2Pac is one of Hip-Hop’s most well-documented artists, but it seems like you’ve never truly heard every 2Pac story. Case in point: we’re now getting a little unknown backstory on the late rap legend’s 1996 track “Me and My Girlfriend.” A user on X (formerly Twitter) shared a story about how his mom wound up making an appearance on “…Girlfriend.” The song famously features 2Pac rapping about a gun like it’s his romantic partner, and the track opens with a woman’s high-energy portrayal of the feisty weapon.

X user @Evolving_Eric — who claims his father is Eric B. — shared a video with his mother, identified on YouTube as Virginya Slim, explaining her role in the song’s recording. A former Death Row Records employee, she shared her initial interactions with 2Pac in the studio after 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.”

She’d tried to help hire women for the voice acting needed as the intro of the track, but none of them worked.

“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,’” she recalled. “So the album needed to be turned in and the engineers were like, ‘We still don’t have the song done.’”

2Pac apparently asked her to be on the track while they were talking in the hallway.

“Honestly, I was nervous, because I’m working — I wasn’t making gangster music,” she said. She decided to smoke a blunt and tackle the job.

“I ain’t even know I had that in me, y’all,” she now says. “I made all the gun shots up in my head, all the pauses…and all of that was just me acting it out.”

“Me and My Girlfriend” was featured on Pac’s multiplatinum 1996 album Don Killuminati: The 7-Day Theory. Though never released as a single, the song has had enduring popularity and influence; with Toni Braxton reworking it for “Me and My Boyfriend” in 2002, and the song later famously interpolated for Jay-Z and Beyoncé‘s hit “‘03 Bonnie & Clyde.”