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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.
03:43If I win a lot of games, I'll be out of here and play that way.
03:49The most people don't make money.
03:51It's like, oh, we can see it.
03:52We can see it again.
03:53We can see it again.
03:54We can see.
03:55We can see it again and see it again what a new one is.
03:57We can see it again.
03:58I don't know the things.
03:59We can see it again.
04:01Make the defense think a tick longer.
04:04She's a whole lot of crazy shit going on.
04:08You know what I mean?
04:09I saw them not the bad way going down.
04:12Like, that shit was crazy to me.
04:13That shit wasn't there.
04:14It was just a sign to me, like,
04:16time to order the future.
04:18Time to order the future.
04:20I was a little builder.
04:21Yeah, for the building,
04:22I got ready for you, son.
04:23You know what I'm saying?
04:24It was a sign to me like that.
04:26But I'm saying,
04:26that shit was there,
04:28like, two months ago, right?
04:29I'm not tripping.
04:29Yeah, it was there.
04:31I'm not tripping.
04:40Puff is in this position
04:42where he has all this turmoil,
04:45but he's not at the point
04:47where he's saying,
04:48where I went wrong.
04:50He's saying to himself,
04:51how do I get out of this?
04:54Maybe I can convince some witnesses
04:56that I'm not the guy who I am.
04:59Eventually, 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?
05:06Bad boy.
05:13Bad boy.
05:13Bad boy.
05:14Oh.
05:16Oh.
05:16This is mad.
05:17I get 95.
05:19He had two of the hottest acts.
05:20Craig Mack game was flavor in your ear.
05:22Here goes a brand new flavor.
05:24Yeah.
05:25New flavor.
05:25Time for new flavor.
05:27Yeah.
05:27And Biggie.
05:28You gotta come up in your waist.
05:30Please don't suit up the place.
05:31Why?
05:31Because I see some ladies tonight
05:33that should be having my...
05:34Bad boy was rising up.
05:36My little lab right here,
05:37you 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,
05:44and 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
06:01right then and there in the office.
06:04She leaves.
06:05I'm, what did you want me for?
06:07Ah, I didn't want you for anything.
06:10That was the beginning for me to see
06:13this is what's going on here.
06:15Can everybody in here make some noise
06:17for 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, B.M.G.
06:26And that came from people in the industry
06:30co-signing his activity
06:32because it brought money in.
06:36I don't know if y'all niggas know this.
06:38The Juicy with platinum.
06:40Big Pumper with platinum.
06:42In your ear remix with platinum.
06:45That whole bad boy thing was so big.
06:49Faith Evans.
06:50I'm going to be first lady on Pumf Daddy's Lady.
06:52Total.
06:55Biggie.
06:58Greg 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 Pumf Daddy.
07:12Gets up from wherever he stayed that night.
07:17Heads to the office two hours late.
07:19You might have somebody pulling him over, saying,
07:21Hey, ain't you in that video?
07:22Ain't that you?
07:23Oh, yo, here go a demo.
07:24Pumf Daddy's over there.
07:25Yo, what's up, Pumf?
07:27How you doing, baby, bruh?
07:28Just throwing out of that piece.
07:29Had the big baseball bat cell phones.
07:31And the phone might ring.
07:32Such-and-such is on the phone calling from jail.
07:35Yo, 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.
07:53You're going to take all of this power and money you're getting now
07:56and play by the rules?
07:59No, I'm the rule now.
08:00I am the exception to the rule.
08:04One day, it seemed like out of the blue,
08:13my door opens up.
08:17Sean walks in.
08:19He had a baseball bat.
08:21Had a big attaché case suitcase with the snaps on it.
08:25The stocks were there.
08:27We in a fucking hustle.
08:28We in a grind.
08:29Do your job.
08:30Whatever your...
08:30He wanted me to sign my 25% over.
08:34And Diddy's over me like this.
08:36He wants to stop that.
08:38He wants it now.
08:40I'm not going to stay fucking lying down.
08:42I'm not.
08:42I can't do that, man.
08:43He 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.
08:53That's the problem.
08:54You don't know how to be a count.
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...
09:10I didn't want to give it back.
09:16I wanted to stay in good graces.
09:18I still wanted to be at the company.
