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00:00Happy birthday to you, everybody, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to me.
00:30Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you.
00:38I always looked at him as just being like this rich Harlem cat who just want to dance and make money.
00:44All the ladies look so right, all the papers, all the real players in the motherfucking house, throw your hands in the air.
00:51No violence in them, but every time I turn around, there's violence.
00:57There's violence with his name on it.
01:05At the time, there's this tension that is going on between Pac and Puff.
01:10Puff wanted to work with Pac on a lot of levels business-wise, and Pac wasn't having it.
01:18He was more interested in Biggie and his crew.
01:22Puff was very threatened by Pac.
01:26He was very threatened, especially if you're an executive who wants a guy to make you money, and the guy is saying, no, fuck you.
01:33Around that time, Tupac was going to do a song with Lil Sean at Quiet Studio.
01:43Out of the blue, they wanted me to do the song, so I said, all right.
01:47Stopped off to get some weed, smoked the weed.
01:50Then 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.
02:05He's like, Biggie's side man, right?
02:07We 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.
02:23Get the fuck back in the elevator.
02:24Ooh.
02:27Recording artist Tupac Shakur was shot five times last night
02:30in a robbery attempt.
02:31After surgery, his condition was upgraded to satisfactory, and he checked out of the hospital
02:36against his doctor's advice.
02:37I think they're trying to rub me out, really.
02:40Robbers don't leave behind $80,000 Rolexes.
02:43You know what I mean?
02:44They 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.
03:08We, 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 alive, shooter?
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, and Puff was exalted.
03:36That's the bigger picture.
03:37That's the bigger picture.
03:38And that's the story that hasn't been told.
03:43I saw a very microbial point.
03:44I saw a bad way going down.
03:45Yeah.
03:46Like that shit was like, thisел is fast enough.
03:48And then we would've seen him get like a L.O.P.
03:50and pull out, and then we would've seen him go, so that's what I'm going to do.
03:52I want him to do all of his things.
03:53I want him to do all of his things.
03:54And then he goes to the rest.
03:55I'm gonna do all of his things.
03:56I'm gonna do all of his things.
03:57But you gotta do all of his things.
03:58So I don't have to do it, man.
03:59I don't have to do that.
04:00I don't have to do this.
04:01I don't have to do this.
04:02I don't have to do this.
04:03I don't really.
04:04There was a whole lot of crazy shit going on.
04:09You know what I'm saying?
04:12Like, that shit was crazy to me that that shit wasn't there,
04:15which is a sign to me like, nigga,
04:17time to go to the future, time to go to the future.
04:20I was a little builder.
04:21Yeah, for the building, I got ready for you, son.
04:24You know what I'm saying?
04:25It was a sign to me like that, but I'm saying,
04:27that shit was there like two months ago, right?
04:29I'm not tripping, tripping.
04:30Yeah, it was big, yeah.
04:34Puff is in this position where he has all this turmoil,
04:45but he's not at the point where he's saying where I went wrong.
04:49He's saying to himself, how do I get out of this?
04:53Maybe I can convince some witnesses that I'm not the guy who I am.
04:59Eventually, he's going to get to the point where he's going to ask himself,
05:03how did I get myself into this situation?
05:0695, he had two of the hottest acts.
05:20Craig Mack gave his flavor in your ear.
05:23Yo, the brand new flavor, yeah, time for new flavor, yeah.
05:28And Biggie.
05:28You gotta come up in your waist, please don't suit up the place.
05:31Why?
05:31Cause I see some ladies tonight that should be having my...
05:34Bad boy was rising up.
05:36My 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 cubby hole around the corner.
05:47He buzzes me.
05:48So 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, I'm, what did you want me for?
06:07Ah, I 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?
06:17Thanks 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, Alistair Ricketts, BMG.
06:26And that came from people in the industry co-signing his activity.
06:34Because it brought money in.
06:36I don't know if y'all niggas know this.
06:38The Juicy with platinum.
06:40Big Pumper with platinum.
06:42In your ear remix with platinum.
06:45That whole bad boy thing was so big.
06:49Faith Evans.
06:50I'm going to be first lady on Pumf Daddy's Lady.
06:52Total biggie.
06:55I'm Craig Mack.
06:58The thing over here is Craig Mack.
07:02It was a consistent back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
07:06So let me just give you a day in the life of Pumf Daddy.
07:12Gets 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?
07:22Ain't that you?
07:23Oh, yo, here go a demo.
