Tyler, The Creator has denied that he appeared in a video featuring the late Tupac Shakur when he was a toddler.
It comes after a recently resurfaced 1994 episode of BET’s Rap City showed Tupac playfully confronting a toddler on the street alongside John Singleton.
In the video, Tupac is seen taking a stroll in Los Angeles alongside Singleton when he spots the child staring at him and proceeds to jokingly confront the youngster. “What you gon’ do, man?” Tupac asks. “You just be walking and somebody just be looking at you, mean-mugging, you know what I’m saying. Like he playing me or something. Now, I could keep walking or I could confront that man. I think I’ma keep walking. I don’t know what he got with him.”
Fans subsequently claimed that the Odd Future leader was the child in the clip. But eight years after the video originally emerged online, Tyler has now confirmed that he didn’t meet Tupac before the rapper’s death in 1996. “Thats not me as a baby with tupac dumbass ha,” he wrote on Twitter.