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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 mean, yeah.
03:44Trust me.
03:45That's the last thing.
03:46I never know why he's treeing out up here.
03:48Yeah.
03:49I think that's what I meant to make up the bullish mean.
03:51I'm not even serious.
03:52I think that it's like a guy with that name.
03:53and I think that he's just originaire in his shoes.
03:54I mean…
03:55I don't just information.
03:56I don't know.
03:57Yeah, well they're always on quarterback for him.
03:59Just teased off of his makaa…
04:01V celebrity used to give trombi attendant raised and what they showed you about.
04:03He doesn't know why he's just turning off your mouth...
04:04So many more thoughts of his little babies, are all things that I say.
04:05Oh fuck, there was a whole lot of crazy shit going on.
04:08You know what I mean, I saw them not the bad way going down.
04:11Yeah.
04:12Like, that shit was crazy to me that that shit wasn't there,
04:14which 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?
04:24It was a sign to me like that, but I'm saying,
04:26that shit was there like two months ago, right?
04:29I'm not tripping, tripping.
04:30Yeah, it was there, yeah.
04:35Puff is in this position where he has all this turmoil,
04:46but he's not at the point where he's saying,
04:47where I went wrong.
04:50He's saying to himself, how do I get out of this?
04:54Maybe I can convince some witnesses
04:56that I'm not the guy who I am.
05:00Eventually, he's going to get to the point
05:02where he's going to ask himself,
05:03how did I get myself into this situation?
05:16This is mad, I get...
05:1895, he had two of the hottest acts.
05:20Greg, map game, what's flavor in your ear?
05:22Here goes a brand new flavor, yeah.
05:25Time for new flavor, yeah.
05:28And Biggie.
05:28You gotta come up in your waist,
05:30please don't shoot up the place.
05:31Why?
05:31Cause I see some ladies tonight that should be having...
05:34Bad Boy was rising up.
05:36My little lab right here, you know,
05:37where I cut my deals and all that.
05:39Got my little headset, just living out a dream,
05:42you know what I'm saying?
05:42One time, Sean was in his office,
05:44and I'm in a little cubby hole around the corner.
05:47He buzzes me.
05:48Zzzzzz.
05:50So I get up and I go in with my papers and go.
05:53A girl is giving him a blow job at the desk.
05:55He wanted me to see that.
05:58He wanted me to see her face.
05:59And then he was able to get her to do that right then and there in the office.
06:03She leaves, I'm, what did you want me for?
06:07Ah, I didn't want you for anything.
06:11That 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?
06:19So the C's for all of this was early on.
06:23I want to thank y'all, Alistair Ricketts, B.I.M.G.
06:26And that came from people in the industry
06:30co-signing his activity
06:33because it brought money in.
06:36I don't know if y'all niggas know this.
06:38The Juicy with platinum.
06:40Big Purple with platinum.
06:42In your ear remix with platinum.
06:45That whole bad boy thing was so big,
06:49Faith Evans.
06:50I'm gonna be first lady on Puff Daddy's Lady.
06:52Total.
06:53Biggie.
06:57In Greg Matt.
06:58The thing over here is Greg Matt.
07:01It was a consistent back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
07:06So let me just give you a day in the life of Puff Daddy.
07:11Gets up from wherever he stayed that night.
07:15Heads to the office two hours late.
07:18You 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.
07:24Puffy's over there.
07:25What's up, Puff?
07:26How you doing, baby, bruh?
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.
07:34Yo, 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...
07:44Just to get their shot at Puffy.
07:47Everybody 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
07:57and play by the rules.
07:59No, I'm the rule now.
08:00I am the exception to the rule.
08:03One day, it seemed like out of the blue, my door opens up.
08:17One walks in.
08:19He had a baseball bat.
08:21He had a big attaché suitcase with the snaps on it.
08:25The stocks were there.
08:27We in a fucking hustle.
08:28We in a grind.
08:29Doing your job.
08:30Whatever your...
08:31He 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 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 and I 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.
08:52Hey James, that's a problem.
08:54Y'all don't know how to be accountable.
08:57And he threatened until I did.
09:02People always say to me, why would you do that?
09:06Like, 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.
09:20It wasn't like he was firing me.
09:22But I was definitely confused by it.
09:25It might sound strange,
09:29but if you've ever built something
09:31and you want it to last,
09:33you think about how to make it last.
09:35You think about how to make it last.
09:39I 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
10:05on his Grammy nomination.
10:06No question.
10:07Yes, baby, yeah.
10:08That's cool.
10:09And I'm sure...
10:10Yo, you got nominated for a Grammy,
10:12but we had no money.
10:14If you look at Bad Boy,
10:16Bad Boy didn't sell enough records
10:19to explain his wealth.
10:22But enough artists were on the label
10:25that sold enough records to explain his wealth.
10:29Sean's trick was,
10:31I'm going to make you a star.
10:32Your sign, follow 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, 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.
11:04You'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.
11:12You're in the studio,
11:14now you have to recoup
11:16for being in the studio.
11:18Puff owns the studio,
11:20and I have four sessions with you,
11:22you owe me $400,000.
11:25If Puff records a song with his artist,
11:27he pays himself.
11:31If he's in your video,
11:32he pays himself.
11:33He inserted himself into their videos.
11:36A video come on,
11:37you'll be like,
11:38I fucking hate that guy.
11:39As an artist,
11:40you can go number one.
