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Death Row being as strong and powerful as it was,

that was the place to be.

♪♪

Tupac took Death Row to the next level.

Death Row, come on. Let's count with me.

Come on, y'all, count with me.

It was young Black people with money.

Next year, Death Row gonna start printin' our own money.

We was having a good time.

Everywhere you go, you will be seeing Death Row.

But something went wrong.

Snoop is being charged with first-degree murder.

♪ Murder was the case that they gave me... ♪♪

(Danny Boy) Suge started gaining a lot of enemies.

(Suge Knight) How you gon' be scared of something that you are?

When I say, "ghetto," I'm a ghetto nigga.

(overlapping shouting)

It started to blur boundaries between what the street beef was

and what the East vs. West was.

This is the West Coast hip-hop representin'.

We not just talkin' this shit, we livin' this shit.

We killin' shit around here. Straight killers.

The street life is suicidal.

Out to New York and all those bitch motherfuckers

that think that's what's happening.

(gunshot)

♪♪

(lights buzzing)

♪♪

(automated voice on phone) This call is being recorded.

Hi, I'm Kurt Loder with an "MTV News" brief.

Rap star Dr. Dre is scheduled to turn himself in

to Los Angeles police on Friday afternoon

to start serving a five-month jail sentence

for a 1994 drunken driving conviction.

(Dr. Dre) First night in jail was crazy

'cause I remember this guy

that was just, like, yelling all night.

He was like, you know, "F you, God!

You're pissing on me!"

This is gonna be an interesting five months.

I had a lot of time to just sit in there and think

about, you know, what I wanted to do in the future,

and, you know, things I wanted to accomplish.

It actually was a blessing in disguise

because I was on the road for failure, man.

Just the fast life, just the partyin',

and you know, spending a lot of money

that I didn't really need to be spending.

I was wilin' out.

♪♪

Dre's personal life at that time was in spirals,

just going in all kind of different directions.

Cut these cameras off. Let's get our party on.

(Colin) Dre and Michel'le, that was falling apart.

What I'm doing right now is, um,

I'll be putting out a solo album soon.

You know, we were off and on, but still a couple.

At the time, I was getting beat,

but it wasn't-- you know, it was normal.

But we had those kind of times,

and then, for whatever reason, he just got that way.

And it became too much to take. We broke up.

To be perfectly blunt, I just did

a lot of stupid, stupid things.

And, um, I think it takes age and experience to realize that.

It's not the same Dr. Dre out at the clubs,

wilin', tearing up things.

I value my career a lot more, you know.

Only thing I wanna do now is come to the studio,

make my records, work, boogie,

have fun up here with the people that are here, and go home.

Hold up. I gotta find it.

It's in here somewhere.

♪♪

I decided I was gonna start on an album,

"California Love."

It was my song and it was a complete song.

You know, everybody felt like, "Yo, Tupac is--

"you know, he's fresh out of jail.

"This would be a good song for him to do

for his first single."

So I took my second verse off,

put him on, and he did some ad-libs

at the end of the song.

We went out and did a video.

Here we go! California, get up!

(cheering)

♪♪

They told me the idea for the video.

I was like, "That is the bomb. I'll be there."

He said, "It's gonna take three days."

I was like, "Wait."

He's like, "It's in the dirt."

I was like, "Hold it."

He's like, "And you're gon' be in tight leather and spikes."

And I was like, "Uno momento."

Suge like givin' a nigga a little extra.

(Tupac) For the loudest, um, "Mad Max" person,

we got an ounce of weed for the loudest,

wildest motherfucker out here.

(cheering)

It definitely changed for Tupac, you know,

from "Dear Mama" to, you know, "California Love."

It's like, "Wow, I can't believe it."

You know, he in Cali. He gettin' all this love.

Everybody waitin' for him.

(indistinct chatter)

(man) 'Sup, Tupac?

What's up?

When he finally got in the studio,

he's like, "Damn, I'm finally here.

