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Sean Combs: The Reckoning - Season 1 Episode 2 -
What Goes Down Must Come Up
What Goes Down Must Come Up
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00:00Happy birthday to you, everybody, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you.
00:30I always looked at him as just being like this rich Harlem cat who just want to dance and make money.
00:43How all the ladies look so right, all the niggas, all the real players in the motherfucking house, throw your hands in the air, I'm few of you.
00:51No violence in them, but every time I turn around, there's violence.
00:57There's violence with his name on it.
01:01At the time, there's this tension that is going on between Pac and Puff.
01:09Puff wanted to work with Pac on a lot of levels, business-wise.
01:16And Pac wasn't having it.
01:18He was more interested in Biggie and his career.
01:23Puff was very threatened by Pac.
01:26He's very threatened, especially if you're an executive who wants the guy to make you money.
01:31And the guy's saying, no, fuck you.
01:34Around that time, Tupac was going to do a song with Lil Sean at Quiet Studio.
01:42Out of the blue, they wanted me to do the song, so I said, all right.
01:46Stopped off to get some weed, smoked the weed.
01:49Then I was getting a page, where you at, where you at, where you at, why you ain't coming?
01:54I was like, I'm coming, I'm on my way, hold on.
01:56I wasn't thinking, why they want me here so bad?
01:59We're walking up to the building.
02:01Somebody screamed from the upper top of the studio, and it's Lil' Caesar.
02:04He's like Biggie's side man.
02:06And we was in the recording with Big and Puff, and I'm yelling, like, yo, Pac.
02:10And he looked up, yo, what's up, little nigga?
02:13I go back in the room, I tell Big, I'm like, yo, Big, Pac downstairs.
02:16He was like, oh, all right, go get him.
02:18Getting to the elevator, and when I was about to walk out, two dudes came from both sides.
02:22Get the fuck back in the elevator.
02:24Ooh.
02:25Recording artist Tupac Shakur was shot five times last night in a robbery attempt.
02:31After surgery, his condition was upgraded to satisfactory,
02:34and he checked out of the hospital against his doctor's advice.
02:38I think they're trying to rub me out, really.
02:40Robbers don't leave behind $80,000 Rolexes.
02:44You know what I mean?
02:45They don't do that, in case nobody knows.
02:47Let's look at the facts.
02:49Puff is there.
02:52Pac has been shot in New York under your watch.
02:56Question would be, who knew that he was pulling up?
02:59Biggie, knowing myself, had nothing to do whatsoever of Tupac being robbed.
03:07We, we, that's just a fact.
03:10After everything that has unfolded, I have to think twice about how that situation went down.
03:16Do you think Puffy was involved in shooting?
03:18I believe so.
03:19I do believe so.
03:20I have proof.
03:21But you can see now why someone like a Puff would want someone like a Pop out the picture.
03:27You know, Pop was vilified while he was alive.
03:32And Puff was exalted.
03:34That's the bigger picture.
03:36And that's the story that hasn't been told.
03:40Pop out theptyp.
03:41It's the core team so when Ohio Stateanın went to North Myrtle,
03:43which was a huge fan of the probably one just supposed to do coffee ever.
03:45To Kobeime Tom and San Ko.
03:55And that's how this feels right.
03:57We're going to get a S yeah.
03:58Instead you.
03:59And it also converts it because you can think a tick longer.
04:03Yeah.
04:04She's not fucking crazy.
04:06There was a whole lot of crazy shit going on.
04:08You know what I mean?
04:09That's sort of not the bad way going down.
04:11Yeah.
04:12Like, that shit was crazy to me.
04:13That shit wasn't there.
04:14It was just a sign to me, like, nigga.
04:17Time to order the future.
04:18Time to order the future.
04:19I was a little builder.
04:21Compared to the building, now I got ready for this song.
04:23You know what I'm saying?
04:24It was a sign to me like that.
04:26But I'm saying, that shit was there like two months ago, right?
04:29I'm not sure.
04:30Yeah, everyone is there, yeah.
04:40Puff is in this position where he has all this turmoil,
04:46but he's not at the point where he's saying where I went wrong.
04:50He's saying to himself, how do I get out of this?
04:54Maybe I can convince some witnesses that I'm not the guy who I am.
04:58Eventually, he's going to get to the point where he's going to ask himself,
05:03how did I get myself into this situation?
05:05How do I get myself into this situation?
05:06I don't think I need to make the point where he's going to be.
05:07I don't think I need to know what the fuck is this man I get.
05:08I don't think I need to know what the fuck is this man I get.
05:0995, he had two of the hottest acts.
05:10Craig Mack gamers, flavor in your ear.
05:11My little lab right here, you know, where I cut my deals and all that.
05:39Got my little headset, just living out a dream, you know what I'm saying?
05:42One time, Sean was in his office, and I'm in a little cubbyhole around the corner.
05:47He buzzes me.
05:50So I get up, and I go in with my papers and go.
05:53A girl is giving him a blowjob at the desk.
05:56He wanted me to see that.
05:58He wanted me to see her face.
06:00And then he was able to get her to do that right then and there in the office.
06:04She leaves.
06:05What did you want me for?
06:07I didn't want you for anything.
06:10That was the beginning for me to see, this is what's going on here.
06:15Can everybody here make some noise for B.I.G. for bringing it back to the East?
06:20So the C's for all of this was early on.
06:23I want to thank y'all.
06:24Ask the records, B.M.G.
06:25And that came from people in the industry co-signing his activity because it brought money in.
06:36I don't know if y'all niggas know this.
06:38The Juicy went platinum.
06:39Big Pumper went platinum.
06:41Big Pumper went platinum.
06:43In your ear remix went platinum.
06:45That whole bad boy thing was so big, Faith Evans.
06:50I'm gonna be first lady on Puff Daddy's Lady.
06:52Total.
06:55Biggie.
06:58And Craig Mack.
06:59The thing over here is Craig Mack.
07:01It was a consistent back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
07:08So let me just give you a day in the life of Puff Daddy.
07:11Puff Daddy gets up from wherever he stayed that night.
07:17Heads to the office two hours late.
07:19You might have somebody pulling him over saying,
07:21hey, ain't you in that video? Ain't that you?
07:23Oh, yo, there go a demo.
07:24Puffy's over there.
07:25Oh, what's up, Puff? How you doing, baby, bro?
07:28Had the big baseball bat cell phones.
07:31And the phone might ring.
07:32Such-and-such is on the phone calling from jail.
07:35Yo, I'm coming home.
07:36You might have a group standing in front of the office
07:39already with the microphone ready to sing.
07:41You love me, I love...
07:43Just to get their shot at Puffy.
07:46Everybody wants to see him.
07:48He is now the new gateway into music.
07:53You're gonna take all of this power and money you're getting now
07:56and play by the rules?
07:59No, I'm the rule now.
08:00I am the exception to the rule.
08:02One day, it seemed like out of the blue,
08:14my door opens up.
08:15Sean walks in.
08:19He had a baseball bat.
08:21Had a big attach-a-case suitcase with the snaps on it.
08:25The stocks were there.
08:27We in a fucking hustle.
08:28We in a grind.
08:29Do your job.
08:30Whatever your...
08:30He wanted me to sign my 25% over.
08:32And Diddy's over me like this.
08:36He wants to stop that.
