1 00:00:02,168 --> 00:00:05,251 (soft bright music) 2 00:00:15,427 --> 00:00:18,546 ♪ Yo ♪ 3 00:00:18,546 --> 00:00:19,379 ♪ Yo ♪ 4 00:00:19,379 --> 00:00:22,185 ♪ Some people love me and they don't even know ♪ 5 00:00:22,185 --> 00:00:23,628 ♪ I have a hard time loving myself ♪ 6 00:00:23,628 --> 00:00:26,126 ♪ Some people judge me and they don't even know ♪ 7 00:00:26,126 --> 00:00:28,021 ♪ I have a hard time judging myself ♪ 8 00:00:28,021 --> 00:00:29,811 ♪ Life is ugly but I gotta pay ♪ 9 00:00:29,811 --> 00:00:31,371 - All the papers, they building me up. 10 00:00:31,371 --> 00:00:33,051 Now they destroying me on the same image 11 00:00:33,051 --> 00:00:34,314 that they perpetuate. 12 00:00:37,221 --> 00:00:40,104 - Hey you know, I'm just trying to keep it 100%, you know? 13 00:00:40,104 --> 00:00:42,411 It's my neighborhood, so. 14 00:00:42,411 --> 00:00:44,781 - [Narrator] Two worlds destined to collide. 15 00:00:44,781 --> 00:00:47,091 Two of the most talented rappers on the scene, 16 00:00:47,091 --> 00:00:48,831 both committed to revealing the truth 17 00:00:48,831 --> 00:00:50,571 about the struggles of street life, 18 00:00:50,571 --> 00:00:53,424 social injustice, and racial inequality. 19 00:00:56,301 --> 00:00:58,521 The biggest difference between Tupac Shakur 20 00:00:58,521 --> 00:01:02,121 and Biggie Smalls, they represented different coasts. 21 00:01:02,121 --> 00:01:04,281 - Don't get it twisted, this is not my real life. 22 00:01:04,281 --> 00:01:06,411 This is not how my real life is supposed to be. 23 00:01:06,411 --> 00:01:07,671 I'm not supposed to be really having 24 00:01:07,671 --> 00:01:09,291 all these villains in my life. 25 00:01:09,291 --> 00:01:11,121 - [Narrator] East Coast versus West Coast, 26 00:01:11,121 --> 00:01:13,311 the biggest rivalry in music history, 27 00:01:13,311 --> 00:01:15,231 ended up in the death of both artists 28 00:01:15,231 --> 00:01:17,304 just as their careers skyrocketed. 29 00:01:18,215 --> 00:01:19,444 ♪ Yo ♪ 30 00:01:19,444 --> 00:01:22,027 ♪ Fa-Fa-Famous ♪ 31 00:01:34,777 --> 00:01:38,277 (soft hiphop beat music) 32 00:01:51,291 --> 00:01:53,691 - [Narrator] Born June 16th, 1971 33 00:01:53,691 --> 00:01:55,911 in the East Harlem section of Manhattan, 34 00:01:55,911 --> 00:01:58,281 Lesane Parish Crooks was renamed 35 00:01:58,281 --> 00:02:01,705 just before his first birthday after Tupac Amaru, 36 00:02:01,705 --> 00:02:05,541 an 18th-century South African revolutionary who was executed 37 00:02:05,541 --> 00:02:08,064 after leading an uprising against Spanish rule. 38 00:02:11,901 --> 00:02:14,801 - Tupac, it's meaning determined to overcome my obstacles. 39 00:02:17,421 --> 00:02:19,611 - [Narrator] This renaming comes as no surprise 40 00:02:19,611 --> 00:02:21,171 when you learn that his parents, 41 00:02:21,171 --> 00:02:24,891 Afeni Shakur and Billy Garland, were revolutionaries, 42 00:02:24,891 --> 00:02:27,684 active members of the Black Panther party in New York. 43 00:02:29,271 --> 00:02:32,361 - So when the Panthers hit, the government panicked, 44 00:02:32,361 --> 00:02:34,641 and they had a thing called a COINTELPRO. 45 00:02:34,641 --> 00:02:36,801 And they felt like the Panthers were detrimental 46 00:02:36,801 --> 00:02:39,621 to American society, so they raided every Panther's house, 47 00:02:39,621 --> 00:02:41,661 especially the ones who they felt like 48 00:02:41,661 --> 00:02:44,541 could do the most damage as an orator. 49 00:02:44,541 --> 00:02:46,341 So my mother was nine months pregnant, 50 00:02:46,341 --> 00:02:48,021 no, seven months pregnant. 51 00:02:48,021 --> 00:02:51,501 They put a match to the door and said, "Fire, fire." 52 00:02:51,501 --> 00:02:52,941 And you know, it's like 5:00 in the morning. 53 00:02:52,941 --> 00:02:55,311 So my mother opened the door and they just burst in, 54 00:02:55,311 --> 00:02:58,101 put a shotgun to her pregnant belly, 55 00:02:58,101 --> 00:03:00,921 and put a gun to her head and said, "Don't move. 56 00:03:00,921 --> 00:03:03,678 Bye bye bye," and said, "You're under arrest." 57 00:03:04,761 --> 00:03:06,981 - [Narrator] Just a month before Tupac's birthday, 58 00:03:06,981 --> 00:03:10,101 his mother Afeni was tried in New York City 59 00:03:10,101 --> 00:03:12,804 as part of the Panther 21 criminal trial. 60 00:03:15,831 --> 00:03:18,021 21 Black Panther members were arrested 61 00:03:18,021 --> 00:03:20,631 and accused of planned, coordinated bombing 62 00:03:20,631 --> 00:03:23,691 and long range rifle attacks on two police stations 63 00:03:23,691 --> 00:03:26,001 and an education office in New York City. 64 00:03:26,001 --> 00:03:27,471 - [Interviewer] So you were right in the middle 65 00:03:27,471 --> 00:03:29,737 of the storm- - I'm still in the storm. 66 00:03:29,737 --> 00:03:31,011 - Early on. - I'm still in the storm. 67 00:03:31,011 --> 00:03:34,409 As a matter of fact, (chuckling) my mother was in a book, 68 00:03:34,409 --> 00:03:35,242 there's a book about my mother 69 00:03:35,242 --> 00:03:36,531 called "Look for Me in the Whirlwind", 70 00:03:36,531 --> 00:03:39,414 and I like to think that's my motto. 71 00:03:42,501 --> 00:03:44,571 - [Narrator] Eventually the trial collapsed 72 00:03:44,571 --> 00:03:47,364 and all 21 were acquitted of all charges. 73 00:03:49,191 --> 00:03:51,381 Just one month after his mother was freed, 74 00:03:51,381 --> 00:03:53,154 Tupac Shakur was born. 75 00:03:54,081 --> 00:03:57,081 He would go on to be a revolutionary in his own way, 76 00:03:57,081 --> 00:03:58,701 changing the landscape of music 77 00:03:58,701 --> 00:04:00,471 with the intensity of hip-hop lyrics 78 00:04:00,471 --> 00:04:04,050 about the harsh realities of life for so many. 79 00:04:04,050 --> 00:04:07,217 (soft soulful music) 80 00:04:23,301 --> 00:04:25,521 Christopher George Latore Wallace was born 81 00:04:25,521 --> 00:04:28,584 in Brooklyn, New York on May 21st, 1972. 82 00:04:31,281 --> 00:04:32,421 His parents both hailed 83 00:04:32,421 --> 00:04:34,671 from the Caribbean island of Jamaica. 84 00:04:34,671 --> 00:04:38,031 His mom Voletta taught preschool, his father Selwyn 85 00:04:38,031 --> 00:04:40,494 was a welder and local Jamaican politician. 86 00:04:41,571 --> 00:04:44,211 Selwyn left the family when Biggie was two, 87 00:04:44,211 --> 00:04:46,461 but Voletta worked two jobs to send her son 88 00:04:46,461 --> 00:04:48,831 to a private school, the Roman Catholic 89 00:04:48,831 --> 00:04:51,411 Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, but Biggie 90 00:04:51,411 --> 00:04:53,841 subsequently transferred to the George Westinghouse 91 00:04:53,841 --> 00:04:56,004 Career and Technical Education High School. 92 00:04:58,221 --> 00:05:02,274 Alums include rappers DMX, Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes. 93 00:05:03,771 --> 00:05:06,501 Biggie had excelled in English, but often played truant 94 00:05:06,501 --> 00:05:10,671 at Westinghouse, and dropped out in 1989 at age 17. 95 00:05:10,671 --> 00:05:13,754 (soft soulful music) 96 00:05:16,311 --> 00:05:18,501 Acquiring the childhood nickname Big 97 00:05:18,501 --> 00:05:20,361 because of his plus-size girth, 98 00:05:20,361 --> 00:05:23,061 he began selling drugs at 12, working the streets 99 00:05:23,061 --> 00:05:25,524 near his mother's apartment on St. James Place. 100 00:05:27,801 --> 00:05:29,691 Voletta worked long hours and had 101 00:05:29,691 --> 00:05:31,944 no inkling of her son's activities. 102 00:05:33,801 --> 00:05:36,531 After quitting school, Biggie stepped up the drug dealing, 103 00:05:36,531 --> 00:05:38,381 and was soon in trouble with the law. 104 00:05:40,101 --> 00:05:43,671 He received a five-year probationary sentence in 1989 105 00:05:43,671 --> 00:05:46,464 after being arrested on weapons possession charges. 106 00:05:47,781 --> 00:05:49,491 The following year he was arrested 107 00:05:49,491 --> 00:05:51,801 for violating that probation. 108 00:05:51,801 --> 00:05:54,681 The year after that he was charged with dealing cocaine 109 00:05:54,681 --> 00:05:58,041 in North Carolina, and reportedly spent nine months in jail 110 00:05:58,041 --> 00:05:59,514 while waiting to make bail. 111 00:06:01,491 --> 00:06:04,341 Taking the stage for the first time in 1984, 112 00:06:04,341 --> 00:06:07,641 Tupac participated in a fundraiser at the Apollo Theater 113 00:06:07,641 --> 00:06:10,014 for presidential candidate Jesse Jackson. 114 00:06:12,711 --> 00:06:17,571 - I did a play at the Apollo Theater for Jesse Jackson 115 00:06:17,571 --> 00:06:20,871 when he was running for President, it was for his campaign. 116 00:06:20,871 --> 00:06:21,771 - [Interviewer] Was this always 117 00:06:21,771 --> 00:06:23,830 kind of an ambition of yours? 