Peter Gunz Wants Personal Issues Settled Before Recording With Lord Tariq

Peter Gunz remained open to making music with Lord Tariq again, but he said personal and family issues needed to be settled before the Bronx duo could move forward together.

On episode 522 of “Drink Champs,” released November 6, Gunz explained what stood between the longtime partners and another collaboration.

“We got to straighten out a few family issues, a few things, personal things that happened,” he said.

Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz formed their duo in 1996 after working under the Gunrunners name. Both also built careers outside the partnership: Tariq with Money Boss Players and Gunz on Shaquille O’Neal’s T.W.is.M. label.

They signed with Columbia and broke through with “Deja Vu (Uptown Baby),” their 1997 single built around a Steely Dan sample. The record reached the pop Top 10 and remains the signature hit from their partnership. Their only album followed the next year.

Make It Reign arrived June 2, 1998. Its tracks included “Cross Bronx Expressway” with Fat Joe and Big Pun, “Streets To Da Stage” with Cam’ron and “Be My Lady” with Jermaine Paul and Jermaine Dupri.

Gunz described Tariq as a brother and one of his favorite rappers alongside his son Cory Gunz. He also said Tariq valued his privacy and disliked “Love & Hip Hop.”

Reality television became another major part of Gunz’s public life through “Love & Hip Hop” and his relationship with Amina Buddafly. The franchise also helped introduce Cardi B to a wider audience before her rap career took off.

Cardi and Gunz clashed over his treatment of women during a 2016 reunion. Both publicly acknowledged apologizing to each other that March.

In May, VH1 announced a six-part retrospective, “Love & Hip Hop: The Final Chapter,” for fall 2026. The special was designed to look back at 15 years of cast members across the franchise’s different cities.

Gunz revisited their reconciliation in the same episode and said he had been wrong to doubt her music prospects. That experience changed how he viewed younger rappers. He also made his support for her clear.

“I root for Cardi B. I love Cardi B,” Gunz said.