08:38He wants it now.
08:40I'm not gonna stay fucking lying down.
08:42I'm not.
08:42I can't do that, man.
08:44He said, there's a business deal I need to take care of.
08:46I need to do this.
08:47I need to get this all on one side,
08:48but I'll give it back to you.
08:50I'm gonna give it back to you.
08:52And he threatened until I did.
09:01People always say to me,
09:04why would you do that?
09:06Why did you do that?
09:09Like, that was, you know...
09:11I didn't want to give it back.
09:16I wanted to stay in good graces.
09:18I still wanted to be at the company.
09:20It wasn't like he was firing me.
09:23But I was definitely confused by it.
09:27It might sound strange,
09:30but if you've ever built something
09:31and you want it to last,
09:35you think about how to make it last.
09:47I want to know who's been naughty at night.
09:49I thought he was kind of cool at first,
09:54and then we started seeing some things.
09:59Craig started becoming disenchanted.
10:03I want to congratulate Craig Mack
10:04on his Grammy nomination.
10:06No question.
10:07Yes, baby.
10:07Yeah.
10:07That's cool.
10:09Yo, you got nominated for a Grammy,
10:11but we had no money.
10:13If you look at Bad Boy,
10:16Bad Boy didn't sell enough records
10:18to explain his wealth.
10:21But enough artists were on the label
10:24that sold enough records
10:26to explain his wealth.
10:29Sean's trick was,
10:31I'm going to make you a star.
10:32You're signed.
10:33Follow the money.
10:34That's what you're going to try to do
10:35as hard as you can.
10:36You're going to try your best,
10:38and we know you're going to try your best.
10:39So you signed your deal.
10:41We gave you your advance.
10:42At Uptown,
10:42that's the only money
10:43the artists have ever seen,
10:45that first advance.
10:46Andre had to wait it.
10:47He never saw anything else.
10:48Did he pick that up?
10:50He made it even tighter.
10:52Don't leave your girl around me,
10:53true player for real.
10:55Black, pump that deep.
10:56It's a shell game.
10:58You hide everything that is an earning.
11:01You confuse the earnings.
11:03And now I own everything.
11:05You'll go out into the world,
11:06and the shell game,
11:07you'll be looking for your money
11:08for the next 20 years.
11:10Sean did that to every artist.
11:13You're in the studio.
11:15Now you have to recoup
11:16for being in the studio.
11:18Puff owns the studio,
11:21and I have four sessions
11:22which you owe me $400,000.
11:25If Puff records a song with his artist,
11:28he pays himself.
11:31If he's in your video,
11:32he pays himself.
11:34He insert himself into their videos,
11:37a video come on,
11:38you'll be like,
11:38I fucking hate that guy.
11:40As an artist,
11:41you can go number one.
11:43Song is being played
11:43all over the nation,
11:45but you don't have the money
11:46to go to it
11:47because you're not making
11:48the proper money
11:50off of your royalties.
11:54Craig and I hit a point
11:55where we were fucked up,
11:57no money, nothing.
11:58Hell, I was getting money
12:00from my father
12:01to take care of the house.
12:05We were all at, like,
12:07somebody's album release party,
12:09and Craig's gonna tell Puff
12:11to give him a few dollars,
12:12and he'll hit him back
12:13once he went and did this show.
12:14He literally went in his pocket
12:16and pulled out
12:18a knot of money this big
12:21and gave him
12:22one hundred dollar bill.
12:27You really just don't give a fuck.
12:31I think Sean
12:33had an envy for his own artists.
12:36He was jealous of their talent
12:37and wondering, like,
12:39this talent is wasted on people
12:41who don't even really know
12:42what to do,
12:43and if I had that talent
12:45and my know-how, wow.
12:47That's interesting
12:48because a lot of people
12:48Puffy's age
12:49want to grab this mic and rap,
12:52but Puffy,
12:52you wanted to do other things,
12:53and you're doing a lot of them.
12:55Can you talk about
12:56his skills as a rapper?
12:57Sucks.
12:58He has zero talent musically.
13:00He don't know how to discuss it.
13:01He don't know nothing about R&B.
13:02He don't know none of that stuff.
13:03He used to ask me
13:04to always be there
13:05in the sessions
13:06because I would tell the truth.
13:08I'd be like,
13:08that's not it.
13:10People would be there like,
13:11yeah, that was tight.
13:11That was tight.
13:12I'd be like,
13:13looking like,
13:13yo, for real,
13:14you got a lot of people
13:15who just tell you anything.
13:16That sucked.
13:18It doesn't sound good
13:19and it makes no sense.
13:22But he always wanted
13:23to be an artist.
13:25We're about to just
13:26drop our R&B stuff.
13:27The Puff Daddy album.
13:28Yeah, what about
13:29the Puff Daddy solo project?
13:30Yeah, we don't like
13:31to talk about that.
13:32Hey, Puffy,
13:32we want Jack and Nick.
13:33Sean used other methods
13:37and ways to get
13:38to where he had to go.
13:40Big on strategy,
13:41big on swag.
13:44All of those things
13:45became important.
13:47When it boiled down
13:47to the music,
13:49even if I didn't touch it,
13:50I showed you what to do.
13:51So that's what he was.
13:52Damn, you know what I'm saying?
13:54What?
13:54Right here, right here.
13:55Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
13:56I can't shake it.
13:57Where's the makeup at?
13:58Makeup?
13:59Right here, right here.
14:00That whole bad boy
14:01was built on him.
14:03You cannot take that from him.
14:07But I think that Puffy
14:08wanted the light
14:09like he always wanted.
14:11From dancing,
14:12the whole night you see it.
14:13Anybody that's boasted
14:14and loud like that,
14:14they want to be in the spotlight.
14:17It wasn't like no secret.
14:18That's what he wanted.
14:19Six foot three,
14:22335 pound,
14:25Suge Knight
14:25has managed to become
14:27the head of
14:27a $100 million record company.
14:29It's the record label
14:30at ground zero
14:31of the whole
14:31gangster rap phenomenon,
14:33Death Row Records.
14:35Suge was about that money,
14:37but he didn't want to be
14:38in that limelight-like puff.
14:41He had his own lane.
14:43You're a big guy,
14:44and there are people
14:45who are afraid of you.
14:47There's probably people
14:47who are afraid of you.
14:48Back in 1988,
14:50the person who did
14:51the greatest job
14:52of protecting me
14:52was the head of my security
14:53at the time,
14:54Suge Knight.
14:55Right now,
14:56I'm on the Heartbreak Tour
14:57with Bobby Brown
14:57and New Edition,
14:58and we've been out there.
14:59We're about to get
15:00on the tour bus,
15:01and these dudes came over,
15:03and they was like
15:03talking crazy.
15:04Y'all niggas this,
15:05y'all niggas that,
15:06this, this, this.
15:09And I seen Suge
15:10kind of just turned this way
15:12and gave him one of these.
15:15BOW!
15:16Like that.
15:16And knocked dude
15:18down the hill,
15:19and it looked like a cartoon.
15:21Dude was rolling down the hill.
15:22Boom, boom.
15:22It's Tim's K-ball.
15:25He's a street dude.
15:26He's a real street dude.
15:27But Suge knew talent,
15:30and he knew business.
