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I always looked at him as just being
like this rich Harlem cat who just want

dance and make money.

No violence in him.

But every time I turn around, there's
violence.

There's violence with his name on it.

At the time,

There's a tension that is going on
between Pac and Puff.

Puff wanted to work with Pac on a lot of
levels business -wise, and Pac wasn't

having it. He was more interested in
bigging his career.

Puff was very threatened by Pac.

He was very threatened, especially if
you were an executive who wanted the guy

to make you money, and the guy was
saying, no, fuck you.

Around that time, Tupac was going to do
a song with Lil Sean at Quiet Studio.

Out of the blue, they wanted me to do
the song, so I said, all right, stopped

off to get some weed, smoked a weed.

Then I was getting a page, where you at,
where you at, where you at, why you

ain't coming?

I was like, I'm coming, I'm on my way,
hold on.

I wasn't thinking, why they want me here
so bad?

We walking up to the building, somebody
screamed from the upper top of the

studio, and it's Lil Caesar.

He's like Biggie's side man, right? And
we was in the recording with Big and

Puff, and I'm yelling like, yo, Pop!

And he looked up, yo, what's up, little
nigga?

I go back in the room, I tell Big, I'm
like, yo, Big, Pop's downstairs.

He was like, oh, all right, go get him.

Get into the elevator, and when I was
about to walk out, two dudes came from

both sides. Get the fuck back in the
elevator.

Recording artist Tupac Shakur was shot
five times last night in a robbery

attempt. After surgery, his condition
was upgraded to satisfactory.

And he's checked out of the hospital
against his doctor's advice.

I think they're trying to rub me out,
really.

Robbers don't leave behind $80 ,000
Rolexes. You know what I mean? They

that. In case nobody knows.

Let's look at the facts.

Puff is there.

Pop has been shot in New York under your
watch.

Question would be, who knew that he was
pulling up?

Biggie, knowing myself, had nothing to
do whatsoever of.

Tupac being robbed, that's just a fact.

After everything that has unfolded, I
have to think twice about how that

situation went down.

Do you think Puffy was involved?

I believe so. I do believe so. I have
proof.

You can see now why someone like a Puff
would want someone like a Pop out the

picture.

You know, Pop was vilified while he was
alive.

And Puff was exhausted.

That's the bigger picture.

And that's the story that hasn't been
told.

Like two months ago, right?

Puff is in this position where he has
all this turmoil, but he's not at the

point where he's saying, well, I went
wrong.

He's saying to himself, how do I get out
of this?

Maybe I can convince some witnesses that
I'm not the guy who I am.

Eventually, he's going to get to the
point where he's going to ask himself,

did I get myself into this situation?

95, he had two of the hottest acts.
Craig, that game was Flavor In Your Ear.

And Biggie.

Wow.

Bad Boy was rising up. My little lab
right here, you know, where I cut my

and all that. Got my little headset.
Living out a dream, you know what I'm

saying? One time, Sean was in his
office, and I'm in a little... cubbyhole

around the corner.

It buzzes me.

So I get up and I go in with my papers
and go. A girl is giving him a blowjob

the desk.

He wanted me to see that. He wanted me
to see her face.

And then he was able to get her to do
that right then and there in the office.

She leaves.

What did you want me for?

I didn't want you for anything.

That was the beginning for me to see.

This is what's going on here.

So the seize for all of this was early
on.

And that came from people in the
industry co -signing his activity

because it brought money in.

That whole bad boy thing was so big.

Faith Evans.

Total.

Biggie.

Greg Mack. It was a consistent back to

back to back to back.

So let me just give you a day in the
life of Puff Daddy.

Gets up.

From wherever he stayed that night.

Heads to the office two hours late.

You might have somebody pulling him
over, saying, hey, ain't you in that

Ain't that you?

Oh, yo, here go a demo.

Yo, oh, what's up, pup? How you doing,
baby, bruh? Just order that piece. Had

the big baseball bat cell phones. And
the phone might ring.

Such and such is on the phone calling
from jail.

Yo, I'm coming home.

You might have a group standing in front
of the office.