09:21It wasn't like he was firing me.
09:23But I was definitely confused by it.
09:26It might sound strange, but if you've ever built something and you want it to last, you'd think about how to make it last.
09:37I thought he was kind of cool at first.
09:54And then we started seeing some things.
09:59Craig started becoming disenchanted.
10:03I want to congratulate Craig Mack 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.
10:13If 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.
10:29Sean'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, and 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?
10:50He 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.
11:29If he's in your video, he pays himself.
11:34He inserts himself into their videos.
11:36A video come on, you'll be like, I fucking hate that guy.
11:40As an artist, you can go number one.
11:42Song 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.
11:51Craig 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.
12:03We 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.
12:31I 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.
12:47That'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 on 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.
13:29Yeah, what about the Puff Daddy solo project?
13:31Yeah, we don't like to talk about that.
13:32Hey, Puffy, you know what, Jack is never...
13:33Sean used other methods and ways to get the way he had to go.
13:40Big on strategy.
13:42Big 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.
13:52That 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, anybody that's boasted and loud like that, they want to be in the spotlight.
14:17It wasn't like no secret, that's what he wanted.
14:19Six-foot-three, 335-pound, Suge Knight has managed to become the head of a $100 million 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 or protected me was the head of my security at the time, Suge Knight.
14:55Right now I'm on the Heartbreak Tour with Bobby Brown, a new addition.
14:59We'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 turned this way and gave him one of these.
15:15Bow, like that, and knocked dude down the hill.
15:19And it looked like a cartoon, dude was rolling down the hill.
15:22Boom, boom.
15:22It's Tim's K-ball.
15:25He's a street dude.
15:26He's a real street dude.
15:27But Suge knew talent, 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 the Death Row Records.
15:43One, two, three, it's a buffo.
15:46Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Drake 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.
15:56Chronic 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.
16:15How 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.
16:24They had artists.
16:25They picked superstars up from other indie labels.
16:27We're starting off.
16:29Me and him were friends.
16:31Wow.
16:31Yeah, 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.
16:44I 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.
16:58But I would look over at Death Row and say,
17:00they're taking care of their artists better than we are.
17:03They'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.
17:16Because Shud was opening up a Death Row East.
17:20And it was found out.
17:22Shot by the finger.
17:23Yes.
17:30It's the Source Hip Hop Music Awards!
17:34The Source Awards was happening in New York City.
17:37And behind the scenes, people were running back and forth to the next dressing room,
17:48to the next dressing room, which were in trailers, parked outside of Madison Square Garden.
17:53How important is it to have the Source Awards?
17:57Let me just wait in front.
17:58You got that?
17:59Come on, man.
18:00Who bagging on the door like that?
18:01You got to tell him to?
18:02Dog, what is 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 that 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.
18:23I'm the executive producer that our comment was made about a little bit earlier.
18:36But check this out.
18:38Contrary 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.
18:47You know what I'm saying?
18:47I'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 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, excuse 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.
22:20He 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**** 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**** say bad boy, and I say fuck 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. Thanks 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.
24:38I was more in a mind frame of...
24:41Keep your mouth shut, big.
24:43You know what I'm saying?
24:44Just don't feed into it.
24:46If you feed into it, it's gonna do nothing but escalate.
24:50You know what I'm saying?
24:51Biggie 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.
25:01When Pac was producing All Eyes On Me, he called us and said,
25:05I 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 and quit with gang.
25:16You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.
25:19We bought some...
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 gotta answer back.
25:30Tupac had me pissed off, you know what I'm saying?
25:33And the rumors that's spreading is on some tip like we set him up.
25:38You know what I'm saying?
25:39And 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.
25:47They wasn't arguing with each other.
25:50We was able to roam.
25:51Fuck Biggie.
25:52Fuck Bad Boy as a staff, record label, and as a motherfucking crew.
25:56It was this Bad Boy in death row.
25:58Who shot you?
25:59And 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 that want to ride for each other.
26:11And then look what happened.
26:12So.
26:17Doing the street thing.
26:19My affiliation was with the Mansfield hustlers.
26:23Police say that drugs and violence are being spread by two longstanding rivals in the Los Angeles youth gang scene.
26:38Groups 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.