15:31They took me on tour,
15:32and I learned how
15:33every person
15:35who was writing songs
15:36was getting beat out
15:37their money
15:37like they published.
15:39He was able to
15:40dovetail that into
15:41starting Death Row Records.
15:43One, two, three,
15:45into the phone.
15:46Snoop Doggy Dogg,
15:47and Dr. Drake is
15:47at the door.
15:49Death Row can be
15:50bigger than Motown,
15:52or Sony,
15:53or Warner Brothers.
15:53Death Row's gonna be
15:54the biggest record company
15:55there is.
15:57Chronic Album's
15:57The Foundation.
15:59Before Bad Boy,
16:00Death Row was the most
16:01successful label
16:02in the business.
16:03From the depths of the sea,
16:04back to the block,
16:05Snoop Doggy Dogg.
16:06Sean had admired
16:08Death Row,
16:08and wanted us
16:10to emulate them.
16:13And that was my job.
16:15How do I make
16:16Bad Boy equal
16:17to success
16:18of Death Row?
16:19And of course,
16:20my eyes was like this.
16:21Death Row?
16:22They had a head start.
16:24They had artists.
16:25They picked superstars up
16:26from other indie labels.
16:27We're starting off.
16:29Me and him
16:29were friends.
16:31Wow.
16:31Who should be?
16:32Yeah, yeah.
16:32He would pick me up
16:33from the airport.
16:34You know,
16:34I was just networking
16:35with the brother,
16:36you know,
16:36show me a lot of love.
16:38You know,
16:38I really had thought
16:39we were cool.
16:41Me and Puffy,
16:42we used to run around
16:42with each other.
16:43He was getting
16:44in the business.
16:44I was in the business.
16:46Living like
16:47without fear.
16:48Only a few years later,
16:50Bad Boy,
16:51Death Row.
16:52Death Row is the label
16:53that pays me.
16:54The two hottest labels.
16:58But I would look over
16:59at Death Row and say,
17:00they're taking care
17:00of their artists
17:01better than we are.
17:03They're putting
17:04in your head,
17:05fuck the artists.
17:07And my thing
17:07that was opposite.
17:08It's about me
17:09and my people.
17:10Fuck you.
17:12Craig wasn't happy there.
17:15Death Row was courting him
17:16because Shewitt was opening
17:18up a Death Row East.
17:20And it was found out.
17:22Shot by the feather.
17:23Yes.
17:30It's the Source
17:32Hip-Hop Musical Award.
17:34The Source Awards
17:35was happening
17:36in New York City.
17:42Come on, New York.
17:44And behind the scenes,
17:45people were running
17:46back and forth
17:47to the next dressing room,
17:48to the next dressing room,
17:49which were in trailers
17:50parked outside
17:52of Madison Square Garden.
17:53How important is it
17:55to have the Source Awards?
17:57Let me just wait
17:57and find it.
17:58You got that?
17:59Come on, man.
18:00Who bagging on the door
18:01like that?
18:01What the hell do you do?
18:02Well, now it's a dog.
18:03What is the deal, man?
18:04Keep the door closed.
18:06And it escalated
18:07with words
18:07from the podium
18:08at the awards show.
18:10Any artists out there
18:11want to be an artist
18:12and want to stay a star
18:13and don't want to have
18:15to worry about
18:15the executive producer
18:16trying to be
18:17all in the videos,
18:19all on the record,
18:21dancing.
18:22Come to Death Row.
18:32I'm the executive producer
18:33that our comment
18:34was made about
18:35a little bit earlier.
18:36But check this out.
18:38Contrary to what
18:39other people may feel,
18:40I would like to say
18:41that I'm very proud
18:43of Dr. Dre,
18:44of Death Row
18:45and Shook Knight
18:45for their accomplishments.
18:47You know what I'm saying?
18:48I'm a positive black man
18:49and I make music
18:50to bring us together,
18:52not to separate us
18:53and all this East and West
18:54that need to stop.
18:55So give it up
18:56for everybody from the East
18:57and the West
18:57that won tonight.
18:59One love.
19:01Sean wants to present strength.
19:03He wants to show coolness.
19:06And then there's a side of him
19:08that's all out dark.
19:11He processes things differently.
19:15He remembers every slight.
19:18Once again, y'all,
19:20please give it up
19:21for all the nominees.
19:26Before I signed with Bad Boy,
19:38I was working
19:39at the door of the club
19:41in Platinum House.
19:44Every Friday,
19:45we had a Bad Boy party.
19:47So Puff was there.
19:50Suge Knight came that night
19:51with his friend Jake.
19:53And I was working the door.
19:54Suge was looking for Puff.
19:59Sean would try to go after
20:01people's side chicks,
20:03like a girl in Atlanta
20:06that Suge was dealing with.
20:08Sean wanted me
20:11to take $50,000
20:12out of the overhead account
20:15so he could buy her
20:16a diamond necklace,
20:18wooing her
20:19because she was
20:20Suge's side piece
20:21in Atlanta
20:22when he came there.
20:26A real police officer
20:28in a real police uniform
20:29came and got on the chase.
20:32I said, man,
20:33you touch the homie.
20:34We're going to tear
20:34this mother up.
20:36He said, well,
20:36I got to throw him out.
20:37I said, for what?
20:38He said, he was Puff.
20:40Suge and Jake
20:41is being escorted
20:42out the club
20:44by the off-duty officer.
20:47We always had
20:49their moonlighting.
20:51Jake comes out,
20:52Suge come out,
20:53Puff come out.
20:54Everybody's outside.
20:56A man appeared
20:57with one hand
20:58behind his back
20:59and he was holding
21:01a pistol.
21:04He touched Jake
21:05with the pistol.
21:07and he looked
21:08at Suge like this
21:09and was shooting
21:10Suge's friend
21:11like this.
21:13He shot him five times.
21:18Suge grabbed
21:20that hold to Puffy
21:21and the chokehold
21:22and put him
21:23in the front of him
21:24like this.
21:25So he was moving
21:26Puff around like this
21:27in case you shoot him.
21:29You're going to shoot Puffy.
21:29You're not going to shoot me.
21:30Puff was like,
21:36it's going to be all right,
21:37man, it's going to be all right.
21:39Suge said,
21:40what you mean
21:40it's going to be all right?
21:42He said, tell your mama
21:43it's going to be all right.
21:45Tell your kids
21:46it's going to be all right.
21:49And then the shooter ran.
21:50Ambulance came
21:55and took Jake
21:56to the hospital.
21:58A couple days later
21:59he died.
22:02That's what started
22:03the East Coast,
22:04West Coast war.
22:06Please use it.
22:06Excuse us.
22:06Excuse us.
22:07Excuse us.
22:08Excuse us.
22:09Excuse us.
22:09Excuse us.
22:09Excuse us.
22:11Tupac Shakur
22:12out of the hospital
22:13after surgery
22:13from bullet wounds
22:14is convicted
22:15on sex charges.
22:17After Puff
22:18gets shot
22:19in Quad's studio,
22:20he had the rape case.
22:22A New York jury
22:23convicted the rapper
22:24of first degree
22:25sexual abuse
22:25but acquitted him
22:26of more serious charges.
22:31Since your period
22:32of incarceration
22:33at Clinton
22:33Correctional Facility,
22:36have you taken the time
22:37to reflect
22:37on your gangster
22:38third image?
