The woman who voiced a gun on 2Pac’s “Me and My Girlfriend” revealed how the collaboration came to be.
An X user with the handle @Evolving_Eric — who claims his father is Eric of Eric B and Rakim — shared a video with his mother, identified on YouTube as Virginya Slim, explaining how she appeared on 2Pac’s iconic track from his 1996 album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. In the explainer, she begins by saying that it started when she picked him up from a club.
“All he wanted to do was talk about this album that he was putting together, and this idea that he had for a song called ‘My Girlfriend,” she said. “He gave me the concept and the idea and he was talking about how he needed to bring the gun to life. It wasn’t going to be the same if the gun didn’t have a voice.”
The woman revealed that she worked at Death Row Records and hired a few women to be the voice, but none of their recordings worked out. “Engineers would come back to me a week later and say, ‘It didn’t work out, it wasn’t good enough, it didn’t have the passion that a gun would have.’ So the album needed to be turned in and the engineers were like, ‘We still don’t have the song done.’”
The woman claimed 2Pac asked her if she could do it when they saw each other in the hallway. “Honestly, I was nervous, because I’m working — I wasn’t making gangster music,” she claimed.
After smoking a blunt, the woman got in the booth and knocked it out. “I ain’t even know I had that in me y’all,” she said. “I made all the gun shots up in my head, all the pauses were, and all of that was just me acting it out.”
Check out the woman’s story — and her son’s hilarious dancing — up above.
