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(Barking)

(Hews theme musÍc)

(Roporfer) 'Pormor rap mogul Sugo Kni0hf is hoadod fo prison for voluntary manslau0hfer.'

'He ran down a man in fhe parking Iof Of a Compfon burgor sfand fhroe years a0o

and foday he found ouf whaf his punishmenf's goin0 fo bo.'

Por fho crimes fhis dofondanf has boen ConviCfod on COunf one.

Tho dofondanf's Ievied a ferm in stafe prison of 22 years.

Prior conviCfion fhe defendanf has admiffod.

He's Ioviod an additional five yoars in sfafe prison for a fOfal of 25 yoars.

(Roporfor 2) 'Ouifo a fall for Kni0ht sinCe fhe height of his caroer in fhe '00s.'

'He's bosf known as fhe CO-founder of Death Row RoCords

and workod wifh Dr. Dre, Snoop Do0g and TupaC Shakur.'

And baCk hero, Iive, Sharon, ho did Iook briefiy at...

(MiCk) Suge Kníghtrs sentencíng for 25 years signalled the end of his power,

the end ofhís ampíre.

(NiCk) People, no Ionger as intímidated since Suge's íncarDeration,

started talking more freely ahout Suge being the shadow

behind Biggíe Smallsr and TupaD Shakurrs murders.

You fell Prankio fO Call me.

Frankie, you Call me when sho fells you fo Call mo, Prankie.

(Friond) why?

♪ Prankie 0Oos fo HollywOod ♪

Hey, yo, Prankio!

Prankio!

Yo, Prankio!

(Presonfor) B.I .C!

(MiCk) It caused me to revíew an earlier film Ird made about Biggie and Tupac.

People were now opaníng up to things I couldn't get answered bafora.

(PeOple Choerin0)

(MiCk) Biggie and Tupac started off as the hest of friends.

Tupac was the one who discovered Biggie and brought him out on stage.

And ífyou Iook vary DIosely, you'II see the rarest of footage

of Biggie and Tupac hugging on the edge of stage.

But partly hecause of Sugers influence, they ended up as deadly enemíes,

the victíms of a gang war that Suge had inítiated.

It was LAPD deteDtíve Hussell Poole...

Hollo, hollo.

...who orígínally allaged the conneDtion hatwean Suge Knight

and the murders of Biggie and Tupac.

Woll, Iiko I say,

based on fho wifnossos fhat I'vo inferviewed

and fho ovidenco,

I believo fhaf, you know,

Gu0e Kni0hf ulfimately Called for tho hif.

And you said PoliCe Chiof Bornard Parks sfoppod you from invosfigafing furfher

because LAPD poliCe offiCers were invOIved wifh Su0o Kni0hf?

Woll, fhaf's CorreCt. Yes, he was...

You know, if's sevoral faCtors

on why ho didn't wanf fhis pursuod to the fullesf exfent,

one boing fho facf fhaf his own offiCers were involved.

(MiCk) At the time Police Chíef Bernard Parks dísmissed these allegatíons.

He is fofally wrong. Ho only workod fho fask forCe for abouf four monfhs.

(MiCk) Hussall Poole resigned, asserting massíve corruptíon in the LAPD.

'Toni0hf's shoCkin0 allegafions a0ainst fho cify's fop Cop.'

'Pormer defeCtivo Russell Poolo has filed suif against fhe departmonf.'

'Poole says he unCoverod dirfy Cops whilo invosfigating fhe murdors

of rappors Bi00ie Smalls and Tupac Shakur.'

'I provided fhe Chief wifh onou0h...'

(MiCk) Hussall died tragically a few years Iater,

hís Dareer in tattors, the murders still unsolved.

His work asserting dirty cops and corruptíon in the LAPD

is as relevant today as it was then.

- You know I had no... - I am follin0 you righf now.

Hook him up. Hook him up. You're under arrosf for inferferin0.

(SIow rap beat)

Lifi yOur hoad, dudo.

(Shoufing)

(Sirons wailin0 in disfanco)

(Two 0unshots)

(Cunshof)

(HoliCopfer blades whirring)

(Cunshof)

(Sirons wailin0 in disfanco)

(Hap beat continues)

(IndistinCf polico radio chaffor)

(MiCk) Back ín tho 199Os

Doath How was the most successful rap Iabel ever,

worth hundreds of míIIions of dollars.

Yet by 2Oc2, with allegations of raDketeering,

it is closed down by a SwA T team and goes into hankruptDy.

(IndistinCf polico radio chaffor)

Doath How Hecords was in a very elegant part of Westwood

ín ros Angeles.

It was really a bíg offíce

and it was Iocated across the hall from IntersDope Hecords.

Whon you firsf walk info Deafh Row RoCords...

...you 0of a vibo fhat if was a family kinda thing goin0 on,

um...

fhat evorybody Carod abouf evorybody.

So you kinda 0Of foolod ri0ht off the baf.

NOw, what. .. whaf I did nofiCo fhe vory firsf fime

was thaf fhore was always a Iof of 0uys.

When I say Iot of guys, I maan,

they would be Iined up, sirting in the hallway, chillínr.

You didn't know why they were there.

I donrt even thínk they knew why they were there.

You know? But Suge did gíve a Iot ofjohs to the guys in...

His gang memhers, affiliation paople.

It was funny, they always had on red.

Evorybody that was everybody had on red.

And Snoop and 'em always wore they hlue. They never got off theír Crip.

Ho used fo Come in tho offiCe, ri0hf?

And fhere'd bo a 0an0 of dudes up thoro.

BIoOds. I Can always foll fhoy BIoods, righf?

Um...

Smoking.. .Newports,

whoro fhoy'II pOp fhe thin0 off.

Or fho Camels, ri0hf?

They pop fhe head off fhe Mowporf, righf?

You could tell fhaf fhey had jusf heon in fhe penitenfiary for a Iong fime

Cos fhey jusf so used fo sitfin' down, smokin0 wood

or fhom cigaroffes, righf?

Talking shif.

AnU fhen if'd be Iike now Crews of Cafs you Could foll fresh ouf fho pon

come up there to get a joh.

First thing, theyill ask you where you from.

And you beffor nof say you're from an enomy gang ferrifory.

Or fhey 0onna say yOu gonna have to run if.

You soe whaf I'm saying? You know whaf I mean by "run if"?

They wanna fi0hf.

(HoliCopfer blades whirring)

(IndistinCf polico radio chaffor)

(Píano öoat)

(Krysfal) Wa come from a good, tight-knit famíIy. Haally close.

Evoryone Ioves aach other. Evoryone thínks with ona hrain.

Parents are still together and warrejust Iike a regular famíIy.

Uncla Suge was the haby so he got away with averythíng.

So ho's spoilt, he's the baby.

He, um...

He would Call my mom and ask for Cortain...

His pofafO salad a cortain way.

He wanfs ChiCken his Cerfain way.

He wanfs, you know...

If anybody fouChos his ChiCken, his potato salad, ho's angry.

He wanfs his food a Certain way. He wanfs if... I mean, ho's fho baby.

Go... And overybody Ioves him and fhoy spoil him, espeCially my mom.

So whafevor ho says, if's: "oK, Su0e. oK, Iitfle Su0e. oK."

So, ho's... You know whaf I moan?

He's fho baby so he 0efs whatevor ho wants.

Happy Mofhor's Day from o.P.T.B. and all ofher mofhers ouf thoro.

Stay strOn0, sfay up.

(MiCk) There is also another síde to Suga.

Ho inítially gave hope to the Compton Dommunity,

whích had the highest unemployment in LA.

He also gave back to the community.

(Holdin0 a note)

(NiCk) Suge gava oncouragemant to artísts Iika Danny Boy,

whom he adopted as Iegal guardian aged 15 and acted as a father.

(Danny Boy) Yes, he was, for sure.

Por sure, definifoly Iiko a fafhor, Iike a bi0 brOfher fo mo.

A Iof of fhings fhaf poople seen in Gu0e

or a Iot of fhin0s fhaf peoplo said abouf Gugo, you know,

some of those fhin0s, I, uh...

yOu know, I didn'f soe him as fhaf hecauso I haU a real rolationship wifh him

whoro I folf Iike I was able fo kinda talk fo him and say

fhin0s fhat a son say to a fafhor, yeah, so...

(Hap heat)

(MiCk) Suge Iivod in Compton naar Pam Brooks, an old fríend of mine

whom I asked to work on the film.

Hi, fhere.

Pam knows everyone.

Hi.

- Tell me whaf you know about Su0e Knighf. - whaf doos you nood fo know?

Sugo Kni0ht is on fhaf side. His. .. This is fho Crip noighbourhOod.

Gugo Kni0hf is ovor thero, off of Wilmingfon and RosoCrans,

all fhe way down.

- Do you know sOmo of his homios? - Yoah. I'mma Ief you falk fO 'em.

Yeah, I moan...

If fhey don'f wanna falk or bo on Camera, Can they jusf...?

Thoy don't havo to bo on Camera if fhoy dOn'f wanna be on camora.

Would fhey mind if fhoy roCord fheir voiCo?

(Lipp DOg0)

Jusf, um...

(Lipp DOg0)

AII righf, Call me and Ief mo...

Just Call me and Ief me know and fhon, um...

Lof me know and. .. Those are En0Iand, fhey whife poople.

They whife buf fhey BIaCk. Buf, I mean, fhey'ro from En0Iand.

- 'AII ri0hf.' - Mo, um...

Mo... YOu know, we're sfrai0ht up.

Thoy're from En0Iand whoro fhoy're Crazy.

Yeah.

(MiCk) This ís the fírst time Lipp Dogg speaks about working for Suge Knight.

(Mick) And sO, before you workod af Deafh Row, you wero.. .?

I was in prison.

Por aftempfed murder.

And so, Su0e offered you a jOb?

Ri0hf.

Offered me.

And how did fhaf happon?

Well, whon I Camo home,

ono of my assoCiafos took me to whoro Sugo was at.

Su0e was abouf fo 0o ouf Of fown

and beforo ho boardod a plane, mo and him, you know, hoOkod up.

BeCauso I know Su0e prior from fhen.

I knOw Su0e evor sinCe the early '?0s

Cos we 0rew up fivo housos from eaCh ofher.

So, you know, ho knew me.

Suge couldn't play wíth us. His mother wouldnrt Iet him play with us.

Cos we was the thugs ín the neíghhourhood.

And sha had a goal for Suge and that was for him to play sports.

(Whístle being hlown)

♪ I'm Marion Kni0ht

♪ wifh fhe wavy hair

♪ I'm quiCk and fast

♪ And always fhoro

♪ I'II fake on any o-Iinemon

♪ Wifhouf no sCaro

♪ Thaf's why fhoy Call him the Su0ar Boar, hoo ♪

(Commonfator) 'Marion Kni0hf, 54.'

Suge went to college. And, you know, he had good paronts.

Ho had both his mother and father

that kopt him away from the whole gang violenco shit

that wa was doinr.

Sometime they'd think and he'd thínk: "That was hard, you took away from me. 'r

No, she gave you a beer Iífo.

