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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.
03:43The way you're putting the ground up, it hasn't been late with Genevieve a big guy in the spot.
03:54He seen him PhD, out of piramid moutons at tengok.
03:56Yo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o,
03:58So I think there's grнения inhealth in New York, Duke, half of puckers.
04:00So, diversity makes me think a tick longer.
04:03Yeah, which they clearly think...
04:04This shit is not fucking crazy.
04:06There's a whole lot of crazy shit going on.
04:08You know what I'm saying?
04:09I saw them knock a bad way going down.
04:11Yeah.
04:12Like, that shit was crazy to me.
04:13That shit wasn't there.
04:14It was just a sign to me, like...
04:16Nigga.
04:17Time to go to the future.
04:18Time to go to the future.
04:19I was a little builder.
04:21Compared to the building, now 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, everyone is there, yeah.
04:40Puff is in this position where he has all this turmoil,
04:46but he's not at the point where he's saying,
04:47well, I went wrong.
04:50He's saying to himself, how do I get out of this?
04:54Maybe I can convince some witnesses
04:56that I'm not the guy who I am.
05:00Eventually, he's going to get to the point
05:02where he's going to ask himself,
05:03how did I get myself into this situation?
05:06Bad Boy.
05:11Bad Boy.
05:14Oh!
05:1795, he had two of the hottest acts.
05:20Craig Mack gamers flavorin' your ear.
05:22Here goes brand new flavor.
05:24Brand new flavor.
05:25Time for new flavor, yeah.
05:27And Biggie.
05:28Come up in your waist, please don't suit up the place
05:31Cause I see some ladies tonight
05:33That should be having my...
05:34Bad boy was rising up.
05:36My little lab right here, you know,
05:37where I cut my deals and all that.
05:39Got my little headset.
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.
06:05What did you want me for?
06:07I 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 here make some noise for B.I.G.
06:17for bringing it back to the East?
06:20So the C's for all of this was early on.
06:23I would like to thank y'all,
06:24Allison Ricketts, BMG, all the...
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 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 gonna be first lady on Puff Daddy's lady.
06:52Total.
06:55Biggie.
06:58I'm Greg Matt.
06:59The thing over here is Greg Matt.
07:01It was a consistent back to back to back to back.
07:06So let me just give you a day in the life of Puff Daddy.
07:12Gets 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.
07:24Puffy's over there.
07:25Yo, what's up, Puff?
07:27How you doing, baby, bro?
07:28Just doing all that piece.
07:29Had the big baseball bat cell phones.
07:30And 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 gonna take all of this power and money you're getting now
07:56and play by the rules?
07:59No, I'm the rule now.
08:00I am the exception to the rule.
08:02One day, it seemed like out of the blue,
08:14my door opens up.
08:17Sean 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 gonna 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,
08:48but I'll give it back to you.
08:50I'm gonna give it back to you.
08:52And he threatened until I did.
09:01People always say to me,
09:04why would you do that?
09:06Why did you do that?
09:09Like, that was, you know...
09:11I didn't want to give it back.
09:16I wanted to stay in good graces.
09:18I still wanted to be at the company.
09:20It wasn't like he was firing me.
09:23But I was definitely confused by it.
09:27It might sound strange,
09:30but if you've ever built something
09:31and you want it to last,
09:34you think about how to make it last.
09:37I thought he was kind of cool at first,
09:54and then we started seeing some things.
09:59Craig started becoming disenchanted.
10:03I want to congratulate Craig Mack
10:04on his Grammy nomination.
10:06I didn't question you.
10:07Yes, baby.
10:07Yeah, that's cool.
10:09Yo, you got nominated for a Grammy,
10:11but we had no money.
10:14If you look at Bad Boy,
10:16Bad Boy didn't sell enough records
10:18to explain his wealth.
10:21But enough artists were on the label
10:24that sold enough records
10:26to explain his wealth.
10:29Sean's trick was,
10:31I'm going to make you a star.
10:32You sign, follow the money.
10:34That's what you're going to try to do
10:35as hard as you can.
10:36You're going to try your best,
10:38and we know you're going to try your best.
10:40So you sign your deal,
10:41we gave you your advance.
10:42At Uptown, that's the only money
10:43the artists have ever seen,
10:45that first advance.
10:46Andre had to wait it.
10:47He never saw anything else.
10:48Did he pick that up?
10:50He made it even tighter.
10:52Don't leave the girl around me,
10:53true player for real.
10:55Let'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,
11:06and the shell game,
11:07you'll be looking for your money
11:08for the next 20 years.
11:10Sean did that to every artist.
11:13You're in the studio.
11:15Now you have to recoup
11:16for being in the studio.
11:18Puff owns the studio.
11:21And I have four sessions
11:22which you owe me $400,000.
11:25If Puff records a song with his artist,
11:28he pays himself.
11:31If he's in your video,
11:32he pays himself.
11:34He insert himself into their videos.
11:37A video come on,
11:38you're like,
11:38I fucking hate that guy.
11:40As an artist,
11:41you can go number one.
11:42Song is being played
11:43all over the nation,
11:44but you don't have the money
11:46to go to it
11:47because you're not making
11:48the proper money
11:50off of your royalties.
11:53Craig and I hit a point
11:55where we were fucked up.
11:57No money, nothing.
11:58Hell, I was getting money
12:00from my father
12:01to take care of the house.
12:03We were all at, like,
12:07somebody's album release party
12:09and Craig's gonna tell Puff
12:10to give him a few dollars
12:11and he'll hit him back
12:13once he went and did this show.
12:14He literally went in his pocket
12:16and pulled out
12:18a knot of money this big
12:21and gave him $100 bill.
12:27You really just don't give a fuck.
12:31I think Sean had an envy
12:34for his own artists.
12:36He was jealous of their talent
12:37and wondering, like,
12:39this talent is wasted on people
12:41who don't even really know
12:42what to do.
12:43And if I had that talent
12:45in my know-how, wow.
12:47That's interesting
12:48because a lot of people
12:48Puffy's age
12:49want to grab this mic and rap,
12:52but Puffy, you wanted
12:53to do other things
12:53and you're doing a lot of them.
12:55Can you talk about
12:56his skills as a rapper?
12:57Sucks.
12:58He has zero talent musically.
13:00He don't know how to discuss.
