On a recent interview with Talib Kweli's People's Party podcast, legendary producer/rapper DJ Quik said he had a machine gun pulled on him when 2Pac's infamous 1996 double album, All Eyez On Me leaked early.

Quik, who mixed the album and produced "Heartz of Men," said his security guard took the CD from his car, shared it with his friends, and ultimately caused unauthorized copies of the diamond-certified album to spread throughout L.A. That's when all hell broke loose.

“I almost got killed over a 2Pac bootleg!" Quik exclaimed. "I had a machine gun put in my face! But I was still defending him, I was like, ‘Fuck it, do what you gotta do.’ I can’t run! This muthafucka got 30 shots in it, so I’ma just man up and take this shit. It was in my car and my security at the time used my car. He took the CD out and let his homeboys hear it. ‘Man, let me get a copy of that!’ ‘Cool’ So I’m in the studio, proofreading and listening to these mixes, making sure that they sound good. And I would give Suge a CD or ‘Pac a CD.”

Quik says the circulated CD ended up where it shouldn't have been, and yikes, Death Row Records founder Suge Knight caught wind of the leaked project.

"The CD ended up in the neighborhood at Earthquake Sounds, a car shop or whatever,” Quik said. “And dudes up there called Suge and was like, ‘Aye man, you know n-ggas up here playing the new 2Pac shit y’all working on?’ He’s like, ‘What?!’ So I get a call, ‘Hey man, come up to the office.’ And I already know what them Death Row meetings, when they call you randomly at like 4:20. ‘Aye, fight traffic, get up here.’ I’m like, ‘Aww, this finna be some bullshit. We get up there and we confront it, and then a fight started in the fucking Death Row [office]. It was scrapping and shit. After the fight was done, my dumb-ass, I’m like, ‘Man, we just got accused of something we didn’t do!’ I’m like, ‘What did you do? Who did you give the CD to?’ [He’s like], ‘This guy.'”

Long story short, Quick and his security guard head to the culprit's house, where more drama ensued.

“So we go over to this guy’s house,” he continued. “He’s talking to us. He didn’t do it, yada yada, somebody else did it. So me, in my infinite wisdom, I take off on him … I’m fighting the dude and he dropped his Hennessy, and I think he was more mad [about that] than me actually swinging on him. He told his homeboy, ‘Man, blast this muthafucka!’ And my man just pulled out a TEC. I’m just… cold. Like, ‘I’m dead over this dumb-ass 2Pac tape.'”

Thankfully, Quik's security managed to get the gun away from the guy. But that didn't stop them from getting into an all-out brawl.

“So I’m fighting with this guy, then I end up fighting with the other guy, and the other guy kicked me all in the head and shit, I’m on the ground getting stomped and shit,” he remembered. “I get up and I’m still fighting this guy. It’s like, ‘Man, I can’t fight both! Help me fight these muthafuckas!’ “And then we had to go to a party that night still, a Whispers party that Death Row was throwing, so we end up at the Whispers party. Niggas was like, ‘You alright?! Y’all need to go the hospital!’ ‘Nah, we cool, fuck it. Charge it to the game.' The guy that supposedly did it, I ended up making amends with him. I went and hung out with him a couple of years ago and apologized because I shouldn’t have did that. You know, Death Row was the single most dangerous record company in the world, but if you had on the chain, nothing ever happened to you.”

Watch the clip above.