07:24Pumf, he's over there.
07:25Yo, what's up, Pumf?
07:27How you doing, baby, bro?
07:28Just doing all that piece.
07:29Had the big baseball bat cell phones.
07:31And the phone might ring.
07:32Such-and-such is on the phone calling from jail.
07:34Yo, 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 you,
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 going to 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.
08:04One day, it seemed like out of the blue,
08:14my door opens up.
08:17Sean walks in.
08:19He had a baseball bat.
08:21Had a big attaché case suitcase with the snaps on it.
08:25The stocks were there.
08:27We in a fucking hustle, we in a grind.
08:29Do your job, whatever your...
08:30He wanted me to sign my 25% over.
08:34And Diddy's over me like this.
08:36He wants to stop that.
08:38He wants it now.
08:40I'm not going to 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 going to give it back to you.
08:52And he threatened until I did.
09:01People always say to me,
09:04why would you do that?
09:06But why 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.
09:21It 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.
09:37I 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, yeah.
10:07That's cool, and I'm sure you...
10:09Yo, you got nominated for a Grammy,
10:11but we had no money.
10:14If 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.
10:40So you signed your deal.
10:41We gave you your advance.
10:42At Uptown, that'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 the girl around me,
10:53true player for real.
10:55That's tough, Bad D.
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,
11:20and 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
12:10to 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
12:20this big
12:21and gave him
12:22one hundred dollar bill.
12:27You really just
12:28don't give a fuck.
12:31I think Sean
12:33had an envy
12:34for his own artists.
12:36He was jealous
12:37of their talent
12:37and wondering, like,
12:38this talent is wasted
12:40on people
12:41who don't even really
12:41know what to do,
12:43and if I had that talent
12:45in my know-how, wow.
12:47That's interesting
12:48because a lot of people
12:48Puffy's age
12:49want to grab this mic
12:51and rap,
12:52but Puffy,
12:52you wanted to do other things,
12:53and you're doing
12:54a lot of them.
12:55Can you talk about
12:56his skills as a rapper?
12:57Sucks.
12:58He has zero talent
13:00musically.
13:00He don't know how to discuss.
13:01He don't know nothing
13:02about R&B.
13:02He don't know none
13:03of that stuff.
13:03He used to ask me
13:04to always be there
13:05when the sessions
13:06because I would tell the truth.
13:08I'd be like,
13:08that's not it.
13:10People would be there
13:10like, yeah,
13:11that was tight.
13:11That was tight.
13:12I'd be 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.
13:29Yeah, what about
13:29the Puff Daddy solo project?
13:31Yeah, we don't like
13:31to talk about that.
13:32Hey, Puffy,
13:32we want Jack and him.
13:33Sean used other methods
13:37and ways to get
13:38to where he had to go.
13:40Big on strategy,
13:42big on swag.
13:44All of those things
13:45became important.
13:47When the ball
13:47down to 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.
13:56Damn, you know what I'm saying?
13:56Shit, shit.
13:57Where's the makeup at?
13:58Makeup?
13:59Right here, man.
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.
14:10from dancing
14:12the whole night you see
14:13that anybody that's
14:13boasters and loud like that,
14:14they want to be in the spotlight.
14:17It wasn't like no secret,
14:18that's what he wanted.
14:21Six 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
14:40like 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,
14:58a new addition,
14:58and we've been out
14:59since September.
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 turn this way
15:12and gave him one of these.
15:15Bow!
15:16Like that.
15:17And knocked dude
15:18down the hill,
15:19and it looked like
15:20a cartoon dude
15:21was 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,
15:33and I learned how
15:33every person
15:35who was writing songs
15:36was getting beat
15:37out their money
15:37like they published.
15:38He was able to
15:40dovetail that into
15:41starting Death Row Records.
15:43One, two,
15:44bring it to the phone.
15:46Snoop Doggy Dogg
15:47and Dr. Drake
15:47is at the door.
15:49Death Row can be
15:50bigger than Motown,
15:51or 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.
16:11Lay back.
16:13And that was my job.
16:15How do I make
16:16Bad Boy
16:16equal to 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 showed you?
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
16:36and show 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
16:47only a few years later,
16:50Bad Boy,
16:51Death Row.
16:52Death Row is the label
16:53that pays, man.
16:54The two hottest labels.
16:58But I would look over
16:59at Death Row
16:59and say,
17:00they're taking care
17:00of their artists
17:01better than we are.