13:01He don't know nothing about R&B.
13:02He don't know none of that stuff.
13:03He used to ask me
13:04to always be there
13:05when the sessions
13:06because I would tell the truth.
13:08I'd be like,
13:08that's not it.
13:10People would be there like,
13:11yeah, that was tight.
13:11That was tight.
13:12I'd be like,
13:13look, for real,
13:14you got a lot of people
13:15who just tell you anything.
13:16That sucked.
13:18It doesn't sound good
13:19and it makes no sense.
13:22But he always wanted
13:23to be an artist.
13:25We're about to just drop
13:26our R&B stuff.
13:27The Puff Daddy album.
13:29Yeah, what about
13:29the Puff Daddy solo project?
13:31Yeah, we don't like
13:31to talk about that.
13:32Hey, Puffy,
13:32Sean used other methods
13:37and ways to get the way
13:38he had to go.
13:40Big on strategy,
13:42big on swag.
13:44All of those things
13:45became important.
13:47When it boiled down
13:47to the music,
13:49even if I didn't touch it,
13:50I showed you what to do.
13:51So that's what he was.
13:52Damn, you know what I'm saying?
13:54What?
13:54Right here, man.
13:56Damn, you know what I'm saying?
13:56Shit, shit.
13:57Where's the makeup at?
13:58Makeup?
13:59Right here, man.
14:00That whole bad boy
14:01was built on him.
14:03You cannot take that from him.
14:07But I think that Puffy
14:08wanted the light
14:09like he always wanted.
14:11From dancing
14:12the whole night you see
14:13anybody that's boasters
14:14and loud like that,
14:14they want to be in the spotlight.
14:17It wasn't like no secret,
14:18that's what he wanted.
14:19Six foot three,
14:22335 pound,
14:25Suge Knight
14:25has managed to become
14:27the head of
14:27a $100 million record company.
14:29It's the record label
14:30at ground zero
14:31of the whole
14:31gangster rap phenomenon,
14:33Death Row Records.
14:35Suge was about that money,
14:37but he didn't want to be
14:38in that limelight like Puff.
14:41He had his own lane.
14:43You're a big guy,
14:44and there are people
14:45who are afraid of you.
14:47There's probably people
14:47who are afraid of you.
14:48Back in 1988,
14:50the person who did
14:51the greatest job
14:52or protected me
14:52was the head of my security
14:53at the time,
14:54Suge Knight.
14:55Right now I'm on
14:56the Heartbreak Tour
14:57with Bobby Brown,
14:58a new addition,
14:58and we've been out
14:59since September.
14:59We're about to get
15:00on the tour bus,
15:01and these dudes came over,
15:03and they was like
15:03talking crazy.
15:04Y'all niggas this,
15:05y'all niggas that,
15:06this, this, this.
15:09And I seen Suge
15:10kind of just turn this way
15:12and gave him one of these.
15:15BAM!
15:16And I was like that
15:16and knocked dude
15:18down the hill,
15:19and it looked like
15:20a cartoon.
15:21Dude was rolling down the hill.
15:22Boom, boom.
15:22It's Tim's K-ball.
15:25He's a street dude.
15:26He's a real street dude.
15:27But Suge knew talent,
15:30and he knew business.
15:31They took me on tour,
15:33and I learned how
15:33every person
15:35who was writing songs
15:36is getting beat out
15:37their money
15:37like they published.
15:38and he was able
15:39to dovetail that
15:41into starting
15:42Death Row Records.
15:43One, two,
15:44bring it to the phone.
15:46Snoop Doggy Dogg
15:47and Dr. Drake
15:47is at the door.
15:49Death Row can be
15:50bigger than Motown,
15:51or Sony,
15:53or Warner Brothers.
15:53Death Row's gonna be
15:54the biggest record company
15:55there is.
15:57Chronic album's
15:57the foundation.
15:59Before Bad Boy,
16:00Death Row was the most
16:01successful label
16:02in the business.
16:03From the depths of the sea
16:04back to the block.
16:05Snoop Doggy Dogg.
16:06Sean had admired
16:08Death Row
16:08and wanted us
16:10to emulate them.
16:13And that was my job.
16:15How do I make
16:16Bad Boy
16:16equal to success
16:18of Death Row?
16:19And of course,
16:20my eyes was like this.
16:21Death Row?
16:22They had a head start.
16:24They had artists.
16:25They picked superstars up
16:26from other indie labels.
16:27We're starting off.
16:29Me and him
16:29were friends.
16:31Wow.
16:31Who shook you?
16:32Yeah, yeah.
16:32He would pick me up
16:33from the airport.
16:34You know,
16:34I was just networking
16:35with the brother
16:36and showed me
16:37a lot of love.
16:38You know,
16:38I really had thought
16:39we were cool.
16:41Me and Puffy,
16:42we used to run around
16:42with each other.
16:43He was getting
16:44in the business.
16:44I was in the business.
16:46Living life without fear.
16:48Only a few years later,
16:50Bad Boy,
16:51Death Row.
16:52Death Row is the label
16:53that pays, man.
16:54The two hottest labels.
16:58But I would look over
16:59at Death Row and say,
17:00they're taking care
17:00of their artists
17:01better than we are.
17:02they're putting
17:04in your head,
17:05fuck 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 Shewitt was opening up
17:18a Death Row East.
17:20And it was found out.
17:22Shot by the finger.
17:23Yes.
17:30It's the Source Hip Hop Music Award!
17:34The Source Awards
17:35was happening
17:36in New York City.
17:42Come on, New York!
17:44And behind the scenes,
17:45people were running
17:46back and forth
17:47to the next dressing room,
17:48to the next dressing room,
17:49which were in trailers
17:50parked outside
17:52of Madison Square Garden.
17:54How important is it
17:55to have the Source Awards?
17:57Let me just wait in front.
17:58You got that?
17:59Come on, man.
18:00Who's banging on the door
18:01like that?
18:01You're telling me?
18:02Well, now it's a dog.
18:03What is the deal, man?
18:04Keep the door closed!
18:06And it escalated with words
18:07from the podium
18:08at the awards show.
18:10Any artists out there
18:11want to be an artist
18:12and want to stay a star
18:13and don't want to have to worry
18:15about the executive producer
18:16trying to be
18:17all in the videos,
18:19all on the record,
18:21dancing,
18:22come to Death Rock.