26:51Christopher Wallace was a friend.
26:53And, 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 security work out on the West Coast.
27:16Is that true?
27:16We'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.
27:31A 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.
27:54Zip 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. because he was in with the Crips.
28:10And 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, and that someone was from Southside Crips.
28:30One 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 iron, Mike Tyson.
28:49Everybody got what they wanted that night.
28:55People got to see Tyson knock a motherfucker out.
29:00And Tyson with a left hook, and Selvin is down.
29:03It's over in the first round.
29:07That's probably the reason that he got us all fucked up in a lot of shit for the fight night.
29:12When you've seen a Tyson fight, you want to fight.
29:19At the fight, the guy who was ripped off for the death row chain is with Suge and Pac.
29:32He just whispers to Pac, that's him.
29:36Hey, hey, hey, hey.
29:37It was Orlando Anderson from Southside Crips, who was connected with Puff.
29:46Next thing I know, I see Pac like, phew.
29:50Took your name down.
29:50That was the foundational moment when all this was getting out of control.
30:05I'm out of one right now.
30:08I got a couple guys shot and a medical ASAP.
30:11Rapper 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.
30:28He was out there at the fight because he was supposed to have performed at some club that Suge owned.
30:39And 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.
30:58Hi, 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.
31:17I'm glad that I didn't kill anybody or anybody killed me.
31:22But I damn sure came close.
31:24Police in Las Vegas say they have no motive for this latest shooting, but 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.
32:05At 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 and then taking matters into your own hands.
32:25It ain't my job to snitch on nobody, because I would never snitch on nobody.
32:29We had built a narcotics case against Keefie D.
32:34Keefie D was kind of the shock caller for the Southside Crips.
32:38He 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 Keefie 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 Keefie D. to do a proffer session.
33:20Keefie, 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 the Club 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 Chuggy, you mean?
35:54Yeah.
35:54And he, uh, he said it in front of all those people.
35:56I can't believe it.
35:58You know what I'm saying?
35:58So this is after Jake got killed.
36:04So he was, he was on point.
36:05He 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.
36:11Okay.
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?
36:25When he told me at the Greenblatt's, when we got there, we were laughing at him.
36:32Because he was just brought a suck dick, to suck every dick in there.
36:35He was hugged up, kissing, whatever.
36:37We 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 bra, dawg.
36:44I took him downstairs, and he's like, man, I got to get rid of those dudes, man.
36:49It's going to 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?
37:17Yeah.
37:17He agrees, you shake on him or something like that?
37:19Yeah.
37:20What happened?
37:21He says that when Las Vegas happens, and they're all out there, and his nephew gets assaulted
37:39by Tupac, they're like, this is the perfect occasion.
37:43We was eating, and my dick came and said, he's a beat-up man.
37:49And he was in a hotel, yeah, at the MGM at a restaurant.
37:53There was a few New Yorkers, though, with Zip.
37:56Like, man, y'all need some help?
37:59We got this.
38:00It's your perfect opportunity, baby.
38:03That was Zip coming?
38:03Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:04Because of what happened with him.
38:05Yeah, yeah.
38:07You know, because we was down there, and he told me in the lobby that he had some jimmies.
38:13Some what?
38:13He had a jimmie.
38:15He had a pen.
38:17He had a little secret compartment.
38:19The thing popped out.
38:20The vehicle that Zip was driving that night reportedly had what we call a trap in it, which is a concealed compartment, where you can place a gun.
38:32It's a difficult thing to find.
38:35Zip had driven that car to Las Vegas.
38:38A few days before Tupac was murdered, Sean requested that we rent cars and have multiple drivers drive clear across the country to this fight.
38:55But I arranged through my budget to 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?
39:07Why did we hire people from Harlem and other locations to drive?
39:16You 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 talk?
39:22I'm like, we know where them motherfuckers at.
39:24They were telling us they're going to be at the 662 Club.
39:27Two cars go to 662?
39:28Yeah, the van and the cabaret.
39:31They didn't show up.
39:32We waited about 15, 20 minutes.
39:34They didn't show up.
39:35So they was like, let's go get some liquor.
39:39And we came up Harlem at the Las Vegas Willow Art.
39:44And, oh, shit.
39:45Here they come in that BMW.