I got Dr. Dre on the boards and I'm in the booth."

The music that he needed met his lyrics,

which created "All Eyez on Me."

♪♪

(Tupac) I'd been in jail for 11 1/2 months.

I wasn't about to come out and censor

the thoughts that were in my head.

They were, like, building on top of each other.

(Suge) The title was one of the best titles in the world

to fit him, "All Eyez on Me," because at the time--

at this time, I think it's this guy's moment.

Anything he do is perfect.

"All Eyez on Me." "All Eyez on Me."

On top of the excitement, he brought a work ethic

that we had never seen before.

(Tupac) Okay, well, this what I'm gonna do.

I'ma try and do it one more time, clear as possible.

We would stay in the studio for a whole day

and make one record.

Pac came in there, man, and was knockin' down

five records a day.

Every day. Including Sunday.

So we in there goin' for it, goin' for it,

Pac like, "That's what I'm talking about!

That's what I'm talking about!" He added that fire.

And then we see what it sound like.

If not, everybody lose they job.

Everybody gon' lose their job, back it!

Pac only wanted to work.

His main concern was studio, studio, studio.

That's the only thing he wanted to do at that time.

♪♪

He could knock down songs faster than anybody.

(cheering) How do you like me now?

Tupac taught me how to shoot from the hip,

you know, and do what feels right.

He didn't think twice. It's just flowing out of him.

(woman) I understand you've been in the recording studio.

(Tupac) Yeah.

(woman) How's it been going so far?

(Tupac) Excellent.

We've already finished 18 songs.

We're gonna do a double album that's real good.

(Papa G) It was the first double-CD ever

for a hip-hop artist.

In prison, he had not written down a word,

not a lyric.

All of that was created, written down and created

the day he got out.

I'd like to see somebody else who feel

they better than him or they feel they competin' with him.

Let 'em put out a double-CD.

It would never happen.

(Tupac) I like to go in the studio and do three songs a day.

The music, that's when it's fresh.

That's when it's good.

If I die or whatever, it can happen.

If anything were to happen to me,

it's about three albums ready, and I like that.

That's all he did until the album was finished,

and then he began to party and hang with Suge.

(both shouting indistinctly)

I gotta do an album, boss! I got hoes!

(Suge) He the type can be like a brother, a friend,

because he real, you know.

He don't get caught up in the bullshit,

into the Hollywood.

He just wanna make sure he do a great job for you,

and he gon' represent you to the fullest

long as you representin' him to the fullest.

(Napoleon) You never seen Suge around an artist

the way he was around Pac.

If Pac gotta go to the studio, he in the studio.

Pac wanna go here, he went. They became friends.

I might as well say you my little brother

because I get a Benz, he get a Benz.

I get a Rolls, he get a Rolls.

Suge has a flavor. Tupac became that flavor.

And when Suge gets your flavor, you Suge's sidekick.

You ain't goin' nowhere without Suge.

(cheers and applause)

Thursday nights, they all went to some strip joint, you know,

and I'd just see stacks of 1s like this, you know,

who were being counted out for them in the office.

(Joe Cool) Tupac, he wanted to be a part of something

that was bigger than just rapping,

and he was really impressed

by how these Death Row Bloods move.

♪♪

Suge welcomed him like, "You see?

"You see how we get down? This Bompton, nigga.

"Nigga, we... we take what we want.

Everything else is beneath us."

We got strength in numbers.

We already run the streets out here.

There is no fear. There is no problem.

There ain't nothin' but opportunity, and opportunity...

He fell right into it, man, you know.

It was a perfect fit.

♪♪

(William Lesane) Pre-Death Row, Pac would try

to appeal to both sides, Bloods and Crips.

When he went to Death Row, he was strictly representin'

Mob, M-O-B, Bloods, right, Piru.

But that was in conflict with his "Thug Life" message.

"Thug Life" was designed to try to organize the inner city.