18:23Woo!
18:24Woo!
18:24Woo!
18:24Woo!
18:24Woo!
18:25Woo!
18:25Woo!
18:26Woo!
18:26Woo!
18:27Woo!
18:27Woo!
18:28Woo!
18:28Woo!
18:29Woo!
18:29Woo!
18:30Woo!
18:30Woo!
18:31Woo!
18:31Woo!
18:32Woo!
18:32I'm the executive producer
18:33that our comment
18:34was made about
18:35a little bit earlier.
18:36But check this out.
18:38Contrary to what other people
18:39may feel,
18:40I would like to say
18:41that I'm very proud
18:43of Dr. Dre,
18:44of Death Row
18:45and Shook Knight
18:45for their accomplishments.
18:46You know what I'm saying?
18:48I'm a positive black man
18:49and I make music
18:50to bring us together,
18:52not to separate us
18:53and all this East and West
18:54that need to stop.
18:55So give it up
18:56for everybody
18:56from the East and the West
18:57that won tonight.
18:59One love.
19:01Sean wants to present strength.
19:03He wants to show coolness.
19:07And then there's a side of him
19:08that's all out dark.
19:11He processes things differently.
19:13He remembers every slight.
19:19Once again, y'all,
19:20please give it up
19:21for all the nominees.
19:22Before I signed with Bad Boy,
19:38I was working
19:39at the door of the club
19:41in Platinum House.
19:44Every Friday,
19:45we had a Bad Boy party.
19:47So Puff was dear.
19:49Suge Knight came that night
19:51with his friend Jake
19:52and I was working the door.
19:54Suge was looking for Puff.
19:59Sean would try to go after
20:01people's side chicks,
20:03like a girl in Atlanta
20:06that Suge was dealing with.
20:09Sean wanted me
20:11to take $50,000
20:12out of the overhead account
20:15so he could buy her
20:16a diamond necklace,
20:18wooing her
20:19because she was
20:20Suge's side piece
20:21in Atlanta
20:22when he came there.
20:26A real police officer
20:28in a real police uniform
20:29came and got on the tape.
20:32I said, man,
20:33you took the homie,
20:34we're going to tear
20:34this motherfucker up.
20:36He said, well,
20:36I got to throw him out.
20:37I said, for what?
20:38He said, he was Puff.
20:39Suge and Jake
20:41is being escorted
20:42out the club
20:44by the off-duty officer
20:47we always had there
20:49moonlighting.
20:51Jake comes out,
20:52Suge come out,
20:53Puff come out.
20:54Everybody's outside.
20:56A man appeared
20:57with one hand
20:58behind his back
20:59and he was holding
21:01a pistol.
21:02He was holding
21:02a pistol.
21:04He touched Jake
21:05with the pistol
21:06and he looked
21:08at Suge like this
21:09and was shooting
21:10Suge Fran like this.
21:13He shot him five times.
21:18Suge grabbed
21:20the hold to Puffy
21:21in the chokehold
21:22and put him
21:23in the front of him
21:24like this.
21:25So he was moving
21:26Puff around like this
21:27in case you shoot him.
21:29You're going to shoot Puffy.
21:29You're not going to shoot me.
21:30Puff was like,
21:36it's going to be all right,
21:37man,
21:37it's going to be all right.
21:39Suge said,
21:40what you mean
21:40it's going to be all right?
21:42He said,
21:42tell your mama
21:43it's going to be all right.
21:45Tell your kids
21:46it's going to be all right.
21:49And then the shooter
21:50ran.
21:55Ambulance came
21:55and took Jake
21:56to the hospital.
21:57A couple of days later,
21:59he died.
22:02That's what started
22:03the East Coast,
22:04West Coast war.
22:11Tupac Shakur
22:12out of the hospital
22:13after surgery
22:13from bullet wounds
22:14is convicted
22:15on sex charges.
22:17After Puck is shot
22:19in Quad's studio,
22:20he had the rape case.
22:22A New York jury
22:23convicted the rapper
22:24of first degree
22:25sexual abuse
22:25but acquitted him
22:26of more serious charges.
22:31Since your period
22:32of incarceration
22:33at Clinton
22:33Correctional Facility,
22:36have you taken the time
22:37to reflect
22:37on your gangster
22:38thug image?
22:41Puck and Big
22:42were friends
22:43at one time.
22:44But then once
22:45Puck is in jail,
22:47Bad Boy
22:48and all of his associations
22:50were nemesises.
22:52when I'm in jail,
22:54strangers
22:55are telling me,
22:56yo, you don't know?
22:57Big your old boy
22:58shot you.
22:59Because they bragging,
23:00they telling
23:01they n**** in jail,
23:02yo, we just got Puck.
23:03Woo, woo, woo, woo.
23:05Once the conflict
23:06happens,
23:08Puck needed
23:08someone strong
23:10that was going
23:12to stand with him.
23:13It had just so happened
23:16that Suge
23:17had his own
23:18issue
23:18with Puffy
23:19so Suge went
23:22to jail
23:22and visited him.
23:24The whole s***
23:25was like
23:26some mob s***
23:27into Tupac,
23:30a young captain.
23:33I'm gonna join
23:34the family, dog.
23:35Get me out.
23:38Suge Knight
23:39first signed Tupac
23:40to a recording contract
23:42when Tupac
23:42was in this
23:43New York State prison
23:44unable to come up
23:45with the million dollars
23:47needed for bail
23:47while his lawyers
23:49appealed
23:49a 1995 conviction
23:51for sexual assault.
23:55I want everybody
23:55to give a
23:56big welcome
23:57from
23:58Tupac.
24:02Out on bail,
24:03rapper Tupac Shakur
24:04has rushed to market
24:05double album
24:05All Eyes on Me
24:06debuts at number one
24:07on this week's
24:08Billboard chart.
24:08With the addition
24:09of Tupac,
24:10there's no way
24:10y'all can stop us now.
24:11N**** say bad boy,
24:14and I say
24:15fuck them all.
24:16We're coming
24:16to the East Coast
24:17to prove
24:17there is no fear
24:18overthrow the government
24:20y'all got right now
24:21which is bad boy
24:21and all that bullshit
24:22and we will bring
24:23a new government
24:24here that will feed
24:25every person
24:25in New York.
