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00:00Happy birthday to you, everybody, happy birthday to you.
00:28Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you.
00:43I 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 career.
01:28Puff 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's 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.
01:56Where you at?
01:57Where you at?
01:58Where you at?
01:59Why you ain't coming?
02:00I was like, I'm coming.
02:01I'm on my way.
02:02Hold on.
02:03I wasn't thinking, why they want me here so bad?
02:05We'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.
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.
02:19I tell Big.
02:20I'm like, yo, Big, Pac downstairs.
02:21He was like, oh, all right, go get him.
02:23Get into the elevator.
02:24And when I was about to walk out, two dudes came from both sides.
02:27Get the fuck back in the elevator.
02:29Shit.
02:30Recording artist Tupac Shakur was shot five times last night in a robbery attempt.
02:36After surgery, his condition was upgraded to satisfactory, and he checked out of the hospital
02:41against his doctor's advice.
02:42I think they're trying to rub me out, really.
02:45Robbers don't leave behind $80,000 Rolexes.
02:48You know what I mean?
02:49They don't do that, in case nobody knows.
02:52Let's look at the facts.
02:55Puff 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.
03:12We, we, that'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 of a shooter?
03:23I believe so.
03:24I do believe so.
03:25I have proof.
03:26I mean, you can see now why someone like a Puff would want someone like a Pop out the picture.
03:34You know, Pop was vilified while he was alive.
03:38And Puff was exalted.
03:40That's the bigger picture.
03:41That's the bigger picture.
03:42And that's the story that hasn't been told.
03:45Cut.
03:46But, no.
03:47It's not my fault.
03:48I have to go.
03:49It's not my fault.
03:50I don't know.
03:51It's okay.
03:52Don't do that.
03:53I can see.
03:54It's okay.
03:55I got to go.
03:56I see if I can get to the media.
03:58I don't know what the camera is, but I don't know.
03:59I see like, you know, not to get fired or…
04:01You know, man.
04:02I see the camera is still going.
04:03I see the camera is still going on.
04:04You know, now you've got to watch it.
04:05I see the camera is still going on.
04:06I see if I could go sit right there.
04:07Hey you know, my top line is goings to listen.
04:08If I can see it, I don't know.
04:09I can see the camera is going on.
04:10There was a whole lot of crazy shit going on.
04:13You know what I'm saying?
04:14I still didn't knock it down.
04:15We're going down.
04:16Yeah.
04:16Like, that shit was crazy to me.
04:18That shit wasn't there.
04:19It was just a sign to me like, nigga, time to order the future.
04:23Time to order the future.
04:24That was a little building.
04:25For the building, I got ready to be son.
04:28You know what I'm saying?
04:29It was a sign for me like that.
04:30But I'm saying, that shit was there like two months ago, right?
04:34I'm not tripping tripping.
04:34Yeah, it wasn't there.
04:35Yeah.
04:40Puff is in this position where he has all this turmoil.
04:51But he's not at the point where he'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
05:01that I'm not the guy who I am.
05:05Eventually, he's going to get to the point
05:07where he's going to ask himself, how
05:09did I get myself in this situation?
05:2395, 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.
05:33You're time to come up in your waist.
05:35Please don't shoot up the place.
05:36Why?
05:36I see some ladies tonight that should be having me.
05:39Bad boy was rising up.
05:41My 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 cubbyhole around the corner.
05:51He buzzes me.
05:55So I get up and I go in with my papers and a girl is giving him a blow job at the desk.
06:02He 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.
06:09He leaves, I'm like, what did you want me for?
06:12Ah, I didn't want you for anything.
06:16That was the beginning for me to see this is what's going on here.
06:20Can everybody here make some noise for B.I.G. for bringing it back to the East?
06:25So the seeds for all of this was early on.
06:28I would like to thank y'all, Alistair Wiggins, BMG, all the things.
06:31And that came from people in the industry co-signing his activity because it brought money in.
06:41I don't know if y'all niggas know this.
06:43The Juicy with platinum, Big Papa with platinum, in your ear remix with platinum.
06:50That whole bad boy thing was so big, Faith Evans.
06:55I'm gonna be first lady on Puff Daddy's lady.
06:57Total.
07:00Biggie.
07:03And Craig Mack.
07:04The thing over here is Craig Mack.
07:07It 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.
07:20Heads to the office two hours late.
07:24You might have somebody pulling him over saying,
07:26Hey, ain't you in that video? Ain't that you?
07:28Oh, yo, here go a demo.
07:29Puffy's over there.
07:30Yo, what's up, Puff? How you doing, baby, bruh?
07:33Had the big baseball bat cell phones, and 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...
07:49Just to get their shot at Puffy.
07:52Everybody wants to see him.
07:54He is now the new gateway into music.
07:58You're gonna take all of this power and money you're getting now
08:01and play by the rules.
08:03No, I'm the rule now.