Suge never did that.

He unified the gang members that worked with him,

but he never really was like, "Hey, guys, stop bangin'."

So you got a guy looking to find direction,

looking for something to be down with.

Tupac saw Suge, a Blood, as a father figure.

He finally found that direction.

Suge saved his life, bailed him out of prison

when it seemed like everyone turned they backs on him.

That's why we doin' that shit all the time.

(Napoleon) He showed his loyalty toward Suge.

And as the East Coast-West Coast beef escalated,

who escalated it? Suge Knight.

And Tupac followed.

Everybody screamin' about the East Coast.

This is the West Coast hip-hop representin' constantly, 24/7.

We doin' it for real. Everybody out here

got real thug lives to match these thug records.

(Sharithra) Then that East Coast-West Coast thing, it became violent.

♪♪

"Newsweek" magazine reports this week

on what it says is a growing feud

between East Coast rap mogul Puffy Combs

and West Coast titan Suge Knight.

(Danny Boy) The problems started magnifying more.

Suge lost a friend in Atlanta that was murdered.

You know, Jake was a good guy, and they were saying,

"Oh, that had something to do with Puffy people."

(Mob James McDonald) A lot of people was pissed off about that.

We outside of Death Row and-- and-- and Bad Boys.

This is on some total street shit now.

It was a war of words before that,

but now, you know, there's a body.

So, December of 1995,

Death Row throws a Christmas party

up in the Hollywood Hills.

And an individual named Mark Anthony Bell,

a friend of Puffy's, attends this party,

and is accosted and taken upstairs.

Suge Knight, Tupac Shakur all confront him and they say,

"Listen, you know, we're gonna beat your ass

"until you tell us where Puffy's family house is

out here in Los Angeles."

(Carter Harris) And, um, Mark didn't want to give that up.

And they, uh, did some... did some things to him.

(Funkmaster Flex) I'd heard of those incidents happening at the time,

which was letting it be known that, you know,

this is real beef goin' on here.

(Kurupt) The East Coast, they never really gave us respect as artists.

We always had an issue with that.

A lot of people think Tupac started this whole persona

of the East and the West against each other,

but it was really "New York, New York" that set that off.

(cheers and applause)

♪♪

(Sharithra) "So let's make a song, 'New York, New York,'

and get everybody involved."

It was a big joke

about steppin' on the buildings in New York.

♪♪

To New York, it wasn't a joke.

They took that literal.

♪♪

I remember the "New York, New York" video being shot.

Biggie had called me on the station phone,

and Biggie said to me, "I guess you're okay

with these guys shootin' a video in Brooklyn."

I said, "Well, I didn't-- I didn't know about it."

So Big said, "Yeah, you know, you should let everybody know

on the radio that that video's happening."

I should've thought it through,

and I did go on the radio that night and say

what borough they were shooting a video in,

and I said the cross streets.

You know, I'd have never given out that information

if I knew somebody was gonna go over there and do something

that they shouldn't do.

(gunshots)

(Kurupt) We got shot at.

All we knew was to retaliate on the entire city.

Is y'all with me? (audience cheering)

Is y'all drunk yet? (cheering)

When we got shot at, that's really what got

this whole craze about the East and the West.

I have no motherfucking fear.

I have no fear.

I have only ambition and I want mine.

And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

It was like a dark cloud just hovering.

And you didn't know what was gonna happen.

♪♪

Gang violence in Los Angeles, and three people are dead.

The shootings were part of warfare...

(woman) This whole East Coast-West Coast thing, what was happening?

It seems like the brothers out here

be on some-- I don't know, on something.

(Tom Brokaw) And these days, it doesn't take much to start a gang war.

Just over the weekend...

(Kevin) It was insanity, man.

It was insanity.

(woman) What if somebody's gonna get hurt by this?

Do you think about that at all?

(Danny Boy) Suge started gaining a lot of enemies.

Puffy and also guys that lived in the hood.

