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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.
03:43You know how bad was he than I was.
03:44That's the big deal.
03:45If I just could hear you.
03:46That's the part of the shot.
03:47That's the bad fight in New York.
03:48And I'm not sure like that.
03:49I just said, we'll find out for all this.
03:50You can see this.
03:51You can see howbury's alive.
03:52This is a real deal.
03:53Here he is.
03:54It's a really fun guy.
03:55You know.
03:56He's a really cool guy.
03:57He's a really cool guy.
03:58You know, he's a really cool guy.
03:59You can see him.
04:00He's a really cool guy.
04:02That's not a good time.
04:03He's even a green guy.
04:04I God, I'm a good guy.
04:05That's a really cool guy.
04:06There was a whole lot of crazy shit going on.
04:08You know what I'm saying?
04:09I saw them knock the bathroom.
04:10They're going down.
04:11Yeah.
04:12Like, that shit was crazy to me that that shit wasn't there,
04:14which is a sign to me like, nigga, time to go to the future.
04:18Time to go to the future.
04:20That was a little building.
04:21Compared for the building, I got ready for you, son.
04:23You know what I'm saying?
04:24It was a sign to me like that, but I'm saying,
04:26that shit was there like two months ago, right?
04:29I'm not tripping, tripping.
04:30Yeah, it wasn't there, yeah.
04:36Puff is in this position where he has all this turmoil.
04:46But he's not at the point where he's saying,
04:47where I went wrong.
04:50He's saying to himself, how do I get out of this?
04:54Maybe I can convince some witnesses
04:56that I'm not the guy who I am.
05:00Eventually, he's going to get to the point
05:02where he's going to ask himself, how
05:04did I get myself into this situation?
05:1895, he had two of the hottest acts.
05:20Greg, map game was flavor in your ear.
05:22There goes a brand new flavor, yeah.
05:25Time for new flavor, yeah.
05:28And Biggie.
05:28You gotta come up in your waist, please don't suit up the place.
05:31Why?
05:32I see some ladies tonight that should be having my
05:34Bad Boy was rising up.
05:36My little lab right here, you know, where I cut my deals
05:38and all that.
05:39Got my little headset just living out a dream.
05:42You know what I'm saying?
05:43One time, Sean was in his office.
05:44And I'm in a little cubbyhole 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 blow job at the desk.
05:57He wanted me to see that.
05:58that. He wanted me to see her face, and then he was able to get her to do that right then
06:02and there in the office. She leaves, I'm, what did you want me for? Ah, I didn't want
06:08you for anything. That was the beginning for me to see, this is what's going on here.
06:15Can everybody here make some noise for B.I.G. for bringing it back to the East?
06:20So the C's for all of this was early on.
06:23And that came from people in the industry co-signing his activity, because it brought money in.
06:36I don't know if y'all niggas know this. The Juicy with platinum. Big Puppa with platinum.
06:42In your ear, remix with platinum.
06:45That whole bad boy thing was so big. Faith Evans.
06:50Gonna be first lady on Puff Daddy's Lady.
06:52Total.
06:55Biggie.
06:58In Greg Mann.
06:59The thing over here is Greg Mann.
07:02It was a consistent back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
07:08So let me just give you a day in the life of Puff Daddy.
07:12Gets up from wherever he stayed that night.
07:17Heads to the office two hours late.
07:19You might have somebody pulling him over, saying, hey, ain't you in that video? Ain't that you?
07:23Oh, yo, here go a demo.
07:24Puffy's over there.
07:25Yo, what's up, Puff? How you doing, baby, bruh?
07:28Had the big baseball bat cell phones.
07:31And the phone might ring.
07:32Such-and-such is on the phone calling from jail.
07:35Yo, I'm coming home.
07:36You might have a group standing in front of the office, already with the microphone ready to sing,
07:41You love me, I love...
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.
08:03One day, it seemed like out of the blue, my door opens up.
08:17Sean walks in.
08:18He had a baseball bat.
08:21Had a big attaché case suitcase with the snaps on it.
08:25The stocks were there.
08:27We in a fucking hustle.
08:28We in a grind.
08:29Do your job.
08:30Whatever your...
08:30He wanted me to sign my 25% over.
08:34And then he's over me like this.
08:36He wants to stop that.
08:38He wants it now.
08:40I'm not gonna stay fucking lying down.
08:42I'm not.
08:42I can't do that, man.
08:44He said, there's a business deal I need to take care of.
08:46I need to do this.
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.
08:52It's a fucking fight.
08:53That's a problem.
08:54I don't know how to be a count.
08:56And 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.
09:21It wasn't like he was firing me.
09:23But I was definitely confused by it.
09:27It might sound strange,
09:30but if you've ever built something
09:31and you want it to last,
09:34you think about how to make it last.
09:37I want to know who's been naughty at night
09:49with the device turning grown men in tomorrow.