17:03They're putting your head,
17:05fuck the artists.
17:07And my thing was opposite.
17:08It's about
17:08me and my people.
17:10Fuck you.
17:12Craig wasn't happy there.
17:15Death Row was courting him.
17:16Because Shud was opening up
17:18a Death Row East.
17:20And it was found out.
17:22Shot by the finger.
17:24Yes.
17:30It's the Source
17:32Hip Hop Music Awards!
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,
17:51parked outside
17:52of Madison Square Garden.
17:54How important is it
17:55to have the Source Awards?
17:57Let me just wait in front.
17:58You got that?
17:59Come on, man.
18:00Who bagging on the door like that?
18:01You're telling me?
18:02Dog, what is the deal, man?
18:04Keep the door closed!
18:06And it escalated with words
18:07from the podium
18:08at the awards show.
18:10Any artist out there
18:11who want to be an artist
18:12and want to stay a star
18:13and don't want to have to worry
18:15about the executive producer
18:16trying to be
18:17all in the videos,
18:19all on the record,
18:21dancing.
18:22Come to Death Row.
18:23I'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 other people
18:39may 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.
19:07And then there's a side of him
19:08that's all out dark.
19:11He processes things differently.
19:13He remembers every slight.
19:18Once again, y'all,
19:20please give it up
19:21for all the nominees.
19:36Before I signed with Bad Boy,
19:38I was working
19:39at the door of the club
19:41in Platinum House.
19:45Every Friday,
19:45we had a bad boy party.
19:47So Puff was there.
19:50Shook Knight came that night
19:51with his friend Jake.
19:53And I was working the door.
19:54Shook was looking for Puff.
19:59Sean would try to go after
20:01people's side chicks,
20:04like a girl in Atlanta
20:06that Shook 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
20:20Shook'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 tape.
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 Puffy.
20:40Shook and Jake
20:41is being escorted
20:42out the club
20:44by the off-duty officer
20:47we always had there
20:49moonlighting.
20:51Jake comes out,
20:52Shook 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
21:01and he was holding
21:01a pistol.
21:04He touched Jake
21:05with the pistol
21:06and he looked at
21:08Shook like this
21:09and was shooting
21:10Shook Fran like this.
21:13He shot him five times.
21:18Shook grabbed
21:20that hold to Puffy
21:21in the chokehold
21:22and put him
21:23in the front of him
21:24like this.
21:25So he was
21:25moving Puff around
21:26like this
21:27in case you shoot him.
21:29You're going to shoot Puffy.
21:29You're not going to shoot me.
21:34Puff was like,
21:36it's going to be all right,
21:37man.
21:37It's going to be all right.
21:39Shook said,
21:40what you mean
21:40it's going to be all right?
21:42He said,
21:42tell your mama
21:43it's going to be all right.
21:45Tell your kids
21:46it's going to be all right.
21:47and then
21:49the shooter
21:50ran.
21:54Ambulance came
21:55and took Jake
21:56to the hospital.
21:58A couple of days later
21:59he died.
22:02That's what started
22:03the East Coast,
22:04West Coast war.
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
22:38thug image?
22:41Puff and Big
22:42were friends
22:43at one time
22:43but then
22:45once Puff
22:45was in jail,
22:46Bad Boy
22:48and all of his
22:50associations
22:50were nemesises.
22:53When I'm in jail,
22:54strangers
22:55are telling me,
22:56yo, you don't know?
22:57Big your old boy
22:58shot you
22:58because they bragging.
23:00They telling
23:01they're in 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.
23:13and it had just so happened
23:16that Suge had his own
23:18issue with Puffy
23:19so Suge went to jail
23:22and visited him.
23:24The whole shit
23:25was like
23:26some mob shit
23:27into Tupac,
23:30a young captain.
23:31I'm going to join
23:33a family, dog.
23:35Get me out.
23:38Suge Knight
23:39first signed
23:40Tupac
23:40to a recording contract
23:42when Tupac
23:42was in this
23:43New York state prison
23:44unable 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.
23:52I want everybody
23:55to give a
23:56big welcome
23:57from
23:58Tupac.
24:02Out on bail,
24:03rapper Tupac Shakur
24:04has rushed 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.
24:11You think it ain't bad, boy?
24:14I say fuck them all.
24:16We coming to the East Coast
24:17to prove there is no fear.
24:19Overthrow the government
24:20y'all got right now
24:21with this bad boy
24:21and all that bullshit
24:22and 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.