Already with the microphone, ready to
sing, you love me, I love, just to get

their shot at Puffy.

Everybody wants to see him. He is now
the new gateway into music.

You're going to take all of this power
and money you're getting now and play by

the rules?

No, I'm the rule now. I am the exception
to the rule.

One day, it seemed like out of the blue,
my door opens up.

Sean walks in.

He had a baseball bat and a big attaché
suitcase with the snaps on it.

The stocks were there.

He wanted me to sign my 25 % offer.

And then he's over me like this. He
wants to stop that.

He wants it now.

I'm not going to stay fucking lying
down. I'm not. I can't do that, man.

He said, there's a business deal I need
to take care of. I need to do this. I

need to get this all on one side, but
I'll give it back to you.

I'm going to give it back to you.

And he threatened until I did.

People always say to me, why would you
do that?

Why did you do that? Like, that was, you
know...

I didn't want to give it back. I wanted
to stay

in good graces. I still wanted to be at
the company.

It wasn't like he was firing me.

But I was definitely confused by it.

It might sound strange, but if you've
ever built something and you wanted to

laugh...

You think about how to make it last.

I want to know who's been naughty at
night.

I thought he was kind of cool at first,
and then

we started seeing some things.

Craig started becoming disenchanting. I
want to congratulate Craig Mack.

on his Grammy nomination. Yes, baby.
Cool. That's cool.

Yo, you got nominated for a Grammy.

But we had no money.

If you look at Bad Boy, Bad Boy didn't
sell enough records to explain his

wealth.

But enough artists were on the label
that sold enough records to explain his

wealth.

So my trick was, I'm going to make you a
star. Your sign, follow the money.

That's what you're going to try to do as
hard as you can.

You're going to try your best.

And we know you're going to try your
best.

So you sign your deal. We gave you your
advance.

At Uptown, that's the only money the
artist has ever seen, that first

Andre had to wait. He never saw anything
else.

Did he pick that up?

He made it even tighter.

The shell game.

You hide everything that is an earning.
You confuse the earnings.

And now I own everything.

You'll go out into the world. In the
shell game, you'll be looking for your

money for the next 20 years.

Sean did that to every artist.

You're in the studio.

Now you have to recoup for being in the
studio.

Pus owns the studio.

And I have four sessions with you. You
owe me $400 ,000.

If Pus records a song with his artist,
he pays himself.

If he's in your video, he pays himself.

He inserted himself into their videos.

A video come on, you be like, I hate
that guy.

As an artist, you can go number one.

Song is being played all over the
nation.

But you don't have the money to go to it
because you're not making the proper

money off of your royalties.

Craig and I hit a point where we were
fucked up. No money, nothing.

Hell, I was .

Getting money from my father to take
care of the house.

We were all at, like, somebody's album
release party, and Craig's going to tell

Puff to give him a few dollars, and
he'll hit him back once he went and did

show. He literally went in his pocket
and pulled out a knot of money this big

and gave him $100 bill.

You really just don't give a fuck.

I think Sean had an envy for his own
artist.

He was jealous of their talent and
wondering, like, this talent is wasted

people who don't even really know what
to do.

And if I had that talent and my know
-how, wow.

That's interesting, because a lot of
people Puffy's age want to...

grab this mic and rap.

But Puffy, you wanted to do other
things, and you're doing a lot of them.

Can you talk about his skills as a
rapper?

Sucks. He has zero talent musically. He
don't know how to skate. He don't know

nothing about R &B. He don't know none
of that stuff.

He used to ask me to always be there in
the sessions because I would tell the

truth. I'd be like, that's not it.

People would be there like, yeah, that
was tight. That was tight. I'd be like,

look, yo, for real, you got a lot of
people who just tell you anything.

That sucked.

It doesn't sound good and it makes no
sense.

But he always wanted to be an artist.

We're about to just drop our R &B stuff.

The Puff Daddy album.

Yeah, what about the Puff Daddy solo
project?

Yeah, we don't like to talk about that.
Sean used other methods and

ways to get the way he had to go.

Big on strategy, big on swag.

All of those things became important.

When the ball's down to the music, even
if I didn't touch it, I showed you what

to do.