09:52I thought he was kind of cool at first,
09:54and then we started seeing some things.
09:59Craig started becoming disenchanted.
10:03And I 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 to 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'll be like,
11:38I fucking hate that guy.
11:40As an artist,
11:41you can go number one.
11:43Song is being played
11:43all over the nation,
11:44but 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.
11:54Craig and I hit a point
11:55where we were fucked up.
11:57No money, nothing.
11:58Hell, I was getting money
12:00from my father
12:01to take care of the house.
12:03We were all at, like,
12:07somebody's album release party,
12:09and Craig's gonna tell Puff
12:10to give him a few dollars,
12:12and he'll hit him back
12:13once he went and did this show.
12:14He literally went in his pocket
12:16and pulled out
12:18a knot of money this big
12:21and gave him $100 bill.
12:24Go ahead, everyone.
12:25You really just
12:28don't give a fuck.
12:31I think Sean
12:33had an envy
12:34for his own artists.
12:36He was jealous
12:37of their talent
12:37and wondering, like,
12:39this talent is wasted
12:40on people
12:41who don't even really
12:41know what to do,
12:43and if I had that talent
12:45in my know-how,
12:46wow.
12:47That's interesting
12:48because a lot of people
12:48Puffy's age
12:49want to grab this mic
12:51and rap,
12:52but Puffy,
12:52you wanted to do other things,
12:53and you're doing
12:54a lot of them.
12:55Can you talk about
12:56his skills as a rapper?
12:57Sucks.
12:58He has zero talent
13:00musically, nothing.
13:00He don't know how to discuss.
13:01He don't know nothing
13:02about R&B.
13:02He don't know none of that stuff.
13:03He used to ask me
13:04to always be there
13:05on 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, yo, for real,
13:14you got a lot of people
13:15who just tell you anything.
13:16That sucked.
13:18It doesn't sound good,
13:19and it makes no sense.
13:22But he always wanted
13:23to be an artist.
13:25We're about to just
13:26drop our R&B stuff.
13:27The Puff Daddy album.
13:29Yeah, what about
13:29the Puff Daddy solo project?
13:31Yeah, we don't like
13:31to talk about that.
13:32Hey, Puffy,
13:32we want Jack and Nick.
13:33Sean used other methods
13:37and ways to get
13:38the way he 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, right there.
13:56Damn, you know what I'm saying?
13:56Shit, shit.
13:57Where's makeup at?
13:58Makeup?
13:59Right here, right here.
14:00That whole bad boy
14:01was built on him.
14:03You cannot take that from him.
14:05But I think that Puffy
14:08wanted the light
14:09like he always wanted.
14:11From dancing,
14:12the whole now you see it.
14:13Anybody that's boasted
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.
14:21Six foot three,
14:22335 pound,
14:25Suge Knight
14:25has managed to become
14:27the head of
14:27a hundred million dollar
14:28record company.
14:29It's the record label
14:30at ground zero
14:31of the whole
14:31gangster rap phenomenon,
14:33Death Row Records.
14:34Suge was about
14:36that money,
14:37but he didn't want
14:38to be in that
14:39limelight 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
14:47people who are afraid of you.
14:48Back in 1988,
14:50the person who did
14:51the greatest job
14:52of protecting me
14:52was the head
14:53of my security
14:53at the time,
14:54Suge Knight.
14:55Right now,
14:56I'm on the heartbreak tour
14:57with Bobby Brown,
14:58a new addition,
14:58and we've been out
14:59We'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
15:14one of these.
15:15Bam!
15:16Like that.
15:17And knocked dude
15:18down the hill,
15:19and it looked like
15:20a cartoon.
15:21Dude was rolling
15:21down 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's writing songs
15:36is getting beat
15:37out their money
15:37like they're publishing.
15:39He 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
15:55company there is.
15:57Chronic Album's
15:57The Foundation.
15:59Before Bad Boy,
16:00Death Row was the
16:01most successful
16:01label in the business.
16:03From the depths
16:03of 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
16:21this, Death Row?
16:22They had a head start.
16:24They had artists.
16:25They picked superstars up
16:26from other indie labels.
16:27We're starting off.
16:29Me and him
16:29were friends.
16:31Wow.
16:31Who showed you?
16:32Yeah, yeah.
16:32He would pick me up
16:33from the airport.
16:34You know, I was just
16:35networking with the brother
16:36and show me a lot of love.
16:38You know, I really had
16:39thought we 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.
16:48Only 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.
17:03They're putting 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 Shud was opening up
17:18a Death Row East
17:19and it was found out.
17:22Shot by the finger.
17:23Yes.
17:30It's the Source
17:32Hip Hop Music Awards!
17:34The Source Awards
17:35was happening
17:36in New York City.
17:37And 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 bagging on the door
18:01like that?
18:01I'm telling you.
18:02When I was...
18:03Dog, what is the deal, man?
18:04Keep the door closed.