Bulletproof vests had to go on more.

It was a part of our wardrobe.

(laughter)

Suge's hood and the South

didn't get along already on the street level.

So why wouldn't you go team up with their enemies?

Puffy's got to figure out a way to protect himself

when he or his artists come out here to Los Angeles.

And so, through a close friend of Puffy,

a guy named Eric Martin, says, "I can handle this.

"I got a crew out there, these South Side Crips.

"I've been dealing dope with them for years,

and their main guy, Keffe D, is my boy."

♪♪

Puffy needed somebody that can deal with the Mob,

with the Bloods and Suge.

Front Hood Crip. Original Front Hood Crip.

(Mob James) It was a war between the Mob and South Sides

because Death Row and Bad Boy,

and the little homies wasn't gettin' paid for that.

Niggas you see out here is killers!

All of us killers, right here!

These guys that's in the streets,

all they thinkin' is, "I got another one under my belt."

(overlapping shouting)

(B.G. Knocc Out) For Puffy to come and gravitate towards them,

it was a recipe for disaster.

We all carry shit around here.

Straight killers, that's it!

And it set a bad course.

Set a bad course.

It started to blur boundaries between what the street beef was

and what the rap beef was and what the East vs. West was.

Suge and Puffy bear some responsibility.

This is a nigga from the East Coast.

He ain't from the West Coast embarrassment.

He's from the East Coast!

(Suge) A lot of times, people do so much...

so much talkin'.

I think everybody wanna--

wanna, you know, far as doin' the talk,

but they only wanna do the walk.

(man) Did you feel any pressure to sort of clean up what you doin'?

I don't feel no pressure as far as cleaning up

what I'm doing whatsoever.

I don't feel I'm doing anything wrong.

♪♪

They could've done more to try and stop it.

So could have the media as well.

(camera shutters clicking)

It's been a constant battle over who's better, you know,

who's making more records.

I like rappers who gonna say what they have to say.

(Tupac) When it all go down, don't look at me and Biggie

and be like, "Why is there a big East Coast-West Coast war?"

when you're shooting this to 30-- 300 homes,

300 countries, tellin' 'em about

a East Coast-West Coast war that they would never know exist.

(woman) The East Coast-West Coast thing, why was that goin' down?

Somebody just wanted to make a mountain

out a molehill, you know.

It's not that deep.

(Carter) I was deep in it at the time

as an editor at "Vibe."

Last thing we wanted to see was people get hurt.

Problem is, that headline came out,

"East vs. West" with that Biggie-Puffy article,

and people said it-- it-- it fanned flames.

(Suge) If you wanna be a bigger man, be the bigger man.

Far as myself and Death Row, we not into this gossip.

♪♪

(Snoop Dogg) I look at the East-West thing as not a Snoop Dogg problem.

If it's a problem, we need to really sit down

and talk and get an understanding with each other

and stop being punks and hiding behind labels

and hiding behind music and videos.

The "East vs. West" title came from the top down.

We argued against it, and despite our arguments,

it ended up on the magazine,

and it speaks about how corporations work.

♪♪

(Kevin) Always follow the money, you know.

Who really has the money here

at the end of the day, you know what I mean?

Follow the money and follow the power.

That'll give you your answer. It's real simple.

We never conspired at the labels,

"Oh, this is great. Let's, you know, tell Suge

to, you know, start a war."

Absolutely not.

We're white guys running a record label.

If we wanted to fix this, there's no way for us to fix this.

We didn't start this.

I also know for certain that all those artists

and Puffys and Suges and guys,

they knew that was selling tons of records too.

It's gonna be on "Entertainment Tonight."

We'll sell another million records this week.

(Kevin) America was built on sensationalism.

You know what I'm saying?

Why would that be any different with Bad Boy, Death Row?

It's like sensationalism

is what we've been socialized to look for.

'Cause that's what the media brings across.

