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00:00Happy birthday to you, everybody, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, happy birthday to you.
00:30I always looked at him as just being like this rich Harlem cat who just want to dance and make money.
00:46No violence in him, but every time I turn around, there's violence. There's violence with his name on it.
01:00At the time, there's this tension that is going on between Pac and Puff.
01:08Puff wanted to work with Pac on a lot of levels, business-wise, and Pac wasn't having it.
01:13He was more interested in Biggie and his career.
01:15Puff was very threatened by Pac. He was very threatened, especially if you're an executive who wants the guy to make you money, and the guy's saying, no, fuck you.
01:28Around that time, Tupac was going to do a song with Lil' Sean at Quad Studio.
01:37Out of the blue, they wanted me to do the song, so I said, all right.
01:42Stopped off to get some weed, smoked the weed.
01:45Then I was getting a page, where you at, where you at, where you at, why you ain't coming?
01:49I was like, I'm coming, I'm on my way, hold on.
01:51I wasn't thinking, why they want me here so bad?
01:55We're walking up to the building.
01:56Somebody screamed from the upper top of the studio, and it's Lil' Caesar.
02:00He's like Biggie's side man, right?
02:02And we was in there recording with Big and Puff, and I'm yelling, like, yo, Pac.
02:05And he looked up, yo, what's up, little nigga?
02:08I go back in the room, I tell Big, I'm like, yo, Big, Pac downstairs.
02:11He was like, oh, all right, go get him.
02:13Getting to the elevator, and when I was about to walk out, two dudes came from both sides.
02:18Get the fuck back in the elevator.
02:20Ooh.
02:22Recording artist Tupac Shakur was shot five times last night in a robbery attempt.
02:26After surgery, his condition was upgraded to satisfactory.
02:29And he checked out of the hospital against his doctor's advice.
02:33I think they're trying to rub me out, really.
02:35Robbers don't leave behind $80,000 Rolexes.
02:39You know what I mean?
02:39They don't do that, in case nobody know.
02:42Let's look at the facts.
02:45Puff is there.
02:48Pac has been shot in New York under your watch.
02:51Question would be, who knew that he was pulling up?
02:54Biggie, knowing myself, had nothing to do whatsoever of Tupac being robbed.
03:03We, we, that's just a fact.
03:05After everything that has unfolded, I have to think twice about how that situation went down.
03:11Do you think Puffy was a mob shooter?
03:13I believe, sir.
03:14I do believe, sir.
03:15I have proof.
03:16But you can see now why someone like a Puff would want someone like a Pop out the picture.
03:22You know, Pop was vilified while he was alive.
03:28And Puff was exalted.
03:31That's the bigger picture.
03:33And that's the story that hasn't been told.
03:35A.J. Brown, what have you, it allows them to get a clearer picture, stretch the defense horizontally faster, right?
03:54And it also, conversely, makes the defense think a tick longer.
03:58A.J. Brown, what have you, it's a whole lot of crazy shit going on.
04:03You know what I'm saying?
04:04I saw them knock it down, where they're going down.
04:06Yeah.
04:07Like, that shit was crazy to me, that shit wasn't there, which is a sign to me, like, nigga, time to order the future.
04:13Time to order the future.
04:15I was a little builder.
04:16Yeah, for the building, I got ready for this song.
04:18You know what I'm saying?
04:19It was a sign for me like that, but I'm saying, that shit was there, like, two months ago, right?
04:24I'm not tripping, tripping.
04:25Yeah, it wasn't there, yeah.
04:28Puff is in this position where he has all this turmoil, but he's not at the point where he's saying, where I went wrong.
04:45He's saying to himself, how do I get out of this?
04:47Maybe I can convince some witnesses that I'm not the guy who I am.
04:55Eventually, he's going to get to the point where he's going to ask himself, how did I get myself into this situation?
05:01Bad boy.
05:07Bad boy.
05:09Oh.
05:11What the f*** is this man I get?
05:1395, he had two of the hottest acts.
05:15Craig Mack gave us flavor in your ear.
05:17Here goes the brand new flavor.
05:19Yeah, brand new flavor.
05:20Time for new flavor in your hair.
05:23And Biggie.
05:23You gotta come up in your waist, please don't suit up the place.
05:26Why?
05:26Cause I see some ladies tonight that should be having a...
05:29Bad boy was rising up.
05:31My little lab right here, you know, where I cut my deals and all that.
05:34Got my little headset.
05:36He's living out a dream, you know what I'm saying?
05:37One time, Sean was in his office, and I'm in a little cubby hole around the corner.
05:42He buzzes me.
05:43So I get up and I go in with my papers and go.
05:48A girl is giving him a blowjob at the desk.
05:52He wanted me to see that.
05:53He wanted me to see her face.
05:55And then he was able to get her to do that right then and there in the office.
05:59She leaves.
06:00I'm, what did you want me for?
06:02Ah, I didn't want you for anything.
06:04That was the beginning for me to see, this is what's going on here.
06:10Can everybody here make some noise for B.I.G. for bringing it back to the East?
06:15So the C's for all of this was early on.
06:18I want to thank y'all.
06:19Allison Wiggins, BMG.
06:20And that came from people in the industry co-signing his activity because it brought money in.
06:31I don't know if y'all niggas know this.
06:33The Juicy with platinum.
06:35Big Puppa with platinum.
06:37In your ear remix with platinum.
06:40That whole bad boy thing was so big.
06:44Faith Evans.
06:45I want to be first lady on Puff Daddy's Lady.
06:47Total.
06:50Big.
06:50Big Puppa with platinum.
06:53Big Puppa with platinum.
06:54Big Puppa with platinum.
06:54Big Puppa with platinum.
06:55Big Puppa with platinum.
06:55Big Puppa with platinum.
06:57It was a consistent back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
07:03So let me just give you a day in the life of Puff Daddy.
07:07Gets up from wherever he stayed that night.
07:12Heads to the office two hours late.
07:14You might have somebody pulling him over saying, hey, ain't you in that video?
07:17Ain't that you?
07:18Oh, yo, here go a demo.
07:19Puppie's over there.
07:20Yo, what's up, Puff?
07:22How you doing, baby, bruh?
07:23Had the big baseball bat cell phones.
07:26And the phone might ring.
07:27Such-and-such is on the phone calling from jail.
07:30Yo, I'm coming home.
07:31You might have a group standing in front of the office, already with the microphone ready
07:36to sing, you love me, I love, just to get their shot at Puffy.
07:42Everybody wants to see him.
07:43He is now the new gateway into music.
07:45You're going to take all of this power and money you're getting now and play by the rules?
07:54No, I'm the rule now.
07:55I am the exception to the rule.
07:57One day, it seemed like out of the blue, my door opens up.
08:11Sean walks in.
08:13He had a baseball bat.
08:16Had a big attach-a-case suitcase with the snaps on it.
08:20And the stocks were there.
08:22We in a fucking hustle.
08:23We in a grind.
08:24Do your job.
08:25Whatever your...
08:25He wanted me to sign my 25% over.
08:29And then he's over me like this.
08:31He wants to stop that.
08:33He wants it now.
