Sean Combs- The Reckoning - Season 1 Episode 02- What Goes Down Must Come Up
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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.
03:43Yeah, so it's just the biggest film.
03:44Stop, look, what a big
03:56this history.
03:57Isn't that great!
04:00Aberfeeling.
04:01Make the defense think a tick longer.
04:04She's a whole lot of crazy shit going on.
04:08You know what I mean?
04:09I saw them not the bad way going down.
04:12Like, that shit was crazy to me.
04:13That shit wasn't there.
04:14It was just a sign to me, like,
04:16time to order the future.
04:18Time to order the future.
04:20I was a little builder.
04:21Yeah, for the building,
04:22I got ready for you, son.
04:23You know what I'm saying?
04:24It was a sign to me like that.
04:26But I'm saying,
04:26that shit was there,
04:28like, two months ago, right?
04:29I'm not tripping.
04:29Yeah, it was there.
04:31I'm not tripping.
04:40Puff is in this position
04:42where he has all this turmoil,
04:45but he's not at the point
04:47where he's saying,
04:48where I went wrong.
04:50He's saying to himself,
04:51how do I get out of this?
04:54Maybe I can convince some witnesses
04:56that I'm not the guy who I am.
04:59Eventually, he's going to get to the point
05:02where he's going to ask himself,
05:03how did I get myself into this situation?
05:06Bad Boy.
05:13Bad Boy.
05:14Oh!
05:16Oh!
05:16This is mad, I get...
05:1895, he had two of the hottest acts.
05:20Craig Mack,
05:21Game of's flavor in your ear.
05:22Here goes a brand new flavor, yeah.
05:25Brand new flavor.
05:25Time for new flavor, yeah.
05:28And Biggie.
05:28You gotta come up in your waist,
05:30please don't suit up the place.
05:31Why?
05:31Cause I see some ladies tonight
05:33that should be having my...
05:34Bad Boy was rising up.
05:36My little lab right here,
05:37you know, where I cut my deals and all that.
05:39Got my little headset.
05:41He's living out a dream,
05:42you know what I'm saying?
05:42One time,
05:43Sean was in his office,
05:44and I'm in a little cubby hole
05:45around the corner.
05:47He buzzes me.
05:48So I get up and I go in with my papers and go.
05:53A girl is giving him a blowjob at the desk.
05:56He wanted me to see that.
05:58He wanted me to see her face.
06:00And then he was able to get her to do that
06:01right then and there in the office.
06:04She leaves.
06:05I'm, what did you want me for?
06:07Ah, I didn't want you for anything.
06:10That was the beginning for me to see
06:13this is what's going on here.
06:15Can everybody here make some noise
06:17for B.I.G. for bringing it back to the East?
06:20So the C's for all of this was early on.
06:23I want to thank y'all.
06:24Alistair Ricketts, BMG.
06:26And that came from people in the industry
06:30co-signing his activity
06:32because it brought money in.
06:36I don't know if y'all niggas know this.
06:38The Juicy went platinum.
06:40Big Pumper went platinum.
06:42In your ear, Remix went platinum.
06:45That whole bad boy thing was so big.
06:49Faith Evans.
06:50I'm gonna be first lady on Puff Daddy's lady.
06:52Total.
06:55Biggie.
06:58I'm Greg Matt.
06:59The thing over here is Greg Matt.
07:00It was a consistent back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
07:06So let me just give you a day in the life of Puff Daddy.
07:12Gets up from wherever he stayed that night.
07:17Heads to the office two hours late.
07:19You might have somebody pulling him over saying,
07:21hey, ain't you in that video?
07:22Ain't that you?
07:23Oh, yo, here go a demo.
07:24Puffy's over there.
07:25Yo, what's up, Puff?
07:27How you doing, baby, 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,
07:39already with the microphone ready to sing,
07:41you love me, I love you,
07:43just to get their shot at Puffy.
07:46Everybody wants to see him.
07:48He is now the new gateway into music.
07:50You're going to take all of this power and money you're getting now
07:56and play by the rules?
07:59No, I'm the rule now.
08:00I am the exception to the rule.
08:06One day, it seemed like out of the blue,
08:14my door opens up.
08:17Sean walks in.
08:18He had a baseball bat.
08:21Had a big attaché case suitcase with the snaps on it.
08:25The stocks were there.
08:27We in a fucking hustle.
08:28We in a grind.
08:29Do your job.
08:30Whatever your...
08:30He wanted me to sign my 25% over.
08:34And then he's over me like this.
08:36He wants to stop that.
08:38He wants it now.
08:40I'm not going to stay fucking lying down.
08:42I'm not.
08:42I can't do that, man.
08:43He said, there's a business deal I need to take care of.
08:46I need to do this.
08:47I need to get this all on one side, but I'll give it back to you.
08:50I'm going to give it back to you.
08:52It's a fucking fight.
08:53That's the problem.
08:54You don't know how to be a accountant.
08:56And he threatened until I did.
08:59People always say to me, why would you do that?
09:06But why did you do that?
09:09Like, that was, you know.
09:15I didn't want to give it back.
09:16I wanted to stay in good graces.
09:18I still wanted to be at the company.
09:21It wasn't like he was firing me.
09:22But I was definitely confused by it.
09:27It might sound strange, but if you've ever built something and you want it to last,
09:35you think about how to make it last.
09:47I want to know who's been naughty at night.
09:49With the fight.
09:50I thought.
09:52He was kind of cool at first.
09:54And then we started seeing some things.
09:59Craig started becoming disenchanted.
10:03I want to congratulate Craig Mack on his Grammy nomination.
10:06No question.
10:07Yes, baby.
10:07Yeah.
10:07That's cool.
10:09Yo, you got nominated for a Grammy, but we had no money.
10:14If you look at Bad Boy, Bad Boy didn't sell enough records to explain his wealth.
10:21But enough artists were on the label that sold enough records to explain his wealth.
10:28Sean's trick was, I'm going to make you a star.
10:32You sign, follow the money.
10:33That's what you're going to try to do as hard as you can.
10:36You're going to try your best.
10:38And we know you're going to try your best.
10:40So you sign your deal.
10:41We gave you your advance.
10:42At Uptown, that's the only money the artists have ever seen, that first advance.
10:46Andre had to wait it.
10:47He never saw anything else.
10:48Did he pick that up?