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.
24:38I was more
24:38in a mind frame,
24:39keep your mouth shut, big.
24:43You know what I'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?
24:50Biggie 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,
25:08Big'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 equip 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 got to 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
25:37like we set him up.
25:38You know what I'm saying?
25:39Man, that's crazy.
25:41The East Coast, West Coast
25:41thing was 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,
25:54record label,
25:54and as a motherfucking crew.
25:56It was this Bad Boy
25:57and death row.
26:00And that right there
26:01put people in danger
26:02because it made people
26:04be like, F 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 wanted to ride
26:10for each other.
26:11And then look what happened.
26:13Doing the street thing.
26:19My affiliation
26:20was 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 long-standing rivals
26:35in the Los Angeles
26:36youth gang scene.
26:38Groups who call themselves
26:39Crips
26:39and wear blue colors
26:40and Bloods
26:42who wear red.
26:43Did you guys
26:44provide protection?
26:47Sean Combs
26:48was 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
27:04our associates.
27:06You got beef with them,
27:08you got beef with me.
27:10Period.
27:11A 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?
27:16We'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
27:36that I know
27:37that was Puffy's man.
27:40That was his guy.
27:43Eric Von Zip
27:44is a drug lord
27:45from 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.
27:55Zip 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
28:15in all red
28:16the colors of the
28:17drug dealing
28:18Bloods street 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
28:28Southside 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.
28:52Everybody got what
28:53they wanted that night.
28:55People got to see Tyson
28:57knock a motherfucker out.
28:59and Tyson
29:00with a left hook
29:01and Selvin is down.
29:03It's over
29:03in the first round.
29:08That's probably
29:08the reason
29:09that the guy
29:09was all fucked up
29:10in a lot of shit
29:11for the fight night.
29:12When you've seen
29:13a Tyson fight
29:14you want to fight.
29:24At the fight
29:25the guy
29:26who was ripped off
29:27for the death row chain
29:29is with Suge
29:30and Pac.
29:32He just whispers
29:33to Pac
29:33that's him.
29:36Hey, hey, hey.
29:39It was Orlando Anderson
29:40from Southside Crips
29:42who was connected
29:44with Puff.
29:46Next thing I know
29:46I see Pac like
29:47phew.
29:50Took the niggas down.
29:59That was the foundational
30:01moment
30:02when all this
30:03was getting out of control.
30:05I'm out of one right now.
30:08I got a couple guys shot
30:09and medical aid shot.
30:12Rapper Tupac Shakur
30:16was shot in the chest
30:17this morning shot
30:18multiple times
30:19in the chest
30:19in a drive-by shooting.
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.
30:30He was out there
30:31at the fight
30:32because he was supposed
30:33to have performed
30:34at some club
30:35that Suge owned
30:37and I guess
30:39Tupac was supposed
30:40to come through.
30:41He was like
30:42how come Tupac
30:44just got shot?
30:46Craig was like
30:47scared.
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
31:02Tupac 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 was celebrating
31:14Pac's death.
31:17I'm glad that
31:18I didn't kill anybody
31:20or anybody killed me
31:21but I damn sure
31:23came close.
31:26Police in Las Vegas
31:27say they have
31:28no motive
31:29for this latest shooting
31:30but the rapper's
31:31troubled past
31:32will certainly
31:32be 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
31:44now
31:44in my mature mind
31:47had a lot to do
31:48with the death
31:49of Tupac.
31:51In 2006
31:59I was recruited
32:00to work a task force
32:02that was going
32:03to look at
32:04a cold case investigation.
32:06At the time
32:07Tupac's murder
32:08was an unsolved case.
32:11Gang crimes
32:12often times
32:13are difficult to solve
32:14because you don't get
32:14cooperating witnesses.
32:16They want to
32:17stick to 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 on nobody
32:28because I would never
32:28snitch on nobody.
32:30We had built
32:31a narcotics case
32:32against Keefe D.
32:34Keefe D.
32:35was kind of the
32:35shock caller
32:36for the Southside Crips.
32:37He was the most
32:38prominent drug dealer.
32:39He 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 the
32:54Mike Tyson fight.
32:56So Keefe D.
32:57was potentially
32:58looking at a life sentence
32:59for federal drug trafficking.
33:01We 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 Keefe D.
33:18to do a proper session.
33:20Keefe,
33:20today what we're going to do,
33:21we're just going to go
33:22over with a fine-toothed 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 proper 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.
