Sean Combs- The Reckoning - Season 1 Episode 02- What Goes Down Must Come Up
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00:00Happy birthday to you, everybody!
00:23I always looked at him as just being like this rich Harlem cat who just want to dance and
00:48make money.
00:49No violence in him, but every time I turn around, there's violence.
01:04There's violence with his name on it.
01:10At the time, there's this tension that is going on between Pac and Puff.
01:18Puff wanted to work with Pac on a lot of levels business-wise, and Pac wasn't having it.
01:23He was more interested in Biggie and his crew.
01:29Puff was very threatened by Pac.
01:31He was very threatened, especially if you're an executive who wants the guy to make you
01:36money, and the guy is saying, no, fuck you.
01:40Around that time, Tupac was going to do a song with Lil Sean at Quiet Studio.
01:49Out of the blue, they wanted me to do the song, so I said, all right.
01:52Stopped off to get some weed, smoked the weed.
01:55Then I was getting a page, where you at, where you at, where you at?
01:58Why you ain't coming?
01:59I was like, I'm coming, I'm on my way, hold on.
02:01I wasn't thinking, why they want me here so bad?
02:04We're walking up to the building.
02:06Somebody screamed from the upper top of the studio, and it's Lil' Caesar.
02:10He's like Biggie's side man, right?
02:12We was in the recording with Big and Puff, and I'm yelling, like, yo, Pac.
02:15And he looked up, yo, what's up, little nigga?
02:18I go back in the room, I tell Big, I'm like, yo, Big, Pac downstairs.
02:21He was like, oh, all right, go get him.
02:23Getting to the elevator, and when I was about to walk out, two dudes came from both sides.
02:28Get the fuck back in the elevator.
02:30Shit.
02:32Recording artist Tupac Shakur was shot five times last night in a robbery attack.
02:36After surgery, his condition was upgraded to satisfactory, and he checked out of the hospital
02:41against his doctor's advice.
02:43I think they're trying to rub me out, really.
02:45Robbers don't leave behind $80,000 Rolexes, you know what I mean?
02:49They don't do that, in case nobody knows.
02:52Let's look at the facts.
02:56Puff is there.
02:57Pac has been shot in New York under your watch.
03:01Question would be, who knew that he was pulling up?
03:04Biggie, knowing myself, had nothing to do whatsoever of Tupac being robbed.
03:13That's just a fact.
03:15After everything that has unfolded, I have to think twice about how that situation went
03:20down.
03:21Do you think Puffy was robbed, Sugar?
03:23I believe so.
03:24I do believe so.
03:25I have proof.
03:26You can see now why someone like a Puff would want someone like a Pop out the picture.
03:32You know, Pop was vilified while he was alive, and Puff was exalted.
03:41That's the bigger picture.
03:43And that's the story that hasn't been told.
03:55Obviously, Mark Lee, AJ Brown, what have you, it allows them to get a clearer picture,
04:01stretching the defense horizontally faster, right?
04:04And it also, conversely, makes the defense think a tick longer.
04:08Yeah.
04:09Like, that shit was crazy to me, that shit wasn't there, which is a sign to me like,
04:21nigga, time to order the future.
04:22Time to order the future.
04:23That was a little building.
04:25For the building that I got, you know what I'm saying?
04:29It was a sign to me like that, but I'm saying, that shit was there like two months ago, right?
04:34Puff is in this position where he has all this turmoil, but he's not at the point where
04:52he's saying, where I went wrong.
04:55He's saying to himself, how do I get out of this?
04:59Maybe I can convince some witnesses that I'm not the guy who I am.
05:05Eventually, he's going to get to the point where he's going to ask himself, how did I
05:09get myself into this situation?
05:11And Biggie.
05:2295, he had two of the hottest acts.
05:25Craig Mack gave us flavor in your ear.
05:27Here goes the brand new flavor.
05:30Time for new flavor in your ear.
05:32And Biggie.
05:33Come up in your waist.
05:34Please don't suit up the place.
05:35Why?
05:36Cause I see some ladies tonight that should be having my...
05:39Bad boy was rising up.
05:40My little lab right here, you know, where I cut my deals and all that.
05:44Got my little headset.
05:45He's living out a dream, you know what I'm saying?
05:47One time, Sean was in his office and I'm in a little cubby hole around the corner.
05:51He buzzes me.
05:53So I get up and I go in with my papers and go.
05:57A girl is giving him a blow job at the desk.
06:00He wanted me to see that.
06:03He wanted me to see her face.
06:05And then he was able to get her to do that right then and there in the office.
06:08She leaves.
06:10I'm, what did you want me for?
06:12Ah, I didn't want you for anything.
06:14That was the beginning for me to see this is what's going on here.
06:20Can everybody in here make some noise for B.I.G. for bringing it back to the East?
06:24So the seeds for all of this was early on.
06:28And that came from people in the industry co-signing his activity because it brought money in.
06:40I don't know if y'all niggas know this.
06:43The Juicy with platinum.
06:45The Big Purple with platinum.
06:47The Big Purple in your ear remix with platinum.
06:50That whole bad boy thing was so big.
06:54Faith Evans.
06:55I'm gonna be first lady on her daddy's lady.
06:57Total.
07:00Biggie.
07:02In Greg Man.
07:04The thing over here is Greg Man.
07:06It was a consistent back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
07:13So let me just give you a day in the life of Puff Daddy.
07:17Gets up from wherever he stayed that night.
07:21Heads to the office two hours late.
07:24You might have somebody pulling him over saying,
07:26Hey, ain't you in that video?
07:27Ain't that you?
07:28Oh, yo, here go a demo.
07:29I had the big baseball bat cell phones.
07:35And the phone might ring.
07:37Such-and-such is on the phone calling from jail.
07:39Yo, I'm coming home.
07:41You might have a group standing in front of the office.
07:44Already with the microphone ready to sing.
07:46You love me, I love...