11:41Song is being played all over the nation,
11:43but you don't have the money to go to it
11:46because you're not making the proper money
11:49off of your royalties.
11:50Craig and I hit a point where we were fucked up.
11:56No money, nothing.
11:58Hell, I was getting money from my father
12:01to take care of the house.
12:05We were all at like somebody's album release party,
12:08and Craig's gonna tell Puff to give him a few dollars,
12:11and he'll hit him back once he went and did this show.
12:14He literally went in his pocket
12:16and pulled out a knot of money
12:19this big and gave him $100 bill.
12:27You really just don't give a fuck.
12:32I think Sean had an envy for his own artists.
12:36He was jealous of their talent
12:38and wondering, like,
12:39this talent is wasted on people
12:41who don't even really know what to do,
12:43and if I had that talent in my know-how, wow.
12:47That's interesting,
12:48because a lot of people Puffy's age
12:49want to grab this mic and rap,
12:52but Puffy, you wanted to do other things,
12:53and you're doing a lot of them.
12:55Can you talk about his skills as a rapper?
12:57Sucks.
12:58He has zero talent musically, nothing.
13:00He don't know how to discuss.
13:01He don't know nothing about R&B.
13:02He don't know none of that stuff.
13:03He used to ask me to always be there on the sessions
13:06because I would tell the truth.
13:08I'd be like, that's not it.
13:09People would be there like, yeah, that was tight.
13:11That was tight.
13:12I'd be like, look, for real,
13:13you got a lot of people who just tell you anything.
13:16That sucked, it doesn't sound good,
13:19and it makes no sense.
13:22But he always wanted to be an artist.
13:24We're about to just drop our R&B stuff.
13:26The Puff Daddy album?
13:28Yeah, what about the Puff Daddy solo project?
13:30Yeah, we don't like to talk about that to me.
13:32Sean used other methods and ways
13:37to get to where he had to go.
13:39Big on strategy, big on swag.
13:44All of those things became important.
13:46When it boiled down to the music,
13:48even if I didn't touch it, I showed you what to do.
13:51So that's what he was.
13:52Damn, you know what I'm saying?
13:53What?
13:54Right here.
13:55Damn, you know what I'm saying?
13:56Shit.
13:57Where's the makeup at?
13:58Makeup?
13:59Right here, man.
14:00That whole bad boy was built on him.
14:03You cannot take that from him.
14:05But I think that Puffy wanted the light,
14:08like he always wanted.
14:10From dancing the whole night, you see it.
14:12Anybody that's boasted and loud like that,
14:13they want to be in the spotlight.
14:15It wasn't like no secret.
14:17That's what he wanted.
14:206'3", 335-pound,
14:24Shug Knight has managed to become
14:26the head of a $100 million record company.
14:28It's the record label at ground zero
14:30of the whole gangsta rap phenomenon,
14:32Death Row Records.
14:34Shug was about that money,
14:36but he didn't want to be in that limelight,
14:39like Puff.
14:40He had his own lane.
14:43You're a big guy,
14:44and there are people who are afraid of you.
14:46There's probably people who are afraid of you.
14:48Back in 1988,
14:49the person who did the greatest job
14:51of protecting me was the head of my security
14:53at the time, Shug Knight.
14:55Right now, I'm on the heartbreak tour
14:56with Bobby Brown and New Edition,
14:58and we've been out...
14:59We're about to get on the tour bus,
15:01and these dudes came over,
15:02and he was, like, talking crazy.
15:04Y'all niggas this,
15:05y'all niggas that,
15:06this, this, this.
15:08And I seen Shug kind of just turn this way
15:12and gave him one of these.
15:14BOW! Like that.
15:16And knocked dude down the hill,
15:18and it looked like a cartoon.
15:20Dude was rolling down the hill.
15:21Boom, boom.
15:22It's Tim's K-ball.
15:24He's a street dude.
15:26He's a real street dude.
15:27But Shug knew talent,
15:29and he knew business.
15:31They took me on tour,
15:32and I learned how every person
15:34who's writing songs
15:35is getting beat out their money,
15:37like they're publishing.
15:38He was able to dovetail that
15:40into starting Death Row Records.
15:42One, two, three, into the phone.
15:45Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre is at the door.
15:48Death Row can be bigger than Motown,
15:51or Sony, or Warner Brothers.
15:53Death Row's gonna be the biggest record company there is.
15:56Chronic album's the foundation.
15:58Before Bad Boy,
15:59Death Row was the most successful label in the business.
16:02From the depths of the sea,
16:04back to the block, Snoop Doggy Dogg.
16:06Sean had admired Death Row
16:08and wanted us to emulate them.
16:12And that was my job.
16:14How do I make Bad Boy equal to success of Death Row?
16:19And, of course, my eyes was like this.
16:21Death Row?
16:22They had a head start.
16:23They had artists.
16:24They picked superstars up from other indie labels.
16:27We're starting off.
16:28Me and him were friends.
16:30Wow. Who showed you?
16:31Yeah, yeah.
16:32He would pick me up from the airport.
16:33You know, I was just networking with the brother,
16:35you know, show me a lot of love.
16:37You know, I really had thought we were cool.
16:40Me and Puffy, we used to run around with each other.
16:43He was getting in the business.
16:44I was in the business.
16:46Living life without fear.
16:48Only a few years later, Bad Boy, Death Row.
16:52Death Row is the label that pays, man.
16:54The two hottest labels.