08:05I am the exception to the rule.
08:07One day, it seemed like out of the blue, my door opens up.
08:21Sean walks in, he had a baseball bat,
08:26and a big attach-a-case suitcase with the snaps on it.
08:30The stocks were there.
08:32We in a fucking hustle, we in a grind.
08:33Do your job, whatever your...
08:35He wanted me to sign my 25% over.
08:39And then he's over me like this.
08:40He wants the stock back.
08:43He wants it now.
08:45I'm not gonna stay fucking lying down, I'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, and I need to get this all on one side,
08:53but I'll give it back to you.
08:55I'm gonna give it back to you.
08:57It's a problem, y'all don't know how to be an accountant.
09:01And he threatened, until I did.
09:06People always say to me, why would you do that?
09:11Like, why did you do that?
09:13Like, that was, you know...
09:18I didn't want to give it back.
09:21I wanted to stay in good graces.
09:23I still wanted to be at the company.
09:25It wasn't like he was firing me.
09:27But I was definitely confused by it.
09:33It might sound strange,
09:35but if you've ever built something,
09:37and you want it to last,
09:39you think about how to make it last.
09:42I want to know who's been naughty at night,
09:54with the device, turning grown men in the light.
09:56I thought he was kind of cool at first,
09:59and then we started seeing some things.
10:04Craig started becoming disenchanted.
10:08I want to congratulate Craig Mack on his Grammy nomination.
10:11No question.
10:12Yes, baby, yeah, that's cool, and I'm sure...
10:14Yo, you got nominated for a Grammy,
10:16but we had no money.
10:18If you look at Bad Boy,
10:20Bad Boy didn't sell enough records
10:23to explain his wealth.
10:26But enough artists were on the label
10:29that sold enough records to explain his wealth.
10:32Sean's trick was, I'm going to make you a star.
10:36You're signed, 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,
10:42and we know you're going to try your best.
10:44So you signed your deal, we gave you your advance.
10:46At Uptown, that's the only money the artists have ever seen,
10:49that first advance.
10:50Andre had a way that he never saw anything else.
10:52Did he pick that up?
10:54He made it even tighter.
10:56Don't name your girl around me, true player for real.
10:59Ask Puff that deep.
11:00It's a shell game.
11:02You hide everything that is an earning,
11:05you confuse the earnings,
11:07and now I own everything, you'll go out into the world,
11:10and the shell game, you'll be looking for your money
11:12for the next 20 years.
11:13Sean did that to every artist.
11:16You're in the studio, now you have to recoup
11:20for being in the studio.
11:22Puff owns the studio, and I have to say,
11:26I have four sessions with you, 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 be like, I fucking hate that guy.
11:45As an artist, you can go number one.
11:47Song is being played all over the nation,
11:50but you don't have the money to go to it
11:52because you're not making the proper money
11:55off of your royalties.
11:57Uh-huh.
11:59Craig and I hit a point where we were fucked up.
12:02No money, nothing.
12:03Hell, I was getting money from my father
12:07to take care of the house.
12:09Get what?
12:11We were all at, like, somebody's album release party,
12:14and Craig's gonna tell Puff to give him a few dollars,
12:16and 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
12:24this big and gave him $100 bill.
12:28You really just don't give a fuck.
12:36I think Sean had an envy for his own artists.
12:40He was jealous of their talent and wondering, like,
12:43this 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,
12:57but 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 in the sessions
13:11because I would tell the truth.
13:13I'd be like, that's not it.
13:15People would be there like, yeah, that was tight.
13:16That was tight.
13:17I'd be like looking like, yo, for real, you got a lot of people who just tell you anything.
13:21That sucked.
13:23It doesn't sound good, and it makes no sense.
13:27But 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 it boiled down to the music, even if I didn't touch it, I showed you what to do.
13:56So that's what he was.
13:57Dan, you know what I'm saying?
13:58What?
13:59Right here, right there.
14:00Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
14:01Shake it.
14:02Where's makeup at?
14:03Makeup?
14:04Right here, baby.
14:05That whole bad boy was built on him.
14:08You cannot take that from him.
14:10But I think that Puffy wanted the light, like he always wanted.
14:16From dancing, the whole now you see it.
14:18Anybody that's boasters and loud like that, they want to be in the spotlight.
14:22It wasn't like no secret.
14:23That's what he wanted.
14:26Six foot three, 335 pound,
14:29Shug Knight has managed to become the head of a $100 million record company.
14:34It's the record label at ground zero of the whole gangster rap phenomenon, Death Row Records.
14:40Shug 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 at the time,
14:59Shug Knight.
15:00Right now, I'm on the Heartbreak Tour with Bobby Brown, a new addition, and we've been out since September.
15:04We'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 Shug kind of just turn this way and gave him one of these.
15:20BOW! Like 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.
15:27It's Tim's K-ball.
15:30He's a street dude.