39:47Can't get a car.
39:48On their way to the club, Suge is blaring his music too loud.
39:53He gets pulled over by some police officers.
39:56They essentially, you know, say, just turn down your music, no big deal.
40:00And it's at this point in time that Suge and Tupac see these girls.
40:06Like, they're shit, shit.
40:08Like, the police were going through his car or 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, come on, come go with me.
40:21Come go with us.
40:22We're going to 662.
40:23I'm browsing.
40:25Tupac!
40:26Tupac!
40:26I was like, there you go.
40:28Just wanted to do that.
40:30And we just pulled up on the side and checked every car and 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 he leaned over on the window.
40:45We rolled around the window and popped.
40:48Should have looked over.
40:49He sees you.
40:51Yeah, he's going to have him.
40:52Okay.
40:54Fuck is he doing what he does since we were seven, eight years?
40:56I don't know.
40:58I seen a bully going, Shug, yeah.
41:00I thought he was dead.
41:02I thought he was dead.
41:04If you knew who killed Tupac, would 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 look.
41:15Where'd you guys go?
41:16We smoke weed and drink.
41:18Yeah, that's weird.
41:19That's a hotel.
41:20That's a hotel.
41:20That's a party in the room.
41:22And they pulled up in the ambulance while we're standing right there.
41:26Take our bullshit.
41:27Who you guys on the street with?
41:29We on Las Vegas Boulevard at the crosswalk.
41:32And they pulled up the ambulance right next to us.
41:34And we came on the car already?
41:36We took two back in the car.
41:38This is close.
41:40Did they see you?
41:41No, they couldn't see.
41:42We didn't give a fuck.
41:43I'm talking about the ambulance to park right here.
41:46Right next to us.
41:47That shit was as funny as a boat.
41:49Fuck!
41:49And I haven't ever told nobody in this room.
41:56So you get back to L.A. the next day, Zip calls you.
41:59He says, meet me at the hot one place.
42:00Where at?
42:01We're going to melt her.
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?
42:08That 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.
42:15People say, was that us?
42:17He was happy as hell, shit.
42:20And did you ask him then about his money?
42:21When 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.
42:27Okay, 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 Keefe D, he was never compensated for the murder.
42:40But he said that a partial amount of the money was intended to be forwarded to him through
42:49Zip to the tune of about $500,000.
42:52The million dollar solicitation amount, only half of it was fulfilled because only Tupac
42:59and not Suge was killed.
43:03Keefe D has a conversation with Darius Rogers, with DMACC.
43:06And DMACC says there had been a payment from Combs to Keefe D, but 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 Las Vegas would make with Keefe D's
43:33cooperation.
43:35Nothing really happens.
43:39Ultimately, Zip dies from cancer.
43:42Thank you for coming out to Zips and I want everybody to know that when you come here,
43:47we want to keep the peace.
43:48And Orlando Anderson is shot and killed in 1998.
43:53So, it's really Keefe D and Puffy Combs are the last men standing.
43:58They can be held accountable for Tupac Shakur's murder.
44:01Keefe D's
44:10I'm going to wait and patient and looking to see if that's you.
44:18So, put the sign up?
44:21I'm a woman.
44:22Keefe D, I'm a woman.
44:26Keefe D, I'm a woman.
44:27Keefe D, I'm a man.
44:30Take that off.
44:43All right.
44:44Let's move it through.
44:46Move it through.
44:49What goes up, what goes down, what goes down, must come up.
44:59I remember 99, we were working in the studio on a song called Muscle Gang.
45:10This is our game.
45:13We ain't playing with you niggas.
45:16Come on, man.
45:17The song comes on and Puff was talking in the beginning.
45:20It's 1999.
45:24No more Mr. Nice Guy.
45:26I'm like, what is he talking about?
45:28Fuck with me, I dropped a million dollars on your hands.
45:32Erase you in your own family.
45:33It's gonna start making y'all niggas disappear, man.
45:36Everything that's done in the dark must come to light.
45:39Everything that goes up must come down.
45:42Yeah, I'm headed to 113 for Lennox, King.
45:50I gotta catch my man up there.
45:52I'll see you up there.
45:53Are y'all rolling?
45:55Are y'all rolling?
