1 00:00:17,627 --> 00:00:19,367 They were the kings. 2 00:00:19,396 --> 00:00:21,396 They were at the top of the realm. 3 00:00:22,732 --> 00:00:24,432 The number one East coast rapper, 4 00:00:24,467 --> 00:00:25,837 and the number one West coast rapper. 5 00:00:27,804 --> 00:00:29,144 Both kings were dethroned... 6 00:00:29,639 --> 00:00:30,469 [gunshots firing] 7 00:00:31,308 --> 00:00:32,748 ...by bullets. 8 00:00:32,776 --> 00:00:35,146 [reporter 1] After being shot in a drive-by shooting, 9 00:00:35,178 --> 00:00:39,448 rapper Tupac Shakur has passed away in a Las Vegas hospital. 10 00:00:39,482 --> 00:00:41,082 [gunshots firing] 11 00:00:41,117 --> 00:00:44,187 [reporter 2] Biggie Smalls was shot and killed after leaving a party here 12 00:00:44,220 --> 00:00:45,790 at the Petersen Museum. 13 00:00:45,822 --> 00:00:49,892 Who killed Biggie and Tupac are two of the biggest unsolved cases 14 00:00:49,926 --> 00:00:51,866 in modern American history. 15 00:00:51,895 --> 00:00:53,295 [Phil Carson] Somebody stated, 16 00:00:53,330 --> 00:00:58,470 "It’s not worth solving the murder of a 400 pound black rapper 17 00:00:58,501 --> 00:01:00,301 who used to be a cocaine dealer." 18 00:01:00,337 --> 00:01:03,607 And possibly ruining the working relationship 19 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,310 between the FBI and the LAPD. 20 00:01:06,343 --> 00:01:09,443 [Voletta Wallace] I’ve labored with pain 21 00:01:09,479 --> 00:01:15,319 and sweat just to find out the truth of what happened to my son. 22 00:01:15,352 --> 00:01:18,522 This has been goin’ on for 25 years, tryin’ to figure this out. 23 00:01:18,555 --> 00:01:21,455 It’s probably the most outrageous case 24 00:01:21,491 --> 00:01:23,761 that’s never been prosecuted in the city of L. A. 25 00:01:23,793 --> 00:01:24,863 [Stephanie Frederic] You’ve got the murders 26 00:01:24,894 --> 00:01:27,234 of two of the most iconic rappers of all time. 27 00:01:27,263 --> 00:01:29,463 You have Bloods and Crips. 28 00:01:29,499 --> 00:01:31,429 You’ve got dirty cops. 29 00:01:31,468 --> 00:01:33,838 There’s corruption. There’s jealousy. 30 00:01:34,738 --> 00:01:36,148 And there’s a coverup. 31 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:38,640 [Carson] There were numerous people 32 00:01:38,675 --> 00:01:42,015 that had to help orchestrate to pull this thing off, especially in public. 33 00:01:42,045 --> 00:01:47,085 The conspiracy theorists will suggest that the murder of Biggie Smalls 34 00:01:47,117 --> 00:01:49,387 was some type of sophisticated hit. 35 00:01:49,419 --> 00:01:51,479 The two investigators involved in this case, 36 00:01:51,521 --> 00:01:55,321 a former LAPD detective and an ex-FBI agent, 37 00:01:55,358 --> 00:01:58,358 come up with two different conclusions. 38 00:01:58,395 --> 00:02:01,435 This was an ambush, this isn’t some random act. 39 00:02:01,464 --> 00:02:04,634 [Greg Kading] This was nothing more than a gang drive-by shooting. 40 00:02:04,668 --> 00:02:07,008 He’s just wrong. He is wrong. 41 00:02:07,037 --> 00:02:10,307 [Kading] I 100% believe that we solved the Biggie case. 42 00:02:10,340 --> 00:02:14,310 If you think you’ve solved the case, then file it. 43 00:02:14,344 --> 00:02:18,684 For the first time, an informant who had been afraid to show his face 44 00:02:18,715 --> 00:02:19,815 is coming forward. 45 00:02:19,849 --> 00:02:22,779 Uh, they threatened to have me stabbed in prison. 46 00:02:22,819 --> 00:02:24,979 And, uh, they tried to shut me up at all costs. 47 00:02:25,722 --> 00:02:27,592 The truth will come out. 48 00:02:28,191 --> 00:02:29,191 Peace. 49 00:02:45,875 --> 00:02:49,015 [reporter 1] Biggie was hailed as the king of East Coast rap 50 00:02:49,045 --> 00:02:51,645 before his murder back in 1997. 51 00:02:51,681 --> 00:02:56,021 His family are now suing the city of Los Angeles. 52 00:02:56,052 --> 00:02:58,752 [Voletta Wallace] My son was murdered and I needed answers. 53 00:02:58,788 --> 00:03:03,388 But no one was giving me an answer, and I had to do something. 54 00:03:04,794 --> 00:03:06,464 [reporter 2] No arrests were ever made. 55 00:03:06,496 --> 00:03:09,636 And now Biggie Smalls’ family are claiming there’s been a coverup, 56 00:03:09,666 --> 00:03:12,736 and that off-duty police officers were involved in the shooting. 57 00:03:14,938 --> 00:03:19,178 In 2002, 5 years after Biggie’s murder... 58 00:03:19,209 --> 00:03:23,679 ...there had been no arrests and no progress in the official investigation. 59 00:03:23,713 --> 00:03:27,813 The Wallace family filed the biggest wrongful death lawsuit 60 00:03:27,851 --> 00:03:29,821 in the city of Los Angeles’ history. 61 00:03:29,853 --> 00:03:34,353 Alleging that LAPD dirty cops were involved in Biggie’s murder. 62 00:03:36,059 --> 00:03:37,559 They ripped lives apart... 63 00:03:38,428 --> 00:03:39,998 ...whoever did it. 64 00:03:40,029 --> 00:03:43,459 This is a human being that was gunned down so viciously. 65 00:03:44,968 --> 00:03:49,748 And I felt that more effort should be put into solving the murder. 66 00:03:51,174 --> 00:03:53,814 As the lawsuit worked its way through the court, 67 00:03:53,843 --> 00:03:57,113 there was an estimation that Biggie’s lifetime earning potential 68 00:03:57,147 --> 00:03:59,457 could be upwards of $400 million. 69 00:03:59,482 --> 00:04:04,582 And with the potential of $400 million lawsuit looming over their heads, 70 00:04:04,621 --> 00:04:07,851 the department needed to determine whether or not there was any truth 71 00:04:07,891 --> 00:04:09,521 behind these allegations. 72 00:04:09,559 --> 00:04:11,859 You crackers knocked my man off. 73 00:04:11,895 --> 00:04:13,595 -Crackers! -Stop, stop. 74 00:04:13,630 --> 00:04:15,400 -But they gonna take that off, they gonna take that off. -Crackers knocked my man off. 75 00:04:15,431 --> 00:04:17,131 [bleep] that. 76 00:04:17,167 --> 00:04:18,437 Let my words be absorbed. 77 00:04:18,468 --> 00:04:20,478 You crackers knocked my man off. 78 00:04:20,503 --> 00:04:22,343 You wanna think it’s a two party state. 79 00:04:22,372 --> 00:04:23,772 -[man] Uh-huh. -[man 2] Suge Knight state. 80 00:04:23,807 --> 00:04:24,847 You mother[bleep] think that. 81 00:04:24,874 --> 00:04:26,714 [fading] Let it be known. I’ll let you know now. 82 00:04:46,262 --> 00:04:50,062 Uh, my name is Greg Kading, I’m a retired LAPD homicide detective. 83 00:04:53,303 --> 00:04:57,143 In 2006, I was asked to join a federal task force 84 00:04:57,173 --> 00:05:00,243 to take a new look, a... a fresh look, 85 00:05:00,276 --> 00:05:04,316 into the unsolved murder of Christopher Wallace, AKA Biggie Smalls. 86 00:05:05,915 --> 00:05:08,685 The lawsuit was filed because of allegations 87 00:05:08,718 --> 00:05:11,448 that LAPD was either complicit in the murder... 88 00:05:11,487 --> 00:05:13,627 ...or complicit in covering up the murder. 89 00:05:15,825 --> 00:05:20,795 I asked very directly "You know, is our job here to solve this murder... 90 00:05:20,830 --> 00:05:25,430 ...or are we here to mitigate the damages to the department?" 