24:26Cool, man.
24:27All right, man.
24:28Thanks a lot.
24:30Sean tried everything
24:31to get Biggie upset.
24:33He had to go
24:34at him with business.
24:36This guy came at us.
24:37I was more in a mind frame
24:39of keep your mouth
24:43shut, big.
24:43You know what I'm saying?
24:44Just don't feed into it.
24:47If you feed into it,
24:48it's gonna do nothing
24:49but escalate.
24:50You know what I'm saying?
24:51Biggie never wanted
24:52to be an enemy to Pac.
24:54As things was coming
24:55from the West Coast,
24:56Biggie did not want
24:58to give any shots back.
25:01When Pac was producing
25:02All Eyes on Me,
25:03he called us and said,
25:04I just fucked Faith Evans.
25:08Big's wife.
25:10We was like, what?
25:11First of all,
25:12fuck your bitch
25:12and the clique you claim.
25:14Westside when we ride
25:15come equipped with game.
25:16You claim to be a player
25:17but I fucked your wife.
25:19We bust up.
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
25:26on Biggie.
25:27You gotta answer back.
25:30Tupac would have me pissed off.
25:31You know what I'm saying?
25:33And the rumors
25:34that's spreading
25:35is on some tip
25:37like we set them up.
25:38You know what I'm saying?
25:39And that's crazy.
25:40The East Coast,
25:41West Coast thing
25:42was invented, period.
25:44Because no matter what,
25:45we all went to the East.
25:46They came here,
25:47went to the West, whatever.
25:47They wasn't arguing
25:49with each other.
25:50We was able to roam.
25:51Fuck Biggie.
25:52Fuck Bad Boy
25:53as a staff record label
25:54and as a motherfucking crew.
25:56It was this Bad Boy
25:57in death row.
26:00And that right there
26:01put people in danger
26:02because it made people
26:04be like,
26:04F you, F you.
26:05And people started
26:06doing stuff for no reason
26:07because it was, you know,
26:08it's just people
26:09that want to ride
26:10for each other.
26:11And then look what happened.
26:12Doing the street thing.
26:19My affiliation
26:20was with the Mansfield hustlers.
26:24Today,
26:25we go by
26:28Mansfield Gangster Crips now.
26:31Police say that drugs
26:32and violence
26:33are being spread
26:33by two longstanding rivals
26:35in the Los Angeles
26:36youth gang scene.
26:38Groups who call themselves
26:39Crips
26:39and wear blue colors
26:40and Bloods
26:42who wear red.
26:43Did you guys
26:44provide protection?
26:47Sean Combs
26:48was a friend.
26:51Christopher Wallace
26:52was a friend.
26:54And, you know,
26:55when we're hanging out
26:56with our friends,
26:57we're going to protect
27:00our friends.
27:01So they knew.
27:04And they were
27:04our associates.
27:06You got beef with them,
27:07and you got beef with me.
27:10Period.
27:11A number of reports
27:12have come out
27:12that Bad Boy Entertainment
27:13had actually hired Crips
27:14for security work
27:15out on the West Coast.
27:16Is that true?
27:18We've never hired Crips
27:21or any other gang faction
27:23to do security for us.
27:25It would be extremely
27:26unintelligent
27:27to hire
27:28a gang,
27:29some gangs
27:30to do security for you.
27:32A lot of the New York guys
27:33come out to L.A.
27:35Zip is a person
27:36that I know
27:37that was
27:39Puffy's man.
27:40That was his guy.
27:43Eric Von Zip
27:44is a drug lord
27:45from Harlem,
27:46but Sean
27:47told me
27:48he was his uncle.
27:49He might have known
27:50Janice on the fringe.
27:52He might have known
27:52Sean's father
27:53from those days.
27:55Zip
27:56had a relationship
27:57with the Southside Crips,
27:59and then he also
28:00had a relationship
28:01with us.
28:03Sean said,
28:04Zip can give us protection
28:05going back and forth
28:07to L.A.
28:08because he was
28:09in with the Crips,
28:10and we had a beef
28:11with Suge Knight
28:13and the Bloods.
28:14Knight dresses
28:15in all red,
28:16the colors
28:17of the drug-dealing
28:18Bloods street gang.
28:20One of the death row
28:22people got jumped
28:23by someone
28:25at a mall,
28:27and that someone
28:28was from
28:28Southside Crips.
28:29one of the Crips
28:31tried to take
28:32a death row chain.
28:34I think that was
28:35an order from Bad Boy,
28:36that was an order
28:36from Puff,
28:37because it was specific.
28:40We want a death row chain.
28:43Introducing the one
28:44and only
28:44Iron,
28:46Mike Tyson!
28:52Everybody got
28:53what they wanted
28:54to in that.
28:55People got to see
28:56Tyson
28:57knock a motherfucker out.
28:59And Tyson
29:00with a left hook
29:01and Seldon is down.
29:03It's over
29:03in the first round!
29:07That's probably
29:08the reason
29:09that the guy
29:09was all fucked up
29:10in a lot of shit
29:11from the fight night.
29:12When you've seen
29:13a Tyson fight,
29:14you want to fight.
29:15the guy who was ripped off
29:27for the death row chain
29:29is with
29:30Suge and Pac.
29:32He just
29:32whispers to Pac,
29:34that's him.
29:36Hey, hey, hey!
29:37It was Orlando Anderson
29:40from Southside Crips
29:42who was connected
29:44with Puff.
29:45Next thing I know,
29:46I see Pac like,
29:47phew!
29:49Took your name down.
29:51That was the foundational moment
30:02when all this
30:03was getting out of control.
30:05I'm out of one right now.
30:08I got a couple guys shot
30:09and a medical ASAP.
30:15Rapper Tupac Shakur
30:16was shot in the chest
30:17this morning shot
30:18multiple times
30:19in the chest
30:19in a drive-by shooting.
30:20Death row record label owner
30:22Marion Suge Knight
30:23was also in the car,
30:24but his injuries
30:25were minor.
30:26Craig called me up.
30:28It was late.
30:30He was out there
30:31at the fight
30:32because he was supposed
30:33to have performed
30:34at some club
30:35that Suge owned.
30:39And I guess Tupac
30:39was supposed
30:40to come through.