18:06And it escalated with words
18:07from the podium
18:08at the awards show.
18:10Any 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 Row.
18:31I'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
18:39other people may feel,
18:40I would like to say
18:41that I'm very proud
18:43of Dr. Dre,
18:44of Death Row,
18:45and Shook Knight
18:45for their accomplishments.
18:47You know what I'm saying?
18:48I'm a positive black man
18:49and I make music
18:50to bring us together,
18:52not to separate us
18:53and all this East and West
18:54that need to stop.
18:55So give it up
18:56for everybody from the East
18:57and the West
18:57that won tonight.
18:59One love.
19:00Sean 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.
19:15He remembers every slight.
19:19Once again, y'all,
19:20please give it up
19:21for all the nominees.
19:30Before 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 there.
19:50Shook Knight came that night
19:51with his friend Jake.
19:53And I was working the door.
19:54Shook was looking for Puff.
19:56Sean would try to go after
20:01people's side chicks
20:03like a girl in Atlanta
20:06that Shook 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 Shook's
20:21side piece in Atlanta
20:22when he came there.
20:23A real police officer
20:28in a real police uniform
20:29came and got on the safe.
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 puppy.
20:40Shook and Jake
20:41is being escorted
20:42out the club
20:44by the off-duty officer
20:47we always had there
20:49moonlighting.
20:51Jake comes out,
20:52Shook come out,
20:53and Puff 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.
21:04He touched Jake
21:05with the pistol
21:06and he looked at Shook
21:08like this
21:09and was shooting
21:10Shook's friend
21:11like this.
21:13He shot him five times.
21:18Shook 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, it's going to be all right.
21:39Shook said,
21:40what you mean
21:40it's going to be all right?
21:42He said,
21:42tell your mama
21:43it's going to be all right.
21:45Tell your kids
21:46it's going to be all right.
21:49And then the shooter
21:50ran.
21:54Ambulance 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
22:18is shot
22:19in Quad's studio,
22:20he had the rape case.
22:21A 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
22:38third image?
22:41Puck and Big
22:42were friends
22:43at one time.
22:44But then
22:45once Puck
22:45is a jail,
22:47Bad Boy
22:48and all
22:49of his associations
22:50were nemesises.
22:53I'm in jail,
22:54strangers
22:55are telling me,
22:56you don't know,
22:57Big your old boy
22:58shot you.
22:59Because they bragging,
23:00they telling
23:01they're in jail,
23:02yo, we just got Puck,
23:03whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo.
23:05Once the conflict
23:06happens,
23:08Puck needed
23:08someone
23:10strong
23:10that was going
23:12to stand
23:12with him.
23:13It had just
23:15so happened
23:16that Suge
23:17had his own
23:18issue
23:18with Puffy.
23:20So,
23:21Suge went
23:22to jail
23:22and visited him.
23:24The whole shit
23:25was like
23:26some mob shit.
23:29Into Tupac,
23:30a young captain.
23:33I'm gonna join
23:34the family, dog.
23:35Get me out.
23:38Suge Knight
23:39first signed
23:40Tupac
23:40to a recording contract
23:42when Tupac
23:42was in this
23:43New York state prison
23:44unable to come up
23:45with the million
23:46dollars needed
23:47for bail
23:47while his lawyers
23:49appealed a 1995
23:50conviction
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's
24:04rushed 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
24:11y'all can stop us now.
24:12Everything bad boy
24:13I say fuck them all.
24:16We coming to the
24:17East Coast to prove
24:17there is no fear.
24:19Overthrow 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 here
24:24that will feed
24:25every person in New York.
24:26All right, cool, man.
24:27All right, man.
24:28Thanks a lot.
24:30Sean tried everything
24:31to get Biggie upset.
24:33He had to go at him
24:35with business.
24:36This guy came at us.
24:38I was more in a
24:39mind frame of
24:39keep your mouth shut,
24:43Big.
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.
25:00When Pac was producing
25:02All Eyes on Me,
25:03he called us and said,
25:05I just fucked
25:06Faith 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 equip with game.
25:16You claim to be a player
25:17but I fucked your wife.
25:19We bust some...
25:19Well, that's not true at all.
25:21Big is so 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.
25:29Tupac 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.
25:57And 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.
26:12So.
26:17Doing the street thing.
26:19My affiliation
26:20was with the Mansfield
26:22hustlers.
26:24Today,
26:25we go by
26:28Mansfield Gangster Crips
26:30now.
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
26:56out with our friends,
26:57we're going to protect
27:00our friends.
27:01So they knew.
27:04And they were
27:04our associates.
27:06You got beef with them,
27:08you got beef with me.
27:10Period.
27:11A number of reports
27:12have come out
27:12that Bad Boy Entertainment
27:13had actually hired Crips
27:14for security work
27:15out on the West Coast.
27:16Is that true?