91 00:05:25,468 --> 00:05:29,068 And I was told, "We were gonna go wherever the facts lead us." 92 00:05:31,507 --> 00:05:33,117 My name is Stephanie Frederic. 93 00:05:33,142 --> 00:05:36,942 In the ’90s, I was a television news reporter in Los Angeles. 94 00:05:36,980 --> 00:05:41,280 So, as the West Coast correspondent for Black Entertainment Television, 95 00:05:41,317 --> 00:05:44,957 I covered black Los Angeles, I covered black Hollywood. 96 00:05:44,988 --> 00:05:47,128 Hip hop was huge at the time. 97 00:05:47,156 --> 00:05:52,766 In the mid-1990s, you had two major rap labels dominating the genre. 98 00:05:52,795 --> 00:05:55,565 On the East Coast, there was Bad Boy Records, 99 00:05:55,598 --> 00:05:58,258 run by Sean "Puffy" Combs. 100 00:05:58,301 --> 00:06:00,371 Sometimes he went by just Puffy. 101 00:06:00,403 --> 00:06:04,673 And his major artist was Notorious B. I. G. 102 00:06:04,707 --> 00:06:10,087 On the West coast, it was Death Row Records, led by CEO Suge Knight. 103 00:06:10,113 --> 00:06:16,583 With major artists Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dr. Dre, and later on Tupac Shakur. 104 00:06:16,619 --> 00:06:19,489 Both of these record labels came straight from the streets. 105 00:06:19,522 --> 00:06:21,452 Death Row Records? Straight out of Compton. 106 00:06:21,491 --> 00:06:24,161 Bad Boy Records? Straight off the streets of New York. 107 00:06:24,193 --> 00:06:27,193 And these guys rapped about what they knew, 108 00:06:27,230 --> 00:06:28,960 and what was happening in their neighborhoods. 109 00:06:28,998 --> 00:06:32,168 So if they saw guns, they saw gangsters... 110 00:06:32,201 --> 00:06:35,271 ...you know, there were drugs, they talked about it. 111 00:06:35,305 --> 00:06:38,575 These guys were spitting out hit after hit after hit. 112 00:06:38,608 --> 00:06:42,018 So here you have Bad Boy and Death Row battling to be number one. 113 00:06:42,812 --> 00:06:45,882 Everything was cool at first. 114 00:06:45,915 --> 00:06:49,725 And then somewhere along the way, that competition... 115 00:06:49,752 --> 00:06:54,892 ...turned into an East Coast- West Coast rap feud. 116 00:06:54,924 --> 00:06:58,834 No one thought this friendly competition would turn deadly. 117 00:06:59,762 --> 00:07:00,762 But it did. 118 00:07:02,498 --> 00:07:05,798 [reporter] After being shot earlier this week in a drive-by shooting... 119 00:07:05,835 --> 00:07:10,775 rapper Tupac Shakur has now passed away in a Las Vegas hospital. 120 00:07:10,807 --> 00:07:15,317 [Kading] Tupac Shakur was shot on September 7th of 1996, 121 00:07:15,345 --> 00:07:17,415 on the streets of Las Vegas, Nevada. 122 00:07:18,681 --> 00:07:20,781 And then, approximately six months later, 123 00:07:20,817 --> 00:07:24,487 Biggie Smalls is shot and killed in Los Angeles. 124 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,520 Notorious B. I. G. was gunned down 125 00:07:26,556 --> 00:07:29,026 as he left the party here at the Petersen Automotive Museum 126 00:07:29,058 --> 00:07:30,318 in the Miracle Mile. 127 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,290 [woman] This is devastating. 128 00:07:32,328 --> 00:07:34,058 And just as painful as Tupac. 129 00:07:34,097 --> 00:07:37,267 I love Tupac too as a person, these were people. 130 00:07:39,068 --> 00:07:40,998 [Kading] There was always a strong belief 131 00:07:41,037 --> 00:07:42,647 that the murder of Tupac Shakur 132 00:07:42,672 --> 00:07:45,612 and the murder of Biggie Smalls were somehow related. 133 00:07:47,010 --> 00:07:50,480 So when we began to reinvestigate Biggie’s murder, 134 00:07:50,513 --> 00:07:55,183 we wanted to find any common denominator’ that we could back to Tupac’s murder. 135 00:07:55,218 --> 00:07:58,188 Believing that, by exposing the truth of one, 136 00:07:58,221 --> 00:08:01,421 we might be able to reveal the truth of the other. 137 00:08:01,457 --> 00:08:03,727 Everybody knew. Everybody knew... 138 00:08:04,861 --> 00:08:08,531 ...the same day, that night it happened. 139 00:08:08,564 --> 00:08:11,534 It was in the neighborhood, we know who did it. 140 00:08:26,582 --> 00:08:30,152 As we reviewed the evidence from the previous investigation, 141 00:08:30,186 --> 00:08:32,756 a common name kept coming up. 142 00:08:32,789 --> 00:08:37,659 Uh, the name of a South Side Crip gang member by the name of Duane "Keefe D" Davis. 143 00:08:37,693 --> 00:08:39,533 Keefe D being his gang moniker. 144 00:08:40,897 --> 00:08:44,607 Keefe D had been associated with Bad Boy Records, 145 00:08:44,634 --> 00:08:48,834 and had provided them some unofficial type of security 146 00:08:48,871 --> 00:08:53,811 when they would come out to California or go on their concert tours. 147 00:08:53,843 --> 00:08:57,083 Keefe D had been at the Petersen Auto Museum 148 00:08:57,113 --> 00:08:59,513 the night that Biggie Smalls was killed. 149 00:08:59,549 --> 00:09:02,719 And Keefe D had been in Las Vegas, Nevada 150 00:09:02,752 --> 00:09:04,752 the night that Tupac Shakur was shot. 151 00:09:07,090 --> 00:09:09,960 Just hours prior to his shooting, 152 00:09:09,992 --> 00:09:11,992 Keefe D’s nephew, Orlando Anderson, 153 00:09:12,028 --> 00:09:14,968 had been attacked by Tupac Shakur, Suge Knight, 154 00:09:14,997 --> 00:09:17,207 and other members of the Death Row entourage. 155 00:09:19,635 --> 00:09:22,845 The obstacle is always, when dealing with gang members, 156 00:09:22,872 --> 00:09:27,912 that that culture just doesn’t typically cooperate with law enforcement. 157 00:09:27,944 --> 00:09:30,284 Keefe D wasn’t interested in speaking with us. 158 00:09:30,313 --> 00:09:34,253 So we were going to have to compel him to cooperate with us. 159 00:09:41,591 --> 00:09:42,961 My name is Robert Ladd, 160 00:09:42,992 --> 00:09:46,832 and I’m... I’m a former police officer for the city of Compton. 161 00:09:46,863 --> 00:09:49,863 It was basically the home of the Crips and the Bloods. 162 00:09:49,899 --> 00:09:52,099 [reporter] Los Angeles is where renowned street gangs, 163 00:09:52,135 --> 00:09:54,575 the Bloods and the Crips call home. 164 00:09:54,604 --> 00:09:56,604 They’re thought to be responsible for masterminding 165 00:09:56,639 --> 00:09:58,669 drug operations across the entire country. 166 00:10:00,009 --> 00:10:02,169 It was my job as a gang investigator 167 00:10:02,211 --> 00:10:03,941 to know who the players were. 168 00:10:03,980 --> 00:10:07,110 You know, who were the dope dealers, who were the shooters... 169 00:10:07,150 --> 00:10:08,310 ...who were the shot callers. 170 00:10:10,153 --> 00:10:12,693 I knew Keefe D when he was just a young kid. 171 00:10:12,722 --> 00:10:14,922 We used to chase him and arrest him. 172 00:10:14,957 --> 00:10:19,867 And he went to prison and, I think, that’s where he met some major dope dealer. 173 00:10:19,896 --> 00:10:22,166 And after he got out, he just took off. 174 00:10:22,198 --> 00:10:26,508 And then I watched him become one of the biggest dope dealers in Compton. 