15:31He's a real street dude.
15:32But Shug 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 out
15:42their 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.
15:50Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Drake is at the door.
15:53Death Row can be bigger than Motown or Sony or Warner Brothers.
15:58Death Row is going to be the biggest record company there is.
16:01Chronic album is the foundation.
16:03But for Bad Boy, Death Row was the most successful label in the business.
16:07From the depths of the sea, back to the block.
16:10Snoop Doggy Dogg Pokey.
16:11Shawn had admired Death Row and wanted us to emulate them.
16:16And that was my job, how do I make Bad Boy equal to success of Death Row?
16:24And of course, my eyes was like this, Death 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.
16:35Wow.
16:36Yeah, yeah.
16:37He 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 in the business.
16:49I was in the business.
16:51Living life without fear.
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 Shud was opening up a Death Row East.
17:24And it was found out.
17:27Shot by the finger.
17:28Yes.
17:35It's the Source Hip Hop Music Awards!
17:39The Source Awards was happening in New York City.
17:47Come on, New York!
17:48And behind the scenes, people were running back and forth to the next dressing room, to the next dressing room,
17:54which 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.
18:05Who bagging on the door like that?
18:06I'm telling you.
18:06What's the deal, man?
18:09Keep the door closed!
18:11And it escalated with words from the podium at the awards show.
18:14Any artist 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, come to Death Row.
18:28I'm the executive producer that our 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 need to stop.
19:00So give it up for everybody from the East and the West that won tonight.
19:04One love.
19:05Sean 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.
19:20He remembers every slight.
19:24Once again, y'all, please get up for all the nominees.
19:28Before 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.
19:55Shook Knight came that night with his friend Jake.
19:58And I was working the door.
19:59Shook was looking for Puff.
20:01Sean would try to go after people's side chicks, like a girl in Atlanta that Shook was dealing with.
20:14Sean wanted me to take $50,000 out of the overhead account so he could buy her a diamond necklace,
20:23wooing her because she was Shook's side piece in Atlanta when he came there.
20:28The real police officer in a real police uniform came and got on the safe.
20:37I said, man, you touch the homie.
20:39We're going to tear this mother up.
20:41He said, well, I got to throw him out.
20:42I said, for what?
20:42He said, he was Puffy.
20:45Shook and Jake is being escorted out the club by the off-duty officer we always had there moonlighting.
20:54Jake comes out, Shook come out, Puff come out.
20:59Everybody's outside.
21:01A man appeared with one hand behind his back and he was holding a pistol.
21:09He touched Jake with the pistol and he looked at Shook like this and was shooting Shook's friend like this.
21:18He shot him five times.
21:20Shook 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.
21:34You're not going to shoot me.
21:39Puff was like, it's going to be all right, man.
21:42It's going to be all right.
21:44Shook 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.
22:03A couple of days later, he died.
22:07That's what started the East Coast, West Coast war.
22:09Tupac Shakur out of the hospital after surgery from bullet wounds is convicted on sex charges.
22:22After Pop gets shot in Quad studio, he had the rape case.
22:26A New York jury convicted the rapper of first-degree sexual abuse, but acquitted him of more serious charges.
22:36Since your period of incarceration at Clinton Correctional Facility, have you taken the time to reflect on your gangster thug image?
22:44Puck and Big were friends at one time.
22:49But then once Puck is in jail, Bad Boy and all of his associations were nemesises.
22:57When I'm in jail, strangers are telling me, yo, you don't know, Big your old boy shot you.
23:04Because they bragging, they telling their n****s in jail.
23:07Yo, we just got Pop.
23:08Once the conflict happens, Pop needed someone strong that was going to stand with him.
23:19And it just so happened that Suge had his own issue with Puffy.
23:25So, Suge went to jail and visited him.
23:29The whole s*** was like some mob s***.
23:34Enter Tupac, a young captain.
23:38I'm gonna join the family, dog.
23:40Get me out.
23:43Suge Knight first signed Tupac to a recording contract when Tupac was in this New York state prison,
23:49unable to come up with the million dollars needed for bail,
23:53while his lawyers appealed a 1995 conviction for sexual assault.
24:00I want everybody to give a big welcome to Tupac.
24:04Out on bail rapper Tupac Shakur's rushed to market double album, All Eyes On Me,
24:11debuts at number one on this week's Billboard chart.
24:13With the addition of Tupac, there's no way y'all can stop us now.
24:16You think this ain't bad boy?
24:19Now I say fuck them all.
24:20We coming to the East Coast to prove there is no fear.
24:24Overthrow the government y'all got right now, which is bad boy and all that bulls***.
24:27And we will bring a new government here that will feed every person in New York.
24:31All right, cool, man.
24:32All right, man.
24:33Peace.
24:33Thanks a lot.
24:35Sean tried everything to get Biggie upset.
24:38He had to go at him with business.
24:41This guy came at us.