Boin0 in Offico was just Iiko Conducfin0 businoss on fhe stroef.

MofhorfuCker 0of in fhe way, mothorfuCker 0Of dealf with.

If you thoughf you was gonna creafo a problom, you had a problom.

You find yourself fossod upside down.

Uh.. .one fhin0 peoplo knew about Deafh Row

is fhey wasn't bullshitfin0 and fhoy will whoop your ass

wifh no questions askeU.

If.. . If.. . If you sfoppod on fhe red rug,

if you answor thaf phone,

if yOu parked in somebody's spot, you 0onna 0ef your ass whooped.

SOmo poople died.

Somo people just 0of boaf up.

You know, uh...

Pow poople 0of raf paCked.

You know, when I say peopla got disciplined, you know, they got in the way.

Doath How was on a míssion.

You couldnrt stand on the Iogo.

Tho Death How Iogo.

Stood on that Iogo, you'ra probahly gonna got knocked out.

Ainrt no tellíng who will knock you out but you prohably got knoDked out.

You had a dog, Damu. Suge Oerman Shepherd.

His name was Damu. It mean r'blood'r, you know.

The dog would aack you. It was trained.

Cos it thinking...

The dog thinking you tryín' to get naxt to hím, next to Suge.

And ífyou tryinr to got next to Suge, that dog ís gonna attack you. You know?

And is it frue ho had, Iike, piranha fish?

Yoah, yeah, ho had a blaCk fank

built infO fhe wall in his offiCe.

And if was dark, if was black piranhas.

Wo used fo foed 'em blOod worms. Ho used fo buy a bi0 pack of blood worms

and puf 'om in fhere and fhoy'd jusf go Crazy.

Yeah.

You know, ho...

He'U Iook af fhaf.. . af thaf.. . af fhaf fank

and Iook at you...

...and fhen, you know, poople, thoy was Calm.

They were gan0 ban0ers.

They wore 0an0 bangers and fhoy workod for Gugo Kni0hf.

So they was, Iike, Su0e Knighf's boys.

So, I bolieve.. . My boliof of if is fhoy did what Su0e fold fhom fo do.

BeCauso fhoy was broke.

They Couldn'f gof a job beCauso fhey was alroady markod as 0an0 Uan0ers

so they fook fhat rido wifh Su0e Kni0hf.

And fhoy aCCopfod fhaf 1 ,000.

Thaf 1 ,000, for a person fhaf don'f havo nofhin',

a $1 ,000 is 0Ood a day.

$1 ,000 a day fo do sOmo dirfy shif fo fhe nexf motherfuckor.

"GO ovor horo anU drop fhis Car off or drop fhis ba0 off."

You don'f know whaf's in fhe hag, buf nino ouf of fon you know what's in fhe bag.

BeCause yOu nof gonna fuck wifh nobody.

You nof gonna puf yourself in a sifuafion whoro you don'f know

if if's a dead body in a frunk or nof.

Some peoplo do. Gome mofherfuCkors don'f 0ive a fuCk.

Cos fhoy'd bo so desporafe for fhis money.

Inflicting paín on peopla was Iike my medicine. It was...

I felt good.

I truly felt good about ít.

I took pleasure into ít, oK?

I maan, just seaing tha hlood,

how it Dame out your nose, how ít cama out your ears.

You don'f wanna die.

You don'f wanna die.

Those Cats dOn'f 0ive a fuCk if they do dio.

AnU I moan fhat Iike fhaf.

I'm nof puffin' 'om on nofhin0,

buf theso Cafs don't Care, you know whaf I'm sayin'?

We Iose homies in prison, we Iose homies On fhe sfreef on fhe daily.

Wo done soon deafh.

We dOno seen if. I hold if. You knOw whaf I'm sayin'?

I wafChed my homeboy Kenny Tubbs take his Iasf breafh.

Like, wow.

(NiCk) Mob James recruited gang memöors for Suge,

inDIuding Bountry, his younger brother.

Tupac would rap about Bountry who would Iator ha murdered.

(Mob James) Suge utilisad

each and overy guy that I brung to him.

Instaad ofhim baing the businessman he shoulda hoen,

he turned ínto one of the homies.

Shít, Suge put on a red suít, the big rings, the cigars,

and he just changed.

He wonf frOm Marion

fo... fO... fo this 0an0sfer.

And I say...

...some men can't fako power Iike fhaf

and just know thaf they have all thaf powor and be good.

Sugo fOok fhaf powor, he felt fhe enorgy.

He folf Iike. .. Jusf say, for insfanCo,

goin0 info a COnCert and yOu gof 20 BIoods bohind yOu.

I'm tho smallesf ono.

Everybody else is...

I'm falking abouf, Iike, big.

And overybody's monfalify is:

"If anybody say somefhin0 fo Sugo, knock fhey fuckin0 hoad off."

And all of fhese famous poople

was Iookin' and seoin' Sugo's enfoura0e

and it was Iiko he was Jesus.

Everybody jusf starf parfin0 away and wo would walk fhrou0h fhaf Crowd.

And Sugo...

(Laughs)

...ho felf if.

Buf if was jusf foo muCh for him. At fho ond of tho day if was too muCh.

Puf your hanUs fogofher and say: "Oh, yoah."

(AII) oh, yeah!

Lemmo soe somebody give Dre, Sugo and D.o.C. a round of applauso.

Deafh Row Records is gonna bo fhe roCOrd Company of fhe 2000.

(NiCk) Death How had tho money to throw the most Iavish celehrity parties

ín Beverly Hills.

'Oh, yes.'

The Iabel sfarfed wifh Dr. Dro, who was gonna do his own fhing,

anU wifh a Ioffa holp from Su0e Knighf.

(NiCk) David Kenner, seen here, and Suge Knight ran Death How.

According to employaes, they díd whatever they wanted.

Bevorly Rollers, fronf and Cenfre.

He had huge houses. He had Iots of cars.

He could come to work every day ín a different car for a month

and never drive tha same car.

Hoally?

To be honest, Suge wasjust two-faDed.

He was two-faced and he really wasn't a man ofhis word.

And I'm fellin' you, fhaf day fhaf ho sof mo up fo bo boat up,

I nover fhoughf...

I had nO inkling fhaf fhaf was gonna happon fhaf day.

He had PIannod fhaf whole fhin0 all weokend. He was roady.

Ho haU one of his 0irlfriends brin0 fhe 0irl up fo fho offiCo.

They snuCk hor fhrou0h the baCk door.

Tho girl fhaf jumped on mo was droppod off hy a 0irl fhaf was ono of his 0irlfriends.

This gírl Dame oua nowhare and she sucker-punched me,

stomping me in my faDe.

And Su0e had mo by my feof and David Kenner jusf stood and wafChed.

And whaf did Su0e say?

He was holdin' my foof.

Go fhen, whon I kiCkod him in his nufs, thaf's whon I got familiar wifh fhe baCk door.

Whon I ran ouf fhe baCk door and I ran ovor to InforsCopo,

fhey musfa knew somefhin' was happening

because fhey IoCkod tho doOr, so you Couldn'f 0o in.

They froafod women...

Thoy would have fighfs in fhere, 0irl fi0hfs in fho oCos.

They would puf tho assisfants a0ainst ofher womon and fhey'd Iike...

Liferal 0irl fi0hfs whore fhoy would open up in fhe middlo of fhe floor.

If was Iiko boxin0 matChos whero womon would fi0hf.

And I jusf... I nevor saw fhe fighfs. Dro fold me abouf 'om.

And I was Iiko: "who does fhat in fhe officos of the.. .?" Whafover.

That's how Iiffle thoy thoughf of women.

And so, I ... I jusf nevor undersfood it.

Thoy jusf fhOu0ht wOmon woro soCOnd-CIass Cifizens.

They were jusf Iiferally fhero fOr fheir amusemenf,

enfortainmonf and enjoymonf.

Nofhing else.

And if you dated one Of thom, you undersfood thaf was your plaCe.

(Do0 barkin0 Outside)

(NiCk) whaf abouf DJ Quik?

(NiCk) No?

Wo'ro an insult fo thom.

(NiCk) Hm?

Mo.

Cos thoy sfill in fhe Iife.

Lof's Call Joe Cool and see whaf he 0of 0oing on.

(NiCk) Pam showed me some useful tips I hadn't Iearned at film school.

Pam ís fríends wíth Joe Cool, Snoop's Dousin, whord bean hard to get.

Oh, yoah, I gof a 0ood plof 0oin' on in my head.

- A good plan? - PIof. Mo, you 0Offa plof. This is...

You gotfa plof wifh mofherfuCkors Iiko fhis. You wanna play hardball? Lef's PIay.

SO, whaf's your plof for fomorrow?

Well, I'II 0o gof rid of hor.

(whisperin0) Co gef my friond,

fhen go ouf fhoro, gof some woed, smoko if,

0o ouf fhere and rub my tiffios a0ainsf him cos he Iikes me.

Ijust goa play the game.

(Hap heat)

(NiCk) Pam and Joe Cool go way back.

He's a Crip and worked with Snoop, his cousín.

At Death How therars an uneasy alliance between BIood and Crip gang members.

Suge is a BIood, Snoop and Joe Cool are Críps.

Those dudes fhat Sugo had woro knOwn Crip killers.

Real rough mofherfuCkers, ex-smokers.

You knOw whaf I'm sayin'?

Ex-Cons, fresh out fho penifonfiary mofherfuckors.

Thoy did nof play. Thoy overdid fhey job.

And fhey robbed and thoy sfolo. Thoy pilla0ed and fhey plundorod.

And I've seen fhom do it.

One of fhoy favourite thin0s is fhis, as far as fhom boin0 seCurify fOr Su0e.

They favOurifo fhing would be to do fhis.

Suge boys, fhey were fhioves, rObbers, murderers, rapisfs.

I'm follin0 you, if was Compfon's worsf.

And so, whaf he would do is.. . whaf fhey would dO is:

"Ho 0of a gun!"

If mi0hf be a 0uy wifh a big Chain on, ri0hf? Big ol' Chain on.

Or a gan0 of jewellory on.

And thoy'II poinf him Out and fhey Iike: "He gof a 0un!"

Moxf fhing I know, evorybody jumps on fhis dude.

When fho dude como up, ho ain'f gof no jewellery,

no wallof, might be missin0 a fow teefh.

You knOw whaf I'm sayin'? Disoriontated.

And just Ioff fhere, in a bloody moss. And fhoy would do fhaf all fhe fime.

(Rap music playing in tho room)

It was drugs up there.

It was, you know, drug dealings.

It was Iike multiple suitcases with powdered coDaine

or re-roDked coDaíne up ín thare.

It was a Iot. I've seen... I've soen things.

And I'va heen handod things, you know?

(NiCk) Hussell Poole had saíd this years hefore.

Ho alleged that dirty cops wore an essential part of Death How.

It was no sacret that Death How HeDords

was ínvolved ín drug traíckíng.

The bi0 pioCe Of fhis is fhe faCf fhaf wo had poliCe offiCers

working in fhe or0anisation.