118 00:06:23,830 --> 00:06:25,461 I mean, did you have a show business bug as a youngster? 119 00:06:25,461 --> 00:06:27,471 - I mean I caught it then, but at the time 120 00:06:27,471 --> 00:06:29,691 it just seemed like the fun thing to do, 121 00:06:29,691 --> 00:06:30,891 'cause I was 13, I mean. 122 00:06:30,891 --> 00:06:33,601 But I caught the bug when I got on the stage 123 00:06:33,601 --> 00:06:36,141 and all those people was clapping, so that's when I got it. 124 00:06:36,141 --> 00:06:38,241 But really I just enjoy expressing myself. 125 00:06:38,241 --> 00:06:39,981 Anytime I can express myself, 126 00:06:39,981 --> 00:06:43,821 I can let some of the pain go from a childhood like mine. 127 00:06:43,821 --> 00:06:46,557 So that's why I enjoy the acting. 128 00:06:46,557 --> 00:06:49,974 (soft thoughtful music) 129 00:06:51,741 --> 00:06:53,841 - [Narrator] A move to Baltimore, Maryland happened 130 00:06:53,841 --> 00:06:56,574 the same year, when Tupac's mother lost her job. 131 00:07:00,081 --> 00:07:03,171 After two years at Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School, 132 00:07:03,171 --> 00:07:04,581 there was a welcome transfer 133 00:07:04,581 --> 00:07:06,771 to the Baltimore School for the Arts, 134 00:07:06,771 --> 00:07:09,651 where acting, ballet, poetry, and jazz 135 00:07:09,651 --> 00:07:12,171 were on offer to the creative teenager, 136 00:07:12,171 --> 00:07:14,204 who often performed in Shakespeare plays 137 00:07:14,204 --> 00:07:17,841 depicting the timeless themes of power, politics, 138 00:07:17,841 --> 00:07:22,401 violence, and love he had seen firsthand in his early years. 139 00:07:22,401 --> 00:07:24,381 The School for the Arts opened up Tupac 140 00:07:24,381 --> 00:07:27,141 to an unexpectedly eclectic range of music, 141 00:07:27,141 --> 00:07:32,141 including U2, Culture Club, Kate Bush and Sinead O'Connor. 142 00:07:32,391 --> 00:07:35,361 Tupac was a popular student at Baltimore Arts, 143 00:07:35,361 --> 00:07:38,484 known for his humor and ability to mix with everyone. 144 00:07:40,131 --> 00:07:42,591 His mother moved to Marin City, California, 145 00:07:42,591 --> 00:07:44,691 just north of San Francisco. 146 00:07:44,691 --> 00:07:47,061 Tupac thought that moving away from Baltimore 147 00:07:47,061 --> 00:07:48,891 would leave behind the life of poverty 148 00:07:48,891 --> 00:07:51,141 in a neighborhood riddled with crime, 149 00:07:51,141 --> 00:07:53,904 but California proved to be even worse. 150 00:07:54,861 --> 00:07:57,741 He said that the poverty he encountered in his early years 151 00:07:57,741 --> 00:07:59,901 helped him relate to many people, 152 00:07:59,901 --> 00:08:03,774 and here his mother Afeni succumbed to crack addiction. 153 00:08:08,593 --> 00:08:11,760 (soft soulful music) 154 00:08:13,161 --> 00:08:14,991 Biggie began rapping as a teenager 155 00:08:14,991 --> 00:08:16,991 to entertain people in his neighborhood. 156 00:08:19,191 --> 00:08:21,831 After he got out of jail, he made a demo tape 157 00:08:21,831 --> 00:08:24,501 as Biggie Smalls, named after a gang leader 158 00:08:24,501 --> 00:08:27,771 from the 1975 movie, "Let's Do It Again", 159 00:08:27,771 --> 00:08:30,174 also a nod to his childhood nickname. 160 00:08:31,131 --> 00:08:34,311 He had no serious plans to pursue a career in music, 161 00:08:34,311 --> 00:08:37,131 but the tape found its way to the "Source" magazine, 162 00:08:37,131 --> 00:08:39,831 who were so impressed that they profiled Biggie 163 00:08:39,831 --> 00:08:43,074 in their "Unsigned Hype" column in March, 1992. 164 00:08:43,941 --> 00:08:46,341 From there, Biggie was invited to record 165 00:08:46,341 --> 00:08:48,114 with other unsigned rappers. 166 00:08:50,421 --> 00:08:53,781 This recording came to the attention of Sean Puffy Combs, 167 00:08:53,781 --> 00:08:56,361 an A&R executive and producer who worked 168 00:08:56,361 --> 00:08:59,511 for the leading urban label, Uptown Records. 169 00:08:59,511 --> 00:09:02,571 He started there as an intern in 1990. 170 00:09:02,571 --> 00:09:04,611 Combs arranged a record deal for Biggie, 171 00:09:04,611 --> 00:09:06,531 but left the label soon after, 172 00:09:06,531 --> 00:09:09,981 having fallen out with his boss, Andre Harrell. 173 00:09:09,981 --> 00:09:13,314 Combs went on to set up his own imprint, Bad Boy Records. 174 00:09:20,601 --> 00:09:24,141 In the summer of '91, a new record company, Interscope, 175 00:09:24,141 --> 00:09:26,811 were looking for up-and-coming hiphop artists. 176 00:09:26,811 --> 00:09:29,511 In a stroke of good luck, the daughter of the millionaire 177 00:09:29,511 --> 00:09:31,821 who founded the company, Ted Field, 178 00:09:31,821 --> 00:09:34,401 had heard Tupac's demo and loved it. 179 00:09:34,401 --> 00:09:37,824 So in August '91, he signed the Interscope deal. 180 00:09:40,431 --> 00:09:43,468 While living in Oakland, Tupac recorded his first album, 181 00:09:43,468 --> 00:09:46,048 "2Pacalypse Now", featuring the singles 182 00:09:46,048 --> 00:09:48,288 "Brenda's Got a Baby" and "Trapped". 183 00:09:50,391 --> 00:09:52,071 He went from being an unknown 184 00:09:52,071 --> 00:09:54,084 to having a platinum-selling record. 185 00:09:56,151 --> 00:09:58,761 The album traces the story of a young Black male 186 00:09:58,761 --> 00:10:01,821 from start to finish, teenage pregnancy, 187 00:10:01,821 --> 00:10:04,911 poverty, drugs, police brutality, 188 00:10:04,911 --> 00:10:07,524 but it also draws on his personal problems. 189 00:10:08,382 --> 00:10:09,563 ♪ I hear Brenda's got a baby ♪ 190 00:10:09,563 --> 00:10:11,253 ♪ But Brenda's barely got a brain ♪ 191 00:10:11,253 --> 00:10:13,986 ♪ A damn shame, the girl can hardly spell her name ♪ 192 00:10:13,986 --> 00:10:15,014 ♪ That's not our problem ♪ 193 00:10:15,014 --> 00:10:16,462 ♪ That's up to Brenda's family ♪ 194 00:10:16,462 --> 00:10:19,234 ♪ Well let me show you how it affects our whole community ♪ 195 00:10:19,234 --> 00:10:21,078 ♪ Now Brenda really never knew her Moms ♪ 196 00:10:21,078 --> 00:10:24,017 ♪ And her dad was a junkie putting death into his arms ♪ 197 00:10:24,017 --> 00:10:26,744 ♪ It's sad, 'cause I bet Brenda doesn't even know ♪ 198 00:10:26,744 --> 00:10:27,944 ♪ Just 'cause you're in the ghetto ♪ 199 00:10:27,944 --> 00:10:30,252 ♪ Doesn't mean you can't grow ♪ 200 00:10:30,252 --> 00:10:31,579 ♪ But oh, that's a thought ♪ 201 00:10:31,579 --> 00:10:33,084 ♪ My own revelation ♪ 202 00:10:33,084 --> 00:10:36,042 ♪ Do whatever it takes to resist the temptation ♪ 203 00:10:36,042 --> 00:10:37,874 ♪ Brenda got herself a boyfriend ♪ 204 00:10:37,874 --> 00:10:39,339 ♪ Her boyfriend was her cousin. ♪ 205 00:10:39,339 --> 00:10:40,737 ♪ Now let's watch the joy end ♪ 206 00:10:40,737 --> 00:10:42,441 ♪ She tried to hide her pregnancy ♪ 207 00:10:42,441 --> 00:10:44,301 - [Narrator] Before he had the chance to put anything out 208 00:10:44,301 --> 00:10:47,691 on Bad Boy, Uptown released music that Biggie recorded 209 00:10:47,691 --> 00:10:49,881 during his brief stint at the label, 210 00:10:49,881 --> 00:10:52,731 including a remix of Mary J Blige's "Real Love" 211 00:10:52,731 --> 00:10:55,791 in August, 1992, that featured a guest verse 212 00:10:55,791 --> 00:10:56,941 from the Notorious BIG. 213 00:10:58,071 --> 00:11:01,761 In June 1993, the label released the Notorious BIG's 214 00:11:01,761 --> 00:11:05,088 first single as a solo artist, "Party and Bullshit". 215 00:11:07,221 --> 00:11:10,221 With the thrill of his first record appearing on MTV, 216 00:11:10,221 --> 00:11:12,531 a shocking incident occurred when Tupac 217 00:11:12,531 --> 00:11:14,184 was severely beaten in the head. 218 00:11:16,371 --> 00:11:20,211 - Basically, I walked across the street, 17th and Broadway. 219 00:11:20,211 --> 00:11:22,311 The police officer stopped me on the sidewalk 220 00:11:22,311 --> 00:11:23,604 and asked to see my ID. 221 00:11:25,071 --> 00:11:26,901 They sweating me about my name. 222 00:11:26,901 --> 00:11:29,598 The officers said, "You have to learn your place." 223 00:11:30,501 --> 00:11:33,321 They were charging me with jaywalking, so I was riffing, 224 00:11:33,321 --> 00:11:35,421 arguing about why would they charge me 225 00:11:35,421 --> 00:11:36,624 with such a petty crime. 226 00:11:38,121 --> 00:11:40,401 So I kept yelling, asking them to give my citation 227 00:11:40,401 --> 00:11:42,471 and let me go about my business. 