27:18We've never
27:19hired
27:20Crips
27:21or any other gang
27:22faction
27:23to do security for us.
27:25It would be
27:25extremely unintelligent
27:27to hire
27:28a gang,
27:29some gangs
27:30to do security for you.
27:32A lot of the New York
27:33guys come out
27:34to 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
28:05protection
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
28:21death row people
28:22got 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
28:39specific.
28:40We want a death row chain.
28:43Introducing
28:43the one and 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
28:58out.
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
29:11for 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.
29:46Next thing I know,
29:46I see Pac like,
29:47phew!
29:50Took your niggas down.
29:59That was the foundational
30:01moment
30:02when all this
30:03was getting out of control.
30:04I'm out of room one
30:06right now.
30:08I got a couple guys
30:09shot
30:09and he's
30:10medically shot.
30:15Rapper Tupac Shakur
30:16was shot in the chest
30:17late...
30:17...this morning
30:18shot multiple 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.
30:28He 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.
30:58Hi, I'm Tabitha Soren
31:00with MTV News.
31:01Controversial rapper
31:02and actor Tupac 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.
31:11There was a lot
31:12of niggas in jail
31:13that were celebrating
31:14Pac's death.
31:17I'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
31:28no motive
31:29for this latest shooting,
31:30but the rapper's
31:31troubled past
31:32will certainly
31:32be part
31:33of the investigation.
31:36Do you know
31:37who was responsible
31:38for the killing
31:39of Tupac Shakur?
31:40No, I don't.
31:43I think that
31:44Sean now,
31:45in my mature mind,
31:47had a lot to do
31:48with the death
31:49of Tupac.
31:50in 2006,
31:59I was recruited
32:00to work a task force
32:02that was going
32:03to look at
32:04a cold case investigation.
32:06At the time,
32:07Tupac's murder
32:08was an unsolved case.
32:11Gang crimes
32:12oftentimes are difficult
32:13to solve
32:14because you don't get
32:14cooperating witnesses.
32:16They want to
32:17stick to a code
32:18that typically entails
32:20not cooperating
32:21with law enforcement
32:22and then taking matters
32:23into your own hands.
32:25It ain't my job
32:26to snitch on nobody
32:28because I would never
32:28snitch on nobody.
32:29We had built
32:31a narcotics case
32:32against Keefee Dee.
32:34Keefee Dee was kind
32:35of the shock caller
32:36for the Southside Crips.
32:38He 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 Keefee Dee
32:57was potentially looking
32:58at a life sentence
32:59for federal drug trafficking.
33:02We wanted to question him
33:03about his potential role
33:05in the murder
33:05of Tupac Shakur.
33:07We let him know
33:08that he could potentially
33:09mitigate some of the damages
33:11if he wanted to come in
33:12and talk to us.
33:14And the U.S. attorney
33:15agreed that they'd allow
33:17Keefee Dee to do
33:18a proper session.
33:20Keefee, today what we're
33:21going to do,
33:21we're just going to go
33:22over with a fine-toothed comb
33:24through the Las Vegas incident.
33:25We do have to emphasize
33:27to you it's determined
33:29that some of these details
33:30are incorrect
33:31and everything's
33:32off the table.
33:33A proper session
33:34is when a person
33:35facing criminal charges
33:37can answer questions
33:39wherein self-incriminating
33:40information
33:41would not be used
33:42against him
33:43in a criminal prosecution.
33:45Doesn't mean
33:46they have any kind
33:47of immunity.
33:49Hey, I want to say
33:51this though too.
33:53I feel like I said
33:54that day,
33:55don't bullshit me
33:55and I won't bullshit y'all.
33:57You know what I'm saying?
33:58In the year prior
33:59to the murder
34:00of Tupac Shakur,
34:02he has had several
34:04conversations
34:04with Sean Combs.
34:06I met him,
34:07he gave a party
34:08at the Sella 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.
34:24Zip set up
34:25the introduction
34:26between Combs
34:27and Keefy D
34:28and then they developed
34:30their own relationship.
34:32And Zip introduced
34:33and said,
34:34this 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.
34:39And after that
34:40they used my car
34:41on the video.
34:42Which car was I?
34:44On the 64 Chevy I have.
34:47Every time I look
34:48catch you
34:49that's the way
34:50What color was it?
34:51Blown.
34:52I was out there
34:52with a video
34:53when Pup was driving
34:54the car.
34:55Usher birds or whatever.
34:56He was in a Laker uniform
34:57and he had the little kid
34:58dancing on my car
34:59when he got back.
35:01It was fucked up
35:02and he had to
35:03he paid
35:03to get it repainted.
35:10Pup,
35:10he caused their phone
35:11and he wanted
35:12to speak to me.
35:13They gave it
35:13a B-E-T to her
35:14and then I
35:15he gave us some tickets
35:17and I brought the crew.
35:18I want to hear
35:20a new flavor,
35:20ain't you here?