08:35I'm not going to stay fucking lying down.
08:37I'm not.
08:37I can't do that, man.
08:38He said, there's a business deal I need to take care of.
08:41I need to do this.
08:42I need to get this all on one side.
08:43But I'll give it back to you.
08:45I'm going to give it back to you.
08:47It just ain't fucking funny.
08:48That's a problem.
08:49You don't know how to be a count.
08:51And he threatened until I did.
08:57People always say to me, why would you do that?
09:01Why did you do that?
09:04Like, that was, you know...
09:06I didn't want to give it back.
09:11I wanted to stay in good graces.
09:13I still wanted to be at the company.
09:16It wasn't like he was firing me.
09:18But I was definitely confused by it.
09:22It might sound strange,
09:25but if you've ever built something
09:27and you want it to last,
09:29you think about how to make it last.
09:32I want to know who's been naughty at night
09:44with the device.
09:45I thought he was kind of cool at first,
09:49and then we started seeing some things.
09:54Craig started becoming disenchanted.
09:58I want to congratulate Craig Mack on his Grammy nomination.
10:01No question.
10:02Yes, baby.
10:02Yeah.
10:02That's cool.
10:04Yo, you got nominated for a Grammy,
10:07but we had no money.
10:08If you look at Bad Boy,
10:11Bad Boy didn't sell enough records
10:13to explain his wealth.
10:16But enough artists were on the label
10:19that sold enough records to explain his wealth.
10:23Sean's trick was,
10:26I'm going to make you a star.
10:27You sign, follow the money.
10:29That's what you're going to try to do
10:30as hard as you can.
10:31You're going to try your best,
10:33and we know you're going to try your best.
10:35So you sign your deal.
10:36We gave you your advance.
10:37At Uptown,
10:37that's the only money the artists have ever seen,
10:40that first advance.
10:41Andre had to wait it.
10:42He never saw anything else.
10:43Did he pick that up?
10:45He made it even tighter.
10:47Don't leave the girl around me,
10:49true player for real.
10:50Let's Puff that deep.
10:51It's a shell game.
10:53You hide everything that is an earning.
10:56You confuse the earnings.
10:58And now I own everything.
11:00You'll go out into the world,
11:01and the shell game,
11:02you'll be looking for your money
11:03for the next 20 years.
11:05Sean did that to every artist.
11:08You're in the studio.
11:10Now you have to recoup
11:11for being in the studio.
11:13Puff owns the studio.
11:15And I have four sessions
11:17which you owe me $400,000.
11:20If Puff records a song with his artist,
11:23he pays himself.
11:26If he's in your video,
11:27he pays himself.
11:29He insert himself into their videos.
11:32A video come on,
11:33you'll be like,
11:34I fucking hate that guy.
11:35As an artist,
11:36you can go number one.
11:38Song is being played all over the nation,
11:40but you don't have the money to go to it
11:42because you're not making
11:43the proper money off of your royalties.
11:49Craig and I hit a point
11:50where we were fucked up.
11:52No money, nothing.
11:53Hell, I was getting money from my father
11:56to take care of the house.
11:58We were all at, like,
12:02somebody's album release party
12:04and Craig's gonna tell Puff
12:06to give him a few dollars
12:07and he'll hit him back
12:08once he went and did the show.
12:09He literally went in his pocket
12:11and pulled out
12:13a knot of money this big
12:16and gave him $100 bill.
12:22You really just don't give a fuck.
12:24I think Sean had an envy
12:29for his own artists.
12:31He was jealous of their talent
12:32and wondering, like,
12:34this talent is wasted on people
12:36who don't even really know what to do.
12:38And if I had that talent
12:40and my know-how, wow.
12:42That's interesting
12:43because a lot of people Puffy's age
12:44want to grab this mic and rap,
12:47but Puffy, you wanted to do other things
12:48and you're doing a lot of them.
12:50Can you talk about his skills as a rapper?
12:52Sucks.
12:53He has zero talent musically.
12:55Nothing.
12:55He don't know how to discuss.
12:56He don't know nothing about R&B.
12:57He don't know none of that stuff.
12:58He used to ask me
12:59to always be there in the sessions
13:01because I would tell the truth.
13:03I'd be like, that's not it.
13:05People would be there like,
13:06yeah, that was tight.
13:07That was tight.
13:07I'd be like, look,
13:08yo, for real,
13:09you got a lot of people
13:10who just tell you anything.
13:11That sucked.
13:13It doesn't sound good
13:14and it makes no sense.
13:17But he always wanted to be an artist.
13:20We about to just drop our R&B stuff.
13:22The Puff Daddy album.
13:24Yeah, what about the Puff Daddy solo project?
13:26Yeah, we don't like to talk about that.
13:27Hey, Puffy, you want to go to the...
13:28Sean used other methods
13:32and ways to get the way he had to go.
13:35Big on strategy,
13:37big on swag.
13:39All of those things became important.
13:42When it boiled down to the music,
13:44even if I didn't touch it,
13:45I showed you what to do.
13:46So that's what he was.
13:47Dan, you know what I'm saying?
13:49What?
13:49Right here.
13:49Right there.
13:51Dan, you know what I'm saying?
13:51We should shake.
13:52Where's makeup at?
13:53Makeup?
13:54Right here.
13:55That whole bad boy was built on him.
13:58You cannot take that from him.
14:00But I think that Puffy wanted the light
14:04like he always wanted.
14:06From dancing,
14:07the whole now you see it.
14:08Anybody that's boasted and loud like that,
14:09they want to be in the spotlight.
14:12It wasn't like no secret.
14:13That's what he wanted.
14:14Six foot three,
14:17335 pound,
14:20Suge Knight
14:20has managed to become
14:22the head of a $100 million record company.
14:24It's the record label
14:25at ground zero
14:26of the whole gangster rap phenomenon,
14:28Death Row Records.
14:30Suge was about that money,
14:32but he didn't want to be
14:33in that limelight like Puff.
14:36He had his own lane.
14:38You're a big guy,
14:39and there are people
14:40who are afraid of you.
14:42There's probably people
14:42who are afraid of you.
14:43Back in 1988,
14:45the person who did
14:46the greatest job
14:47of protecting me
14:47was the head of my security
14:48at the time,
14:49Suge Knight.
14:50Right now I'm on
14:51the Heartbreak Tour
14:52with Bobby Brown
14:53and New Edition.
14:54We're about to get
14:55on the tour bus,
14:56and these dudes came over,
14:58and they was like
14:58talking crazy.
14:59Y'all niggas this,
15:00y'all niggas that,
15:01this, this, this.
15:04And I seen Suge
15:05kind of just turned this way
15:07and gave him one of these.
15:10Bam!
15:11Like that.
15:11And knocked dude
15:13down the hill,
15:14and it looked like a cartoon.
15:16Dude was rolling down the hill.
15:17Boom, boom.
15:17It's Tim's K-ball.
15:20He's a street dude.
15:21He's a real street dude.
15:22But Suge knew talent,
15:25and he knew business.
15:26They took me on tour,
15:27and I learned how
15:29every person
15:30who was writing songs
15:31was getting beat out
15:32their money
15:32like they published.