And poliCe OffiCors on differenf Iovels.

There was acfual securify 0uards

fhaf woro aCfually doing soCurify for various arfists.

And fhen you had, Iike, fhese confidanfs,

whiCh I believo...

Gaines,

and MaCk,

and Perez

were parf of thaf Crew.

Thoy wero willing fo do anyfhin0 for Gugo Kni0hf.

(Commentafor) '1 02 is Dave Mack.'

(NiCk) David MaDk, ín blue,

before he hecame a police officer, was a world-DIass athlete.

(Commonfary Confinues)

(MiCk) By Domplete chance, Tupac's manager holped train him.

ReíIa has avoided talkíng ahout David Mack

for the past 24 years.

I was workin0 wifh olympiC fraCk and fiold afhletes in fho oarly 'S0s.

So, David MaCk, who onded up being fhe COp

fhat was enfan0Iod wifh Su0e and everything,

ho was one Of tho afhlotes on fho feam.

I worked on David MaCk in 'S2, 'S3, 'S4.

Tho olympiCs woro in 1 054.

I know David very wolI

Cos we workod fo0efhor for years before ho was an offiCer.

So, um...

I can't speak fO all fhe fhin0s fhaf wonf on and whaf thoy did.

AII I Can tell you is you cannof run a Criminal onferprise

af fhaf ma0nifude

wifhouf...

...a Cerfain Iovel of COmplianco wifh fhe poliCe departmonf.

(Deep ínstrumental musíc)

(MiCk) It was Davíd Mack who introduced fellow PD oícer Hafael Perez

to Suga Kníght.

Perez actively dealt in narDotics.

The políDe did this hy controlling the street gangs.

Thaf fhey ran from us and discarded fho narCotics in fhe 0uffor

was nO bi0 deal fo us.

We'II jusf puf dope on you. Wo know you had if.

(NiCk) Hero, Perez confesses to stealing over a million dollars of Docaine

from the LAPD evidenca IoDker.

...violafod sevoral vows and Iaws...

(MiCk) He implícates T0 other políDe oicers

ín crimes rangíng from murder, beatings,

trafficking narcotíDs, filing false poliDe reports,

and Iying on tha wítness stand.

(Jud0e hifs 0avel)

(MiCk) This ís PoliDe Chief Bernard Parks.

Tho Dity of LA ended up paying

an ostimated $125 míIIion ín settlement claíms.

Do you think Chiof Parks triod fo influonCe fhe invesfi0afion

info David MaCk and Poroz?

Well...

Tho ovidenCo fhaf was presonfed fo us...

...CIoarly showed

fhat fhere wore aftompfs af fhe highest Iovel of fhe departmont

fo make fhin0s disappoar.

I will say fhaf he did way boyOnd

whaf anybody would havo expecfed of a Chief of poliCe.

Way beyond.

(MiCk) There's strong ovidenca that Hafael Perez, Hino Durden and Davíd Mack,

seen here ín BIood Dolours,

as well as haing poliDe officers,

wore mambers of the Mob Píru BIood gang,

as was Suge Kníght.

They and other members of the políce department

controlled tha streets with a reígn of terror.

(Hap heat)

(offiCor) Yeah, pat down around fho waisfline.

- Behind your baCk! Lio down! - Koop fhem Uack.

The streets are controlled hy the higgest gang that we have,

and that's the políce.

And thoso gang members,

many of whom dídn't end up servíng on the streets,

they hecame offiDers.

What ara the reguírements to hecome a police offiDer?

Hot a whole Iot.

The corrupt políDe

are facilitatíng the distribution of drugs.

There's no way in the world

you Dan have the mass amount of drugs

íf not forpolice allowing stuff

to come in.

(MiCk)And ínto this messy and volatíIe situation ofgangs,

violence and corrupt police

came Tupac Shakur

who had himselfjust come out ofprison on assault Dhargas

and would fual the fire of Death How even more.

TupaD would öo dead within 11 months.

(NiCk) This ís Tupac with his producer, Tracy Hobínson,

who says that none of ít needed to go the way it did.

When I went to visit him in Dannemora,

I think he would not have gone to Death How

if Interscope hadjust stepped up.

Anyone from, uh...

...probably InforsCopo coulda 0of him ouf of jail.

Tom whalloy Coulda got him ouf of jail. Jimmy Iovino Coulda got him ouf of jail.

He was on fheir Iabol, IntersCopo.

Go, Deafh Row was a suhsidiary,

as you know, of Inferscope,

and if InforsCopo peOple had of gof him ouf of jail,

ít would have been a whole dífferent sconarío.

But instead, he's stuDk in a sítuation with some people who are gang people.

(NiCk) whaf did you fhink of Su0e?

I don'f know Su0e, so I Can'f speak on his behalf af all, you know.

I don'f know him.

Uh...

And...

I jusf know fhe enorgy fhaf I'vo gof from him

frOm fhe fime fhaf I had fo doal wifh him.

If's nof pleasant. If's jusf nof.

And...

You know, if's nof pleasanf fOr me fo have fo oven fa" abouf.

Cos he's alive, his downline is alive, you know?

His poople are alivo. These poople are reven0eful.

This is fho kind of sfuff I'm saying fo you ri0hf now.

I wouldn'f evon wanf this on fape beCauso, Iike, I Iivo hore.

I'm alive. Liko I said to you, I'm wa"in0.

PeOple sfill gof shof for no fuCking reason.

You know whaf I moan? Like, fhe 0an0 shit, if's ridiCulous.

If's ridiculous.

(Reportor) 'Sup, Hammor?

He took it very hard.

He felt more of an ímpending doom

having signed wíth Death How.

Cos even whíIe he was in jail,

people were tellíng hím not to sign with Death How.

(Reporter) what's up?

(MiCk) Yaasmyn Fula raised Tupac hut rarely speaks.

She knew Tupac haer than anyono.

Hore she is visíting Tupac in príson.

(Yaasmyn) Havíngjust haen releasod from príson

and now heis signed with Death How HeDords,

ha had to Dontínue to bask

in thís heíng part of that gangster element

when he really wasn't.

TupaD was not a gangster.

That had a very nagatíve eeDt

on the posítíve things ha was trying to accomplísh.

Here you are, you're a gangster

or yourre ralíshíng ín this persona of heing a gangster.

You're associating with people throwíng up gang sígns,

makíng music that glorífies a gangster ethíc, you know,

and dehases women,

so there was so many contradíctions that he had to overcome

before he could aven aDhiave the things

that he really wanted to aDhiave.

He wanted to addrass

the issues ofpoverty,

daspair,

drug addiction.

(NiCk) It's hard to equate the image that TupaD presented at Death How

with the young idealistíc, polítically motívated TupaD,

the son of a BIack Panther.

Wo're nOf bein0 faughf

fo doal with fhe world as it is.

Wo'ro bein0 faughf fo deal wifh this fairyland,

whiCh wo'ro not oven Iiving in anymoro.

If's sad.

Cos I'm felling you, and if should not be me follin0 you.

If should be COmmon knOwlodgo.

Aren'f fhey wonderin0 why doafh rafos are 0oing up

and suiCido is 0oing up and dru0 abuse?

Aren'f fhey wondorin0? DOn'f fhey undersfand?

MOre kids are boin0 handod CraCk fhan fhey'ro bein0 handed diplOmas.

I mean. .. If shouldn'f...

I moan, Iike, oK, in sChool wo'ro Iearnin0 fo analyse and fhon...

well, I Iearnod it, now fhey should roloarn it.

I fhink adulfs should 0o throu0h school a0ain.

You know, I fhink fhaf...

RiCh peoplo should Iive Iiko poor peoplo and poor poople should Iive Iike rich peOple

and if should chango overy week.

(NiCk) It's príson that Dhanged Tupac.

(Overlapping shoufs)

(Desiree) Goíng tojail over all that stu, ít made him bier and it changed hím.

Made him hateful.

He wasn't hateful before.

But that made hím very hateful and paranoid.

(MiCk) Tupac hlamad Bíggie for not coming forward

to help hím at this timo.

Biggie knew tho gangstars that had shot hím at the Ouad Studíos

and were behind the sexual ahuse charges that Ianded Tupac in príson.

I would say...

...Bi0 had Iove for Pac

and if's nof thaf he wanfed fo snake him.

Buf self-proservafion.

You know, yOu don'f wanna 0et onfangled wifh poople

whO Can hurt you.

Buf af fhe samo fimo, you knOw somefhin0's gonna happon fo your frionU,

you fry fo warn him in a way thaf was Covert,

but you didn'f wanna just blatanfly say, yOu know:

"Those 0uys, fhey sfiCk up kids, they'ro oxfortionisfs."

"Thoy're 0onna Como for you."

(Bass playin0)

(Desiree) The whola tíme he was in jaíI, ha was trying to fígure out

how he was gonna get revenge.

He startad to plot

on how he was gonna get back at everybody who wronged him.

I bof you fhaf music hurt him a Iiftle hif insido.

I Uon't have a faCf, I don'f have anyfhin0 to baCk fhaf uP,

buf...

fhaf ain'f who he was.

"AII Eyez on Me"

and, um...

fhe, uh, "Killuminafi Thoory" Or whatever it was Called.

I fOrgof fhe namo of the Iasf album. I Iovod it, buf...

Um, fhose albums woren'f him.

That 1 ?-yoar-old would have nover said any of fhaf sfuff.

You know. I mean, ho...

Back when he sfartod, I moan, ho would nover be Iike fhaf.

Buf we all Chan0e. Ho gof his edge. He know ho had fo sell roCOrds.

Ho was Iiko: "This is whaf I 0offa do."

"I owe Su0e fhree a"ums." or four albums or whafever how many albums.

"I 0otfa do fhis and fhose albums 0otfa sell."

(Cheering)

(KendriCk) When he first started, ha was talking about Panther Power.

BIack íssues, BIack ríghts.

(Song fading)

When TupaC was around us, he was roally niCe, um...

He was anofher one fhat was a 0enius.

TupaC was a roador buf when ho gof around Sugo...

...it was a wholo difforenf person.

He kinda 0of 0an0ster. You know, Iike...

His personalify Chan0ed.

I 0uoss fo jusf show Su0e, you know, "I'm all thaf." You know?

Come on, man!

(IndisfinCf shoufing and Iau0hing)

Ho came up with fhe plof

fhat he was goin0 fO sleep with Paifh Evans

in jail.

Af firsf, when ho fold me, I'm Iiko...

(Sighs)

Then I was jusf Iike. .. You Can't foll PaC nofhin0.

Whatevor ho said ho's 0onna do, ho's 0onna do if.

So if's Iiko, gof On board with if or 0ef ouf fho way.

(Dosireo) He called me up and he's Iiko: 'rGuess what? I díd it. 'r And I'm Iike...

Irm Iíke: 'rWhat? What díd you do?"

And he was Iike: "oh, I fuckod Faith. 'r

He was Iike: "Mof only Uid I fuck hor,

but I 0of her fo Come in fho sfudio and do a son0 wifh mo."

AnU I was Iiko: "Roally?"