35:21I want to hear
35:22a new flavor,
35:23yeah!
35:23Jacket, jacket,
35:25yeah!
35:25To all the ladies
35:26in the place.
35:27Keefy D says
35:28that Sean Combs
35:29kind of makes
35:30this general announcement
35:33while they're
35:34all inside
35:35a hotel room
35:36after a musical event.
35:37So it's
35:39Harrell,
35:40Puffy,
35:41Zip,
35:41you.
35:42About 40-something
35:43offside.
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.
35:54He said it in front
35:56of all those people
35:56I couldn't believe
35:57you know what I'm saying?
35:58All home full of trips.
36:01So this is after
36:02Jake got killed.
36:04So he was,
36:04he was on point,
36:05he was worried
36:05about something
36:06happening.
36:06Yeah.
36:07Shit got miles off
36:08about a bunch
36:08of different stuff
36:09so he was scared.
36:10No, he was still
36:10dead.
36:11Yeah.
36:11Okay.
36:11Okay.
36:13Then there's a more
36:14specific incident
36:15that takes place
36:16at a deli on Sunset Strip
36:17in Los Angeles,
36:18a place called
36:19Greenblatt's Deli.
36:20What made it a specific,
36:22like, hey, I'm serious,
36:23I want you guys
36:24to kill this,
36:24these guys?
36:26Well, he told me
36:27the Greenblatt's.
36:29When we got there
36:30we were laughing at him.
36:32Cause he was just
36:32brought a suck dick
36:33to 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, dog?
36:40Man, don't just come
36:41out here and get
36:42in any bra, dog.
36:44I took him down
36:45and I was serious
36:45and he was like,
36:46man, I gotta get rid
36:47of those dudes, man.
36:49It's gonna be a problem.
36:53It was after he made
36:54the record.
36:55He came out.
36:56Yeah, yeah,
36:56that pissed him off.
36:58He tells you,
37:06seriously, man,
37:06I need to get rid
37:07of these guys.
37:07I mean, he's looking
37:08at you in the eyes
37:09and he's, like, scared.
37:10Yeah.
37:11You tell him,
37:12we'll do it for a million
37:13and he's like,
37:14okay, I'll do it
37:16for a million?
37:17Yeah.
37:17He agrees,
37:17he's shaking on it
37:18or something like that?
37:19Yeah.
37:20What happened?
37:21You know,
37:21he, uh,
37:23I mean, I'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 by Tupac,
37:40they're like,
37:40this is the perfect occasion.
37:42We was eating
37:44and the man,
37:45they came and said,
37:46he's a P-Dub Lane.
37:49And we was in a hotel,
37:50yeah,
37:51at the MGM
37:52and the restaurant.
37:53There was a few New Yorkers,
37:54though,
37:54with Zip.
37:57Like, man,
37:57y'all need some help?
37:59We got this.
38:00It's your perfect opportunity,
38:02baby.
38:03That was Zip coming?
38:04Yeah.
38:04Because of what happened
38:05with the man?
38:06Yeah.
38:07We and I don't know
38:08because we was down there
38:09and, uh,
38:10he told me in the lobby
38:11that he had some
38:12jimmies.
38:13Someone had a jimmie
38:14and a bans.
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.
38:38A few days
38:40before
38:41Tupac was murdered,
38:42Sean requested
38:43that we rent
38:45cars
38:46and have
38:48multiple drivers
38:49drive clear
38:51across the country
38:52to this fight.
38:54But I arranged
38:56through my budget
38:58to make that trip
38:59happen
39:00for those drivers
39:01and to this day
39:03it stands out
39:03in my mind.
39:05Why did we rent
39:06multiple cars?
39:08Why did we hire
39:08people from
39:09Harlem
39:10and other locations
39:11to drive?
39:14Can you tell us
39:17if, hey,
39:17we're going to go
39:18handle this shit
39:18or whatever?
39:19Yeah, they asked
39:20if y'all want us to come.
39:22I'm like,
39:22we know where
39:23them motherfuckers at.
39:24They was telling us
39:24they're going to be
39:25at the 662 Club.
39:27Two cars
39:27going to 662?
39:28Yeah,
39:29the van
39:29and the Cadillac.
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 some liquor.
39:39Then we came up
39:40at Harlem
39:41at the Las Vegas
39:43Willow Art.
39:44Oh, shit.
39:45I hear they coming
39:46at BMW.
39:47I can't get a car.
39:48On their way
39:49to the club,
39:50Suge is blaring
39:51his music too loud.
39:53He gets pulled over
39:54by some police officers.
39:56They essentially,
39:57you know,
39:58say,
39:58just turn down
39:58your music,
39:59no big deal.
40:00And it's at this
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 car
40:09or something or another.
40:10And then the traffic
40:12was stopped
40:13and then they got
40:13in the car.
40:14Did you see
40:15who was with you?