24:42Biggie never wanted to be an enemy to Pac.
24:59As things was coming from the West Coast, Biggie did not want to give any shots back.
25:05When Pac was producing All Eyes On Me, he called us and said,
25:10I just fucked Faith Evans, Big's wife.
25:15We was like, what?
25:16First of all, fuck your bitch in the clique you claim.
25:19Westside when we ride, come be quick we're game.
25:21You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.
25:23We busted.
25:24Well, that's not true at all.
25:26Biggie stole my husband legally.
25:28I am having his baby.
25:29No, I'm not.
25:30Sean kept putting pressure on Biggie.
25:32You got to answer back.
25:34Tupac had me pissed off, you know what I'm saying?
25:37And the rumors that's spreading is on some tip like we set them up.
25:43You know what I'm saying?
25:43And that's crazy.
25:45The East Coast, West Coast thing was invented, period.
25:49Because no matter what, we all went to the East.
25:51They came here, went to the West, whatever.
25:52They wasn't arguing with each other.
25:54But we was able to roam.
25:56Fuck Biggie, fuck bad boy as a staff record label and as a motherfucking crew.
26:01It was this bad boy in death row.
26:02And that right there put people in danger.
26:07Because it made people be like, F you, F you.
26:10And people started doing stuff for no reason.
26:12Because it was, you know, it's just people that want to ride for each other.
26:16And then look what happened.
26:17So.
26:22Doing the street thing.
26:23My affiliation was with the Mansfield hustlers.
26:29Today, we go by Mansfield gangster Crips now.
26:35Police say that drugs and violence are being spread by two longstanding rivals in the Los Angeles
26:41youth gang scene.
26:42Groups who call themselves Crips and wear blue colors and Bloods who wear red.
26:48Did you guys provide protection?
26:52Sean Combs was a friend.
26:56Christopher Wallace was a friend.
26:57And, you know, when we're hanging out with our friends,
27:04we're going to protect our friends.
27:06So they knew.
27:09And they were our associates.
27:11You got beef with them, you got beef with me.
27:15Period.
27:16A number of reports have come out that Bad Boy Entertainment had actually hired Crips
27:19for security work out on the West Coast.
27:21Is that true?
27:23We've never hired Crips or any other gang faction to do security for us.
27:30It would be extremely unintelligent to hire a gang, some gangs to do security for you.
27:37A lot of the New York guys come out to L.A.
27:40Zip is a person that I know that was Puffy's man, that was his guy.
27:48Eric 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.
27:56He might have known Sean's father from those days.
28:00Zip had a relationship with the South Side Crips,
28:04and then he also had a relationship with us.
28:07Sean said Zip can give us protection going back and forth to L.A. 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 Bloods street gang.
28:26One of the death row people got jumped by someone at a mall.
28:31And 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 Puff.
28:43Because it was specific, we want a death row chain.
28:46We're introducing the one and only prior, 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 Selvin is down.
29:07It's over in the first round.
29:12That's probably the reason that the guy was all fucked up in a lot of shit from fight night.
29:17You seen a Tyson fight?
29:19You want to fight.
29:20I told you I'll be dead.
29:29At the fight, the guy who was ripped off for the death row chain is with Suge and Pop.
29:37He just whispers to Pop, that's him.
29:44It was Orlando Anderson from South Side Crips who was connected with Puff.
29:51Next thing I know, I see Pop like, phew.
29:54Took your niggas down.
30:04That was the foundational moment when all this was getting out of control.
30:09Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot in the chest.
30:22This morning shot multiple times in the chest in a drive-by shooting.
30:26He was in the car, but his injuries were minor.
30:31Craig called me up.
30:33It was late.
30:35He was out there at the fight because he was supposed to perform at some club that
30:41should own and 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 is he scared of?
30:53Probably 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 in a Las Vegas hospital of complications
31:12I was in jail.
31:13I was in jail when he got shot.
31:17There was a lot of niggas in jail that was celebrating Puck's death.
31:22I'm glad that I didn't kill anybody or anybody killed me,
31:27but 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.
31:41Do you know who was responsible for the killing of Tupac Shakur?
31:45No, I don't.
31:48I think that Sean now, in my mature mind, had a lot to do with the death of Tupac.
31:55In 2006, I was recruited to work a task force that 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 because you don't get cooperating witnesses.
32:21They want to stick to a code that 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, because I would never snitch on nobody.
32:35We had built a narcotics case against Keefy Dee.
32:39Keefy Dee was kind of the shot caller for the Southside Crips.
32:42He was the most prominent drug dealer. He was very influential in his gang.
32:47His nephew, Orlando Anderson, was a very well-known violent gang member.
32:54Tupac Shakur had assaulted Orlando Anderson just after the Mike Tyson fight.
33:00Keefy Dee was potentially looking at a life sentence for federal drug trafficking.