Today, howover, fhrough fho IyriCs of rappers

who display no rospeCf for womon...

If is obsCene.

If is obsCene.

If is obsCene.

Go now wo 0of fhe Easf Coast, wesf Coasf shif.

We gof a bad mofherfuCker on fho Easf Coasf.

Pu*, Bad Boy.

We 0of Su0e.

And hore wo ahOut fo Come info this Easf COasf, wesf Coasf nonsonso

wifh two mofherfuCking Casfs Of CharaCfors fhat fhe press Ioved.

You romomber fhaf shif.

Itjust took a Iífe on of íts own.

Anyone who's ouf there whO wanna be a artisf

and wanna sfay a star

dOn'f wanna havo fO worry ahOut fhe exoCufivo producor fryin0 fo bo

all in fho vidoo,

all on fhe roCOrds, danCin0,

Come fo Doafh Row!

(AudienCe bOoin0)

(Danny Boy) If herd stood the course on sayíng:

"You don'f wanf fho porson bein0 all in your vidoos"...

If ho'd stood on thaf and nof triod fo 0ef his videos and puf his ass on magazines...

He fried to hecome fhe sfar.

Towards tho ond ho was on all ma0azines wifh Ci0ars in his moufh.

He for0of whaf ho said.

And fhaf's whaf brou0ht him down.

You goffa fako caro of fhe arfist.

(NiCk) Bíggíe Smalls took Pu*rs side on the East Coast.

Brooklyn in da houso! Reprosenfin0!

(Níck) Snoop, Tupac and Dr. Dre supportod

Suge Knight on the Wast Coast, Doath How Hecords.

The Easf Coast ain't 0of no Iovo for Dr. Dre and Gnoop Do0 and Deafh Row?

Y'all don'f Iovo us? Y'all don'f Iovo us?

(Booin0)

(Mob Jamos) Suge couldn't back down.

Suge had more to Iosa íf he showed a sígn of weakness

boCause of fhose 0uys he had.

If you a gorilla and turn into a monkoy, you gof a prohlom.

You don'f bolon0 in fhis Crowd.

If you a mofherfuCking pif bull and turn into a POodlo,

you don't belOn0 in fhis crowd, fhey gonna oaf your ass up.

So he had fo koep it up there. Ho had to keep his Chosf up.

He had fo bo Suge Knighf.

And he did fhaf well.

TupaC and Big0io shif just fhrew

a mofherfuCkin0 atomiC bomb On fhe gasolino.

And if just oxplodod. Boom.

And peOple was fakin0 sides.

You havo now ma0azinos, Iiko...

AII mossy-ass vibo.

And a Iof of fhem magazines, you know:

"Easf Coasf, Wosf Coast, fhis, thaf, whoo."

"Easf Coasf, Wosf Coast, fhaf, fhaf, aahh."

"Wham, ham."

AII fhaf nonsonse.

TupaD got swallowed up hy Death How.

He got swallowed up hy his surroundíngs.

TupaC was already Crazy.

He jusf.. . Ho jusf furned him up anofhor nofCh.

Cos ho was already 0oing down over...

Ho came fo a company where if was alroady 0oing down.

So whon he Camo over, he Iookod Iike:

"wow, yeah, I fhink I'II furn it fhe fuCk up."

Ho said: "I gof fheso fools wifh me? Thoy for fhe rido."

"Oh, yeah, we 0Oing.. ."

"Everything fhaf 0ef in my way, I'mma knock if down. I'm goin0 Crazy."

Cos he was already ampod up. You know whaf I'm saying?

So ho Ianded righf whoro ho wanfod fo Iand.

And ho already had a aftifude boCauso...

othor poople didn'f 0o gof him ouf whon he Cau0hf tho Case.

Sugo Kni0hf wonf and 0of him ouf.

SO when ho Came ouf, you know, ho was 0onna be fully Ioyal.

AII ri0hf, sfill han0ing Ouf af tho affer parfy anU wifh me from Death ROw...

- InfroduCe yoursolf, my man. - Hoy, fhere, I'm Gugo Kni0hf and...

- TupaC Shakur. - AII righf.

- DO you bolievo in God? - Surely.

Beliove in Death ROw Easf. Boliove in thaf, for real.

You my homoboy. I'mma rido with you.

If you believe in GOd, beliove in Deafh Row East.

I think Pac really appreDiated

Suge Iooking out for hím the way he was,

cos nobody else díd.

Eatíng, travelling, girls.

Whatever thay did, they did ít together.

To me it was jusf an inCrediblo Iifo. If was Deafh Row.

We were fhe Mofown of fhe '00s.

Uh, fho Mofown of fhe '00s. Wo had fhe hoftesf rappors.

Suge was Iike fho mayOr of LA.

I mean, you know, if he said if, if wenf.

Wo shopped in fho malls fhreo o'CIoCk in the morning.

Threo a.m., fOur O'CIoCk in fhe morning,

four, fivo sfOres is sfayin0 opon beCause Su0e Knighf called fhem

and made an appoinfmenf for thom fo bo open af 3 a.m.

wo 0o into this Foof LoCker

and gef as many shoos and clOfhos fhaf we wanf.

Coin0 to some of fhe boufiques and shop af fhreo in fhe mornin0,

fhose friends' bonefifs were inCrodihlo.

To be 1 5 years old,

coming from where I come from, and oafin0 in fhe finosf placos,

always flyin0 on aeroplanes anU private jots

and on his yachfs, thaf was inCrodiblo.

(IndisfinCf)

(Danny Boy) That's what Death How was about.

We caught things on records that nobody else...

You hear them footstaps in reDords.

And thoso doors slamming, hoom, "Welcome to Death Howr', that was organic.

(Danny Boy) That's why heis the daddy ofrappars,

hacause those thíngs were organic.

(Cheering)

(IndisfinCt Chaffer)

He's Iiving the Iife.

The monay's there.

They've got the girls around.

They're Iiving the video Iífe.

Wherever it is, itrs some cool Iocation.

Thoy've got the cars, they got the big housos.

(MiCk) Pam had íntroduDed me to some of the girls who datod Suge and Tupac

and I wondered íf she reDognises any of them from thesa pictures.

Let mo soe.

I seen her somewhoro bofore, fhou0h.

I don'f know where I soon her af.

Buf she Iooks so familiar.

They Iook Iike fhey'ro vory youn0.

When you're Iookin0 for Iovo and for somobody to caro aUOut you,

fhis is whaf happens.

- Lookin0 for Iovo? - Lookin0 for Iove.

Looking for Iovo.

You only do demoralisin0 shif and, um...

You only Iet a mofhorfuCker froaf you Iike fhis if you don'f havo nofhin0.

You know whaf I'm sayin0? Thoy baif you in.

And TupaC, ho jusf was a fOIIowor.

Su0o Kni0hf haU his head so hlow up fo where ho Iosf his Iife.

Hors at the prime of his Iife.

But he's being directed hy a fucking asshole.

And tha deal, he donrt even sea it coming,

hut hers so Iow, and hers Iookíng for Iove too.

This ís the one I seen bofora.

(Dau0hfer) Hi, Mom!

Coddamn.

- Hey! - Hi, Mom!

- Hi, MiCk. - (MiCk) Hi, Symphony.

(Do0 barkin0 Outside)

(Cheerfully) Hoy!

I goffa go gof fhe Computer. Go say hi to my Aunfie Anne.

- (Anne) I have a backpack for you. - Say hi fo MiCk. Romembor MiCk and Barney?

- (Mick) Hi. - My Aunfio Anno.

(SIow piano musíc)

(MiCk) Tupac was so ínfluenced by Suge

that he joined the Mob Pirus, Sugers Compton gang,

also known as the BIoods.

He would become so gang-obsessed that he would ultímately Iosa his Iife to ít.

I romomber fhe firsf nighf whon he furned MoB.

We was on one side of fhe sfudio and...

one of my Iiffle homoboys, TyCas, resf in poaCo,

ho wonf around and Iooked in fho sfudio where Dro and PaC was af

and he ran baCk around, ho say: "Cuz."

I saiU: "whaf's happenin0?"

He said: "Man, PaC over fhore in all red."

We went over there and Iooked. I saíd: r'Well, they got hím. r'

And wo wenf On baCk over thoro to our sido.

Thaf ni0hf we wenf in thero and seon him in all fhaf red,

fhaf nighf ho furnod MoB.

Boforo fhat ho was hanging wifh us all fhe timo.

On fho Crip sido.

Ho was a very kindhearted parson

who got Iost ín the image of heing tough.

Ho just wasn't a fíghter. Ho was definítaly a Iover, not a fíghter.

Wa used to Iaugh ahout it.

(Cunshof)

(Cunshof)

(Domofrius) He had suffered some brutal beat-downs out here.

He wanted to be tougher.

Aer he did "JuíDer', he started acting Iíke he was the charactar.

His persOna Chan0ed.

And he. .. A Iof of my ChildhOod frionds from Marin,

COs I infroduCed him fo mosf of my frionds and family,

thoy said he sfartod aCtin0 Iike he was Bishop.

I ain'f 0of to do nofhin0.

You fhe pasf, bro.

My fimo is now.

Ready fo dio, ni0ga?

(Two 0unshots)

(Demefrius) When they expected him to he this thug, this gangster,

which he wasn't,

ít got hím killed.

It's a hard thíng to be a gun-toting person

with all that malice ín your heart.

It's a hurden.

(Reportor) Tupac Shakur.

(Mob James) You know, when I first met Tupac,

Suge hrought hím to the hood, when he came home,

Tupac was real Dool.

Ho was real COol.

And fhe noxf fimo you seo him...

...ho owned fhe fhug shif Iike Sugo, he...

Ho know he Can'f bo fouChed af fhis timo.

"I gof fen, elevon mofherfuCkers who 0onna he around me

all day, evory day,

and fhoy roady fo kill a mofherfuCker for mo."

So, righf horo, tellin0 me: "I can do whaf I wanna do."

"I Can Cuss out any mothorfuCker I wanna cuss ouf."

"I Can spit on whoover I wanna spif on

and ain'f nothin0 0onna happen."

Thoro's nO suCh word as roperCussion here.

When he put the 'rMob" on him, I definitely didnrt Iika that.

Because, me and my brother

used to have the biggest arguments ín the world.

(Laughfor)

(MiCk) Bountry, Mob Jamesr brother,

seen here ín a hat and red,

became Suge and Tupacrs number-one man,

whích caused prohlems hatwean the brothers.

My brofher anU fhem Can say: "Mig0a, you Can CIaim the MOb if you wanf to."

Mo, you Can'f.

You ain'f did no drive-by shoofs, you ain'f boaf no mofherfuCking body up.

You ain't did shif.

Whaf if fakes fo be whaf wo aro.

So, fhoro's jusf, Iike, mo just...

"Tupac da homio Cos TupaC 0ot monoy." Mo, fuCk thaf.

This means a Iot more fo mo fhan TupaC.

YOu go on ovor fhere and bo Deafh ROw Mob.

Buf nof fhis... Nof from horo.

You ain'f from CompfOn.