30:41He was like,
30:42how come Tupac
30:44just got shot?
30:46Craig was, like,
30:47scared.
30:48Who was he scared of?
30:50Probably Puff.
30:52He ended up
30:53not going
30:54to death row
30:55after that.
30:59Hi, I'm Tabitha Soren
31:00with MTV News.
31:01Controversial rapper
31:02and actor
31:02Tupac Shakur
31:03has died
31:04in a Las Vegas hospital
31:05of complications
31:06from several...
31:07I was in jail.
31:08I was in jail
31:09when he got shot.
31:12There was a lot
31:12of niggas in jail
31:13that were celebrating
31:14Pac's death.
31:15I'm glad that, uh,
31:18I didn't kill anybody
31:20or anybody killed me.
31:22But I damn sure
31:23came close.
31:26Police in Las Vegas
31:27say they have no motive
31:29for this latest shooting,
31:30but the rapper's
31:31troubled past
31:32will certainly be part
31:33of the investigation.
31:36Do you know
31:37who was responsible
31:38for the killing
31:39of Tupac Shakur?
31:40No, I don't.
31:42I think that Sean now
31:44in my mature mind
31:47had a lot to do
31:48with the death
31:49of Tupac.
31:57In 2006,
31:59I was recruited
32:00to work a task force
32:02that was going to look
32:04at a cold case investigation.
32:06At the time,
32:07Tupac's murder
32:08was an unsolved case.
32:10gang crimes
32:12often times
32:13are difficult
32:13to solve
32:14because you don't
32:14get cooperating witnesses.
32:16They want to
32:17stick to a code
32:18that typically entails
32:20not cooperating
32:21with law enforcement
32:22and then taking matters
32:23into your own hands.
32:25It ain't my job
32:26to snitch on nobody
32:28because I would never
32:28snitch on nobody.
32:30We had built
32:31a narcotics case
32:32against Keefie D.
32:34Keefie D.
32:35was kind of
32:35the shock caller
32:36for the Southside Crips.
32:37He was the most
32:38prominent drug dealer.
32:40He was very influential
32:41in his gang.
32:43His nephew,
32:44Orlando Anderson,
32:45was a very well-known
32:47violent gang member.
32:50Tupac Shakur
32:50had assaulted
32:51Orlando Anderson
32:52just after
32:54the Mike Tyson fight.
32:56So Keefie D.
32:57was potentially
32:58looking at a life sentence
32:59for federal
33:00drug trafficking.
33:02We wanted to
33:03question him
33:03about his potential
33:04role in the murder
33:05of Tupac Shakur.
33:07We let him know
33:08that he could
33:09potentially mitigate
33:10some of the damages
33:11if he wanted
33:12to come in
33:12and talk to us.
33:14And the U.S. attorney
33:15agreed that they'd
33:17allow Keefie D.
33:18to do a proffer session.
33:20Keefie,
33:20today what we're
33:21going to do,
33:21we're just going to
33:22go over with
33:23a fine-tooth comb
33:24through the Las Vegas
33:25incident.
33:25We do have to
33:26emphasize to you
33:28it's determined
33:29that some of these
33:29details are incorrect
33:31and everything's
33:32off the table.
33:33A proffer session
33:34is when a person
33:35facing criminal charges
33:37can answer questions
33:39wherein self-incriminating
33:40information would not
33:42be used against him
33:43in a criminal prosecution.
33:45Doesn't mean they have
33:46any kind of immunity.
33:49Hey, I want to say
33:51this though too.
33:53I feel like I said
33:54that day,
33:55don't bullshit me
33:55and I won't bullshit y'all.
33:57You know what I'm saying?
33:57In the year prior
33:59to the murder
34:00of Tupac Shakur,
34:02he has had
34:03several conversations
34:04with Sean Combs.
34:06I met him all.
34:07He gave a party
34:08at the
34:08Sella Club
34:11down in Santa Monica.
34:12That's where I met him.
34:13The first day I met him.
34:14Sean Combs' affiliation
34:17with the Southside Crips
34:18came by way
34:19of a New York
34:21street figure
34:21known as Zip.
34:22Zip set up
34:25the introduction
34:26between Combs
34:27and Keefee Dee
34:28and then they developed
34:30their own relationship.
34:32And Zip introduced
34:33this is my boy.
34:34What are you introducing, man?
34:35This is my friend.
34:36This is my nephew.
34:36That's my boy.
34:37My boy.
34:38This is Paul.
34:40And after that
34:40they used my car
34:41on the video.
34:42Which car was I having?
34:44The 64 Chevy I have.
34:50What color was it?
34:51Blown.
34:51I watched a video
34:53when Pup was driving
34:54the car.
34:55Usher first
34:55or whatever.
34:56He was in a Laker uniform
34:57and he had the little kid
34:58dancing on my car
34:59when he got back.
35:01It was fucked up
35:02and he had to
35:03he paid
35:03to get it repainted.
35:10Pup,
35:10he caused Zip home
35:11and he wanted to speak
35:12to me.
35:13They gave it a B-E-T to her.
35:15And then I
35:15he gave us some tickets
35:17and I brought the crew.
35:18I want to hear
35:20a new flavor
35:20in the air.
35:21I want to hear
35:22a new flavor.
35:23I want to hear
35:23a new flavor.
35:24Jacket, Jacket, Jacket.
35:25Yeah.
35:25To all the ladies
35:26in the place.
35:27What's up?
35:27Keefy D says
35:28that Sean Combs
35:29kind of makes
35:30this general announcement
35:32while they're all
35:34inside of a hotel room
35:36after a musical event.
35:37So it's Harrell,
35:40Puffy Zip,
35:41you.
35:42About 40-something
35:43off-site.
35:44Yeah.
35:45That was stupid
35:46as hell too,
35:47you know.
35:49Shit,
35:49he said he didn't
35:50kill us anything
35:51for no dudes
35:51anything,
35:52you know.
35:52Tupac and Chug,
35:53you mean?
35:54Yeah.
35:54And he said
35:55in front of all
35:56those people
35:56I couldn't believe
35:57him.
35:58You know what I'm saying?
35:59All home full of trips.
36:01So this is after
36:02Jake got killed.
36:04So he was on point.
36:05He was worried
36:05about something
36:06happening.