22:41Puff and Big
22:42were friends
22:43at one time.
22:44But then once
22:45Puff is in jail,
22:47Bad Boy
22:48and all of
22:49his associations
22:50were nemesises.
22:53I'm in jail.
22:54Strangers is telling me.
22:56You don't know?
22:57Big your old boy
22:58shot you.
22:59Because they bragging.
23:00They telling their
23:01in jail.
23:02Yo, we just got Puff.
23:03Woo, woo, woo, woo.
23:05Once the conflict
23:06happens,
23:08Puff needed
23:08someone strong
23:10that was going
23:12to stand with him.
23:14It had just so happened
23:16that Suge
23:17had his own
23:18issue with Puffy.
23:20So Suge
23:22went to jail
23:22and visited him.
23:23The whole shit
23:25was like
23:26some mob shit
23:27into Tupac,
23:30a young captain.
23:33I'm going to join
23:34the family, dog.
23:35Get me out.
23:38Suge Knight
23:39first signed Tupac
23:40to a recording contract
23:42when Tupac
23:42was in this
23:43New York State prison,
23:45unable to come up
23:45with the million dollars
23:47needed for bail
23:47while his lawyers
23:49appealed
23:49a 1995 conviction
23:51for sexual assault.
23:55I want everybody
23:55to give a
23:56big welcome
23:57from
23:58Tupac.
24:02Out on bail,
24:03rapper Tupac Shakur's
24:04rush-to-market
24:05double album
24:05All Eyes on Me
24:06debuts at number one
24:07on this week's
24:08Billboard chart.
24:08with the addition
24:09of Tupac,
24:10there's no way
24:10y'all can stop us now.
24:11This ain't bad, boy.
24:14I say fuck them all.
24:16We coming to the
24:17East Coast to prove
24:17there is no fear.
24:19Overthrow the government
24:20y'all got right now,
24:21which is bad boy
24:21and all that bullshit,
24:23and we will bring
24:23a new government here
24:24that will feed
24:25every person in New York.
24:26All right, cool, man.
24:27All right, man, fix.
24:28Thanks a lot.
24:30Sean tried everything
24:31to get Biggie upset.
24:33He had to go at him
24:35with business.
24:36This guy came at us.
24:37I was more in a
24:39mind frame of
24:39keep your mouth shut,
24:43big, you know what
24:44I'm saying?
24:44Just don't feed into it.
24:47If you feed into it,
24:48it's gonna do nothing
24:49but escalate,
24:50you know what I'm saying?
24:51Biggie never wanted
24:52to be an enemy to Pac.
24:54As things was coming
24:55from the West Coast,
24:56Biggie did not want
24:58to give any shots back.
25:01When Pac was producing
25:02All Eyes on Me,
25:03he called us and said,
25:05I just fucked Faith Evans.
25:07Biggie's wife.
25:10We was like, what?
25:11First off, fuck your bitch
25:12and the clique you claim.
25:14Westside when we ride
25:15come equipped with game.
25:16You claim to be a player
25:17but I fucked your wife.
25:19We bust some...
25:19Well, that's not true at all.
25:21Biggie stole my husband
25:22legally.
25:23I am having his baby.
25:24No, I'm not...
25:25Sean kept putting pressure
25:26on Biggie.
25:27You gotta answer back.
25:30Tupac would have me pissed off,
25:31you know what I'm saying?
25:33And the rumors
25:34that's spreading
25:35is on some tip like
25:37we set him up,
25:38you know what I'm saying?
25:39And that's crazy.
25:40The East Coast,
25:41West Coast thing
25:42was invented, period.
25:44Because no matter what,
25:45we all went to the East,
25:46they came here,
25:47went to the West, whatever.
25:47They wasn't arguing
25:49with each other.
25:50We was able to roam.
25:51Fuck Biggie,
25:52fuck Bad Boy
25:53as a staff record label
25:54and as a motherfucking crew.
25:56It was this Bad Boy
25:57in death row.
26:00And that right there
26:01put people in danger
26:02because it made people
26:04be like,
26:04F you, F you.
26:05And people started doing stuff
26:06for no reason
26:07because it was, you know,
26:08it's just people
26:09that want to ride
26:10for each other.
26:11And then look what happened.
26:12So.
26:17Doing the street thing.
26:19My affiliation,
26:21was with the Mansfield hustlers.
26:24Today,
26:25we go by Mansfield
26:29Gangster Crips now.
26:31Police say that drugs
26:32and violence
26:33are being spread
26:33by two longstanding rivals
26:35in the Los Angeles
26:36youth gang scene.
26:38Groups who call themselves
26:39Crips and wear blue colors
26:40and Bloods who wear red.
26:43Did you guys provide protection?
26:47Sean Combs was a friend.
26:51Christopher Wallace
26:52was a friend.
26:54And, you know,
26:55when we're hanging out
26:56with our friends,
26:57we're going to protect
27:00our friends.
27:01So they knew.
27:04And they were our associates.
27:06You got beef with them,
27:08you got beef with me.
27:09Period.
27:10A number of reports
27:12have come out
27:12that Bad Boy Entertainment
27:13had actually hired Crips
27:14for security work
27:15out on the West Coast.
27:16Is that true?
27:18We've never hired Crips
27:21or any other gang faction
27:23to do security for us.
27:25It would be extremely
27:26unintelligent to hire
27:28a gang, some gangs
27:30to do security for you.
27:31A lot of the New York guys
27:33come out to L.A.
27:35Zip is a person that I know
27:37that was Puffy's man.
27:40That was his guy.
27:43Eric Von Zip
27:44is a drug lord from Harlem,
27:46but Sean told me
27:48he was his uncle.
27:49He might have known
27:50Janice on the fringe.
27:52He might have known
27:52Sean's father
27:53from those days.
27:54Zip had a relationship
27:57with the Southside Crips
27:59and then he also
28:00had a relationship
28:01with us.
28:03Sean said Zip
28:04can give us protection
28:05going back and forth
28:07to L.A.
28:08because he was
28:09in with the Crips
28:10and we had a beef
28:11with Suge Knight
28:13and the Bloods.
28:14Knight dresses in all red,
28:16the colors of the
28:17drug-dealing Bloods
28:18street gang.
28:20One of the death row
28:22people got jumped
28:23by someone
28:25at a mall
28:26and that someone
28:28was from Southside Crips.
28:30One of the Crips
28:31tried to take
28:32a death row chain.
28:34I think that was
28:35an order from Bad Boy.
28:36That was an order
28:36from Puff
28:37because it was specific.
28:40We want a death row chain.
28:43Introducing the one
28:44and only
28:44iron
28:45Mike Tyson.
28:48Everybody got
28:53what they wanted
28:54that night.
28:55People got to see Tyson
28:57knock a motherfucker out.
29:00And Tyson
29:00with a left hook
29:01and Selvin is down.
29:03It's over
29:03in the first round.
29:07That's probably the reason
29:09that he got us all
29:09fucked up
29:10in a lot of shit
29:11from fight night.
29:12You've seen a Tyson fight,
29:14you want to fight.
29:15At the fight,
29:26the guy who was
29:27ripped off
29:27for the death row chain
29:29is with
29:30Suge and Pac.
29:31He just whispers
29:33to Pac,
29:34that's him.
