In a recent interview with The 85 South Comedy Show, Snoop Dogg explained how 2Pac helped him step up his game. While Pac was signed to Death Row, Snoop says the charismatic rapper actually taught him how to be a star.

“That n--- like, ‘Me and you finna have a meeting," Snoop recalled Pac telling him. "We stepping our game up. We gotta change your look, Snoop Dogg,’” Tupac told him. “’You a pimp... You fly. You gotta start showing your fly side! I’ma get you suited up. I’ma call this n---- Dion Scott, get your suits fitted, get your hair laid, get your nails done. Put some pimpin’ on screen."

Pac and Snoop's most famous collaboration was on "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" featured on Pac's double album All Eyez On Me. Both rappers are dressed in suits throughout the video, which Snoop said was Pac's idea. Snoop said that at first, he was nervous about rocking a suit.

“He dressed me up in suits, Louis Vuitton, Gucci — shit I couldn’t even spell or pronounce! All this Italian shit,” he continued. “Just look at how I’m standing next to cuz when I’m wearing it. I’m trying to figure it out! I’m like, ‘Do I look right? I hope I don’t look sweet ’cause these pants tight as a muthafucka!’’  

Eventually, Snoop realized that Pac was doing more than teaching him how to dress.

“‘OK, this n-gga’s teaching me how to be a star,’” Snoop said. “Like, levels and layers. ‘We know you gangsta, dawg, but can you go higher than that? What if a n-gga call you to be in a movie where they want you to be a lawyer? What if a n-gga wants you to be a detective?’”  

Snoop also talked about Pac's famous work ethic, which Money-B detailed to ROCK THE BELLS earlier this year.

“We make a song, we in that muthafucka listening to it for like four hours. Got biches up in there. N-gga like, ‘This shit banging!’” Snoop said. “We got in this n-gga room, he on his fifth song. This n-gga make a song, as soon as it got off, ‘Pull the next beat up! We ain’t finna be listening to that shit, that’s the engineer’s job to mix that shit. Next song.’”  

He said Pac taught him the difference between fame and stardom.

“[He was] not one of them n-ggas that’s in the studio like, ‘Man, get all these n-ggas outta here.’ He entertained that shit,” Snoop added. “I wasn’t a star ’til I was next to him; he showed me how to be a star. This n-gga. was a star. Snoop Dogg was famous, but I didn’t know how to be a star.” 

Check out the interview below.