10:49He made it even tighter.
10:52Don't leave the girl around me, true player for real.
10:55Let's pump that deep.
10:56It's a shell game.
10:58You hide everything that is an earning.
11:01You confuse the earnings.
11:03And now I own everything.
11:05You'll go out into the world.
11:06In the shell game, you'll be looking for your money for the next 20 years.
11:10Sean did that to every artist.
11:12You're in the studio.
11:15Now you have to recoup for being in the studio.
11:18Puff owns the studio.
11:21And I have four sessions with you, only $400,000.
11:25If Puff records a song with his artist, he pays himself.
11:31If he's in your video, he pays himself.
11:34He insert himself into their videos.
11:37A video come on, you're like, I fucking hate that guy.
11:40As an artist, you can go number one.
11:43Song is being played all over the nation.
11:45But you don't have the money to go to it because you're not making the proper money off of your royalties.
11:53Craig and I hit a point where we were fucked up.
11:57No money, nothing.
11:58Hell, I was getting money from my father to take care of the house.
12:05We were all at, like, somebody's album release party.
12:09And Craig's going to tell Puff to give him a few dollars, and he'll hit him back once he went and did this show.
12:14He literally went in his pocket and pulled out a knot of money this big and gave him $100 bill.
12:24I think Sean had an envy for his own artists.
12:36He was jealous of their talent and wondering, like, this talent is wasted on people who don't even really know what to do.
12:43And if I had that talent and my know-how, wow.
12:47That's interesting because a lot of people Puffy's age want to grab this mic and rap, but Puffy, you wanted to do other things, and you're doing a lot of them.
12:55Can you talk about his skills as a rapper?
12:57Sucks.
12:58He has zero talent musically.
13:00He don't know how to discuss it.
13:01He don't know nothing about R&B.
13:02He don't know none of that stuff.
13:03He used to ask me to always be there in the sessions because I would tell the truth.
13:08I'd be like, that's not it.
13:10People would be there like, yeah, that was tight.
13:11That was tight.
13:12I'd be like, look, yo, for real, you got a lot of people who just tell you anything.
13:16That sucked.
13:18It doesn't sound good, and it makes no sense.
13:20But he always wanted to be an artist.
13:25We're about to just drop our R&B stuff.
13:27The Puff Daddy album.
13:29Yeah, what about the Puff Daddy solo project?
13:31Yeah, we don't like to talk about that.
13:32Hey, Puffy, we won't get to this.
13:33Sean used other methods and ways to get to where he had to go.
13:40Big on strategy, big on swag.
13:44All of those things became important.
13:47When it boiled down to the music, even if I didn't touch it,
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?
13:57Where's the makeup at?
13:58Makeup?
13:59Right here, right here.
14:00That whole bad boy was built on him.
14:03You cannot take that from him.
14:07But I think that Puffy wanted the light, like he always wanted.
14:11From dancing the whole night you see it,
14:13anybody that's boasted and loud like that,
14:14they want to be in the spotlight.
14:17It wasn't like no secret, that's what he wanted.
14:20Six foot three, 335 pound,
14:25Suge Knight has managed to become the head
14:27of a $100 million record company.
14:29It's the record label at ground zero
14:31of the whole gangster rap phenomenon,
14:33Death Row Records.
14:35Suge was about that money,
14:37but he didn't want to be in that limelight, like Puff.
14:41He had his own lane.
14:43You're a big guy,
14:44and there are people who are afraid of you.
14:46There's probably people who are afraid of you.
14:48Back in 1988,
14:50the person who did the greatest job of protecting me
14:52was the head of my security at the time,
14:54Suge Knight.
14:55Right now I'm on the heartbreak tour
14:57with Bobby Brown, a new addition,
14:58and we've been out...
14:59We're about to get on the tour bus,
15:01and these dudes came over,
15:03and they was like talking crazy.
15:04Y'all niggas this,
15:05y'all niggas that,
15:06this, this, this.
15:09And I seen Suge
15:10kind of just turn this way
15:12and gave him one of these.
15:15Bam!
15:16Like that.
15:17And knocked dude down the hill,
15:19and it looked like a cartoon.
15:21Dude was rolling down the hill.
15:22Boom, boom.
15:22It's Tim's K-ball.
15:25He's a street dude.
15:26He's a real street dude.
15:27But Suge knew talent,
15:30and he knew business.
15:31They took me on tour,
15:33and I learned how every person
15:35who's writing songs
15:36is getting beat out their money,
15:37like they're publishing.
15:39He was able to dovetail that
15:41into starting Death Row Records.
15:43One, two, three, it's a buffo.
15:46Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Drake
15:47is at the door.
15:49Death Row can be bigger than Motown,
15:51or Sony, or Warner Brothers.
15:53Death Row's gonna be the biggest
15:55record company there is.
15:57Chronic album's the foundation.
15:59Before Bad Boy,
16:00Death Row was the most successful
16:01label in the business.
16:03From the depths of the sea
16:04Back to the block
16:05Snoop Doggy Dogg
16:06Sean had admired Death Row
16:08and wanted us to emulate them.
16:13And that was my job.
16:15How do I make Bad Boy
16:16equal to success of Death Row?
16:19And of course,
16:20my eyes was like this.
16:21Death Row?
16:22They had a head start.
16:24They had artists.
16:25They picked superstars up
16:26from other indie labels.
16:27We're starting off.
16:28Me and him were friends.
16:31Wow.
16:31Who should be?
16:32Yeah, yeah.
16:32He would pick me up
16:33from the airport.
16:34You know, I was just networking
16:35with the brother
16:36and show me a lot of love.
16:38You know, I really had thought
16:39we were cool.
16:41Me and Puffy,
16:42we used to run around
16:42with each other.
16:43He was getting in the business.
16:44I was in the business.
16:46Living life without fear.
16:48Only a few years later,
16:50Bad Boy,
16:51Death Row.
16:52Death Row is the label
16:53that pays, man.
16:54The two hottest labels.
16:58But I would look over
16:59at Death Row and say,
17:00they're taking care
17:00of their artists
17:01better than we are.
17:03They'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.
17:10Craig wasn't happy there.
17:15Death Row was courting him
17:16because she was opening up
17:18a Death Row East.
17:20And it was found out.
17:22Shot by the finger.
17:24Yes.
17:30It's the Source Hip Hop Music Awards!