33:45Doesn'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
34:03several conversations
34:04with Sean Combs.
34:06I met him,
34:07he gave a party at
34:08the Sella Club
34:11down in Salomonica.
34:12That's where I met him.
34:13The first day I met him.
34:15Sean 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 developed
34:30their own relationship.
34:32And Zip in the Duce,
34:33he said,
34:34this is my boy.
34:34What are you in Zip in the Duce, man?
34:35This is my friend,
34:36this is my nephew.
34:36That's my boy.
34:37My boy, this is Pup.
34:40And after that,
34:40they used my car
34:41on the video.
34:42Which car was I having?
34:44The 64 Chevy I have.
34:47Every time I look
34:48catch you,
34:49that's low...
34:50What color was it?
34:51Blown.
34:52All right.
34:52Usher video
34:53when Pup was driving
34:54the car,
34:55Usher birds or whatever,
34:56he was in a Laker uniform
34:57and he had the 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
35:03to get it repainted.
35:04I don't have no money
35:07to try to do it.
35:09Well,
35:10he calls Zip home
35:11and he wanted to speak
35:12to 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.
35:18I want to hear
35:20a new flavor,
35:20ain't you hear?
35:21I want to hear
35:22a new flavor.
35:23Jacket, Jacket,
35:25yeah,
35:25to 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,
35:40Pup, Zip,
35:42you.
35:42About 40-some
35:43soft-siders.
35:44Yeah,
35:45that was stupid
35:46as hell too,
35:47you know.
35:49He said he would
35:50kill us anything
35:51for no dudes there,
35:52you know.
35:52Tupac answered me.
35:54Yeah.
35:54He said it in front
35:56of all those people
35:56I can't believe him.
35:58You 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 point,
36:05he was worried
36:05about something
36:06happening to him.
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.
36:13Then there's
36:13a more specific
36:14incident that takes
36:15place at 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, hey,
36:22I'm serious,
36:23I want you guys
36:24to kill this,
36:24these guys?
36:26Well, he,
36:26when he told me
36:27the Greenblatt's.
36:29When we got there,
36:30we were laughing at him
36:31because he was just
36:32brought a suck dick,
36:34to suck every dick
36:35in there.
36:35He was hugged up,
36:36kissing,
36:36whatever,
36:37we was laughing
36:37like a woman.
36:38Like, man,
36:39what you laughing at,
36:39dog?
36:40Man,
36:41don't just come out
36:42here and get in
36:42any brawl, dog.
36:44I took him down
36:45and he was like,
36:46man,
36:46I got to get rid
36:47of those dudes,
36:48man.
36:49It's going to be
36:49a problem.
36:53It was after he made
36:54the record.
36:55Hit him up,
36:55came out.
36:56Yeah,
36:56yeah,
36:56that pissed him off.
37:01Yeah,
37:01we were on
37:02the million.
37:02He 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.
37:11You 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 him
37:18or something like that?
37:19Yeah.
37:20What happened?
37:21You know,
37:21he,
37:22man,
37:23I said,
37:24I will 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 into the...
37:35He 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 occasion.
37:43We was eating
37:44and the man,
37:45they came and said,
37:47he's a beat-up man.
37:49He was in a hotel,
37:50you know,
37:51at the MGM
37:52at a restaurant.
37:53There was a few
37:53New Yorkers,
37:54though,
37:54when we went and said,
37:57like,
37:57man,
37:57I need some help.
37:59We got this.
38:00It's a perfect opportunity
38:02baby.
38:03That was Zip coming?
38:04Yeah.
38:04Because of what happened
38:05with the man?
38:06Yeah.
38:06Yeah.
38:07We and I don't know
38:08because we was down there
38:09and he told me
38:10in the lobby
38:11that he had some jimmies.
38:13Some what?
38:13He had a jimmie.
38:15He had a pen.
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
38:29or you can place
38:30a 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
38:41Tupac was murdered,
38:42Sean requested
38:43that we rent cars
38:46and have multiple drivers
38:49drive clear
38:51across the country
38:52to this fight.
38:54But I arranged
38:56through my budget
38:58to make that trip
38:59happen
39:00for those drivers
39:01and to this day
39:03it stands out
39:03in my mind.
39:05Why did we rent
39:06multiple cars?
39:08Why did we hire people
39:09from Harlem
39:10and other locations
39:11to drive?
39:16You tell Zip,
39:17hey, we're going to go
39:18handle this shit
39:18or whatever?