15:34He was able to
15:35dovetail that into
15:36starting Death Row Records.
15:38One, two,
15:39three,
15:40into the funk.
15:41Snoop Doggy Dogg
15:42and Dr. Drake
15:42is at the dope.
15:43Death Row can be
15:45bigger than
15:46Motel,
15:47or Sony,
15:48or Warner Brothers.
15:49Death Row's gonna be
15:49the biggest record company
15:50there is.
15:52Chronic album's
15:52the foundation.
15:54Before Bad Boy,
15:55Death Row was the most
15:56successful label
15:57in the business.
15:58From the depths of the sea
15:59Back to the block
16:00Snoop Doggy Dogg
16:01Sean had admired
16:03Death Row
16:03and wanted us
16:05to emulate them.
16:08And that was my job.
16:10How do I make
16:11Bad Boy
16:11equal to success
16:13of Death Row?
16:14And of course,
16:15my eyes was like this.
16:16Death Row?
16:17They had a head start.
16:19They had artists.
16:20They picked superstars up
16:21from other indie labels.
16:22We're starting off.
16:24Me and him
16:24were friends.
16:26Wow.
16:26Yeah, yeah.
16:27He would pick me up
16:28from the airport.
16:29You know,
16:29I was just networking
16:30with the brother
16:31and show me a lot of love.
16:33You know,
16:33I really had thought
16:34we were cool.
16:36Me and Puffy,
16:37we used to run around
16:37with each other.
16:38He was getting
16:39into business.
16:39I was in the business.
16:41Living life without fear.
16:43Only a few years later,
16:45Bad Boy,
16:47Death Row.
16:47Death Row is the label
16:48that pays, man.
16:49The two hottest labels.
16:53But I would look over
16:54at Death Row and say,
16:55they're taking care
16:55of their artists
16:56better than we are.
16:59They're putting your head,
17:00fuck the artists.
17:02And my thing was opposite.
17:03It's about me and my people.
17:05Fuck you.
17:07Craig wasn't happy there.
17:10Death Row was courting him
17:11because Shud was opening up
17:13a Death Row East.
17:14and it was found out.
17:17Sean, I'm not found out.
17:19Yes.
17:25It's the Source Hip Hop Music Awards!
17:29The Source Awards
17:30was happening
17:31in New York City.
17:37Come on, New York!
17:39Gia!
17:39And behind the scenes,
17:40people were running
17:41back and forth
17:42to the next dressing room,
17:43to the next dressing room,
17:44which were in trailers
17:45parked outside
17:47of Madison Square Garden.
17:49How important is it
17:50to have the Source Awards?
17:52Let me just wait and find it.
17:54You got that?
17:54Come on, man.
17:55Who's banging on the door
17:56like that?
17:56I'm telling you.
17:57When I was...
17:58Dog, what is the deal, man?
17:59Keep the door closed!
18:01And it escalated with words
18:02from the podium
18:03at the awards show.
18:05Any artists out there
18:06want to be an artist
18:07and want to stay a star
18:08and don't want to...
18:10and don't want to have to worry
18:10about the executive producer
18:11trying to be
18:12all in the videos,
18:14all on the record,
18:16dancing.
18:17Come to Death Rock!
18:27I'm the executive producer
18:28that our comment was made
18:30about a little bit earlier.
18:31But check this out.
18:33Contrary to what other people
18:34may feel,
18:35I would like to say
18:36that I'm very proud
18:38of Dr. Dre,
18:39of Death Row,
18:40and Shook Knight
18:40for their accomplishments.
18:42You know what I'm saying?
18:43I'm a positive black man
18:44and I make music
18:46to bring us together,
18:47not to separate us
18:48and all this East and West
18:49that need to stop.
18:50So give it up
18:51for everybody
18:51from the East and the West
18:52that won tonight.
18:54One love.
18:56Sean wants to present strength.
18:58He wants to show coolness.
19:02And then there's a side of him
19:04that's all out dark.
19:05He processes things differently.
19:10He remembers every slight.
19:14Once again, y'all,
19:15please give it up
19:16for all the nominees.
19:17Before I signed with Bad Boy,
19:33I was working
19:34at the door of the club
19:36in Platinum House.
19:39Every Friday,
19:40we had a Bad Boy party.
19:42So Puff was dear.
19:44Suge Knight came that night
19:46with his friend Jake.
19:48And I was working the door.
19:49Suge was looking for Puff.
19:54Sean would try to go after
19:57people's side chicks,
19:59like a girl in Atlanta
20:01that Suge was dealing with.
20:04Sean wanted me
20:06to take $50,000
20:07out of the overhead account
20:10so he could buy her
20:11a diamond necklace,
20:12wooing her
20:14because she was
20:15Suge's side piece
20:16in Atlanta
20:17when he came there.
20:21A real police officer
20:23in a real police uniform
20:24came and got on the tape.
20:27I said, man,
20:28you touch the homie,
20:29we're going to tear
20:29this motherfucker up.
20:31He said, well,
20:31I got to throw him out.
20:32I said, for what?
20:33He said, he was Puff.
20:35Suge and Jake
20:36is being escorted
20:37out to the club
20:39by the off-duty officer.
20:42We always had
20:44their moonlighting.
20:46Jake comes out,
20:47Suge come out,
20:48Puff come out.
20:49Everybody's outside.
20:51A man appeared
20:52with one hand
20:53behind his back
20:54and he was holding
20:56a pistol.
20:59He touched Jake
21:00with the pistol
21:01and he looked
21:03at Suge like this
21:04and was shooting
21:05Suge's friend
21:06like this.
21:08He shot him five times.
21:13Suge grabbed
21:15the hole to Puffy
21:16in the chokehold
21:17and put him
21:18in the front of him
21:19like this.
21:20So he was
21:20moving Puff around
21:22like this
21:22in case you shoot him.
21:24You're going to shoot Puffy.
21:24You're not going to shoot me.
21:29Puff was like,
21:31it's going to be all right,
21:32man.
21:32It's going to be all right.
21:34Suge said,
21:35what you mean
21:35it's going to be all right?
21:37He said,
21:37tell your mama
21:38it's going to be all right.
21:40Tell your kids
21:41it's going to be all right.
21:44And then the shooter
21:45ran.
21:45Ambulance came
21:50and took Jake
21:51to the hospital.
21:53A couple days later
21:54he died.
21:57That's what started
21:58the East Coast,
21:59West Coast war.
22:06Tupac Shakur
22:07out of the hospital
22:08after surgery
22:08from bullet wounds
22:09is convicted
22:10on sex charges.
22:12After Puck
22:13is shot
22:14in Quad's studio,
22:15he had the rape case.
22:17A New York jury
22:18convicted the rapper
22:19of first degree
22:20sexual abuse
22:21but acquitted him
22:21of more serious charges.
22:26Since your period
22:27of incarceration
22:28at Clinton Correctional Facility,
22:31have you taken the time
22:32to reflect
22:32on your gangster
22:33third image?
22:36Puck and Big
22:37were friends
22:38at one time.
22:39But then once
22:40Puck is in jail,
22:42Bad Boy
22:43and all of his
22:45associations
22:45were nemesises.
