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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.
03:43So I'm just telling you that far, he's afraid when I talked to the chair.
03:46He's the one who got out of the front, he's the one who got out of the front.
03:52He's doing a big job, he's losing his head, man.
03:54I don't know.
03:55It's a big job, man.
03:56What's up?
03:57People do that.
03:58But you have to, do that to know.
03:59I mean, you know, that's not a big job.
04:00They're starting to go.
04:01Few things.
04:02It's not a big job.
04:03They're getting too big.
04:04city, not to be.
04:05They're getting too big in.
04:06There was a whole lot of crazy shit going on.
04:08You know what I'm saying?
04:09I saw them knock the bathroom.
04:10They're 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, time to go to the future.
04:18Time to go to the future.
04:20That was a little building.
04:21Compared for the building, I got ready for you, son.
04:23You 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 wasn't there, yeah.
04:36Puff 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, how
05:04did I get myself into this situation?
05:14Oh.
05:15Oh.
05:16This is mad I get.
05:1895, he had two of the hottest acts.
05:20Greg Matt Gamer's flavor in your ear.
05:22Here goes a brand new flavor, yeah.
05:24Brand new flavor.
05:25Time for new flavor, yeah.
05:27And Biggie.
05:28You gotta come up in your waist, please.
05:30Don't suit up the place.
05:31Wow.
05:32I 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.
05:41Living 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.
05:50So I get up, and I go in with my papers and go.
05:53A girl is giving him a blowjob at the desk.
05:56He wanted me to see that.
05:58He wanted me to see her face.
06:00And then he was able to get her to do that right then and there in the office.
06:04She leaves.
06:05What did you want me for?
06:07I didn't want you for anything.
06:10That was the beginning for me to see, this is what's going on here.
06:15Can everybody here make some noise for B.I.G. for bringing it back to the East?
06:20So the C's for all of this was early on.
06:23I want to thank y'all.
06:24Alistair Wiggins, BMG.
06:25And that came from people in the industry co-signing his activity because it brought money in.
06:36I don't know if y'all niggas know this.
06:38We're juicing with platinum.
06:40Big couple 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 Puff Daddy's lady.
06:52Total.
06:55Biggie.
06:57I'm Greg Matt.
06:59The thing over here is Greg Matt.
07:00It was a consistent back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
07:08So let me just give you a day in the life of Puff Daddy.
07:12Gets up from wherever he stayed that night.
07:17Heads to the office two hours late.
07:19You might have somebody pulling him over saying, hey, ain't you in that video?
07:22Ain't that you?
07:23Oh, yo, here go a demo.
07:24Had the big baseball bat cell phones.
07:31And the phone might ring.
07:32Such and such is on the phone calling from jail.
07:35Yo, I'm coming home.
07:36You might have a group standing in front of the office,
07:39already with the microphone ready to sing.
07:41You love me, I love you.
07:43Just to get their shot at Puffy.
07:46Everybody wants to see him.
07:48He is now the new gateway into music.
07:50You'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.
08:06One day, it seemed like out of the blue,
08:14my door opens up.
08:17Sean walks in.
08:18He 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.
08:28We in a grind.
08:29Do your job.
08:30Whatever your...
08:30He wanted me to sign my 25% over.
08:34And then he'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.
08:43He 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, but I'll give it back to you.
08:50I'm going to give it back to you.
08:52It's a fucking fight.
08:53That's the problem.
08:54You don't know how to be a accountant.
08:56And he threatened until I did.
08:59People always say to me, why would you do that?
09:06But why did you do that?
09:09Like, that was, you know.
09:15I 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.
09:22But I was definitely confused by it.
09:27It might sound strange, but if you've ever built something and you want it to last,
09:35you think about how to make it last.
09:47I want to know who's been naughty at night.
09:49With the fight.
09:50I thought.
09:52He 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 on his Grammy nomination.
10:06No question.
10:07Yes, baby.
10:07Yeah.
10:07That's cool.
10:09Yo, you got nominated for a Grammy, but we had no money.
10:14If you look at Bad Boy, Bad Boy didn't sell enough records to explain his wealth.
10:21But enough artists were on the label that sold enough records to explain his wealth.
10:28Sean's trick was, I'm going to make you a star.
10:32You sign, follow the money.
10:34That's what you're going to try to do as 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 sign your deal.
10:41We gave you your advance.