You never hear about MC Wannabe shootin' MC Gonnabe.

(woman) Snoop is being charged with first-degree murder,

conspiracy to commit an assault with a firearm,

and being an accessory after the fact

following the August 1993 shooting of Philip Woldemariam.

(Joe Cool) I was scared for him, you know.

The media people would be there chasing us down and shit.

I'm pushing people off.

Man, yo, y'all less up, man.

Uh, people vs. Calvin Broadus, uh,

McKinley Lee, and Sean Abrams.

I see Mr. Kenner here.

All of us was on edge, you know what I'm sayin'?

Very serious time.

To lose the Dogg would be everything.

(Snoop) I just was looked at as a murderer

and some evil person that just go out and just kill people

and then rap about it and glorify it,

and, you know, happy that somebody was dead, you know.

And that's not me, you know.

I felt very remorseful. Still do.

(P. Frank Williams) Even if you Snoop Dogg and you finally made it,

you a rapper, you all over the charts,

you're still dealing with the streets.

And at the time, you know, "Murder Was the Case."

♪♪

(Snoop) ♪ As I look up at the sky

♪ My mind starts trippin', a tear drops my eye... ♪♪

(Jake) His album goes to number one

with a song called "Murder Was the Case That They Gave Me"

that he performs at MTV.

♪ Murder was the case that they gave me ♪♪

I'm innocent. I'm innocent.

(cheers and applause)

No statements. No statements.

(Snoop) You know, all of the stuff surrounding that,

it put a bad wrap on me and a bad jacket on me.

And once people actually understood the case

and found out the specifics behind it

and what really happened, then it, you know,

turned for the better.

There was some discussion whether or not Philip was running.

Did he really have a gun?

Miraculously, some of the clothes

that were involved in the situation,

some evidence disappeared.

There is a significant overlooking

of the significance of the testimony.

(Jake) They brought out all the heavy guns

and aimed 'em at Snoop.

He owes it to Death Row for bankrolling his defense.

(Snoop) Death Row was the label that, you know,

looked out for me and stayed there for me

in my corner and helped me through this.

I definitely gotta give them a shout-out

for being there for me because I was traumatic

and didn't know what to do or, you know, who to turn to.

(woman) Attorney Johnnie Cochran has said evidence in this trial is,

"going to be a problem" again.

Part of that problem is the fact

that the LAPD accidentally destroyed evidence

against Snoop Doggy Dogg and the others.

They fought, you know, and it was just like...

(sighs) Man, I mean, right now,

I'm gettin' a little chill thinkin' about this shit.

We, the jury in the above-entitled action,

find the defendant, Calvin Broadus,

not guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree.

(Snoop) I wish it would've never happened.

I'm just, you know, happy that it's over with,

and I can move on with my life, but it's gonna take some time

for it to get all the way out of my system.

(P. Frank) He sees it as a turning point where things

could've went one way and it went another way.

He was very fortunate to have beaten it.

And in that situation, it was Suge

who really helped Snoop get through that.

(John Norris) As far as Snoop getting back into public life,

do you think it's gonna be a difficult transition for him?

Yeah, he'll be back in the public eye tonight.

Tomorrow, as soon as we touch down

for this big party we givin', this big bash.

He'll definitely be in that public eye tonight.

(Snoop) I went through a murder case.

I was blessed with the opportunity to see my kid,

and to see him grow up and to be a part of his life.

So I'm not fixin' to throw that away for nothing or nobody.

I'm here to make good music.

Let me see you dribble.

Let me see you dribble. Come on.

There you go. There you go.

♪♪

(woman) Snoop, did you find yourself, after the trial, like,

in the studio, trying to get some stuff done?

You know what, my people from Death Row,

they took me out, out of town, you know what I'm saying,

to release my mind, and that's something I really needed.

You know what I'm saying? I had fun in the water. You did lose your mind.

I went to the water. I was in the sky.

Me and Tupac was, like, 30 feet in the air.