175 00:10:29,605 --> 00:10:32,915 We were nearly two years into the investigation, 176 00:10:32,942 --> 00:10:37,182 before we’d really made any headway toward Keefe D. 177 00:10:37,213 --> 00:10:41,113 We were very convinced that Keefe D knew something... 178 00:10:41,150 --> 00:10:42,950 ...at least about one of the murders. 179 00:10:42,985 --> 00:10:46,395 So we developed a drug case against him... 180 00:10:46,422 --> 00:10:48,592 ...in order to put him into a corner 181 00:10:48,624 --> 00:10:51,394 where it’s in his best interest to cooperate. 182 00:10:51,427 --> 00:10:55,667 And that is when we approached him and gave him an ultimatum. 183 00:10:55,698 --> 00:10:57,528 [camera shutter clicking] 184 00:11:01,904 --> 00:11:03,104 [Keefe D speaking] 185 00:11:03,139 --> 00:11:05,199 [Kading speaking] 186 00:11:10,279 --> 00:11:11,609 He could cooperate with us 187 00:11:11,647 --> 00:11:14,487 and tell us what he knew about the murder of Biggie Smalls 188 00:11:14,517 --> 00:11:17,087 or face a 25-year prison sentence. 189 00:11:26,362 --> 00:11:27,262 [Keefe D speaking] 190 00:11:31,033 --> 00:11:32,873 [Kading] Keefe D and his attorney agree 191 00:11:32,902 --> 00:11:35,702 to the terms of the agreement. 192 00:11:35,738 --> 00:11:39,768 And we begin to discuss what he knows about the murder of Biggie Smalls. 193 00:11:41,410 --> 00:11:45,110 The night that he attended the party at the Petersen Auto Museum... 194 00:11:45,147 --> 00:11:48,887 ...the time of the shooting, Keefe D claims that he was in the parking lot 195 00:11:48,918 --> 00:11:51,658 and hears about Biggie being shot. 196 00:11:51,687 --> 00:11:54,097 [gunshots firing] 197 00:11:54,123 --> 00:11:56,563 So as we begin to unpack that, 198 00:11:56,592 --> 00:11:58,662 he says "That one wasn’t us." 199 00:12:00,329 --> 00:12:01,829 Now, when he says "us", 200 00:12:01,864 --> 00:12:06,634 he’s clearly alluding to "us" being his gang. the South Side Crips, 201 00:12:06,669 --> 00:12:08,429 Which then begs the question, 202 00:12:08,471 --> 00:12:11,641 "Well, you weren’t responsible for that one, 203 00:12:11,674 --> 00:12:14,044 which one were you responsible for?" 204 00:12:16,045 --> 00:12:17,815 [Keefe D speaking] 205 00:12:19,682 --> 00:12:22,212 [Kading speaking] 206 00:12:27,890 --> 00:12:32,960 We thought that we were on the road to solving the murder of Biggie Smalls. 207 00:12:32,995 --> 00:12:36,665 But in fact we came to realize it was the Tupac murder 208 00:12:36,699 --> 00:12:39,199 that Keefe D was gonna be offering information on. 209 00:12:43,339 --> 00:12:46,469 He said, "What I have to tell you is going to blow your mind." 210 00:12:48,277 --> 00:12:50,447 [Keefe D speaking] 211 00:12:56,185 --> 00:12:58,125 [Frederic] To really understand the story, 212 00:12:58,154 --> 00:13:02,194 you have to go back and look at Biggie and Tupac, the early years. 213 00:13:02,224 --> 00:13:04,794 These two rappers were friends. 214 00:13:04,827 --> 00:13:05,937 They were very good friends. 215 00:13:05,961 --> 00:13:08,261 Biggie and Tupac were genuine friends to each other. 216 00:13:08,297 --> 00:13:10,007 They supported each other. 217 00:13:10,032 --> 00:13:11,762 And they was super close, you know. 218 00:13:11,801 --> 00:13:14,101 They respected each other. 219 00:13:14,136 --> 00:13:18,206 My name is Lil’ Cease, I’m from the rap group Junior M. A. F. I. A. 220 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,640 And I’ve been knowing Biggie since I was five years old. 221 00:13:22,978 --> 00:13:26,108 Biggie and Tupac were really contemporaries of each other, 222 00:13:26,148 --> 00:13:28,608 and were coming up in the business at the same time. 223 00:13:30,519 --> 00:13:31,879 I’m Cathy Scott. 224 00:13:31,921 --> 00:13:35,321 I’m a journalist and author. 225 00:13:35,358 --> 00:13:37,898 And I wrote The Killing of Tupac Shakur 226 00:13:37,927 --> 00:13:39,337 and The Murder of Biggie Smalls. 227 00:13:41,330 --> 00:13:44,730 Biggie Smalls was born Christopher Wallace in Brooklyn. 228 00:13:45,601 --> 00:13:47,231 [Voletta Wallace] I was a single parent. 229 00:13:47,269 --> 00:13:49,399 But I... I enjoyed him. 230 00:13:49,438 --> 00:13:52,298 It was just a pleasure growing up with him, 231 00:13:52,341 --> 00:13:55,641 but sometimes he drove me nuts. 232 00:13:55,678 --> 00:13:57,618 [Cathy Scott] His mom was a teacher. 233 00:13:57,646 --> 00:14:00,316 Voletta was very strict with Biggie. 234 00:14:00,349 --> 00:14:03,279 She fought like crazy to give him an education. 235 00:14:03,319 --> 00:14:05,479 She sent him to a private school. 236 00:14:05,521 --> 00:14:07,251 [JV] What... What was your life like as a child? 237 00:14:07,289 --> 00:14:08,649 I was just... 238 00:14:08,691 --> 00:14:10,261 [JV] Were you shy or were you outgoing? 239 00:14:10,292 --> 00:14:11,322 No, I’m still shy. 240 00:14:11,794 --> 00:14:12,864 I’m a quiet dude. 241 00:14:12,895 --> 00:14:15,365 -[JV] Are you? -Yeah, I kinda get the voice... 242 00:14:15,398 --> 00:14:17,908 Say things I wouldn’t say, in my music. 243 00:14:17,933 --> 00:14:19,903 [Scott] He wanted bigger and better things. 244 00:14:19,935 --> 00:14:23,905 And they started selling dime bags of drugs on the corner, 245 00:14:23,939 --> 00:14:26,409 and wanted to drop out of school 246 00:14:26,442 --> 00:14:29,882 so that he could pursue this dream of becoming a rapper. 247 00:14:29,912 --> 00:14:33,012 [JV] What would you see yourself doing if you didn’t get in the music business. 248 00:14:33,048 --> 00:14:35,448 Probably, still be hustling. In the streets grinding. 249 00:14:35,484 --> 00:14:36,884 Probably in your crib. 250 00:14:36,919 --> 00:14:38,419 [JV chuckles awkwardly] 251 00:14:38,454 --> 00:14:39,794 [Lil’ Crease] We thought we was goin’ be settling down 252 00:14:39,822 --> 00:14:41,892 and be hustlers and sit on the corner. 253 00:14:41,924 --> 00:14:43,694 We thought we was goin’ do that for the rest of our life. 254 00:14:43,726 --> 00:14:45,936 But from the first time he started rapping, 255 00:14:45,961 --> 00:14:48,161 we all just knew he was just dope. 256 00:14:48,197 --> 00:14:50,167 [rapping] It’s me, the B. I. G. 257 00:14:50,199 --> 00:14:52,769 ♪ Competition ripper Since 13 ♪ 258 00:14:52,802 --> 00:14:54,972 ♪ Used to steal clothes I was considered a thief ♪ 259 00:14:55,004 --> 00:14:57,544 ♪ Until I startin’ hustlin’ On Fulton street ♪ 260 00:14:57,573 --> 00:14:59,143 I was just like, "Yo. 261 00:14:59,175 --> 00:15:02,145 If somebody finds you, you’re gonna be a superstar." 262 00:15:02,178 --> 00:15:05,348 I was furious when he told me that. 263 00:15:05,915 --> 00:15:07,115 "You know, something... 264 00:15:07,950 --> 00:15:09,720 ...I’m not gonna finish school." 265 00:15:09,752 --> 00:15:11,782 And we fought. 266 00:15:11,821 --> 00:15:14,951 I had fire coming out of my ears. 267 00:15:14,990 --> 00:15:18,720 And he said to me, "I’m gonna be a decent citizen. 268 00:15:18,761 --> 00:15:21,761 I’m gonna earn a lot of money, and I’m gonna make you proud of me." 269 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:26,870 [Scott] He started cutting demos. 