16:57But I would look over at Death Row and say,
16:59they're taking care of their artists better than we are.
17:02They're putting your head, fuck the artists.
17:06And my thing was opposite.
17:07It's about me and my people.
17:09Fuck you.
17:11Craig wasn't happy there.
17:14Death Row was courting him.
17:16Because Shud was opening up a Death Row East.
17:19And it was found out.
17:21Shot by the finger.
17:23Yes.
17:30It's the Source Hip Hop Music Awards!
17:33The Source Awards was happening in New York City.
17:41Come on, New York!
17:43And behind the scenes, people were running back and forth
17:46to the next dressing room, to the next dressing room,
17:48which were in trailers, parked outside of Madison Square Garden.
17:53How important is it to have the Source Awards?
17:56Let me just wait in front.
17:58You got that?
17:59Come on, man. Who bagging on the door like that?
18:02When I was a dog, what is the deal, man?
18:04Keep the door closed.
18:05And it escalated with words from the podium at the awards show.
18:09Any artist out there that want to be an artist,
18:12and want to stay a star,
18:13and don't want to have to worry about the executive producer
18:16trying to be all in the videos, all on the record, dancing.
18:21Come to Death Row.
18:23I'm the executive producer that our comment was made about a little bit earlier.
18:36But check this out.
18:37Contrary to what other people may feel,
18:40I would like to say that I'm very proud of Dr. Dre,
18:44of Death Row, and Shook Knight for their accomplishments.
18:46You know what I'm saying?
18:48I'm a positive black man, and I make music to bring us together,
18:51not to separate us, and all this East and West that need to stop.
18:55So give it up for everybody from the East and the West that 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 that's all out dark.
19:11He processes things differently.
19:15He remembers every slight.
19:17Once again, y'all, please give it up for all the nominees.
19:36Before I signed with Bad Boy, I was working at the door of the club,
19:40and Platinum House.
19:44Every Friday we had a Bad Boy party.
19:47So Puff was there.
19:49Suge Knight came that night with his friend Jake.
19:52And I was working the door.
19:54Suge was looking for Puff.
19:59Sean would try to go after people's side chicks.
20:02Like a girl in Atlanta that Suge was dealing with.
20:08Sean wanted me to take $50,000 out of the overhead account
20:15so he could buy her a diamond necklace,
20:18wooing her because she was Suge's side piece in Atlanta when he came there.
20:22Real police officer in a real police uniform came and got on a safe.
20:31I said, man, you touch the homie, we gonna tear this mother up.
20:35He said, well, I gotta throw him out. I said, for what?
20:38He said, he was Puff.
20:40Suge and Jake is being escorted out the club
20:45by the off-duty officer we always had there moonlighting.
20:51Jake comes out, Suge come out, Puff come out.
20:54Everybody's outside.
20:56A man appeared with one hand behind his back,
21:00and he was holding a pistol.
21:04He touched Jake with the pistol,
21:06and he looked at Suge like this
21:09and was shooting Suge's friend like this.
21:12He shot him five times.
21:17Suge grabbed the hold to Puffy
21:21and the choke hold and put him in the front of him like this.
21:25So he was moving Puff around like this.
21:27In case you shoot him, you're gonna shoot Puffy,
21:29you're not gonna shoot me.
21:34Puff was like,
21:36it's gonna be all right, man.
21:37It's gonna be all right.
21:39Suge said, what you mean it's gonna be all right?
21:42He said, tell your mama it's gonna be all right.
21:44Tell your kids it's gonna be all right.
21:48And then the shooter ran.
21:54Ambulance came and took Jake to the hospital.
21:57A couple of days later, he died.
21:59That's what started the East Coast, West Coast war.
22:02Tupac Shakur, out of the hospital after surgery from bullet wounds, is convicted on sex charges.
22:17After Puck is shot in Quad studio, he had the rape case.
22:20He had the rape case.
22:22A New York jury convicted the rapper of first-degree sexual abuse, but acquitted him of more serious charges.
22:27Since your period of incarceration at Clinton Correctional Facility, have you taken the time to reflect on your gangster thug image?
22:38Puck and Big were friends at one time, but then once Puck is in jail, Bad Boy and all of his associations were nemesises.
22:51When I'm in jail, strangers is telling me, you know, you don't know? Big your old boy shot you.
22:58Cause they bragging, they telling their in jail.
23:01Yo, we just got Puck.
23:03Once the conflict happens, Puck needed someone strong that was gonna stand with him.
23:12It had just so happened that Suge had his own issues with Puffy, so Suge went to jail and visited him.
23:23The whole shit was like some mob shit.
23:28Enter Tupac, a young captain.
23:32I'm gonna join a family, dog. Get me out.
23:35Get me out.
23:38Suge Knight first signed Tupac to a recording contract when Tupac was in this New York State prison, unable to come up with the million dollars needed for bail,
23:48while his lawyers appealed a 1995 conviction for sexual assault.
23:55I want everybody to give a big welcome from Tupac.
23:59Out on bail, rapper Tupac Shakur's rushed to market double album, All Eyes On Me, debuts at number one on this week's Billboard chart.
24:08With the addition of Tupac, there's no way y'all can stop us now.
24:12If you think bad boy, I'll say fuck them all.
24:16We coming to the East Coast to prove there is no fear.
24:19Overthrow the government y'all got right now, which is bad boy and all that bullshit.
24:23And we will bring a new government here that will feed every person in New York.
