Snoop Dogg Admits 2Pac Was A “Better Dad” To His Son Than Him

Snoop Dogg says that 2Pac played a major role in raising his son, Corde. He reflected on their relationship during an interview with PEOPLE , earlier this week, remarking that the late rapper was a better father to him than he was early on. He explained: “I was working on [my 1996 album] Tha Doggfather .

So when [Corde] was old enough able to pee and all that other sh*t, I started taking him to the studio with me. ..

. So I’m raising him around all of the homies.” Snoop continued: “Tupac loved him.

It’s like his nephew. Tupac was a better dad than me. We’ve been up here [in the recording studio for] three hours and we ain’t got him nothing to eat.

It’s like I’m up here rapping and sh*t, I’m not being a father. [He was] training me.” Read More: Snoop Dogg Shares The Biggest Lesson 2Pac Taught Him (L-R) Tupac Shakur, MC Hammer, and Snoop Dogg attend the 23rd Annual American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on January 29, 1996.

(Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) 'Pac tragically died in 1996 after a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. A year later, Snoop welcomed his second son, Cordell.

“I put them in football, and I watched them work together. Football helped me to become a real good father because I was around other men who were single parents, or either had a great wife, or was a grandfather raising their son’s kids — so much I could learn from them,” Snoop recalled. It's not the first .