29:35Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
29:37It was Orlando Anderson
29:40from Southside Crips
29:42who was connected
29:44with Puff.
29:46They said,
29:46I know,
29:46I see Pac like,
29:47phew.
29:50Took your niggas down.
29:59That was the foundational
30:01moment
30:02when all this
30:03was getting out of control.
30:04I'm out of one right now.
30:08I got a couple guys shot
30:09and he's medical ASAP.
30:15Rapper Tupac Shakur
30:16was shot in the chest
30:17late Saturday.
30:17This morning shot
30:18multiple times
30:19in the chest
30:19in a drive-by street.
30:20Death row record label owner
30:22Marion Suge Knight
30:23was also in the car,
30:24but his injuries
30:25were minor.
30:26Craig called me up.
30:28It was late.
30:28He was out there
30:31at the fight
30:32because he was supposed
30:33to have performed
30:34at some club
30:35that Suge owned.
30:39And I guess Tupac
30:39was supposed
30:40to come through.
30:41He was like,
30:42how come Tupac
30:44just got shot?
30:46Craig was, like, scared.
30:48Who was he scared of?
30:50Probably Puff.
30:52He ended up
30:53not going
30:54to death row
30:55after that.
30:55Hi, I'm Tabitha Soren
31:00with MTV News.
31:01Controversial rapper
31:02and actor Tupac Shakur
31:03has died
31:04in a Las Vegas hospital
31:05of complications
31:06from several...
31:07I was in jail.
31:08I was in jail
31:09when he got shot.
31:12There was a lot
31:12of niggas in jail
31:13that were celebrating
31:14Pac's death.
31:17I'm glad that, uh,
31:18I didn't kill anybody
31:20or anybody killed me.
31:22But I damn sure
31:23came close.
31:25Police in Las Vegas
31:27say they have no motive
31:29for this latest shooting,
31:30but the rapper's
31:31troubled past
31:32will certainly be part
31:33of the investigation.
31:36Do you know
31:37who was responsible
31:38for the killing
31:39of Tupac Shakur?
31:40No, I don't.
31:42I think that Sean now,
31:45in my mature mind,
31:47had a lot to do
31:48with the death
31:49of Tupac.
31:50In 2006,
31:59I was recruited
32:00to work a task force
32:02that was going to look
32:04at a cold case investigation.
32:06At the time,
32:07Tupac's murder
32:08was an unsolved case.
32:11Gang crimes oftentimes
32:12are difficult to solve
32:14because you don't get
32:14cooperating witnesses.
32:16They want to stick
32:18to a code
32:18that typically entails
32:20not cooperating
32:21with law enforcement
32:22and then taking matters
32:23into your own hands.
32:25It ain't my job
32:26to snitch a little body
32:28because I would never
32:28snitch a little body.
32:30We had built
32:31a narcotics case
32:32against Keefie D.
32:34Keefie D.
32:35was kind of the shock
32:35caller for the
32:36Southside Crips.
32:37He was the most
32:38prominent drug dealer.
32:40He was very influential
32:41in his gang.
32:43His nephew,
32:44Orlando Anderson,
32:45was a very well-known
32:47violent gang member.
32:50Tupac Shakur
32:50had assaulted
32:51Orlando Anderson
32:52just after
32:54the Mike Tyson fight.
32:56So Keefie D.
32:57was potentially looking
32:58at a life sentence
32:59for federal drug trafficking.
33:02We wanted to question him
33:03about his potential role
33:05in the murder
33:05of Tupac Shakur.
33:07We let him know
33:08that he could potentially
33:09mitigate some of the damages
33:11if he wanted to come in
33:12and talk to us.
33:14And the U.S. attorney
33:15agreed that they'd
33:17allow Keefie D.
33:18to do a proffer session.
33:20Keefie, today what
33:21we're going to do,
33:21we're just going to go
33:22over with a fine-tooth comb,
33:24do the Las Vegas incident.
33:25We do have to
33:26emphasize to you
33:28it's determined
33:29that some of these details
33:30are incorrect
33:31and everything's
33:32off the table.
33:33A proffer session
33:34is when a person
33:35facing criminal charges
33:37can answer questions
33:39wherein self-incriminating
33:40information
33:41would not be used
33:42against him
33:43in a criminal prosecution.
33:45It doesn't mean
33:46they have any kind
33:47of immunity.
33:49Hey, I want to say
33:51this though too.
33:53I feel like I said
33:54that day,
33:55don't bullshit me
33:55and I won't bullshit y'all.
33:57You know what I'm saying?
33:58In the year prior
33:59to the murder
34:00of Tupac Shakur,
34:02he has had several
34:04conversations
34:04with Sean Combs.
34:05Sean Combs' affiliation
34:17with the Southside Crips
34:18came by way
34:19of a New York
34:21street figure
34:21known as Zip.
34:24Zip set up
34:25the introduction
34:26between Combs
34:27and Keefee Dee
34:28and then they
34:29developed their
34:30own relationship.
34:32And Zip in the
34:33news,
34:33he said,
34:34this is my boy.
34:34What are you
34:34in Zip in the news,
34:35man?
34:35This is my friend,
34:36this is my nephew.
34:36That's my boy.
34:37My boy,
34:38this is Pup.
34:39And after that,
34:40they used my car
34:41on the video.
34:42Which car was I in?
34:44The 64 Chevy I have.
34:47Every time I look
34:48at you,
34:49that's low.
34:50What color was it?
34:51Blown.
34:52I was up to your video
34:53when Pup was driving
34:54the car,
34:55Usher for her,
34:55so on,
34:56whatever.
34:56He was in a Laker
34:56uniform and he had
34:58the little kid
34:58dancing on my car
34:59when he got back.
35:01It was fucked up
35:02and he had to,
35:03he paid to get it
35:04repainted.
35:10Pup,
35:10he caused their phone
35:11and he wanted
35:12to speak to me.
35:13They gave it a B-E-T tour
35:14and then I,
35:16he gave us some tickets
35:17and I brought the crew.
35:18Say,
35:19I want to hear
35:20a new flavor,
35:20ain't your hair?
35:21I want to hear
35:22a new flavor.
35:23Yeah,
35:24yeah.
35:24To all the ladies
35:26in the place.
35:27Keefy D says
35:28that Sean Combs
35:29kind of makes
35:30this general announcement
35:33while they're all
35:34inside of a hotel room
35:36after a musical event.
35:39So it's Harrell,
35:40Puffy,
35:41Zip,
35:41you.
35:42About 40-something
35:43soft-siders.
35:44Yeah,
35:45that was stupid
35:46as hell too,
35:47you know?
35:49Shit,
35:49he said he'd kill us
35:50anything for no dudes
35:51there,
35:52you know?
35:52Tupac and Sugar,
35:53you mean?
35:54Yeah.
35:54He said it in front
35:56of all those people
35:56I couldn't believe
35:57you know what I'm saying?
36:00All home full of trips.
36:02So this is after
36:02Jake got killed.
36:04So he was,
36:04he was on a plane,
36:05he was worried
36:05about something happening.
36:06Yeah.
36:07So he got miles off
36:08about a bunch
36:08of different stuff
36:09so he was scared.
36:10He was scared to death.
36:11Yeah.
36:11Okay.
36:11Okay.