07:48Just to get their shot at Puffy.
07:51Everybody wants to see him.
07:53He is now the new gateway into music.
07:55You're gonna take all of this power and money you're getting now
08:01and play by the rules?
08:04No, I'm the rule now.
08:05I am the exception to the rule.
08:08Puff Daddy!
08:13You know what I'm saying?
08:16One day, it seemed like out of the blue, my door opens up.
08:22Sean walks in.
08:24He had a baseball bat.
08:26Had a big attach-a-case suitcase with the snaps on it.
08:30The stocks were there.
08:32We in a fucking hustle.
08:33We in a grind.
08:34Do your job.
08:35Whatever your...
08:36He wanted me to sign my 25% over.
08:39And Diddy's over me like this.
08:41He wants to stop that.
08:43He wants it now.
08:44I'm not gonna stay fucking lying down.
08:46I'm not.
08:47I can't do that, man.
08:48He said, there's a business deal I need to take care of.
08:51I need to do this.
08:52I need to get this all on one side, but I'll give it back to you.
08:55I'm gonna give it back to you.
08:57Shit ain't fucking funny.
08:58That's the problem.
08:59You don't know how to be a accountant.
09:02And he threatened until I did.
09:07People always say to me, why would you do that?
09:12Like, why did you do that?
09:14Like, that was, you know...
09:20I didn't want to give it back.
09:21I wanted to stay in good graces.
09:23I still wanted to be at the company.
09:26It wasn't like he was firing me.
09:29But I was definitely confused by it.
09:33It might sound strange, but if you've ever built something and you want it to last, you think about how to make it last.
09:42I thought he was kind of cool at first, and then we started seeing some things.
10:03Craig started becoming disenchanting.
10:07I want to congratulate Craig Mack on his Grammy nomination.
10:11No question.
10:12Yes, baby, yeah.
10:13That's cool.
10:14Yo, you got nominated for a Grammy, but we had no money.
10:19If you look at Bad Boy, Bad Boy didn't sell enough records to explain his wealth.
10:26But enough artists were on the label that sold enough records to explain his wealth.
10:34Someone's trick was, I'm going to make you a star.
10:36You sign, follow the money.
10:38That's what you're going to try to do as hard as you can.
10:41You're going to try your best, and we know you're going to try your best.
10:44So you sign your deal.
10:45We gave you your advance.
10:46At Uptown, that's the only money the artists have ever seen, that first advance.
10:50Andre had to wait it.
10:51He never saw anything else.
10:52Did he pick that up?
10:54He made it even tighter.
10:57Don't leave the girl around me, true player for real.
11:00Let's Puff that be.
11:01It's a shell game.
11:03You hide everything that is an earning.
11:06You confuse the earnings.
11:08And now I own everything.
11:09You'll go out into the world.
11:11In the shell game, you'll be looking for your money for the next 20 years.
11:14Sean did that to every artist.
11:18You're in the studio.
11:20Now you have to recoup for being in the studio.
11:23Puff owns the studio.
11:26And I have four sessions, which you owe me $400,000.
11:30If Puff records a song with his artist, he pays himself.
11:36If he's in your video, he pays himself.
11:39He insert himself into their videos.
11:42A video come on, you'll be like, I fucking hate that guy.
11:44As an artist, you can go number one.
11:46The song is being played all over the nation.
11:49But you don't have the money to go to it because you're not making the proper money off of your royalties.
11:55Craig and I hit a point where we were fucked up.
12:01No money, nothing.
12:02Hell, I was getting money from my father to take care of the house.
12:08We were all at, like, somebody's album release party.
12:13And 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.
12:19He literally went in his pocket and pulled out a knot of money this big and gave him $100 bill.
12:30You really just don't give a fuck.
12:34I think Sean had an envy for his own artists.
12:40He was jealous of their talent and wondering, like, this talent is wasted on people who don't even really know what to do.
12:47And if I had that talent in my know-how, wow.
12:51That's interesting because a lot of people Puffy's age want to grab this mic and rap.
12:56But Puffy, you wanted to do other things and you're doing a lot of them.
13:00Can you talk about his skills as a rapper?
13:02Sucks.
13:03He has zero talent musically, nothing.
13:05He don't know how to discuss.
13:06He don't know nothing about R&B.
13:07He don't know none of that stuff.
13:08He used to ask me to always be there on the sessions because I would tell the truth.
13:12I'd be like, that's not it.
13:14People would be there like, yeah, that was tight.
13:16That was tight.
13:17I'd be like, look, for real, you got a lot of people who just tell you anything.
13:21That sucked.
13:22It doesn't sound good and it makes no sense.
13:26But he always wanted to be an artist.
13:30We're about to just drop our R&B stuff.
13:32The Puff Daddy album.
13:33Yeah, what about the Puff Daddy solo project?
13:35Yeah, we don't like to talk about that to me.
13:38Sean used other methods and ways to get the way he had to go.
13:45Big on strategy, big on swag.
13:49All of those things became important.
13:51When the ball down to the music, even if I didn't touch it, I showed you what to do.
13:56So that's what he was.
13:57Damn, you know what I'm saying?
13:58What?
13:59Right here, right there.
14:00Damn, you know what I'm saying?
14:01Shit.
14:02Where's the makeup at?
14:03Makeup.
14:04Right here, man.
14:05The whole bad boy was built on him.
14:08You cannot take that from him.
14:11But I think that Puffy wanted the light, like he always wanted.
14:16From dancing the whole night, you see anybody that's boasted and loud like that, they want
14:19to be in the spotlight.
14:21It wasn't like no secret, that's what he wanted.
14:26Six foot three, 335 pound, Suge Knight has managed to become the head of a hundred million
14:33dollar record company.
14:34It's the record label at ground zero of the whole gangster rap phenomenon, Death Row Records.
14:40Suge was about that money, but he didn't want to be in that limelight like Puff.
14:46He had his own lane.