So that's what he was.

That whole bad boy was built on

him. You cannot take that from him.

But I think that puppy wanted the light
like he always wanted.

From dancing the whole night, you see
anybody that's boasting and loud like

that, they want to be in the spotlight.

It wasn't like no secret, that's what he
wanted.

Six foot three, 335 pound, Suge Knight
has managed to become the head of a

hundred million dollar record company.
It's the record label at ground zero of

the whole gangster rap phenomenon, Death
Row Records.

Suge was about that money, but he didn't
want to be in that limelight like Puff.

He had his own lane.

You're a big guy, and there are people
who are afraid of you.

Probably people were afraid of you. Back
in 1988, the person who did the

greatest job of protecting me was the
head of my security at the time, Shaq

Knight. Right now I'm on the Heartbreak
Tour with Bobby Brown, a new addition.

We were about to get on the tour bus,
and these dudes came over, and they was

like talking crazy.

Y 'all niggas this, y 'all niggas that,
this, this, this.

And I seen Shaq kind of just turn this
way and gave him one of these.

BAM! Like that. And knocked dude down
the hill. And it looked like a cartoon.

Dude was rolling down the hill. Boom,
boom. His Timbs came off.

He's a street dude. He's a real street
dude. But Suge knew talent and he knew

business. They took me on tour and I
learned how every person who's writing

songs is getting beat up their money.
Like they published.

He was able to dovetail that into a
death row record.

One, two.

Before Bad Boy, Death Row was the most
successful label in the business.

Sean had admired Death Row and wanted us
to emulate them.

And that was my job. How do I make Bad
Boy equal to success of Death Row?

And, of course, my eyes were like, this,
Death Row?

They had a head start.

They had artists. They picked superstars
up from other indie labels. We're

starting off.

Me and him were friends.

Wow. Yeah, yeah. He would pick me up
from the airport.

You know, I was just networking with the
brother and showed me a lot of love.

You know, I really had thought we were
cool.

Me and Puffy, we used to run around with
each other.

He was getting in the business, I was in
the business.

Only a few years later, Bad Boy, Death
Row.

The two hottest labels.

But I would look over at Death Row and
say, they're taking care of their

better than we are.

They're putting your head, fuck the
artists.

And my thing was opposite. It's about...

Me and my people, fuck you.

Craig wasn't happy there.

Death Row was courting him because she
was opening up a Death Row East, and it

was found out.

Yes.

It's the Source Hip -Hop Musical Award!

The Source Awards was happening in New
York City.

And behind the scenes, people were
running back and forth to the next

room, to the next dressing room, which
were in trailers parked outside of

Madison Square Garden.

How important is it to have the Source
Awards?

Let me just wait in front.

You got that?

Come on, man. Who's banging on the door
like that?

When I was a dog, what is the deal, man?
Keep the door closed.

And it escalated with words from the
podium at the awards show.

Any artist out there want to be an
artist and want to stay a star?

I don't want to have to worry about the
executive producer trying to be all in

the videos, all on the record, dancing,
color deaf rock.

I'm the executive producer that a
comment was made about a little bit

Check this out.

Contrary to what other people may feel,
I would like to say...

that I'm very proud of Dr. Dre, of Death
Row, and Suge Knight for their

accomplishments. You know what I'm
saying?

I'm a positive black man, and I make
music to bring us together, not to

us, and all this East and West that
needs to stop. So give it up for

from the East and the West that won
tonight.

One love.

Sean wants to present strength.

He wants to show coolness.

And then there's a side of him that's
all out dark.

He processes things differently.

He remembers every slight.

Once again, y 'all, please give it up
for all the nominees.

Before I signed with Bad Boy, I was
working.

at the door of the club in Platinum
House.

Every Friday, we had a bad boy party.

So Puff was there.

Suge Knight came that night with his
friend Jake, and I was working the door.

Suge was looking for Puff.

Sean would try to go after people's side
chicks, like a girl in Atlanta

that Suge was dealing with.

Sean wanted me to take $50 ,000 out of
the overhead account so he could

buy her a diamond necklace, wooing her
because she was shook side piece in

Atlanta when he came there.