17:34The Source Awards
17:35was happening in New York City.
17:40And 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 like that?
18:01You're telling me?
18:02Well, now it's a dog.
18:03What is the deal, man?
18:04Keep the door closed.
18:06And it escalated with words
18:07from the podium
18:08at the awards show.
18:09Any artists out there
18:11who want to be an artist
18:12and want to stay a star
18:13and don't want to
18:14have to worry about
18:15the executive producer
18:16trying to be
18:17all in the videos,
18:19all on the record,
18:21dancing.
18:22Come to Death Row.
18:23I'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?
18:47I'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.
19:01Sean wants to present strength.
19:03He wants to show coolness.
19:05And 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.
19:35Before I signed with Bad Boy,
19:38I was working
19:39at the door of the club
19:41in Platinum House.
19:45Every 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.
19:59Sean 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.
20:26A real police officer
20:28in a real police uniform
20:29came and got on tape.
20:32I said, man,
20:33you took the homie,
20:34we're going to tear
20:34this motherfucker up.
20:36He said, well,
20:36I got to throw him out.
20:37I said, for what?
20:38He said, he was pumpy.
20:40Shook and Jake
20:41is being escorted
20:42out the club
20:44by the off-duty officer
20:47we always had
20:49there moonlighting.
20:51Jake comes out,
20:52Shook come out,
20:53Puff come out.
20:54Everybody's outside.
20:55A 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
21:21and 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.
21:34Puff was like,
21:35it's going to be all right,
21:37man,
21:37it'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.
21:47and then
21:49the shooter
21:50ran.
21:54Ambulance came
21:55and took Jake
21:56to the hospital.
21:58A 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 Puff
22:18gets shot
22:19in Quad's studio,
22:20he had the rape case.
22:22A New York jury
22:23convicted the rapper
22:24of first degree
22:25sexual abuse
22:25but acquitted him
22:26of more serious charges.
22:31Since your period
22:32of incarceration
22:33at Clinton
22:33Correctional Facility,
22:36have you taken the time
22:37to reflect
22:37on your gangster
22:38third image?
22:41Puff and Big
22:42were friends
22:43at one time.
22:44But then
22:45once Puff
22:45is in 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,
22:57Biggie Ho'boy
22:58shot you.
22:59Because they bragging,
23:00they telling
23:01they n****s in jail,
23:02yo,
23:02we just got Puff,
23:03woo, woo, woo, woo.
23:05Once the conflict
23:06happens,
23:08Puff needed
23:08someone strong
23:10that was going
23:12to stand
23:12with him.
23:14And it had just
23:15so happened
23:16that Suge
23:17had his own
23:18issue
23:18with Puffy.
23:20So,
23:21Suge went to jail
23:22and visited him.
23:24The whole shit
23:25was like
23:26some mob shit.
23:29Into Tupac,
23:30a young cat.
23:31I'm going to
23:33join a family,
23:34dog.
23:35Get me out.
23:38Suge Knight
23:39first signed
23:40Tupac
23:40to a recording
23:41contract
23:42when Tupac
23:42was in this
23:43New York State
23:44prison,
23:45unable 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.
23:59Out on bail
24:03rapper Tupac
24:04Shakur's
24:04rush-to-market
24:05double album
24:05All Eyes
24:06On Me
24:06debuts at
24:07number one
24:07on this
24:07week's
24:08Billboard chart.
24:08With the
24:09addition of
24:09Tupac,
24:10there's no way
24:11y'all can stop us
24:11now.
24:11If you think
24:12bad boy,
24:14I'll say
24:15fuck them all.
24:16We're coming
24:16to the East Coast
24:17to prove
24:17there is no fear.
24:19Overthrow the
24:19government y'all
24:20got right now
24:21which is bad boy
24:21and all that
24:22bullshit
24:22and we will
24:23bring a new
24:24government here
24:24that will feed
24:25every person
24:25in New York.
24:26Cool, man.
24:27All right, man.
24:28Thanks a lot.
24:30Sean tried
24:31everything to
24:32get Biggie
24:32upset.
24:33He had to
24:34go at him
24:35with business.
24:36This guy
24:36came at us.
24:38I was more
24:38in a mind frame
24:39of keep your
24:42mouth shut,
24:43big.
24:43You know what
24:44I'm saying?
24:44Just don't
24:45feed into it.
24:47If you feed
24:47into it,
24:48it's gonna do
24:49nothing but
24:49escalate.
24:50You know
24:50what I'm
24:50saying?
24:51Biggie never
24:52wanted to be
24:52an enemy
24:53to Pac.
24:54As things
24:55was coming
24:55from the
24:55West Coast,
24:56Biggie did
24:57not want to
24:58give any
24:59shots back.
25:01When Pac
25:01was producing
25:02All Eyes
25:03On Me,
25:03he called
25:04us and
25:04said,
25:05I just
25:05fucked
25:06fake
25:06evidence,
25:08Big's
25:08wife.
25:10We was like,
25:10what?
25:11First of all,
25:12fuck your
25:12bitch in the
25:13clique you claim.
25:14Westside when we
25:15ride, come equip
25:16with gang.
25:16You claim to be
25:17a player, but I
25:18fucked your wife.
25:19Well, that's not
25:20true at all.
25:21Biggie stole my
25:22husband legally.
25:23I am having
25:24his baby.
25:24Sean kept
25:26putting pressure
25:26on Biggie.
25:27You got to
25:28answer back.
25:30Tupac had me
25:31pissed off,
25:31you know what
25:32I'm saying?
25:33And the rumors
25:34that's spreading
25:35is on some tip
25:37like we set
25:37them up,
25:38you know what
25:38I'm saying?
25:39And that's
25:39crazy.
25:41The East Coast,
25:41West Coast thing
25:42was invented,
25:43period.
25:44Because no matter
25:44what, we all
25:45went to the East,
25:46they came here,
25:47went to the West,
25:47whatever, they
25:48wasn't arguing
25:49with each other.
25:50We was able
25:50to roam.
25:51Fuck Biggie,
25:52fuck bad boy,
25:53as a staff,
25:54record label,
25:54and as a
25:55motherfucking crew.
25:56It was this
25:56bad boy in death row.
26:00And that right
26:01there put people
26:02in danger because
26:03it made people
26:04be like,
26:04F you, F you.