24:25All right, cool, man. All right, man, thanks. Thanks a lot.
24:29Sean tried everything to get Biggie upset.
24:33He had to go at him with business. This guy came at us.
24:37I was more in a mind frame of...
24:42Keep your mouth shut, big. You know what I'm saying?
24:45Don't feed into it.
24:47If you feed into it, it's gonna do nothing but escalate. You know what I'm saying?
24:50Biggie never wanted to be an enemy to Pac.
24:54As things was coming from the West Coast, Biggie did not want to give any shots back.
25:00When Pac was producing All Eyes On Me, he called us and said,
25:04I just fucked big parents. Big's wife.
25:09We was like, what?
25:11First of all, fuck your bitch in the clique you claim.
25:13Westside when we ride, come equip with game.
25:16You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.
25:19Well, that's not true at all.
25:21Biggie stole my husband legally. I am having his baby. No, I'm not.
25:25Sean kept putting pressure on Biggie. You gotta answer back.
25:29Tupac would have me pissed off, you know what I'm saying?
25:32And the rumors that's spreading is on some tip like we set them up.
25:38You know what I'm saying? And that's crazy.
25:40The East Coast, West Coast thing was invented. Period.
25:43Because no matter what, we all went to the East.
25:46They came here, went to the West, whatever.
25:48They wasn't arguing with each other.
25:50We was able to roam.
25:51Fuck Biggie, fuck Bad Boy as a staff record label and as a motherfucking crew.
25:56It was this Bad Boy in death row.
26:00And that right there put people in danger because it made people be like, F you, F you.
26:05And people started doing stuff for no reason because there's, you know,
26:08it's just people that want to ride for each other.
26:11And then look what happened, so.
26:12Doing the street thing, my affiliation was with the Mansfield hustlers.
26:23Today, uh, we go by Mansfield Gangster Crips now.
26:29Police say that drugs and violence are being spread by two long-standing rivals in the Los Angeles youth gang scene.
26:37Groups who call themselves Crips and wear blue colors and Bloods who wear red.
26:43Did you guys provide protection?
26:47Sean Combs was a friend.
26:50Christopher Wallace was a friend.
26:52And, you know, when we hanging out with our friends,
26:57we gonna protect our friends.
27:01So they knew.
27:03And they were our associates.
27:06You got beef with them, you got beef with me.
27:09Period.
27:11A number of reports have come out that Bad Boy Entertainment had actually hired Crips for security work out on the West Coast.
27:15Is that true?
27:17Um, we've never hired Crips or any other game.
27:22A gang faction to do security for us.
27:25It would be extremely unintelligent to hire, um, a gang, some gangs to do security for you.
27:32A lot of the New York guys come out to L.A.
27:35Zip is a person that I know that was Puffy's man, that was his guy.
27:43Eric Von Zip is a drug lord from Harlem, but Sean told me he was his uncle.
27:48He might have known Janice on the fringe.
27:51He might have known Sean's father from those days.
27:54Zip had a relationship with the Southside Crips, and then he also had a relationship with us.
28:02Sean said, Zip can give us protection going back and forth to L.A. because he was in with the Crips.
28:09And we had a beef with Suge Knight and the Bloods.
28:14Knight dresses in all red, the colors of the drug-dealing Bloods street gang.
28:19One of the death row people got jumped by someone at a mall.
28:26And that someone was from Southside Crips.
28:29One of the Crips tried to take a death row chain.
28:32I think that was an order from Bad Boy, that was an order from Puff.
28:37Because it was specific, we want a death row chain.
28:42Introducing the one and only Iron, Mike Tyson!
28:47Everybody got what they wanted that night.
28:54People got to see Tyson knock a motherfucker out.
28:59And Tyson with a left hook and Selvin is down.
29:02It's over in the first round!
29:07That's probably the reason he got us all fucked up in a lot of shit for the fight night.
29:11When you seen a Tyson fight, you want to fight.
29:24At the fight, the guy who was ripped off for the death row chain is with Suge and Pac.
29:31He just whispers to Pac, that's him.
29:35Hey, hey, hey!
29:36Hey, hey, hey, hey!
29:39It was Orlando Anderson from Southside Crips, who was connected with Puff.
29:45Next thing I know, I see Pac like phew.
29:49Took your niggas down.
29:59That was the foundational moment when all this was getting out of control.
30:04I'm out of one right now.
30:07I got a couple guys shot, and he's medical ASAP.
30:15Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot in the chest late...
30:18...this morning shot multiple times in the chest in a drive-by shooting.
30:21Death row record label owner Marion Shug Knight was also in the car, but his injuries were minor.
30:26Craig called me up. It was late.
30:28He was out there at the fight because he was supposed to have performed at some club that Suge owned.
30:38And I guess Tupac was supposed to come through.
30:41He was like, how come Tupac just got shot?
30:45Craig was, like, scared.
30:47Who was he scared of?
30:48Probably Puff.
30:50He ended up not going to death row after that.
30:57Hi, I'm Tabitha Soren with MTV News.
31:00Controversial rapper and actor Tupac Shakur has died in a Las Vegas hospital of complications from several...
31:06I was in jail. I was in jail when he got shot.
31:11There was a lot of niggas in jail that was celebrating Pac's death.
31:16I'm glad that I didn't kill anybody or anybody killed me.
31:22But I damn sure came close.
31:25Police in Las Vegas say they have no motive for this latest shooting.