14:48You're a big guy and there are people who are afraid of you.
14:51There's probably people who are afraid of you.
14:53Back in 1988, the person who did the greatest job of protecting me was the head of my security
14:58at the time, Suge Knight.
15:00Right now I'm on the heartbreak tour with Bobby Brown in New Edition and we've been out
15:04since September.
15:05We're about to get on the tour bus and these dudes came over and he was like talking crazy.
15:09Y'all niggas this, y'all niggas that, this, this, this.
15:14And I seen Suge kind of just turned this way and gave him one of these.
15:20Bam!
15:21Like that.
15:22And knocked dude down the hill.
15:24And it looked like a cartoon.
15:25Dude was rolling down the hill.
15:27Boom, boom.
15:28It's Tim's skateboard.
15:29He's a street dude.
15:31He's a real street dude.
15:33But Suge knew talent and he knew business.
15:36They took me on tour and I learned how every person who's writing songs is getting beat
15:43out their money, like they're publishing.
15:44He was able to dovetail that into starting Death Row Records.
15:48One, two, three, bring it to the folk.
15:51Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre is at the door.
15:54Death Row can be bigger than Motel or Sony or Warner Brothers.
15:59Death Row is going to be the biggest record company there is.
16:02Chronic album is the foundation.
16:04Before Bad Boy, Death Row was the most successful label in the business.
16:11Sean had admired Death Row and wanted us to emulate them.
16:17And that was my job.
16:19How do I make Bad Boy equal to success of Death Row?
16:24And of course, my eyes was like this.
16:26Death Row?
16:27They had a head start.
16:29They had artists.
16:30They picked superstars up from other indie labels.
16:32We're starting off.
16:34Me and him were friends.
16:36Wow.
16:37Yeah, yeah.
16:38He would pick me up from the airport.
16:39You know, I was just networking with the brother and show me a lot of love.
16:43You know, I really had thought we were cool.
16:46Me and Puffy, we used to run around with each other.
16:48He was getting into business.
16:49I was in the business.
16:51Living life without fear.
16:53Putting fire...
16:54Only a few years later, Bad Boy, Death Row.
16:57Death Row is the label that pays, man.
16:59The two hottest labels.
17:02But I would look over at Death Row and say,
17:05they're taking care of their artists better than we are.
17:08They're putting your head, fuck the artists.
17:11And my thing was opposite.
17:13It's about me and my people.
17:15Fuck you.
17:17Craig wasn't happy there.
17:20Death Row was courting him.
17:22Because Should was opening up a Death Row East.
17:25And it was found out.
17:27Shot by the face.
17:28Yes.
17:29It's the Source Hip Hop Music Awards!
17:39The Source Awards was happening in New York City.
17:46Come on, New York!
17:48And behind the scenes, people were running back and forth to the next dressing room, to the next dressing room, which were in trailers, parked outside of Madison Square Garden.
17:58How important is it to have the Source Awards?
18:01Let me just wait and find it.
18:03You got that?
18:04Come on, man. Who bagging on the door like that?
18:06What is the deal, man? Keep the door closed!
18:10And it escalated with words from the podium at the awards show.
18:15Any artists out there who want to be an artist and want to stay a star and don't want to have to worry about the executive producer trying to be all in the videos, all on the record, dancing.
18:27Come to Death Row.
18:37I'm the executive producer that a comment was made about a little bit earlier.
18:41But check this out.
18:42Contrary to what other people may feel, I would like to say that I'm very proud of Dr. Dre, of Death Row, and Shook Knight for their accomplishments.
18:51You know what I'm saying?
18:53I'm a positive black man, and I make music to bring us together, not to separate us.
18:58And all this East and West that needs to stop.
19:00So give it up for everybody from the East and the West that won tonight.
19:04One love.
19:06Sean wants to present strength.
19:08He wants to show coolness.
19:12And then there's a side of him that's all out dark.
19:16He processes things differently.
19:18He remembers every slight.
19:23Once again, y'all, please give it up for all the nominees.
19:27Before I signed with Bad Boy, I was working at the door of the club in Platinum House.
19:48Every Friday we had a bad boy party.
19:52So Puff was there.
19:54Suge Knight came that night with his friend Jake.
19:58And I was working the door.
19:59Suge was looking for Puff.
20:01Sean would try to go after people's side chicks, like a girl in Atlanta that Suge was dealing with.
20:14Sean wanted me to take $50,000 out of the overhead account so he could buy her a diamond necklace,
20:22wooing her because she was Suge's side piece in Atlanta when he came there.
20:31A real police officer in a real police uniform came and got on the shape.
20:37I said, man, you touch the homie. We're going to tear this mother up.
20:41He said, well, I got to throw him out. I said, for what?
20:43He said, he was puppy.
20:44Suge and Jake is being escorted out the club by the off-duty officer we always had there moonlighting.
20:55Jake comes out, Suge come out, Puff come out. Everybody's outside.
21:01A man appeared with one hand behind his back and he was holding a pistol.
21:07He touched Jake with the pistol and he looked at Suge like this and was shooting Suge Fran like this.
21:18He shot him five times.
21:23Suge grabbed the hold to Puffy and the choke hold and put him in the front of him like this.
21:30So he was moving Puff around like this in case you shoot him.
21:33You're going to shoot Puffy. You're not going to shoot me.
21:35Puff was like, it's going to be all right, man. It's going to be all right.
21:43Suge said, what you mean it's going to be all right?
21:47He said, tell your mama it's going to be all right.
21:50Tell your kids it's going to be all right.
21:53And then the shooter ran.
21:59Ambulance came and took Jake to the hospital.
22:02A couple of days later, he died.
22:06That's what started the East Coast, West Coast war.
22:12We're through. We're through. We're through. We're through. We're through.
22:15We're through. We're through. We're through.
22:17Tupac Shakur out of the hospital after surgery from bullet wounds is convicted on sex charges.