228 00:11:42,471 --> 00:11:44,901 Next thing I know, my face was being buried 229 00:11:44,901 --> 00:11:48,411 into the concrete, and I was laying face down in the gutter, 230 00:11:48,411 --> 00:11:51,861 waking up from being unconscious in cuffs, 231 00:11:51,861 --> 00:11:53,481 with blood on my face, 232 00:11:53,481 --> 00:11:55,491 and I'm going to jail resisting arrest. 233 00:11:55,491 --> 00:11:57,771 That's harassment to me, that I have to be stopped 234 00:11:57,771 --> 00:11:59,121 in the middle of the street and checked, 235 00:11:59,121 --> 00:12:01,611 like we're in South Africa, and asked for my ID. 236 00:12:01,611 --> 00:12:04,791 Officer Boyovich repeatedly slammed my face into the floor 237 00:12:04,791 --> 00:12:06,561 while Rogers put the cuffs on me. 238 00:12:06,561 --> 00:12:08,691 That's not called for, for jaywalking. 239 00:12:08,691 --> 00:12:10,761 - [Narrator] He had a $10 million lawsuit, 240 00:12:10,761 --> 00:12:12,261 which they said they would settle, 241 00:12:12,261 --> 00:12:14,334 but Tupac said that nobody cared. 242 00:12:15,501 --> 00:12:18,801 What people did care about was what blew up over the news. 243 00:12:18,801 --> 00:12:21,981 They didn't see him being beaten up for jaywalking, 244 00:12:21,981 --> 00:12:24,411 with his head and eye bloodied and bruised. 245 00:12:24,411 --> 00:12:26,511 All they wanted to see were the images of him 246 00:12:26,511 --> 00:12:28,344 coming out of jail in handcuffs. 247 00:12:30,711 --> 00:12:32,421 It was a traumatic experience, 248 00:12:32,421 --> 00:12:34,104 but a rite of passage for him. 249 00:12:35,181 --> 00:12:37,041 Pac came from a family where police 250 00:12:37,041 --> 00:12:39,351 had killed the people close to him. 251 00:12:39,351 --> 00:12:42,861 After the Oakland police had beaten him, be changed. 252 00:12:42,861 --> 00:12:45,741 He settled for $42,000 because he was tired 253 00:12:45,741 --> 00:12:47,961 of being in court, knowing that he could 254 00:12:47,961 --> 00:12:51,054 have gotten more money, but settling for it to be over. 255 00:12:52,221 --> 00:12:55,828 Often complaining that he was misunderstood, Tupac remarked, 256 00:12:55,828 --> 00:12:58,044 "Everything in life is not all beautiful. 257 00:13:00,171 --> 00:13:02,181 There is lots of killing and drugs. 258 00:13:02,181 --> 00:13:05,151 To me, a perfect album talks about the hard stuff, 259 00:13:05,151 --> 00:13:07,461 and the fun and caring stuff. 260 00:13:07,461 --> 00:13:09,261 It seems like a lot of the sensitive stuff 261 00:13:09,261 --> 00:13:14,158 I write goes unnoticed." (soft thoughtful music) 262 00:13:17,421 --> 00:13:20,931 That same year as he worked on music for his debut album, 263 00:13:20,931 --> 00:13:23,454 Biggie Smalls met Tupac for the first time. 264 00:13:25,941 --> 00:13:28,828 Their encounter detailed in Ben Westhoff's book, 265 00:13:28,828 --> 00:13:31,581 "Original Gangsters", occurred at a party 266 00:13:31,581 --> 00:13:33,621 held by an LA drug dealer. 267 00:13:33,621 --> 00:13:36,891 They ate, drank and smoked together, and Tupac, 268 00:13:36,891 --> 00:13:40,281 already a successful recording artist, gifted Biggie, 269 00:13:40,281 --> 00:13:43,704 then unknown outside of New York, a bottle of Hennessy. 270 00:13:44,661 --> 00:13:48,651 After that, Tupac mentored Biggie whenever the two met up. 271 00:13:48,651 --> 00:13:51,051 At one point, Biggie even asked if Tupac 272 00:13:51,051 --> 00:13:52,588 would become his manager. 273 00:13:52,588 --> 00:13:55,378 "Nah, stay with Puff," Tupac said, 274 00:13:55,378 --> 00:13:56,958 "he will make you a star." 275 00:13:58,821 --> 00:14:01,071 Biggie was particularly concerned about money 276 00:14:01,071 --> 00:14:04,311 around that time, because he became a father in August 277 00:14:04,311 --> 00:14:08,124 to Tiana, his daughter, with high school sweetheart Jan. 278 00:14:09,441 --> 00:14:12,141 It has been reported that Biggie went back to drug dealing 279 00:14:12,141 --> 00:14:15,414 until Combs learned what he was up to and made him stop. 280 00:14:18,741 --> 00:14:22,581 Life changed for Tupac when he auditioned for "Juice". 281 00:14:22,581 --> 00:14:25,461 In the movie, Tupac plays the part of Bishop, 282 00:14:25,461 --> 00:14:27,621 whom he describes as a psychopath, 283 00:14:27,621 --> 00:14:30,534 but is also just a misguided, lonely young kid. 284 00:14:31,401 --> 00:14:33,921 Tupac could relate to his character. 285 00:14:33,921 --> 00:14:37,221 He said that he just let himself go during filming. 286 00:14:37,221 --> 00:14:40,221 He stopped caring and worrying about what people thought. 287 00:14:40,221 --> 00:14:42,741 In turn, he portrayed the character to a point 288 00:14:42,741 --> 00:14:44,424 where he felt nothing was fake. 289 00:14:45,531 --> 00:14:49,221 He took everything in his life and internalized it. 290 00:14:49,221 --> 00:14:52,101 He said that the character of Juice helped him. 291 00:14:52,101 --> 00:14:53,601 It allowed him to feel trust 292 00:14:53,601 --> 00:14:55,464 and let him trust his instincts. 293 00:14:57,298 --> 00:15:00,861 "Poetic Justice", the second film Tupac starred in, 294 00:15:00,861 --> 00:15:02,634 was where he had to really act. 295 00:15:03,981 --> 00:15:08,691 The character Lucky was caring, hardworking and responsible, 296 00:15:08,691 --> 00:15:11,871 a complete reversal of his previous role as Bishop. 297 00:15:11,871 --> 00:15:15,684 - Lucky is a responsible father, committed father, 298 00:15:17,121 --> 00:15:19,611 trying to deal with some pain from the past, 299 00:15:19,611 --> 00:15:21,741 and trying to get through daily survival 300 00:15:21,741 --> 00:15:23,571 in South Central Los Angeles. 301 00:15:23,571 --> 00:15:25,371 Anytime it's a role for a young Black man 302 00:15:25,371 --> 00:15:27,321 that deals with pain, that's my role, 303 00:15:27,321 --> 00:15:29,001 I'm made for that role. 304 00:15:29,001 --> 00:15:31,401 So Lucky as well as the last role I did, 305 00:15:31,401 --> 00:15:33,564 Bishop, they both fit me perfect. 306 00:15:35,421 --> 00:15:37,641 - [Narrator] The Notorious BIG's debut album 307 00:15:37,641 --> 00:15:40,851 came out on Bad Boy in September, 1994, 308 00:15:40,851 --> 00:15:44,451 a month after "Juicy", his first single for the label. 309 00:15:44,451 --> 00:15:47,451 The album "Ready to Die" was certified gold 310 00:15:47,451 --> 00:15:50,931 within two months, double platinum the following year, 311 00:15:50,931 --> 00:15:53,398 and eventually quadruple platinum. 312 00:15:53,398 --> 00:15:56,511 "Big Poppa", the second of the album's four singles, 313 00:15:56,511 --> 00:16:00,621 was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance. 314 00:16:00,621 --> 00:16:02,175 ♪ Keep banging ♪ 315 00:16:02,175 --> 00:16:04,642 ♪ I love it when you call me Big Poppa ♪ 316 00:16:04,642 --> 00:16:06,151 ♪ Throw your hands in the air ♪ 317 00:16:06,151 --> 00:16:07,753 ♪ If you's a true player ♪ 318 00:16:07,753 --> 00:16:10,108 ♪ I love it when you call me Big Poppa ♪ 319 00:16:10,108 --> 00:16:11,698 ♪ To the honeys getting money ♪ 320 00:16:11,698 --> 00:16:13,055 ♪ Playing niggas like dummies, uh ♪ 321 00:16:13,055 --> 00:16:15,240 ♪ I love it when you call me Big Poppa ♪ 322 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:16,802 ♪ You got a gun up in your waist ♪ 323 00:16:16,802 --> 00:16:18,018 ♪ Please don't shoot up the place ♪ 324 00:16:18,018 --> 00:16:20,120 ♪ Why, 'cause I see some ladies tonight ♪ 325 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:20,953 ♪ That should be having my baby ♪ 326 00:16:20,953 --> 00:16:22,101 - [Narrator] "Ready to Die" marked a resurgence 327 00:16:22,101 --> 00:16:25,251 in East Coast hiphop, and Biggie was widely acclaimed 328 00:16:25,251 --> 00:16:27,711 for the narrative ability he displayed on the album's 329 00:16:27,711 --> 00:16:31,102 semi-autobiographical tales from his wayward youth. 330 00:16:31,102 --> 00:16:33,055 ♪ Biggie Smalls, Junior MAFIA ♪ 331 00:16:33,055 --> 00:16:36,472 ♪ Represent, baby, baby ♪ 332 00:16:38,721 --> 00:16:41,934 - [Narrator] Tupac's second album arrived in February, 1993. 333 00:16:42,861 --> 00:16:44,991 It was a critical and commercial advance, 334 00:16:44,991 --> 00:16:47,031 and a stark departure from the violence 335 00:16:47,031 --> 00:16:49,164 found on his debut studio album. 336 00:16:51,291 --> 00:16:54,718 The album produced Pac's first set of mainstream hits. 337 00:16:54,718 --> 00:16:56,481 "Keep Ya Head Up" is considered 338 00:16:56,481 --> 00:16:58,644 one of the best rap tracks of all time. 339 00:16:59,541 --> 00:17:03,208 Grounded by a sample from the Five Stairstep's 1970 track 340 00:17:03,208 --> 00:17:05,878 "Ooh Child", Tupac's sentimental remake, 341 00:17:05,878 --> 00:17:07,521 "things are gonna get easier", 342 00:17:07,521 --> 00:17:10,344 remains rap's hallmark ode to Black women. 