26:05And people started
26:06doing stuff for
26:07no reason because
26:07it was, you know,
26:08it's just people
26:09that want to ride
26:10for each other.
26:11And then look
26:12what happened.
26:12So.
26:17Doing the street
26:18thing.
26:19My affiliation
26:20was with the
26:22Mansfield
26:22Hustlers.
26:23Today,
26:25we go by
26:28Mansfield
26:29Gangster Crips
26:30now.
26:31Police say
26:32that drugs
26:32and violence
26:33are being spread
26:33by two
26:34longstanding rivals
26:35in the Los Angeles
26:36youth gang scene.
26:38Groups who call
26:38themselves Crips
26:39and wear blue
26:40colors and 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
26:53and, you know,
26:55when we're hanging
26:56out with our friends,
26:57we're going to
27:00protect our friends.
27:01So they knew.
27:04And they were
27:04our associates.
27:06You got beef with
27:07them, you got beef
27:08with me.
27:10Period.
27:11A number of reports
27:12have come out
27:12that Bad Boy Entertainment
27:13had actually hired
27:14Crips for security
27:15work out on the West
27:15Coast.
27:16Is that true?
27:18We've never
27:19hired Crips
27:21or any other
27:22gang faction
27:23to do security
27:24for us.
27:25It would be
27:25extremely unintelligent
27:27to hire
27:28gang, some gangs
27:30to do security
27:31for you.
27:31A lot of the
27:32New York guys
27:33come out to L.A.
27:35Zip is a person
27:36that I know
27:37that was
27:39Puffy's man.
27:40That was his guy.
27:43Eric Von Zip
27:44is a drug lord
27:45from Harlem,
27:46but Sean
27:47told me
27:48he was his uncle.
27:49He might have
27:50known Janice
27:51on the fringe.
27:52He might have
27:52known Sean's father
27:53from those days.
27:54Zip had a
27:56relationship
27:57with the
27:58Southside 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
28:07forth to 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 of
28:17the drug-dealing
28:18Bloods
28:18street gang.
28:20One of the
28:21death row people
28:22got jumped
28:23by
28:24someone
28:25at a mall
28:26and that someone
28:28was from
28:28Southside Crips.
28:30One of the Crips
28:31tried to take
28:32a death row chain.
28:34I think that was
28:35an order from
28:35Bad Boy.
28:36That was an order
28:36from Puff
28:37because it was
28:39specific.
28:40We want a death row
28:41chain.
28:43Introducing
28:43the one and only
28:44iron
28:45Mike Tyson.
28:52Everybody got
28:53what they wanted
28:54that night.
28:55People got to see
28:56Tyson
28:57knock a motherfucker
28:58out.
29:00And Tyson
29:00with a left hook
29:01and Selvin is down.
29:03It's over
29:03in the first round.
29:07That's probably
29:08the reason
29:09the guys
29:09was all fucked up
29:10in a lot of shit
29:11from the fight
29:11night.
29:12When you've seen
29:13a Tyson fight,
29:14you want to fight.
29:15at the fight,
29:26the guy who was
29:27ripped off
29:27for the death row
29:28chain
29:29is with
29:30Suge
29:30and Pac.
29:32He just
29:32whispers to Pac,
29:34that's him.
29:34Hey, hey, hey, hey.
29:39It was Orlando
29:40Anderson
29:40from Southside
29:42Crips
29:42who was
29:44connected with
29:44Puff.
29:46Next thing I know,
29:46I see Pac like,
29:47phew.
29:50Took your name down.
29:55That was the
30:00foundational moment
30:02where all this
30:03was getting
30:04out of control.
30:05I'm out of one
30:06right now.
30:08I got a
30:08couple guys shot
30:09and he's
30:10medically shot.
30:15Rapper Tupac Shakur
30:16was shot
30:17in the chest
30:17late Saturday.
30:17This morning shot
30:18multiple times
30:19in the chest
30:19in a drive-by street.
30:20Death row record
30:21label owner
30:22Marion Shug Knight
30:23was also in the car,
30:24but his injuries
30:25were minor.
30:26Craig called me up.
30:28It was late.
30:30He was out there
30:31at the fight
30:32because he was
30:33supposed to have
30:33performed at
30:34some club
30:35that Shug
30:37owned.
30:39And I guess
30:39Tupac was supposed
30:40to come through.
30:41He was like,
30:42how come Tupac
30:44just got shot?
30:46Craig was,
30:46like,
30:47scared.
30:48Who was he
30:48scared of?
30:50Probably Puff.
30:52He ended up
30:53not going
30:54to death row
30:55after that.
30:55Hi, I'm
30:59Tabitha Soren
31:00with MTV News.
31:01Controversial rapper
31:02and actor
31:02Tupac Shakur
31:03has died
31:04in a Las Vegas
31:05hospital
31:05of complications
31:06from several...
31:07I was in jail.
31:08I was in jail
31:09when he got shot.
31:12There was a lot
31:12of niggas in jail
31:13that was 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
31:29shooting,
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.
31:42I think that
31:44Sean now,
31:45in my mature mind,
31:47had a lot to do
31:48with the death
31:49of Tupac.
31:51In 2006,
31:59I was recruited
32:00to work a task force
32:02that was going
32:03to look at
32:04a cold case
32:04investigation.
32:06At the time,
32:07Tupac's murder
32:08was an unsolved case.
32:11Gang crimes
32:12oftentimes are
32:13difficult to solve
32:14because you don't
32:14get cooperating witnesses.
32:16They want to
32:17stick to a code
32:18that typically entails
32:20not cooperating
32:21with law enforcement
32:22and then taking matters
32:23into your own hands.
32:25It ain't my job
32:26to snitch on nobody
32:28because I would
32:28never snitch on nobody.
32:30We had built
32:31a narcotics case
32:32against Keefe D.
32:34Keefe D.
32:35was kind of
32:35the 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 Keefe D.
32:57was potentially
32:58looking at a life sentence
32:59for federal drug trafficking.
33:01We 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
33:17allow Keefe D.
33:18to do a proper session.
33:20Keefe,
33:20today what we're going 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
33:26emphasize to you
33:28it'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,
33:50I want to say
33:51this though too.
33:53I feel
33:53like 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
34:03had several conversations
34:04with Sean Combs.
34:06I met him
34:07he gave a party
34:08at
34:08the club
34:11down in Santa Monica.