10:42At Uptown, that's the only money the artists have ever seen, that first advance.
10:46Andre had to wait it.
10:47He never saw anything else.
10:48Did he pick that up?
10:49He made it even tighter.
10:52Don't leave the girl around me, true player for real.
10:55Let's pump that deep.
10:56It's a shell game.
10:58You hide everything that is an earning.
11:01You confuse the earnings.
11:03And now I own everything.
11:05You'll go out into the world.
11:06In the shell game, you'll be looking for your money for the next 20 years.
11:10Sean did that to every artist.
11:12You're in the studio.
11:15Now you have to recoup for being in the studio.
11:18Puff owns the studio.
11:21And I have four sessions with you, only $400,000.
11:25If Puff records a song with his artist, he pays himself.
11:31If he's in your video, he pays himself.
11:34He insert himself into their videos.
11:37A video come on, you're like, I fucking hate that guy.
11:40As an artist, you can go number one.
11:43Song is being played all over the nation.
11:45But you don't have the money to go to it because you're not making the proper money off of your royalties.
11:53Craig and I hit a point where we were fucked up.
11:57No money, nothing.
11:58Hell, I was getting money from my father to take care of the house.
12:05We were all at, like, somebody's album release party.
12:09And Craig's going to tell Puff to give him a few dollars, and he'll hit him back once he went and did this show.
12:14He literally went in his pocket and pulled out a knot of money this big and gave him $100 bill.
12:24You really just don't give a fuck.
12:29I think Sean had an envy for his own artists.
12:36He was jealous of their talent and wondering, like, this talent is wasted on people who don't even really know what to do.
12:43And if I had that talent in my know-how, wow.
12:46That's interesting because a lot of people Puffy's age want to grab this mic and rap.
12:52But, Puffy, you wanted to do other things, and 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.
13:00He don't know how to discuss it.
13:01He don't know nothing about R&B.
13:02He don't know none of that stuff.
13:03He used to ask me to always be there in the sessions because I would tell the truth.
13:08I'd be like, that's not it.
13:10People would be there like, yeah, that was tight.
13:11That was tight.
13:12I'd be like, look, for real, you got a lot of people who just tell you anything.
13:16That sucked.
13:18It doesn't sound good, and it makes no sense.
13:22But he always wanted to be an artist.
13:25We're about to just drop our R&B stuff.
13:27The Puff Daddy album.
13:28Yeah, what about the Puff Daddy solo project?
13:31Yeah, we don't like to talk about that.
13:32Sean used other methods and ways to get the way he had to go.
13:40Big on strategy, big on swag.
13:44All of those things became important.
13:47When it boiled down to the music, even 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?
13:54What?
13:54Right here, man.
13:56Damn, you know what I'm saying?
13:57Where's makeup at?
13:58Makeup?
13:59Right here, man.
13:59That whole bad boy was built on him.
14:03You cannot take that from him.
14:05But I think that Puffy wanted the light, like he always wanted.
14:11From dancing, the whole now you see it.
14:13Anybody that's boasted and loud like that, they want to be in the spotlight.
14:17It wasn't like no secret.
14:18That's what he wanted.
14:19Six foot three, 335 pound, Suge Knight has managed to become the head of a hundred million dollar record company.
14:29It's the record label at ground zero of the whole gangster rap phenomenon, Death Row Records.
14:35Suge was about that money, but he didn't want to be in that limelight like Puff.
14:41He had his own lane.
14:43You're a big guy, and there are people who are afraid of you.
14:47There's probably people who are afraid of you.
14:48Back in 1988, the person who did the greatest job of protecting me was the head of my security at the time, Suge Knight.
14:55Right now I'm on the heartbreak tour with Bobby Brown and New Edition.
14:58We're about to get on the tour bus, and these dudes came over, and they was like talking crazy.
15:04Y'all niggas this, y'all niggas that, this, this, this.
15:09And I seen Suge kind of just turn this way and gave him one of these.
15:15Bow!
15:16Like that.
15:17And knocked dude down the hill.
15:19And it looked like a cartoon.
15:21Dude was rolling down the hill.
15:22Boom, boom.
15:22It's Tim's K-ball.
15:25He's a street dude.
15:26He's a real street dude, but Suge knew talent, and he knew business.
15:31They took me on tour, and I learned how every person who's writing songs is getting beat out their money, like they're publishing.
15:39He was able to dovetail that into starting Death Row Records.