343 00:17:11,351 --> 00:17:13,141 ♪ Keep ya head up ♪ 344 00:17:13,141 --> 00:17:17,196 ♪ Ooh child, things are gonna get easier ♪ 345 00:17:17,196 --> 00:17:18,585 ♪ Keep ya head up ♪ 346 00:17:18,585 --> 00:17:21,422 ♪ Ooh child, things'll get brighter ♪ 347 00:17:21,422 --> 00:17:24,025 ♪ Oh, keep ya head up ♪ 348 00:17:24,025 --> 00:17:28,163 ♪ Ooh child, things are gonna get easier ♪ 349 00:17:28,163 --> 00:17:29,705 ♪ Keep ya head up ♪ 350 00:17:29,705 --> 00:17:33,662 ♪ Ooh child, they're gonna get brighter ♪ 351 00:17:33,662 --> 00:17:35,504 ♪ Hey yo, I remember Marvin Gaye ♪ 352 00:17:35,504 --> 00:17:36,829 ♪ Used to sing to me ♪ 353 00:17:36,829 --> 00:17:39,520 ♪ He had me feeling like Black was the thing to be ♪ 354 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,195 ♪ And suddenly the ghetto didn't seem so tough ♪ 355 00:17:42,195 --> 00:17:43,101 ♪ And though we had it ♪ 356 00:17:43,101 --> 00:17:44,151 - [Narrator] Many consider it one 357 00:17:44,151 --> 00:17:46,701 of the most profound rap songs ever made. 358 00:17:46,701 --> 00:17:49,821 It is often referenced by other artists in their work, 359 00:17:49,821 --> 00:17:53,331 building Tupac's persona as a very influential rapper 360 00:17:53,331 --> 00:17:54,981 with a social conscience. 361 00:17:54,981 --> 00:17:57,621 - People love to, you know, have mercy and sympathy 362 00:17:57,621 --> 00:18:01,374 for everything from the animals to the whales to fur, 363 00:18:01,374 --> 00:18:05,751 to everything except us, your youth. 364 00:18:05,751 --> 00:18:08,121 The ones who you give no attention to, 365 00:18:08,121 --> 00:18:12,321 who become adults with no compassion, you know what I mean? 366 00:18:12,321 --> 00:18:14,031 And I feel like if you walk by a street, 367 00:18:14,031 --> 00:18:16,581 and you was walking on concrete and you saw a rose 368 00:18:16,581 --> 00:18:19,581 growing outta concrete, even if it had messed-up petals, 369 00:18:19,581 --> 00:18:22,611 and it was a little, you know, to the side, 370 00:18:22,611 --> 00:18:24,261 you would marvel at just seeing 371 00:18:24,261 --> 00:18:26,451 a rose grow through concrete. 372 00:18:26,451 --> 00:18:28,461 So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid 373 00:18:28,461 --> 00:18:31,071 grow outta all of the dirtiest circumstances, 374 00:18:31,071 --> 00:18:32,631 and he can talk and he can sit across from you, 375 00:18:32,631 --> 00:18:34,581 make you smile, make you cry, make you laugh, 376 00:18:34,581 --> 00:18:36,561 all you can talk about is my dirty rose, 377 00:18:36,561 --> 00:18:39,261 my dirty stems, and how I'm leaning crooked to the side. 378 00:18:39,261 --> 00:18:41,444 You can't even see that I came up outta that. 379 00:18:43,131 --> 00:18:44,421 - [Narrator] There was an underlying tension 380 00:18:44,421 --> 00:18:47,331 between the rappers on the East and West Coast. 381 00:18:47,331 --> 00:18:50,091 At the Tupac picnic in Watts, California, 382 00:18:50,091 --> 00:18:52,671 Tupac was instrumental in getting rival members 383 00:18:52,671 --> 00:18:56,361 of the Crips and Bloods gangs to sign the Code of THUG LIFE, 384 00:18:56,361 --> 00:18:58,041 which detailed dos and don'ts 385 00:18:58,041 --> 00:19:00,111 for being a righteous thug and man. 386 00:19:00,111 --> 00:19:05,111 - T-H-U-G-L-I-F-E, the hate you gave little infants, 387 00:19:07,864 --> 00:19:10,191 F-U-C-K everybody. 388 00:19:10,191 --> 00:19:13,401 Meaning what you feed us as seeds, 389 00:19:13,401 --> 00:19:16,598 grows and blows up in your face, that's THUG LIFE. 390 00:19:16,598 --> 00:19:21,414 - Luck names like Tupac Shakur, Flavor Flav, 391 00:19:22,311 --> 00:19:24,801 Snoop Doggy Dogg. 392 00:19:24,801 --> 00:19:27,021 - [Reporter] Reverend Calvin Butts is leading a crusade 393 00:19:27,021 --> 00:19:29,931 against violent rap from his pulpit in Harlem. 394 00:19:29,931 --> 00:19:34,281 - We're not against rap, we're not against rappers, 395 00:19:34,281 --> 00:19:37,011 but we are against those thugs. 396 00:19:37,011 --> 00:19:39,291 - Yes I am gonna say that I'm a thug. 397 00:19:39,291 --> 00:19:42,078 That's because I came from the gutter and I'm still here. 398 00:19:42,078 --> 00:19:44,148 I'm not saying I'm a thug 'cause I wanna rob you 399 00:19:44,148 --> 00:19:47,481 and rape people and things, I'm a businessman. 400 00:19:47,481 --> 00:19:48,891 I mean, you know I'm a businessman 401 00:19:48,891 --> 00:19:51,108 because you find me at my places of business. 402 00:19:51,108 --> 00:19:53,571 You don't find me up in, you know what I'm saying? 403 00:19:53,571 --> 00:19:55,297 I don't understand this. 404 00:19:55,297 --> 00:19:57,471 I don't understand this. - What do you think about- 405 00:19:57,471 --> 00:19:59,271 - [Narrator] It was written by Tupac together 406 00:19:59,271 --> 00:20:01,551 with his stepfather Mutulu Shakur, 407 00:20:01,551 --> 00:20:04,131 and with the help of some original gangsters. 408 00:20:04,131 --> 00:20:06,531 This code was his way of maintaining some control 409 00:20:06,531 --> 00:20:08,361 within his devoted following, 410 00:20:08,361 --> 00:20:10,974 who may have interpreted thug more literally. 411 00:20:11,901 --> 00:20:14,271 - People that are not involved with the street gang, 412 00:20:14,271 --> 00:20:16,671 with the drug trade or the illegal business at all. 413 00:20:16,671 --> 00:20:19,131 You know, all that kidnapping and shooting drive-bys 414 00:20:19,131 --> 00:20:20,361 out the car, we against that, 415 00:20:20,361 --> 00:20:22,131 and people who perpetrate that, they have to deal 416 00:20:22,131 --> 00:20:23,751 with the consequences when they go to jail, 417 00:20:23,751 --> 00:20:25,341 'cause that's who's gonna enforce this code, 418 00:20:25,341 --> 00:20:26,871 and the THUG LIFE that's on the street. 419 00:20:26,871 --> 00:20:28,251 It's like we cleaning up the dirt. 420 00:20:28,251 --> 00:20:30,531 I can't change what the dirt that's here, 421 00:20:30,531 --> 00:20:32,361 but I can put all this dirt in one corner, 422 00:20:32,361 --> 00:20:33,194 you know what I'm saying? 423 00:20:33,194 --> 00:20:34,581 And somehow have some order here. 424 00:20:34,581 --> 00:20:37,101 And for that they need to give me a little leg room, 425 00:20:37,101 --> 00:20:38,091 you know what I'm saying? 426 00:20:38,091 --> 00:20:39,141 Let me do what I wanna do, 427 00:20:39,141 --> 00:20:40,521 because nobody else is gonna do it. 428 00:20:40,521 --> 00:20:42,771 Nobody else wants to do it. 429 00:20:42,771 --> 00:20:44,511 - [Narrator] Undeniably, words would often 430 00:20:44,511 --> 00:20:46,311 get Tupac into trouble. 431 00:20:46,311 --> 00:20:49,281 Lyrically he felt like he would and could not hold back 432 00:20:49,281 --> 00:20:50,901 on what he wanted to say. 433 00:20:50,901 --> 00:20:53,121 If he tried to police this free flow, 434 00:20:53,121 --> 00:20:54,771 it would give him writer's block. 435 00:20:55,881 --> 00:20:57,861 As he was young and still relatively new 436 00:20:57,861 --> 00:21:00,441 in the media spotlight, he didn't always think 437 00:21:00,441 --> 00:21:02,751 before he spoke in interviews. 438 00:21:02,751 --> 00:21:05,241 One example is when Tupac appeared on TV 439 00:21:05,241 --> 00:21:06,951 to explain his side of the story 440 00:21:06,951 --> 00:21:08,874 as to why he was fired from a movie. 441 00:21:10,221 --> 00:21:12,171 It all stemmed from when the Hughes brothers 442 00:21:12,171 --> 00:21:14,721 took Tupac to court, after he assaulted them 443 00:21:14,721 --> 00:21:17,094 during a music video shoot they were directing. 444 00:21:18,441 --> 00:21:21,741 The show's host, Ed Lover, attempted to cover his mouth 445 00:21:21,741 --> 00:21:24,501 so that Tupac did not dig an even deeper hole, 446 00:21:24,501 --> 00:21:25,614 but it was too late. 447 00:21:27,201 --> 00:21:29,271 - I beat up the directors to "Menace II Society". 448 00:21:29,271 --> 00:21:30,684 Let me tell the whole world. 449 00:21:30,684 --> 00:21:32,146 - [Ed] All right, tell them how you did what you had to do. 450 00:21:32,146 --> 00:21:34,530 - These chunk punk slump, you know what I'm saying? 451 00:21:34,530 --> 00:21:35,671 - [Crew] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. 452 00:21:35,671 --> 00:21:37,131 - You'll have a chance to come here and rebuttal today. 453 00:21:37,131 --> 00:21:38,601 - No they won't, they better come now. 454 00:21:38,601 --> 00:21:40,341 Check this out, they fired me but did it 455 00:21:40,341 --> 00:21:42,221 in a roundabout punk snitch way. 456 00:21:42,221 --> 00:21:44,831 So I caught them on the streets and beat their behinds. 