31:30But the rapper's troubled past will certainly be part of the investigation.
31:33Do you know who was responsible for the killing of Tupac Shakur?
31:40No, I don't.
31:42I think that Sean now, in my mature mind, had a lot to do with the death of Tupac.
31:49In 2006, I was recruited to work a task force that was going to look at a cold case investigation.
32:06At the time, Tupac's murder was an unsolved case.
32:10Gang crimes oftentimes are difficult to solve because you don't get cooperating witnesses.
32:15They want to stick to a code that typically entails not cooperating with law enforcement and then taking matters into your own hands.
32:24It ain't my job to snitch on nobody, because I would never snitch on nobody.
32:28We had built a narcotics case against Keefy D.
32:33Keefy D was kind of the shock caller for the Southside Crips.
32:37He was the most prominent drug dealer.
32:39He was very influential in his gang.
32:42His nephew, Orlando Anderson, was a very well-known violent gang member.
32:47Tupac Shakur had assaulted Orlando Anderson just after the Mike Tyson fight.
32:55So Keefy D was potentially looking at a life sentence for federal drug trafficking.
33:01We wanted to question him about his potential role in the murder of Tupac Shakur.
33:05We let him know that he could potentially mitigate some of the damages if he wanted to come in and talk to us.
33:13And the U.S. Attorney agreed that they'd allow Keefy D to do a proffer session.
33:19Keefy, today what we're going to do, we're just going to go over with a fine-tooth comb, do the Las Vegas incident.
33:24We do have to emphasize to you it's determined that some of these details are incorrect and everything is off the table.
33:33A proffer session is when a person facing criminal charges can answer questions wherein self-incriminating information would not be used against him in a criminal prosecution.
33:45Doesn't mean they have any kind of immunity.
33:49Hey, I want to say this though too.
33:51I feel, like I said that day, don't bullshit me and I won't bullshit y'all. You know what I'm saying?
33:58In the year prior to the murder of Tupac Shakur, he has had several conversations with Sean Combs.
34:06I met him, he gave a party at Southern Club down in Santa Monica. That's where I met him, the first day I met him.
34:13Sean Combs' affiliation with the Southside Crips came by way of a New York street figure known as Zip.
34:22Zip set up the introduction between Combs and Keefy D, and then they developed their own relationship.
34:30In Zip, in the new season, it's my boy. What are they in Zip, you're doing this, man. This my friend, this my nephew.
34:37It's my boy. My boy. This is Pop.
34:39And after that, they used my car on the video.
34:42Which car was that?
34:43Oh, the 64 Chevy I have.
34:45Every time I look, catch you, that's the way.
34:50What color was it?
34:51Blown.
34:52There was Usher video, and Puff was driving the car.
34:54Usher for her song, whatever.
34:55He was in a Laker uniform.
34:57And he had the little kid dancing on my car.
34:59When he got back, it was fucked up.
35:01And he had to, he paid to get it repainted.
35:09Puff, he caused their phone, and he wanted to speak to me.
35:12They gave it a B-E-T tour.
35:14And then I, he gave us some tickets, and I brought the crew.
35:18I want to hear a new flavor, ain't you hear?
35:21I want to hear a new flavor!
35:23Jacket! Jacket!
35:24Jacket! Yeah!
35:25To all the ladies in the place!
35:27Keefy D says that Sean Combs kind of makes this general announcement
35:33while they're all inside of a hotel room after a musical event.
35:38So it's Harrell, Puffy, Zip, you.
35:41About 40-somethings offside.
35:43Yeah.
35:44That was stupid as hell, too, you know?
35:47Shit, he said he would kill us anything for no dudes, anything, you know?
35:51Tupac and Chug, you mean?
35:53Yeah.
35:54And he, uh, he said in front of all the people, I can't believe him.
35:57You know what I'm saying?
35:59All home full of crips.
36:01So this is after Jake got killed.
36:03So he was, he was on point, he was worried about something happening.
36:06Yeah.
36:07Shit got miles off about a bunch of different stuff, so he was scared.
36:09He was scared to death.
36:10Yeah.
36:11Okay.
36:12Yeah.
36:13Then there's a more specific incident that takes place at a deli on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles,
36:18a place called Greenblatt's Deli.
36:20What made it a specific, like, hey, I'm serious, I want you guys to kill this, these guys?
36:25Well, he, when he told me at the Greenblatt's, when we got there, we were laughing at him.
36:31Because he was just broad as such a dick, just sucked every dick in there.
36:35He all hung up, kissing, whatever, we was laughing like a motherfucker.
36:38Like, man, what you laughing at, dawg?
36:40Man, don't just come out here and get in any broad, dawg.
36:44I took him downstairs and he's like, man, I gotta get rid of those dudes, man.
36:48It's gonna be a problem.
36:50It was after he made the record.
36:54Hit him up, came out.
36:55Yeah, yeah, that pissed him off.
37:00Yeah, we were on a million.
37:04He tells you, seriously, man, I need to get rid of these guys.
37:07I mean, he's looking at you in the eyes and he's, like, scared.
37:10Yeah.
37:11You tell him, we'll do it for a million, and he's like, okay, I'll do it for a million?
37:16Yeah.
37:17He agrees?
37:18Is there something like that?
37:19Yeah.
37:20What happened?
37:21You know, he, uh, I meant our shit out.
37:23We'll wipe the ass out quick.
37:25You know?
37:26It's nothing.
37:29Here we go, round one.