15:43One, two, three, it's a buffo.
15:46Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre is at the door.
15:49Death Row can be bigger than Motown or Sony or Warner Brothers.
15:53Death Row's gonna be the biggest record company there is.
15:57Chronic album's the foundation.
15:59Before Bad Boy, Death Row was the most successful label in the business.
16:03From the depths of the sea, back to the block, Snoop Doggy Dogg.
16:06Sean had admired Death Row and wanted us to emulate them.
16:11And 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?
16:23They had a head start.
16:24They had artists.
16:25They picked superstars up from other indie labels.
16:27We're starting off.
16:29Me and him were friends.
16:31Wow.
16:31Who showed you?
16:32Yeah, yeah.
16:32He would pick me up from the airport.
16:34You know, I was just networking with the brother and show me a lot of love.
16:38You know, I really had thought we were cool.
16:41Me and Puffy, we used to run around with each other.
16:43He was getting in the business.
16:44Only a few years later, Bad Boy, Death Row, the two hottest labels.
16:58But I would look over at Death Row and say,
17:00they're taking care of their artists better than we are.
17:04They're putting your head, fuck the artists.
17:07And my thing was opposite.
17:08It's about me and my people.
17:10Fuck you.
17:12Craig wasn't happy there.
17:15Death Row was courting him because Sheod was opening up a Death Row East.
17:20And it was found out.
17:22Shot by the finger.
17:24Yes.
17:30It's the Source Hip Hop Music Awards!
17:34The Source Awards was happening in New York City.
17:42Come on, New York.
17:43And behind the scenes, people were running back and forth to the next dressing room, to the next dressing room, which 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.
18:00Who bagging on the door like that?
18:01What's the deal, man?
18:04Keep the door closed.
18:06And it escalated with words from the podium at the awards show.
18:09Any artists out there want to be an artist and want to stay a star and don't want to have to worry about the executive producer trying to be all in the videos, all on the record, dancing.
18:22Come to death row.
18:23Come to death row.
18:32I'm the executive producer that a comment was made about a little bit earlier.
18:36But check this out, contrary to what other people may feel, I would like to say that I'm very proud of Dr. Dre, of 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, not 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.
19:13He remembers every slight.
19:18Once again, y'all, please give it up for all the nominees.
19:22Before I signed with Bad Boy, I was working at the door of the club in Platinum House.
19:43Every Friday, we had a bad boy party, so Puff was there.
19:50Shook Knight came that night with his friend Jake, and I was working at the door.
19:54Shook was looking for Puff.
19:59Sean would try to go after people's side chicks, like a girl in Atlanta that Shook was dealing with.
20:08Sean wanted me to take $50,000 out of the overhead account so he could buy her a diamond necklace,
20:18wooing her because she was Shook's side piece in Atlanta when he came there.
20:23A real police officer in a real police uniform came and got on the safe.
20:32I said, man, you took the homie, we're going to tear this motherfucker up.
20:36He said, well, I got to throw him out.
20:37I said, for what?
20:38He said, he was puppy.
20:39Shook and Jake is being escorted out the club by the off-duty officer we always had there moonlighting.
20:51Jake comes out, Shook come out, Puff come out.
20:54Everybody's outside.
20:56A man appeared with one hand behind his back, and he was holding a pistol.
21:02He touched Jake with the pistol, and he looked at Shook like this and was shooting Shook's friend like this.
21:13He shot him five times.
21:18Shook grabbed the hold to Puffy in the chokehold 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 going to shoot Puffy.
21:29You're not going to shoot me.
21:32Puff was like, it's going to be all right, man.
21:37It's going to be all right.
21:39Shook said, what you mean it's going to be all right?
21:42He said, tell your mama it's going to be all right.
21:45Tell your kids it's going to be all right.
21:49And then the shooter ran.
21:54Ambulance came and took Jake to the hospital.
21:58A couple of days later, he died.
22:02That's what started the East Coast-West Coast war.
22:05Open up, please.
22:06Excuse us, man.
22:07I'm through.
22:07Excuse us, man.
22:08Excuse us, man.
22:09I'm through.
22:11Tupac Shakur, out of the hospital after surgery from bullet wounds, is convicted on sex charges.
22:17After Puck is shot in Quad's studio, he had the rape case.
22:21A New York jury convicted the rapper of first-degree sexual abuse, but acquitted him of more serious charges.