(laughter)

Out-on-bail rapper Tupac Shakur's

rush-to-market double album "All Eyez on Me"

debuts at number one on this week's "Billboard" chart.

(Suge) With his "All Eyez on Me,"

Tupac took Death Row to the next level.

(record scratches and tape rewinding rapidly)

♪♪

Death Row being as strong and powerful as it was,

that was the place to be.

It was just freakin' free-for-all.

It was young Black people with money.

We was havin' a good time.

♪♪

For Pac... it was great.

After sittin' for so long, are you kidding me?

There were chicks running through the halls half-naked.

You can get a fist for that!

You can get with this.

It was Tha Dogg Pound workin' over here.

Snoop workin' over there.

♪ It ain't no party like a Dogg Pound party ♪

♪ 'Cause Tha Dogg Pound party on ♪♪

It was electric for him.

(laughter)

(Danny Boy) Tupac, he was back on the right track.

It's gon' be tight!

♪♪

(Danny Boy) But something went wrong at Death Row during those times.

♪♪

(Queen) I think the good times brought a lot of bad times too.

I mean, it's liquor-infused. There's weed.

There's, I'm sure, all types of other drugs.

If you can, while we waitin' or whatever, can we just get

that bottle of Hennessy and the drinks?

(man) Bottle of Hennessy!

(Queen) So from those usage, especially the over-drinking,

a lot of things, fights-- it became ghetto.

It was like rollin' up in the hood

instead of rollin' up to a recording studio.

(DJ Quik) The atmosphere changed, 'cause at this point, you know,

Suge became like menacing.

It was like it was hard to be around him.

We had a disagreement, and he picked me up,

threw me across the room.

(laughing) Whew!

(DJ Quik) It just got more volatile.

It was like arguments would start for nothing.

You know, you look at somebody the wrong way,

walk past them, and, you know, you could get your ass whupped.

Gettin' hands put on me myself, it just seemed like it wasn't,

you know-- it wasn't fun at that point.

(Dr. Dre) I'm like, "Yo, let me just stay away from that."

I'm not even trying to put myself in a position

where I'm gonna get hurt or have to hurt somebody.

You know what I'm saying? So I thought it was better

if I would just, you know, stay my distance.

Dre wanted to make music.

He didn't agree with the beefs from Death Row.

He didn't want to be a part of the East Coast-West Coast thing.

All this East Coast-West Coast nonsense

is just getting ridiculous, you know.

It's just like another form of Black-on-Black crime.

(Alonzo Williams) Dre was cool with everybody, so for him to be

in an environment that was so tense,

that-- that ain't-- that ain't something he's gon' roll in.

He ain't gon' do that for long.

When I, um, saw an engineer get beat down

for rewinding the tape too far, you know...

it was-- that was like, "Okay, what are we doing here?"

(Jimmy Iovine) Dre came to me and said, "Look, this isn't working anymore.

The relationship was obviously over.

Suge really wanted to end it and so did Dre.

Jimmy turned and he had to choose Suge or Dre,

and he chose Dre.

Dre was the more tamable person.

Suge wasn't tamable.

Went and met with Jimmy and I remember discussing and saying,

"Well, this is gonna be a really hard thing to do."

Are we gonna pay Death Row

to have an artist that we already have?

Because he's on Death Row and we have Death Row.

And then Jimmy surprised me. He said,

"Dre doesn't want anything." I go, "What?"

As far as Dr. Dre goes,

been there, done that, through with it.

If he chooses to go on, move forward,

and do his own thing, for me,

I'm not trying to be an asshole about it,

but that couldn't be a better position for me.

I mean, Death Row is a multimillion-dollar company

that have a catalog of hits on top of hits,

and I still own all the masters.

(Carter) Dre took those masters with him,

and Suge was really pissed off.

(Sharithra) He took the homies to visit Dre.

(Jake) And that became another one of those urban legends

that Suge Knight was known for.