39:19Yeah, they ask like,
39:20if y'all want us to go?
39:22I'm like,
39:22we know where them
39:23motherfuckers at.
39:24They was telling us
39:24that they're going to be
39:25at the 662 Club.
39:27Two cars go to 662?
39:28Yeah.
39:29The van and the cabin.
39:31They didn't show up.
39:32We waited about 15,
39:3420 minutes.
39:34They didn't show up.
39:36So,
39:37they was like,
39:37let's go get some liquor.
39:39And we came up
39:40to Harlem
39:41at the Las Vegas
39:43Willow Art.
39:44And,
39:44oh, shit.
39:45Here they coming
39:46at BMW.
39:47I can't get cars.
39:49On their way
39:49to 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,
39:58say,
39:58just turn down
39:58your music,
39:59no big deal.
40:00And it's at this point
40:01in time
40:02that Suge
40:03and Tupac
40:04see these girls.
40:06Like,
40:06they're Suge,
40:07Suge.
40:08Like,
40:08the police were
40:08going through his car
40:09or something or another.
40:10And then,
40:11the traffic was stopped
40:13and then they got
40:13in the car.
40:14Did you see
40:15who was with Suge?
40:17I saw it 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 Bronson,
40:24Tupac!
40:26Tupac!
40:27And we like,
40:27there they 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.
40:45We rolled down the window.
40:45Tupac.
40:48Should go kill
40:48where he sees you.
40:50Yeah.
40:51Definitely him.
40:52Okay.
40:54Fucking know
40:54what he tells us
40:55when we were seven,
40:56eight years old.
40:58I seen a bully
40:59going,
40:59Suge,
41:00yeah,
41:00I 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 wouldn't want
41:12to park the car
41:12and put the gun
41:14on the tire
41:14and left.
41:14Where'd you guys go?
41:16We smoked weed and rain.
41:18Yeah.
41:18Wait.
41:19What?
41:20It's all there.
41:20They're parking in the room.
41:22And they pulled up
41:23in the ambulance
41:23while we were standing
41:24right there.
41:26Take our bullshit.
41:27You guys on the street,
41:29what we're on
41:29Las Vegas Boulevard
41:30at the crosswalk
41:31and they pull up
41:32the ambulance
41:33right next to us.
41:34We came on 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.
41:43We didn't give a fuck.
41:44We didn't give a fuck.
41:44We didn't give a fuck.
41:45We didn't give a fuck.
41:46We didn't give a fuck.
41:47Right next to her.
41:47That shit was funny
41:48in the boat.
41:49And I haven't ever
41:53told nobody this.
41:56So you get back to L.A.
41:57the next day,
41:58Zip calls.
41:59You says,
41:59meet me at the hot
42:00place where at?
42:02You guys go over there.
42:04Zip shows up.
42:05You guys,
42:06what happens?
42:07People call it.
42:08Was that us?
42:09He told them,
42:09yeah, it was us.
42:10On Zip's phone
42:11or your phone?
42:11On Zip's phone.
42:13And Zip gives you the phone?
42:15Yeah.
42:16People say,
42:17well, that's us.
42:18He was happy in there
42:19or shit.
42:20And did you ask him
42:20about his money?
42:21When you're going to get paid
42:22or whatever?
42:22No, I don't know.
42:23I don't know.
42:23I have to tell you
42:24that on the phone.
42:24Zip, go get our cash.
42:27Okay, so you tell Zip
42:28we need to get paid.
42:30What does Zip say?
42:31I'm going to go back home
42:32and have a...
42:32Yeah, I'll get back
42:33with your money.
42:37According to Keefe D,
42:38he was never compensated
42:39for the murder.
42:42But he said
42:43that a partial amount
42:45of the money
42:45was intended
42:46to be forwarded
42:47to him
42:48through Zip
42:49to the tune
42:50of about $500,000.
42:53The 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 has a conversation
43:05with Darius Rogers
43:06with D-Mac.
43:07He don't like the D-Mac
43:08to do this
43:09with D-Mac right there.
43:12And D-Mac says
43:13there had been
43:14a payment
43:15from Combs
43:16to Keefe D,
43:18but it had gone
43:19through Zip
43:20and then that money
43:21was never forwarded.
43:23We'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.
43:39Ultimately,
43:40Zip dies 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
43:50was shot and killed
43:51in 1998.