270 00:15:26,902 --> 00:15:31,302 And then one of ’em ended up in the hands of Puffy Combs. 271 00:15:34,443 --> 00:15:38,213 Okay, my name Tupac Shakur and I’m 17 years old. 272 00:15:40,149 --> 00:15:41,949 [Scott] Tupac was born in Harlem. 273 00:15:41,984 --> 00:15:44,324 And his mom was a member of the Black Panthers. 274 00:15:44,353 --> 00:15:46,723 [Tupac Shakur] She was really involved in the movement, 275 00:15:46,755 --> 00:15:51,725 you know, just black people bettering themselves and things like that. 276 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:53,930 [Frederic] This picture of Tupac as a young kid, 277 00:15:53,963 --> 00:15:56,303 I mean he looks like any other kid in this picture. 278 00:15:56,332 --> 00:15:58,862 He’s being playful, he’s smiling. 279 00:15:58,901 --> 00:16:02,131 But this is a kid that really grew up in poverty. 280 00:16:03,472 --> 00:16:06,172 Tupac’s father just wasn’t around. 281 00:16:06,208 --> 00:16:08,438 Times were very hard for them. 282 00:16:08,477 --> 00:16:12,017 Tupac’s family just up and moved from Harlem to Baltimore. 283 00:16:12,047 --> 00:16:15,457 And I think the Baltimore School for the Arts saved him. 284 00:16:17,219 --> 00:16:20,789 It’s where he said he was his happiest. 285 00:16:20,823 --> 00:16:24,163 He took up poetry and ballet. 286 00:16:24,193 --> 00:16:25,723 He learned Shakespeare. 287 00:16:25,761 --> 00:16:28,391 I mean this is, really, his training ground 288 00:16:28,430 --> 00:16:31,000 for the artist that he would become. 289 00:16:31,033 --> 00:16:32,603 They left a lot of different cities, 290 00:16:32,635 --> 00:16:34,835 and ended up in Oakland, California. 291 00:16:34,870 --> 00:16:38,740 And that’s when his mom became a crack addict. 292 00:16:38,774 --> 00:16:42,374 But he loved his mom, and he never blamed her for the way it was. 293 00:16:42,411 --> 00:16:44,381 He was proud of her for who she was. 294 00:16:48,484 --> 00:16:52,084 [Frederic] Tupac knew what it was like to live in the underbelly of America. 295 00:16:52,121 --> 00:16:53,121 And he talked about it. 296 00:16:53,722 --> 00:16:54,522 He rapped about it. 297 00:16:57,226 --> 00:17:01,066 He wasn’t just rapping about guns, girls and gangs. 298 00:17:01,096 --> 00:17:03,566 He talked about issues. 299 00:17:03,599 --> 00:17:05,729 He really started to make people think. 300 00:17:05,768 --> 00:17:08,778 That’s why young people really resonated with him. 301 00:17:08,804 --> 00:17:12,744 He was a voice for his generation, not just for his race. 302 00:17:12,775 --> 00:17:14,275 Why do they ask the young [bleep] 303 00:17:14,310 --> 00:17:16,510 about guns and violence and drugs? 304 00:17:16,545 --> 00:17:17,985 And [bleep] that. 305 00:17:18,013 --> 00:17:20,583 You know, ask me about Shakespeare, all right? 306 00:17:23,819 --> 00:17:25,679 [Voletta Wallace] He and Tupac were very, very close. 307 00:17:25,721 --> 00:17:28,321 Tupac would call, "Look, I’m gonna be at this club, 308 00:17:28,357 --> 00:17:29,997 come on up and open for me tonight." 309 00:17:30,025 --> 00:17:33,895 And they were very close. Getting drunk together, and cruising together. 310 00:17:33,929 --> 00:17:35,689 They were really buddy buddies. 311 00:17:35,731 --> 00:17:40,201 It was actually Tupac who helped launch Biggie’s career. 312 00:17:40,235 --> 00:17:41,935 He put him on stage with him. 313 00:17:41,971 --> 00:17:43,501 He let him open for him. 314 00:17:44,740 --> 00:17:46,670 Big appreciated what Tupac was doing for him, 315 00:17:46,709 --> 00:17:48,609 giving him a lot of knowledge on the business. 316 00:17:48,644 --> 00:17:50,584 ’Cause, of course, he was out before Biggie. 317 00:17:50,613 --> 00:17:52,283 [Frederic] They were genuine friends 318 00:17:52,314 --> 00:17:53,754 that respected each other’s talent. 319 00:17:55,250 --> 00:17:57,980 I don’t think anyone could’ve seen what was about to happen. 320 00:18:08,063 --> 00:18:10,203 [reporter] Tupac Shakur was in court again today 321 00:18:10,232 --> 00:18:12,062 facing charges of sexual assault 322 00:18:12,101 --> 00:18:14,471 of a woman at a New York hotel. 323 00:18:14,503 --> 00:18:17,743 [Scott] Tupac was in a lotta trouble in November of 1994. 324 00:18:17,773 --> 00:18:23,113 He was on trial for sexual abuse, sodomy and weapons possession. 325 00:18:23,145 --> 00:18:25,515 [jury member] The grand jury having charged all three defendants 326 00:18:25,547 --> 00:18:26,887 with sodomy in the first degree, 327 00:18:26,915 --> 00:18:28,785 attempted sodomy in the first degree, 328 00:18:28,817 --> 00:18:31,657 and sexual abuse in the first degree. 329 00:18:31,687 --> 00:18:35,557 A woman had accused him of setting her up... 330 00:18:35,591 --> 00:18:37,621 ...to be raped in his hotel room. 331 00:18:37,660 --> 00:18:38,920 I’m guilty of a lotta things. 332 00:18:38,961 --> 00:18:41,291 I’m guilty, probably, of being a male chauvinist pig. 333 00:18:41,330 --> 00:18:44,700 I’m guilty of probably, um, not caring as much as I should. 334 00:18:44,733 --> 00:18:47,333 I’m guilty of not spending enough time with people like I should. 335 00:18:47,369 --> 00:18:48,569 But I’m not guilty of rape. 336 00:18:48,604 --> 00:18:50,444 [Frederic] He had mounting legal bills. 337 00:18:50,472 --> 00:18:54,372 He was facing a ridiculous amount of time behind bars... 338 00:18:54,410 --> 00:18:57,580 ...had he been convicted of everything he’d been charged with. 339 00:18:57,613 --> 00:18:59,913 So Tupac is goin’ to Quad Studios that night... 340 00:19:00,816 --> 00:19:02,456 ...’cause he needed money. 341 00:19:02,484 --> 00:19:04,424 And he was gonna jump on someone’s track... 342 00:19:05,821 --> 00:19:07,021 ...and make that fast cash. 343 00:19:09,358 --> 00:19:13,338 [Scott] Tupac happened to be there on the same night Biggie Smalls and his crew 344 00:19:13,362 --> 00:19:14,692 were in there recording as well. 345 00:19:15,431 --> 00:19:16,661 We was on the terrace. 346 00:19:16,699 --> 00:19:18,899 And I seen Tupac, and a few others, walking down the block. 347 00:19:18,934 --> 00:19:21,204 And I called out, I called his name. 348 00:19:21,236 --> 00:19:22,806 And he was like, "Cease, what’s up? 349 00:19:23,405 --> 00:19:24,675 What’s up my man? 350 00:19:24,707 --> 00:19:25,807 What... Where you all at?" 351 00:19:25,841 --> 00:19:27,741 And I told Big. I said, "Yo, Big, Pac’s downstairs." 352 00:19:27,776 --> 00:19:30,286 He was like, "Oh, go get him. Tell him to come upstairs." 353 00:19:30,312 --> 00:19:33,012 We had no idea that he was comin’ to that studio. 354 00:19:34,249 --> 00:19:37,449 Tupac and a few of his friends show up at Quad Studios. 355 00:19:37,486 --> 00:19:40,896 But unbeknownst to him, there’s some guys that follow him in from the street. 356 00:19:40,923 --> 00:19:44,523 And before he knows it, the guys pull out their guns... 357 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,160 ...and start taking all of his jewelry. 358 00:19:46,195 --> 00:19:49,095 I went downstairs and I got two guns pointed at me. 359 00:19:49,131 --> 00:19:50,501 I’m like, "Huh?" 360 00:19:50,532 --> 00:19:53,172 They told me to get back in the elevator, I got back in the elevator. 