22:48I'm in jail,
22:49strangers
22:50is telling me,
22:51you don't know,
22:52Big E O
22:53boy shot you.
22:54Because they bragging,
22:55they telling
22:56they n***s in jail,
22:57yo, we just got Puck.
22:58Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.
23:00Once the conflict
23:02happens,
23:03Puck needed
23:04someone
23:05strong
23:05that was going
23:07to stand
23:07with him.
23:08It had just
23:10so happened
23:11that Suge
23:12had his own
23:13issue
23:14with Puffy.
23:15So,
23:17Suge went
23:17to jail
23:17and visited him.
23:19The whole shit
23:20was like
23:21some mob shit
23:22into Tupac,
23:25a young
23:26captain.
23:28I'm gonna join
23:29the family,
23:29dog.
23:30Get me out.
23:33Suge Knight
23:34first signed
23:35Tupac
23:35to a recording
23:36contract
23:37when Tupac
23:37was in this
23:38New York
23:39state prison,
23:40unable to come up
23:40with the million
23:41dollars needed
23:42for bail
23:42while his lawyers
23:44appealed a 1995
23:45conviction
23:46for sexual assault.
23:50I want everybody
23:50to give a
23:51big welcome
23:52to Tupac.
23:57Out on bail
23:58rapper Tupac Shakur
23:59has rushed to market
24:00double album
24:00All My Eyes on Me
24:01debuts at number one
24:02on this week's
24:03Billboard chart.
24:03With the addition
24:04of Tupac,
24:05there's no way
24:06y'all can stop us now.
24:07You think bad boy
24:08and I say
24:10fuck them all.
24:11We coming to the
24:12East Coast to prove
24:13there is no fear.
24:14Overthrow the government
24:15y'all got right now
24:16which is bad boy
24:17and all that bullshit
24:17and we will bring
24:18a new government here
24:19that will feed
24:20every person in New York.
24:21All right, cool, man.
24:22All right, man.
24:23Thanks a lot.
24:25Sean tried everything
24:26to get Biggie upset.
24:29He had to go at him
24:30with business.
24:31This guy came at us.
24:32I was more in a
24:34mind frame of
24:35keep your mouth shut,
24:38big.
24:38You know what I'm saying?
24:39Just don't feed into it.
24:42If you feed into it,
24:43it's gonna do nothing
24:44but escalate.
24:45You know what I'm saying?
24:46Biggie never wanted
24:47to be an enemy to Pac.
24:49As things was coming
24:50from the West Coast,
24:51Biggie did not want
24:53to give any shots back.
24:55When Pac was producing
24:57All Eyes on Me,
24:58he called us and said,
25:00I just fucked Faith Evans,
25:03Big's wife.
25:05We was like, what?
25:06First of all,
25:07fuck your bitch
25:07in the clique you claim.
25:09Westside when we ride
25:10come equipped with game.
25:11You claim to be a player
25:12but I fucked your wife.
25:14We bust some...
25:14Well, that's not true at all.
25:16Biggie stole my husband legally.
25:18I am having his baby.
25:19No, I'm not.
25:20Sean kept putting pressure
25:21on Biggie.
25:22You gotta answer back.
25:25Tupac would have me pissed off.
25:26You know what I'm saying?
25:28And the rumors
25:29that's spreading
25:30is on some tip like
25:32we set him up.
25:33You know what I'm saying?
25:34And that's crazy.
25:36The East Coast,
25:36West Coast thing
25:37was invented, period.
25:39Because no matter what,
25:40we all went to the East.
25:41They came here,
25:42went to the West, whatever.
25:42They wasn't arguing
25:44with each other.
25:45We was able to roam.
25:46Fuck Biggie.
25:47Fuck Bad Boy
25:48as a staff,
25:49record label,
25:49and as a motherfucking crew.
25:51It was this Bad Boy
25:52in death row.
25:52And that right there
25:56put people in danger
25:57because it made people
25:59be like,
25:59F you, F you.
26:00And people started
26:01doing stuff for no reason
26:02because it was, you know,
26:03it's just people
26:04that want to ride
26:05for each other.
26:06And then look what happened.
26:07So.
26:12Doing the street thing.
26:14My affiliation
26:15was with
26:16the Mansfield Hustlers.
26:18Today,
26:20we go by
26:23Mansfield Gangster Crips now.
26:26Police say
26:27that drugs and violence
26:28are being spread
26:29by two longstanding rivals
26:30in the Los Angeles
26:31youth gang scene.
26:33Groups who call themselves
26:34Crips
26:34and wear blue colors
26:35and Bloods
26:37who wear red.
26:38Did you guys
26:39provide
26:40protection?
26:41Sean Combs
26:43was a friend.
26:46Christopher Wallace
26:47was a friend.
26:49And, you know,
26:50when we're hanging out
26:51with our friends,
26:53we're going to protect
26:55our friends.
26:56So they knew.
26:57And they were
26:59our associates.
27:01You got beef with them,
27:03you got beef with me.
27:05Period.
27:06A number of reports
27:07have come out
27:07that Bad Boy Entertainment
27:08had actually hired
27:09Crips for security work
27:10out on the West Coast.
27:11Is that true?
27:13We've never
27:14hired
27:15Crips
27:16or any other
27:17gang faction
27:18to do security for us.
27:20It would be
27:20extremely unintelligent
27:22to hire
27:23a gang,
27:24some gangs
27:25to do security for you.
27:26A lot of the
27:28New York guys
27:28come out to L.A.
27:30Zip is a person
27:31that I know
27:32that was
27:34Puffy's man.
27:35That was his guy.
27:38Eric Von Zip
27:39is a drug lord
27:40from Harlem,
27:41but Sean
27:42told me
27:43he was his uncle.
27:44He might have known
27:45Janice on the fringe.
27:47He might have known
27:47Sean's father
27:48from those days.
27:50Zip
27:51had a relationship
27:52with the Southside Crips,
27:54and then he also
27:55had a relationship
27:56with us.
27:58Sean said
27:59Zip can give us
28:00protection
28:00going back and forth
28:02to L.A.
28:03because he was
28:04in with the Crips,
28:05and we had a beef
28:06with Suge Knight
28:08and the Bloods.
28:09Knight dresses in all red,
28:11the colors of the
28:12drug-dealing
28:13Bloods street gang.
28:15One of the
28:16death row people
28:17got jumped
28:18by someone
28:20at a mall,
28:22and that someone
28:23was from
28:23Southside Crips.
28:25One of the Crips
28:26tried to take
28:27a death row chain.
28:29I think that was
28:30an order from
28:30Bad Boy,
28:31that was an order
28:31from Puff,
28:32because it was
28:34specific.
28:35We want a death row chain.
28:36Introducing the one
28:39and only
28:39higher
28:40Mike Tyson.
28:47Everybody got
28:48what they wanted
28:49that night.
28:51People got to see
28:51Tyson
28:52knock a motherfucker
28:53out.
28:55And Tyson
28:55with a left hook
28:56and selling his down.
28:58It's over
28:58in the first round.
29:00That's probably
29:03the reason
29:04this guy was
29:04all fucked up
29:05in a lot of shit
29:06from Fight Night.