43:53So,
43:54it's really Keefe D
43:55and Puffy Combs
43:57are the last men standing
43:58that can be held accountable
44:00for Tupac Shakur's murder.
44:01Keefe D
44:31take that off.
44:45Let's move him and groove.
44:48Move him, groove.
44:54What goes up
44:55must come down
44:57and what goes down
44:58must come up.
45:00Fuck.
45:01i remember 99 we were working in the studio on a song called muscle gang
45:10the song comes on and puff was talking in the beginning it's 1999
45:21no more mr. nice guy i'm like what is he talking about
45:28everything that's done in the dark must come to light
45:39everything that goes up must come down
45:42yeah i'm headed to hunt 13th and lennox king i gotta catch my man okay i'll see you up
46:04with the backdrop of east coast west coast beef sean took biggie to los angeles to record
46:16what would be the finishing touches on biggie's life after death album which wasn't titled
46:31that yet
46:38yo
46:41yo big wake up wake up baby what the fuck man what's up come on now it's a quarter of the
46:46six we got the 7 30 flight on the lax oh cali no doubt baby we have been warned to not come
46:53to la there were warnings all along for the last few months that we are not the set foot
47:00on the west coast
47:02it was awards show season and sean wanted him to start promoting the album
47:08come on
47:15biggie did not want to go but sean talked him into doing all of those things
47:23they were like cat calling and booing
47:30what's up cali
47:38we were not welcome
47:40after the awards show saturday morning
47:44biggie and i were to go to london and we were going to have a two three day press junket
47:50to have biggie be one of the first artists from bad boy to meet the european press
47:56i had worked on that for months and weeks leading up
47:59we were supposed to go to the airport that morning
48:03i'm calling biggie like crazy what's going on wake up to
48:07he said yo puff is bugging he just called me and told me i want you to stay here in la
48:13i don't want to stay i want to go
48:16but sean was adamant
48:20cancel the flight
48:22biggie's not going to the uk
48:24what do you mean he's not going to click he hangs up
48:27this was his m.o.
48:29ego
48:30power
48:31tripping
48:33all of it because sean wanted to do a party
48:36on enemy turf
48:38scared to death
48:45that's how real it is i think somebody's trying to kill me i'll be waking up paranoid i'll be really scared i'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 and i was like yo man you know what are you doing catching l.a man they get down in these circumstances man and you just can't be walking around here freely
49:25everybody's mean
49:42i look around i say where's big
49:46i wanna get out
49:48they'm going to january
49:49hold up hold them
49:50i'll go to the street
49:51zoom in
49:53i've seen you running this shit
49:57so
50:02that's bigger nice
50:03that is bigger
50:13Fairfax and Wilshire, Glees, Los Angeles.
50:16We have a man shot. We have a man shot.
50:19Okay, hold on. I'll get that.
50:20Right on the corner, Wilshire and Fairfax.
50:22Fairfax, let's go, let's go.
50:25Sir, hold on. Listen, sir. I can't hear what you're saying.
50:28We're man shot in our car right now.
50:31Right now, we're trying to roll into the hospital.
50:34I know the way.
50:35See the sign-up.
50:37You gotta go back. You gotta turn around, Jimmy.
50:39You're going the wrong way.
50:40What the fuck is wrong with y'all, man?
50:42I was following Big's lead on, like, you know,
50:53we're going to do this peace tour.
50:56And, you know, it didn't work out.
51:01Sean said it on can't stop, won't stop.
51:03Biggie wanted to go.
51:05Go left. Go left, man.
51:07Big, you hear me, baby?
51:09He's lying about that.
51:12Sean wanted that trip and was pushing it for weeks and weeks.
51:18He lied about it and let me know that's a weak spot for him,
51:23and he's nervous about that information.
51:25That's the F.S.
51:26We're prowling over there.
51:28I'm for bullshit.
51:29What kind of let this thing go for?
51:31He ushered Biggie to his death.
51:34Who do you think called Biggie?
51:42Next question.
51:43All it was is a Puffy and Suge Knight war.
51:50You're messing with lives here, and that's exactly what happened.
51:54Two lives were lost as a result of what?
51:56Stupidity?
51:57When I sat down with Valetta, we briefly brought up Sean Combs.
52:03It was clear to me that she had no real respect or appreciation for him.
52:08Sean clearly didn't do all that he could have done to help out in the investigation.
52:11In fact, he was a hindrance in the investigation.
52:16Puffy was kind of stonewalling people from talking because he knows if you make inroads on Biggie's murder,
52:23you're going to make inroads on Tupac's murder, and that potentially can lead right back to him.