36:13Then there's
36:13a more specific incident
36:15that takes place
36:16at a deli
36:16on Sunset Strip
36:17in Los Angeles,
36:18a place called
36:19Greenblatt's Deli.
36:20What made it a specific
36:22like,
36:22hey,
36:22I'm serious,
36:23I want you guys
36:24to kill this,
36:24these guys?
36:26When he told me
36:27at the Greenbackers,
36:29when we got there
36:30we were laughing at him
36:31because he was with
36:32this braw
36:33that sucked dick,
36:34that sucked every dick
36:35in there.
36:35He was hugged up
36:36kissing or whatever,
36:37we was laughing
36:37like a motherfucker.
36:38Man,
36:39what you laughing at,
36:39dog?
36:40Man,
36:41don't just come out
36:42here and get in
36:42any brawler,
36:43dog.
36:44I took him
36:45downstairs
36:45and he's like,
36:46man,
36:46I gotta get rid
36:47of those dudes,
36:48man.
36:48It would be a problem.
36:53It was after he
36:54made the record.
36:55Hit him up,
36:55came out.
36:56Yeah,
36:56yeah,
36:56that pissed him off.
37:01Yeah,
37:01we were on a million.
37:05He tells you,
37:06seriously,
37:06man,
37:06I need to get rid
37:07of these guys.
37:07I mean,
37:08he's looking at you
37:08in the eyes
37:09and he's like,
37:10scared.
37:10Yeah.
37:11You tell him,
37:12we'll do it for a million
37:13and he's like,
37:14okay,
37:15I'll do it for a million?
37:17He agrees,
37:17he's shaking on it
37:18or something like that?
37:19Yeah.
37:20What happened?
37:21You know,
37:21he,
37:22I mean,
37:23I'll shit out,
37:24we'll wipe the ass
37:25out quick,
37:26you know,
37:26it's nothing.
37:29Here we go,
37:30round one,
37:31scheduled for 12
37:32and Tyson comes
37:33right out,
37:34right up to...
37:34He says that
37:35when Las Vegas happens
37:36and they're all out there
37:38and his nephew
37:39gets assaulted by Tupac,
37:40they're like,
37:40this is the perfect
37:41occasion.
37:42We got this.
38:00It's your perfect
38:01opportunity,
38:02baby.
38:03That was zip coming?
38:04Yeah.
38:04Because of what happened
38:05with...
38:05Yeah.
38:06Yeah.
38:07We and I don't piss
38:08was down there
38:09and he told me
38:10in the lobby
38:11that he had some jimmies.
38:13Someone had a jimmie
38:14and their vans.
38:17He had a little
38:17secret compartment.
38:19The thing popped out.
38:21The vehicle
38:22that Zip was driving
38:23that night
38:24reportedly had
38:25what we call
38:25a trap in it,
38:27which is a
38:27concealed compartment
38:29where you can
38:30place a gun.
38:32It's a difficult
38:33thing to find.
38:35Zip had driven
38:36that car
38:37to Las Vegas.
38:39A few days before
38:40Tupac was murdered,
38:42Sean requested
38:43that we rent cars
38:46and have multiple drivers
38:49drive clear across the country
38:52to this fight.
38:55But I arranged
38:56through my budget
38:58to make that trip happen
39:00for those drivers.
39:01and to this day
39:03it stands out
39:03in my mind.
39:05Why did we
39:06rent multiple cars?
39:08Why did we hire people
39:09from Harlem
39:10and other locations
39:11to drive?
39:16You tell us if,
39:17hey, we're going to go
39:18handle this shit
39:18or whatever?
39:19Yeah, they asked,
39:20like,
39:20if y'all want us to drive?
39:22I'm like,
39:22we know where
39:23them motherfuckers at.
39:24They were telling us
39:24they're going to be
39:25at the 662 Club.
39:27Two cars go to 662?
39:28They didn't show up.
39:32We waited about 15,
39:3420 minutes.
39:34They didn't show up.
39:36So they were like,
39:37let's go get some liquor.
39:39And we came up
39:40at Harlem
39:41at the Las Vegas
39:43Willow Art.
39:44And, uh, shit,
39:45here they coming at BMW.
39:47They can't get car.
39:48On their way to the club,
39:50Suge is blaring
39:51his music too loud.
39:53He gets pulled over
39:54by some police officers.
39:56They essentially,
39:57you know, say,
39:58just turn down your music,
39:59no big deal.
40:00And it's at this point
40:01in time that Suge
40:03and, uh,
40:04Tupac see these,
40:05these girls.
40:06Like, they're Suge,
40:07Suge.
40:07Like, the police
40:08were going through
40:09his car
40:09or something or another.
40:10And then the traffic
40:12was stopped
40:13and then they got
40:13in the car.
40:14Did you see
40:15who was with Suge?
40:16Um, I thought
40:17it was Tupac.
40:18And then he was like,
40:19come on,
40:20come go with me.
40:21Come go with us.
40:22We're going to 662.
40:23And we're all like,
40:24Tupac, Tupac.
40:27And we're like,
40:27there you go.
40:28Just wanted to do that.
40:30And we just pulled up
40:31on the side
40:31and checked every car
40:32to see where they was.
40:33So what directed
40:34your attention to him
40:35with some girls
40:36shouting at Tupac?
40:37Tupac.
40:38He gave us up away.
40:39Otherwise,
40:40it would have gone away.
40:42And he leaned over
40:44on the window
40:45and we rolled
40:45down the window
40:45and popped.
40:48Should have looked
40:48over, he sees you.
40:51Yeah, he went,
40:52OK.
40:53What the fuck is
40:54doing what he
40:55told us
40:55when we were
40:55seven, eight years old?
40:58I seen a bully
40:59going,
40:59I thought he was dead.
41:02I thought he was dead.
41:04If you knew
41:05who killed Tupac,
41:06would you tell the police?
41:08Absolutely not.
41:11I'm going to park the car.
41:13I put the gun
41:14on the tire
41:14and look.
41:15Where'd you guys go?
41:16When they smoked
41:17weed and drink.
41:18Yeah, where?
41:19At a hotel.
41:20At a hotel.
41:20At a party in the room.
41:21And they pulled up
41:23in the ambulance
41:23while we were
41:24standing right there.
41:26Take off bullshit.
41:27You guys know
41:28the street with what?
41:29We on Las Vegas
41:30willow at the crosswalk
41:31and they pulled up
41:32the ambulance
41:33right next to us.
41:34And we came
41:35on the car already?
41:36Tupac in the car.
41:38This is close.
41:40Did they see you?
41:41They couldn't see.
41:42We didn't give a fuck.
41:43I'm talking about
41:44the ambulance
41:45to park right here.
41:46Right next to us.
41:47That shit was
41:48as funny as a boat.
41:49Fuck!
41:49And I haven't
41:52ever told nobody
41:53this to ruin me.
41:56So you get back
41:57to LA the next day
41:58Zip calls you
41:59says meet me
42:00at the hot one
42:00place where at?
42:02We're going to melt
42:02into my peace.
42:04You guys go over there
42:04Zip shows up
42:05you guys
42:06what happens there?
42:07Talk to people
42:07call it
42:08was that us?
42:09He told them
42:09yeah it was us.
42:10On Zip's phone
42:11or your phone?
42:11It was Zip's phone.