361 00:19:53,202 --> 00:19:57,072 And I went back upstairs and I told Big that Pac is getting robbed downstairs. 362 00:19:57,106 --> 00:19:58,246 And Big thought I was lying. 363 00:19:58,273 --> 00:19:59,143 He’s like, "Yo, stop playing." 364 00:19:59,174 --> 00:20:01,274 And I’m like "Nah, Big, I’m serious. 365 00:20:01,310 --> 00:20:03,010 Pac is downstairs getting robbed right now." 366 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,150 [reporter] Tupac fought back and was shot multiple times. 367 00:20:08,183 --> 00:20:11,853 The perpetrators stole $40,000 worth of his jewelry, 368 00:20:11,887 --> 00:20:14,827 including gold chains and a diamond ring. 369 00:20:14,857 --> 00:20:17,397 Christopher came home and it was on the news. 370 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,490 He was so upset. 371 00:20:19,528 --> 00:20:22,338 Um, he went to the hospital. They wouldn’t let him see Tupac. 372 00:20:23,766 --> 00:20:25,436 And he... he was hurt. 373 00:20:25,467 --> 00:20:27,407 Because he and Tupac were very, very close. 374 00:20:29,671 --> 00:20:34,241 For whatever reason, Tupac thought that Biggie set him up. 375 00:20:34,276 --> 00:20:35,876 Even though it wasn’t true. 376 00:20:35,911 --> 00:20:38,741 Biggie had nothing to do with the robbery at all. 377 00:20:38,781 --> 00:20:41,411 He felt like we may have known the people that was involved in it... 378 00:20:42,084 --> 00:20:43,324 ...which we didn’t. 379 00:20:43,352 --> 00:20:45,652 I just think it was a lotta things goin’ on with him. 380 00:20:46,655 --> 00:20:48,095 I think it was just a lotta that pressure. 381 00:20:49,324 --> 00:20:51,164 And then you also fightin’ a rape case too? 382 00:20:51,193 --> 00:20:52,923 I just figure he was just goin’ through a lot. 383 00:20:52,961 --> 00:20:54,331 [exclaims] 384 00:20:54,363 --> 00:20:58,203 He was stressed out and he just ran with that. 385 00:20:58,233 --> 00:21:00,603 And that’s what he believed and nobody could change his mind. 386 00:21:03,572 --> 00:21:07,542 Tupac was cleared of the rape and weapons’ charges. 387 00:21:07,576 --> 00:21:10,046 But he was convicted of sexual abuse. 388 00:21:11,613 --> 00:21:16,153 He goes to jail, and then Tupac started dissing Biggie. 389 00:21:16,185 --> 00:21:18,625 And that was the genesis and the beginning 390 00:21:18,654 --> 00:21:20,154 of the East Coast-West Coast rap war. 391 00:21:24,593 --> 00:21:27,033 He was sent to Clinton Correctional Center, 392 00:21:27,062 --> 00:21:31,862 which is a hardcore prison for some really heavy-duty criminals. 393 00:21:33,368 --> 00:21:36,938 Tupac was appealing the conviction, but he couldn’t make the bail. 394 00:21:36,972 --> 00:21:39,442 It was, uh, $1 million something 395 00:21:39,474 --> 00:21:41,174 and he did not have that kinda cash. 396 00:21:41,910 --> 00:21:43,580 And then along came Suge Knight. 397 00:21:49,151 --> 00:21:53,221 Suge was doing well with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, 398 00:21:53,255 --> 00:21:54,955 but Tupac was even bigger, 399 00:21:54,990 --> 00:21:58,960 and he saw his potential, and he wanted to top Bad Boy. 400 00:21:58,994 --> 00:22:02,194 So in 1995, the Source Awards were held in New York City, 401 00:22:02,231 --> 00:22:05,331 so you’re on the home turf of Bad Boy Records. 402 00:22:05,367 --> 00:22:09,177 The audience is packed with all of these East Coast artists, 403 00:22:09,204 --> 00:22:12,874 including Sean "Puffy" Combs, and Notorious B. I. G. 404 00:22:12,908 --> 00:22:18,018 And then there was this small contingent from the West Coast and Death Row Records. 405 00:22:18,046 --> 00:22:20,516 First of all, I’d like to thank God, 406 00:22:20,549 --> 00:22:23,349 second of all I’d like to thank my whole, entire Death Row family. 407 00:22:23,385 --> 00:22:27,125 I was at the Source Awards in ’95, and, uh, I was pissed. 408 00:22:27,155 --> 00:22:29,495 They came from left field, like, outta nowhere. 409 00:22:29,524 --> 00:22:31,894 Up walks Suge to that stage, 410 00:22:31,927 --> 00:22:37,507 and throws the biggest verbal punch that ever could be thrown at Sean "Puffy" Combs. 411 00:22:37,532 --> 00:22:41,502 [Suge] Any of you all that’s out there wanna be a artist, and wanna stay a star, 412 00:22:41,536 --> 00:22:43,276 Don’t want... Don’t have to worry about the day 413 00:22:43,305 --> 00:22:46,205 the producer’s tryin’ to be all in the videos, 414 00:22:46,975 --> 00:22:48,815 all on the records, 415 00:22:48,844 --> 00:22:51,214 [crowd clamoring] dancin’, come to Death Row! 416 00:22:51,246 --> 00:22:53,016 [crowd clamoring] 417 00:22:53,048 --> 00:22:54,918 [Frederic] Puffy was sitting there stunned. 418 00:22:54,950 --> 00:22:57,150 It was the biggest insult ever. 419 00:22:57,185 --> 00:23:00,755 The Death Row crowd was, like, cheering Suge on. 420 00:23:00,789 --> 00:23:05,789 But let me tell you, everything changed that night. Everything. 421 00:23:07,262 --> 00:23:09,232 [Cease] None of us knew what that was for, 422 00:23:09,264 --> 00:23:11,104 like, you know, where did that come from? 423 00:23:11,133 --> 00:23:15,733 See that’s what most people don’t know. Suge and I had just got off the plane, 424 00:23:15,771 --> 00:23:20,041 and that was the day we had just came from visiting Tupac in prison. 425 00:23:20,075 --> 00:23:24,615 That was the day that Tupac had just committed to Death Row Records. 426 00:23:24,646 --> 00:23:29,416 And that was Suge’s way of announcing to Puffy that "I’m ridin’ with Puff now." 427 00:23:32,254 --> 00:23:36,764 [Scott] In exchange for Tupac doing a three record deal for Death Row Records, 428 00:23:36,792 --> 00:23:42,562 Suge Knight paid his $1.4 million bail, and got him out of prison. 429 00:23:42,597 --> 00:23:46,737 So Suge Knight picked him up at the jail in a white limousine, 430 00:23:46,768 --> 00:23:52,138 and took him on a private jet, and flew him to California so he could start working. 431 00:23:52,174 --> 00:23:55,314 The man was a workaholic, and he was doin’ a lotta writing. 432 00:23:55,344 --> 00:23:57,684 [Scott] He was in the studio almost every day 433 00:23:57,713 --> 00:24:01,483 knockin’ off the records, and they were selling like wildfire. 434 00:24:07,923 --> 00:24:10,623 And that’s when his career really exploded. 435 00:24:12,995 --> 00:24:17,635 Less than a year after taking that flight, Tupac Shakur was dead. 436 00:24:19,868 --> 00:24:22,298 If you really wanna understand this case, 437 00:24:22,337 --> 00:24:25,647 the root of everything that follows starts here. 438 00:24:25,674 --> 00:24:28,444 Tupac signing to Death Row Records. 439 00:24:28,477 --> 00:24:31,217 Tupac was already ghetto, 440 00:24:31,246 --> 00:24:37,586 but I think it elevated when he came and started dealin’ with these type of Bloods, 441 00:24:37,619 --> 00:24:39,319 these type of gang members. 