22:31Since your period of incarceration at Clinton Correctional Facility, have you taken the time to reflect on your gangster thug image?
22:39Puck and Big were friends at one time.
22:44But then once Puck is in jail, Bad Boy and all of his associations were nemesises.
22:52When I'm in jail, strangers are telling me, yo, you don't know?
22:57Big, your old boy shot you.
22:59Because they bragging.
23:00They telling they n****s in jail.
23:02Yo, we just got Puck.
23:03Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.
23:03Once the conflict happens, Puck needed someone strong that was going to stand with him.
23:14And it had just so happened that Suge had his own issues with Puffy.
23:20So Suge went to jail and visited him.
23:24The whole shit was like some mob shit.
23:29Enter Tupac, a young captain.
23:31I'm going to join a family, dog.
23:35Get me out.
23:38Suge Knight first signed Tupac to a recording contract when Tupac was in this New York state prison,
23:45unable 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 to Tupac.
24:01Out on bail, rapper Tupac Shakur's rush-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.
24:11N****s ain't bad, boy.
24:14I'll take them all.
24:16We're 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.
24:22And we will bring a new government here that will feed every person in New York.
24:26All right, cool, man.
24:27All right, man.
24:28Thanks.
24:28Thanks a lot.
24:30Sean tried everything to get Biggie upset.
24:33He had to go at him with business.
24:36This guy came at us.
24:37Biggie 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, I just fucked Faith Evans, Big's wife.
25:10We was like, what?
25:11First of all, fuck your bitch and the clique you claim.
25:14Westside 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.
25:23I am having his baby.
25:24No, I'm not.
25:25Sean kept putting pressure on Biggie.
25:27You got to answer back.
25:30Tupac would have me pissed off, you know what I'm saying?
25:33And the rumors that's spreading is on some tip like we set them up, you know what I'm saying?
25:39And that's crazy.
25:41The East Coast, West Coast thing was invented, period.
25:44Because no matter what, we all went to the East.
25:46They came here, went to the West, whatever.
25:47They 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.
25:55It was this bad boy in death row.
25:57And 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 it was, you know, it's just people
26:09that want to ride for each other.
26:11And then look what happened, so.
26:12During the street thing, my affiliation was with the Mansfield Hustlers.
26:23Police say that drugs and violence are being spread by two longstanding rivals in the Los
26:36Angeles youth gang scene.
26:38Groups who call themselves Crips and wear blue colors, and Bloods who wear red.
26:42Did you guys provide protection?
26:47Sean Combs was a friend.
26:51Christopher Wallace was a friend.
26:52And, you know, when we're hanging out with our friends, we're going to protect our friends.
27:01So they knew.
27:04And they were our associates.
27:06You got beef with them, you got beef with me.
27:10Period.
27:11A number of reports have come out that Bad Boy Entertainment had actually hired Crips for
27:14a security workout on the West Coast.
27:16Is that true?
27:18We've never hired Crips or any other gang faction to do security for us.
27:25It would be extremely unintelligent to hire 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.
27:40That was his guy.
27:41Eric Von Zip is a drug lord from Harlem, but Sean told me he was his uncle.
27:49He might have known Janice on the fringe.
27:52He might have known Sean's father from those days.
27:55Zip had a relationship with the Southside Crips, and then he also had a relationship with us.
28:03Sean said Zip can give us protection going back and forth to L.A.
28:08because he was in with the Crips, and 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.
28:20One of the death row people got jumped by someone at a mall, and that someone was from Southside Crips.
28:29One of the Crips tried to take a death row chain.
28:34I think that was an order from Bad Boy.
28:36That was an order from Puff, because it was specific.
28:40We want a death row chain.
28:43Introducing the one and only fire, Mike Tyson!
28:48Everybody got what they wanted that night.
28:55People got to see Tyson knock a motherfucker out.
28:59And Tyson with a left hook, and Selvin is down.
29:03It's over in the first round!
29:07That's probably the reason that the guy was all fucked up in a lot of shit for the fight night.
29:12When you've seen a Tyson fight, you want to fight.
29:15At 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.
29:36It was Orlando Anderson from Southside Crips, who was connected with Puff.
29:45Next thing I know, I see Pac like, phew.
29:50Took your niggas down.
29:59That was the foundational moment when all this was getting out of control.
30:04Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot in the chest late...
30:17This morning, shot multiple times in the chest in a drive-by shooting...