34:12That's where I met him.
34:13The first day I met him.
34:15Sean Combs'
34:16affiliation
34:17with the Southside Crips
34:18came by way
34:19of a New York
34:21street figure
34:21known as Zip.
34:23Zip set up
34:25the introduction
34:26between Combs
34:27and Keefy D
34:28and then they
34:29developed
34:30their own relationship.
34:32And Zip introduced
34:33to this my boy.
34:34What are you introducing,
34:35man?
34:35This my friend,
34:36this my nephew.
34:36That's my boy.
34:37My boy,
34:38this pop.
34:40And after that
34:40they used my car
34:41on the video.
34:42Which car was I having?
34:44The 64 Chevy I have.
34:45Every time I look
34:48catch you
34:49that's the way
34:50What color was it?
34:51Blown.
34:52I was out there
34:52on the 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.
35:04I don't have no money
35:07I don't have no money
35:07I don't have no money
35:10Well, he caused it wrong
35:11and he wanted to speak to me
35:13and they gave it up
35:13he didn't do it
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!
35:25To all the ladies
35:26in the place
35:27Keefy D
35:28says that Sean Combs
35:29kind of makes
35:30this general announcement
35:33while they're in
35:34all inside of a hotel room
35:36after a musical event.
35:39So it's Harrell,
35:40Puffy, Zip,
35:42you
35:42About 40-something
35:43soft-siders.
35:44Yeah!
35:45That was stupid
35:46as hell too,
35:47you know?
35:49Shit, he said
35:49he didn't kill us
35:50anything for no dudes
35:51anything, you know?
35:52Tupac and Chuggy,
35:53you mean?
35:54Yeah.
35:54He said it in front
35:56of all those people
35:56I can't believe him.
35:58You know what I'm saying?
36:00All home full of trips.
36:02So this is after
36:02Jake got killed.
36:03So he was on point
36:05and he was worried
36:05about something happening.
36:06Yeah.
36:07So he got miles off
36:08about a bunch
36:08of different stuff
36:09so he was scared.
36:10He was scared to death.
36:11Yeah.
36:11Okay.
36:11Okay.
36:13Then there's a more
36:14specific incident
36:15that takes place
36:16at a deli
36:16on Sunset Strip
36:17in Los Angeles,
36:18a place called
36:19Greenblatt's Deli.
36:20What made it
36:21a specific,
36:22like, hey,
36:22I'm serious,
36:23I want you guys
36:24to kill these guys?
36:25When he told me
36:27at the Greenblatt's.
36:29When we got there
36:30we were laughing at him
36:31because he was just
36:32broad as such a 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 motherfucker.
36:38Like, man,
36:39what you laughing at, dog?
36:40Man, don't just come out
36:42here and get in
36:42any broad, dog.
36:44I took him downstairs
36:45and he's like,
36:46man, I gotta get rid
36:47of those dudes, man.
36:49It's gonna be a problem.
36:50It was after he made
36:54the record.
36:55Hit him up,
36:55came out.
36:56Yeah, yeah,
36:56that pissed him off.
37:01Yeah, we were
37:02on a million.
37:05He 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,
37:10scared.
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?
37:17He agrees?
37:17He's shaking
37:18on him or something
37:18like that?
37:19Yeah.
37:20What happened?
37:21You know,
37:21he, uh,
37:23I meant our 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
37:37there and his nephew
37:39gets assaulted by Tupac,
37:40they're like,
37:40this is the perfect
37:41occasion.
37:43We've seen
37:44him and my
37:45and he came
37:45and said,
37:46he just beat up
37:48man.
37:49He was in a hotel
37:49at the MGM
37:52at a restaurant.
37:53There was a few
37:53New Yorkers
37:54though,
37:54with a wigs
37:55up.
37:57Like,
37:57man,
37:57y'all need some help.
37:59We got this.
38:00It's your perfect
38:01opportunity, baby.
38:03That was zip-connet?
38:04Yeah.
38:04Because of what
38:05happened with...
38:05Yeah.
38:06Yeah.
38:07We and I don't
38:08because we was down
38:09there and, uh,
38:10he told me
38:10in the lobby
38:11that he had some
38:12jimmies.
38:13Some more?
38:13He had a jimmy.
38:14He 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.
38:31It'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
38:41murdered,
38:42Sean requested
38:43that we
38:45rent cars
38:46and have
38:48multiple drivers
38:49drive clear
38:51across the country
38:52to this fight.
38:55But I
38:56arranged
38:56through my
38:57budget
38:58to make
38:59that trip
38:59happen
39:00for those
39:00drivers.
39:02And to this
39:02day,
39:03it stands out
39:03in my mind.
39:05Why did we
39:06rent multiple
39:07cars?
39:07Why did we
39:08hire people
39:09from Harlem
39:10and other
39:10locations
39:11to drive?
39:16You tell us
39:17if, hey,
39:17we're going to
39:18go handle this
39:18shit or
39:19whatever?
39:19Yeah,
39:20they asked
39:20if y'all
39:21want us to
39:21talk.
39:22We know
39:23where them
39:23motherfuckers
39:23at.
39:24They were
39:24telling us
39:24they're going
39:25to be at
39:25662 Club.
39:27Two cars
39:27go to 662?
39:28Yeah,
39:29the van
39:29and the
39:30cabaret.
39:31They didn't
39:31show up.
39:32We waited
39:33about 15,
39:3420 minutes.
39:34They didn't
39:35show up.
39:36So,
39:36let's go
39:37get some
39:38liquor.
39:39And we
39:39came up
39:40Harlem
39:41at the
39:42Las Vegas
39:43Willow
39:43Ward.
39:44And,
39:44oh,
39:44shit,
39:45here they
39:46coming at
39:46BMW.
39:47Can't
39:47get cars.
39:49On their
39:49way to
39:49the club,
39:50Suge is
39:51blaring his
39:51music too
39:52loud.
39:53He gets
39:54pulled over
39:54by some
39:55police officers.
39:56They essentially
39:57say, just
39:58turn down
39:58your music,
39:59no big deal.
40:00And it's
40:01at this
40:01point in
40:02time that
40:02Suge and
40:03Tupac see
40:04these girls.
40:06Like,
40:06they're
40:06Suge,
40:07Suge.
40:08Like,
40:08the police
40:08were going
40:08through his
40:09car or
40:09something or
40:10another.