457 00:21:44,831 --> 00:21:46,247 You know what I'm saying? - Okay, goodbye. 458 00:21:46,247 --> 00:21:47,948 - I was a menace to the Hughes brothers. 459 00:21:47,948 --> 00:21:48,781 - Let's go to commercial. - And it ain't over. 460 00:21:48,781 --> 00:21:50,018 I still got more for you chumps. 461 00:21:50,018 --> 00:21:50,851 - Okay, let's go. - I read what you 462 00:21:50,851 --> 00:21:51,831 said about me. - Let's go. 463 00:21:51,831 --> 00:21:53,831 - I'm gonna kick their ass. - Let's go. 464 00:21:54,921 --> 00:21:57,051 - [Narrator] The Hughes brothers used the MTV footage 465 00:21:57,051 --> 00:22:00,171 in court to help get Tupac convicted of assault. 466 00:22:00,171 --> 00:22:02,244 He served 15 days in jail. 467 00:22:04,731 --> 00:22:06,564 The trouble didn't stop there. 468 00:22:07,821 --> 00:22:10,431 Tupac and three other men were charged in New York 469 00:22:10,431 --> 00:22:13,134 with sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room. 470 00:22:14,091 --> 00:22:16,791 - [Interviewer] Hi Tupac, how you doing? 471 00:22:16,791 --> 00:22:18,621 Can you tell me how you're doing today? 472 00:22:18,621 --> 00:22:22,731 - Well, I just had to listen to the prosecution's 473 00:22:22,731 --> 00:22:26,091 closing argument, and it was just so far from the truth 474 00:22:26,091 --> 00:22:28,581 that it really just has me drained at the end of the day. 475 00:22:28,581 --> 00:22:31,161 But I'm leaving it in the hands of the jury. 476 00:22:31,161 --> 00:22:34,251 I'm learning a lot about people's innermost fears 477 00:22:34,251 --> 00:22:36,621 in this trial because as far, 478 00:22:36,621 --> 00:22:38,241 it's not even about my trial no more. 479 00:22:38,241 --> 00:22:43,241 It's just about loud rap music, tattoo-having thugs. 480 00:22:43,731 --> 00:22:45,021 It's not even about me no more. 481 00:22:45,021 --> 00:22:47,151 It's about, you know, some nightmare 482 00:22:47,151 --> 00:22:48,321 that these people are having. 483 00:22:48,321 --> 00:22:50,151 - [Interviewer] She's talking about THUG LIFE and all that, 484 00:22:50,151 --> 00:22:51,118 trying to- - Yeah, she's like, 485 00:22:51,118 --> 00:22:52,581 "He's definitely guilty. 486 00:22:52,581 --> 00:22:56,091 Anybody with THUG LIFE tattooed on their stomach is guilty." 487 00:22:56,091 --> 00:22:58,101 What type of reasoning is that, you know what I'm saying? 488 00:22:58,101 --> 00:22:59,721 We got different backgrounds. 489 00:22:59,721 --> 00:23:01,521 We come from two different places. 490 00:23:01,521 --> 00:23:03,021 Just because I look different than her 491 00:23:03,021 --> 00:23:05,301 doesn't mean that I'm a sodomizer or a raper. 492 00:23:05,301 --> 00:23:06,381 They've said it in the, 493 00:23:06,381 --> 00:23:07,941 I can't understand why it's disclosed. 494 00:23:07,941 --> 00:23:09,531 They talking about, there's no evidence 495 00:23:09,531 --> 00:23:10,941 that I ever sodomized her, 496 00:23:10,941 --> 00:23:13,371 even though you put that all over the paper. 497 00:23:13,371 --> 00:23:15,561 And every time they take a quote out of this courtroom, 498 00:23:15,561 --> 00:23:18,111 they take a quote from outta her mouth, which is, 499 00:23:18,111 --> 00:23:19,641 you know, the stuff to put me in jail. 500 00:23:19,641 --> 00:23:20,601 It's nothing that's been true. 501 00:23:20,601 --> 00:23:23,661 I just want, print the facts so everybody can sort it out. 502 00:23:23,661 --> 00:23:25,251 My life is ruined because nobody 503 00:23:25,251 --> 00:23:26,631 has a chance to get the facts. 504 00:23:26,631 --> 00:23:28,119 - [Interviewer] And the facts is that there was 505 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,051 no semen found. - No semen found, 506 00:23:30,051 --> 00:23:33,111 no forcible entry, no entry into the anal. 507 00:23:33,111 --> 00:23:34,731 No nothing, none of that, you know? 508 00:23:34,731 --> 00:23:35,841 - [Interviewer] No fingerprints on the gun. 509 00:23:35,841 --> 00:23:37,731 - No fingerprints on the guns, you know what I'm saying? 510 00:23:37,731 --> 00:23:40,311 The only time ever there was an act of sodomy, 511 00:23:40,311 --> 00:23:41,961 she admitted she did it to me. 512 00:23:41,961 --> 00:23:44,211 I should be, you know, putting charges on this girl 513 00:23:44,211 --> 00:23:46,641 sodomizing me on the floor of a dance club. 514 00:23:46,641 --> 00:23:48,261 Why am I in court, you know what I'm saying? 515 00:23:48,261 --> 00:23:49,551 Get my life ripped apart. 516 00:23:49,551 --> 00:23:51,771 But I'm here, I'm gonna go through it just to show 517 00:23:51,771 --> 00:23:53,361 that I have faith in the American system. 518 00:23:53,361 --> 00:23:55,161 But for me to have faith in the American system, 519 00:23:55,161 --> 00:23:56,991 these juries and everybody else has to, 520 00:23:56,991 --> 00:23:57,951 you know what I'm saying? 521 00:23:57,951 --> 00:24:00,021 Play the same role and to keep an open mind. 522 00:24:00,021 --> 00:24:01,191 I'm already convicted. 523 00:24:01,191 --> 00:24:03,711 My whole life has been turned around, lost every job, 524 00:24:03,711 --> 00:24:05,451 I lost everything, every opportunity. 525 00:24:05,451 --> 00:24:09,111 I can't buy cars, can't get rent, can't get none of that. 526 00:24:09,111 --> 00:24:10,311 But I'm still a survivor, you know. 527 00:24:10,311 --> 00:24:11,961 I'm still coming to court, still smiling, 528 00:24:11,961 --> 00:24:13,251 still signing autographs. 529 00:24:13,251 --> 00:24:15,441 But soon I'm gonna go crazy, you know what I'm saying? 530 00:24:15,441 --> 00:24:16,911 And it's up to the world, you know? 531 00:24:16,911 --> 00:24:18,081 America eats its babies. 532 00:24:18,081 --> 00:24:20,121 We, no matter what y'all think about me, 533 00:24:20,121 --> 00:24:21,711 I'm still your child, you know what I'm saying? 534 00:24:21,711 --> 00:24:23,212 You can't just turn me off like that. 535 00:24:23,212 --> 00:24:24,951 - How old are you, 23? - 23. 536 00:24:24,951 --> 00:24:25,784 - [Interviewer] So you feel that your career is- 537 00:24:25,784 --> 00:24:27,321 - But what am I, yeah it is. 538 00:24:27,321 --> 00:24:28,350 Why would I own a gun? 539 00:24:28,350 --> 00:24:31,581 I've registered guns, you know what I'm saying? 540 00:24:31,581 --> 00:24:32,786 I'm a legal owner of guns- 541 00:24:32,786 --> 00:24:34,131 - In California. - All in California. 542 00:24:34,131 --> 00:24:35,151 So I came to New York, 543 00:24:35,151 --> 00:24:36,681 I wanted to be an illegal gun runner now. 544 00:24:36,681 --> 00:24:38,241 You know, that's what they want you to believe. 545 00:24:38,241 --> 00:24:39,861 I wanna start erasing, why? 546 00:24:39,861 --> 00:24:43,911 Come on man, every, this is all about my image. 547 00:24:43,911 --> 00:24:46,731 This has nothing to do with me, this is all about my image. 548 00:24:46,731 --> 00:24:49,461 It's like MTV, all the papers they're building me up, 549 00:24:49,461 --> 00:24:51,141 now they destroying me on the same image 550 00:24:51,141 --> 00:24:53,091 that they perpetuated, you know what I'm saying? 551 00:24:53,091 --> 00:24:54,981 I'm selling records, this is what I do for a living. 552 00:24:54,981 --> 00:24:56,061 I'm selling records. 553 00:24:56,061 --> 00:24:58,191 Don't get it twisted, this is not my real life. 554 00:24:58,191 --> 00:25:00,321 This is not how my real life is supposed to be. 555 00:25:00,321 --> 00:25:01,611 I'm not supposed to be really having 556 00:25:01,611 --> 00:25:03,201 all these villains in my life. 557 00:25:03,201 --> 00:25:06,141 - [Narrator] He was released on $50,000 bail, 558 00:25:06,141 --> 00:25:09,351 but on the night of November 30th, 1994, 559 00:25:09,351 --> 00:25:12,531 the day before the verdict in the trial was to be announced, 560 00:25:12,531 --> 00:25:16,281 Tupac was shot five times, twice in the head, 561 00:25:16,281 --> 00:25:20,541 twice in the groin area, and the most severe wound, 562 00:25:20,541 --> 00:25:23,844 a gunshot through his hand hitting an artery in his thigh. 563 00:25:25,191 --> 00:25:27,921 - [Reporter] Shakur was apparently attacked by robbers 564 00:25:27,921 --> 00:25:29,391 as he and three other men arrived 565 00:25:29,391 --> 00:25:32,091 in a New York City recording studio early this morning. 566 00:25:32,091 --> 00:25:35,361 A man identified as Shakur's manager was also wounded. 567 00:25:35,361 --> 00:25:38,331 Shakur and his road manager are currently on trial 568 00:25:38,331 --> 00:25:40,281 on sex abuse charges. 569 00:25:40,281 --> 00:25:42,291 - [Narrator] Checking himself out of Bellevue Hospital 570 00:25:42,291 --> 00:25:44,601 against doctors' orders, Tupac claimed 571 00:25:44,601 --> 00:25:47,844 he did not feel safe there, it was his time to leave. 