42:13And Zip gives you
42:14the phone?
42:15Yeah.
42:16People say
42:17was that us?
42:18He was happier there
42:19if you ask them
42:20then about his money?
42:21When you're going
42:21to get paid
42:22or whatever?
42:22No, I don't know
42:23how to tell you
42:24that on the phone
42:24or Zip.
42:25Zip, go get our cash.
42:27Okay, so you tell Zip
42:28we need to get paid
42:29what does Zip say?
42:31I'm going to go
42:31back home
42:32and have a...
42:32Yeah, I'll get back
42:33with y'all.
42:36According to Keefe D
42:38he was never
42:38compensated
42:39for the murder
42:40but he said
42:43that a partial
42:45amount of the money
42:45was intended
42:46to be forwarded
42:47to him
42:48through Zip
42:49to the tune
42:50of about $500,000.
42:52The million dollar
42:54solicitation amount
42:56only half of it
42:57was fulfilled
42:58because only Tupac
42:59and not Shug
43:01was killed.
43:03Keefe D
43:03has a conversation
43:05with Darius Rogers
43:06with DMACC.
43:07He don't let the demons
43:08do this to the DMACC right there.
43:11And DMACC says
43:13there had been a payment
43:15from Combs
43:16to Keefe D
43:18but it had gone through Zip
43:20and then that money
43:21was never forwarded.
43:26We're just hoping
43:27and waiting
43:28to see what kind
43:29of progress
43:29Las Vegas would make
43:31with Keefe D's cooperation.
43:35Nothing really happens.
43:37Ultimately
43:39Zip
43:40dies from cancer.
43:42Thank you for coming
43:43out to Zips
43:44and I want everybody
43:45to know that
43:46when you come here
43:47we want to keep
43:48the peace.
43:49And Orlando Anderson
43:50is shot and killed
43:51in 1998.
43:53So
43:54it's really
43:55Keefe D
43:55and Puffy Combs
43:57are the last men standing.
43:58They can be held accountable
44:00for Tupac Shakur's murder.
44:01Keefe D
44:31Keefe D
44:38We don't need
44:39this third change.
44:40Keefe D
44:42Take that off.
44:43Alright.
44:44Let's move it through.
44:45Move it through.
44:48Move it through.
44:52What goes up
44:54must come down
44:56and what goes down
44:58must come up.
44:59Fuck.
45:00I remember
45:0499
45:05we were working
45:06in the studio
45:07on a song called
45:08Muscle Gang.
45:10This is our gang
45:11right here.
45:13When you're playing
45:14with you and these niggas.
45:17Come on man.
45:17The song comes on
45:18and Puff was talking
45:19in the beginning.
45:20It's 1999.
45:21No more
45:22I'm like
45:26what is he talking about.
45:28Fuck with me
45:30I drop a million dollars
45:31on your head.
45:32Erase you
45:32and your own family.
45:33It's gonna start
45:34making y'all niggas
45:35disappear man.
45:36Everything that's done
45:37in the dark
45:38must come to light.
45:40Everything that goes up
45:41must come down.
45:42Yeah I'm headed to
46:04113th and Lennox King.
46:05I gotta catch my man up there.
46:06I'll see you up there.
46:09Are y'all rolling?
46:10Yeah we rolling.
46:22With the backdrop
46:23of East Coast,
46:25West Coast beef
46:26Sean took Biggie
46:27to Los Angeles
46:28to record
46:30what would be
46:31the finishing touches
46:32on Biggie's
46:33Life After Death album
46:34which wasn't titled
46:35that yet.
46:41Yo.
46:42Yo baby wake up
46:42wake up baby.
46:43Diddy what the fuck
46:44man what's up?
46:45Come on now
46:46it's a quarter to six
46:46we got the 730 flight
46:48going to LAX.
46:49Oh.
46:50Cali?
46:51No doubt baby.
46:53We have been warned
46:54to not come to LA.
46:57There were warnings
46:57all along
46:58for the last few months
46:59that we are not
47:00to set foot
47:01on the West Coast.
47:02It was award show season
47:06and Sean
47:07wanted him
47:08to start promoting
47:09the album.
47:11Come on Song Train
47:12get up out your seats
47:13come on
47:13get up out your seats
47:15Biggie did not want
47:17to go
47:18but Sean
47:19talked him into
47:21doing all of those things.
47:22Down low
47:23get up out your seats
47:24come on
47:25high pop
47:26or freaks
47:26all the honey
47:27They were like
47:28catcalling
47:29and booing.
47:30What's up Cali?
47:39We were not welcome
47:40after the awards show
47:43Saturday morning
47:44Biggie and I
47:46were to go to London
47:47and we were going to have
47:48a two
47:48three day press jump get
47:50to have Biggie
47:51be one of the first
47:52artists
47:53from Bad Boy
47:54to meet the European press.
47:56I had worked on that
47:58for months and weeks
47:58leading up
47:59we were supposed to go
48:01to the airport
48:02that morning
48:03I'm calling Biggie
48:04like crazy
48:05what's going on
48:06wake up
48:07he's like yo
48:08Puff is bugging
48:09he just called me
48:10and told me
48:11I want you to stay
48:12here in LA
48:13I don't want to stay
48:14I want to go
48:15but Sean
48:17was adamant
48:18cancel
48:20the flight
48:21Biggie's not going
48:23to the UK
48:23what do you mean
48:24he's not going to click
48:25he hangs up
48:26this was his M.O.