40:10And then
40:11the traffic
40:12was stopped
40:13and then
40:13they got
40:13in the
40:14car.
40:14Did you
40:15see who
40:15was with
40:15Suge?
40:16I thought
40:17it was
40:17Tupac.
40:18And then
40:18he was
40:19like,
40:19come on,
40:20come go
40:20with me.
40:21Come
40:21go with
40:21us.
40:22We're
40:22going to
40:22662.
40:23Browse.
40:25Tupac!
40:26Tupac!
40:27We're
40:27like,
40:27there you
40:28go.
40:30We just
40:30pulled up
40:31on the
40:31side
40:31and checked
40:32every car
40:32to see
40:32where they
40:33was.
40:33So what
40:34directed
40:34your
40:34attention
40:35to him
40:35with
40:35some
40:35girl
40:36shouting
40:36at
40:36Tupac?
40:37Tupac!
40:38He gave
40:38us up
40:39away.
40:39Otherwise,
40:40it would
40:40have got
40:40away.
40:42And
40:42he leaned
40:43over
40:44on the
40:44window.
40:45We were
40:45down the
40:45window and
40:46popped.
40:48Suge
40:48looks over
40:49and he sees
40:49you.
40:51Yeah,
40:51he looks
40:51like him.
40:54Fuck
40:54is
40:54going to
40:55tell the
40:55son
40:55we
40:55was
40:55seven,
40:56eight
40:56years old.
40:58I
40:58seen a
40:59bully
40:59going,
40:59should
41:00get.
41:00I
41:00thought
41:00he
41:00was
41:01dead.
41:02I
41:02thought
41:02he
41:02was
41:02dead.
41:04If
41:04you
41:04knew
41:05who
41:05killed
41:05Tupac,
41:06would
41:06you
41:06tell
41:06the
41:06police?
41:08Absolutely
41:08not.
41:11I
41:11would
41:11park
41:12the
41:12car.
41:13Put
41:13the
41:13gun
41:14on the
41:14tire.
41:15Where'd
41:15you
41:15guys
41:16go?
41:16We
41:17smoke
41:17weed
41:17and
41:17rain.
41:18Yeah,
41:18where?
41:19At
41:19a
41:20party
41:21in the
41:21room.
41:22And
41:22they
41:22pulled
41:23up
41:23in the
41:23ambulance
41:23while
41:24we
41:24standing
41:25right
41:25there.
41:26Take
41:26off
41:27bullshit
41:27who
41:27you
41:28guys
41:28on
41:28the
41:28street
41:29with
41:29what?
41:29We
41:29on
41:29Las Vegas
41:30Boulevard
41:30at the
41:31crosswalk
41:31and they
41:32pulled
41:32up
41:32the
41:32damn
41:32mouth
41:33right
41:33next
41:33to
41:33us.
41:34We
41:34came
41:35on
41:35the
41:35car
41:35already?
41:35We
41:36took
41:36back
41:37in
41:37the
41:37car.
41:38This
41:38is close.
41:39Did they see
41:40go?
41:41We
41:41didn't
41:42give a
41:42fuck.
41:43I'm
41:44talking
41:44about
41:44the
41:44damn
41:45mouth
41:45to
41:45park
41:45right
41:45here.
41:46Right
41:47next
41:47to
41:47it.
41:47That
41:47shit
41:48was
41:48funny
41:48as
41:48a
41:48boat.
41:49And I
41:52never
41:53told
41:53nobody
41:53this
41:53room.
41:56So you
41:57get back
41:57to LA
41:57the next
41:58day
41:58Zip
41:58calls
41:59you
41:59says
41:59meet
41:59me
42:00at
42:00the
42:00hot
42:00one
42:00place
42:00we're
42:01at?
42:01We're
42:02going to
42:02melt
42:02into my
42:03peace.
42:04You
42:04guys
42:04go over
42:04there
42:04Zip
42:05shows
42:05up.
42:05You
42:05guys
42:06what
42:06happens
42:06that?
42:07People
42:07called
42:08was that
42:08us?
42:09He
42:09told
42:09them
42:09yeah
42:10it
42:10was
42:10us.
42:10On
42:10Zip's
42:11phone
42:11or
42:11your
42:11phone?
42:11It
42:11was
42:11Zip
42:12phone.
42:12And
42:13Zip
42:13gives
42:14you
42:14the
42:14phone?
42:15Yeah.
42:16People
42:16said
42:17he was
42:18happy
42:18or
42:19shit.
42:20And
42:20did
42:20you
42:20ask
42:20him
42:20about
42:20his
42:21money?
42:21When
42:21you
42:21can
42:21get
42:22paid
42:22or
42:22whatever?
42:22No
42:22I
42:23say
42:24that
42:24on
42:24the
42:24phone
42:24or
42:24zip
42:25go
42:26get
42:26our
42:26cash.
42:27Okay
42:28so you
42:28tell
42:28Zip
42:28we
42:28need
42:29to
42:29get
42:29paid
42:29what
42:31does
42:31it
42:31say
42:31I'm
42:31going to
42:31go
42:31back
42:32home
42:32and
42:32have
42:32a
42:32get
42:33back
42:33with
42:33your
42:33money.
42:37According
42:37to
42:37QVD he
42:38was never
42:38compensated
42:39for
42:40the
42:40murder.
42:42But
42:42he
42:42said
42:43that
42:44a
42:44partial
42:45amount
42:45of
42:45the
42:45money
42:45was
42:46intended
42:46to
42:47be
42:47forwarded
42:47to
42:47him
42:48through
42:49Zip
42:49to
42:50the
42:50tune
42:50of
42:50about
42:50$500,000.
42:52The
42:53million dollar
42:54solicitation
42:55amount
42:56only half
42:56of it
42:57was
42:57fulfilled
42:58because
42:58only
42:59Tupac
42:59and not
43:00Suge
43:01was
43:01killed.
43:03QVD
43:03has a
43:04conversation
43:05with
43:05Darius
43:05Rogers
43:06with
43:06DMACC.
43:08And
43:12DMACC
43:13says
43:13there
43:14had
43:14been
43:14a
43:14payment
43:15from
43:16Combs
43:16to
43:17QVD
43:18but
43:19it
43:19had
43:19gone
43:19through
43:20Zip
43:20and
43:21then
43:21that
43:21money
43:21was
43:22never
43:22forwarded.
