Angie Martinez has a secret stash 2Pac interviews secured, thanks to Hov.
Angie Martinez has produced some the most important interviews in the history hip-hop. From her early days on Hot 97 to her recent show on WeTV, Untold Stories Of Hip-Hop, she’s continuously given rapper’s a place to give some their most vulnerable interviews. She’s interviewed legends like Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas and more, but she’s also spoke to 2Pac on a few occasions and some the recordings have been in the stash for years.
In a recent interview with PageSix, Martinez revealed that it was actually Jay-Z who advised her to take better care her Tupac recordings. She admitted that they were just laying around for a while but out fear some sort accident, Hov made sure that her archives were safe.
“The tapes are in a safe, secure place now. But they weren’t for many years. Before that, they were in my laundry room and it was actually Jay-Z that told me to put it in a safe place,” she admitted. “I was in a meeting at Roc Nation and we were talking about my archives because I have all my old interviews on tape. They were literally in boxes in my laundry room and Jay said: ‘Get them out the room now. Somebody help her get them out that room now because if there is a flood or a fire it will be destroyed.’”
The tapes have been digitized but the physical copies are still stashed away in a secret place. “They are in a safe in an actual vault where you would need specific access to get to them,” she said.