(beep)

(man 1) "Death Row Chronicles," scene five, take seven, mark.

(director) And action.

Hey-- What up, Dre?

Suge was trying to stress Dre out throughout the process.

He probably did some things to kind of intimidate him.

(Carter) I certainly believe that Suge intimidated Dre

and made it known that he wanted those masters

and that Dre wasn't gonna leave with anything.

I think we paid Death Row $3 million Interscope money

to have Death Row agree to release Dre.

As an owner, he would be owed, you know,

$20 million, $50 million, I don't know.

(Dr. Dre) Shit happens, straight up.

I was always told, if a person fucks you one time,

it's their fault.

They fuck you twice, it's your fault,

and I'm not gettin' ready to get fucked again, straight up.

No doubt about it. Fuck that.

(Kurupt) When Dr. Dre left, that fucked us all up.

The direction changed. The guidance changed.

Way more incidents that's happening, you know.

You go to New York, you got way more problems

out there that's crackin', so now,

you fightin' all the time, and it just keeps escalatin'.

All we saying is, we is here.

If you come at us, we gon' get you.

You know what I'm saying? That's reality.

Let's get this shit, baby!

Tupac having his issues is like, "Come on, man.

"Somebody needs to yank these dogs' chains

"and put 'em back in the yard, 'cause at some point in time,

this ain't gonna end very well."

I send this one here out to New York

and all those bitch motherfuckers

that think that's what's happening.

It's all about the West Side, baby, the West Side!

Tupac didn't want to just diagnose the problem,

he wanted to throw himself into it.

(Notorious B.I.G.) I want to give a shout out to my borough.

Brooklyn is up in here representing!

March of 1996 at the Soul Train Music Awards,

the plan was they was gonna rush that stage

while Biggie was on the stage.

Tupac, myself, Suge,

we went through the VIP area.

That's when we saw Bad Boys

and some Southside Compton Crips

coming out with them.

(men shouting)

When we hit the parking lot, there was a lot of clowning.

A lot of clowning.

(Tupac) This is the West Coast hip-hop

representin' constantly.

(Danny) Pac was adamant about

whatever it was the beef that he had

between Biggie and him that it was serious.

And Pac wanted him to know, "You on my turf."

You on the West Side. We run over here, we run L.A."

(Tupac) We can't talk no shit

till you show me everybody that's representing.

I notice one of the guys by the name of Keffe D,

had his gun, pulled it out.

I'm just telling him, "Don't raise that gun, Keffe,

please, you know, don't raise the gun, brother."

Pac going crazy, telling him, "Gimme the gun, gimme the gun."

Luckily, LAPD stepped in the middle,

and then Keffe D, he took off and ran.

(reporter) Shakur reported pulled a weapon

on New York rapper Notorious B.I.G.

It's just ridiculous, you know what I'm saying?

But I also understand that if you was to get shot

five times, your mind is just completely spinning.

You know what I'm saying?

You're real confused about your situation.

There is no mercy in my heart. You know what I mean?

I'm not out here on no wild shit like I was before.

This is not the same Tupac, believe me.

I'm just very pissed off.

And this ain't-- Don't tell me ain't nothing wrong

and we should all be together.

If you gonna act like you a gangster

or a G or the king of New York,

I'ma expect that.

And when you don't come through,

then I'm gonna crush your empire,

and that's what it's time for.

(P. Frank) That's just not talk.

It was like gunpowder and dynamite,

and at some point, it was gonna blow up.

♪♪

(Tupac) Hey, get this on tape!

♪ All y'all motherfuckers, fuck you ♪

♪ Die slow, motherfucker

♪ My 4-4 make sure all your kids don't grow ♪

I had never heard a dis record like that in my life.

And I thought to myself, "Wow, we about to put that out?"

(Carter) There was no turning back.

I mean, he's on this record talking about

fucking Biggie's wife.