43:26We're
43:26just
43:27hoping
43:27and
43:27waiting
43:28to
43:28see
43:28what
43:29kind
43:29of
43:29progress
43:29Las
43:30Vegas
43:30would
43:31make
43:31with
43:32QVD's
43:33cooperation.
43:35Nothing
43:36really
43:36happens.
43:38Ultimately
43:39Zip
43:40dies
43:41from
43:41cancer.
43:42Thank you
43:43for coming
43:43out to
43:44Zips
43:44and I
43:44want
43:45everybody
43:45to
43:45know
43:45that
43:46when
43:46you
43:46come
43:47here
43:47we
43:47want
43:47to
43:48keep
43:48the
43:48peace
43:48and
43:49Orlando
43:49Anderson
43:50is
43:51shot
43:51and
43:51killed
43:51in
43:511998
43:52so
43:54it's
43:55really
43:55QVD
43:55and
43:56Puffy
43:57Combs
43:57are the
43:57last
43:57men
43:57standing
43:58that
43:59can
43:59be
43:59held
43:59accountable
44:00for
44:00Tupac
44:01Shakur's
44:01murder.
44:01waiting
44:14patiently
44:14looking
44:14to see
44:15if
44:15you
44:15are
44:16not
44:16going
44:17to
44:20sign
44:20up
44:20I
44:21want
44:21to
44:21check
44:22out
44:22right
44:23I
44:23like
44:23to
44:23see
44:24you
44:24do
44:24you
44:24do
44:24you
44:25do
44:25you
44:25do
44:25you
44:26do
44:26you
44:27do
44:28you
44:29do
44:29you
44:30do
44:30you
44:31Take that off.
44:43All right.
44:44Let's move it through.
44:46Move it through.
44:51What goes up?
44:55What goes down?
44:57I remember 99, we were working in the studio on a song called Muscle Gang.
45:17The song comes on and Puff was talking in the beginning.
45:25I'm like, what is he talking about?
45:32Everything that's done in the dark must come to light.
45:38Everything that goes up must come down.
45:40Yeah, I'm headed to 113 for Lennox, King. I got to catch my man up there. I'll see you up there.
45:55Are y'all rolling?
45:56Yeah, we rolling.
45:58Are y'all rolling?
45:59Yeah, we rolling.
46:00With the backdrop of East Coast, West Coast beef, Sean took Biggie to Los Angeles to record what
46:07would be the finishing touches on Biggie's Life After Death album, which wasn't titled that yet.
46:14Yo.
46:15Yo, Big, wake up. Wake up, baby.
46:16Biggie, what the fuck?
46:17Huh?
46:18What's up?
46:19Come on, man.
46:20It's a quarter to six.
46:21We got the 7.30 flight.
46:22Going to LA.
46:23Whoa.
46:24Cali?
46:25No doubt, baby.
46:26What the fuck?
46:27What's up?
46:28Come on, man.
46:29It's a quarter to six.
46:30We got the 7.30 flight.
46:31Going to LAX.
46:32Whoa.
46:33Cali?
46:34No doubt, baby.
46:35What the fuck?
46:36What the fuck?
46:37Come on, man.
46:38It's a quarter to six.
46:39We got the 7.30 flight.
46:40Going to LAX.
46:41Whoa.
46:42Cali?
46:43No doubt, baby.
46:44We have been warned to not come to LA.
46:46There were warnings all along for the last few months that we are not to set foot on the
46:48West Coast.
46:49It was awards show season, and Sean wanted him to start promoting the album.
46:52Come on, son.
46:53I'm sorry.
46:54I'm sorry.
46:55I'm sorry.
46:56I'm sorry.
46:57I'm sorry.
46:58I'm sorry.
46:59I'm sorry.
47:00I'm sorry.
47:01I'm sorry.
47:02I'm sorry.
47:03I'm sorry.
47:04I'm sorry.
47:05I'm sorry.
47:06I'm sorry.
47:07I'm sorry.
47:08I'm sorry.
47:09I'm sorry.
47:10Come on, Son Train.
47:11Get up out your seats.
47:12Come on.
47:13Get up out your seats.
47:15Biggie did not want to go, but Sean talked him into doing all of those things.
47:22Down low.
47:23Get up out your seats.
47:24Come on.
47:25High pop.
47:26Well, freaks all the honey.
47:27They were like catcalling and booing.
47:36What's up, Cali?
47:38We were not welcome.
47:39After the awards show, Saturday morning, Biggie and I were to go to London and we were
47:47going to have a two, three day press junket to have Biggie be one of the first artists
47:52from Bad Boy to meet the European press.
47:55I had worked on that for months and weeks leading up.
47:59We were supposed to go to the airport that morning.
48:02I'm calling Biggie like crazy.
48:04What's going on?
48:05Wake up.
48:06He's like, yo, Puff is bugging.
48:08He just called me and told me, I want you to stay here in L.A.
48:12I don't want to stay.
48:13I want to go.
48:14But Sean was adamant, cancel the flight.
48:21Biggie's not going to the UK.
48:23What do you mean?
48:24He's not going to click.
48:25He hangs up.
48:26This was his M.O.
48:27Ego, power, tripping, all of it because Sean wanted to do a party on enemy turf.
48:37He's scared 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.
48:51I'll just be peril.
48:58That night, Big and Puffy was with us.
49:07They were having a party.
49:14I spoke to Big and I was like, yo, man, you know, what are you doing?
49:20Catching L.A., man, they get down in these circumstances, man, and you just can't be walking around here freely.
49:36Everybody's mingling.
49:41I look around.
49:42I say, where's Big?
49:45I want to get out.
49:46Get out.
49:47Hey, what am I saying?
49:48Wait, hold up, hold up.
49:49Hold up.
49:50It's the street.
49:51Zoom in.
49:52Zoom in.
49:53Why don't you see it?
50:02That's Biggie Mill.
50:03That is Biggie Mill.
50:04Somebody got shot.
50:05Somebody got shot.
50:06Somebody got shot.
50:07Y'all get down.
50:09What are you reporting?
50:10Yeah, we need an ambulance on Fairfax and Wilshire, Green, Los Angeles.
50:15We have a man shot.
50:16We have a man shot.
50:17We have a man shot.
50:18Wilshire Boulevard.
50:19Okay, hold on.