29:07When you seen
29:08a Tyson fight,
29:09you want to fight.
29:19At the fight,
29:21the guy who was
29:22ripped off
29:22for the death row chain
29:24is with
29:25Suge and Pac.
29:27He just
29:27whispers to Pac,
29:29that's him.
29:30Hey, hey, hey, hey.
29:34It was
29:34Orlando Anderson
29:35from
29:36Southside Crips
29:37who was
29:39connected with
29:39Puff.
29:41Next thing I know,
29:41I see Pac like,
29:42phew.
29:45Took the niggas down.
29:54That was
29:55the foundational
29:56moment
29:57when all this
29:58was getting
29:59out of control.
30:00I'm out of the one
30:01right now.
30:03I got a couple guys
30:04shot
30:04and he's
30:05medically
30:05stabbed.
30:10Rapper Tupac Shakur
30:11was shot
30:12in the chest
30:12late...
30:13This morning,
30:13shot multiple times
30:14in the chest
30:14in a drive-by shooting.
30:16Death row record label
30:17owner,
30:17Marion Suge Knight,
30:18was also in the car,
30:19but his injuries
30:20were minor.
30:21Craig called me up.
30:23It was late.
30:23He was out there
30:26at the fight
30:27because he was
30:28supposed to have
30:28performed
30:29at some club
30:30that Suge owned.
30:34And I guess Tupac
30:35was supposed
30:35to come through.
30:36He was like,
30:37how come Tupac
30:39just got shot?
30:41Craig was, like,
30:42scared.
30:43Who was he scared of?
30:45Probably Puff.
30:46He ended up
30:48not going
30:49to death row
30:50after that.
30:54Hi, I'm Tabitha Soren
30:55with MTV News.
30:56Controversial rapper
30:57and actor
30:57Tupac Shakur
30:58has died
30:59in a Las Vegas hospital
31:00of complications
31:01from several...
31:02I was in jail.
31:03I was in jail
31:04when he got shot.
31:07There was a lot
31:08of niggas in jail
31:08that was celebrating
31:09Puck's death.
31:12I'm glad that, uh,
31:13I didn't kill anybody
31:15or anybody killed me.
31:17But I damn sure
31:18came close.
31:21Police in Las Vegas
31:22say they have
31:23no motive
31:24for this latest shooting,
31:25but the rapper's
31:26troubled past
31:27will certainly
31:27be part
31:28of the investigation.
31:31Do you know
31:32who was responsible
31:33for the killing
31:34of Tupac Shakur?
31:35No, I don't.
31:38I think that Sean now
31:39in my mature mind
31:42had a lot to do
31:43with the death
31:44of Tupac.
31:53In 2006,
31:54I was recruited
31:55to work a task force
31:57that was going to look
31:59at a cold case investigation.
32:02At the time,
32:03Tupac's murder
32:03was an unsolved case.
32:06Gang crimes oftentimes
32:07are difficult to solve
32:09because you don't get
32:09cooperating witnesses.
32:11They want to stick
32:13to a code
32:13that typically entails
32:15not cooperating
32:16with law enforcement
32:17and then taking matters
32:18into your own hands.
32:20It ain't my job
32:21to snitch on nobody
32:23because I would never
32:23snitch on nobody.
32:25We had built
32:26a narcotics case
32:27against Keefee Dee.
32:29Keefee Dee was kind
32:30of the shock caller
32:31for the Southside Crips.
32:33He was the most prominent
32:34drug dealer.
32:34He was very influential
32:36in his gang.
32:38His nephew,
32:39Orlando Anderson,
32:40was a very well-known
32:42violent gang member.
32:45Tupac Shakur
32:45had assaulted
32:46Orlando Anderson
32:47just after the Mike Tyson fight.
32:50So Keefee Dee was potentially
32:53looking at a life sentence
32:54for federal drug trafficking.
32:57We wanted to question him
32:58about his potential role
33:00in the murder
33:00of Tupac Shakur.
33:02We let him know
33:03that he could potentially
33:04mitigate some of the damages
33:06if he wanted to come in
33:08and talk to us.
33:09And the U.S. attorney
33:10agreed that they'd allow Keefee Dee
33:13to do a proper session.
33:15Keefee, today what we're going to do,
33:16we're just going to go over
33:17with a fine-tooth comb
33:19through the Las Vegas incident.
33:20We do have to emphasize to you
33:23it's determined
33:24that some of these details
33:25are incorrect
33:26and everything's off the table.
33:28A proper session
33:29is when a person
33:30facing criminal charges
33:32can answer questions
33:34wherein self-incriminating
33:35information would not be used
33:37against him
33:38in a criminal prosecution.
33:40Doesn't mean they have
33:41any kind of immunity.
33:44Hey, I want to say
33:46this though too.
33:47I feel, like I said that day,
33:50don't bullshit me
33:50and I won't bullshit y'all.
33:52You know what I'm saying?
33:53In the year prior
33:54to the murder of Tupac Shakur,
33:57he has had several conversations
33:59with Sean Combs.
34:01I met him, he gave a party at
34:03that's where I met him.
34:08The first day I met him.
34:10Sean Combs' affiliation
34:12with the Southside Crips
34:13came by way of
34:15a New York street figure
34:16known as Zip.
34:19Zip set up the introduction
34:21between Combs and Keefee Dee
34:23and then they developed
34:25their own relationship.
34:27And Zip introduced me,
34:28this is my boy.
34:29What are you introducing, man?
34:30This is my friend,
34:31this is my nephew.
34:31That's my boy.
34:32My boy, this popped.
34:34And after that,
34:35they used my car on the video.
34:37Which car was I?
34:38On the 64 Chevy I have.
34:42Every time I look at you
34:44that's the one.
34:45What color was it?
34:46Blown.
34:47I was out there,
34:48video,
34:48and Pup was driving the car.
34:50Usher,
34:50he was on a Laker uniform.
34:53And he had the little kid
34:53dancing on my car
34:54when he got back.
34:56It was fucked up.
34:57And he had to,
34:58he paid
34:58to get it repainted.
35:00I don't have no money.
35:02I don't have no money.
35:05Pup,
35:05he caused their phone
35:06and he wanted to speak to me.
35:08They gave it a B2 tour.
35:10And then I,
35:11he gave us some tickets
35:12and I brought the crew.
35:13I want to hear
35:15a new flavor,
35:15ain't you here?
35:16I want to hear
35:17a new flavor.
35:18Take it down.
35:19Yeah.
35:20To all the ladies
35:21in the place.
35:22Keefy D says
35:23that Sean Combs
35:24kind of makes
35:25this general announcement
35:28while they're all
35:29inside a hotel room
35:31after a musical event.
35:34So it's Harrell,
35:35Puffy Zoo.
35:37You,
35:37about 40-some softsiders.
35:39Yeah.
35:40That was stupid as hell too,
35:42you know.
35:44Shit,
35:44he said he would kill us
35:45anything for no dudes
35:46there,
35:47you know.
35:47Tupac and Chug,
35:48you mean?
35:49Yeah.