37:30Scheduled for 12.
37:31And Tyson comes right up, right into...
37:34He says that when Las Vegas happens and they're all out there,
37:37and his nephew gets assaulted by Tupac, they're like, this is the perfect occasion.
37:41We was eating.
37:42And the man, they came and said, he just beat up man.
37:44And we was in the hotel, yeah, at the MGM and the restaurant.
37:48There was a few New Yorkers, though, with Zip.
37:50Like, man, I need some help.
37:51We got this.
37:52It's your perfect opportunity, baby.
37:53That was Zip coming?
37:54Yeah.
37:55Because of what happened with...
37:56Yeah.
37:57Yeah.
37:58Yeah.
37:59You know, because it was down there and, uh, he told me in the lobby that he had some
38:12jimmies.
38:13Some what?
38:14He had a jimmie.
38:15He had a little secret compartment.
38:18The thing popped out.
38:20The vehicle that Zip was driving that night reportedly had what we call a trap in it,
38:26which is a concealed compartment where you can place a gun.
38:31It's a difficult thing to find.
38:34Zip had driven that car to Las Vegas.
38:38A few days before Tupac was murdered, Sean requested that we rent cars
38:47and have multiple drivers drive clear across the country to this fight.
38:54But I arranged through my budget to make that trip happen for those drivers.
39:01And to this day, it stands out in my mind.
39:05Why did we rent multiple cars?
39:07Why did we hire people from Harlem and other locations to drive?
39:14You tell us if, hey, we're going to go handle this shit or whatever?
39:19Yeah, they asked, like, if y'all want us to come?
39:21I'm like, we know where them motherfuckers at.
39:23They was telling us they're going to be at the 662 Club.
39:26Two cars going 662?
39:27Yeah.
39:28The van and the Cadillac.
39:30They didn't show up.
39:31We waited about 15, 20 minutes.
39:34They didn't show up.
39:35So they was like, let's go get some liquor.
39:38And we came up, uh, Harlan.
39:41Got the Las Vegas Willoward.
39:43And, uh, shit.
39:45Here they come in that BMW.
39:47Can't get cars.
39:48On their way to the club, Suge is blaring his music too loud.
39:52He gets pulled over by some police officers.
39:55They essentially, you know, say, just turn down your music.
39:58No big deal.
39:59And it's at this point in time that Suge and Tupac see these girls.
40:05Like, they're Suge, Suge.
40:07Like, the police were going through his car or something or another.
40:10And then the traffic was stopped.
40:12And then they got in the car.
40:14Did you see who was with Suge?
40:16Um, I thought it was Tupac.
40:17And then he was like, come on, come go with me.
40:20Come go with us.
40:21We're going to 662.
40:23And the bra was like, Tupac! Tupac!
40:26And we were like, there you go.
40:28Just wanted to do that.
40:29And we just pulled up on the side.
40:31Checked every car and see where they was.
40:33So what directed your attention to him?
40:34Was some girl shouting at Tupac?
40:36Tupac!
40:37He gave us up away.
40:39Otherwise, it would have gone away.
40:42And he leaned over on the window.
40:44We rolled around the window and popped.
40:47Should have looked over. He sees you.
40:50Yeah.
40:51Yeah, he'll have him.
40:52Okay.
40:53You fucking know what he tells us when we were seven or eight years old?
40:58I seen a bully going, Suge, and I thought he was dead.
41:01I thought he was dead.
41:03If you knew who killed Tupac, would you tell the police?
41:07Absolutely not.
41:10I'm going to park the car.
41:12You know, I put the gun on the tire and left.
41:15Where'd you guys go?
41:16We smoke weed and drink.
41:18What?
41:19I don't tell them.
41:20I don't tell them.
41:21I don't tell them.
41:22And they pulled up in the ambulance while we were standing right there.
41:26Take our bullshit.
41:27You guys on the street with what?
41:29We on Las Vegas Boulevard at the crosswalk.
41:31And they pulled up the ambulance right next to us.
41:34And we came on the car already?
41:35Tupac and the chug in the car.
41:38This is close.
41:39Did they see you?
41:40They couldn't see.
41:41We didn't give a fuck.
41:43I'm talking about the ambulance and parked right here.
41:46Right next to her.
41:47She was a bunny in the boat.
41:48Come on.
41:49And I have never told them what he is.
41:53So you get back to LA the next day.
41:57Zip calls you.
41:58Says, meet me at the hot one place.
42:00Where at?
42:01We're going to melt her into my peaks.
42:03You guys go over there.
42:04Zip shows up.
42:05You guys.
42:06What happens after?
42:07People call it.
42:08Was that us?
42:09He told them, yeah, it was us.
42:10Find Zip's phone or your phone?
42:11Oh, Zip phone.
42:12And Zip gives you the phone?
42:14Yeah.
42:15People say, well, that's us.
42:17He was happy as hell, shit.
42:19And did you ask him there about his money?
42:20When you're going to get paid or whatever?
42:22No, I don't know how to say that on the phone.
42:24Zip, go get our cash.
42:26Okay, so you tell Zip we need to get paid.
42:29What does Zip say?
42:30I'm going to go back home and have a...
42:32Yeah, I'll get back with y'all.
42:33Yeah.
42:34According to Keefy D, he was never compensated for the murder.
42:41But he said that a partial amount of the money
42:45was intended to be forwarded to him through Zip
42:49to the tune of about $500,000.