(Faith Evans) The situation with me and Tupac,

there really never was a situation.

No, I'm not pregnant by Tupac

and I don't know who my baby's father is.

I'm pregnant by Big.

(Carter) I remember sitting in my office

listening to that song for the first time,

and it was dead silence,

and I remember looking around the room and saying,

"Someone's gonna die behind this."

When you don't respect me, I'm gonna spank your ass.

I don't give a fuck how rich you got.

On the block, I'm your big brother.

I will break you big ass down.

Keep your mother shut, Big. You know what I'm saying?

Just don't feed into it.

If you feed into it, it's gonna do nothing but escalate.

(B.G.) Now you talking about people's families and children

and stuff like that.

Now it's a chess game.

It went from checkers to chess.

And yeah, definitely got intense.

(Carter) There were people that were pissed off,

you know, post "Hit 'Em Up," and you could feel

that lives were now at stake.

(Suge) I'm not finna go and say, "Well...

"shit gets a little crazy in this world,

so I'm gonna go sit down somewhere."

I'm not finna sit down nowhere.

I'm gonna walk the same pattern

and talk the same talk.

(Danny) "So, let's go to Vegas."

We were excited to get to Vegas

because Vegas was-- was the playground.

Never in a million years would I would've imagined

when happened that day.

Suge and other homies like, "Come on, let's go."

They said, "Tyson fight Pac."

He loved Tyson.

So he got talked into going.

And Suge had a nice house down there and--

and everybody got nice rooms down there.

We go to the Luxor, we gamble.

We got our Club 662.

It's like, we can take these bulletproof vests off.

We can just chill.

We have the individual accosted and out of the car.

He's being searched now. Uh...

There's one down! There's one down.

There's one down right now. One down, one down.

The police is kickin' him. One down.

One's being kicked. We'll try to...

(laughter)

The only thing that was supposed to happen that night

was to go to fight, enjoy the fight,

come back to 662

and enjoy what was going on there.

♪ Candy-painted skyline

♪ Twilight-covered ragtops ♪

♪ Convertible backdrops

♪ The city's my ride found my own... ♪

(Ronald) Club 662, that was Suge's club in Las Vegas.

If you wanted to do one thing before you pass,

you wanted to be in Club 662.

(rap music continues)

Later on that night after the Mike Tyson/Bruce Seldon fight,

Tupac was supposed to perform.

♪ Unlike a '49 Mercury...

We used to make a grand entrance at the club

'cause Mike Tyson is coming to Club 662.

After this fight, he'll be here tonight.

Let's do this.

♪ Ride until the wheels fall off... ♪♪

(Danny Boy) But right after the fight, this dude, Orlando, was spotted.

Around a month before, Orlando tried to snatch

one of the homies' chains.

And now they see him

and they, you know, "Let's get him."

(BG) Orlando was a trip.

I don't think Tupac know exactly what he was doing.

(man) Tupac went after him.

Tupac swung on him, hit him,

and everybody else jumped him.

And they started kicking him, knocked him down the floor,

and, uh, Suge got some.

(BG) Orlando was my friend.

I believe that Orlando and Pac,

if they would have met under different circumstances,

they probably would be the best of friends.

You know, but you got the Buds and the Crips involved.

It's the lifestyle, man.

The street life is very foolish.

It's suicidal.

(three gunshots)

(female reporter) Rapper artist Tupac Shakur has died.

People thought he was gonna live.

(man) Suge Knight instructs to retaliate.

(male reporter) The five-day bloodbath apparently left three men dead

and ten wounded.

We were angry, and we all wanted revenge.

(gunshots)

(man on phone) A man's shot in our car right now.

(female reporter) Biggie was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

where he was pronounced dead.

Suge was in jail, the label was in chaos.

(male reporter) The future of Death Row could be in serious jeopardy.

(man) We felt like Death Row was over.

The music business was over.

♪♪

♪ Murder was the case that they gave me ♪

♪♪