35:50He said it in front
35:51of all the people
35:51I couldn't believe him.
35:53You know what I'm saying?
35:55All home full of trips.
35:57So this is after Jake
35:58got killed.
35:59So he was,
35:59he was on point.
36:00He was worried
36:00about something happening.
36:01Yeah.
36:02So he got miles off
36:03about a bunch
36:03of different stuff
36:04so he was scared.
36:05He was scared.
36:05Then there's a more
36:09specific incident
36:10that takes place
36:11at a deli
36:11on Sunset Strip
36:12in Los Angeles,
36:13a place called
36:14Greenblatt's Deli.
36:15What made it a specific,
36:17like, hey,
36:17I'm serious,
36:18I want you guys
36:19to kill this,
36:19these guys?
36:20when he told me
36:22at the Greenblatt's.
36:24When we got there
36:25we were laughing at him
36:26because he was just
36:27brought a suck dick,
36:29just sucked every dick
36:30in there.
36:30He was all the
36:31kissing or whatever,
36:32we was laughing
36:32like I was.
36:33I was like,
36:33man,
36:34what you laughing at,
36:34dog?
36:35Man,
36:36don't just come out
36:37here and get in
36:37any brawler, dog.
36:39I took him down
36:40upstairs and he's like,
36:41man,
36:41I gotta get rid
36:42of those dudes,
36:43man.
36:44It's gonna be
36:44a problem.
36:45He tells you,
37:01seriously,
37:01man,
37:01I need to get rid
37:02of these guys.
37:03I mean,
37:03he's looking at you
37:03in the eyes
37:04and he's like,
37:05scared.
37:06You tell him,
37:07we'll do it for a million
37:08and he's like,
37:09okay,
37:11I'll do it for a million?
37:12He agrees,
37:12you shake on it
37:13or something like that?
37:14Yeah.
37:15Well,
37:16you know,
37:16he,
37:17I mean,
37:18I'll shit out.
37:19We'll wipe the ass
37:20out quick.
37:21You know,
37:21it's nothing.
37:24Here we go,
37:25round one,
37:26scheduled for 12
37:27and Tyson comes
37:28right out,
37:29right into it.
37:30He says that
37:30when Las Vegas happens
37:31and they're all out
37:32there and his nephew
37:34gets assaulted
37:34by Tupac,
37:35they're like,
37:35this is the perfect
37:36occasion.
37:38We see him
37:39and my other gang
37:40said,
37:42he just beat up
37:43man.
37:44He was in a hotel
37:44at the MGM
37:47at a restaurant.
37:48There was a few
37:48New Yorkers
37:49though,
37:49with Zip.
37:52Like,
37:52man,
37:52I need some help.
37:54We got this.
37:55It's your perfect
37:56opportunity,
37:57baby.
37:58That was Zip talking?
37:59Yeah.
37:59Because of what
38:00happened with him?
38:00Yeah.
38:01Yeah.
38:02You know,
38:03because he was down
38:04there and he told me
38:06in the lobby
38:06that he had some jimmies.
38:08Some other jimmies?
38:09He had a little secret
38:13compartment.
38:14The thing popped out.
38:16The vehicle that Zip
38:18was driving that night
38:19reportedly had what we
38:20call a trap in it,
38:22which is a concealed
38:23compartment where you
38:25can place a gun.
38:27It's a difficult thing
38:28to find.
38:30Zip had driven that
38:32car to Las Vegas.
38:33A few days before
38:36Tupac was murdered,
38:38Sean requested
38:39that we rent cars
38:41and have multiple
38:44drivers
38:44drive clear across
38:47the country
38:47to this fight.
38:50But I arranged
38:51through my budget
38:53to make that trip
38:54happen for those
38:55drivers.
38:57And to this day,
38:58it stands out
38:58in my mind.
39:00Why did we rent
39:01multiple cars?
39:02Why did we hire
39:03people from Harlem
39:05and other locations
39:06to drive?
39:11You tell us if
39:12they were going to
39:13go handle this shit
39:13or whatever?
39:14Yeah, they asked
39:15if y'all want us to
39:16come.
39:17I'm like,
39:17we know where
39:18them motherfuckers
39:18at.
39:19They were telling
39:19us they're going
39:20to be at the 662
39:21club.
39:22Two cars go to
39:22662?
39:23Yeah, the van
39:24and the cabin.
39:26They didn't show
39:26up.
39:27We waited about
39:2815, 20 minutes.
39:30They didn't show
39:30up.
39:31So it's like,
39:32let's go get
39:33some liquor.
39:34We came up
39:35Harlem at the
39:37Las Vegas
39:38World Award.
39:39Oh, shit.
39:40Here they come
39:41in that BMW.
39:42I can't get
39:43cars.
39:44On their way
39:44to the club,
39:45Suge is blaring
39:46his music too
39:47loud.
39:48He gets pulled
39:49over by some
39:50police officers.
39:51They essentially,
39:52you know, say,
39:53just turn down
39:54your music,
39:54no big deal.
39:55And it's at this
39:56point in time
39:57that Suge
39:58and Tupac
39:59see these
40:00girls.
40:01Like,
40:01they're Suge,
40:02Suge.
40:03Like, the police
40:03were going
40:03through his car
40:04or something
40:05or another.
40:05And then
40:06the traffic
40:07was stopped
40:08and then they
40:08got in the car.
40:09Could you see
40:10who was with Suge?
40:12I saw it was Tupac
40:13and then he was
40:14like, come on,
40:15come go with me.
40:16Come go with us.
40:17We're going to
40:17662.
40:18And we're like,
40:19Tupac, Tupac.
40:22And we're like,
40:22there they go.
40:23Just wanted to
40:24turn and we just
40:25pulled up on the
40:26side and checked
40:27every car and
40:27see where they
40:28was.
40:28So what directed
40:29your attention to
40:30them with some
40:30girls shouting at
40:31Tupac?
40:33Tupac.
40:33He gave us
40:34up away.
40:34Otherwise,
40:35they would have
40:35got away.
40:37And he leaned
40:38over on the window
40:40and we were
40:40around the window.
40:40Tupac.
40:43Should have
40:43looked over
40:44and he sees you.
40:45Yeah.
40:46Yeah, he looked
40:46at me.
40:49I didn't know
40:50what he told
40:50Suge when he was
40:51seven, eight years
40:51old.
40:53I seen a bully
40:54going, Suge,
40:55and I thought
40:55he was dead.
40:57I thought he was
40:58dead.
40:59If you knew
41:00who killed Tupac,
41:01would you tell
41:01the police?
41:03Absolutely not.
41:06I wouldn't
41:07park the car.
41:08I put the gun
41:09on the tire and
41:09look.
41:10Where'd you
41:10guys go?
41:12We smoked weed
41:12and drink.
41:13Yeah.
41:13Wait.
41:14What?
41:15They thought
41:15they were
41:16in the room.
41:17And they pulled
41:18up in the
41:18ambulance while
41:19we were
41:19standing right
41:20there.
41:21Take our
41:22bullshit.
41:22You guys
41:23on the street
41:24with what?