22:21After Puff gets shot in Quad studio. He had the rape case.
22:27A New York jury convicted the rapper of first degree sexual abuse, but acquitted him of more serious charges.
22:32Since your period of incarceration at Clinton Correctional Facility, have you taken the time to reflect on your gangster thug image?
22:43Puck and Big were friends at one time. But then once Puck is in jail, Bad Boy and all of his associations were nemesises.
22:56When I'm in jail, strangers is telling me, you know, you don't know? Big your old boy shot you.
23:04Cause they bragging. They telling their in jail. Yo, we just got Puck.
23:08Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
23:11Once the conflict happens, Puck needed someone strong that was going to stand with him.
23:20And it just so happened that Suge had his own issues with Puffy. So Suge went to jail and visited him.
23:28the whole shit is like some mob shit into Tupac a young cat I'm gonna join the family dog get me out
23:41Suge Knight first signed Tupac to a recording contract when Tupac was in this New York state
23:49prison unable to come up with the million dollars needed for bail while his lawyers
23:53appealed a 1995 conviction for sexual assault I want everybody give a big welcome Tupac
24:04out on bail rapper Tupac Shakur's rushed to market double album all eyes on me debuts at number one
24:12on this week's billboard chart with the addition of Tupac there's no way y'all can stop us now
24:16we're coming to the east coast to prove there is no fear
24:23overthrow the government y'all got right man which is bad boy and all that bullshit
24:27and we will bring a new government here that will feed every person in New York
24:31Sean tried everything to get Biggie upset he had to go at him with business this guy came at us
24:42I was more in a mind frame
24:44keep your mouth shut big you know what I'm saying this don't feed into it if you feed into it
24:53it's gonna do nothing but escalate you know what I'm saying Biggie never wanted to be an enemy to
24:58Park as things was coming from the west coast Biggie did not want to give any shots back when
25:06Park was producing all eyes on me he called us and said I just fucked faith evidence big's wife
25:13he's like what
25:16Sean kept putting pressure on Biggie you gotta answer back
25:34Tupac would have me pissed off you know what I'm saying and the rumors that's spreading
25:40it's on some tip like we set them up you know what I'm saying and that's crazy
25:44the east coast west coast thing was invented period because no matter what we all went to the east
25:51they came here went to the west whatever they wasn't arguing with each other when we was able to roam
25:56fuck biggie fuck bad boy as a staff record label and as a motherfucking crew
26:00it was this bad boy in death row
26:02and that right there put people in danger because it made people be like F you F you and people started
26:11doing stuff for no reason because there's no it's just people that want to ride for each other
26:15and then look what happened so
26:17doing the street thing my affiliation was with the Mansfield hustlers
26:28today
26:30we go by Mansfield gangster crips now
26:35police say the drugs and violence are being spread by two long-standing rivals in the Los Angeles youth
26:42gang scene groups who call themselves crips and wear blue colors and bloods who wear red
26:47did you guys provide protection Sean Combs was a friend
26:54Christopher Wallace was a friend
26:57and you know when we hanging out with our friends
27:02we don't protect our friends so they knew
27:07and they were our associates you got beef with them you got beef with me period
27:15a number of reports have come out bad boy entertainment had actually hired crips for security work out on the west coast is that true
27:21um we've never hired crips or any other gang faction to do security for us
27:30it would be extremely unintelligent to hire um a gang some gangs to do security for you
27:36a lot of the new york guys come out to la
27:39zip is a person that i know
27:42that was puppy's man that was his guy
27:46eric von zip is a drug lord from harlem but sean told me he was his uncle
27:54he might have known janice on the fringe he might have known sean's father from those days
27:59zip had a relationship with the south side crips and then he also had a relationship with us
28:07sean said zip can give us protection going back and forth to la because he was in with the crips
28:15and we had a beef with suge knight and the bloods
28:19knight dresses in all red the colors of the drug dealing blood street gang
28:24one of the death row people got jumped by someone at a mall
28:32and that someone was from south side crips
28:35one of the crips tried to take a death row chain
28:39i think that was an order from bad boy that was an order from
28:42puff because it was specific we want a death row chain
28:46introducing the one and only iron mike tyson
28:57everybody got what they wanted that night
29:00people got to see tyson knock a motherfucker out
29:04and tyson with a left hook and selling his down it's over in the first round
29:09that's probably the reason this guy was all fucked up in a lot of shit from fight night
29:17when you seen a tyson fight you want to fight
29:29at the fight the guy who was ripped off for the death row chain is with suge and pop
29:36he just whispers to pop that's him hey hey hey hey hey hey hey it was orlando anderson from southside
29:47crips who was connected with puff next day i know i see pop like
29:54take your neige down
30:04That was the foundational moment
30:07when all this was getting out of control.
30:10I'm out of one right now.
30:13I got a double guy shot and a medical ASAP.
30:19Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot in the chest.
30:22This morning shot multiple times in the chest
30:24in a drive-by shooting.
30:25Death Row record label owner Marion Suge Knight
30:28was also in the car, but his injuries were minor.
30:31Craig called me up.
30:33It was late.
30:34He was out there at the fight
30:37because he was supposed to perform
30:39at some club that Suge owned.
30:44And I guess Tupac was supposed to come through.
30:46He was like, how come Tupac just got shot?
30:51Craig was, like, scared.
30:53Who was he scared of?
30:54Probably Puff.
30:57He ended up not going to Death Row after that.
31:00Hi, I'm Tabitha Soren with MTV News.
31:06Controversial rapper and actor Tupac Shakur has died
31:09in a Las Vegas hospital of complications from several...
31:12I was in jail.
31:13I was in jail when he got shot.
31:15There was a lot of niggas in jail that were celebrating Puck's death.
31:20I'm glad that I didn't kill anybody or anybody killed me.
31:26But I damn sure came close.
31:31Police in Las Vegas say they have no motive for this latest shooting.