442 00:24:39,354 --> 00:24:43,224 Tupac became one of us in Death Row. 443 00:24:43,258 --> 00:24:46,018 He wasn’t a fighter, he wasn’t a thug. 444 00:24:46,061 --> 00:24:49,791 Aren’t they wonderin’ why death rates are goin’ up, and suicide is goin’ up? 445 00:24:49,831 --> 00:24:52,201 Don’t they understand that more people are... 446 00:24:52,234 --> 00:24:56,604 I mean... more kids are bein’ handed crack than they’re bein’ handed diplomas? 447 00:24:56,638 --> 00:25:00,068 He was all about people bettering themselves, 448 00:25:00,108 --> 00:25:03,778 and yet, Suge completely pulled him in another direction. 449 00:25:07,382 --> 00:25:09,452 [McDonald] Suge and I grew up in Compton. 450 00:25:09,484 --> 00:25:12,624 I knew him since 12, 14 years old. 451 00:25:12,654 --> 00:25:17,764 But he wasn’t a gang member when I was a gang member. 452 00:25:17,793 --> 00:25:23,663 Suge had his mother and father that were kinda like, strict, and Suge went to college. 453 00:25:23,698 --> 00:25:28,698 But when I got outta prison in 1988, Suge came and knocked on the door. 454 00:25:28,737 --> 00:25:33,647 And I wound up bein’ the muscle man, bein’ that go-to guy. 455 00:25:33,675 --> 00:25:38,285 If anybody would have gotten in the way, it was my job to get ’em outta the way. 456 00:25:38,313 --> 00:25:44,323 Every guy that was picked and chosen to be at Death Row had a penitentiary record. 457 00:25:44,352 --> 00:25:47,692 He had a squad of elite Bloods, these were, like, 458 00:25:47,722 --> 00:25:51,692 like, the Navy SEAL team of Bloods that he had. 459 00:25:51,726 --> 00:25:55,896 Suge Knight took care a those guys, he employed them, and he gave them jobs, 460 00:25:55,931 --> 00:25:58,801 and when he gave them jobs, they’re employed thugs. 461 00:25:58,834 --> 00:26:02,004 You know, these guys can kick your ass and have a reason, 462 00:26:02,037 --> 00:26:04,977 [stammering] and a license to say, "We kicked your ass because we’re security." 463 00:26:05,006 --> 00:26:08,046 When people saw Suge, they saw us, 464 00:26:08,076 --> 00:26:13,556 and when they saw us, they spreaded like the sea, they got outta his way. 465 00:26:14,883 --> 00:26:18,253 The first time I met Tupac, he was cool. 466 00:26:18,286 --> 00:26:21,156 Once he start hangin’ with the homies, 467 00:26:21,189 --> 00:26:22,819 total different dude. 468 00:26:22,858 --> 00:26:26,098 He went from a cool cat, to a... to a monster. 469 00:26:27,562 --> 00:26:29,762 His whole character changed. 470 00:26:29,798 --> 00:26:32,508 He became what Suge Knight wanted him to become. 471 00:26:34,302 --> 00:26:37,772 That lifestyle became the death of Tupac Shakur. 472 00:26:43,612 --> 00:26:45,242 The rivalry between Death Row Records and Suge Knight, 473 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,910 and Bad Boy Records, and Sean "Puffy" Combs, 474 00:26:48,950 --> 00:26:51,120 really got amped up through their music. 475 00:26:51,153 --> 00:26:56,293 The music between Notorious B. I. G. and Tupac Shakur. 476 00:26:56,324 --> 00:26:57,324 ♪ Who shot ya ♪ 477 00:27:05,066 --> 00:27:08,736 Tupac interpreted that song as being about him, 478 00:27:08,770 --> 00:27:11,800 and the time he was shot at Quad Studios in New York City, 479 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,240 but the song was actually recorded before Pac was shot. 480 00:27:15,277 --> 00:27:17,687 We didn’t think he would think that the record is about him. 481 00:27:17,712 --> 00:27:19,442 Puff was just puttin’ out records. 482 00:27:19,481 --> 00:27:23,181 We didn’t think that Tupac would look at the record that way or take it that way. 483 00:27:23,218 --> 00:27:27,298 [Frederic] Pac was disrespected, and boy, did Tupac respond. 484 00:27:27,322 --> 00:27:32,462 "Hit ’Em Up" was the biggest diss record in the history of music, 485 00:27:32,494 --> 00:27:33,994 not just rap, but in music. 486 00:27:48,109 --> 00:27:51,909 [Cease] When Biggie heard Tupac, when he heard "Hit ’Em Up", he was upset. 487 00:27:51,947 --> 00:27:54,887 He looked at Tupac as a friend, he looked at him as a brother. 488 00:27:57,152 --> 00:27:59,952 So yeah, hearin’ Tupac talk about him like that on that song, 489 00:28:00,855 --> 00:28:02,395 he was definitely upset about it. 490 00:28:02,424 --> 00:28:05,824 [Scott] Who does that kinda record saying, "I slept with your wife?" 491 00:28:05,860 --> 00:28:09,090 He’s threatening to hurt people, and kill people, 492 00:28:09,130 --> 00:28:11,430 that was the influence of Suge Knight. 493 00:28:11,466 --> 00:28:14,976 They wanted to try to reach out to Pac, he... he wanted to fix it. 494 00:28:15,003 --> 00:28:18,043 Once Tupac signed with Death Row, no, nothin’ got better from there. 495 00:28:19,140 --> 00:28:22,910 The war of words, the banging on wax was one thing, 496 00:28:22,944 --> 00:28:25,714 but then the bullets started flying for real. 497 00:28:28,850 --> 00:28:32,180 [Kading] Approximately, a month after the Source Awards, 498 00:28:32,220 --> 00:28:37,960 where Suge Knight had publicly disrespected Puffy Combs and Bad Boy, 499 00:28:37,993 --> 00:28:40,433 there’s a confrontation at a nightclub. 500 00:28:40,462 --> 00:28:45,832 Where Suge Knight’s close friend and bodyguard, named Jake Robles is shot and killed 501 00:28:45,867 --> 00:28:50,847 allegedly by one of Puffy Combs’ bodyguards, a guy named Anthony Jones. 502 00:28:53,174 --> 00:28:55,244 [McDonald] Before Big Jake was killed, 503 00:28:55,277 --> 00:29:00,087 it was just a verbal exchange with Puffy and Suge. 504 00:29:00,115 --> 00:29:02,955 They was just talkin’ back and forth at each other. 505 00:29:02,984 --> 00:29:07,554 Big Jake was the... was the start of a serious situation. 506 00:29:07,589 --> 00:29:11,189 [Kading] Suge Knight held Puffy Combs personally responsible 507 00:29:11,226 --> 00:29:14,536 for what had taken place regarding Jake’s murder. 508 00:29:14,562 --> 00:29:20,432 So this is one of the reasons that Puffy Combs then starts to align himself 509 00:29:20,468 --> 00:29:23,468 with Keefe D and members of the South Side Crips, 510 00:29:23,505 --> 00:29:26,605 who could provide that first barrier of defense 511 00:29:26,641 --> 00:29:31,211 against any future conflicts with Suge Knight. 512 00:29:31,246 --> 00:29:34,616 Keefe D says he begins to have conversations with Puffy Combs 513 00:29:34,649 --> 00:29:37,449 about the conflict that he’s having with Suge Knight. 514 00:29:56,838 --> 00:29:59,898 [Kading] Puffy says, "I’ll give anything for those guy’s heads." 515 00:29:59,941 --> 00:30:05,211 Well, by "Guys", he clearly is referring to Suge Knight, but also Tupac Shakur. 516 00:30:22,997 --> 00:30:25,167 [Kading] That agreement according to Keefe D, 517 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,570 was that if they take care of those guys, 518 00:30:28,603 --> 00:30:32,943 that he would a... receive a million dollars from Puffy Combs. 519 00:30:41,549 --> 00:30:45,379 I do not believe that it... it was a true intent of Puffy Combs 520 00:30:45,420 --> 00:30:48,950 to go out and see these guys contractually murdered. 521 00:30:48,990 --> 00:30:54,230 I think it was a desperate man speaking exaggerated language. 