33:07We wanted to question him about his potential role in the murder of Tupac Shakur.
33:12We let him know that he could potentially mitigate some of the damages if he wanted to come in and talk
33:18to us. And the U.S. Attorney agreed that they'd allow Keefy Dee to do a proffer session.
33:25Keefy, today what we're going to do, we're just going to go over with a fine tooth comb,
33:29do a Las Vegas incident. We do have to emphasize to you, it's determined that some of these details
33:35are incorrect and everything's off the table.
33:37A proffer session is when a person facing criminal charges can answer questions wherein
33:44self-incriminating information would not be used against him in a criminal prosecution.
33:50Doesn't mean they have any kind of immunity.
33:54Hey, I want to say this though too.
33:57I feel like I said that day, don't bullshit me and I won't bullshit y'all.
34:02You know what I'm saying?
34:03In the year prior to the murder of Tupac Shakur, he has had several conversations with Sean Combs.
34:10Sean Combs' affiliation with the Southside Crips came by way of a New York street figure known as Zip.
34:29Zip set up the introduction between Combs and Keefy Dee and then they developed their own relationship.
34:36And Zip in the news, he said, this is my boy. What are you going to do? This 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 I in?
34:49The 64 Chevy I in.
34:52Every time I look at you, that's the...
34:55What color was it?
34:56Blown.
34:57I was actually a video of when Pup was driving the car, usher for her song, whatever.
35:01He was in a Laker uniform and he had the little kid dancing on my car when it got back.
35:05It was fucked up and he had to, he paid to get it repainted.
35:15Pup, he caused their phone, you know, he wanted to speak to me.
35:17They gave it up, he took to her.
35:19And then I, he gave her some tickets and I brought the crew.
35:23Say, I want to hear a new flavor in your hair.
35:26I want to hear a new flavor in your hair.
35:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.
35:30To all the ladies in the place.
35:32Keefy D says that Sean Combs kind of makes this general announcement.
35:38While they're all inside of a hotel room after a musical event.
35:42So it's Harrell, Buffy, Zoo, you.
35:47About 40-somethings offside.
35:49Yeah, that was stupid as hell too, you know.
35:52Shit, he said he didn't kill us anything for no dudes there, you know.
35:57Tupac and Shug, you mean?
35:58Yeah, he said in front of all the people, I couldn't believe him.
36:02You know what I'm saying?
36:03You know what I'm saying?
36:04All home for the Crips.
36:07So this is after Jake got killed.
36:08So he was, he was on point.
36:10He was worried about something happening.
36:11Yeah.
36:12So he had mouths off about a bunch of different stuff.
36:13So he was scared.
36:14He was scared to death, yeah.
36:16OK.
36:16OK.
36:18Then there's a more specific incident that takes place at a deli on Sunset Strip
36:22in 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 this, this, these guys.
36:30When he, when he told me at the Greenblatt.
36:34When we got there, we were laughing at him.
36:36Because he was just, bro, to suck dick.
36:38Just suck every dick in there.
36:40He hung up, kissing, whatever.
36:41We was laughing like a motherfucker.
36:43Like, man, what you laughing at, dawg?
36:45Man, don't just come out here and get any brawler, dawg.
36:49I took him downstairs and he's like, man, I gotta get rid of those dudes, man.
36:53It won't be a problem.
36:58It was after he made the record.
36:59Hit him up, came out.
37:00Yeah, yeah, that pissed them off.
37:06Yeah, we were on a million.
37:10He tells you, seriously, man, I need to get rid of these guys.
37:12I mean, 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, and he's like, okay,
37:20I'll do it for a million?
37:21Yeah.
37:22He grease and shake on it or something like that?
37:24Yeah.
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.
37:35Scheduled for 12.
37:37And Tyson comes right up, right up.
37:39He says that when Las Vegas happens and they're all out there,
37:43and his nephew gets assaulted by Tupac, they're like,
37:45this is the perfect occasion.
37:47He's like, oh, man.
37:48He's like, man, they came and said,
37:52he just beat up lame.
37:54And he was in the hotel, yeah, at the MGM and the restaurant.
37:58There was a few New Yorkers, though, with Zip.
38:01Like, man, y'all need some help.
38:04We got this.
38:05It's your perfect opportunity, baby.
38:08That was Zip talking?
38:08Yeah.
38:09Because of what happened with him?
38:10Yeah.
38:11Yeah.
38:12You know, Chris was down there, and, uh,
38:15he told me in the lobby that he had some jimmies.
38:18Some what?
38:18He had a jimmie.
38:20And that being has.
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 where you can place a gun.
38:37It'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
38:52and have multiple drivers
38:56drive clear across the country to this fight.
39:00But I arranged through my budget
39:03to make that trip happen for those drivers
39:06and to this day, it stands out in my mind.
39:09Why did we rent multiple cars?
39:12Why did we hire people from Harlem and other locations
39:16to drive?