45:57Yeah, we rolling.
45:58Are y'all rolling?
45:59Yeah, we rolling.
46:01With the backdrop of East Coast, West Coast beef, Sean took Biggie to Los Angeles to record
46:07what would be the finishing touches on Biggie's Life After Death album, which wasn't titled that yet.
46:25Yo, Biggie, wake up, wake up, baby.
46:38Diddy, what the fuck, man?
46:40What's up?
46:41Come on, man.
46:42It's a quarter to six.
46:43We got the 7.30 flight.
46:44Going to LAX.
46:45Whoa.
46:46Cali?
46:47No doubt, baby.
46:48We have been warned to not come to L.A.
46:51There were warnings all along for the last few months that we are not to set foot on the West Coast.
46:57It was awards show season, and Sean wanted him to start promoting the album.
47:10Come on, Saltrain.
47:11Get up out your seats.
47:12Come 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.
47:23Get up out your seats.
47:24Come on.
47:25Poppa Freaks.
47:26All the honey.
47:27They were like catcalling and booing.
47:36What's up, Cali?
47:38We were not welcome.
47:41After the awards show, Saturday morning, Biggie and I were to go to London, and we were going
47:47to have a two, three day press jump gig to have Biggie be one of the first artists from
47:52Bad 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 that morning.
48:02I'm calling Biggie like crazy.
48:04What's going on?
48:05Wake up.
48:06He said, yo, Puff is bugging.
48:08He just called me and told me, I want you to stay here in L.A.
48:11I don't want to stay.
48:12I don't want to stay.
48:13I want to go.
48:14But Sean was adamant.
48:18Cancel the flight.
48:21Biggie's not going to the UK.
48:23What do you mean?
48:24He's not going to click.
48:25He hangs up.
48:26This was his M.O.
48:28Ego, power, tripping.
48:31All of it because Sean wanted to do a party on enemy turf.
48:37Scared to death.
48:42That's how real it is.
48:46I think somebody's trying to kill me.
48:48I'll be waking up paranoid.
48:49I'll be really scared.
48:51I'll just be paralyzed.
48:57That night, Big and Puffy was with us.
49:07They were having a party.
49:15I spoke to Big and I was like, yo, you know,
49:17what are you doing?
49:21Catching L.A., man, they get down in these circumstances, man,
49:24and you just can't be walking around here freely.
49:36Everybody's mean.
49:41I look around.
49:42I say, where's Big?
49:45I want to get out.
49:46Yeah.
49:47Yeah.
49:48They running this way.
49:49Hold up.
49:50Hold up.
49:51Hold up.
49:52It's the street.
49:53Zoom in.
49:54Zoom in.
49:55I see you.
49:56I don't see you.
49:57So.
50:02That's Big and Puffy.
50:03That is Big and Puffy.
50:04That is Big and Puffy.
50:05That is Big and Puffy.
50:06Somebody got shot.
50:07Somebody got shot.
50:08Y'all get down.
50:10What are you reporting?
50:11Yeah.
50:12We need an ambulance on Fairfax and Wilshire.
50:14Please, Los Angeles.
50:15Fairfax and Wilshire.
50:16We have a man shot.
50:17We have a man shot.
50:18Wilshire Boulevard.
50:19Okay.
50:20Hold on.
50:21Fairfax.
50:22Let's go.
50:23Let's go.
50:24Let's go.
50:25Hold on.
50:26Listen, sir.
50:27I can't hear what you're saying.
50:28We're man shot in our car right now.
50:30Right now, we're trying to run into the hospital.
50:33I know the way.
50:34See the sign-up.
50:35Oh, shit.
50:36You gotta go back.
50:37You gotta turn around, Jimmy.
50:38You're going the wrong way.
50:39What the fuck is wrong with y'all, man?
50:41What's going on?
50:42I was following Big's lead on, like, you know, we're going to do this peace tour.
50:55And, um, you know, it didn't work out.
51:00Sean said it on can't stop, won't stop.
51:03Biggie wanted to go.
51:05Make a left, man.
51:06Big, you hear me, baby?
51:08He's lying about that.
51:11Sean wanted that trip and was pushing it for weeks and weeks.
51:17He lied about it and let me know.