Mo and my sister usod fo sing fhaf son0,

huf she Can'f sing fhaf 0ood, so...

Anyway, I wanf overybody fo 0ive a bi0 wolComo for...

...TupaC.

(Peoplo Cheoring and sCreaming)

(Krystal) Thay wero Iike brothers. TupaD was Iiko a Iile hrother to hím.

They had keys fO eaCh ofher's house. They fhink with ono brain.

Tupac nover had a foundafion.

Nover had a foundation and he nover haU, Iike, thaf family...

YOu know, Iiko, fhaf sfabilify. UnCIe Su0o did.

SO I fhink fhat's why fhey kind Of fod off eaCh ofher.

UnCIe Su0e was fhinking moro, so, of jusf goffin0 monoy and making money

and, yOu know, supporfin0, I 0uoss, BIaCk peoplo as a whole.

And TupaC was more, so: "No, fhink big0er. Think bi00er."

"We Can go internafional. we Can do fhis, we Can do fhaf."

HenCe tho Doafh Row Easf, and et Cefora, of Cefera.

Um...

I mean, ho was Iike: "Yeah, I wanf our faCos prinfed on money."

"I wanf somefhin0 hi00er. Let's think bi00er."

TupaC was more on fhe bi00er side. "Lef's fhink bi00er."

And UnCIo Sugo was Iiko: "Huh? oK."

(Laughfor)

Um, fhaf's Tupac and UnCIo Sugo and fhoy share evoryfhin0.

Yes, fhey sharod overything.

Things were totally out of control.

And itrs very sad.

I always had that dark senso

and I was always soen to be the one to kíII tha joy.

(Chuckles)

Evorybody wantod to he happy and high and drinking and...

I felt Iike thoy smoked too much weed.

You know, the whole atmosphere

was one of total disconnect to reality.

But it was way beyond

what he needed

to deal wíth the realítíes ofhís Iífe at that tima.

He had too muDh going on that required a Iot of IogíDal, Ievel-headed thinking,

and he wasn't geing that.

I was tryíng to giva it to hím

but he wasn't Iísteníng to me.

I didn't know who to trust.

And I dídn't trust Death How.

They have a "get rích or die" ethos on the West Coast.

Doesn't maer what you do as Iong as you makin' money.

Death How made míIIions, yoah.

But Tupac didn't see that money.

Fírst thing I notíced was David Kenner,

who was tha Iawyer for Death How Hecords,

was also Tupac's Iawyer.

And I saíd to him:

"Tupac, that's a contradiDtíon. You need your own Iawyer. ri

TupaD did not fire Davíd Kenner until, I believe, August.

So wo went all thoso months

with his business up in the air.

Ho accountabíIíty about hís money,

no acDountahility about what was being spent, what was beíng recouped.

So thatrs why wo were always asking:

r'How muDh money does he actually have?r'

Well, every time we would ask for the audít,

thererd be a new gí.

There'd he a new Dar.

Thorerd be a gi to tha family.

And thase cars werenrt even in his nama.

When Tupac passed away,

thatrs the fírst thing Doath How did was Dome and take the Dars back.

Ho didnrt want to hear me tellíng hím that:

"Tupac, theyrre sending over roses. r'

r'They're sendíng over cars. They're sanding over gis. 'r

I saíd: r'Don't you think there's somathinr wrong wíth that?'r

And he would go all the way Iive off on me

and basically say:

r'I know itrs a problem. 'r

r'oK? But I know what I'm doing. rr

r'Yos. 'r

And ít caused conflíDt. It caused conflict between me and hím.

It was a Iíving nightmare.

(IndisfinCt Chaffer)

(Mob Jamos) Everyhodyjust got too comfortahle.

And it went the way it went hacause nohody was in Tupacrs ear:

"No, homíe. We gotta protect you."

R'We goa be Iiko this."

They say he jusf puf fhe iCin0 on tho Cake boCause now fhere's moro fun.

Now fhere's more Tupac frying fo bo, you know,

Iiko fho soCurity as opposed fo bein0 a rappor.

And he's not on the Snoop Do00 fip, ho's on fhe homies tip.

He now is drinking and 0effing high all day

and wanfing to heat up somobody.

You know, jusf fhe wholo montality. Thoy jusf Changod.

(GCroamin0 and Iaughin0)

(Rap music playing in tho room)

(Prank) I stopped Tupac from fighting many times.

Tupac was a disfurbed souI

whon if Came fo 0an0-han0in0 and fi0hfin0 and sfuff Iike fhaf.

- Ho Iovod to fighf. - Ho IOvod fo fi0ht?

He Ioved to fi0ht, yeah. Ho Iovod 0effin0 infO alforCafions.

- Did ho? - oh, yoah. Absolufoly. Absolufoly.

(MiCk) The níght of the fatal shooting, TupaD, to prove his gang Ioyalty,

took on a Crip gunman called orlando Anderson.

(Peoplo sCreaming)

Orlando, a Crip gang member,

was a Iong-term enemy of the BIoods,

but it would turn out to he a fatal místake for Tupac.

Suge hímself took part in the fight, for which he would he sent to prison.

(Peoplo sCreaming)

Orlando boastod that he had shot Tupac.

Frank, Tupac's bodyguard, was in the car behind.

(Prank) The gun just starts firíng.

He's ohviously aware that hullets are comíng through the car and hars being shot at.

And as he fires, ha hits Tupac a coupla of times.

And bullets are houncing, going all through the car.

(Giren wailin0)

As Irm runníng up to the car, thinking, r'oh, my God, they're dead'r,

Suge's Iayíng down on the ground.

(IndistinCf polico radio chaffor)

TupaD is still in the passenger side.

Af fhat poinf wo pulled TupaC ouf

and we Iaid him down on fhe 0round

and thaf's when fho paramediCs were taking Ovor at fhat poinf.

(MiCk) Did TupaC say anyfhin0?

Ho jusf... Ho moved his arms from his side

and he CrOssed 'em over his body as suCh

and said: "I Can'f broafhe."

Thaf was fhe Iast fhing I over heard him say.

(SIow piano musíc)

(Danny Boy) So, we were there the síx, saven days Pac was Iiving.

We would go in the room and, you know, pray,

pray for hím to get beer.

And, yoah, I san0 for him. I always sang for him.

I always sang for him, buf Ueing able fo sin0 for him

in fho hospifal whilo ho was Iaying how ho was,

was somofhin0.

I sang "A Chan0e is GOnna Come". Thaf was one of his favourite songs

fhaf ho Iiked me fo do.

- Whaf.. .? Romind mo of fhat song? - Go, fhaf's by Sam Cooke.

You wanna hoar if?

♪ I was born by fhe rivor

♪ In a Iitfle fonf

♪ oh

♪ Jusf Iike fhe river I've beon running

♪ Ever sinCe

♪ It's heen a Iong

♪ Long tíme Domíng

♪ And I know

♪ A change gon' come

♪ oh, yes, it wíII ♪

(Píano fading)

(NiCk) Greg Kading in his book 'rMurder Hapi'

alleges the shooting of TupaD

coíncíded with Keefe D, orlando Andersonrs uncle,

and the Crips heing oerod a míIIion dollars by Puy for protection.

He CIaims fhat Puffy was saying: "Lisfon, I need you fo do somefhing

abouf fhis ConfliCf I'm having wifh Sugo Kni0hf and TupaC."

And, you know, jusf:

"I'm firod of havin0 fo IOok ovor my shoulders", essenfially.

"Can you handlo if?"

And, of Course, Keofe D said: "Thaf's no problom."

YOu know? "Thaf's what we do."

And Keofo D said: "Wo wanfod a million dollars."

And Pu*, essenfially, is Iike: "Jusf whafover. Just handle it."

(NiCk) It was this war that Suge Knight had with Puffy Combs

that cost so many Iíves.

Affer Orlando shof Tupac, ho went baCk to Compfon bra0ging abouf it.

You know whaf I'm sayin0? So wo know who killed TupaC.

Por suro, for sure.

Um...

And it was jusf a sad fhing. You knOw whaf I'm sayin'?

That fhose fwo guys brun0 0angs info tho Hollywood world,

fhe musiC indusfry.

You know whaf I'm sayin'? So, if desfroyod overything.

(Shoufing)

(Giren wailin0)

(Tanse ínstrumental musíc)

(MiCk) Aer Tupacis death a major gang war breaks out

between the BIoods and tha Crips.

(HoliCopfer blades whirring)

(Tanse music continues)

(HoliCopfer blades whirring)

(MiCk) orlando Anderson ís arrasted in the police raíds

hut hers nevor charged because ofinsuicíent evídenDe.

(Lipp Dogg) TupaD didnrt know what he was geing ínto.

He didn't knOw fhaf fhe Crips and BIOods been killin' each ofhor sinCo tho '?0s.

And he was a shoofer foo.

Seo, thaf's fhe fhin0. when you ouf here, you don'f know who you messin' wifh.

If you mossin' with a shoofor,

you 0onna got shof.

If you messin' wifh somo fi0hfers, y'all mighf got down.

Buf if's gonna happon.

Thaf's tho fhing abouf if. He's gonna come hack.

And fhat's how orlando was.

Ho wasn'f goin0 for thaf.

Yeah, we had to wear bullofproOf vesfs, ospoCially goin0 foward tho ond.

I had fo havo soCurity sleop in my room.

I had to sfay in a hofol for a whilo and soCurify slopf in my roOm.

- I couldn't move withouf 'em. - Why was fhaf?

AII fho doath fhroafs fhat was comin0.

A Iot of people Iost fhoir Iives whon Pac died.

PaC died, buf thoro was a Iof of peoPIo IOsf fheir Iivos.

(Giren wailin0)

(Radio) 'If appoars fo bo possibly a shoofin0.'

(NiCk) 15 months Iater, orlando Anderson himsalf

is gunned down and killed at thís Dar wash in Compton.

(Radio) 'ACCording to sheriffs Uopufios, one person was sfruCk by 0unfiro in Compfon.'

(officor) 'Righf now we havo one down oufsido fho car, ono down insido fho car.'

(MiCk) Not surprisingly, nobody in the community trusts the police,

who are feared and despísed.

Hot snitchíng to tha police ís so basic

that even though he knew the idantity of Tupacrs gunman,

Suge refused to cooperate.

'If you know whO killed TuPac, would you foll fho poliCe?'

'Absolufoly nof.'

- 'Cos, you know--' - 'Why nof?'

'BeCauso if's not my job. I don'f 0et paid to solvo homiCidos.'

'I dOn'f got paid fo toll on people.'

(NiCk) Pam, our producer, had to defend us from beíng místaken

for LAPD políDe oícer Orog Kading.

Without Pam, we could naver havo made the film.

No, he's nof.

No, where did you hoar fhat from?

Mo.

I'm 1 00*o sure. where did you gof fhaf shif from?

Yeah. I moan, I wouldn'f...

If he was a ox-poliCe offiCer, you fhink I would help him or fuCk with him?

He wasn'f.. . Listen.

Uh-uh.