522 00:30:54,262 --> 00:30:57,762 However, Keefe D on the receiving end of that, 523 00:30:57,799 --> 00:31:01,369 this is his world, you know, none of this is foreign to him. 524 00:31:01,403 --> 00:31:05,373 Going out and retaliating is somethin’ that he’d grown up with, 525 00:31:05,407 --> 00:31:09,417 and if there’s money at stake, or money involved, of course, he’s gonna further that. 526 00:31:12,414 --> 00:31:17,284 Tupac had travelled to Las Vegas with Suge Knight to watch the Mike Tyson fight 527 00:31:17,318 --> 00:31:20,348 which was taking place at the MGM Grand Casino. 528 00:31:22,123 --> 00:31:25,593 Immediately after the fight, Suge Knight, Tupac Shakur, 529 00:31:25,627 --> 00:31:32,007 other members of the Death Row entourage are making their way through the casino lobby area, 530 00:31:32,033 --> 00:31:33,773 and one of those members 531 00:31:33,802 --> 00:31:37,302 is a guy named Travon Lane, who is a Mob Piru Gang member. 532 00:31:37,338 --> 00:31:40,368 He spots an individual named Orlando Anderson. 533 00:31:41,476 --> 00:31:44,146 Orlando Anderson is the nephew of Keefe D. 534 00:31:46,448 --> 00:31:48,218 Just months prior to that, 535 00:31:48,249 --> 00:31:52,049 Orlando Anderson and other members of his gang, the South Side Crips, 536 00:31:52,086 --> 00:31:55,796 had run into Travon Lane and members of the Mob Piru 537 00:31:55,824 --> 00:31:58,524 at the Lakewood Mall in Southern California. 538 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,460 This resulted in a altercation, 539 00:32:01,496 --> 00:32:06,506 in which there was an attempt to grab Travon Lane’s Death Row medallion from him. 540 00:32:08,703 --> 00:32:11,843 [Ladd] At the MGM, Travon sees Orlando Anderson 541 00:32:12,974 --> 00:32:15,144 you know, so gang life. 542 00:32:15,176 --> 00:32:18,116 The disrespect thing, they gotta do somethin’ about it. 543 00:32:18,146 --> 00:32:23,726 Tupac takes it upon himself to rush over, and sucker punch Orlando Anderson. 544 00:32:25,687 --> 00:32:29,227 Orlando is on the floor, the other members of the entourage, 545 00:32:29,257 --> 00:32:33,937 including Suge Knight begin to stomp and kick Orlando Anderson 546 00:32:33,962 --> 00:32:36,392 until the fight is essentially broken up. 547 00:32:40,168 --> 00:32:44,878 Suge Knight, Tupac Shakur begin to quickly exit the area. 548 00:32:44,906 --> 00:32:51,786 Tupac Shakur, unbeknownst to him, has just attacked a very dangerous individual. 549 00:32:51,813 --> 00:32:56,453 I don’t think he had any idea what he set in motion. 550 00:32:56,484 --> 00:33:00,054 [McDonald] We born and raised gang banger, we know the rules. 551 00:33:00,088 --> 00:33:02,758 That... that dude didn’t know our rules, 552 00:33:02,790 --> 00:33:07,630 and Suge shoulda grabbed him and told him, "No, that ain’t your fight." 553 00:33:07,662 --> 00:33:09,892 That’s what the homies here for. 554 00:33:09,931 --> 00:33:13,531 It was just unfortunate that Tupac picked the wrong guy to [bleep] with. 555 00:33:13,568 --> 00:33:16,478 You picked the wrong mother [bleep] to jump on! 556 00:33:17,605 --> 00:33:20,615 You... you touched a real one, you touched a real Crip. 557 00:33:21,976 --> 00:33:24,786 Somethin’s gonna happen, you gotta pay a price for that, 558 00:33:24,812 --> 00:33:28,712 and the price was gonna be paid that night. 559 00:33:28,750 --> 00:33:33,850 [Ladd] He just got beat down by Suge, and Tupac, and Travon, the entourage, 560 00:33:33,888 --> 00:33:35,888 you think he was gonna let that go? 561 00:33:35,924 --> 00:33:37,824 Not in gang life, not these guys. 562 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:45,500 [Kading] Orlando Anderson’s uncle, Keefe D had been at the MGM Casino, 563 00:33:45,533 --> 00:33:49,173 and becomes aware of the fact that his nephew has just been attacked, 564 00:33:49,203 --> 00:33:53,443 and they immediately begin to plan their retaliation. 565 00:33:53,474 --> 00:33:58,084 Keefe D and Orlando Anderson, along with two other South Side Crips 566 00:33:58,112 --> 00:33:59,942 get into a white Cadillac, 567 00:33:59,981 --> 00:34:04,981 and begin to head over to Suge Knight’s nightclub, Club 662. 568 00:34:13,027 --> 00:34:17,737 [Kading] And according to Keefe D, this now presented the perfect opportunity 569 00:34:17,765 --> 00:34:22,175 for him to retaliate for the beat down that just took place against his nephew. 570 00:34:22,203 --> 00:34:26,043 To also further the agreement, as he understood it, 571 00:34:26,074 --> 00:34:29,514 between him and Puffy Combs to eliminate Suge Knight and Tupac Shakur. 572 00:34:33,915 --> 00:34:38,855 They lie in wait, hoping to see Suge Knight and Tupac Shakur arrive. 573 00:34:38,886 --> 00:34:42,126 They get a little bit anxious because time is starting to pass, 574 00:34:42,156 --> 00:34:43,556 people are starting to see them. 575 00:34:48,529 --> 00:34:51,129 [Kading] And so they abandon the plan. 576 00:34:51,165 --> 00:34:54,905 As fate would have it, they see a caravan a cars coming. 577 00:35:12,387 --> 00:35:14,227 [tires screeching] 578 00:35:14,255 --> 00:35:19,795 [Kading] Had it not been for these fans screaming out Tupac’s name, 579 00:35:19,827 --> 00:35:22,567 there’s a strong likelihood that Keefe D 580 00:35:22,597 --> 00:35:25,667 and the other guys in the white Cadillac would have simply passed by. 581 00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:29,030 Not realizing that Tupac Shakur was just across the street. 582 00:35:31,005 --> 00:35:34,345 And the Cadillac begins to pull alongside the vehicles 583 00:35:34,375 --> 00:35:36,715 containing the Death Row entourage, 584 00:35:36,744 --> 00:35:39,184 who have come to a stop at an intersection. 585 00:35:39,213 --> 00:35:44,883 As they creep forward, Orlando Anderson leans out the window with a firearm, 586 00:35:44,919 --> 00:35:50,189 and as they pull alongside the BMW, occupied by Suge and Tupac, 587 00:35:50,224 --> 00:35:55,094 he begins to fire into the vehicle, ultimately striking Tupac several times. 588 00:35:55,129 --> 00:35:57,359 [police radio] Shots fired! I repeat, shots fired! 589 00:36:01,235 --> 00:36:08,345 [McDonald] Everybody knew, everybody knew. The same day, that night it happened. 590 00:36:08,376 --> 00:36:11,586 It was in the neighborhood. We know who did it. 591 00:36:18,186 --> 00:36:20,956 [reporter] The Reverend Jesse Jackson comforting the mother of rapper Tupac Shakur. 592 00:36:20,988 --> 00:36:25,618 A distraught MC Hammer rushing to his good friend’s bedside. 593 00:36:25,660 --> 00:36:28,960 The worried faces of friends, family and fans 594 00:36:28,996 --> 00:36:33,166 keeping around the clock vigil at a Las Vegas hospital, 595 00:36:33,201 --> 00:36:37,301 where Tupac Shakur is still fighting for his life. 596 00:36:37,338 --> 00:36:39,398 I remember this like it was yesterday. 597 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,570 It was very emotional, I mean, people were crying. 598 00:36:42,610 --> 00:36:45,210 Everybody was kinda just hoping that he survived. 