51:20That's a weak spot for him, and he's nervous about that information.
51:24That's the F.S.
51:26We're proud of them.
51:27I'm for bullshit.
51:28We're coming with this thing.
51:29I don't know.
51:30He ushered Biggie to his death.
51:33Who do you think killed Biggie?
51:38Next question.
51:39All 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?
51:55Stupidity?
51:57When I sat down with Valetta, we 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 because he knows if you make inroads
52:21on Biggie's murder, you're going to make inroads on Tupac's murder.
52:25And that potentially can lead right back to him.
52:29How are Biggie's mom and Faith and the kids taking all this?
52:35Biggie's moms and Faith and the children are extremely strong.
52:38They've been, matter of fact, they've been strong for me and helping to hold me up.
52:43Sean assumed the position of his best friend in every article and publication.
52:50And that wasn't necessarily true.
52:53And I'm going to be there for them just like he would be there for them to make sure that they're all right.
52:58Sean said, we're going to do the biggest funeral for Biggie that New York has ever seen.
53:03And we start to put that together.
53:06He 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 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.
53:27I 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 that Biggie was going to pay for it.
53:40In Bestar, Brooklyn, the whole hood was outside.
53:53If you could make it there, you was there.
53:57It was a big loss for the city.
54:02I loved Biggie.
54:03Biggie inspired me.
54:04He gave me hope.
54:05He made us feel like you was from the town.
54:07You could make it.
54:08We loved Biggie.
54:09So it was like losing a family member.
54:12He 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 for a long time.
54:24It's not a feeling that I really felt a lot like in my life.
54:27I don't really have a lot of friends.
54:29I think people think I have a lot of friends, you know.
54:33I don't think I really make a good friend.
54:37Before he was assassinated, Biggie had an opportunity to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.
54:45We were delivering the elements so that can happen.
54:48And Sean called me and said, pull that cover.
54:51I 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.
55:01He took the cover from Biggie.
55:08Another thing at the time, Biggie was negotiating his contract.
55:12Every day I wake up.
55:15We acquiesced and gave him everything he wanted.
55:18And then he died.
55:19Can't believe you ain't here.
55:23Sean wanted me to change the agreement to more favorable terms for bad boy.
55:29And his family and mother would not know.
55:32And since he had signed the agreement,
55:34he wanted those changes to come from out of the center of the agreement
55:39and have those pages replaced with the other terms.
55:42And I said, that's not right.
55:44I'm not doing it.
55:45Ninety days later, I'm fired.
55:48It's like I feel empty inside without you being here.
55:52I remember Michael Jackson, the Motown 25 special.
56:02MTV, Madonna like a virgin.
56:05And I remember Puff with Sting.
56:07Check it out.
56:09Check it out.
56:10Check it out.
56:15Having a TV moment in music is very rare.
56:18It elevates you to such another level of superstar.
56:22It made him rock star, bitch.
56:24It's kinda hard but you're not around.
56:27Know you in heaven smiling down.
56:29Watching us while we pray for you.
56:31He became humongous.
56:33But now it's him.
56:34Now I'm the man.
56:36It was like a dream come true to see the lines like in front of the stars.
56:42Like people going there to get my record.
56:45It's crazy.
56:46It all happened pretty quickly for you from being an intern to being on the cover of the road in snow.
56:52Thanks for Biggie's mother who's sitting right there for having notorious V.I.G.
56:58You've abused everyone and used most everyone.
57:07There are horror stories like this all throughout.
57:10Cleared of gun possession and bribery charges, Sean Puffy Combs walked out a free man.
57:15Some people speak up about it.
57:17Most do not.
57:18The first member is Aubrey.
57:23It's a pattern with him.
57:25Violence was a very normalized part of living in that world.
57:30You're a bad boy now.
57:33Allegations of sexual misconduct.
57:35Huffy called these encounters free calls.
57:37Witnessed Diddy abusing Cassie and that they encouraged Cassie to get away from him.
57:44Everything in life you're gonna have people that are bad and people that are good.
57:48You know?
57:49You have to choose your side.
57:55Are there other people when you're somehow in mind?
57:58You are always in science with·
58:13You're in science.
58:15What kind of racism that probably fell?
58:18Is that the person in life?
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