30:20Death Row record label owner, Marion Suge Knight, was also in the car, but his injuries were minor.
30:26Craig called me up.
30:28It was late.
30:30He was out there at the fight, because he was supposed to have performed at some club that Suge owned.
30:37And I guess Tupac was supposed to come through.
30:41He was like, how come Tupac just got shot?
30:46Craig was, like, scared.
30:48Who was he scared of?
30:50Probably Puff.
30:52He ended up not going to death row after that.
30:55Hi, I'm Tabitha Soren with MTV News.
31:01Controversial rapper and actor Tupac Shakur has died in a Las Vegas hospital of complications from several...
31:07I was in jail.
31:08I was in jail when he got shot.
31:11There was a lot of niggas in jail that was celebrating Pac's death.
31:15I'm glad that I didn't kill anybody or anybody killed me.
31:22But I damn sure came close.
31:26Police 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.
31:36Do you know who was responsible for the killing of Tupac Shakur?
31:40No, I don't.
31:41I think that Sean now, in my mature mind, had a lot to do with the death of Tupac.
31:57In 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.
32:11Gang crimes oftentimes are difficult to solve because you don't get cooperating witnesses.
32:16They want to stick to a code that typically entails not cooperating with law enforcement
32:22and then taking matters into your own hands.
32:25It ain't my job to snitch on nobody, because I would never snitch on nobody.
32:30We had built a narcotics case against Keefe D.
32:34Keefe D. was kind of the shock caller for the Southside Crips.
32:37He was the most prominent drug dealer.
32:40He was very influential in his gang.
32:43His nephew, Orlando Anderson, was a very well-known violent gang member.
32:50Tupac Shakur had assaulted Orlando Anderson just after the Mike Tyson fight.
32:55So, Keefe D. was potentially looking at a life sentence for federal drug trafficking.
33:02We wanted to question him about his potential role in the murder of Tupac Shakur.
33:07We 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 Keefe D. to do a proffer session.
33:20Keefe, today what we're going to do, we're just going to go over with a fine-tooth comb, do the Las Vegas incident.
33:25We do have to emphasize to you, it's determined that some of these details are incorrect and everything's off the table.
33:32A 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.
33:45It doesn't mean they have any kind of immunity.
33:49Hey, I want to say this though too.
33:53I feel like I said that day, don't bullshit me and I want to bullshit y'all.
33:57You know what I'm saying?
33:57In 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 the Center of Clubs down in Santa Monica.
34:12That's where I met him, the first day I met him.
34:15Sean 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.
34:32And Zip introduced me to this is my boy.
34:34What are you introducing, man?
34:35This is my friend, this is my nephew.
34:36That's my boy.
34:37My boy, this is Paul.
34:40And after that, they used my car on the video.
34:42Which car was I having?
34:44The 64 Chevy I have.
34:50What color was it?
34:50Blown.
34:52I was ushered video, and Pup was driving the car, ushered for her song, whatever.
34:56He was in a Laker uniform, and he had the little kid dancing on my car.
34:59When he got back, it was fucked up, and he had to, he paid to get it repainted.
35:10Pup, he caused their phone, and he wanted to speak to me.
35:13They gave it a B-E-T tour, and then I, he gave us some tickets, and I brought the crew.
35:18You say, I want to hear a new flavor, ain't you here?
35:21I want to hear a new flavor.
35:23Jacket, Jacket, yeah.
35:25To all the ladies in the place.
35:27Keefy D says that Sean Combs kind of makes this general announcement while they're all inside
35:35of a hotel room after a musical event.
35:39So it's Harrell, Puffy, Zoo, you.
35:42About 40-somethings off-siders.
35:44Yeah.
35:45That was stupid as hell, too, you know?
35:49Shit, he said he didn't kill us anything for no dudes, you know?
35:52Tupac and Chug, you mean?
35:54Yeah.
35:54He said it in front of all those people, I can't believe it, you know what I'm saying?
36:00All home full of crips.
36:02So this is after Jake got killed.
36:04So he was, he was on a plane, he was worried about something happening.
36:06Yeah.
36:07Shit got miles off about a bunch of different stuff, so he was scared.
36:10He was scared to death.
36:11Yeah.
36:11Okay.
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?
36:26Well, he, when he told me at the Greenblatt, when we got there, we were laughing at him.
36:32Because he was just, bro, to suck dick, to suck every dick in there.