Didn't he send you fhe Iink fo overything you Can 0oo0Ie and find ouf abouf whO ho is?

AII righf, I'mma sond if fo you. I want you fO ChoCk if out.

Mo, whore did you. ...? They Iyin'.

I don'f fuck with the poliCe.

I moan.. . And Ief me jusf say fhis fo you:

if don'f evon fuCkin0 maffor to me beCauso I dOn'f fuCk wifh fhe poliCo

and whoover say fhaf shit is Iyin' and fhe moth...

HOw fho fuCk is Mick a ex-poliCo if ho's from fuCking England?

He's from fho fuckin0 UK.

(Danny Boy)

And ho sfarted sayin0 sfuff Iike, uh...

"Whaf do you do when you ain'f gof real frionds?"

"Whaf do you do

when fhe peoplo you Iove do you wrong?"

Those are somo of fhe words thaf I romomber.

And he would fa" abouf if a Iiffle more and he would furn around in fhe Chair

and whon he furned baCk around, Iiko abouf fhe fhird fimo, ho was crying.

You know? And I know where thaf plaCe was COming from.

I seen ít ín his face. You can almost Iook ín his eyes and seejust, Iike...

Hejust, Iike, had thísjust... just a stara,

Iíke he was so surprised that this happened to Daath How,

so surprísed thís Dould happen to somebody

that he was, Iíke, the Dhíef of watDh.

Ho was the overseer.

And that happened on hís watch.

And he already thought that he was untouchahle.

(Door buzzin0)

And at that time werd bean touchad.

What happened in the end when he got Iocked up,

Suge got a Iilr selfísh síde ofhím as well.

Mean side, mean streak.

So that aitude, I'm suro, kícked in,

meaníng that, rilf I could survivo o of $5 a waek,

if I could survive ínjail off of cookíes

and milk,

if I Could survive off of nof 0oing anywhero,

if I could Iivo in fhis shifhole jail,

you shOulU bo ablo fo make it on the sfreefs."

Thaf's his aftifudo, ho didn't oven have fo tell me.

I knew fhaf's fho kind of porson fhaf he is. "Thoy ouf thoro in fhe stroefs."

He's nof 0onna pay for you fo Iivo in Boverly Hills

and he's in damn Los Angolos Counfy jail.

So if felf Iiko whon he 0of IoCked up, we wore IoCkeU up.

Por sure wo was.

When Gugo Kni0hf was sonfenCod fo jail, thaf's whon everybody wenf fo jail.

If was a fuckin' shame, man.

ExCuse my Iangua0o, buf, um...

You know, af fhe end of fhis thin0,

yOu know, SnOop is kinda Iiko...

He's Iike a duck, he's real Cool,

buf undorneafh paddling Iiko: "Oh shif!"

You know? "I hope I don'f drown."

You know whaf I mean? Game fhin0 wifh Do00 Pound.

Same fhin0 wifh Nafe Dogg. Same fhin0 wifh all fho aCfs.

They all gof up fhoro and if's Iiko:

"Waif a minufe. You moan thoro's nofhing fo aCfually hold onfo?"

That's kinda sad. Thaf's... Thaf's Iike...

whaf was you doin'?

(Door buzzin0)

(IndisfinCt Chaffer)

WhíIe ínjail, he'sjust stewing and he's so pissed off.

You know, hejust Iost his friend,

his numher-one artíst,

and hís reDord company ís beginning to círcle the drain.

So he takes ít upon hímself to retaliate.

Ho puts things into order to have Biggie killed.

Somebody had fo go afier Tupac.

I fruly believe fhaf, so...

- SOmobody had fo go? - Yeah, somobody woulda had fo dio.

If's way serious now.

If's way soriOus now. "Y'all done Cuf fho head off fho ChiCken."

"So wo goffa do fhe samo fhing fo y'all."

And fhaf's all if is, is reporCussion, roven0e.

Somebody 0ofta dO somofhin0. Somefhing gof to happen.

BeCauso, if don'f nofhin' happon,

then you'II have overybody and fhoy momma from overywhero fryin' fo gof af you

boCauso y'all saf hack and Iof TupaC gof killed.

So it had fo be somofhin0.

- 'Sup? 'Sup? - How you doin0?

(Mob Jamos) Biggia shouldnrt have came to California aer Tupac died.

That was a bad Dhoíce for them to make.

Buf fhe Easf Coasf, Wesf Coasf fhin0,

Iike I said boforo, if's jusf a sifuafion whero if was jusf

mo anU PaC had our Iiffle UifforonCes or whafevor.

Buf I'm hero fo fake ovor, saying if's all over wifh.

I'm in tho wesf ri0hf now.

If yOu noed me, wanna soe mo, falk fo me, whatover you wanna do.

- (Hosf) Cool. - Now's the fimo, Call On up.

And they all on POwer 1 06 and...

They jusf all over tho radio stafions and...

You knOw, and PaC is doad now.

I'm Iike: "Whaf fho fuck is fheso dudos fhinkin' abouf?"

And...

And fhero's already an undercurronf 0rumbling happenin0 in LA.

Like: "These nig0as gof a Iof of nervo. Thoy fhink fhey gonna jusf COmo ouf horo?"

I'm sorious. Theso is now all fhe 0an0 dudos in LA.

And I'm falkin' abouf MoxiCan 0an0s foO.

This had nothin' to. .. This wasn'f just BIaCk 0an0s saying:

"GOnna 0ef fhem mofherfuCkors."

(NiCk) Both theories ahout the shootíng of Bíggie Smalls agree

that Suge Knight ordered tha hit from príson.

Kading argues tha police were not involved and the hit was carríed out by BIood gangsters.

Hussell Poole has always argued that dirty Dops díd it.

You know, had it haen just your ordínary dríve-by shooting

by some ínexperianced gang-hangers,

wo would have solved ít a Iong time ago.

Ho guestíon aöout it. But you goa think to yourself:

r'Well, who could do thís and get away with it?r'

You goa get into their minds. Cops.

(Pive 0unshots)

(Peoplo sCreaming)

(DispafCher) '011 .'

(wifnoss) 'we neod a ambulanCe on 5fh affor wilshiro.'

'PIease, in Los Angolos. Wo have a man shof.'

(Wifness 2) 'Wilshire Boulevard.' (Wifness) 'The Cornor of wilshire and 5th.'

(Wifnoss 3) 'We've a man shof in our Car. We'ro rollin' to fhe hospifal ri0hf now.'

'I don'f knOw. I'm nof from here, I'm from Now York.'

- (DispafChor 2) 'was he shof in your Car?' - 'Mo.'

(DispafCher 2) 'You said you were 0Oing to fhe hOspifal? what hospifal...?'

(Doug YOun0) That was a pro.

That wasnrt no hunch of sDaered fuDkinr bullet holes.

Thom hullet holes wont straíght across Iike that.

Wasnrt no sDattared bullats Iíke in the BMW, the Tupac Dar.

It was a straight níne.

(MiCk) Hussall Poole gave up hís Dareer to solva this murder

and was vilifíed by hís superiors.

(PoOIe) I was told not to talk about the Biggie Smalls kíIIing.

Durin0 fhe Courso of tho invosfigafion

of, uh...

David MaCk possibly heing involved in fhe Bi0gie Smalls Case,

I was fold: "Hey, Mack had alroady gone down for tho bank rObbery."

"Lot's nof gof info any moro confroversy."

And thaf was thaf.

And fhere was nO urgonCy fo invosfigafo David MaCk for fho killin0 of Bi00ie Smalls.

(NiCk) Four years Iater, in the year 2c0O,

when still nobody had bean charged for the murders,

wo taka Hussell to New York

and introduce him to Volea Wallace, Bíggíe's mom,

who ís equally frustrated.

(MiCk) Hi.

(NiCk) So, fhis is...

Hi, Mrs WallaCe. How you doin'? I'm Russ Poole.

Mico fo meof you.

- Oh, hoy fhoro. - (ChuCklos)

- (MiCk) How aro ya? - Mico fo seo you again.

Hi, fhere.

There aro some privafo invosfigafors workin0 on somo goOd Ieads.

And if fhey COmo up wifh some 0ood sfuff,

we'II bo suro fo Como baCk ouf horo.

OK.

(NiCk) Voletta went on to file a $500 míIIion Iawsuit,

an estímate of har son's Iifetimers earnings,

agaínst the city of Los Angelas.

AII it was is a Pu* and Su0e Knighf war.

So, if fhaf's fhe Caso,

Pu*, Su0e Knighf, solvo your damn problom.

They should have Uone fhaf.

Go fhaf's whoro fho Easf Coast, Wosf COasf thin0 Camo.

Everybody wanfs fo be famous

so fhey wenf fo tho newspaper and gave their own Iiffle sfOrios

and evorybody sfart: "Easf COasf, wesf Coasf."

Easf Coast was Pu*, wesf Coasf was Sugo Kni0hf.

East Coasf was Big0io, wosf Coasf was TupaC.

COmo on, now. You mossing wifh Iives hore.

And fhat's exaCfly whaf happoned.

Two Iivos wero Iosf as a resulf of whaf?

Stupidify?

(MiCk) Years Iatar, I discovered that thís earlier film I did with Volaa

díd prompt an FBI ínvestígation

into possíbla LAPD ínvolvemant with her son's murder.

I Iíterally was watching TV one night

and I Dame across this doDumentary on the whole Biggie murder.

So I wrote up a Iong report to my bossas. They all sígned o on ít.

They said: "Yeah, you know what? You got something here. Letrs run with it. 'r

So that's how the wholo Dase got startad.

(MiCk) The PD did not welcome thís FBI investígation

and sat up their own,

Iooking for evídenDe to counteraack the Biggie Smalls Iawsuít.

Greg Kading was the head of oporation Transparency.

Yeah, so, as fhaf Iawsuif kinda woaved in and ouf of fhe Courfs,

if Came fo a poinf whero fhe LAPD realisod

fhat, you knOw, in Civil Courf jusf abouf anyfhin0 Could happen,

and fhoy fhou0ht if would be in fheir besf inferest fo rolook af fhe case.

(Giren wailin0)

(IndistinCf polico radio chaffor)

(MiCk) The City of LA prevented the Iead FBI invastigator, Phil Carson,

from testifyíng at the tríal.

Thoy saíd: r'Yoah, you're not Iooking ínto solving a murder."

R'You're Iookíng ínto solving a murder that ínvolved tho LAPD orchestrating it. rr

They said: r'You guys goa squash thís subpoena

hacause, if PhíI tastifies, we got at Ieast a 5OI5c chanDe

oflosing a $50c million Iawsuit. 'r

And to ba honest with you, theyrre right.

Thoy got a... I think itrs beer than a 50I5O chance.

(NiCk) Greg Kading, who haaded up the PD task forca,

dísputes that PD cops were involved ín the hit on Biggie Smalls.

Ho not only wrote a book

hut was involved ín a major series on Netflíx

and on BET

and hís views are widely aDcepted today.

Ho says that offíDers Mack and Perez naver worked at Death How,

hut we came up wíth new evidence showíng Oreg Kadíng is íncorreDt.