31:35But the rapper's troubled past will certainly be part of the investigation.
31:39Do you know who was responsible for the killing of Tupac Shakur?
31:45No, I don't.
31:47I think that Sean now, in my mature mind,
31:52had a lot to do with the death of Tupac.
31:55In 2006, I was recruited to work a task force
32:07that was going to look at a cold case investigation.
32:11At the time, Tupac's murder was an unsolved case.
32:16Gang crimes oftentimes are difficult to solve
32:18because you don't get cooperating witnesses.
32:20They want to stick to a code
32:23that typically entails not cooperating with law enforcement
32:27and then taking matters into your own hands.
32:30It ain't my job to snitch on nobody
32:32because I would never snitch on nobody.
32:35We had built a narcotics case against Keefe D.
32:39Keefe D was kind of the shot caller for the Southside Crips.
32:43He was the most prominent drug dealer.
32:45He was very influential in his gang.
32:48His nephew, Orlando Anderson,
32:50was a very well-known violent gang member.
32:55Tupac Shakur had assaulted Orlando Anderson
32:57just after the Mike Tyson fight.
33:01So Keefe D was potentially looking at a life sentence
33:04for federal drug trafficking.
33:07We wanted to question him about his potential role
33:10in the murder of Tupac Shakur.
33:12We let him know that he could potentially mitigate
33:15some of the damages
33:16if he wanted to come in and talk to us.
33:18And the U.S. attorney agreed
33:21that they'd allow Keefe D. to do a proffer session.
33:25Keefe, today what we're going to do,
33:26we're just going to go over with a fine-tooth comb,
33:29do the Las Vegas incident.
33:30So you have to emphasize to you,
33:33it's determined that some of these details are incorrect
33:36and everything's off the table.
33:37A proffer session is when a person facing criminal charges
33:42can answer questions wherein self-incriminating information
33:46would not be used against him in a criminal prosecution.
33:50Doesn't mean they have any kind of immunity.
33:52In the year prior to the murder of Tupac Shakur,
34:07he has had several conversations with Sean Combs.
34:10Sean Combs' affiliation with the Southside Crips
34:23came by way of a New York street figure known as Zip.
34:29Zip set up the introduction between Combs and Keefe D.,
34:32and then they developed their own relationship.
34:37And Zip introduced, he said,
34:38this is my boy.
34:39What are you introducing, man?
34:40This is my friend, this is my nephew.
34:41That's my boy.
34:42My boy, this is Pup.
34:44And after that, they used my car on the video.
34:47Which car was that?
34:49The 64 Chevy I have.
34:52Every time I look at you, that's so...
34:55What color was it?
34:56Blown.
34:57I was actually a video of Pup was driving the car,
35:00ushered for her song, whatever.
35:01He was in a Laker uniform.
35:02He had the little kid dancing on my car when he got back.
35:06It was fucked up, and he paid to get it repainted.
35:15Pup, he caused their phone, and he wanted to speak to me.
35:18They gave it a VE2 tour, and then I...
35:21He gave us some tickets, and I brought the crew.
35:23Say, I want to have a new flavor, ain't you here?
35:26I want to have a new flavor.
35:28Check it out, yeah, to all the ladies in the place.
35:32Keefy D says that Sean Combs kind of makes this general announcement
35:37while they were all inside of a hotel room after a musical event.
35:42So it's Harrell, Buffy, Zip, you...
35:47About 40-somethings off-siders.
35:49Yeah, that was stupid as hell, too, you know?
35:54Shit, he said he didn't kill us anything for no dudes there, you know?
35:57Tupac and Shug, you mean?
35:59Yeah.
35:59He said it in front of all those people, I can't believe them.
36:03You know what I'm saying?
36:05All home full of trips.
36:06So this is after Jake got killed?
36:09So he was on point, he was worried about something happening?
36:11Yeah.
36:12Shit had miles off about a bunch of different stuff, so he was scared?
36:14No, he was scared to death, yeah.
36:16Okay.
36:16Okay.
36:18Then there's a more specific incident that takes place at a deli
36:21on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, a place called Greenblatt's Deli.
36:25What made it a specific, like, hey, I'm serious,
36:28I want you guys to kill these guys?
36:31Well, he told me the Greenblatt.
36:34When we got there, we were laughing at him,
36:36because he was just a bro that sucked dick,
36:39that sucked every dick in there,
36:40and he hung up kissing or whatever,
36:42we were laughing like a woman.
36:43I'm like, man, what you laughing at, dog?
36:45Man, don't just come out here and get in any bro, dog.
36:49I took him downstairs, and he's like,
36:51man, I got to get rid of those dudes, man.
36:53It won't be a problem.
36:58It was after he made the record.
37:00Hit him up, came out.
37:01Yeah, yeah, that pissed him off.
37:06Yeah, we were on a million.
37:09He tells you, seriously, man, I need to get rid of these guys,
37:12and he's looking at you in the eyes, and he's, like, scared.
37:15Yeah.
37:16You tell him, we'll do it for a million,
37:18and he's like, okay, I'll do it for a million?
37:22Yeah.
37:22You know, he agrees, you shake on it or something like that?
37:24Yeah.
37:25What happened?
37:26You know, he, uh, I meant our shit out.
37:29We'll wipe the ass out quick, you know?
37:31It's nothing.
37:34Here we go, round one.
37:36Scheduled for 12.
37:37And Tyson comes right up, right up.
37:39He says that when Las Vegas happens,
37:42and they're all out there,
37:43and his nephew gets assaulted by Tupac,
37:45they're like, this is the perfect occasion.
37:48We was eating,
37:49and my dick came and said,
37:51he just beat up lame.
37:54And we was in a hotel, yeah,
37:56at the MGM and the restaurant.
37:58There was a few New Yorkers, though,
37:59who was with Zip.
38:01Like, man, y'all need some help?
38:04We got this.
38:05It's your perfect opportunity, baby.