36:35He was hugged up, kissing, whatever, we was laughing like a woman.
36:38Like, man, what you laughing at, dawg?
36:40Man, don't just come out here and get in any brawl, 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.
36:53It was after he made the record.
36:55Hit him up, came out.
36:56Yeah, yeah, that pissed him off.
37:01Yeah, we were on a million.
37:05He 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, yeah.
37:17He grease and shake on it or something like that?
37:19Yeah.
37:20What happened?
37:21You know, he, uh, I meant all shit out.
37:24We'll wipe the ass out quick, you know?
37:26It's nothing.
37:29Here we go, round one.
37:31Scheduled for 12.
37:32And Tyson comes right up, right up.
37:34He says that when Las Vegas happens and they're all out there,
37:38and his nephew gets assaulted by Tupac,
37:40they're like, this is the perfect occasion.
37:42We was eating, and the man, they came and said,
37:46he's the P-Dub Lane.
37:49And we was in the hotel, yeah, at the MGM and the restaurant.
37:53There was a few New Yorkers, though, with Zip.
37:57Like, man, y'all need some help?
37:59We got this.
38:00It's your perfect opportunity, baby.
38:03That was Zip coming?
38:04Yeah.
38:04Because of what happened with him?
38:05Yeah, yeah.
38:06The vehicle that Zip was driving that night
38:24reportedly had what we call a trap in it,
38:27which is a concealed compartment
38:29where you can place a gun.
38:32It's a difficult thing to find.
38:34Zip had driven that car to Las Vegas.
38:39A few days before Tupac was murdered,
38:42Sean requested that we rent cars
38:46and have multiple drivers
38:49drive clear across the country to this fight.
38:54But I arranged through my budget
38:58to make that trip happen for those drivers.
39:02And to this day, it stands out in my mind.
39:05Why did we rent multiple cars?
39:08Why did we hire people from Harlem
39:10and other locations to drive?
39:14Can you tell us if, hey,
39:17we're going to go handle this shit or whatever?
39:19Yeah, they asked, like,
39:20if y'all want us to come?
39:22I'm like, we know where them motherfuckers at.
39:24They was telling us
39:24they're going to be at the 662 Club.
39:27Two cars going 662?
39:28Yeah, the van and the Cadillac.
39:31They didn't show up.
39:32We waited about 15, 20 minutes.
39:34They didn't show up.
39:35So they was like,
39:37let's go get some liquor.
39:39And we came up Harlan
39:41at the Las Vegas Willow Art.
39:44And, oh, shit.
39:45Here they come in that BMW.
39:47Can't get car.
39:48On their way to the club,
39:50Suge is blaring his music too loud.
39:53He gets pulled over by some police officers.
39:56They essentially, you know, say,
39:58just turn down your music, no big deal.
40:00And it's at this point in time
40:02that Suge and Tupac see these,
40:05these girls.
40:06Like, they're shit, shit.
40:08Like, the police were going through his car
40:09or something or another.
40:10And then the traffic was stopped
40:13and then they got in the car.
40:14Did you see who was with you?
40:16Um, I thought it was Tupac.
40:18And then he was like,
40:19come on, come go with me.
40:21Come go with us.
40:22We're going to 662.
40:23I'm browsing.
40:25Tupac, Tupac.
40:27And we're like, there they go.
40:28Just wanted to turn.
40:30And we just pulled up on the side
40:31and checked every car
40:32to see where they was.
40:33So what directed your attention to him
40:35was some girl shouting at Tupac?
40:37Tupac.
40:38He gave us up away.
40:39Otherwise, it would have gone away.
40:42And man, he leaned over
40:44on the window.
40:45We were down the window and popped.
40:48Should have looked over.
40:49He sees you.
40:50Yeah.
40:51Yeah, he's going to have him.
40:52Okay.
40:54Fuck is he doing what he tells us
40:55when we were seven or eight years old?
40:58I seen a bully going,
40:59yeah, I thought he was dead.
41:01I thought he was dead.
41:04If you knew who killed Tupac,
41:06would you tell the police?
41:08Absolutely not.
41:11I'm going to park the car.
41:13You know, I put the gun on the tire and left.
41:15Where'd you guys go?
41:16We smoke weed and rain.
41:18Yeah, that's a hotel.
41:20It's a hotel.
41:20They're partying in the room.
41:22And they pulled up in the ambulance
41:23while we were standing right there.