David MaCk, the LAPD offiCer, nover, over workod

or was affiliafed and assoCiafod wifh Deafh Row RoCOrUs at all.

Noifher was Rafaol Perez.

And those were fho two individuals

thaf jailhouso informanfs had CIaimod were parf of Deafh Row's securify.

Thoy woron'f, over.

And fhaf was Iooked into, nof only Uy fhe original invesfi0ators

baCk in the mid-'00s,

buf also by our fask forCe.

(NiCk) officar David Mack was apparently a charísmatiD and social guy.

So many poople at Death How ramembar him.

(Leila) I know David very well.

I was aCtually quife shoCked whon I saw David

and he was an LAPD.

Vory surprisod.

And he Came wifh me fo fho vidoo shOot

whon wo wero doin0 MaC Mall and Ray Luv's vidoo shoof.

And TupaC was diroCfing

and he wantod to he Donnected

cos he wanted to do o-duty work for rap artísts.

And...I örought hím to that video shoot

and, a Iiffle Iafor,

I found out he was working wifh all fhe rappors I know, off-dufy,

and a Iot of ofher Cops thaf I know.

(IndisfinCf)

(Disfanf Choerin0)

(NiCk) reíIa ísn't the only one who remembers Mack and Perez.

Yeah, I saen ít. I sean David Mack plenty of timo.

Thoy had to come to the party cos never knew when it was gonna jump off.

(IndisfinCt Chaffer)

Hung ouf with 'om, boon in fho room with 'om,

Ueon around 'om, you know.

Ever sinCo thoy Ueon around, I was around.

Yos, all them guys.

And who was fhe other ono? Rafael Perez?

Rafael Poroz, soon him fOo.

Yeah.

Liko I say, shif, fhey woren'f nO differonf from us.

Tho only thin0, fhoy had badgos, we didn'f.

So, you know, we mighf bo somewhoro.

And if 0o Iiko fhis: we 0ef info if wifh whoevor we gof info if with

and when fhe poliCe rush us, our poliCo rush fhem.

Thaf's how if wenf.

Thaf's how thoy 0ef down with if.

Yos.

Officor Perez, he was friends wifh Suge.

I seen him up there soveral fimes.

Sevoral fimes. And he was friends wifh Sugo.

I seen him in uniform and Out of uniform.

And whon he ouf of uniform, he fry to Iook Iike he cool and shit.

He wear Iiftle aCconfs of red, yOu know? YOu know, fryin0 fo fif in.

I'm Iike: "Thaf's fhe poliCe dudo."

Buf I nevor know fhaf he was parf Of fhaf Rampart Division shif

until I seon him.

Ouf of all fhe poliCe in fho wOrld fhaf I remembor, I remomber him,

for Ueing up at Doafh Row.

And fhen thero was anofher ono, tho one fhaf thoy say killed Biggie, righf?

BIaCk dude.

(Soffly) He usod to bo up thore foo.

I don'f know if ho did fhis,

Uuf tho one fhaf thoy had On fho nows,

ho was fhero a Iof.

Hi.

Cood mornin0. Cood of you fO seo us.

(NiCk) What makes Kadingrs comments about Mack and Perez Iook especíally waak

is that even Polico Chief Bernard Parks hímself

saíd they worked for Death How.

We know fhaf DaviU MaCk and Rafaol Poroz

bofh worked seCurify

in fhis rap Culfuro, as if relafos fo some of fhose arfisfs, buf--

- Deafh Row? - Deafh Row ReCords.

Buf we havo no informafion

nor has any informafion Come forward

fhaf would Causo us to bolievo thaf eithor one of fhom aro suspoCfs.

If, in our COntinuing investi0afion, we unCovor faCfs fhaf we Can prove,

thon wo will Continue movin0 forward fO CIear fhaf case.

Buf, until fhen,

what we've seen so far is merely undoCumonfed spoCulafion

thaf has nof Iod to any signifiCanf Ieads.

(NiCk) It would appear that Políce Chief Barnard Parks

should have been wall acquainted with Mack and Perez,

aDcordíng to Xavier HermosíIIo.

One of fho mosf shoCking fhin0s in fhaf Board of Righfs,

or anyfhin0 thaf I've evor done in Ovor 30 yoars,

was fhere was a photograph

Of Rafaol Porez and DaviU MaCk,

who woro tho fwo poliCo offiCers fhaf woro bad, bad nows,

and a woman sfanding in fho middle.

And fhoy wero all drossed in rod, from head fo foe - a haf, whafevor,

whiCh is fho colour of fhe BIood 0an0s.

There's fho Crips and fheir CIofhes are bluo.

And so, theso guys woro drossed in red.

And fhoy wero sfandin0 Uehind a fable where fhere was a Cako

thaf said somefhing Iiko: "BIoods rule"

or, you know, somofhing Iike fhaf.

AnU I was sfarflod hecause I roCognisod tho woman.

And if was fhe dau0hfer of PoliCe Chiof Bernard Parks,

who if appearod was a BIood 0an0 membor.

Thaf's... Thaf's inCredible.

Yoah, foll mo abouf if.

I IOoked af this fhin0 and I furnod fo my two parfners and I said:

"Is fhis who I think if is?"

And they said: "Yeah."

(Hap heat)

(MiCk) The Biggie Smalls' estate Iawyers wera nevar able to get a copy of this photograph,

which mysteriously disappearod.

It ís also allegad that Míchelle Parks and oicer Hafael Perez

wore in a datíng relationshíp.

OffiDer David Mack was Iater Donvicted for thís hank rohbery.

It's allegad that on tho night of the robbery, Míchelle Parks, Mack and Perez

celebrated at the Hio Hotel ín ras Vegas.

When, on a subseguent oDDasíon,

Michelle Parks was arrasted in Las Vegas for narcotiDs,

it is Hafael Perez who posts haíI.

Xavíer also mantions the aDDount of this man, Boagni,

and another callmate of officer Parez

who alleged Paraz took part in Biggiers murder

and were threatened with death íf they testifíed against him.

I havo a groaf admirafion and rospoCf for fho Los An0eles PoliCe Departmonf,

but fhis is tho one fime...

And I'vo been around tho departmenf 40 yoars,

as a Civilian.

And ono of fhe fhin0s fhat I fhink bothered mo fho mosf

was how fhis one Caso,

boin0 tho murder of Big0io Smalls,

and overything fhaf emanafod from if,

was really problomafiC.

And in fhis parficular Caso wifh fheso two prisoners,

fhoy woro visifod at fhoir prisons a thousand miles apart

and fold nof fo COmo and fosfify

in a Board of Ri0hfs hearing fhat I was involved with.

And fhoy woro told fhaf if they did festify

fhat frionds of Poroz who wore in prison

would havo fhem killed for fosfifyin0,

for snifChin0.

Thaf I fOund fo be, you know, jusf abhOrrenf,

jusf illo0al.

And if was LAPD poliCe offiCers who fold them?

If was two dofoCfivos and, uh...

We hoard if for fhe first fimo

whon Boagni, Kennefh Boa0ni, sort Of blurted if ouf.

I asked him a quesfion

and ho sfarted, you knOw, kind of shakin0 a Iiftle hit.

And fhen fhe advocafo for fho departmonf, who was Iike fhe prosoCutor,

he jumps up and he 0efs in his faCe and ho says: "Keop your moufh shuf."

"You woro fOId not fo fa" abouf fhat."

Thaf was so unreal.

I'd nevor soen thaf in all the yoars of boing involvod wifh tho deparfmenf.

(Tanse ínstrumental musíc)

(Car horn honkin0 in disfanCe)

(MiCk) Shortly aerwards I receíve a phone call from Boagní

who is currently servíng a 40-year santenca in state prison.

(MaChine) 'This Call is frOm an inmafe af a fedoral prison.'

So, aro you saying fhaf Su0e Knighf was hehind fho hit, fhOu0h?

- So, whiCh--? - 'He mado if happon.'

whiCh OffiCors aro you saying were impliCafed in fhe murder of Bi00ie Smalls?

(MaChine) 'This call and yOur telophone number will he mOnitored and roCOrdod.'

'Uh...'

(MiCk) It ís this tostimony from Boagni

that is concealed hy tha LAPD and kapt from the Bíggie Smalls Iawyers.

The PD will be fined $1. 1 million

by a US dístríctjudge for concealíng evidence.

(Sirens wailing)

(MiCk) However, it's Kadíng's unfounded theory that, over tíme,

with podcasts and TV shows, is aDDepted as valid today.

Whereas Hussell Poole, an outstanding polica offíDer for 2O years,

is discredited and ostracísed.

And, I mean, I almost fook my Iifo,

Uuf it was my kids fhaf aCfually savod me.

OK?

And if hurt.

I was bofrayed by my own departmenf

boCauso of fhe Coro valuos

fhaf fho Los An0eles PoliCe Doparfmenf preaChed

from day ono.

Honosfy, info0rify...

oK? Tell fhe frufh.

Gwoar to fell fhe fruth, nofhin0 buf tho frufh, so help you God.

Do a good job. Do a fhorou0h investigafion.

Work for fhe Community.

Uh, I belioved in fho oafh of oco.

I bolievod in protoCfing and sorving fho poople.

I roally did, buf...

...on fhe inside, behind CIosed doors,

fhat if wasn'f fho Case.

When if came fo cops being invesfi0afed...

...we woron'f servin0 fhe publiC fhe way we should have servod tho publiC.

When I'm assi0nod...

(NiCk) Solvíng these murders would dominate Hussell's Iife.

Ho died tragically of a heart attack at Sherí*s Headquarters

duríng a meetíng ahout the Bíggíe Smalls murder.

(Padin0) ...cannof bo suppressed and kopt away from fhe publiC.

A Iot of what Huss Poole díd,

Irm telling you right now, that guy was Iegit.

Forpeople to say that he was a disgraDed deteDtive, itrs not fair.

Tho guy knew what he was doíng.

Ho was aDtually a good cop,

and they díd what they could to shut him down.

I know a Iot ofpeople Iíke to say: "He keaps going down this theory. r'

Ho, his theory is correct.

(InUistinCf shoutin0)

(NiCk) The only timo I mat Suge Kníght

was in 2Oc2 when he was servíng níne years

for the orlando Anderson fight.

Both Kadíng and Hussell agrae Suge Knight commíssíoned the Biggía Smalls murder,

yet he's never been Dharged.

When I went to vísit hím at Mule Creek State Prison,

Death How was already collapsíng.

Both Dre and Snoop had Ie,

and Suge Knight was trying to managa Death How from príson.

(NiCk) oh, OK.

(Gugo Kni0hf)

(NiCk)

(Gugo Kni0hf)

(NiCk) By now, Suge had mentally moved on to hís new anemy,

Snoop, who hadjust Ie Death How.

If you hear abouf a Iof of fho arfisfs,

some of fhom used fO be on Deafh Row, some of fhem on ofher Iahels,

you mi0ht hear fhem 0effin0 Caughf up with dru0s,

gofting Cau0hf wifh a gun, stab somebody, do fhoso fypo of Crimos,

and fhey're nof gonna como to prisOn.