48:29ego
48:30power
48:31tripping
48:32all of it
48:33because Sean
48:34wanted to do a party
48:36on enemy turf
48:38scared to death
48:43that's how real it is
48:47I think somebody
48:48is trying to kill me
48:49I'll be waking up
48:50paranoid
48:50I'll be really scared
48:52I'll just be peril
48:53that night
48:59Big
49:00and Puffy
49:02was with us
49:04they were having a party
49:10I spoke to Big
49:17and I was like
49:17yo man
49:18you know
49:18what are you doing
49:20catching LA
49:22man
49:23they get down
49:24in these circumstances
49:25man
49:25and you just can't be
49:26walking around here
49:28freely
49:29everybody's mingling
49:38I look around
49:42I say
49:43where's Big
49:45I want to get out
49:47get out
49:48hey wait
49:49hold up
49:50hold up
49:50hold up
49:50zoom in
49:52zoom in
49:53so
49:57that's Big
50:03that is Big
50:04that is Big
50:04that is Big
50:05that is Big
50:05that is Big
50:05somebody got shot
50:07somebody got shot
50:07that is Big
50:07that is Big
50:10somebody got shot
50:11what are you reporting
50:11yeah we need an ambulance
50:13on Fairfax and Wilshire
50:14please
50:15Los Angeles
50:16we have a man shot
50:17we have a shot
50:18okay hold on
50:20I'll get that
50:20right on
50:20on Fairfax
50:21let's go
50:24let's go
50:24hold on
50:25listen
50:26sir I can't hear
50:27what you're saying
50:28we're man shot
50:29in our car
50:30right now
50:31right now
50:32we're trying to
50:32roll into the hospital
50:33I know the way
50:35see the sun
50:36I gotta go back
50:38you gotta turn around
50:39Jimmy
50:39you're going the wrong way
50:40what the fuck is wrong
50:41with y'all man
50:42what's wrong
50:43what
50:43yo Big
50:44you know me
50:44big
50:44I was following Big's lead
50:52on like you know
50:53we're going to do
50:54this peace tour
50:54and
50:57you know
50:59it didn't work out
51:00Sean said
51:02it on can't stop
51:03won't stop
51:03Biggie wanted to go
51:05he's lying about that
51:11Sean wanted that trip
51:14and was pushing it
51:16for weeks
51:16and weeks
51:17he lied about it
51:19and let me know
51:21that's a weak spot for him
51:23and he's nervous about
51:24that information
51:25he ushered Biggie
51:32to his death
51:34who do you think
51:38called Biggie
51:39next question
51:43all it was
51:47is a puffy
51:47and suge knight war
51:48you're messing
51:50with lives here
51:51and that's exactly
51:52what happened
51:53two lives were lost
51:54as a result of what
51:55stupidity
51:57when I sat down
51:59with Valetta
52:00we briefly brought up
52:01Sean Combs
52:02it was clear to me
52:04that she had no real
52:05respect or appreciation
52:06for him
52:07Sean clearly didn't do
52:09all that he could have
52:10done to help out
52:11in the investigation
52:12in fact
52:13he was a hindrance
52:14in the investigation
52:15puffy was kind of
52:17stonewalling people
52:18from talking
52:19because he knows
52:20if you make inroads
52:22on Biggie's murder
52:23you're going to make
52:24inroads on
52:25Tupac's murder
52:26and that potentially
52:27can lead right back
52:28to him
52:29how are Biggie's mom
52:33and Faith
52:33and the kids
52:34taking all this
52:35Biggie's moms
52:37and Faith
52:37and the children
52:38are extremely strong
52:39they've been
52:40matter of fact
52:40they've been
52:41strong for me
52:42and helping
52:42to hold me up
52:43Sean assumed
52:46the position
52:46of his best friend
52:48in every article
52:49and publication
52:51and that wasn't
52:53necessarily true
52:54and I'm going
52:55to be there
52:56for them
52:56just like he
52:57would be there
52:57for them
52:57to make sure
52:58that they're alright
52:58Sean said
53:00we're going to do
53:00the biggest funeral
53:01for Biggie
53:02that New York
53:03has ever seen
53:04and we start
53:06to put that together
53:07he starts to see
53:08the price
53:08and he says
53:10we're going to do
53:10the biggest funeral
53:11but Biggie's going
53:13to have to pay
53:13for this funeral
53:14he was going
53:16to make the funeral
53:17be a recoupable
53:19charge
53:20to Biggie
53:21in death
53:21this is one
53:24of my closest
53:25friends
53:25and it's still
53:26one of my closest
53:27friends
53:27I just
53:29I feel his loss
53:30I just miss him
53:31so much
53:32Sean doing
53:34a big show
53:35looks good on him
53:36but he's not
53:38going to tell
53:39the world
53:39that Biggie
53:40was going
53:40to pay for it
53:41in Bestar Brooklyn
53:51the whole hood
53:53was outside
53:54if you could make it
53:55there
53:56you was there
53:56it was a big loss
54:00for the city
54:01I loved Biggie
54:03Biggie inspired me
54:05he gave me hope
54:06he made us feel
54:07like you was
54:07from the town
54:08you could make it
54:09we loved Biggie
54:10so it was like
54:11losing a family member
54:12he just wanted
54:15to be a rap
54:16superstar
54:16he didn't want
54:18to hurt nobody
54:19he was probably
54:21one of the only
54:22people I had
54:22really trusted
54:23like for a long time
54:24it's not a feeling
54:25that I really felt
54:26a lot
54:27like in my life
54:28I don't really
54:29have a lot of friends
54:30I think people
54:31think I have
54:31a lot of friends
54:32you know
54:32I don't think
54:35I really make
54:36a good friend
54:37before he was
54:39assassinated
54:40Biggie had
54:41an opportunity
54:42to be on the cover
54:44of Rolling Stone
54:45we were delivering
54:47the elements
54:48so that can happen
54:49and Sean called me
54:50and said
54:51pull that cover
54:52I need to be
54:53on the cover
54:53my solo album
54:55is coming in July
54:56no way out
54:57and I need
54:58to amp that up
54:59he took the cover
55:03from Biggie
55:04another thing
55:09at the time
55:10Biggie was
55:11negotiating
55:12his contract
55:13every day
55:13I wake up
55:14we acquiesced
55:17and gave him
55:18everything he wanted
55:19and then he died
55:20can't believe
55:21you ain't here
55:21Sean wanted me
55:25to change
55:26the agreement
55:27to more favorable
55:28terms for bad boy
55:30and his family
55:31and mother
55:31would not know
55:32and since he had
55:33signed the agreement
55:34he wanted
55:36those changes
55:37to come from
55:38out of the center
55:39of the agreement
55:40and have those pages
55:41replaced with
55:42the other terms
55:43and I said
55:43that's not right
55:44I'm not doing it
55:4690 days later
55:47I'm fired
55:48it's like I feel
55:50empty inside
55:51without you being here
55:52I remember
56:00Michael Jackson
56:01the Motown 25 special
56:03MTV
56:04Madonna
56:05Like a Virgin
56:06and I remember
56:06Puff
56:07with Sting
56:08check it out
56:10check it out
56:10check it out
56:11check it out
56:12check it out
56:13check it out
56:14check it out
56:15check it out
56:15check it out
56:16I have a TV moment
56:17in music
56:18it's very rare
56:19it elevates you
56:20to such another level
56:22of superstar
56:23it made him
56:24rock star bitch
56:25it's kinda hard
56:27but you're not around
56:28know you in heaven
56:29smiling down
56:30watching us
56:31while we pray for you
56:32he became among us
56:33but now it's him
56:35now I'm the man
56:37it was like a dream
56:38come true
56:39to see the lines
56:41like in front of the
56:42stores
56:42like people going
56:44there to get my
56:45record
56:45it's crazy
56:47it all happened
56:47pretty quickly for you
56:48from being an intern
56:49to being on the
56:50cover of the
56:51Rolling Stone
56:53thanks for Biggie's
56:54mother who's sitting
56:55right there
56:56for having
56:56Notorious V.I.G.
56:59you've abused
57:00everyone
57:01and used
57:01most everyone
57:02put your legs
57:04in the ass
57:04for V.I.G
57:05everybody put your
57:06legs in the air
57:07there are horror
57:08stories like this
57:09all throughout
57:11cleared of gun
57:12possession and
57:13bribery charges
57:13Sean Puffy Combs
57:15walked out of
57:15free man
57:16some people speak
57:17up about it
57:17most do not
57:19the first member
57:20is
57:21Aubrey
57:23it's a pattern
57:25with him
57:25violence was a
57:28very normalized
57:29part of living
57:30in that world
57:31allegations of
57:35sexual misconduct
57:36Puffy called
57:36these encounters
57:37freak off
57:38witnessed Diddy
57:39abusing Cassie
57:40and that they
57:41encouraged Cassie
57:42to get away
57:43from him
57:43everything in life
57:46you're gonna have
57:46people that are bad
57:47and people that are good
57:48you know
57:49you have to choose
57:50your side
57:51you're gonna have to
57:52lose your side
57:52you're gonna have to
57:53lose your side
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