41:26Take off bullshit.
41:27You guys on the street with what?
41:29We on Las Vegas Boulevard at the crosswalk
41:31and they pull up the ambulance right next to us.
41:34And we came on the car already?
41:36Tupac and the chug in the car.
41:38This is close.
41:39Did they see you?
41:41They couldn't see.
41:42We didn't give a fuck.
41:43We didn't give a fuck.
41:44I'm talking about the ambulance to park right here.
41:46Right next to us.
41:47That shit was as funny as a bull.
41:49And I haven't ever told nobody to this room.
41:54So you get back to L.A.
41:57The next day, Zip calls you.
41:59Says, meet me at the hot one place.
42:00Where at?
42:02We're going to melt.
42:02Into my peace.
42:04You guys go over there.
42:04Zip shows up.
42:05You guys, what happens after?
42:07People call there.
42:08Was that us?
42:09He told them, yeah, it was us.
42:10On Zip's phone or your phone?
42:11It was Zip's phone.
42:13And Zip gives you the phone?
42:15Yeah.
42:16People say, well, that's us.
42:18He was happy in there.
42:19Oh shit.
42:19And did you ask him there about his money?
42:21When you were 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.
42:27Okay, so you tell Zip we need to get paid.
42:30What does Zip say?
42:31I'm going to go back home and have a...
42:32Yeah, I'll get back with y'all.
42:34Yeah.
42:37According to QVD, he was never compensated for the murder.
42:42But 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,
42:56only half of it was fulfilled
42:58because only Tupac and not Suge was killed.
43:03QVD has a conversation with Darius Rogers, with DMACC.
43:06And DMACC says there had been a payment from Combs to QVD,
43:18but it had gone through Zip,
43:20and then that money was never forwarded.
43:23We're just hoping and waiting to see what kind of progress
43:29Las Vegas would make with QVD's cooperation.
43:33Nothing really happens.
43:39Ultimately, Zip dies from cancer.
43:42Thank you for coming out to Zips,
43:44and I want everybody to know that when you come here,
43:47we want to keep the peace.
43:49And Orlando Anderson is shot and killed in 1998.
43:52So it's really QVD and Puffy Combs are the last men standing.
43:58They can be held accountable for Tupac Shakur's murder.
44:01Thank you for coming out to Zip.
44:31Thank you for coming out to Zip.
45:01I remember, 99, we were working in the studio
45:07on a song called Muscle Gang.
45:10This is our gang.
45:13We ain't playing with you, these niggas.
45:17Come on, man.
45:17The song comes on, and Puff was talking in the beginning.
45:20It's 1999.
45:24No more Mr. Nyscott.
45:26I'm like, what is he talking about?
45:28Fuck with me, I dropped a million dollars on your hands.
45:32You're going to start making y'all niggas disappear, man.
45:36Everything that's done in the dark must come to light.
45:40Everything that goes up must come down.
45:42Yeah, I'm headed to 113 for Lennox, King.
46:05I got to catch my man up there.
46:07I'll see you up there.
46:10Are y'all rolling?
46:10Yeah, we rolling.
46:11With the backdrop of East Coast, West Coast beef, Sean took Biggie to Los Angeles to record
46:30what would be the finishing touches on Biggie's Life After Death album, which wasn't titled
46:35that yet.
46:41Yo.
46:42Yo, Big, wake up.
46:43Wake up, baby.
46:43Diddy, what the fuck, man?
46:44What's up?
46:45Come on, man.
46:46It's a quarter to six.
46:46We got the 7.30 flight.
46:48Going to LAX.
46:49Whoa.
46:50Kelly?
46:51No doubt, baby.
46:52We had been warned to not come to LA.
46:57There were warnings all along for the last few months that we are not to set foot on the
47:01West Coast.
47:04It was awards show season, and Sean wanted him to start promoting the album.
47:11Come on, Saltrain.
47:12Get up out your seats.
47:13Come on.
47:14Get up out your seats.
47:16Biggie did not want to go.
47:18But Sean talked him into doing all of those things.
47:22Down low.
47:23Get up out your seats.
47:25Come on.
47:25High pop.
47:26Well, freaks.
47:26All the honey.
47:27They were like catcalling and booing.
47:37What's up, Kelly?
47:39We were not welcome.
