Diddy & Tupac: What Really Happened

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Their feud changed hip‑hop history forever. In this video, we break down the insane true story of Diddy (Sean Combs) and Tupac Shakur, from the East Coast vs. West Coast rivalry to the shocking events that escalated their conflict. We’ll dive into the connections, conspiracies, and cultural impact that shaped one of the most infamous feuds in music history.  Do you think the truth about this feud will ever fully come out? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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00:00Dwayne Davis, also known as Keefy D, says that rapper Sean Diddy Combs was also involved in

00:05that murder of Tupac Shakur. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're exploring the history between

00:10Sean Diddy Combs and Tupac Amaru Shakur. You know what I mean? It's between me and him,

00:15and only he knows. Part 1, A Tale of Two Coasts. Before Diddy and Tupac were household names,

00:23there was already a long-standing feud between the East Coast and West Coast hip-hop scenes.

00:27What? Wait a minute, wait a minute. The East Coast don't love Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg and Death Root?

00:34Hip-hop can be traced back to the early 70s when it emerged from block parties in the Bronx.

00:38With the music genre rooted in New York, the East Coast scene prided itself on being the top dog.

00:44Cause I don't like to dream about getting paid, so I dig into the books of the rhymes that I made.

00:49As the 80s transitioned to the 90s, though, the West Coast started to find its voice,

00:54becoming a formidable contender to the East Coast's crown.

00:57Well, if it's good enough to get one from a proper chunk, I'll take a small piece of some of this funky stuff.

01:02Despite this growing rivalry, some called for unity.

01:06Near the turn of the decade, songs like Stop the Violence came from the East Coast,

01:10while the West Coast echoed with We're All in the Same Gang.

01:13I'm not trying to tell you what to do. You have your own freedom of choice to listen to.

01:17Tensions began to escalate in 1991 when Suge Knight, Dr. Dre, Dick Griffey, and DOC

01:23founded the West Coast label Death Row Records.

01:25You can work all your life and get a little bit of money, or you can be a businessman, an entrepreneur, and be your own boss.

01:32With hit albums like The Chronic and Doggy Style, the West Coast was gaining the respect it had sought for so long.

01:38As the West Coast reached a turning point, so did the East Coast, as Sean Puffy Combs founded Bad Boy Records.

01:44I didn't want to just make records. I didn't want to just make money.

01:47I wanted to make history.

01:48Having recently been fired from Uptown Records, the artist who would soon be known as Diddy established himself as a music mogul,

01:55bringing on talent like Christopher Biggie Smalls Wallace, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G.

02:06Despite being born in New York, Biggie spent some time in Los Angeles,

02:10where he befriended another rising rapper named Tupac Shakur.

02:13Introduced through a drug dealer, Biggie would crash on Shakur's couch in California.

02:17Shakur also visited Biggie in New York.

02:20Um, they just had a lot of fun around each other.

02:21At one point, Biggie asked Shakur to be his manager.

02:24Shakur suggested he stick with Diddy, saying, quote,

02:27He will make you a star.

02:29Regardless, their friendship wouldn't survive the East-West rivalry.

02:33While in New York on November 30th, 1994,

02:36Shakur dropped by Quad Studios with an entourage,

02:38including rapper Randy Stretch Walker.

02:40Confronted by three men in the lobby,

02:43Shakur was shot multiple times.

02:45He'd come out and look around,

02:47stick up the middle finger,

02:49they'd put him in the ambulance.

02:50Although it seemed like a robbery,

02:52Shakur grew suspicious when Diddy and Biggie arrived on the scene

02:55with James Jimmy Henchman Rosemond,

02:57the latter of whom had called him to Quad.

02:59Shakur became convinced that Bad Boy had set him up.

03:02I used to share my experiences in the game,

03:04and my lessons, and my rules,

03:06and my knowledge on the game with him.

03:08You know what I mean?

03:09He owed me more.

03:09Following the shooting,

03:11Shakur was sent to prison for sexual abuse in early 1995.