39:20Can you tell us if, hey, we're going to go handle this shit or whatever?
39:24Yeah, they asked, like, if y'all want us to come?
39:26I'm like, we know where them motherfuckers at.
39:29They were telling us they're going to be at the 662 club.
39:31Two cars go to 662?
39:33They didn't show up.
39:34They didn't show up.
39:37We waited about 15, 20 minutes.
39:39They didn't show up.
39:41So they were like, let's go get some liquor.
39:44And we came up Harlan at the Las Vegas Boulevard.
39:48Oh, shit.
39:49I hear they come in that BMW.
39:51We're like, get out of your car.
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,
40:03hey, just turn down your music, no big deal.
40:05And it's at this point in time that Suge and Tupac see these girls.
40:11Like, they're Suge, Suge.
40:12Like, the police were going through his car or something or another.
40:15And then the traffic was stopped.
40:17And then they got in the car.
40:19Did you see who was with Suge?
40:22I thought it was Tupac.
40:23And then he was like, come on, come go with me.
40:26Come go with us.
40:26We're going to 662.
40:28I'm browsing.
40:29Tupac, Tupac.
40:31And we're like, there they go.
40:33Just wanted to do that.
40:35And we just pulled up on the side and checked every car and see where they was.
40:38So what directed your attention to him?
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.
40:49We rolled around the window and popped.
40:53Should have looked over.
40:53He sees you.
40:55Yeah.
40:56Yeah, he looked at him.
40:59Fuck is he doing what he does since we were seven or eight years old?
41:01I seen a bully going to Suge head.
41:05I thought he was dead.
41:07I thought he was dead.
41:09If you knew who killed Tupac, would you tell the police?
41:12Absolutely not.
41:16I'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 drink.
41:22Yeah, that's weird.
41:23That's a hotel.
41:25That's a hotel.
41:25That's a party in the room.
41:27And they pulled up in the ambulance while we were standing right there.
41:31Take off bullshit.
41:32Who?
41:33You guys on the street with what?
41:34We on Las Vegas Boulevard at the crosswalk.
41:36And they pulled up the ambulance right next to us.
41:39And we came in the car already?
41:40Tupac and Chug in the car.
41:43This is close.
41:44Did they see you?
41:46They couldn't see.
41:46We didn't give a fuck.
41:47They don't care.
41:48I'm talking about the ambulance parked right here.
41:51Right next to us.
41:52That shit was funny in the moment.
41:57And I have ever told nobody this to remember.
42:01So you get back to LA the next day.
42:03Zip calls you.
42:04Says, meet me at the Hollywood place we're at.
42:08You guys go over there.
42:09Zip shows up.
42:10You guys.
42:11What happens to that?
42:12Paul Kimmel called it.
42:13Wasn't that us?
42:14He told them, yeah, it was us.
42:15On Zip's phone or your phone?
42:16It was Zip phone.
42:17And Zip gives you the phone?
42:19Yeah.
42:20He was happy as hell, shit.
42:24And did you ask him then about his money?
42:26When are you going to get paid or whatever?
42:27No, I'm not allowed to tell you that on the phone.
42:29I'm going to Zip.
42:30I'm going to Zip.
42:31Go get our cash.
42:32OK.
42:32So 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.
42:42According to QPD, he was never compensated for the murder.
42:45But he said that a partial amount of the money
42:50was intended to be forwarded to him through Zip
42:54to the tune of about $500,000.
42:58The million dollar solicitation amount,
43:01only half of it was fulfilled because only Tupac
43:05and not Suge was killed.
43:06Keithy D has a conversation with Darius Rogers, with DMACC.
43:11He don't let the DMACC introduce to the DMACC right there.
43:15And DMACC says there had been a payment from Combs to Keithy 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
43:35Las Vegas would make with Keithy D's cooperation.
43:41Nothing really happens.
43:42Ultimately, Zip dies from cancer.
43:47Thank you for coming out to Zips.
43:49And I want everybody to know that when you come here,
43:52we want to keep your peace.
43:53And Orlando Anderson is shot and killed in 1998.
43:58So it's really Keithy D and Puffy Combs are the last men standing.
44:03They can be held accountable for Tupac Shakur's murder.
44:12Him.
44:15Listen to him here.
44:18Waiting patiently, looking to see it.
44:20There you are.
44:23He's like,"huh?"
44:24I'm sorry.
44:25You put this line up.
44:25I'm a little black.
44:27It's a trigger.
44:27Right.
44:28I'm at the time.
44:29You do.
44:33Great thing, and then you're
44:36up Miracles.
44:38All right.
44:38All right.
44:40Take that off.
44:49All right, let's move in the groove.
44:53Move in the groove.
44:59What goes up?
45:02What goes down?
45:04What goes down?
45:04What goes down?
45:05Fuck.
45:05I remember in 1999, we were working in the studio on a song called Muscle Gang.
