of command was broken.

Suge was incarcerated.

The company was unstable.

Months turned into years.

Life took over.

She became a single mother.

Survival came first.

The music industry fight went to the background.

Look, look up to Tupac.

I wasn’t his fan, right? [music] I wasn’t his friend.

He was just a ordinary person to me.

I’m innocent.

I ain’t killed nobody.

Never did ever kill nobody.

They don’t have no evidence against me.

When Suge Knight was released and rebranded the company as the Row, she says he hired her again as a receptionist.

She believed this was her chance to fix everything.

Then in 2002, Jay-Z and Beyonce released 03 Bonnie and Clyde built around the same concept as My Girlfriend.

She says Suge played it in the office on repeat.

She says he promised her he would take care of her paperwork.

She trusted him again.

According to her, nothing was resolved.

Eventually, she was fired.

And we had paid about three different girls to do it.

And we know Suge would be very upset if we kept paying people and the and the project wasn’t getting done.

That is the part that hurts the most, not just the chaos of 1996.

only to be told she was for 6 months, only to be told she was speaking to the wrong person.

Discouragement set in.

Tommy D and Lance, can’t remember Lance’s last name.

So, I pull up to the studio.

Oh gosh, I didn’t even have a car.

So, I I I get dropped off at the studio and my son’s father, Eric B, is like, “What are you doing? Why did you have them drop you off there? Why didn’t you come home?” Then in late June 2025, her son posted her story online.

It went viral within days.

Hip hop fans realized the woman behind the gun voice had never been properly recognized.

After 29 years, she finally said her name out loud.

And now the question is no longer who did that voice.

The question is why it took almost three decades for anyone to listen.

Marijuana at the time is not legal, but everybody is big chief.

And so when I walk in, Tommy D and Lance are on a break and they’re big chiefing.

So when I come in, they’re like, “Uhoh.

” Everybody’s [clears throat] kind of just like rushing and trying to get to work.

And I’m like, “Oh no.

” Now, let’s really sit in 2003 for a second because this is where the story stops being messy and starts feeling almost unreal.

2003, Bonnie and Clyde drops by Jay-Z and Beyonce.

And it is everywhere.

radio clubs, TV award shows.

And if you know me and my girlfriend, you can hear it instantly.

The concept, the energy, the blueprint, it all traces back to that 1996 record she helped bring to life.

Here is the part that feels like a movie scene no one would believe if it were scripted.

She is working reception at the row, answering phones, handling paperwork, and just doing her job.

And Suge is allegedly in the office playing 2003 Bonnie and Clyde on repeat.

Imagine sitting there while a global hit built off a concept you were [music] part of floats through the hallway speakers.

I literally just work like a eight hour shift.

So I want to decompress a little bit.

So I tell the engineers that y’all got to pay me in a joint for coming over here and helping y’all out.

She walks into his office and addresses it directly.

According to her, he tells her he is going to take care of her and handle the paperwork.

Calls her Queenie.

makes it sound solid and she believes him because at that point what else are you supposed to do except trust the person who ran the label.

But the way that a camera was placed into the facility was by a correctional officer bringing it in, which was very very not a part of their job description.

This is the biggest development in the Tupac murder case since this all happened, since the murder happened.

They never served a search warrant and, you know, showed up at someone’s house with the SWAT team back in 1996.

So, this is definitely, it can’t be overstated how big of a deal this is.

Nothing changes.

No contract appears.

No backend shows up.

No official correction gets made.

Eventually, she is fired.

And the song that mirrors her creative contribution keeps climbing the charts while she walks out without paperwork to her name.

That is not just frustrating.

It is the kind of thing that stays with you for years.

Tommy D gives Lance some some tree and he rolls it up for me and they pull the song up.

But it takes a minute though because they had to change the reels and this is when we’re using 456 AM and PAX reels.

Fast forward to 2023 and you would think fixing something like this would be simple.

Send an email, connect with the estate, provide the details, and let professionals sort it out.

She reaches out to Tupac’s Estate and starts communicating with someone named Molly.

Emails go back and forth for 6 months.

And for the first time in a long time, it feels like progress.

This t it takes a long time to change those reels, get it all queued up where it needs to be.

So, I’m just kind of chilling in the studio waiting for this all to happen.

Um, and then Tommy Dia is like, “We’re ready for you.

” And I’m like, “Cool.

” Now, the joint that they gave me, I hadn’t smoked it yet cuz I was smoking their joints.

her.

Then the message lands that changes the tone completely.

She is told she is not even supposed to be discussing this with that person.

Just like that, the momentum disappears.

No closure, no resolution, just another redirect after months of effort.

And ultimately, our persistence in this investigation has paid off.

That kind of thing drains you emotionally.

Every time she got close to a solution, the door seemed to move somewhere else.

After nearly three decades of trying in different ways, she stepped back.