Real police officer in a real police
uniform came and got on the safe.

I said, man, you test a homie, we're
going to tear this motherfucker up.

He said, well, I got to throw him out. I
said, for what?

He said he was puppy.

Suge and Jake is being escorted out the
club by the off -duty

officer we always had there
moonlighting.

Jake comes out, Suge come out, Puff come
out.

Everybody's outside.

A man appeared with one hand behind his
back, and he was holding a pistol.

He touched Jake with the pistol.

And he looked at Suge like this and was
shooting Suge's friend like this.

He shot him five times.

Suge grabbed the hold to Puffy in the
chokehold and put him in front of him

this. So he was moving Puff around like
this. In case you shoot him, you're

going to shoot Puffy. You're not going
to shoot me.

Puff was like...

It's going to be all right, man. It's
going to be all right.

Shook. He said, what you mean it's going
to be all right?

He said, tell your mama it's going to be
all right.

Tell your kids it's going to be all
right.

And then the shooter ran.

Ambulance came and took Jake to the
hospital.

A couple of days later, he died.

That's what started the East Coast -West
Coast War.

Tupac Shakur, out of the hospital after
surgery from bullet wounds, is convicted

on sex charges.

After pocket shot in Quad Studio, he had
the rape case.

A New York jury convicted the rapper of
first -degree sexual abuse but acquitted

him of more serious charges.

Since your period of incarceration at
Clinton Correctional Facility,

Have you taken the time to reflect on
your gangster thug image?

Pac and Big were friends at one time.

But then once Pac was in jail, Bad Boy
and all of his associations were

nemesis.

While I'm in jail, strangers are telling
me, yo, you don't know?

Biggie Homeboy shot you.

Because they bragging. They telling they
in jail. Yo, we just got Pac.

Once the conflict happened, Pac needed
someone strong that was going to stand

with him.

And it just so happened that Suge had
his own issues with Puffy.

So Suge went to jail and visited him.

The whole shit is like some mob shit.

Into Tupac, a young cat.

I'm going to join the family, dog.

Get me out.

Suge Knight first signed Tupac to a
recording contract when Tupac was in

New York State prison, unable to come up
with the million dollars needed for

bail, while his lawyers appealed a 1995
conviction for sexual assault.

I want everybody to give a big welcome
to Tupac.

Out on bail, rapper Tupac Shakur's
rushed -to -market double album All Eyes

Me debuts at number one on this week's
Billboard chart. With the addition of

Tupac, there's no way y 'all can stop us
now. You think this ain't bad, boy?

I say fuck them all!

We're coming to the East Coast to prove
there is no fear.

Overthrow the government y 'all got
right now, which is bad boy and all that

bullshit, and we will bring a new
government here that will feed every

New York.

Cool, man. All right, man. Peace. Thanks
a lot.

Sean tried everything to get Biggie
upset.

He had to go at him with business. This
guy came at us.

I was more in a mind frame of keep your
mouth shut, big.

You know what I'm saying?

Don't feed into it.

If you feed into it, it's going to do
nothing but escalate. You know what I'm

saying? Biggie never wanted to be an
enemy to Pac.

As things was coming from the West
Coast, Biggie did not want to give any.

Shots back.

When Pop was producing All Eyes on Me,
he called us and said, I just fucked

Faith Evans, Big's wife.

We was like, what?

First of all, fuck your bitch in the
clique you claim.

Westside, when we lie to me, quit the
game. You claim to be a player, but I

fucked your wife.

But that's not true at all.

Big has sold my husband legally. I am
having his baby.

Sean kept putting pressure on Biggie.

You got to answer back.

Tupac had me pissed off, you know what
I'm saying?

And the rumors that spread on some tip,
like, we set him up, you know what I'm

saying? And that's crazy.

The East Coast, West Coast thing was
invented, period.

Because no matter what, we all went to
the East. They came here, went to the

West, whatever. They wasn't arguing with
each other. We were able to roam.

Fuck Biggie, fuck Bad Boy as a staff,
record label, and as a motherfucking

It was just Bad Boy and Death Row.