40:16Um,
40:17I thought it was Tupac.
40:18And then he was like,
40:19come on,
40:20come go with me.
40:21Come go with us.
40:22We're going to 662.
40:23And Bronson,
40:24Tupac,
40:25Tupac,
40:25Tupac.
40:27I was like,
40:27there you go.
40:28Just wanted to turn.
40:30And we just pulled up
40:31on the side
40:31and checked every car
40:32and see where they was.
40:33So what directed
40:34your attention to him
40:35with some girl shouting
40:36at Tupac?
40:37Tupac.
40:38He gave us up away.
40:39Otherwise,
40:40it would have gone away.
40:42And he leaned over
40:44on the window.
40:45We rolled around
40:45the window and popped.
40:48Should have looked over,
40:49he sees you.
40:49Uh,
40:51there you go ahead.
40:52If you knew
41:05who killed Tupac,
41:06would you tell the police?
41:08Absolutely not.
41:11I'm going to park the car.
41:13You know,
41:13put the gun on the tire
41:14and look.
41:15Where'd you guys go?
41:16We smoke weed and rain.
41:18Yeah,
41:18wait.
41:19At the hotel?
41:20At the hotel.
41:20At the party in the room.
41:22And they pulled up
41:23in the ambulance
41:23while we were standing
41:24right there.
41:26Take our bullshit.
41:27Who,
41:28you guys on the street
41:28with what?
41:29We on Las Vegas Boulevard
41:30at the crosswalk
41:31and they pulled up
41:32the ambulance
41:33right next to us.
41:34And we came on the car already?
41:36With Tupac and the chug
41:37in the car.
41:38This is close.
41:40Did they see you?
41:41They couldn't see.
41:42We didn't give a fuck.
41:43We didn't give a fuck.
41:43I'm talking about the ambulance
41:45to park right here.
41:46Right next to us.
41:47That shit was funny
41:48as a boat.
41:49Fuck!
41:52And I haven't ever told
41:53nobody to this room.
41:56So you get back to L.A.
41:57the next day,
41:58Zip calls you,
41:59says,
41:59meet me at the hot
42:00when the place we're at.
42:02We're going to melt
42:02into my peace.
42:04You guys go over there,
42:04Zip shows up,
42:05you guys,
42:06what happens to that?
42:07People call it,
42:08was that us?
42:09He told them,
42:09yeah, it was us.
42:10On Zip's phone
42:11or your phone?
42:11It was Zip's phone.
42:13And Zip gives you the phone?
42:14Yeah.
42:16People say,
42:17well,
42:17he was happy
42:18as hell, shit.
42:20And did you ask him
42:20then about his money?
42:21When you're going to get paid
42:22or whatever?
42:22No, I don't know
42:23how I have to say
42:24that on the phone.
42:24Zip,
42:25go get our cash.
42:27Okay,
42:28so you tell Zip
42:28we need to get paid.
42:30What does Zip say?
42:31I'm going to go back home
42:32and have a...
42:32Yeah,
42:32I'll get back with y'all.
42:34Yeah.
42:35I'll be lazy,
42:36I'll be lazy,
42:36I'll be lazy.
42:36According to QVD,
42:38he was never compensated
42:39for the murder.
42:40But he said
42:43that a partial amount
42:45of the money
42:45was intended
42:46to be forwarded
42:47to him
42:48through Zip
42:49to the tune
42:50of about $500,000.
42:52The million dollar
42:54solicitation amount,
42:56only half of it
42:57was fulfilled
42:58because only Tupac
42:59and not Suge
43:01was killed.
43:03Keefe D
43:03has a conversation
43:05with Darius Rogers
43:06with DMACC.
43:07He don't like the DMACC
43:08who's DMACC right there.
43:10And DMACC says
43:13there had been
43:14a payment
43:15from Combs
43:16to Keefe D,
43:18but it had gone
43:19through Zip
43:20and then that money
43:21was never forwarded.
43:26We're just hoping
43:27and waiting
43:28to see what kind
43:29of progress
43:29Las Vegas would make
43:31with Keefe D's cooperation.
43:35Nothing really happens.
43:39Ultimately,
43:39Zip dies
43:41from cancer.
43:42Thank you for coming
43:43out to Zips
43:44and I want everybody
43:45to know that
43:46when you come here,
43:47we want to keep
43:48the peace.
43:49And Orlando Anderson
43:50is shot and killed
43:51in 1998.
43:53So,
43:54it's really Keefe D
43:55and Puffy Combs
43:57are the last men standing
43:58that can be held
43:59accountable
44:00for Tupac Shakur's murder.
44:01waiting patiently
44:14and looking
44:14to see if that's you.
44:15and you're not
44:16in the morning.
44:17It's a great
44:17time for the sun
44:20up.
44:21On the one
44:21to check.
44:22Correct.
44:23I like the time.
44:24Mm-hmm.
44:24I'm going to need this third change.