572 00:25:49,491 --> 00:25:52,281 Unsolicited phone calls fueled his paranoia 573 00:25:52,281 --> 00:25:54,021 and he couldn't sleep. 574 00:25:54,021 --> 00:25:56,241 Tupac felt like a prisoner to fame, 575 00:25:56,241 --> 00:25:59,271 and even said he wanted to die at this point. 576 00:25:59,271 --> 00:26:01,521 - [Reporter] Shakur was found guilty of sexually abusing 577 00:26:01,521 --> 00:26:04,521 a woman last November in a New York hotel room. 578 00:26:04,521 --> 00:26:06,741 The jury acquitted him of more serious charges, 579 00:26:06,741 --> 00:26:09,051 sodomy and illegal carrying a weapon. 580 00:26:09,051 --> 00:26:11,541 Shakur, who was shot five times Wednesday 581 00:26:11,541 --> 00:26:13,431 during an apparent robbery attempt, 582 00:26:13,431 --> 00:26:16,611 was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read. 583 00:26:16,611 --> 00:26:18,501 - [Narrator] He was attacked while entering the lobby 584 00:26:18,501 --> 00:26:20,961 of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan, 585 00:26:20,961 --> 00:26:24,054 and robbed by two armed men in army fatigues. 586 00:26:25,761 --> 00:26:29,181 He would later accuse fellow recording artists Sean Combs, 587 00:26:29,181 --> 00:26:31,611 Andre Harrell and Biggie Smalls, 588 00:26:31,611 --> 00:26:34,344 whom he saw after the shooting, of setting him up. 589 00:26:36,291 --> 00:26:38,841 Also suspected of being involved in the attack 590 00:26:38,841 --> 00:26:43,041 was his close friend and associate, Randy Stretch Walker. 591 00:26:43,041 --> 00:26:45,051 In his defense, Biggie said they were 592 00:26:45,051 --> 00:26:47,061 in the recording studio, and did not know 593 00:26:47,061 --> 00:26:48,801 Tupac would be there. 594 00:26:48,801 --> 00:26:50,781 Once they heard he was downstairs, 595 00:26:50,781 --> 00:26:52,281 Lil' Cease went to get him, 596 00:26:52,281 --> 00:26:54,864 but returned with news that he had been shot. 597 00:26:55,701 --> 00:26:58,821 When Biggie's entourage went downstairs to investigate, 598 00:26:58,821 --> 00:27:01,461 Tupac was being taken out on a stretcher, 599 00:27:01,461 --> 00:27:04,494 still conscious and giving the finger to those around. 600 00:27:07,071 --> 00:27:09,261 He survived the attack but believed Biggie 601 00:27:09,261 --> 00:27:10,911 might have something to do with it, 602 00:27:10,911 --> 00:27:12,681 even though they did make it downstairs 603 00:27:12,681 --> 00:27:14,691 to see him after the incident. 604 00:27:14,691 --> 00:27:17,511 Tupac said the crew looked surprised and guilty, 605 00:27:17,511 --> 00:27:19,191 but Puffy claimed they showed him 606 00:27:19,191 --> 00:27:21,141 nothing but loving concern. 607 00:27:21,141 --> 00:27:21,974 - I'm not guilty. 608 00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:23,301 People should look me in my eyes. 609 00:27:23,301 --> 00:27:25,161 They should look me in my eyes. 610 00:27:25,161 --> 00:27:26,751 Anybody thinks I've committed that rape 611 00:27:26,751 --> 00:27:29,151 should go get "Brenda's Got a Baby" and "Keep Ya Head Up", 612 00:27:29,151 --> 00:27:30,471 and listen to them thoroughly. 613 00:27:30,471 --> 00:27:34,581 I have no patience for anybody that doubts me, none at all. 614 00:27:34,581 --> 00:27:36,501 It's too hard out here, you know what I'm saying? 615 00:27:36,501 --> 00:27:38,661 If my people don't stand up for me, who is? 616 00:27:38,661 --> 00:27:40,611 I understand these white folks looking at me like that, 617 00:27:40,611 --> 00:27:41,691 'cause they don't know me. 618 00:27:41,691 --> 00:27:43,041 They didn't hear "Keep Ya Head Up". 619 00:27:43,041 --> 00:27:44,241 That ain't no fluke. 620 00:27:44,241 --> 00:27:46,941 You know, "Keep Ya Head Up" ain't no damn come up. 621 00:27:46,941 --> 00:27:49,071 I didn't do that for to be smiling in my face, 622 00:27:49,071 --> 00:27:50,481 to say, "Oh, he's cool." 623 00:27:50,481 --> 00:27:52,431 I did that for my art, so that they do try 624 00:27:52,431 --> 00:27:54,118 to put a rape charge on me, my sisters could say, 625 00:27:54,118 --> 00:27:55,338 "He ain't about that." 626 00:27:55,338 --> 00:27:56,480 Now if my sisters can't say that, 627 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,230 he won't hear another "Keep Ya Head Up" outta my mouth. 628 00:28:02,811 --> 00:28:04,401 - [Narrator] Drawing lyrical inspiration 629 00:28:04,401 --> 00:28:06,621 from the impending prison sentence, 630 00:28:06,621 --> 00:28:08,968 poverty and troubles with the police, 631 00:28:08,968 --> 00:28:11,031 "Me Against the World" is described 632 00:28:11,031 --> 00:28:16,031 as Tupac's most introspective album, his magnum opus. 633 00:28:16,941 --> 00:28:20,001 The albums hit the shelves while he was still in prison. 634 00:28:20,001 --> 00:28:22,971 It helped shift his image from that of a gangster rapper 635 00:28:22,971 --> 00:28:24,654 to more of a gangster poet. 636 00:28:28,521 --> 00:28:30,981 On "Dear Mama", Tupac empathizes 637 00:28:30,981 --> 00:28:33,174 with his mother's difficulties raising him. 638 00:28:34,431 --> 00:28:36,471 He details his childhood poverty 639 00:28:36,471 --> 00:28:39,441 and his mother's addiction to crack cocaine, 640 00:28:39,441 --> 00:28:41,661 but argues that his love and deep respect 641 00:28:41,661 --> 00:28:44,394 for his mother supersedes bad memories. 642 00:28:45,471 --> 00:28:49,071 In 1990, realizing her habit was out of control, 643 00:28:49,071 --> 00:28:51,081 she enrolled in a 12-step program 644 00:28:51,081 --> 00:28:53,121 at a drug and alcohol treatment center, 645 00:28:53,121 --> 00:28:56,271 and reconciled with her son who was at this point 646 00:28:56,271 --> 00:28:58,164 a successful recording artist. 647 00:28:59,991 --> 00:29:03,501 The "Dear Mama" video features an appearance from Afeni. 648 00:29:03,501 --> 00:29:07,341 She reenacts her reconciliation with a lookalike of her son, 649 00:29:07,341 --> 00:29:09,051 as Tupac himself was serving 650 00:29:09,051 --> 00:29:10,824 his prison sentence at the time. 651 00:29:11,991 --> 00:29:15,351 While in prison, his album quickly climbed the charts, 652 00:29:15,351 --> 00:29:17,424 and the video struck a chord with many. 653 00:29:18,354 --> 00:29:20,815 ♪ And even as a crack fiend, Mama ♪ 654 00:29:20,815 --> 00:29:24,001 ♪ You always was a black queen, Mama ♪ 655 00:29:24,001 --> 00:29:25,080 ♪ I finally understand ♪ 656 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:29,114 ♪ For a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man ♪ 657 00:29:29,114 --> 00:29:30,693 ♪ You always was committed ♪ 658 00:29:30,693 --> 00:29:32,826 ♪ A poor single mother on welfare ♪ 659 00:29:32,826 --> 00:29:34,136 ♪ Tell me how you did it ♪ 660 00:29:34,136 --> 00:29:36,090 ♪ There's no way I can pay you back ♪ 661 00:29:36,090 --> 00:29:38,656 ♪ But the plan is to show you that I understand ♪ 662 00:29:38,656 --> 00:29:40,152 ♪ You are appreciated ♪ 663 00:29:40,152 --> 00:29:44,153 ♪ Lady, don't you know we love you ♪ 664 00:29:44,153 --> 00:29:47,557 ♪ Sweet lady, dear Mama ♪ 665 00:29:47,557 --> 00:29:49,867 ♪ Place no one above you ♪ 666 00:29:49,867 --> 00:29:53,165 ♪ Sweet lady, you are appreciated ♪ 667 00:29:53,165 --> 00:29:55,401 ♪ Don't you know we love you ♪ 668 00:29:55,401 --> 00:29:57,411 - [Narrator] With a $1.4 million bond 669 00:29:57,411 --> 00:30:00,321 posted by Suge Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records, 670 00:30:00,321 --> 00:30:03,141 in October, 1995 after 11 months, 671 00:30:03,141 --> 00:30:05,964 Tupac was released from Clinton Correctional Facility. 672 00:30:07,881 --> 00:30:10,911 Freedom brought creativity and within two weeks 673 00:30:10,911 --> 00:30:14,451 he had recorded 24 tracks, saying that it was the best way 674 00:30:14,451 --> 00:30:17,964 to vent, instead of paying some psychotherapist 50 million. 675 00:30:19,288 --> 00:30:23,271 "California Love" was released as Tupac's comeback single. 676 00:30:23,271 --> 00:30:25,161 It was one of his most widely known 677 00:30:25,161 --> 00:30:27,951 and most successful singles, reaching number one 678 00:30:27,951 --> 00:30:31,101 on the Billboard hot 100 for two weeks. 679 00:30:31,101 --> 00:30:32,721 His release from prison seemed 680 00:30:32,721 --> 00:30:35,751 almost like a rebirth for Tupac's creativity. 681 00:30:35,751 --> 00:30:39,291 Up to that point, he'd mostly been an insular artist, 682 00:30:39,291 --> 00:30:42,478 with ideas and thoughts aimed in specific directions. 683 00:30:42,478 --> 00:30:45,591 "California Love" gave him the stellar widescreen treatment 684 00:30:45,591 --> 00:30:48,351 that the Notorious BIG would get later. 