36:06Yeah.
36:07Shit got miles off
36:08about a bunch
36:08of different stuff
36:09so he was scared.
36:10No, he was scared
36:10to death.
36:11Yeah.
36:11Okay.
36:13Then there's
36:13a more specific
36:14incident that takes
36:15place at a deli
36:16on Sunset Strip
36:17in Los Angeles,
36:18a place called
36:19Greenblatt's Deli.
36:20What made it
36:21a specific,
36:22like, hey,
36:22I'm serious,
36:23I want you guys
36:24to kill these guys?
36:26Well, he told me
36:27the Greenblatt's.
36:29When we got there
36:30we were laughing at him.
36:32Because he was
36:32just brought
36:33to suck dick,
36:34to suck every dick
36:35in there.
36:35He was hugged up
36:36kissing or whatever.
36:37We was laughing
36:37like a mother.
36:38Like, man,
36:39what you laughing at,
36:39dog?
36:40Man, don't just
36:41come out here
36:42and get in any bra,
36:43dog.
36:44I took him
36:45downstairs and he's
36:46like, man,
36:46I gotta get rid
36:47of those dudes,
36:48man.
36:49It's gonna be
36:49the problem.
36:53It was after
36:54he made the record.
36:55He came out.
36:56Yeah, yeah,
36:56that pissed
36:57them off.
36:58He tells you
37:05seriously,
37:06man,
37:06I need to get rid
37:07of these guys.
37:07I mean,
37:08he's looking at you
37:08in the eyes
37:09and he's like,
37:10scared.
37:10Yeah.
37:11You tell him
37:12we'll do it for a million
37:13and he's like,
37:14okay,
37:15I'll do it for a million?
37:17Yeah.
37:17He agrees,
37:17he's shaking
37:18on it or something
37:18like that?
37:19Yeah.
37:20What happened?
37:21You know,
37:21he, uh,
37:23I mean,
37:23I'll shit out.
37:24We'll wipe the ass
37:25out quick.
37:26You know,
37:26it's nothing.
37:29Here we go,
37:30round one,
37:31scheduled for 12.
37:32And Tyson comes
37:33right out,
37:34right into...
37:34He says that
37:35when Las Vegas happens
37:36and they're all out there
37:38and his nephew
37:39gets assaulted
37:39by Tupac,
37:40they're like,
37:40this is the perfect
37:41occasion.
37:42We was eating
37:44and my dick came
37:45and said,
37:47he's a beat-up man.
37:49And he was in a hotel,
37:50yeah,
37:51at the MGM
37:52at a restaurant.
37:53There was a few
37:53New Yorkers,
37:54though,
37:54with Zip.
37:56Like,
37:57man,
37:57y'all need some help?
37:59We got this.
38:00It's your perfect
38:01opportunity, baby.
38:03That was Zipconning?
38:03Yeah, yeah.
38:04Because of what
38:05happened with him.
38:05Yeah, yeah.
38:07You know,
38:08because it was down there
38:09and he told me
38:10in the lobby
38:11that he had some jimmies.
38:13Some what?
38:13He had a jimmie
38:14and a pen.
38:17He had a little
38:17secret compartment.
38:19The thing popped out.
38:21The vehicle
38:22that Zip was driving
38:23that night
38:24reportedly had
38:25what we call
38:25a trap in it,
38:27which is a
38:27concealed compartment
38:29where you can
38:30place a gun.
38:32It's a difficult
38:33thing to find.
38:35Zip had driven
38:36that car
38:37to Las Vegas.
38:39A few days
38:40before Tupac
38:41was murdered,
38:42Sean requested
38:43that we rent cars
38:46and have
38:48multiple drivers
38:49drive clear
38:51across the country
38:52to this fight.
38:55But I arranged
38:56through my budget
38:58to make that trip
38:59happen
39:00for those drivers
39:01and to this day
39:03it stands out
39:03in my mind.
39:05Why did we
39:06rent multiple cars?
39:08Why did we hire
39:08people from
39:09Harlem
39:10and other locations
39:11to drive?
39:14We're going to
39:18handle this shit
39:18or whatever.
39:19Yeah,
39:20they asked,
39:20if y'all want
39:21us to come.
39:22I'm like,
39:22we know where
39:23them motherfuckers
39:23at.
39:24They were telling
39:24they're going
39:25to be at the
39:25662 Club.
39:27Two cars
39:27going 662?
39:28Yeah,
39:29the van
39:29and the cabaret.
39:31They didn't show up.
39:32We waited
39:33about 15,
39:3420 minutes.
39:34They didn't show up.
39:36So,
39:37they was like,
39:37let's go get
39:38some liquor.
39:39And we came up
39:40Harlot
39:41at the Las Vegas
39:43Willow Art.
39:44And I,
39:44oh, shit.
39:45I hear they
39:46coming at BMW
39:47like,
39:47get out of your car.
39:48On their way
39:49to the club,
39:50Suge is blaring
39:51his music too loud.
39:53He gets pulled
39:54over by some
39:55police officers.
39:56They essentially,
39:57you know,
39:58say,
39:58just turn down
39:58your music,
39:59no big deal.
40:00And it's at this
40:01point in time
40:02that Suge
40:03and Tupac
40:04see these girls.
40:06Like,
40:06they're Suge,
40:07Suge.
40:08Like,
40:08the police were
40:08going through his
40:09car or something
40:10or another.
40:10And then,
40:11the traffic was
40:12stopped,
40:13and then they
40:13got in the car.
40:14Did you see
40:15who was with you?
40:17I thought it was
40:17Tupac.
40:18And then he was
40:19like,
40:19come on,
40:20come go with me.
40:21Come go with us.
40:22We're going to
40:22662.
40:24Tupac!
40:26Tupac!
40:27And we're like,
40:27there they go.
40:28Just wanted
40:29to turn.
40:30And we just
40:30pulled up on the
40:31side and checked
40:32every car
40:32and see where
40:32they was.
40:33So what directed
40:34your attention to
40:35him with some
40:35girls shouting
40:36at Tupac?
40:37Tupac!
40:38He gave us
40:38up away.
40:39Otherwise,
40:40it would have
40:40gone away.
40:40in Maine,
40:43he leaned over
40:44on the window
40:45and we rolled
40:45down the window
40:45and popped.