38:08Remember Zip coming?
38:09Yeah.
38:09Because of what happened with...
38:10Yeah, yeah.
38:12We and I don't know if this was down there,
38:14and, uh,
38:15he told me in the lobby that he had some jimmies.
38:18Some what?
38:18He had a jimmie.
38:20He had a big hands.
38:22He had a little secret compartment.
38:24The thing popped out.
38:26The vehicle that Zip was driving that night
38:29reportedly had what we call a trap in it,
38:32which is a concealed compartment
38:34where you can place a gun.
38:36And it's a difficult thing to find.
38:40Zip had driven that car to Las Vegas.
38:44A few days before Tupac was murdered,
38:47Sean requested that we rent cars
38:51and have multiple drivers
38:54drive clear across the country to this fight.
39:00But I arranged through my budget
39:03to make that trip happen for those drivers.
39:07And to this day,
39:08it stands out in my mind.
39:10Why did we rent multiple cars?
39:12Why did we hire people from Harlem
39:15and other locations
39:16to drive?
39:19Can you tell us if, hey,
39:22we're going to go handle this shit
39:23or whatever?
39:24Yeah, they asked, like,
39:25if y'all want us to come?
39:27I'm like, we know where them motherfuckers at.
39:29They were telling us
39:29that they're going to be at the 662 club.
39:31Two cars going 662?
39:33Yeah, the van and the cabin.
39:36They didn't show up.
39:37We waited about 15, 20 minutes.
39:39They didn't show up.
39:41So it's like, let's go get some liquor.
39:43And we came up Harlem
39:46at the Las Vegas Boulevard.
39:49And, oh, shit.
39:50Here they come in that BMW.
39:52Can't get cars.
39:54On their way to the club,
39:55Suge is blaring his music too loud.
39:58He gets pulled over by some police officers.
40:01They essentially, you know, say,
40:03just turn down your music.
40:04No big deal.
40:05And it's at this point in time
40:07that Suge and Tupac see these girls.
40:11Like, they're Suge, Suge.
40:12Like, the police were going through his car
40:14or something or another.
40:15And then the traffic was stopped
40:18and then they got in the car.
40:19Did you see who was with Suge?
40:21I thought it was Tupac.
40:23And then he was like, come on,
40:25come go with me.
40:26Come go with us.
40:27We're going to 662.
40:28I'm browsing.
40:30Tupac, Tupac.
40:32And we're like, there they go.
40:33Just one of the new guns.
40:35And we just pulled up on the side
40:36and checked every car and see where they was.
40:38So what directed your attention to them
40:40was some girl shouting at Tupac?
40:42Tupac!
40:43He gave us up away.
40:44Otherwise, it would have gone away.
40:47And he leaned over on the window.
40:50We rolled down the window and popped.
40:53Suge looks over.
40:54He sees you.
40:56Definitely him.
40:57Okay.
40:59Fuck is he doing what he does
41:00since we were seven or eight years old?
41:01I seen a bully going, Suge, yeah.
41:05I thought he was dead.
41:07I thought he was dead.
41:09If you knew who killed Tupac,
41:11would you tell the police?
41:13Absolutely not.
41:15I'm going to park the car.
41:18Put the gun on the tire and look.
41:20Where'd you guys go?
41:21We smoke weed and rain.
41:23Yeah, that's weird.
41:24What?
41:25They don't tell them.
41:25They're a party in the room.
41:27And they pulled up in the ambulance
41:28while we were standing right there.
41:31Take our bullshit.
41:32You guys on the street, where's with?
41:34We on Las Vegas Boulevard at the crosswalk,
41:36and they pull up the ambulance right next to us.
41:39With him in the car already?
41:40With Tupac and Chug in the car.
41:43This is close.
41:44Did they see you?
41:46No, they couldn't see.
41:47We didn't give a fuck.
41:48They don't care.
41:48They don't talk about the ambulance
41:50to park right here.
41:51Right next to us.
41:52That shit was funny in the boat.
41:54And I ain't ever told nobody this.
41:59So you get back to L.A.
42:02the next day, Zip calls.
42:04You says, meet me at the Hollywood place.
42:05Where at?
42:06I'm going to mail her.
42:07In the MIPs.
42:08You guys go over there, Zip shows up.
42:10You guys, what happens at?
42:12Call people, call them, was that on us?
42:14He told them, yeah, it was us.
42:15On Zip's phone or your phone?
42:16On Zip's phone.
42:18And Zip gives you the phone?
42:20Yeah.
42:21People say, well, that's us.
42:23He was happy in there, oh shit.
42:24And did you ask him the other body's money?
42:26When you're going to get paid or whatever?
42:27No, I don't know how to say that on the phone.
42:29On Zip, Zip, go get our cash.
42:32Okay, so you tell Zip we need to get paid.
42:35What does Zip say?
42:36I'm going to go back home and have it?
42:37Yeah, I'll get back with y'all.
42:39Yeah.
42:42According to Keefe D, he was never compensated for the murder.
42:47But he said that a partial amount of the money was intended to be forwarded to him through Zip
42:54to the tune of about $500,000.
42:56The million-dollar solicitation amount, only half of it was fulfilled because only Tupac and not Shug was killed.
43:06Keefe D has a conversation with Darius Rogers with D-Mac.
43:12And D-Mac says there had been a payment from Combs to Keefe D.
43:23But it had gone through Zip, and then that money was never forwarded.
43:31We're just hoping and waiting to see what kind of progress Las Vegas would make with Keefe D's cooperation.
43:38Nothing really happens.
43:43Ultimately, Zip dies from cancer.
43:47Thank you for coming out to Zips, and I want everybody to know that when you come here, we want to keep the peace.
43:53And Orlando Anderson is shot and killed in 1998.
43:58So it's really Keefe D and Puffy Combs are the last men standing.
44:03They can be held accountable for Tupac Shakur's murder.