That right there put people in danger
because it made people be like, F you, F

you, and people started doing stuff for
no reason because it was, you know, it's

just people that want to ride for each
other. And then look what happened.

Doing the street thing.

My affiliation.

was with the Mansfield Hustlers.

Today, we go by Mansfield Gangster Crips
now.

Police say the drugs and violence are
being spread by two long -standing

in the Los Angeles youth gang scene.

Groups who call themselves Crips and
wear blue colors and Bloods who wear

Did you guys provide protection?

John Combs was a friend.

Christopher Wallace was a friend.

And, you know, when we're hanging out
with our friends, we're going to protect

our friends.

So they knew.

And they were our associates.

You got beef with them, you got beef
with me.

Period. A number of reports have come
out that Bad Boy Entertainment had

actually hired Crips for security work
out on the West Coast. Is that true?

We've never hired.

Crips or any other gang faction to do
security for us would be extremely

unintelligent to hire a gang, some gangs
to do security for you.

A lot of the New York guys come out to L
.A.

Zip is a person that I know that was
Puffy's man. That was his guy.

Eric finds Zip as the drug lord from
Harlem, but Sean told me he was his

He might have known Janice on the
fringe.

He might have known Sean's father from
those days.

Zip had a relationship with the
Southside Crips, and then he also had a

relationship with us.

Sean said Zip can give us protection
going back and forth to L .A. because he

was in with the Crips, and we had a beef
with Suge Knight and the Blood.

Night dresses in all red, the colors of
the drug -dealing Bloods street gang.

One of the death row people got jumped
by someone at a mall.

And that someone was from Southside
Crips.

One of the Crips tried to take a death
row chain.

I think that was an order from Bad Boy.
That was an order from Puff.

Because it was specific. We want a death
row chain.

Introducing the one and only fire, Mike
Tyson.

Everybody got what they wanted that
night.

People got to see Tyson knock a
motherfucker out.

And Tyson with a left hook and Selvin is
down. It's over in the first round.

That's probably the reason it got us all
fucked up and a lot of shit from fight

night.

Have you seen a Titan fight?

You want to fight.

At the fight, the guy who was ripped off
for the death row chain is with

Suge and Pop.

He just whispers to Pop, that's him.

It was Orlando Anderson.

from Southside Crip, who was connected
with Pop.

That was

the

foundational moment when all this was
getting out of control.

Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot in the
chest late Saturday. This morning shot

multiple times in the chest in a drive
-by. Death Row record label owner Marion

Shug Knight was also in the car, but his
injuries were minor.

Craig called me up. It was late.

He was out there at the fight because he
was supposed to have performed at some

club that Shug owns.

And I guess Tupac was supposed to come
through.

He was like...

How come Tupac just got shot?

Craig was like scared.

Who was he scared of?

Probably Puff.

He ended up not going to death row after
that.

Hi, I'm Tabitha Soren with MTV News.
Controversial rapper and actor Tupac

has died in a Las Vegas hospital of
complications.

I was in jail. I was in jail when he got
shot.

There was a lot of niggas in jail that
was celebrating Pac's death.

I'm glad that I didn't kill anybody or
anybody killed me.

But I damn sure came close.

Police in Las Vegas say they have no
motive for this latest shooting, but the

rapper's troubled past will certainly be
part of the investigation.

Do you know who was responsible for the
killing of Tupac Shakur? No, I don't.

I think that Sean now, in my mature
mind, had a lot to do with the death of

Tupac.

In 2006, I was recruited to work at Task
Force that was going to look at a

cold case investigation.

At the time, Tupac's murder was an
unsolved case.

Gang crimes oftentimes are difficult to
solve because you don't get cooperating

witnesses. They want to stick to a code
that typically entails not cooperating

with law enforcement and then taking
matters into your own hands.

It ain't my job to snitch on nobody,
because I would never snitch on nobody.

We had built a narcotics case against
Kifidi.

Kifidi was kind of the shot caller for
the Southside Crips.

He was the most prominent drug dealer.

He was very influential in his gang.

His nephew, Orlando Anderson, was a very
well -known violent gang member.