45:15This is our gang.
45:18We ain't playing with you and these niggas.
45:22The song comes on and Puff is talking in the beginning.
45:27I'm like, what is he talking about?
45:33Fuck with me, I dropped a million dollars on your hand.
45:37We'll erase you and your own family.
45:38It's gonna start making y'all niggas disappear, man.
45:41Everything that's done in the dark must come to light.
45:45Everything that goes up must come down.
45:47P.P.I.
45:49P.P.I.
45:51Look, I'm back.
45:52P.P.I.
45:53P.P.I.
45:54P.P.I.
45:55P.P.I.
45:56P.P.I.
45:56P.P.I.
45:57P.P.I.
45:58P.P.I.
45:59P.P.I.
45:59P.P.I.
46:00P.P.I.
46:01P.P.I.
46:01P.P.I.
46:02P.P.I.
46:07P.P.I.
46:07P.P.I.
46:08Yeah, I'm headed to 113th of Lennox, King.
46:10I gotta catch my man up there.
46:11P.P.P.I.
46:12P.P.I.
46:12I'll see you up there.
46:15P.P.P.I.
46:15P.P.P.I.
46:15P.P.I.
46:16P.P.I.
46:17P.I.
46:22With the backdrop of East Coast, West Coast beef, Sean took Biggie to Los Angeles to record
46:35what would be the finishing touches on Biggie's Life After Death album, which wasn't titled
46:40that yet.
46:41Yo.
46:42Yo, Big, wake up, wake up, baby.
46:44Diddy, what the fuck, man?
46:45What's up?
46:46Come on, man.
46:47It's a quarter to six.
46:48We got the 7.30 flight going to LAX.
46:49Whoa.
46:50Cali?
46:51No doubt, baby.
46:52We had been warned to not come to LA.
46:53There were warnings all along for the last few months that we are not to set foot on the
47:06West Coast.
47:09It was awards show season, and Sean wanted him to start promoting the album.
47:14Come on, Saltrain.
47:15Get up out your seats.
47:16Come on.
47:17Get up out your seats.
47:18Come on.
47:19Get up out your seats.
47:20Get up out your seats.
47:21Biggie did not want to go, but Sean talked him into doing all of those things.
47:27Down low.
47:28Get up out your seats.
47:29Come on.
47:30I'll pop off.
47:31Freak calls on her knees.
47:32They were like catcalling and booing.
47:34What's up, Cali?
47:35We were not welcome.
47:47After the awards show Saturday morning, Biggie and I were to go to London, and we were going
47:52to have a two, three day press junket.
47:55To have Biggie be one of the first artists from Bad Boy to meet the European press.
48:01I had worked on that for months and weeks leading up.
48:05He was supposed to go to the airport.
48:06That morning, I'm calling Biggie like crazy.
48:09What's going on?
48:10Wake up.
48:11He said, yo, Puff is bugging.
48:13He just called me and told me, I want you to stay here in LA.
48:17I don't want to stay.
48:18I want to go.
48:20But Sean was adamant, cancel 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.
48:33Ego, power, tripping, all of it because Sean wanted to do a party on enemy turf.
48:42Scared to death.
48:47That's how real it is.
48:52I think somebody's trying to kill me.
48:53I'll be waking up paranoid.
48:55I'll be really scared.
48:56I'll just be peril.
49:02That night, Big and Puffy was with us.
49:12They were having a party.
49:20I spoke to Big.
49:21I was like, yo, man, you know, what are you doing?
49:25Cats in LA, man, they get down in these circumstances, man, and you just can't be walking around here freely.
49:33Everybody's mean.
49:42I look around.
49:46I say, where's Big?
49:49I want to get out.
49:51Get out.
49:52Hey, what am I saying?
49:53Wait, hold up.
49:54Hold up.
49:55It's the street.
49:56Zoom in.
49:57Zoom in.
49:58Why don't you see?
50:00That's big in here.
50:01That is big in here.
50:02That is big in here.
50:03That is big in here.
50:04That is big in here.
50:05Somebody got shot.
50:06Somebody got shot.
50:07Somebody got shot.
50:08That is big in here.
50:09Somebody got shot.
50:10Somebody got shot.
50:11Y'all get down.
50:12What are you reporting?
50:13Yeah, we need an ambulance on Fairfax and Wilshire.
50:15Please, Los Angeles.
50:16We have a man shot.
50:17We have a shot.
50:18Okay, hold on.
50:19I'll get down.
50:20Right on the corner, Wilshire and Fairfax.
50:21Let's go.
50:22Let's go.
50:23Let's go.
50:24Hold on.
50:25Listen, sir.
50:26I can't hear what you're saying.
50:27We're man shot in our car right now.
50:28Right now, we're trying to run into the hospital.
50:29I know the way.
50:30See the sign-up.
50:31You gotta go back.
50:32You gotta turn around, Jimmy.