50:20I'll get down.
50:21Right on.
50:22Wilshire and Fairfax.
50:23Let's go.
50:24Let's go.
50:25Hold on.
50:26Listen, sir.
50:27Biggie.
50:28We're man shot in our car right now.
50:30Right now, we're trying to run into the hospital.
50:33I know the way.
50:34See the sun out.
50:35Oh, shit.
50:36You got to go back.
50:37You got to turn around, Jimmy.
50:38You're going the wrong way.
50:39What the fuck is wrong with y'all, man?
50:41What's going on?
50:42Yo, Biggie.
50:43I was following Big's lead on, like, you know, we're going to do this peace tour.
50:56And, you know, it didn't work out.
51:00Sean said it on can't stop, won't stop.
51:03Biggie wanted to go.
51:05Take a left, man.
51:06Big, you hear me, baby?
51:08He's lying about that.
51:11Sean wanted that trip and was pushing it for weeks and weeks.
51:17He lied about it and let me know.
51:20That's a weak spot for him, and he's nervous about that information.
51:24That's the F.S. is proud of it over there.
51:27That's the F.S. is proud of it over there.
51:28That's the F.S. is proud of it over there.
51:31He ushered Biggie to his death.
51:33Who do you think killed Biggie?
51:38Next question.
51:42All it was is a Puffy and Suge Knight war.
51:48You're messing with lives here, and that's exactly what happened.
51:52Two lives were lost as a result of what?
51:55Stupidity?
51:57When I sat down with Valetta, we briefly brought up Sean Combs.
52:02It was clear to me that she had no real respect or appreciation for him.
52:07Sean clearly didn't do all that he could have done to help out in the investigation.
52:12In fact, he was a hindrance in the investigation.
52:15Puffy was kind of stonewalling people from talking because he knows if you make inroads on Biggie's murder, you're going to make inroads on Tupac's murder.
52:25And that potentially can lead right back to him.
52:28How are Biggie's mom and Faith and the kids taking hold of us?
52:34Biggie's mom and Faith and the children are extremely strong.
52:38Matter of fact, they've been strong for me and helping to hold me up.
52:43Sean assumed the position of his best friend in every article and publication, and that wasn't necessarily true.
52:53And I'm going to be there for them just like he would be there for them to make sure that they're all right.
52:58Sean said, we're going to do the biggest funeral for Biggie that New York has ever seen.
53:03When we start to put that together, he starts to see the price.
53:08And he says, we're going to do the biggest funeral.
53:11But Biggie's going to have to pay for this funeral.
53:14He was going to make the funeral be a recoupable charge to Biggie in death.
53:21This is one of my closest friends, and it's still one of my closest friends.
53:27I just, I feel his loss. I just miss him so much.
53:31Sean doing a big show looks good on him.
53:36But he's not going to tell the world that Biggie was going to pay for it.
53:49In Bestar, Brooklyn, the whole hood was outside.
53:53If you could make it there, you was there.
53:56It was a big loss for the city.
54:01I loved Biggie.
54:03Biggie inspired me.
54:04He gave me hope.
54:05He made us feel like you was from the town.
54:07You could make it.
54:08We loved Biggie.
54:09So it was like losing a family member.
54:11Biggie just wanted to be a rap superstar.
54:16He didn't want to hurt nobody.
54:18He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted, like, for a long time.
54:24It's not a feeling that I really felt a lot, like, in my life.
54:27I don't really have a lot of friends.
54:29I think people think I have a lot of friends, you know.
54:33I don't think I really make a good friend.
54:37Before he was assassinated, Biggie had an opportunity to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.
54:45We were delivering the elements so that can happen.
54:48And Sean called me and said, pull that cover.
54:51I need to be on the cover.
54:53My solo album is coming in July.
54:56No way out.
54:57And I need to amp that up.
55:01He took the cover from Biggie.
55:08Another thing at the time, Biggie was negotiating his contract.
55:12Every day I wake up.
55:14We acquiesced and gave him everything he wanted.
55:18And then he died.
55:19Can't believe you ain't here.
55:23Sean wanted me to change the agreement to more favorable terms for bad boy.
55:29And his family and mother would not know.
55:32And since he had signed the agreement,
55:34he wanted those changes to come from out of the center of the agreement
55:39and have those pages replaced with the other terms.
55:42And I said, that's not right.
55:44I'm not doing it.
55:4590 days later, I'm fired.
55:47It's like I feel empty inside without you being here.
55:59I remember Michael Jackson, the Motown 25 special.
56:03MTV, Madonna like a virgin.
56:05And I remember Puff with Sting.
56:08Check it out.
56:16Having a TV moment in music is very rare.
56:18It elevates you to such another level of superstar.
56:22It made him rock star, bitch.
56:24It's kinda hard but you're not around.
56:27Know you in heaven smiling down.
56:29Watching us while we pray for you.
56:31He became humongous.
56:33But now it's him.
56:34Now I'm the man.
56:36It was like a dream come true.
56:38To see the lines like in front of the stores.
56:42Like people going there to get my record.
56:45It's crazy.
56:46It all happened pretty quickly for you from being an intern to being on the cover of the road in snow.
56:53Thanks for Biggie's mother who's sitting right there for having notorious V.I.G.
56:58You've abused everyone and used most everyone.
57:07There are horror stories like this all throughout.
57:10Cleared of gun possession and bribery charges.
57:13Sean Puffy Combs walked out a free man.
57:15Some people speak up about it.
57:17Most do not.
57:18The first member is Aubrey.
57:23It's a pattern with him.
57:25Violence was a very normalized part of living in that world.
57:30You're a bad boy now.
57:33Allegations of sexual misconduct.
57:35Huffy called these encounters free calls.
57:37Witnessed Diddy abusing Cassie and that they encouraged Cassie to get away from him.
57:44Everything in life you're gonna have people that are bad and people that are good.
57:48You know.
57:49You have to choose your side.
57:55You have to choose tohwa.
57:58This is the future of decoration and that you have to choose like to ...
58:01How a matinee It hitWA Clan.
58:03And don't forget cal housekeeping iets.
58:04Go.
58:05You knew this.
58:06And Galilean is zoomed as there ..
58:07No way our whole time ago.
58:09I am a lot of excursion app creamy as day.
58:11What else could we have to do?
58:13Absolutely
58:22I get it.
58:22It's easy.
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