685 00:30:48,351 --> 00:30:50,601 It was just a glimpse of what he might achieve 686 00:30:50,601 --> 00:30:52,464 as a rap superstar. 687 00:30:52,464 --> 00:30:54,951 ♪ Out on bail, fresh out of jail, California dreaming ♪ 688 00:30:54,951 --> 00:30:56,325 ♪ Soon as I step on the scene ♪ 689 00:30:56,325 --> 00:30:57,786 ♪ I'm hearing hoochies screaming ♪ 690 00:30:57,786 --> 00:30:59,381 ♪ Fiending for money and alcohol ♪ 691 00:30:59,381 --> 00:31:01,040 ♪ The life of a Westside player ♪ 692 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:02,873 ♪ Where cowards die and the strong ball ♪ 693 00:31:02,873 --> 00:31:05,774 ♪ Only in Cali where we riot not rally, to live and die ♪ 694 00:31:05,774 --> 00:31:08,094 ♪ In LA we wearing Chucks, not Ballys, that's right on ♪ 695 00:31:08,094 --> 00:31:11,058 ♪ Dressed in Locs and Khaki suits, and ride is what we do ♪ 696 00:31:11,058 --> 00:31:13,848 ♪ Flossing but have caution, we collide with other crews ♪ 697 00:31:13,848 --> 00:31:15,520 ♪ Famous because we throw grams ♪ 698 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,161 ♪ Worldwide, let them recognize ♪ 699 00:31:17,161 --> 00:31:18,740 ♪ From Long Beach to Rosecrans ♪ 700 00:31:18,740 --> 00:31:20,559 ♪ Bumping and grinding like a slow jam ♪ 701 00:31:20,559 --> 00:31:22,279 ♪ It's Westside, so you know the Row ♪ 702 00:31:22,279 --> 00:31:25,946 ♪ Won't bow down to no man ♪ 703 00:31:26,934 --> 00:31:28,851 - [Narrator] With Suge Knight of Death Row Records 704 00:31:28,851 --> 00:31:30,951 being one of the most powerful, feared men 705 00:31:30,951 --> 00:31:33,141 in the music industry, and a central figure 706 00:31:33,141 --> 00:31:36,351 in gangster rap's catapult to massive commercialization, 707 00:31:36,351 --> 00:31:39,381 Tupac's new contract wasn't just about music, 708 00:31:39,381 --> 00:31:42,711 it also marked his acceptance into Suge's powerful group, 709 00:31:42,711 --> 00:31:44,904 known to have strong gang affiliation. 710 00:31:46,643 --> 00:31:50,211 ♪ That's what they're all about ♪ 711 00:31:50,211 --> 00:31:52,671 - [Narrator] West Coast/East Coast rivalry was gearing up 712 00:31:52,671 --> 00:31:55,044 just as Tupac was released from jail. 713 00:31:56,151 --> 00:32:00,681 The East Coast was Bad Boy and the West was Death Row. 714 00:32:00,681 --> 00:32:02,541 As with everything, business profit 715 00:32:02,541 --> 00:32:05,811 in terms of sales matter, and so the popularity 716 00:32:05,811 --> 00:32:08,784 of the artists and how many records they sold were key. 717 00:32:10,521 --> 00:32:12,921 New York City was the birthplace of hiphop, 718 00:32:12,921 --> 00:32:15,051 and artists from LA felt they weren't given 719 00:32:15,051 --> 00:32:17,451 the same media coverage and public attention 720 00:32:17,451 --> 00:32:19,134 as those on the East Coast. 721 00:32:20,001 --> 00:32:22,944 But for Tupac it was more personal than this. 722 00:32:23,841 --> 00:32:26,781 Being from the East Coast, Tupac's allegiance was there, 723 00:32:26,781 --> 00:32:28,851 and he was not pleased with East Coast rappers 724 00:32:28,851 --> 00:32:31,101 like Diddy and Biggie wanting to dirty up 725 00:32:31,101 --> 00:32:35,451 everything he had worked for, so he turned up the heat 726 00:32:35,451 --> 00:32:38,304 with music videos satiring the ongoing feud. 727 00:32:40,011 --> 00:32:42,258 Now he was involved with Suge Knight and Death Row, 728 00:32:42,258 --> 00:32:44,814 and the situation became a completely other thing, 729 00:32:46,431 --> 00:32:49,014 a war with blood split and threats made. 730 00:32:49,851 --> 00:32:52,401 It started at the Source Awards in New York. 731 00:32:52,401 --> 00:32:55,281 Knight flew in many people from Death Row. 732 00:32:55,281 --> 00:32:58,251 They got booed when they were coming up for their awards. 733 00:32:58,251 --> 00:33:00,021 Suge Knight's famous remarks that night 734 00:33:00,021 --> 00:33:02,754 became the first real shots in a deadly battle. 735 00:33:04,461 --> 00:33:08,447 - Like I tell Tupac, keep his guards up, we ride with him. 736 00:33:08,447 --> 00:33:11,530 (audience shouting) 737 00:33:14,724 --> 00:33:16,371 And one other thing I like to say, 738 00:33:16,371 --> 00:33:18,857 any artist out there wanna be an artist 739 00:33:18,857 --> 00:33:21,378 and wanna stay a star, and won't have to worry 740 00:33:21,378 --> 00:33:22,668 about the executive producers 741 00:33:22,668 --> 00:33:27,668 trying to be all in the video, all over the record, 742 00:33:27,741 --> 00:33:32,284 dancing, come to Death Row. (audience booing) 743 00:33:34,671 --> 00:33:37,071 - [Narrator] In a provocative move, Tupac made a song 744 00:33:37,071 --> 00:33:39,321 with Faith Evans, Biggie's wife. 745 00:33:39,321 --> 00:33:42,141 Shortly after he wrote the song, "Hit 'Em Up", 746 00:33:42,141 --> 00:33:43,644 a classic battle record. 747 00:33:46,131 --> 00:33:48,441 It played a major role in exacerbating 748 00:33:48,441 --> 00:33:51,051 the East Coast/West Coast hiphop rivalry. 749 00:33:51,051 --> 00:33:53,511 Following its release, the East Coast rappers 750 00:33:53,511 --> 00:33:55,191 who were insulted by the song 751 00:33:55,191 --> 00:33:57,441 responded through their own tracks. 752 00:33:57,441 --> 00:34:00,388 As said by longtime collaborator Johnny J, 753 00:34:00,388 --> 00:34:02,991 "The ferocity of Tupac's raging vocals 754 00:34:02,991 --> 00:34:05,661 was entirely authentic," explaining that 755 00:34:05,661 --> 00:34:07,491 it was initially fueled by his anger 756 00:34:07,491 --> 00:34:09,751 against Biggie and Bad Boy Records. 757 00:34:09,751 --> 00:34:11,908 ♪ I ain't got no motherfucking friends ♪ 758 00:34:11,908 --> 00:34:13,713 ♪ That's why I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker ♪ 759 00:34:13,713 --> 00:34:16,935 ♪ Take money, West Side, Bad Boy, take money ♪ 760 00:34:16,935 --> 00:34:18,117 ♪ You know who the realest is ♪ 761 00:34:18,117 --> 00:34:19,641 ♪ Niggas, we bring it too, take money ♪ 762 00:34:19,641 --> 00:34:21,982 ♪ That's right, take money ♪ 763 00:34:21,982 --> 00:34:24,702 ♪ First I'll fuck your bitch and the clique you claim ♪ 764 00:34:24,702 --> 00:34:27,416 ♪ Westside when we ride come equipped with game ♪ 765 00:34:27,416 --> 00:34:29,646 ♪ You claim to be a player but I fucked your wife ♪ 766 00:34:29,646 --> 00:34:32,325 ♪ We bust on Bad Boys niggas fucked for life ♪ 767 00:34:32,325 --> 00:34:35,105 ♪ Plus Puffy trying to see me, weak hearts I rip ♪ 768 00:34:35,105 --> 00:34:37,748 ♪ Biggie Smalls and Junior MAFIA some mark-ass bitches ♪ 769 00:34:37,748 --> 00:34:40,030 ♪ We keep on coming while we're running for your jewels ♪ 770 00:34:40,030 --> 00:34:41,850 ♪ Steady gunning, keep on busting at them fools ♪ 771 00:34:41,850 --> 00:34:44,601 ♪ You know the rules ♪ 772 00:34:44,601 --> 00:34:46,941 - [Narrator] Biggie began working on his second studio album 773 00:34:46,941 --> 00:34:50,481 in September, 1995, and continued into the following year, 774 00:34:50,481 --> 00:34:52,081 but there would be more trouble. 775 00:34:53,241 --> 00:34:56,571 In March, 1996, he was arrested after chasing 776 00:34:56,571 --> 00:34:59,601 two autograph hunters with a baseball bat in Manhattan, 777 00:34:59,601 --> 00:35:01,671 threatening to kill them. 778 00:35:01,671 --> 00:35:05,181 He was sentenced to a hundred hours of community service. 779 00:35:05,181 --> 00:35:08,391 Months later, police raided his house in New Jersey 780 00:35:08,391 --> 00:35:12,084 and found 50 grams of marijuana and four automatic weapons. 781 00:35:13,431 --> 00:35:16,221 That same summer, he was charged with beating and robbing 782 00:35:16,221 --> 00:35:19,551 a friend of a concert promoter at a New Jersey nightclub. 783 00:35:19,551 --> 00:35:22,521 And then in the fall he was arrested again, 784 00:35:22,521 --> 00:35:25,434 this time for smoking marijuana in his car in Brooklyn. 785 00:35:29,871 --> 00:35:32,331 The war of words rivalry took a deadly turn 786 00:35:32,331 --> 00:35:35,121 on September 7th, 1996. 787 00:35:35,121 --> 00:35:38,271 The MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas was the venue 788 00:35:38,271 --> 00:35:41,484 for a Mike Tyson boxing match Tupac was watching. 789 00:35:44,121 --> 00:35:45,891 On the way out in the casino lobby, 790 00:35:45,891 --> 00:35:48,261 Tupac and his bodyguards got into a fight 791 00:35:48,261 --> 00:35:51,591 with Orlando Anderson, a member of the New York Crips, 792 00:35:51,591 --> 00:35:53,664 which would have deadly repercussions. 