03:15Diddy visited Shakur during his incarceration,

03:17claiming Bad Boy wasn't behind the shooting.

03:19This did little to ease Shakur's suspicions.

03:22The beef reached a boiling point in August 1995.

03:25After seeing Shakur in prison,

03:27Suge Knight headed to the Source Awards.

03:29First of all, I'd like to thank God.

03:31Second of all, I'd like to thank my whole entire,

03:33their whole family.

03:34Accepting motion picture soundtrack of the year,

03:37Knight threw shade at Diddy,

03:38who seemingly took the high road in another speech.

03:41I'd like to tell Tupac to keep his guards up.

03:44We ride with him.

03:47Only a month after Knight received booze at the Source Awards,

03:51his friend, Jai Big Jake Robles,

03:53was murdered while leaving a birthday party.

03:55Knight blamed Diddy, who was also in attendance.

03:57After Knight secured his release from Rikers Island,

04:00Shakur officially joined the Death Row family.

04:03Whether or not Bad Boy was behind Shakur's shooting,

04:11he was now the enemy.

04:13Shakur fired lyrical shots at Diddy,

04:15Biggie, and Bad Boy with his diss track hit him up.

04:23Some theorized that Biggie referenced Shakur

04:26in the song Long Kiss Goodnight.

04:27While war had been declared,

04:35Shakur didn't come off as phased.

04:37Having survived multiple shootings and incarcerations,

04:40a part of Tupac seemed to think he was invincible.

04:42Shakur's luck ran out in Las Vegas on September 7th, 1996.

04:47After getting into a fight with gang member Orlando Baby Lane Anderson

04:50at the MGM Grand,

04:51Shakur headed to a nightclub with Suge Knight.

04:53At a stoplight, a Cadillac pulled up to their vehicle.

04:56Shots were fired, with Shakur getting hit four times.

05:00But police still have no leads on a suspect or motive.

05:03Six days later, Shakur died in the hospital.

05:05In February 1997,

05:07Diddy and Snoop Dogg, himself a West Coast artist,

05:10appeared on the Steve Harvey show together.

05:12Ain't no East Coast, West Coast beef.

05:14I swear.

05:15We ain't coming to talk about nothing behind us.

05:17We're coming to talk about what's ahead of us.

05:19Both also held a press conference

05:20pleading to end the rivalry between the East and West Coasts.

05:24Snoop said, quote,

05:25I don't want to talk about yesterday.

05:26I want to talk about tomorrow.

05:28We've got to come together,

05:29shake hands, call for peace, and move forward.

05:32We're here to make a difference, you know what I'm saying?

05:33So we want y'all to stay in school and keep y'all heads in y'all books.

05:36The violence didn't stop, however.

05:38On March 9th, that same year,

05:40Biggie was fatally gunned down in Los Angeles.

05:42Los Angeles police are investigating the shooting death

05:45of rapper Notorious B.I.G.,

05:47also known as Biggie Smalls.

05:49With many believing bad boy assassinated Shakur,

05:51Biggie's shooting was seen as retaliation.

05:54Tupac and Biggie's deaths were the climax of the East-West rivalry,

05:57with more artists calling for peace over the following years.

06:02Animosity between the East and West Coasts has died down since the 90s.

06:06With Tupac and Biggie's murders going unsolved for years, though,

06:09a shadow of doubt continued to loom over both coasts.

06:12We know who's responsible for this.

06:14The problem we have with this case is we don't have anyone willing to come forward and testify to it.

06:20In a 2002 Los Angeles Times article entitled Who Killed Tupac Shakur,

06:24investigative reporter Chuck Phillips suggested the shooter was Orlando Anderson,

06:28who died in 1998.

06:29Phillips also implied that Biggie put a $1 million hit on Shakur,

06:33supplying the murder weapon.

06:35While Anderson and Biggie had denied involvement,

06:37the article renewed interest in the case.

06:39The LA Times retracted the article in 2008

06:42after Diddy accused the outlet of falsely connecting him to Shakur's death.