41:24We on
41:25Las Vegas
41:25Boulevard
41:26at the
41:26crosswalk
41:26and they
41:27pulled up
41:27down
41:27around
41:28red next
41:28to us.
41:29We're
41:30in the car
41:30already?
41:31Tupac
41:32and
41:32Suge
41:32in the
41:33car.
41:33It's
41:34close.
41:34Did they
41:35see go?
41:36We didn't
41:37give a fuck.
41:38We didn't
41:38know they
41:38didn't
41:39come out
41:39to
41:39park
41:40right here.
41:42Red next
41:42to her.
41:42That shit
41:43was funny
41:43as a
41:43bubble.
41:44And I
41:47never told
41:48nobody
41:48is.
41:51So you
41:52get back
41:52to LA
41:52the next
41:53day Zip
41:53calls.
41:54You
41:54says
41:54meet
41:54me
41:55at
41:55the
41:55hot
41:55one
41:55place
41:55where
41:56at?
41:57You
41:59guys
41:59go over
41:59there.
41:59Zip
42:00shows up.
42:00You
42:00guys
42:01what
42:01happens
42:01after?
42:02People
42:02called
42:03it.
42:03Was that
42:03us?
42:04He
42:04told
42:04them
42:04yeah
42:05it was
42:05us.
42:05Find
42:05Zip's
42:06phone or
42:06your
42:06phone?
42:06Zip
42:07phone.
42:08And
42:08Zip
42:08gives
42:09you
42:09the
42:09phone?
42:10Yeah.
42:11He
42:13was
42:13happy
42:13there?
42:14Oh shit.
42:15And did
42:15you ask
42:15anybody's
42:16money?
42:16When
42:16you
42:16gonna
42:16get
42:17paid
42:17or
42:17whatever?
42:17No
42:18I
42:18have
42:18to
42:18tell
42:19you
42:19that
42:19on
42:19the
42:19phone.
42:19Zip
42:20go get
42:21her
42:21cash.
42:22Okay so
42:23you
42:23tell
42:23Zip
42:23we
42:23need
42:24to
42:24get
42:24paid.
42:25What
42:26does
42:26Zip
42:26say
42:26I'm
42:26gonna
42:26go
42:26back
42:27home
42:27and
42:27have
42:27it?
42:27Yeah I'll
42:28get
42:28back
42:28with
42:28y'all.
42:32According
42:32to QVD he
42:33was never
42:34compensated for
42:35the murder.
42:37But he
42:37said that
42:39a partial
42:40amount of
42:40the money
42:40was intended
42:41to be
42:42forwarded
42:42to him
42:43through Zip
42:44to the
42:45tune of
42:45about
42:45$500,000.
42:47The
42:48million dollar
42:49solicitation
42:50amount
42:51only half
42:51of it
42:52was
42:52fulfilled
42:53because
42:53only
42:54Tupac
42:55and not
42:55Suge
42:56was killed.
42:58Keefe D
42:58has a
42:59conversation
43:00with Darius
43:00Rogers
43:01with
43:01DMACC.
43:07And
43:07DMACC
43:08says
43:08there had
43:09been a
43:09payment
43:10from
43:11Combs
43:11to
43:12Keefe D
43:13but it
43:14had gone
43:14through
43:15Zip
43:15and then
43:16that money
43:16was never
43:17forwarded.
43:21We're
43:21just hoping
43:22and waiting
43:23to see
43:23what kind
43:24of progress
43:25Las Vegas
43:26would make
43:26with Keefe D's
43:28cooperation.
43:30Nothing
43:31really happens.
43:34Ultimately
43:34Zip
43:35dies from
43:36cancer.
43:37Thank you
43:38for coming
43:38out to
43:39Zips
43:39and I
43:39want
43:40everybody
43:40to know
43:40that
43:41when
43:41you
43:41come
43:42here
43:42we
43:42want
43:42to
43:43keep
43:43the
43:43peace
43:43and
43:44Orlando
43:45Anderson
43:45is shot
43:46and killed
43:46in 1998
43:47so
43:49it's really
43:50Keefe D
43:50and
43:51Puffy Combs
43:52are the last
43:52men standing.
43:54They can be
43:54held accountable
43:55for Tupac Shakur's
43:56murder.
43:56waiting
43:59to see if you
44:02talk about
44:06what we're
44:07waiting
44:07patiently
44:09looking
44:09and see
44:10if there's
44:10you.
44:10Okay.
44:11I like this.
44:12Take that off.
44:13All right.
44:14I'm a woman.
44:15I'm a woman.
44:16I'm a woman.
44:17Alright.
44:18I'm at the time.
44:19You too.
44:20Okay.
44:21I'll be just third of the change.
44:23Yeah.
44:24Take that off.
44:27All right.
44:28I'll be just third of the change.
44:37Take that off.
44:39All right.
44:40Let's move it through.
44:42Move it through.
44:49What goes up?
44:51Must come down.
44:52What goes down?
44:53Must come up.
44:54Fuck.
44:58I remember 99, we were working in the studio on a song called Muscle Game.
45:05This is our game right here.
45:08We ain't playing with you with your niggas.
45:11Come on, man.
45:12The song comes on and Puff was talking in the beginning.
45:15It's 1999.
45:17No more Mr. Nice guys.
45:20I'm like, what is he talking about?
45:23Fuck with me.
45:24I dropped a million dollars on your head.
45:26Race you and your own family.
45:28It's gonna start making y'all niggas disappear, man.
45:31Everything that's done in the dark must come to light.
45:34Everything that goes up must come down.
45:36FBI.
45:37FBI.
45:38FBI.
45:39Back.
45:40Yeah, I'm headed to hunt 13th and Lennox King.
45:43I gotta catch my man again.
45:44I'll see you up here.
45:45Are y'all rolling?
45:46Yeah, we rolling.
45:47We rolling.
45:48Yeah, we rolling.
45:49With the backdrop of East Coast.
45:50We rolling.
45:51We rolling.
45:52We rolling.
45:53Yeah, we rolling.
45:54Sean took Biggie to Los Angeles to recover out of the field.
45:55We rolling we rolling.
45:56Yeah, we rolling.
45:57We rolling?
45:58We rolling.
45:59We rolling.
46:00We rolling.
46:01We rolling.
46:02We rolling, We rolling.
46:03We rolling.
46:04We rolling, we rolling?
46:18We rolling.