44:40Take that off.
44:44Let's move my groove.
44:48What goes up, must come down.
44:58What goes down, must come up.
45:03I remember in 1999, we were working in the studio on a song called Muscle Gang.
45:09This is our gang.
45:12We ain't playing with you these niggas.
45:16The song comes on and Puff was talking in the beginning.
45:25I'm like, what is he talking about?
45:31Everything that's done in the dark must come to light.
45:38Everything that goes up must come down.
45:44Yeah, I'm headed to 113 for Lennox King.
45:51I got to catch my man up there.
45:53I'll see you up there.
45:54Are you rolling?
45:55Yeah, we rolling.
45:56With the backdrop of East Coast, West Coast beef, Sean, I'm headed to 113 for Lennox King.
46:03I got to catch my man up there.
46:05I'll see you up there.
46:06I'll see you up there.
46:07I'll see you up there.
46:08Are you rolling?
46:09Yeah, we rolling.
46:13I'm rolling.
46:14Yeah, we rolling.
46:15I'm rolling.
46:20We rolling.
46:21With the backdrop of East Coast, West Coast beef, Sean took Biggie to Los Angeles to record what would be the finishing touches on Biggie's Life After Death album, which wasn't titled that yet.
46:35that yet.
46:40Yo.
46:41Yo, baby, wake up. Wake up, baby.
46:42Diddy, what the fuck, man? What's up?
46:44Come on, man. It's a quarter to six.
46:46We got the 7.30 flight. Going to LAX.
46:48Whoa. Cali?
46:50No doubt, baby.
46:52We had been warned to not come to L.A.
46:55There were warnings all along for the last few months
46:59that we are not to set foot on the West Coast.
47:03It was awards show season,
47:06and Shawn wanted him to start promoting the album.
47:10Come on, Song Train. Get up out your seats. Come on.
47:13Get up out your seats.
47:15Biggie did not want to go,
47:18but Shawn talked him into doing all of those things.
47:22Down low. Get up out your seats. Come on.
47:25High pop for freaks.
47:27They were, like, catcalling and booing.
47:33What's up, Cali?
47:38We were not welcome.
47:41After the awards show Saturday morning,
47:44Biggie and I were to go to London,
47:46and we were going to have a two, three-day press junket
47:49to have Biggie be one of the first artists from Bad Boy
47:53to 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.
48:03I'm calling Biggie like crazy.
48:05What's going on? Wake up.
48:06He's like, yo, Puff is bugging.
48:08He just called me and told me,
48:10I want you to stay here in L.A.
48:12I don't want to stay. I want to go.
48:14But Shawn was adamant, cancel the flight.
48:21Biggie's not going to the U.K.
48:23What do you mean he's not going to click?
48:24He hangs up.
48:26This was his M.O.
48:28Ego, power, tripping.
48:31All of it because Shawn 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.
49:15I spoke to Big and I was like, yo, man, you know,
49:18what are you doing?
49:20Catching L.A., man, they get down in these circumstances, man,
49:24and you just can't be walking around here freely.
49:36Everybody's mingling.
49:41I look around, I say, where's Big?
49:44I want to get out.
49:46Get out.
49:47Hey, what am I saying?
49:48Wait, hold up, hold up.
49:49Hold up.
49:50I'm on the street.
49:51I'm on the street.
49:52I'm on the street.
50:02That's Big and I'll be in here.
50:03That is Big and I'll be in here.
50:04That is Big and I'll be in here.
50:05That is Big and I'll be in here.
50:06Somebody got shot.
50:07Y'all get down.
50:09Hey, what are you reporting?
50:10Yeah, we need an ambulance on Fairfax and Wilshire,
50:14Green, Los Angeles.
50:15We have a man shot.
50:16We have a shot.
50:17Okay, hold on.
50:18Okay, hold on, I'll get down, sorry.
50:24Sir, hold on, listen, sir, I can't hear what you're saying.
50:29We're man shot in our car right now.
50:31Right now we're trying to run into the hospital.
50:34I know the way.
50:35See the sign-up.
50:37You 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 the fuck was wrong?
50:43Yo, big, you know what I mean?
50:44Yeah, what's up?
50:44What's up?
50:44What's up?
50:44What's up?
50:45I was following Big's lead on, like, you know, we're going to do this peace tour.
50:56And, you know, it didn't work out.
51:01Sean said it on can't stop, won't stop.
51:03Biggie wanted to go.
51:05Quick, you hear me, baby?
51:09He's lying about that.
51:13Sean wanted that trip.
51:15He was pushing it for weeks and weeks.
51:18He lied about it and let me know that's a weak spot for him.
51:23And he's nervous about that information.
51:26He ushered Biggie to his death.
51:37Who do you think killed Biggie?
51:42Next question.
51:45All it was is a Puffy and Suge Knight war.
51:50You're messing with lives here.
51:52And that's exactly what happened.