06:46Diddy stated,

06:47It is beyond ridiculous and completely false,

06:50calling the Times,

06:51We don't even entertain nonsense, my brother.

06:55So we're not even going to go there with all due respect.

06:57Phillips nonetheless stood by his statements until his death in January 2024.

07:02A year before Phillips' passing,

07:04the authorities seemingly reached a breakthrough in Shakur's murder.

07:07It has often been said,

07:08justice delayed is justice denied.

07:12It's a quote we hear often and for many, many years.

07:15On September 29th, 2023,

07:17the Las Vegas police arrested Dwayne Keefe D. Davis, Anderson's uncle.

07:22A grand jury indicted Dwayne Davis on one count of murder with a deadly weapon.

07:26It wasn't the first time Davis' name had come up in Shakur's case.

07:30In 2011,

07:31LAPD detective Greg Kading,

07:33who had investigated Biggie's murder,

07:35published a book alleging that Diddy offered Davis a cool million to take out Shakur and Suge Knight.

07:40Murders are related in the sense they both were a result of the conflict

07:44that was going on between the two different record labels.

07:47While Davis had been on the authorities' radar,

07:49the gang leader managed to avoid incarceration

07:51until he started openly talking about Shakur's death.

07:55This included a 2019 tell-all memoir,

07:57which paved the way to his eventual arrest.

08:00Davis' trial is set to commence in March 2025.

08:03Despite Davis' past claims that Diddy was involved,

08:06the Las Vegas police have never considered him a suspect.

08:09I just don't see any proof of it.

08:10I don't see it leading anywhere other than the real story,

08:15which is that, you know, the murder truck place with Orlando Anderson.

08:19Despite Davis' past claims that Diddy was involved,

08:21the Las Vegas police have never considered him a suspect.

08:24Many doubt Diddy's connection given the lack of evidence.

08:27Davis isn't the most reliable or consistent witness either.

08:31Likewise, it's difficult to back up the theories

08:33that Suge Knight ordered Biggie's assassination.

08:35In any case, Diddy and Knight haven't wiped their hands of any legal trouble.

08:39Following a hit-and-run in 2015,

08:41Knight was sentenced to 28 years in prison.

08:44Developing news now, former rap mogul Suge Knight

08:46is headed to prison for voluntary manslaughter.

08:48Parole won't be on the table until October 2034.

08:52Meanwhile, Diddy was arrested in September 2024 amid widespread accusations of abuse and sex trafficking.

08:58Over 100 have taken legal action against Diddy.

09:01A year ago, Sean Combs stood in Times Square and was handed a key to New York City.

09:09Today, he's been indicted and will face justice in the Southern District of New York.

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09:29While Diddy is facing charges for his alleged history of sexual misconduct,

09:33that doesn't mean people have forgotten about the Tupac conspiracy theories.

09:36Fellow rappers like Eminem, JID, and 50 Cent continue to point fingers at Diddy.

09:41But I ain't trying to beef with him, cause he might put a hit on me like KFD, get him.

09:45Crime scene investigator Cheryl McCollum, who worked on Shakur's case,

09:48also believed Diddy played a role.

09:50Somebody close to him knows his whereabouts on that day, that time, and that location.

09:57Tupac's family has pushed to reopen the case,

09:59although his stepbrother Moprim Shakur says,

10:01It's not about that guy specifically.

10:05It's about justice for my brother.

10:10That said, Moprim doubted Diddy was, quote,

10:13100% honest when he denied involvement.

10:15Whatever future investigations uncover,

10:18Diddy survived longer than Tupac or Biggie.

10:20In this business, though, sometimes you either die a legend

10:23or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

10:26What's one misconception about you?

10:28There are no misconceptions about me.

10:30What are your thoughts on Diddy and Tupac's history?

10:32Let us know in the comments.

10:33We wouldn't even get into nonsense like that.

10:36You know what I'm saying?

10:36Let's live with a minute.

10:56Amen.

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