599 00:36:45,246 --> 00:36:52,356 Friends, family and fans are praying God gives him another chance. 600 00:36:52,386 --> 00:36:56,196 [reporter 2] After being shot at close range, Tupac is in a critical condition. 601 00:36:56,224 --> 00:36:57,624 [reporter 3] Rap artist, Tupac Shakur, 602 00:36:57,658 --> 00:37:00,928 has had his right lung removed by doctors in Las Vegas. 603 00:37:00,962 --> 00:37:04,502 [Scott] I was waiting for the doctor to come out and talk to the media, 604 00:37:04,532 --> 00:37:11,072 and one of his backup singers came out, and that’s when I knew he was gone. 605 00:37:11,105 --> 00:37:14,515 I mean, he just collapsed on his knees and sat down 606 00:37:14,542 --> 00:37:18,282 on the curb, and just bawled like a baby. 607 00:37:18,312 --> 00:37:22,212 It was a tough day. It was a very tough day. 608 00:37:25,853 --> 00:37:28,823 Sad day, very sad day. 609 00:37:28,856 --> 00:37:32,426 [fan sobbing] My love for Tupac, and my people 610 00:37:33,795 --> 00:37:36,665 [stammering] I mean, it... A loss for words. 611 00:37:37,765 --> 00:37:41,505 [reporter 4] Tupac Shakur died today in Las Vegas. 612 00:37:41,536 --> 00:37:43,336 Pac was one of our representatives 613 00:37:43,371 --> 00:37:46,271 like Malcolm, like Martin, you know what I’m sayin’? 614 00:37:46,307 --> 00:37:48,847 And now Tupac gone, that was our voice! 615 00:37:53,014 --> 00:37:55,814 [Kading] Immediately after the shooting of Tupac, 616 00:37:55,850 --> 00:37:58,120 the information began to circulate. 617 00:37:58,152 --> 00:38:02,352 That it had been the South Side Crips that were responsible for shooting him. 618 00:38:02,390 --> 00:38:07,660 Orlando Anderson was back in the ’hood bragging that he shot Pac 619 00:38:07,695 --> 00:38:11,205 because he thought he’d just shot him, he didn’t realize he killed him. 620 00:38:13,034 --> 00:38:17,234 When Tupac died, Orlando Anderson stopped bragging. 621 00:38:18,372 --> 00:38:20,102 [reporter 5] A 22-year old gang member 622 00:38:20,141 --> 00:38:23,071 has been arrested by officers in Compton, California. 623 00:38:23,110 --> 00:38:25,210 [reporter 6] Orlando Anderson is now in custody, 624 00:38:25,246 --> 00:38:28,056 and suspected of nearly a dozen shootings. 625 00:38:28,082 --> 00:38:31,252 At the time, we had a warrant for Orlando Anderson 626 00:38:31,285 --> 00:38:34,225 for a unrelated murder to Tupac. 627 00:38:34,255 --> 00:38:39,265 So we were able to arrest him, and we had Vegas P. D. waitin’ to interview him. 628 00:38:39,293 --> 00:38:42,533 To be honest, they didn’t really know much about gang investigations. 629 00:38:42,563 --> 00:38:45,803 Also, Las Vegas, they were tryin’ to change their image at the time. 630 00:38:48,236 --> 00:38:52,276 They were becomin’ a family oriented place, and I don’t think they wanted, 631 00:38:52,306 --> 00:38:55,246 "Hey, there’s gang warfare goin’ on in the streets of Las Vegas." 632 00:38:55,276 --> 00:38:57,686 I think they just want it to go away. 633 00:38:57,712 --> 00:39:00,412 [reporter 7] Vegas P. D. will interview 22-year-old Anderson, 634 00:39:00,448 --> 00:39:02,658 but cannot confirm if he is a suspect. 635 00:39:02,683 --> 00:39:07,253 [Scott] I was told that a trial like that would be bad publicity. 636 00:39:07,288 --> 00:39:11,598 That was from a very high level within the police department. 637 00:39:11,626 --> 00:39:15,536 [Frederic] Had Tupac been a white recording artist, this case would have been solved. 638 00:39:16,564 --> 00:39:18,104 Quickly. 639 00:39:18,132 --> 00:39:21,002 ’Cause Vegas police would have wanted to seem like they were on it. 640 00:39:21,035 --> 00:39:23,775 "Oh, no. We’re not gonna let anything like that happen in our town." 641 00:39:24,839 --> 00:39:28,069 But it was a black man, who was also a rapper. 642 00:39:28,109 --> 00:39:29,269 They weren’t tryin’ to solve this case. 643 00:39:30,311 --> 00:39:31,241 They didn’t care. 644 00:39:35,917 --> 00:39:39,627 Orlando Anderson became the person that everyone wanted to talk to. 645 00:39:39,654 --> 00:39:44,324 So what I was determined to do was to ask him the question that everyone wanted to know. 646 00:39:51,799 --> 00:39:57,169 Let me just ask you point blank, did you shoot Tupac Shakur? 647 00:39:57,204 --> 00:40:01,074 I didn’t kill, uh, Tupac Shakur, you know, I didn’t do it. 648 00:40:02,910 --> 00:40:05,510 I wish everybody would stop accusin’ me of doin’ it. 649 00:40:08,449 --> 00:40:09,549 [Frederic] That’s good, that’s really good. 650 00:40:09,583 --> 00:40:11,223 thank you so much, I really appreciate that. 651 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,020 I didn’t believe him. 652 00:40:18,059 --> 00:40:20,189 [Kading] The Las Vegas Police Department 653 00:40:20,227 --> 00:40:23,167 didn’t have the kind of evidence or information 654 00:40:23,197 --> 00:40:26,207 you would need in order to charge Orlando Anderson. 655 00:40:26,233 --> 00:40:29,973 They don’t have anybody coming forward and cooperating, 656 00:40:30,004 --> 00:40:32,844 and this is the difficulty in gang cases. 657 00:40:32,873 --> 00:40:35,943 This unwritten rule that you don’t cooperate with law enforcement, 658 00:40:35,977 --> 00:40:38,287 and that you handle things on the street. 659 00:40:38,312 --> 00:40:41,152 If you knew who killed Tupac, would you tell the police? 660 00:40:41,182 --> 00:40:43,882 Absolutely not. 661 00:40:43,918 --> 00:40:47,558 By the time that Keefe D confessed to his role in the murder, 662 00:40:47,588 --> 00:40:50,218 and identified his nephew, Orlando Anderson, 663 00:40:50,257 --> 00:40:55,037 as the shooter of Tupac Shakur, which is late 2008, 664 00:40:55,062 --> 00:40:57,932 nearly ten years had gone by. 665 00:40:57,965 --> 00:41:02,705 By that time, Orlando Anderson, himself, was already dead. 666 00:41:02,737 --> 00:41:05,847 Shot and killed in Compton as a result of a drug dispute. 667 00:41:12,513 --> 00:41:16,283 In the process of investigating Biggie’s murder, 668 00:41:16,317 --> 00:41:19,687 we had inadvertently solved Tupac’s case. 669 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:23,390 But as a result of the proffer agreement that we had with Keefe D, 670 00:41:23,424 --> 00:41:27,864 we could not charge him at that time with conspiracy to commit murder. 671 00:41:35,669 --> 00:41:41,309 I believe that we coulda solved it, and it’s just... it’s a tragedy that we didn’t 672 00:41:41,342 --> 00:41:46,442 have a chance to get this thing resolved for the family, and everybody else, 673 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,510 so and to this day, it still haunts me. 674 00:41:57,525 --> 00:42:00,465 [McDonald] Tupac was killed on our watch. 675 00:42:00,494 --> 00:42:02,934 Well, how’d that make us look? 676 00:42:02,963 --> 00:42:07,463 You know, that’s our reputation is on the line, who we are. 677 00:42:07,501 --> 00:42:10,371 What kinda gang bangers are we if we don’t retaliate? 678 00:42:13,974 --> 00:42:15,774 You can’t let it go unchallenged. 679 00:42:15,810 --> 00:42:18,480 Somebody had to be killed because Tupac was killed.