Tupac Shakur had assaulted Orlando
Anderson just after the Mike Tyson

So PPD was potentially looking at a life
sentence for federal drug trafficking.

We wanted to question him about his
potential role in the murder of Tupac

Shakur.

We let him know that he could
potentially mitigate some of the damages

wanted to come in and talk to us. And
the U .S. attorney agreed that they'd

allow Kifidi to do a proper session.

Kifidi, today what we're going to do,
we're just going to go over with a fine

-tooth comb the Las Vegas incident. We
do have to emphasize to you it's

determined that some of these details
are incorrect and everything's off the

table. A proper session is when a person
facing criminal charges can answer

questions wherein self -incriminating
information would not be used against

in a criminal prosecution.

Doesn't mean they have any kind of
immunity.

In the year prior

to the murder of Tupac Shakur, He has
had several conversations with Sean

Sean Combs'

affiliation with the Southside Crips
came by way of a New York street figure

known as Zip.

Zip set up the introduction between
Combs and Keefy D.

And then they developed their own
relationship.

He had a little kid dancing on my car
when he got back. It was fucked up.

He paid to get it repainted.

He called his phone and he wanted to
speak to me. They gave it to me. He took

to her.

He gave her some tickets and I brought
the crew.

TPD says that Sean Combs kind of makes
the general announcement while they're

all inside a hotel room after a musical
event.

Then there's a more specific incident
that takes place at a deli on Sunset

in Los Angeles, a place called Green
Black Deli.

What made it a specific, like, hey, I'm
serious, I want you guys to kill these

guys?

It would be a problem.

It was after he made the record. Hit him
up, came out.

Yeah, yeah, that pissed him off.

Yeah, we wanted a million.

He tells you seriously, man, I need to
get rid of these guys. And he's looking

at you in the eyes and he's like scared.

Yeah.

You tell him we'll do it for a million
and he's like, okay.

I said

that

when Las Vegas happens and they're all
out there and his nephew gets assaulted

by Tupac, they're like, this is the
perfect occasion.

And my big gang said, he's a beat -up
man.

And he was in the hotel, you know, at
the MGM at the restaurant.

Two of the few New Yorkers, though, were
with Zip.

Like, man, y 'all need some help?

We got this.

It's your perfect opportunity, baby.

That was Zip talking?

Yeah, yeah. Because of what happened
with Zip.

Yeah, yeah.

We were in our old pistol down there,
and he told me in the lobby that he had

some jams.

The vehicle that Zip was driving that
night reportedly had what we call a trap

in it, which is a concealed compartment
where you can place a gun.

It's a difficult thing to find.

Zip had driven that car to Las Vegas.

A few days before Tupac was murdered,
Sean requested that we rent cars

and have multiple drivers drive clear
across the country

to this fight.

But I arranged through my budget to make
that trip happen for those drivers.

And to this day, it stands out in my
mind.

Why did we rent multiple cars?

Why did we hire people from Harlem and
other locations?

To drive.

On their way to the club, Suge is
blaring his music too loud.

He gets pulled over by some police
officers. They essentially, you know,

just turn down your music, no big deal.

And it's at this point in time that Suge
and Tupac see these girls.

The traffic was stopped, and then they
got in the car.

Could you see who was with you?

I thought it was Tupac. And then he was
like, come on, come go with me. Come go

with us. We're going to 662.

I'm browsing.

Tupac! Tupac!

I was like, there you go.

Just wanted to be there.

And we just pulled up on the side and
checked every car to see where they was.

So what directed your attention to them?
Was it some girl shouting at Tupac?

Tupac! He gave himself away. Otherwise,
they would have got away.

If you knew who killed Tupac would you
tell the police?

Absolutely not.

I went and parked the car and put the
gun on the tire and left.

Where'd you guys go?

We smoked weed and drank.

Yeah, that's weird.

I didn't know them. They pulled up in
the ambulance while we were standing

there.

They got bullshit.

You got to know the street what it was.

We were on Las Vegas Boulevard at the
crosswalk, and they pulled up in the

ambulance right next to us.

When did they park already?

When Tupac and the children were in the
car.

That's close.

Did they see you?