42:52The million-dollar solicitation amount,
42:55only half of it was fulfilled
42:57because only Tupac and not Suge was killed.
43:01Keefy D has a conversation
43:04with Darius Rogers, with DMACC.
43:06He don't like to be introduced to DMACC right there.
43:11And DMACC says there had been a payment
43:14from Combs to Keefy D,
43:18but it had gone through Zip
43:20and then that money was never forwarded.
43:25We're just hoping and waiting
43:27to see what kind of progress
43:29Las Vegas would make with Keefy D's cooperation.
43:35Nothing really happens.
43:38Ultimately, Zip dies from cancer.
43:41Thank you for coming out to Zips
43:43and I want everybody to know that
43:45when you come here, we want to keep the peace.
43:48And Orlando Anderson is shot and killed in 1998.
43:52So it's really Keefy D and Puffy Combs
43:56and Puffy Combs are the last men standing.
43:58They can be held accountable for Tupac Shakur's murder.
44:01They can be held accountable for Tupac Shakur's murder.
44:04They can be held accountable for Tupac Shakur's murder.
44:08They can be held accountable for Tupac Shakur's murder.
44:12I don't know who's talking to me.
44:13Waiting, patiently looking and see if that's you.
44:18All right, are you putting this sign on?
44:20All right, I'm at the same time, you can do it.
44:27Take that off.
44:30All right, let's move my groove.
44:35Move the groove.
44:40Move the groove.
44:54What goes up, muscle comes down.
44:57What goes down, muscle comes up.
45:03I remember in 99, we were working in the studio on a song called Muscle Gang.
45:09Muscle Gang.
45:17The song comes on and Puff was talking in the beginning.
45:25I'm like, what is he talking about?
45:36Everything that's done in the dark must come to light.
45:39Everything that goes up must come down.
45:42I don't want to head over to the cold, yeah, I'm heading to 113 for Linux, King, I gotta catch my man again.
45:51Yeah, I'm headed to hunt 13th and Lennox King, I gotta catch my man, okay, I'll see you up
46:07Yeah, we roll
46:21With the backdrop of East Coast, West Coast beef, Sean took Biggie to Los Angeles to record what would be the finishing touches on Biggie's Life After Death album, which wasn't titled that yet
46:36Yo
46:41Yo Biggie, wake up, wake up, baby
46:43Diddy, what the fuck, man? What's up?
46:45Come on, man, it's a quarter to six, we got the 7.30 flight on the LAX
46:49Whoa, Kelly?
46:51No doubt, baby
46:52We had been warned to not come to LA
46:56There were warnings all along for the last few months that we are not to set foot on the West Coast
47:02It was awards show season, and Sean wanted him to start promoting the album
47:09Come on, Saltrae, get up out your seats, come on
47:13Get up out your seats
47:15Biggie did not want to go, but Sean talked him into doing all of those things
47:22Down low, get up out your seats, come on
47:25They were like catcalling and booing
47:30We were not welcome
47:40After the awards show, Saturday morning
47:44Biggie and I were to go to London
47:47And 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
47:55I had worked on that for months and weeks leading up
47:59We were supposed to go to the airport
48:02That morning, I'm calling Biggie like crazy
48:05What's going on?
48:06Wake up
48:07He's like, yo, Puff is bugging
48:09He just called me and told me
48:11I want you to stay here in LA
48:13I don't want to stay, I want to go
48:15But Sean was adamant
48:18Cancel the flight
48:21Biggie's not going to the UK
48:23What do you mean he's not going to click?
48:25He hangs up
48:26This was his M.O.
48:29Ego, power, tripping
48:31All of it because Sean wanted to do a party on enemy turf
48:38Scared to death
48:43That's how real it is
48:47I think somebody's trying to kill me
48:49I'll be waking up paranoid
48:50I'll be really scared
48:52I'll just be peril
48:53That night
48:59Big and Puffy
49:02Was with us
49:04They were having a party
49:10I spoke to Big
49:17And I was like, yo, man
49:18You know, what are you doing?
49:22Catching LA, man
49:23They get down in these circumstances, man
49:25And you just can't be walking around here freely
49:29Everybody's mingling
49:38I look around, I say
49:43Where's Big?
49:45I want to get out
49:47Get out
49:48Hey, what am I saying?
49:49Wait, hold up, hold up
49:50Zoom in, zoom
49:52What am I saying?
49:54That's big of me
50:03That is big of me
50:04That is big of me
50:04That is big of me
50:05That is big of me
50:06Somebody got shot
50:07Somebody got shot
50:07Y'all get down
50:08What do you reporting?
50:11Yeah, we need an ambulance on Fairfax and Wilshire
50:14Green, Los Angeles
50:16We have a man shot
50:17We have a shot
50:18Okay, hold on
50:20I'll get that
50:20I'll get that
50:20Wilshire and Fairfax
50:21Let's go, let's go
50:24Sir, hold on
50:25Listen, sir
50:26I can't hear what you're saying
50:28We're man shot in our car right now
50:31Right now, we're trying to run into the hospital
50:33I know the way
50:34See the sign-up
50:36You gotta go back
50:38You gotta turn around, Jimmy
50:39You're going the wrong way
50:40What the fuck is wrong with y'all, man?
50:42What's going on?
50:43Yo, Big, do you know what I mean?
50:44Yeah, what's up, Los Piente?
50:47Big, what's up, Los Piente?
50:48Big!