40:48Should've
40:48looked over,
40:49he sees you?
40:50Yeah.
40:51Yeah,
40:51he's going to
40:51have me.
40:52If you knew
41:05who killed
41:05Tupac,
41:06would you
41:06tell the
41:06police?
41:08Absolutely
41:08not.
41:10I'm going to
41:12park the car
41:12and I put
41:13the gun
41:14on the
41:14tire
41:14and left.
41:15Where'd you
41:15guys go?
41:16We smoke weed
41:17and rain.
41:18Yeah.
41:18Wait.
41:19At a hotel?
41:20At a hotel?
41:20At a party in the
41:21room.
41:22And they
41:22pulled up
41:23in the
41:23ambulance
41:23while we
41:24standing
41:25right there.
41:26Take off
41:27bullshit.
41:27You guys
41:28on the
41:28street with
41:29what?
41:29We on
41:29Las Vegas
41:30Boulevard
41:30at the
41:31crosswalk
41:31and they
41:32pull up
41:32the ambulance
41:33right next
41:33to us.
41:34With him
41:35on the
41:35car already?
41:36Tupac in
41:37the car.
41:38It's close.
41:40Did they see
41:40go?
41:41We didn't
41:42give a fuck.
41:43We didn't
41:43get back to
41:44the ambulance
41:45to park
41:45right here.
41:46Right next
41:47to us.
41:47That shit
41:48was funny
41:48as a
41:48moment.
41:52And I
41:52haven't
41:52ever told
41:53nobody
41:53this.
41:56So you
41:57get back
41:57to L.A.
41:57the next
41:58day,
41:58Zip
41:58calls.
41:59You
41:59says,
41:59meet me
42:00at the
42:00hot
42:00with
42:00the
42:00place
42:00where
42:01at?
42:02We're
42:02going to
42:02melt
42:02into my
42:03peace.
42:04You
42:04guys
42:04go over
42:04there.
42:04Zip
42:05shows
42:05up.
42:05You
42:05guys,
42:06what
42:06happens
42:06that?
42:07People
42:07called
42:08him.
42:09He
42:09told
42:09him,
42:09yeah,
42:10it was
42:10us.
42:10On
42:10Zip's
42:11phone or
42:11your
42:11phone?
42:11On
42:11Zip
42:12phone.
42:13And
42:13Zip
42:13gives
42:14you
42:14the
42:14phone?
42:15Yeah.
42:16People
42:16say,
42:17well,
42:17he was
42:18happy
42:18in
42:18there.
42:19And
42:20did you
42:20ask
42:20him
42:20about
42:20his
42:21money?
42:21When
42:21you
42:21get
42:22paid?
42:22Whatever?
42:22No,
42:23I
42:23say
42:24that
42:24on
42:24the
42:24phone.
42:24Zip
42:25go get
42:26our
42:26cash.
42:27So you
42:28tell
42:28Zip
42:28we
42:28need
42:29to
42:29get
42:29paid.
42:29What
42:31does
42:37according
42:37to
42:37Keefe
42:38D,
42:38he
42:38was
42:38never
42:38compensated
42:39for
42:40the
42:40murder.
42:42But
42:42he
42:42said
42:43that
42:44a
42:44partial
42:45amount
42:45of
42:45the
42:45money
42:45was
42:46intended
42:46to
42:47be
42:47forwarded
42:47to
42:47him
42:48through
42:49Zip
42:49to
42:50the
42:50tune
42:50of
42:50about
42:50$500,000.
42:52The
42:53million dollar
42:54solicitation
42:55amount,
42:56only half
42:56of it
42:57was
42:57fulfilled
42:58because
42:58only
42:59Tupac
42:59and not
43:00Suge
43:01was
43:01killed.
43:03Keefe
43:03D has
43:04a
43:04conversation
43:05with
43:05Darius
43:05Rogers
43:06with
43:06DMACC.
43:12And
43:12DMACC
43:13says
43:13there
43:14had
43:14been
43:14a
43:14payment
43:15from
43:16Combs
43:16to
43:17Keefe
43:18D,
43:18but
43:19it
43:19had
43:19gone
43:19through
43:20Zip
43:20and
43:21then
43:21that
43:21money
43:21was
43:22never
43:22forwarded.
43:26We're
43:26just
43:27hoping
43:27and
43:27waiting
43:28to
43:28see
43:28what
43:29kind
43:29of
43:29progress
43:29Las
43:30Vegas
43:30would
43:31make
43:31with
43:32Keefe
43:32D's
43:33cooperation.
43:36Nothing
43:36really
43:36happens.
43:39Ultimately
43:39Zip
43:40dies
43:41from
43:41cancer.
43:43Thank you
43:43for coming
43:43out to
43:44Zips
43:44and I
43:44want
43:45everybody
43:45to know
43:45that
43:46when
43:46you
43:46come
43:47here
43:47we
43:47want
43:47to
43:48keep
43:48the
43:48peace.
43:49And Orlando
43:49Anderson
43:50is shot
43:51and killed
43:51in 1998
43:52so
43:54it's
43:55really
43:55Keefe
43:55D and
43:56Puffy
43:57Combs
43:57are the
43:57last
43:57men
43:57standing
43:58that
43:59can
43:59be
43:59held
43:59accountable
44:00for
44:00Tupac
44:01Shakur's
44:01murder.
44:01to
44:13wait
44:14impatiently
44:14looking
44:14to see
44:15if
44:15that's
44:15you
44:15All right, I'm at the same time.
44:24Good, then, and you're okay.
44:30All right.
44:35Take that off.
44:44All right, let's move it through.
44:47Move it through.
44:54What goes up, must come down.
44:57What goes down, must come up.
44:59Fuck.
45:03I remember, in 1999, 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.
45:16Come on, man.
45:17The song comes on, and Puff was talking in the beginning.
45:20It's 1999.
45:23No more Mr. Nice, guys.
45:25I'm like, what is he talking about?
45:28Fuck with me, I dropped a million dollars on your hands.
45:31You'll erase you and your own family.
45:33It's gonna start making y'all niggas disappear, man.
45:35Everything that's done in the dark must come to light.
45:38Everything that goes up must come down.
45:48Yeah, I'm headed to hunt 13th and Lennox, King.
46:04I gotta catch my man up there.