52:29How are Biggie's mom and Faith and the kids taking all this?
52:36Biggie's moms and Faith and the children are extremely strong.
52:39They've been, matter of fact, they've been strong for me and helping to hold me up.
52:44Sean assumed the position of his best friend in every article and publication,
52:51and that wasn't necessarily true.
52:54And I'm going to be there for them, just like he would be there for them to make sure that they're all right.
52:59Sean said, we're going to do the biggest funeral for Biggie that New York has ever seen.
53:05And we start to put that together. He starts to see the price.
53:10And he says, we're going to do the biggest funeral, but Biggie's going to have to pay for this funeral.
53:16He was going to make the funeral be a recoupable charge to Biggie in death.
53:23This is one of my closest friends, and it's still one of my closest friends.
53:27I just, I feel his loss. I just miss him so much.
53:33Sean doing a big show looks good on him.
53:38But he's not going to tell the world that Biggie was going to pay for it.
53:41In Best Star, Brooklyn, the whole hood was outside.
53:55If you could make it there, you was there.
53:56It was a big loss for the city.
54:02I loved Biggie. Biggie inspired me. He gave me hope. He made us feel like he was from the town.
54:08You could make it. We loved Biggie. So it was like losing a family member.
54:12Biggie just wanted to be a rap superstar.
54:17He didn't want to hurt nobody.
54:21He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted, like, for a long time.
54:25It's not a feeling that I really felt a lot, like, in my life.
54:28I don't really have a lot of friends.
54:30I think people think I have a lot of friends, you know.
54:32I don't think I really make a good friend.
54:38Before he was assassinated, Biggie had an opportunity to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.
54:46We were delivering the elements so that can happen.
54:49And Sean called me and said, pull that cover. I need to be on the cover.
54:54My solo album is coming in July. No way out.
54:58And I need to amp that up.
54:59He took the cover from Biggie.
55:08Another thing at the time, Biggie was negotiating his contract.
55:13Every day I wake up.
55:16We acquiesced and gave him everything he wanted, and then he died.
55:20Can't believe you ain't here.
55:21Sean wanted me to change the agreement to more favorable terms for bad boy, and his family and mother would not know.
55:33And since he had signed the agreement, he wanted those changes to come from out of the center of the agreement and have those pages replaced with the other terms.
55:43And I said, that's not right.
55:44I'm not doing it.
55:4690 days later, I'm fired.
55:49It's like I feel empty inside without you being here.
55:52I remember Michael Jackson, the Motown 25 special.
56:03MTV, Madonna like a virgin.
56:06And I remember Puff with Sting.
56:08Check it out.
56:10Having a TV moment in music, it's very rare.
56:19It elevates you to such another level of superstar.
56:23It made him rock star, bitch.
56:26It's kind of hard when you're not around.
56:28Know you in heaven smiling down.
56:30Watching us while we pray for you.
56:32He became humongous.
56:33But now it's him.
56:36Now I'm the man.
56:37It was like a dream come true to see the lines like in front of the stores.
56:43Like people going there to get my record.
56:46It's crazy.
56:47It all happened pretty quickly for you from being an intern to being on the cover of the road in snow.
56:53Thanks for Biggie's mother who's sitting right there for having Notorious V.I.G.
56:59You've abused everyone and used most everyone.
57:02There are horror stories like this all throughout.
57:11Cleared of gun possession and bribery charges, Sean Puffy Combs walked out of free man.
57:16Some people speak up about it.
57:18Most do not.
57:19The first member is Aubrey.
57:23It's a pattern with him.
57:27Violence was a very normalized part of living in that world.
57:31Allegations of sexual misconduct.
57:36Huffy called these encounters freak off.
57:38Witnessed Diddy abusing Cassie and that they encouraged Cassie to get away from him.
57:45Everything in life you're going to have people that are bad and people that are good.
57:49You know, you have to choose your side.
57:51기분 is a passer.
57:59Yeah.
58:08It's an hourly charge.
58:09You know, especially for us, we have to go to church.
58:10osition.
58:11You know how to Deathを call it like to 되Whoaują.
58:11You know, be better.
58:12You're different.
58:12You're different.
58:13In phase 2, in phase 2, in phase 1, in phase 1, in phase 1, cancer 2, in phase 1, culture 5, in phase 2.
58:162, in phase 2, in phase 1, Ganze 1.
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