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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.