46:06I'll see you up there.
46:07Are y'all rolling?
46:08Yeah, we rolling.
46:09With the backdrop of East Coast, West Coast beef, Sean took Biggie to Los Angeles
46:28to record what would be the finishing touches on Biggie's Life After Death album,
46:34which wasn't titled that yet.
46:40Yo.
46:41Yo, Big, wake up.
46:42Wake up, baby.
46:43Diddy, what the fuck, man?
46:44What's up?
46:45Come on, man.
46:46We got the 7.30 flight on the LAX.
46:48Whoa.
46:49Cali?
46:50No doubt, baby.
46:51We have been warned to not come to LA.
46:55There were warnings all along for the last few months that we are not to set foot on the
47:01West Coast.
47:03It was awards show season, and Sean wanted him to start promoting the album.
47:09Come on, Saltrain.
47:10Get up out your seats.
47:11Come on.
47:12Get up out your seats.
47:13Get up out your seats.
47:16Biggie 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.
47:25I'll pop off 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
47:47going to have a two, three day press junket.
47:50To have Biggie be one of the first artists from Bad Boy to meet the European press.
47:56I had worked on that for months and weeks leading up.
47:59We were supposed to go to the airport that morning.
48:03I'm calling Biggie like crazy.
48:05What's going on?
48:06Wake up.
48:07He's like, yo.
48:08Puff is bugging.
48:09He just called me and told me, I want you to stay here in LA.
48:12I don't want to stay.
48:13I want to go.
48:15But Sean was adamant.
48:18Cancel the flight.
48:21Biggie's not going to the UK.
48:23What do you mean?
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.
48:41Scared 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.
48:57That night, Big and Puffy was with us.
49:08They were having a party.
49:14I spoke to Big and I was like, yo, man, you know, what are you doing?
49:20Catching LA, man, they get down in these circumstances, man, and you just can't be
49:26walking around here freely.
49:36Everybody's mingling.
49:41I look around.
49:42I say, where's Big?
49:45I want to get out.
49:46Get out.
49:47Hey, why don't you see?
49:48Wait.
49:49Hold up.
49:50Hold up.
49:51Zoom in.
49:52Why don't you see?
49:54That's big of me over there, man.
49:55That's big of me over there.
49:56That's big of me over there, man.
49:57That is Big and Puffy.
49:58Yeah, get down.
50:01That is big of me over there.
50:02Somebody got shot.
50:03Somebody got shot.
50:04Somebody got shot.
50:05Somebody got shot.
50:06Somebody got shot.
50:07Get down.
50:08Matt.
50:09What are you reporting?
50:10Yeah, we need an ambulance at Fairfax and Wilshire.
50:12Greaves and Los Angeles.
50:14Fairfax and Wilshire.
50:15We have a man shot.
50:17We have a .
50:18Ok, hold on.
50:19I get down.
50:20Wilshire and Fairfax.
50:21Listen, 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.
50:33I know the way.
50:35See the sun out.
50:36Oh, shit.
50:37You 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?
50:46Big!
50:47Big!
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.
51:00Sean said it on can't stop, won't stop.
51:03Biggie wanted to go.
51:05Big, you hear me, baby?
51:09He's lying about that.
51:12Sean wanted that trip and was pushing it for weeks and weeks.
51:18He lied about it and let me know.
51:21That's a weak spot for him.
51:22And he's nervous about that information.
51:31He ushered Biggie to his death.
51:37Who do you think called Biggie?
51:39Next question.
51:45All it was is a Puffy and Suge Knight war.
51:49You're messing with lives here.
51:51And that's exactly what happened.
51:53Two lives were lost as a result of what?
51:56Stupidity?
51:58When 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.
52:16Puffy was kind of stonewalling people from talking.
52:19Because he knows if you make inroads on Biggie's murder,
52:23you're going to make inroads on Tupac's murder.
52:25And that potentially can lead right back to him.
52:31How are Biggie's mom and Faith and the kids taking all this?
52:35Biggie's mom and Faith and the children are extremely strong.
52:39Matter 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.
52:51And 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. He 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.
53:20This is one of my closest friends and it's still one of my closest friends.
53:27I just, I feel his loss. I just miss him so much.
53:32Sean doing a big show looks good on him.
53:35But 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.
53:54If you could make it there, you was there.
53:56It 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.
54:14Biggie just wanted to be a rap superstar.
54:17He didn't want to hurt nobody.
54:18He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted like for a long time.
54:24It'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.
54:36I am.
54:37Before 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,
54:50Pull that cover.
54:51I need to be on the cover.
54:54My 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.
55:06Another 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.
55:20Can't believe you ain't here.
55:23Sean wanted me to change the agreement to more favorable terms for bad boy.
55:30And his family and mother would not know.
55:31And 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.
55:42And I said, that's not right.
55:44I'm not doing it.
55:46Ninety days later, I'm fired.
55:48It's like I feel empty inside without you being here.
56:00I remember Michael Jackson, the Motown 25 special.
56:03MTV, Madonna like a virgin.
56:06And I remember Puff with Sting.
56:08Check it out.
56:09Check it out.
56:16Having a TV moment in music, it's very rare.
56:19It elevates you to such another level of superstar.
56:23It made him rock star bitch.
56:25It's kinda hard but you're not around.
56:28Know you in heaven smiling down.
56:30Watching us while we pray for you.
56:32He became humongous.
56:34But now it's him.
56:35Now I'm the man.
56:37It's like a dream come true.
56:39To see the lines like in front of the stores like people going there to get my record.
56:45It'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.
56:56You've abused everyone and used most everyone.
57:02Put your legs in the air for V.I.G.
57:05Everybody put your legs in the air for stuff.
57:07There are horror stories like this all throughout.
57:11Cleared of gun possession and bribery charges, Sean Puffy Combs walked out a free man.
57:16Some people speak up about it, most do not.
57:19The first member is Aubrey.
57:22It's a pattern with him.
57:26Violence was a very normalized part of living in that world.
57:31You're a bad boy now.
57:33Allegations of sexual misconduct.
57:35Huffy called these encounters free calls.
57:38Witnessed Diddy abusing Cassie and that they encouraged Cassie to get away from him.
57:44Everything in life you're going to have people that are bad and people that are good, you know.
57:49You have to choose your side.
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