50:48I was following Big's lead on, like, you know, we're going to do this peace tour
50:54And, you know, it didn't work out
51:00Sean said it on can't stop, won't stop
51:03Biggie wanted to go
51:05Big, you hear me, baby?
51:09He's lying about that
51:11Sean wanted that trip
51:14And was pushing it for weeks and 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 that information
51:25He 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
51:48You're messing with lives here
51:51And that's exactly what happened
51:53Two lives were lost as a result of what?
51:57Stupidity?
51:57When I sat down with Valetta
52:00We briefly brought up Sean Combs
52:02It was clear to me that she had no real respect or appreciation for him
52:07Sean clearly didn't do all that he could have done to help out in the investigation
52:12In fact, he was a hindrance in the investigation
52:15Puffy was kind of stonewalling people from talking
52:19Because he knows
52:20If you make inroads on Biggie's murder
52:23You're going to make inroads on Tupac's murder
52:26And 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 mom and Faith and the children are extremely strong
52:39They've been, matter of fact, they've been strong for me
52:42And helping to hold me up
52:43Sean assumed the position of his best friend
52:48And in every article and publication
52:51And that wasn't necessarily true
52:54And I'm going to be there for them
52:56Just like he would be there for them
52:57To make sure that they're all right
52:58Sean said, we're going to do the biggest funeral for Biggie
53:02That New York has ever seen
53:04And we start to put that together
53:07He starts to see the price
53:08And he says, we're going to do the biggest funeral
53:11But Biggie's going to have to pay for this funeral
53:14He was going to make the funeral
53:17Be a recoupable charge to Biggie in death
53:21This is one of my closest friends
53:25And it's still one of my closest friends
53:27I just, I feel his loss
53:30I just miss him so much
53:32Sean doing a big show looks good on him
53:36But he's not going to tell the world
53:39That Biggie was going to pay for it
53:41In Bestar, Brooklyn, the whole hood was outside
53:54If you could make it there, you was there
53:56It was a big loss for the city
54:01I loved Biggie
54:03Biggie inspired me
54:05He gave me hope
54:06He made us feel like you was from the town
54:08You could make it
54:09We loved Biggie
54:10So it was like losing a family member
54:12Biggie just wanted to be a rap superstar
54:16He didn't want to hurt nobody
54:19He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted
54:23Like for a long time
54:24It's not a feeling that I really felt a lot
54:27Like 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
54:37Before he was assassinated
54:40Biggie had an opportunity
54:42To be on the cover of Rolling Stone
54:45We were delivering the elements
54:48So that can happen
54:49And Sean called me and said
54:51Pull that cover
54:52I need to be on the cover
54:53My solo album is coming in July
54:56No way out
54:57And I need to amp that up
54:59He took the cover from Biggie
55:04Another thing at the time
55:10Biggie was negotiating his contract
55:13Every day I wake up
55:14We acquiesced
55:17And gave him everything he wanted
55:19And then he died
55:20Can't believe you ain't here
55:21Sean wanted me
55:25To change the agreement
55:27To more favorable terms for Bad Boy
55:30And his family and mother would not know
55:32And since he had signed the agreement
55:34He wanted those changes
55:37To come from out of the center of the agreement
55:40And 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
55:48It's like I feel empty inside without you being here
55:52I remember Michael Jackson
56:01The Motown 25 special
56:03MTV, Madonna Like a Virgin
56:06And I remember Puff
56:07With Sting
56:08Check it
56:10Having a TV moment in music
56:18It's very rare
56:19It elevates you to such another level of superstar
56:23It made him rock star bitch
56:25It's kinda hard but 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
56:35Now I'm the man
56:37It was like a dream come true
56:39To see the lines
56:41Like in front of the stores
56:42Like people going there to get my record
56:45It's crazy
56:47It all happened pretty quickly for you
56:48From being an intern
56:49To being on the cover of the road in snow
56:53Thanks for Biggie's mother
56:55Who's sitting right there
56:56For having Notorious V.I.G.
56:57You've abused everyone
57:01And used most everyone
57:02Put your legs in the S.A.B.I.D
57:05Everybody put your legs in the hand
57:07There are horror stories like this
57:09All throughout
57:11Cleared of gun possession and bribery charges
57:13Sean Puffy Combs walked out of free man
57:16Some people speak up about it
57:17Most do not
57:19The first member is
57:21Aubrey
57:23It's a pattern with him
57:25Violence was a very normalized part
57:30Of living in that world
57:31You're a bad boy now
57:33Allegations of sexual misconduct
57:36Huffy called these encounters
57:37Free calls
57:38Witnessed Diddy abusing Cassie
57:40And that they encouraged Cassie
57:42To get away from him
57:43Everything in life
57:46You're going to have people that are bad
57:47And people that are good
57:48You know
57:49You have to choose your side
57:55You're a bad boy now
58:04You've been recognized by all of you
58:08We've been asked by all of you
58:10When you're faced with an 그런도
58:10So you've imagined
58:11People that are bad
58:12You're a bad boy now
58:13You've been asked by questions
58:13I asked you
58:14You've been思牛
58:15You've been asked by all of you
58:16You've been asked by all of you
58:16Theenders
58:17To get away from our platform
58:18You've been asked by all of you
58:19You've been asked by all of me
58:19And you've been asked by all of you
58:19Diddy
58:20You knew all you
58:21I asked for a bunch of
58:21You've been asked by all of you
58:22You asked by all of you
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