Treach and his group Naughty By Nature were a linchpin of 1990s Hip-Hop. The Grammy Award-winning East Orange, New Jersey trio had ties with a cross-section of the Rap scene, including Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. These connections especially mattered by the mid-1990s, when Tupac and Biggie had entered a feud, only fueled by their record companies, Death Row and Bad Boy Records, respectively.

Appearing on Drink Champs, Treach speaks about his ties in Rap and in the streets, and how he was intent on brokering peace. “Pac and me was like this,” Treach says with crossed fingers at 12:30 in the three-hour interview.

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