50:33You're going the wrong way.
50:34What the fuck is wrong with y'all, man?
50:35What's going on?
50:36Yo, baby, you hear me?
50:37Yeah, Los Angeles.
50:38What's going on?
50:39Big!
50:40Big!
50:41Big!
50:42Big!
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51:25that's a weak spot for him and he's nervous about that information he ushered
51:37Biggie to his death
51:42who do you think called Biggie
51:47next question
51:50all it was is a puffy and shug night war you're messing with lives here and that's exactly what
51:58happened two lives were lost as a result of what stupidity when I sat down with the letter we
52:06briefly brought up Shawn combs it was clear to me that she had no real respect or appreciation for
52:12him Shawn clearly didn't do all that he could have done to help out in the investigation in fact he
52:19was a hindrance in the investigation puffy was kind of stonewalling people from talking because
52:25he knows if you make inroads on Biggie's murder you're gonna make inroads on Tupac's murder and
52:31that potentially can lead right back to him our bees mom and faith and the kids taking all this
52:40I'm Biggie's mom's and faith and the children extremely strong they've been matter of fact
52:45they've been strong for me and helping to hold me up and Shawn assumed the position of his best
52:52friend in every article and publication and that wasn't necessarily true and I'm gonna be there for
53:01them just like he would be there for them to make sure that they're all right Shawn said we're gonna
53:05do the biggest funeral for Biggie that New York has ever seen and we start to put that together he
53:12starts to see the price he says we're gonna do the biggest funeral but Biggie's gonna have to pay for
53:18this funeral he was gonna make the funeral be a recoupable charge to Biggie in death this is one of my
53:29closest friends and it's still one of my closest friends I just I feel his loss I just miss him so
53:36much so I'm doing a big show looks good on him but he's not gonna tell the world that Biggie was gonna pay
53:45for it in Bestar Brooklyn the whole hood was outside if you could make it there you was there it was a
54:04a big loss for the city I loved Biggie Biggie inspired me he gave me hope he made us feel like he was from the
54:12town you could make it we loved Biggie so it was like losing a family member he just wanted to be a rap
54:20superstar he didn't want to hurt nobody he's probably one of the only people I had really trusted like for a long time it's not a
54:30feeling that I really felt a lot like in my life I don't really have a lot of friends I think people
54:36think I have a lot of friends you know I don't think I really make a good friend before he was
54:44assassinated Biggie had an opportunity to be on the cover of Rolling Stone we were delivering the
54:52elements so that can happen and Sean called me and said pull that cover I need to be on the cover
54:58my solo album is coming in July no way out and I need to amp that up
55:04he took the cover from Biggie
55:09another thing at the time Biggie was negotiating his contract every day I wake up
55:19we acquiesced and gave him everything he wanted and then he died can't believe you ain't here
55:26Sean wanted me to change the agreement to more favorable terms for bad boy and his family and
55:36mother would not know and since he had signed the agreement he wanted those changes to come from out
55:44of the center of the agreement and have those pages replaced with the other terms and I said that's not
55:49right I'm not doing it 90 days later I'm fine it's like I felt empty inside without you being
55:57here I remember Michael Jackson the Motown 25 special MTV Madonna like a virgin and I remember puff
56:12with Sting
56:13check it out
56:21having a TV moment in music it's very rare it elevates you to such another level of
56:27superstar it made him rockstar bitch
56:30it's kinda hard when you're not around
56:33know you in heaven smiling down watching us while we pray for you
56:37he became humongous but now it's him now I'm the man
56:42it's like a dream come true to see the lines like in front of the stores like people going there to get
56:50my record it's it's crazy it all happened pretty quickly for you from being an intern to being on the cover of the road in snow
56:58thanks for Biggie's mother who's sitting right there for having notorious V.I.G
57:02you've abused everyone and used most everyone
57:07there are horror stories like this all throughout cleared of gun possession and bribery charges Sean Puffy
57:19Combs walked out a free man some people speak up about it most do not the first member is
57:27Aubrey it's a pattern with him violence was a very normalized part of living in that world
57:36allegations of sexual misconduct Huffy called these encounters freak off
57:43witnessed Diddy abusing Cassie and that they encouraged Cassie to get away from him
57:50everything in life you're gonna have people that are bad and people that are good you know you have to choose your side
58:06everything in life than the pianist that have people you're gonna have them here before
58:11you know you stand up it you've got a lot of he's gonna have people that are brilliant
58:13so now I want to hear it youręes that know for today is what it shows you like
58:17a couple little הס Aussie but tu's gets all about your touch b對不對
58:19it's a little bit of a habit now as soon as it can reach out there
58:22you'll be the enemy you'll be the other customers that a few finds
58:25where home it will be marär by you the sự there is
58:27all about us they want to look glorify
58:27it's notifications and citizens do that Wownaps
58:32you got them to see too many of us
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