51:54Two lives were lost as a result of what?
51:57Stupidity?
51:58When I sat down with Valetta, we briefly brought up Sean Combs.
52:03It was clear to me that she had no real respect or appreciation for him.
52:07Sean clearly didn't do all that he could have done to help out in the investigation.
52:11In fact, he was a hindrance in the investigation.
52:16Puffy was kind of stonewalling people from talking.
52:19Because he knows if you make inroads on Biggie's murder, you're going to make inroads on Tupac's murder.
52:26And that potentially can lead right back to him.
52:29How are Biggie's mom and Faith and the kids taking all this?
52:35Biggie's mom and Faith and the children are extremely strong.
52:39They've been, matter of fact, they've been strong for me and helping to hold me up.
52:44Sean assumed the position of his best friend in every article and publication.
52:51And that wasn't necessarily true.
52:54And I'm going to be there for them, just like he would be there for them to make sure that they're all right.
52:59Sean said, we're going to do the biggest funeral for Biggie that New York has ever seen.
53:05And we start to put that together.
53:07He starts to see the price.
53:09And he says, we're going to do the biggest funeral.
53:12But Biggie's going to have to pay for this funeral.
53:16He was going to make the funeral be a recoupable charge to Biggie in death.
53:24This is one of my closest friends, and it's still one of my closest friends.
53:28I just, I feel his loss.
53:30I just miss him so much.
53:33Sean doing a big show looks good on him.
53:38But he's not going to tell the world that Biggie was going to pay for it.
53:41In Bestar, Brooklyn, the whole hood was outside.
53:55If you could make it there, you was there.
53:58It was a big loss for the city.
54:00Biggie, I loved Biggie.
54:04Biggie inspired me.
54:05He gave me hope.
54:06He made us feel like you was from the town.
54:08You could make it.
54:09We loved Biggie.
54:10So it was like losing a family member.
54:14Biggie just wanted to be a rap superstar.
54:17He didn't want to hurt nobody.
54:21He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted, like, for a long time.
54:25It's not a feeling that I really felt a lot, like, in my life.
54:28I don't really have a lot of friends.
54:30I think people think I have a lot of friends, you know.
54:34I don't think I really make a good friend.
54:38Before he was assassinated, Biggie had an opportunity to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.
54:46We were delivering the elements so that can happen.
54:49And Sean called me and said, pull that cover.
54:52I need to be on the cover.
54:54My solo album is coming in July.
54:56No way out.
54:58And I need to amp that up.
55:02He took the cover from Biggie.
55:09Another thing at the time, Biggie was negotiating his contract.
55:13Every day I wake up.
55:16We acquiesced and gave him everything he wanted.
55:19And then he died.
55:20Can't believe you ain't here.
55:21Sean wanted me to change the agreement to more favorable terms for bad boy and his family and mother would not know.
55:32And since he had signed the agreement, he wanted those changes to come from out of the center of the agreement and have those pages replaced with the other terms.
55:43And I said, that's not right.
55:44And I said, that's not right.
55:44I'm not doing it.
55:4690 days later, I'm fired.
55:49It's like I feel empty inside without you being here.
55:52I remember Michael Jackson, the Motown 25 special.
56:03MTV, Madonna like a virgin.
56:06And I remember Puff with Sting.
56:08Check it out.
56:16Having a TV moment in music is very rare.
56:19It elevates you to such another level of superstar.
56:23It made him rock star, bitch.
56:25It's kind of hard, but you're not around.
56:28Know you in heaven, smiling down.
56:30Watching us while we pray for you.
56:32He became humongous.
56:34But now it's him.
56:36Now I'm the man.
56:37It was like a dream come true to see the lines, like, in front of the stores.
56:43Like, people going there to get my record.
56:46It's crazy.
56:47It all happened pretty quickly for you, from being an intern to being on the cover of the road in snow.
56:53Thanks for Biggie's mother, who's sitting right there, for having notorious V.I.G.
56:59You've abused everyone and used most of everyone.
57:03Put your legs in the air for V.I.G.
57:05Everybody put your legs in the air for something.
57:07There are horror stories like this all throughout.
57:11Cleared of gun possession and bribery charges, Sean Puffy Combs walked out of free man.
57:16Some people speak up about it.
57:18Most do not.
57:19The first member is Aubrey.
57:23It's a pattern with him.
57:27Violence was a very normalized part of living in that world.
57:31You're a bad boy now.
57:34Allegations of sexual misconduct.
57:36Puffy called these encounters freak-off.
57:38Witnessed Diddy abusing Cassie and that they encouraged Cassie to get away from him.
57:45Everything in life, you're going to have people that are bad and people that are good, you know?
57:50You have to choose your side.
57:51They have to choose your side.
57:56Everyone signifies him.
58:02They areこちら.
58:03Everyone signifies him.
58:04They have to choose your side.
58:05They are a bad boy.
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