44:17Waiting patiently, looking to see if that's you.
44:23Say hi, go ahead and put a sign in.
44:26I'm a warmer jacket.
44:27Correct.
44:28I might put a sign.
44:29You do.
44:33Good, then.
44:35Good, then.
44:35Good, then.
44:37Good.
44:43Take that off.
44:50Let's move my groove.
44:51what goes up
45:00must come down
45:02I remember
45:0999 we were working in the
45:12studio on a song called
45:13Muscle Gang
45:15this is our game
45:16we ain't playing with you
45:20the song comes on
45:23and Puff was talking in the beginning
45:25it's 1999
45:26no more Mr. Nice guys
45:30I'm like what is he talking about
45:33talk with me I dropped a million dollars
45:36on your head
45:36erase you and your own family
45:38it's gonna start making y'all niggas disappear
45:40everything that's done in the dark
45:43must come to light
45:44everything that goes up must come down
45:47yeah
45:54yeah I'm headed to hunt 13th and Lennox King
46:10I gotta catch my man
46:11okay I'll see you up here
46:13are y'all rolling
46:15yeah we rolling
46:16with the backdrop
46:28of East Coast West Coast beef
46:30Sean took Biggie to Los Angeles
46:33to record what would be
46:36the finishing touches
46:37on Biggie's
46:38Life After Death album
46:39which wasn't titled that yet
46:41yo
46:46yo Biggie wake up wake up baby
46:48Diddy what the fuck man
46:49what's up
46:50come on now it's a quarter to six
46:51we got the 730 flight
46:53we're going to LAX
46:54whoa
46:54Cali?
46:56no doubt baby
46:57we had been warned
46:59to not come to LA
47:01there were warnings all along
47:03for the last few months
47:04that we are not to set foot
47:06on the West Coast
47:07it was awards show season
47:11and Sean wanted him to start
47:13promoting the album
47:14come on Saltrain
47:17get up out your seats
47:18come on
47:18get up out your seats
47:20Biggie did not want to go
47:23but Sean talked him into
47:26doing all of those things
47:27down low
47:28get up out your seats
47:29come on
47:30high pop
47:31all freaks
47:31all the honey
47:32they were like
47:33catcalling
47:34and booing
47:35what's up Cali?
47:43we were not welcome
47:45after the awards show
47:48Saturday morning
47:49Biggie and I were to go to London
47:52and we were going to have
47:53a two three day press junket
47:55to have Biggie be one of the first artists
47:58from Bad Boy
47:59to meet the European press
48:00I had worked on that
48:03for months and weeks leading up
48:04we were supposed to go to the airport
48:07that morning
48:08I'm calling Biggie like crazy
48:10what's going on
48:11wake up
48:12he's like yo
48:13Puff is bugging
48:14he just called me
48:15and told me
48:16I want you to stay here in LA
48:18I don't want to stay
48:19I want to go
48:20but Sean was adamant
48:23cancel the flight
48:26Biggie's not going to the UK
48:28what do you mean
48:29he's not going to click
48:30he hangs up
48:31this was his M.O.
48:34ego
48:34power
48:36tripping
48:36all of it
48:38because Sean wanted to do a party
48:41on enemy turf
48:43scared to death
48:48that's how real it is
48:52I think somebody's trying to kill me
48:54I'll be waking up paranoid
48:55I'll be really scared
48:57I'll just be peril
48:58that night
49:04Big
49:05and Puffy
49:07was with us
49:09they were having a party
49:15I spoke to Big
49:21and I was like
49:22yo man
49:23you know
49:23what are you doing
49:25catching LA
49:27man
49:28they get down
49:29in these circumstances
49:30man
49:30and you just can't be
49:31walking around here
49:33freely
49:34everybody's mean
49:42I look around
49:47I say
49:48where's Big
49:50I want to get out
49:52get out
49:53hey what am I saying
49:54wait
49:54hold up
49:54hold up
49:55it's a street
49:56zoom in
49:57zoom in
49:58zoom in
49:59so
50:03that's Big
50:08that is Big
50:09that is Big
50:10that is Big
50:10somebody got shot
50:12somebody got shot
50:12yeah we need an ambulance
50:18on Fairfax and Wilshire
50:19please
50:20Los Angeles
50:21we have a man shot
50:22we have a shot
50:23okay hold on
50:25I'll get that
50:25right
50:25on a Wilshire
50:26Fairfax
50:26let's go
50:29let's go
50:29hold on
50:30listen
50:31sir I can't hear
50:32what you're saying
50:33we're man shot
50:34in our car
50:35right now
50:36right now
50:37we're trying to
50:37roll into the hospital
50:38I know the way
50:39see the sign on
50:41I gotta go back
50:43you gotta turn around
50:44you're going the wrong way
50:45what the fuck is wrong
50:46with y'all man
50:47what's going on
50:48yo Big
50:49you hear me
50:49big
50:51big
50:52big
50:53big
50:53big
50:54big
50:55I was following
50:57Big's lead
50:57on like
50:58you know
50:58we're going
50:58to do this
50:59peace tour
50:59and
51:02you know
51:04it didn't work out
51:05Sean said
51:07it on
51:07can't stop
51:08won't stop
51:08Biggie wanted to go
51:10big
51:10you hear me baby
51:13he's lying
51:15about that
51:16Sean wanted
51:19that trip
51:19and was pushing
51:21it for weeks
51:21and weeks
51:22he lied
51:24about it
51:24and let me know
51:26that's a weak
51:27spot for him
51:28and he's nervous
51:29about that
51:29information
51:30he ushered
51:37Biggie
51:37to his death
51:39next question
51:48all it was
51:52is a puffy
51:52and suge knight
51:53war
51:53you're messing
51:55with lives here
51:56and that's exactly
51:57what happened
51:58two lives were lost
51:59as a result of what
52:00stupidity
52:02when I sat down
52:04with Valetta
52:05we briefly brought up
52:06Sean Combs
52:07it was clear to me
52:09that she had no real
52:10respect or appreciation
52:11for him
52:12Sean clearly
52:13didn't do all