47:42After the awards show, Saturday morning, Biggie and I were to go to London, and we were
47:48going to have a two, three-day press junket, to have Biggie be one of the first artists
47:53from Bad Boy to meet the European press.
47:56I had worked on that for months and weeks leading up.
48:00We were supposed to go to the airport that morning.
48:03I'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, I want you to stay here in LA.
48:13I don't want to stay.
48:14I want to go.
48:15But Sean was adamant, cancel the flight.
48:22Biggie's not going to the UK.
48:24What do you mean he's not going to click?
48:25He hangs up.
48:27This was his M.O.
48:29Ego, power, tripping.
48:31All of it because Sean wanted to do a party on enemy turf.
48:42Scared to death.
48:46That'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, Big and Puffy was with us.
49:08They were having a party.
49:10I spoke to Big, and I was like, yo, man, you know, what are you doing?
49:22Catching LA, man, they get down in these circumstances, man, and you just can't be walking around here freely.
49:29Everybody's mingling.
49:41I look around, I say, where's Big?
49:46I want to get out.
49:47Get out.
49:48Hey, what am I saying?
49:49Wait, hold up, hold up.
49:50I'm on the street.
49:52Zoom in.
49:52I don't know.
49:53What am I saying?
49:54I don't know.
49:54That's big of me.
50:03That is big of me.
50:04That is big of me.
50:05That is big of me.
50:06Somebody got shot.
50:07Y'all get down.
50:10What are you reporting?
50:11Yeah, we need an ambulance on Fairfax and Wilshire.
50:15Greaves, Los Angeles.
50:16We have a man shot.
50:17We have a shot.
50:19Okay, hold on.
50:20I'll get down.
50:20I'll get down.
50:21Fairfax.
50:23Fairfax.
50:24Let's go, let's go.
50:25Sir, hold on.
50:25Listen, 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 run into the hospital.
50:34I know the way.
50:35See the sign-up.
50:36Oh, shit.
50:37I 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, you know what I mean?
50:44Yeah, what's up?
50:44What's up?
50:44What's up?
50:45What's up?
50:45Big!
50:45What's up?
50:46What's up?
50:47What's up?
50:47Big!
50:48What's up?
50:49What's up?
50:50What's up?
50:51I was following Big's lead on, like, you know, we'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.
51:05You want right by the door?
51:06Quick or left, man.
51:07Big, you hear me, baby?
51:09He's lying about that.
51:13Sean wanted that trip.
51:14He was pushing it for weeks and weeks.
51:18He lied about it.
51:19And let me know that's a weak spot for him.
51:23And he's nervous about that information.
51:25He ushered Biggie to his death.
51:38Who do you think called Biggie?
51:39All it was is a puffy and Suge Knight war.
51:48You're messing with lives here.
51:52And that's exactly what happened.
51:54Two lives were lost as a result of what?
51:57Stupidity?
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.
52:13In fact, he was a hindrance in the investigation.
52:15Puffy was kind of stonewalling people from talking because he knows if you make inroads on Biggie's murder, you'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 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.
52:52And 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.
53:07He starts to see the price.
53:09And he says, we're going to do the biggest funeral.
53:12But 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.
53:21This is one of my closest friends, and it's still one of my closest friends.
53:28I just, I feel his loss.
53:30I 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 Bestar, Brooklyn, the whole hood was outside.
53:55If you could make it there, you was there.
53:58It was a big loss for the city.
54:00Biggie, I loved Biggie.
54:04Biggie 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.
54:14Biggie just wanted to be a rap superstar.
54:18He 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.
54:34I 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.
54:52I need to be on the cover.
54:54My solo album is coming in July.
54:56No way out.
54:58And I need to amp that up.
55:02He took the cover from Biggie.
55:09Another thing at the time, Biggie was negotiating his contract.
55:13Every day I wake up.
55:16We acquiesced and gave him everything he wanted.
55:19And 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.
55:32And 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.
55:44And 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.
56:16Having a TV moment in music is very rare.
56:19It elevates you to such another level of superstar.
56:23It made him rock star, bitch.
56:25It's kind of 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.
56:34But 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 of everyone.
57:03Put your legs in the air for V.I.G.
57:05Everybody put your legs in the air for something.
57:07There 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.
57:31You're a bad boy now.
57:34Allegations of sexual misconduct.
57:36Puffy 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.
57:51You know, you're broken.
58:08You know, you're empty.
58:10You know, you're primer.
58:12You've been beat by Sam.
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