Not because the story was not real, but because fighting it alone is exhausting.

I light the joint.

I put it out, drink a little bit of water, and I just ran it off the top of my head.

You mothering right.

I’m the [ __ ] that’s keeping it live and keeping it hot when you punk ass [ __ ] don’t.

Then June 25 happens and everything flips.

Her son posts her story online with no big roll out or industry machine behind it.

[music] Just her explaining what happened in her own words.

Within days, Tik Tok and Instagram exploded with reactions.

Well, tonight we’re getting our first look at new video from a massive weekend raid.

KD confessed that his nephew Orlando Anderson fired those fatal shots.

Police say Anderson was the main suspect in the murder, but never faced charges.

Anderson since died.

DJ Scandalous shares it and the reach multiplies.

Reddit threads start dissecting the timeline.

The Bomb 1S podcast interview goes viral and suddenly thousands of people are hearing her name for the first time.

For 29 years, hip hop fans knew the voice but not the woman.

And in 72 hours, that changed.

Once the internet locks in, the industry starts reacting.

Outlaws affiliates express shock that she never received a plaque or back-end compensation.

Reggie Wright Jr.

and the realist step in to help her navigate the legal maze.

They attempt to reach Universal Music Group and Interscope to figure out what can actually be done at this stage.

Lost in the world and it went.

Oo, I got goosebumps talking about it right now.

And it went perfectly.

So Lance and Tommy D is like they’re doing a little jig and they’re screaming and hollering.

They let it like I can hear them through the headphones and they’re like, “Oh my god, it was perfect.

” Now, me being a perfectionist, I want to hear it.

And then when they played it back, now I’m getting goosebumps and I feel good about it.

Along the way, another twist surfaces.

Snoop does not control Tupac’s estate rights.

So, that door is not the solution people assumed it might be.

It becomes clear that this is not a simple phone call fix.

It is a layered legal situation tied to contracts from the ‘9s and a label that collapsed in chaos.

This newly released evidence showing never before seen details in [music] a case that’s cracked wide open some 27 years later.

The man charged in Tupac Shakur’s murder is speaking out from behind bars for the first time.

Dwayne Kefei D.

Davis insists he was 300 miles away when the rapper was shot.

Now he’s pointing the finger at someone else.

That leads to a bigger and slightly uncomfortable question.

How does something like this even happen? The ‘9s music industry ran on work for higher culture, rushed sessions, and minimal digital documentation.

[music] Studio assistants sometimes doubled as talent, and metadata tracking was nowhere near what it is today.

When they played it back, I was like, nah, let me do it again.

Like, let me get another take.

I can do it better than than that time.

And they were like, hell no.

They were like, absolutely not.

We don’t even need another take of that.

And I’m like, well, okay, I’m kind of in my feelings cuz I’m an artist.

And like Erica Badu say, I’m sensitive about my so I don’t even want to do anything else at this point cuz I feel like I don’t really have creative control.

Death Rose collapse created documentation gaps that are still being untangled.

But here is the part people keep circling back to.

Some producers and contributors from that era eventually had their credits corrected or their paperwork sorted out.

So why not her? And these photos and videos are just some of the evidence that was shown to a grand jury helping them build their case.

And I’m Jim Snyder.

Shakur was gunned down here in Las Vegas back in 1996.

No one was ever charged, but now a televised confession may be the missing link.

Was she simply overlooked in the chaos? Or was she left behind because she did not have power or leverage? That question lingers because the contrast is hard to ignore.

She delivered a performance that became part of hip hop history.

Yet, her name never made it into the official narrative.

The emotional core of this story is almost poetic.

She describes getting goosebumps when she hears the intro.

Even now, she remembers her sister Gail being there the night Tupac first explained the concept.

She remembers finding out she was pregnant the same day Tupac died.

A moment where life and loss collided in a way that still feels surreal.

And ultimately, our persistence in this investigation has paid off.

Tonight, a source familiar with this investigation tells us that Metro is trying to process an arrest uh warrant right now against the only man who’s still alive who says he was in the car with the gunman.

And it paid off.

And here we are in 25 with no official plaque on her wall.

The gun in the song became immortal.

quoted and referenced for decades.

The woman behind that voice stayed invisible until social media forced the conversation back into the light.

Right now, there is momentum, but no confirmed payout.

Reggie Wright Jr.

and the Realists are still assisting and pushing toward UMG and Intercope.

Public awareness is growing and fans are asking questions that were never asked loudly before.

So, this is where it stands.

Is this justice delayed or justice denied? Should she receive back royalties and formal credit after nearly three decades? And what does this say about how the industry treated contributors in the ‘9s? One viral post cannot rewrite old contracts, but it can challenge history.

It can put a name where there used to be silence.

For 29 years, The Voice was famous and the woman was not.

And now at least the world knows who she