52:14that he could have done
52:15to help out
52:16the investigation
52:17in fact
52:18he was a hindrance
52:19in the investigation
52:20puffy was kind of
52:22stonewalling people
52:23from talking
52:24because he knows
52:25if you make inroads
52:27on Biggie's murder
52:28you're going to make
52:29inroads on
52:30Tupac's murder
52:31and that potentially
52:32can lead right back
52:33to him
52:34how are Biggie's mom
52:38and Faith
52:38and the kids
52:39taking all this
52:40Biggie's moms
52:42and Faith
52:42and the children
52:43are extremely strong
52:44they've been
52:45matter of fact
52:45they've been
52:46strong for me
52:47and helping
52:47to hold me up
52:48Sean assumed
52:51the position
52:51of his best friend
52:53in every article
52:54and publication
52:56and that wasn't
52:58necessarily true
52:59and I'm going
53:00to be there for them
53:01just like he would
53:02be there for them
53:02to make sure
53:03that they're alright
53:03Sean said
53:05we're going to do
53:05the biggest funeral
53:06for Biggie
53:07that New York
53:08has ever seen
53:09and we start
53:11to put that together
53:12he starts to see
53:13the price
53:13he says
53:15we're going to do
53:15the biggest funeral
53:16but Biggie's
53:18going to have to
53:18pay for this funeral
53:19he was going to
53:21make the funeral
53:22be a recoupable
53:24charge
53:25to Biggie
53:26in death
53:26this is one of my
53:29closest friends
53:30and it's still
53:31one of my closest
53:32friends
53:32I just
53:34I feel his loss
53:35I just miss him
53:36so much
53:37Sean doing a big show
53:40looks good on him
53:41but he's not going to
53:43tell the world
53:44that Biggie was going
53:45to pay for it
53:46in Bed Star Brooklyn
53:56the whole hood
53:58was outside
53:59if you could make it
54:00there you was there
54:01it was a big loss
54:05for the city
54:05I loved Biggie
54:08Biggie inspired me
54:10he gave me hope
54:11he made us feel
54:12like he was from the town
54:13you could make it
54:14we loved Biggie
54:15so it was like
54:16losing a family member
54:17he just wanted to be
54:20a rap superstar
54:21he didn't want to
54:23hurt nobody
54:24he was probably
54:26one of the only people
54:27I had really trusted
54:28like for a long time
54:29it's not a feeling
54:30that I really felt a lot
54:32like in my life
54:33I don't really have
54:34a lot of friends
54:35I think people think
54:36I have a lot of friends
54:37you know
54:37I don't think I really
54:40make a good friend
54:41before he was assassinated
54:45Biggie had an opportunity
54:47to be on the cover
54:49of Rolling Stone
54:50we were delivering
54:52the elements
54:53so that can happen
54:54and Sean called me
54:55and said
54:56pull that cover
54:57I need to be on the cover
54:58my solo album
55:00is coming in July
55:01no way out
55:02and I need to amp that up
55:04he took the cover
55:08from Biggie
55:09another thing at the time
55:15Biggie was negotiating
55:17his contract
55:18every day I wake up
55:19we acquiesced
55:22and gave him
55:23everything he wanted
55:24and then he died
55:25can't believe you ain't here
55:26Sean wanted me
55:30to change the agreement
55:32to more favorable terms
55:34for bad boy
55:35and his family
55:36and mother
55:36would not know
55:37and since he had
55:38signed the agreement
55:39he wanted
55:41those changes
55:42to come from
55:43out of the center
55:44of the agreement
55:45and have those pages
55:46replaced with
55:47the other terms
55:48and I said
55:48that's not right
55:49I'm not doing it
55:5090 days later
55:52I'm fired
55:53it's like I feel
55:55empty inside
55:56without you being here
55:57I remember
56:05Michael Jackson
56:06the Motown 25 special
56:08MTV
56:09Madonna
56:10Like a Virgin
56:11and I remember
56:11Puff
56:12with Sting
56:13check it out
56:15having a TV moment
56:22in music
56:23it's very rare
56:24it elevates you
56:25to such another level
56:27of superstar
56:28they made him
56:29rock star bitch
56:30it's kinda hard
56:32but you're not around
56:33know you in heaven
56:34smiling down
56:35watching us
56:36while we pray for you
56:37he became humongous
56:38but now it's him
56:40now I'm the man
56:42it was like a dream
56:43come true
56:44to see the lines
56:46like in front of the stores
56:47like people going there
56:49to get my record
56:50it was crazy
56:52it all happened
56:52pretty quickly for you
56:53from being an intern
56:54to being on the cover
56:56of the rolling snow
56:58thanks for Biggie's mother
57:00who's sitting right there
57:00for having notorious V.I.G
57:02you've abused everyone
57:05and used most everyone
57:07put your legs in there
57:09for V.I.G
57:10everybody put your legs
57:11to the careful side
57:12there are horror stories
57:13like this
57:14all throughout
57:16cleared of gun possession
57:17and bribery charges
57:18Sean Puffy Combs
57:20walked out of free man
57:21some people speak up about it
57:22most do not
57:24the first member
57:25is
57:26Aubrey
57:28it's a pattern with him
57:30violence was a very normalized part
57:35of living in that world
57:36you're a bad boy now
57:38allegations of sexual misconduct
57:41Huffy called these encounters
57:42free calls
57:43witnessed Diddy abusing Cassie
57:45and that they encouraged Cassie
57:47to get away from him
57:48everything in life
57:51you're gonna have people
57:52that are bad
57:52and people that are good
57:53you know
57:54you have to choose your side
57:56You know
57:59so
58:03you
58:04you
58:05you
58:07you
58:11you
58:13you
58:15you
58:20you
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