So you get back to LA the next day, Zip
calls you and says, meet me at the hot

wing place we're at.

You guys go over there, Zip shows up.
You guys, what happens after?

On Zip's phone or your phone? On Zip's
phone.

And Zip gives you the phone?

Yeah.

So we'll say, well, he's happy to live.

And did you ask him to buy his money?
When are you going to get paid or

whatever? No, no, no, no. I don't have
to say that on the phone. Zip will get

our cash.

Okay, so you tell Zip we need to get
paid.

What does Zip say? I'm going to go back
home and have a... According

to Keefe D., he was never compensated
for the murder.

But he said that a partial amount of the
money was intended to be forwarded to

him through Zip to the tune of about
$500 ,000.

The million -dollar solicitation amount,
only half of it was fulfilled because

only Tupac... and not Shug was killed.

Kiffy D has a conversation with Darius
Rogers with DMACC.

And DMACC says there had been a payment
from Combs

to Kiffy D, but it had gone through Zip,
and then that money was never

forwarded.

We're... just hoping and waiting to see
what kind of progress Las Vegas would

make with Kifidi's cooperation.

Nothing really happens.

Ultimately, Zip dies from cancer.

Thank you for coming out to Zip's, and I
want everybody to know that when you

come here, we want to keep the peace.

And Orlando Anderson is shot and killed
in 1998.

So it's really Kifidi and...

And Puffy Combs are the last men
standing.

They can be held accountable for Tupac
Shakur's murder.

I remember 99 we were working in the
studio on a song called muscle game

The song comes on and Puff was talking
in the beginning.

I'm like, what is he talking about?

Everything that's done in the dark must
come to light.

Everything that goes up must come down.

Yeah, we rolling.

With the backdrop of East Coast, West
Coast beef, Sean took Biggie to Los

Angeles to record what would be the
finishing touches on Biggie's Life After

Death album, which wasn't titled that
yet.

Yo. Yo, baby, wake up. Wake up, baby.
Diddy, what the fuck, man? What's up?

Come on, now. It's a quarter to six. We
got the 7 .30 flight going to LAX.

Oh, Cali?

No doubt, baby.

We had been warned to not come to LA.

There were warnings all along for the
last few months that we are not the set

foot on the West Coast.

It was awards show season, and Sean
wanted him to start promoting the album.

Biggie did not want to go, but Sean
talked him into doing all of those

They were like catcalling and booing.

We were not welcome.

After the awards show, Saturday morning,
Biggie and I were to go to London, and

we were going to have a two-, three -day
press junket to have Biggie be one of

the first artists from Bad Boy to meet
the European press.

I had worked on that for months and
weeks leading up.

We were supposed to go to the airport
that morning.

I'm calling Biggie like crazy, what's
going on, wake up.

He's like, yo, Paz is bugging. He just
called me and told me.

I want you to stay here in L .A. I don't
want to stay. I want to go.

But Sean was out of it.

Cancel the flight.

Biggie's not going to the U .K.

What do you mean he's not going to?
Click, he hangs up.

This was his M .O.

Ego, power, tripping, all of it because
Sean wanted to do a party

on enemy turf.

Scared to death.

That's how real it is. I think
somebody's trying to kill me. I'll be

paranoid. I'll be really scared.

I'll just be paralyzed.

That night, Big and Puffy was with us.

They were having a party.

I spoke to Big, and I was like, yo, man,
you know, what are you doing?

Catching L .A., man, they get down in
these circumstances, man, and you just

can't be walking around here freely.

Everybody's mingling.

I look around, I say, where's Big?

Hold on, hold on.

Sir,

hold on.

Listen, sir, I can't hear what you're
saying.

We're man shot in our car right now.
Right now we're trying to run to the

hospital. I know the way. You got to
turn around, Jimmy. You're going

the wrong way. What the fuck is wrong
with y 'all, man?

I was following Big Lead on, like, you
know, we're going to do this peace tour.

And, you know, it didn't work out.

Sean said it on Can't Stop, Won't Stop.

Biggie wanted to go.

He's lying about that.

Sean wanted that trip and was pushing it
for weeks and weeks.

He lied about it and let me know.