- Ono of fhe roasons-- - You moan Snoop?

Snoop would nevor Come. I moan, SnoOp is on...

we'd bo af fhe murdor frial for him, buf fhen he was on probafion.

Ho fhen gof caughf wifh twO ounCes of marijuana.

Ho gof Caughf wifh 0uns. And oaCh fimo if's nothin0.

They'ro nof gonna viOIate him becauso, for fho sfreef 0uys...

Sfroef guys know whaf I'm talkin0 abouf. There's no puzzle.

If you gof a 0uy fhaf's consfanfly 0etfing in frouble and nover 0ofta Como fo prison,

fhat's boCause he's an infOrmanf, he's a raf, a snifCh, you know,

and fhey moro impOrfanf fo fho poliCe on tho streofs than in hero

because fhey Iof fhem know whaf's 0oin0 on.

They mi0ht say fhey saw abouf ton or fhreo or four, five ofher 0uys.

I'm from Compfon and a raf is fhe Iowosf you Can go. A raf will do anything.

(NiCk) This was Suge's message to Snoop .

(Do0 harking)

(Cunshof)

(Dog whimperin0)

When Suge got back out ín 2001,

you know, ha changed the name to The How.

It nevor rosa. It nevor prospered at all.

Suge wasjust Iíving off of Death How raputation.

Ho was Iiving off tho reputation ofpeopla that wasn't evon alive no more.

So I Ieft Deafh Row in, Iike, 2002.

Cos it was really over with. If was jusf Iike...

To mo, if was jusf Iiko a Iiftle 0an0 hangouf.

(IndisfinCt Chaffer)

- (Roporfer) HOw you doin0, man? - Yoah.

(Lipp Do0g) When Suge Iost everything, ha Iost everything.

He Iost his acDountants. Ha Iost everything. He dídnit hava nobody, really, on his side.

And Jímmy Iovina, they husinessmon.

They was consistently getting the money.

(IndisfinCt Chaffer)

Where did all fhe monoy ond up?

I don'f know. I know a fool and his mOnoy shall soon parf.

I know thaf the fool Iosf his money

from doing foolish fhings.

And thaf's Su0e.

We know the bi0 boys gof fho ba0.

They fook fhe bag.

David Konnor ain'f. .. I guaranfoo you, David ain't brOko.

Tod Fiold, Como on, fhaf's Marshall Pield's brofhor.

The Seagram family is infe*ined in fhat.

They're nof broko.

Buf, you know, Sugo was standin0 up in fhe wron0 way fo fho wron0 peOple.

You know, you Can'f scaro Jimmy Iovine.

Don'f evon mako sonse.

(InUistinCf shoutin0)

That's COming from tho Easf fo fho wosf.

Hey, ChoCk fhis ouf. This my homeboy, BJ. You know whaf I'm saying?

My Po Iof me ouf horo, buf I fuCk wifh my nig0as,

Cos BJ is my ni0ga, ho's family, he's Iike my brofhor.

I'm gonna fuck ni0gas up behind fho homeboy, nig0a.

Sugers money wasnrt the way it was no more.

You know, he wasn't making no mora money.

So, when he wasn't makíng no more money,

the people that he want to get from the neighbourhood

ha wasn't payíng them,

so they start droppíng off.

And that's why a Iot of tímes you used to seo Suge hy himself.

(R&B son0 playin0 in fho rOom)

Onca tha people on the street seeing that, they start aacking Suge.

(Pive 0unshots)

(Peoplo sCreaming)

Move! Cof ouf of here!

(Sirens wailin0)

(Peoplo shoufin0 indisfincfly)

(Lipp Dogg) He got shot at Chris Brownrs party. He got knoDked out.

(Man) Thaf Iookod Iike Su0e, bro.

(Lipp Dogg) Some people was Iíke, you know what Irm sayíng:

r'You ainrt nothing. 'r

I mean, fhin0s sfart fo happen to him fhat nevor would havo happenod.

Buf OnCe fo.. . If's just Iike Mosos.

Moses had a veil.

He didn'f wanf nohOdy fo soo fhaf fhe Ii0hf was 0ono on his faco.

So Su0e's veil sfarf fo...

Appoar thaf theso people woron't behind him no more.

So, fhe pooplo weren'f scarod no moro.

AII I know is nono of fhe 0uys thaf was working fOr Doath Row

gof a house, didn'f 0et a Car ouf of if,

um...

...don'f have a bi0 bank aCCount.

Evorybody is jusf baCk... If's Iiko fho Cindorolla sfory.

Twolvo o'CIoCk overything chango back info fho same fhin0,

Chan0e baCk infO whaf it is.

Thaf's how it is in COmpton.

Everybody jusf changod hack into whaf fhey wore.

You know whaf I'm sayin0? If was gooU.

Tupac.. . They had TupaC fOr 11 mOnfhs, I fhink,

and overybody was 0ood.

Buf soon as he passed, evorybody furned baCk infO...

...jusf fhe regular old CompfOn noighbourhood.

It was all 0Ono, from ra0s fo riChos to worse.

Or fo fhe dirt.

(HoliCopfer blades whirring)

(oCor) 'This is Rosecrans and AflantiC. I bolievo fhis is sfill Compfon.'

'Looks moro fhan Iikely fhoy wero shof whilo fryin0 fo fill up thoir Car wifh 0as.'

(NiCk) Suge Knight, strugglíng to maintain control,

created a rivalry hatwean hís own BIood gang members,

who started killíng each other.

(Mob Jamos) A Iot of them died for him, íncludíng my brother.

Some guys got out of a van and AKred him down.

I think ha got shot nine timos, ten times.

And he was Iaying thero.

I've seon fhe sCeno so many timos.

I've seon whaf happoned fo him so many fimes.

You know...

I Can say I Can'f even imagino thaf somobody would do him Iiko fhat,

buf fhaf's how wo was Iiving.

Thaf's fhe shif we was doing whon wo was doin0 drivo-bys.

Thaf's tho shif fhaf I Iived for,

thaf I had fo 0o ouf and Iivo Iiko fhaf.

So, seoin0 my brofher,

if was so differenf.

If was Iiko I had fo sfep oufsido of mysolf.

And to see him...

...Iaying thera with his eyes opan andjust...

I had... I had so much anger ín me.

It's. .. If's.. . Mm...

If's rou0h falking ahOut him.

Uh...

Evory fimo fhoy montion his name, I 0ef Chokod up.

Uh...

Tho pain is. .. is a cold feelin0.

If's my brofhor.

(Sighs)

(Sniffs)

Buf I 0uess, in a way, his deafh 0ave you somofhin0.

Huh?

- His deafh 0ave you somofhin0 foo. - If fau0hf mo a IOf.

It 0ave mo a Ueffor understandin0 of...

...my self-dosfruCfion, whaf I was doin0 fo othor poople.

Uh.. . I knOw fhere's somebody righf now

and fhey foelin0 fho same way aUOut fhey brofhor.

You know whaf I'm saying? And...

you know, I Can'f do nofhin0 buf apOIogise for fho way I Iived.

Uh, and I'm frying fO mako if boffer. I'm trying fo help peoplo.

Um...

Karma's a motherfuDker.

And... and he's paying for ít.

Ifyou ever heen to prison, you ain't got nothíng but time to think,

espacially when you siing in that damn coll.

You gonna thínk about every one of those guys that's doad.

Your Big Bs, your Herons, your Head Dogs, your Chias, your Bountrys.

You're gonna think ahout all of these guys that Iost they Iivas.

(SIow piano musíc)

(IndisfinCt Chaffer)

(NiCk) People felt freer to talk onca Suge DommenDed hís sentence.

Many of the poople who witnessed Biggiers killing that níght

have kept a seDrot for 24 years.

I dídn't wanna do interviews for yoars. It was dangerous.

It's dangerous to know anythíng.

(Pive 0unshots)

(Peoplo sCreaming)

(Leila) I was there that níght Bíggíe got killed.

And so wera some of tho LAPD officars we talked about.

I wOuld puf mOnoy on LAPD's involvemenf, you know?

They'ro all nof on fho forco anymore, so I 0uess if doesn'f maffer, buf...

Did you soo David MaCk and Perez af fhe evonf af fhe Poforsen Mofor--?

They were all fhere.

Yes, fhey were fhere.

Cos tho LAPD now have sorf of Come up wifh a whOIe ofher fheOry.

Mm.

- Oufsido of fhe poliCe? - Yeah.

I'm sure fhoy did. Whaf's fhoir fhoory?

Thaf a 0an0 momber Callod PooChie...

...shot and killed Biggie.

Really, if doesn'f maffor who pullod fho frig0er,

alfhOu0h I wouldn'f agroe wifh thaf,

buf whaf I would say is

any gan0 membor fhat was fo shoof or kill Biggie

Could havo only done so wifh pOIico involvomenf and supporf.

If would have heon impossiblo. They were evorywhere.

If was...

You dOn'f have an evonf

fhaf's a parfy afier fhe Soul Train Awards,

and espeCially in LA,

and fhero's thaf many BIaCk poople, and you fhink fho poliCe aren'f evorywhere?

They'ro overywhero. Didn't work thaf way.

So, fhere has fO bo complianCe, um...

They were CompliCit in overythin0 fhat happened fhaf had fo dO with Doafh Row.

I hold the políDe departmant responsible for so much.

(IndisfinCf)

(Laughfor in tho room)

(Big0io) Whaf up? Roady, ni0ga? (Distanf) Yoah.

Ready for thaf raw do0 shif, ni00a?

(Indisfincf answer)

OK, all ri0hf.

Lot me seo how I'mma hif you wifh. You wanf fO sef if off?

I'm sCarod fo do somo freesfyle.

♪ I'm scarod fo do some froesfyle flow

♪ I'm foo hi0h and I mighf go off fompo

♪ But now I'm baCk fO Iof fheso nig0as know just how deep

♪ My 0ame run 2PaCalypso don'f sloep

♪ I keop a mofherfuCking CIoCk in my Car

♪ If I'm holdin0 in fho club I goffa bo fho fucking star. .. ♪

Bíggie dídn't gíve a fuDk. Tupac dídn't gíve a fuDk.

It's fucked up that the cause of their deaths

is behind the pettiest shít on the planet.

♪ Money, hOos and CIofhes

♪ BIunf smoko Comin0 ouf fhe noso is all a nig0a knows

♪ PIippin' on foos puftin' fags on foos

♪ WafChin' fho stash 0row clOckin' fhe cash flow... ♪

Thoy wera huddy-buddies. They were street huddies.

At the time of Tupac's daath,

I think they wore still buddies,

hacause when I told my son that TupaD died,

I Dould see the pain ín his eyes.

♪ Drive a faf-ass fruCk

♪ Crab tho nino, two CIips and run amok. .. ♪

It sometímes brings me to tears

just thinking about what could have been.

Where would we he right now íf they both were alive?

Tho world Iost somaone

that could have made quite a dífference.

PeaCe and Iove.

(Indisfincf Chafter in fhe roOm)

(SIow piano musíc)