46:19With the backdrop of East Coast, West Coast beef, Sean took Biggie to Los Angeles to
46:22to los angeles to record what would be the finishing touches on biggie's life after death
46:29album which wasn't titled that yet yo yo big wake up wake up baby diddy what the
46:39fuck man what's up come on now it's a quarter to six we got the 7 30 flight on the lax oh
46:45cali no doubt baby we have been warned to not come to la there were warnings all along for the last
46:54few months that we are not to set foot on the west coast it was award show season
47:02and sean wanted him to start promoting the album come on son train get up out your seats come on
47:09get about your seats biggie did not want to go but sean talked him into doing all of those things
47:22they were like cat calling and booing
47:25what's up cali we were not welcome after the award show saturday morning
47:40biggie and i were to go to london and we were going to have a two three day press junket to have biggie
47:46be one of the first artists from bad boy to meet the european press i had worked on that for months
47:53and weeks leading up we were supposed to go to the airport that morning i'm calling biggie like
48:00crazy what's going on wake up he's like yo puff is bugging he just called me and told me i want you
48:07to stay here in la i don't want to stay i want to go but sean was adamant cancel the flight biggie's not
48:17going to the uk what do you mean he's not going to click he hangs up this was his mo ego power tripping
48:28all of it because sean wanted to do a party on enemy turf
48:37scared to death
48:38that's how real it is that's how real it is i think somebody's trying to kill me i'll be waking
48:45up paranoid i'll be really scared i'll just be peril
48:53that night big and puffy was with us
48:59they were having a party
49:11i spoke to big and i was like yo you know what are you doing catching la man they get down in these
49:19circumstances man and you just can't be walking around here freely
49:31everybody's mingling
49:36i look around i say where's big
49:40i want to get out
49:57that's big
49:58That is big in here. That is big in here. That is big in here.
50:01Somebody got shot.
50:05What are you reporting?
50:06Yeah, we need an ambulance on Fairfax and Wilshire.
50:09Please, Los Angeles.
50:11We have a man shot. We have a man shot.
50:13Okay, hold on. I'll get that.
50:15Right on, let's go on a Wilshire and Fairfax.
50:17Let's go, let's go.
50:19Hold on. Listen, sir, I can't hear what you're saying.
50:23We're man shot in our car right now.
50:26Right now, we're trying to roll into the hospital.
50:29I know the way.
50:30See the sign-up.
50:32I got to go back. You got to turn around, Jimmy.
50:34You're going the wrong way.
50:35What the fuck is wrong with y'all, man?
50:37What's going on?
50:38Yo, Big, do you hear me?
50:39Yeah, what's up? What's up? What's up? What's up?
50:43Big!
50:46I was following Big's lead on, like, you know,
50:48we're going to do this peace tour.
50:51And, you know, it didn't work out.
50:56Sean said it on Can't Stop Won't Stop.
50:58Biggie wanted to go.
50:59Biggie wanted to go.
51:04He's lying about that.
51:07Sean wanted that trip and was pushing it for weeks and weeks.
51:13He lied about it and let me know that's a weak spot for him,
51:18and he's nervous about that information.
51:26He ushered Biggie to his death.
51:28Who do you think called Biggie?
51:33Next question.
51:38All it was is a Puffy and Suge Knight war.
51:43You're messing with lives here.
51:46And that's exactly what happened.
51:48Two lives were lost as a result of what?
51:50Stupidity?
51:53When I sat down with Valetta, we briefly brought up Sean Combs.
51:57It was clear to me that she had no real respect or appreciation for him.
52:02Sean clearly didn't do all that he could have done to help out in the investigation.
52:06In fact, he was a hindrance in the investigation.
52:10Puffy was kind of stonewalling people from talking,
52:14because he knows if you make inroads on Biggie's murder,
52:18you're going to make inroads on Tupac's murder.
52:21And that potentially can lead right back to him.
52:23How are Biggie's mom and Faith and the kids taking all this?
52:30Biggie's mom and Faith and the children are extremely strong.
52:34Matter of fact, they've been strong for me and helping to hold me up.
52:38Sean assumed the position of his best friend in every article and publication,
52:46and that wasn't necessarily true.
52:49And I'm going to be there for them just like he would be there for them
52:52to make sure that they're all right.
52:54Sean said, we're going to do the biggest funeral for Biggie
52:57that New York has ever seen.
53:00And we start to put that together.
53:02He starts to see the price.
53:04And he says, we're going to do the biggest funeral,
53:07but Biggie's going to have to pay for this funeral.
53:11He was going to make the funeral be a recoupable charge to Biggie in death.
53:18This is one of my closest friends,
53:20and it's still one of my closest friends.
53:23I just feel his loss.
53:25I just miss him so much.
53:27Sean doing a big show looks good on him.
53:31But he's not going to tell the world that Biggie was going to pay for it.
53:36In Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, the whole hood was outside.
53:49If you could make it there, you was there.
53:51It was a big loss for the city.
53:55I loved Biggie.
53:58Biggie inspired me.
53:59He gave me hope.
54:00He made us feel like he was from the town.
54:02You could make it.
54:03We loved Biggie.
54:04So it was like losing a family member.
54:06Biggie just wanted to be a rap superstar.
54:11He didn't want to hurt nobody.
54:13He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted for a long time.
54:18It's not a feeling that I really felt a lot like in my life.
54:23I don't really have a lot of friends.
54:25I think people think I have a lot of friends, you know.
54:29I don't think I really make a good friend.
54:33Before he was assassinated, Biggie had an opportunity to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.
54:41We were delivering the elements so that can happen.
54:44And Sean called me and said, pull that cover.
54:47I need to be on the cover.
54:49My solo album is coming in July.
54:51No way out.
54:52And I need to amp that up.
54:57He took the cover from Biggie.
55:03Another thing at the time, Biggie was negotiating his contract.
55:08Every day I wake up.
55:10We acquiesced and gave him everything he wanted.
55:14And then he died.
55:15Can't believe you ain't here.
55:18Sean wanted me to change the agreement to more favorable terms for bad boy.
55:25And his family and mother would not know.
55:28And 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.
55:38And I said, that's not right.
55:39I'm not doing it.
55:41Ninety days later, I'm fired.
55:43It's like I feel empty inside without you being here.
55:47I remember Michael Jackson, the Motel 25 special.
55:58MTV, Madonna like a virgin.
56:01And I remember Puff with Sting.
56:04Check it out.
56:06We gotta move, dude.
56:11Having a TV moment in music, it's very rare.
56:14It elevates you to such another level of superstar.
56:18It made him rockstar, bitch.
56:20It's kinda hard when you're not around.
56:23Know you in Heaven smiling down.
56:25Watching us while we pray for you.
56:27He became Among Us.
56:29now it's him now i'm the man it was like a dream come true to see the lines like in front of the
56:37stores like people going there to get my records it's crazy it all happened pretty quickly for you
56:43from being an intern to being on the cover of the road in snow thanks for biggie's mother who's
56:50sitting right there for having notorious vig you've abused everyone and used most everyone
56:59there are horror stories like this all throughout cleared of gun possession and bribery charges sean
57:09puffy combs walked out of free man some people speak up about it most do not the first member is
57:17aubrey it's a pattern with him violence was a very normalized part of living in that world
57:29allegations of sexual misconduct huffy called these encounters free calls witnessed
57:34diddy abusing cassie and then they encouraged assie to get away from him
57:40everything in life you're gonna have people that are bad and people that are good
57:44you know you have to choose your side
57:56could be there too i'm talking about the cause of those who want to make sure how to get off the
58:00å°‘je of the person who wants to do that is
58:03it's not a good thing
58:05but we have to look at the insects
58:05people and they're known as this can be the same
58:07and they're still living there
58:08and they're still living there
58:09and they're like
58:11they're like
58:11they're so
58:13they're like
58:14they're like
58:15they're like
58:15they're like
58:16the same thing
58:16they're like
58:18they're like
58:19or
58:19they're like
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