That's a weak spot for him, and he's
nervous about that information.

He ushered Biggie to his death.

Who do you think killed Biggie?

Next question.

All it was is a puffy and shug night
war.

You're messing with lives here, and
that's exactly what happened.

Two lives were lost as a result of what?

Stupidity?

When I sat down with Valetta, we briefly
brought up Sean Combs. It was clear to

me that she had no real respect or
appreciation for him.

Sean clearly didn't do all that he could
have done to help out in the

investigation.

In fact, he was a hindrance in the
investigation.

Puffy was kind of stonewalling people
from talking.

Because, you know, if you make inroads
on Biggie's murder, you're going to make

inroads on Tupac's murder.

And that potentially can lead right back
to him.

How are Biggie's mom and Faith and the
kids taking all this?

Biggie's mom and Faith and the children
are extremely strong.

They've been, matter of fact, they've
been strong for me and helping to hold

up. Sean.

assumed the position of his best friend
in every article and publication,

and that wasn't necessarily true.

And I'm going to be there for them just
like he would be there for them to make

sure that they're all right.

Sean said, we're going to do the biggest
funeral for Biggie that New York has

ever seen.

And we start to put that together, he
starts to see the price, and he says,

we're going to do the biggest funeral,
but Biggie's going to have to pay for

this funeral.

He was going to make the funeral be a
recoupable charge to Biggie in death.

This is one of my closest friends, and
it's still one of my closest friends.

I just, I feel his loss. I just miss him
so much.

Sean doing a big show looks good on him.

But he's not going to tell the world
that Biggie was going to pay for it.

In Bed -Stuy Brooklyn, the whole hood
was outside.

If you could make it there, you was
there.

It was a big loss for the city.

I loved Biggie.

Biggie inspired me. He gave me hope. He
made us feel like you was from the town.

You could make it. We loved Biggie. So
it was like losing a family member.

I just wanted to be a rap superstar.

He didn't want to hurt nobody.

He was probably one of the only people I
had really trusted for a long time.

It's not a feeling that I really felt a
lot like in my life.

I don't really have a lot of friends.

I think people think I have a lot of
friends, you know.

I don't think I really make a good
friend.

Before he was assassinated, Biggie had
an opportunity to be on the cover of

Rolling Stone.

We were delivering the element so that
can happen, and Sean called me and said,

pull that cover. I need to be on the
cover.

My solo album is coming in July, No Way
Out, and I need to amp that up.

He took the cover from Biggie.

Another thing at the time, Biggie was
negotiating his contract.

Every day I wake up.

We acquiesced and gave him everything he
wanted, and then he died.

Can't believe you ain't here.

Sean wanted me to change the agreement
to more favorable terms for bad boy, and

his family and mother would not know.

And since he had signed the agreement,
he wanted those changes to come from out

of the center of the agreement and have
those pages replaced with the other

terms. And I said, that's not right.

I'm not doing it.

90 days later, I'm fired.

It's like I feel empty inside without
you in my head.

I remember Michael Jackson, the Motown
25 special.

MTV, Madonna, Like a Virgin. And I
remember Puff with Dave. Check it out.

Having a TV moment in music is very
rare. It elevates you to such another

of superstar.

It made him rock star, bitch.

He became among us. But now it's him.

Now I'm the man.

It was like a dream come true to see the
lines, like, in front of the stores,

like... People going there to get my
record is crazy.

It all happened pretty quickly for you
from being an intern to being on the

cover of the Rolling Stones.

Thanks for Biggie's mother who's sitting
right there for having Notorious B .I

.G.

You've abused everyone and used most
everyone.

There are horror stories like this all
throughout.

of gun possession and bribery charges,
Sean Puffy Combs walked out a free man.

Some people speak up about it.

Most do not. The first member is Aubrey.

It's a pattern with him.

Violence was a very normalized part of
living in that world.

You're a bad boy now.

Allegations of sexual misconduct. Puffy
called these encounters freak off.

Witnessed Diddy abusing Cassie and that
they encouraged Cassie to get away from

him.

Everything in life, you're going to have
people that are bad and people that are

good, you know.

You have to choose your side.