793 00:35:54,531 --> 00:35:56,751 - Prior to the day that Tupac was shot 794 00:35:56,751 --> 00:35:59,931 on September the 7th, I arrived in Las Vegas 795 00:35:59,931 --> 00:36:02,151 September the 6th, the day before. 796 00:36:02,151 --> 00:36:06,951 That day we were told not to bring our weapons 797 00:36:06,951 --> 00:36:10,161 into the club after the fight. 798 00:36:10,161 --> 00:36:12,921 Not to have our weapons on our person, 799 00:36:12,921 --> 00:36:15,051 to either leave them in our hotel room 800 00:36:15,051 --> 00:36:17,961 or to leave them in our vehicles. 801 00:36:17,961 --> 00:36:19,671 - [Interviewer] Has there ever been a situation 802 00:36:19,671 --> 00:36:24,671 where you were told to leave your weapon prior to this? 803 00:36:28,881 --> 00:36:33,291 - We were never told prior to September the 7th 804 00:36:33,291 --> 00:36:36,561 to leave our weapons anywhere, other than the fact, 805 00:36:36,561 --> 00:36:40,521 if we were going out of the state of California by airplane 806 00:36:40,521 --> 00:36:44,031 to a video shoot or on tour, we knew common sensely, 807 00:36:44,031 --> 00:36:46,181 we couldn't carry a weapon on the airplane. 808 00:36:47,181 --> 00:36:48,891 So more than likely we would've left 809 00:36:48,891 --> 00:36:49,851 our weapons at that time. 810 00:36:49,851 --> 00:36:53,331 But we were never told, there was never a meeting held 811 00:36:53,331 --> 00:36:57,711 specifically to tell us to leave our weapons, period. 812 00:36:57,711 --> 00:37:00,351 The fight was boom, boom, boom, boom, the fight was over. 813 00:37:00,351 --> 00:37:04,461 After the fight, Tupac's and Suge's thing 814 00:37:05,511 --> 00:37:08,361 was to go to the back where, you know, Mike's dressing room. 815 00:37:08,361 --> 00:37:09,471 So we went backstage. 816 00:37:09,471 --> 00:37:12,681 We go backstage, and we're waiting on Tyson 817 00:37:12,681 --> 00:37:13,821 to come back there, and Pac's back there, 818 00:37:13,821 --> 00:37:14,661 and he's all excited. 819 00:37:14,661 --> 00:37:17,047 You know, his boy just knocked out Seldon, you know. 820 00:37:17,047 --> 00:37:19,040 "50 blows, 50 blows, you just hit 50 times. 821 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,421 You count 'em, you count 'em?" 822 00:37:20,421 --> 00:37:22,061 So you know, I'm back there with him and everything 823 00:37:22,061 --> 00:37:23,601 and Suge is back there. 824 00:37:23,601 --> 00:37:25,341 So sugar says something to Pac, 825 00:37:25,341 --> 00:37:27,531 and then the next thing I know, we're leaving. 826 00:37:27,531 --> 00:37:30,044 Tyson didn't even make it out the arena to come down. 827 00:37:31,611 --> 00:37:35,121 Everyone shows up and one of the homeboys, 828 00:37:35,121 --> 00:37:37,971 one of Suge's homeboys, name is Travon, he comes over 829 00:37:37,971 --> 00:37:39,874 and he whispers something in Pac's right ear, 830 00:37:39,874 --> 00:37:41,661 'cause I'm on his left. 831 00:37:41,661 --> 00:37:43,431 He whispers something, next thing I know, 832 00:37:43,431 --> 00:37:45,531 Tupac takes off running. 833 00:37:45,531 --> 00:37:48,891 He took off running and I went off running behind him, 834 00:37:48,891 --> 00:37:50,661 and when he turned the corner, 835 00:37:50,661 --> 00:37:51,951 there was this guy standing there, 836 00:37:51,951 --> 00:37:54,261 little did I know who he was. 837 00:37:54,261 --> 00:37:56,751 He ran up to him and he swung, (mimics punching) 838 00:37:56,751 --> 00:37:58,884 and then the guy swung back, and then Pac weaved, 839 00:37:58,884 --> 00:37:59,978 and then Pac swung again. 840 00:37:59,978 --> 00:38:04,401 And at this time there was like three or four blows thrown. 841 00:38:04,401 --> 00:38:09,051 Tupac had this medallion on that he had recently purchased, 842 00:38:09,051 --> 00:38:10,701 and it broke. 843 00:38:10,701 --> 00:38:12,921 When it broke, he went down to pick it up. 844 00:38:12,921 --> 00:38:15,411 When he went down to pick it up, I grabbed him. 845 00:38:15,411 --> 00:38:16,971 When I grabbed him, I threw him against the wall. 846 00:38:16,971 --> 00:38:19,191 So I had him out of the fight. 847 00:38:19,191 --> 00:38:21,261 At this time everyone else is running up, 848 00:38:21,261 --> 00:38:23,694 as clearly the MGM footage shows. 849 00:38:24,981 --> 00:38:27,744 The guy's Orlando Anderson, now that we know who he is. 850 00:38:28,881 --> 00:38:31,641 They're into this brawl, and I have Tupac 851 00:38:31,641 --> 00:38:33,411 against the wall now at this point. 852 00:38:33,411 --> 00:38:37,161 The fight ended, we had to get out of there. 853 00:38:37,161 --> 00:38:40,641 Little did I know, earlier when they had left me, 854 00:38:40,641 --> 00:38:42,771 I had already walked all through the MGM. 855 00:38:42,771 --> 00:38:45,321 So everybody's taking off going in the wrong direction. 856 00:38:45,321 --> 00:38:47,781 I go, "No Suge, Suge, this way, this way," right? 857 00:38:47,781 --> 00:38:49,469 And then he's like, "No, this way." 858 00:38:49,469 --> 00:38:51,771 I go, "Suge, I was just here all day, this way." 859 00:38:51,771 --> 00:38:55,311 So they followed, and we followed, we got our way out 860 00:38:55,311 --> 00:38:58,641 and we took off and walked back over to the Luxor. 861 00:38:58,641 --> 00:39:02,608 You get back over to the Luxor, Suge said, 862 00:39:02,608 --> 00:39:03,711 "Hey, I'm gonna go up and change. 863 00:39:03,711 --> 00:39:04,881 Pac said, "Hey, I'm gonna go up and change." 864 00:39:04,881 --> 00:39:07,078 We'll meet back out in the valet." 865 00:39:07,078 --> 00:39:08,631 "All right, cool." 866 00:39:08,631 --> 00:39:11,121 We're down in the, at this time we left his room. 867 00:39:11,121 --> 00:39:14,334 We're down in the valet park and we're waiting on Suge. 868 00:39:14,334 --> 00:39:15,771 Suge shows up. 869 00:39:15,771 --> 00:39:19,643 While we're down in the valet, all of the hoochies, 870 00:39:19,643 --> 00:39:23,258 all of the groupies, everybody that knew Tupac and Suge was, 871 00:39:23,258 --> 00:39:25,224 "Suge, can we go to the club Suge? 872 00:39:25,224 --> 00:39:26,931 Pac, can we go?" 873 00:39:26,931 --> 00:39:27,951 Suge said, "Let's go." 874 00:39:27,951 --> 00:39:32,951 He and Pac was walking to Suge's BMW, I'm walking with them. 875 00:39:33,231 --> 00:39:34,851 When we get to the car, 876 00:39:34,851 --> 00:39:37,131 Pac turned to me and goes, "Yo Frank." 877 00:39:37,131 --> 00:39:38,991 He pulled the keys out, he handed me the keys. 878 00:39:38,991 --> 00:39:40,671 He goes, "Drive the little homies, 879 00:39:40,671 --> 00:39:42,201 because we're gonna be drinking tonight 880 00:39:42,201 --> 00:39:44,541 and you'll be able to drive us back." 881 00:39:44,541 --> 00:39:46,101 So I was like, "What car you want me to drive?" 882 00:39:46,101 --> 00:39:47,851 He goes, "Drive Kidada's car." 883 00:39:47,851 --> 00:39:49,479 And I didn't even know where the car was. 884 00:39:49,479 --> 00:39:50,312 I go, "Where is it?" 885 00:39:50,312 --> 00:39:51,145 He goes, "It's right there." 886 00:39:51,145 --> 00:39:52,521 He goes, "The homies'll show you where it's at." 887 00:39:52,521 --> 00:39:54,081 So I was like, "All right." 888 00:39:54,081 --> 00:39:55,941 So Suge gets in his car, he and Pac, 889 00:39:55,941 --> 00:39:58,524 and the entourage is starting to form now. 890 00:39:59,751 --> 00:40:02,331 Suge takes off, I'm right behind him. 891 00:40:02,331 --> 00:40:03,864 I'm the bodyguard on point. 892 00:40:04,821 --> 00:40:07,941 Theoretically and honestly, there should have been 893 00:40:07,941 --> 00:40:11,521 three or four more bodyguards with us that particular time, 894 00:40:11,521 --> 00:40:14,031 going from there, going to Suge's house, 895 00:40:14,031 --> 00:40:17,241 and going back to the the club 896 00:40:17,241 --> 00:40:18,791 that night for the after party. 897 00:40:20,871 --> 00:40:25,404 Later on I found out that with security, that there, 898 00:40:26,901 --> 00:40:31,901 it was 22, about 20 to 22 security personnel for this night. 899 00:40:33,411 --> 00:40:38,361 Everyone was called to Club 662 to set up the security 900 00:40:38,361 --> 00:40:40,401 and get the people rolling in over there. 901 00:40:40,401 --> 00:40:42,321 So all of the security was there. 902 00:40:42,321 --> 00:40:46,671 Michael Moore, who was with me earlier that evening, 903 00:40:46,671 --> 00:40:49,071 supposedly had met us at the MGM. 904 00:40:49,071 --> 00:40:52,641 His story to me was, Al Giddens, 905 00:40:52,641 --> 00:40:56,601 who was the supervisor now for security at this point. 906 00:40:56,601 --> 00:41:01,341 Al Giddens told Michael Moore to, "Fuck that. 907 00:41:01,341 --> 00:41:03,651 You go and come to the club." 908 00:41:03,651 --> 00:41:04,821 And he was like, "Well Tupac told me 909 00:41:04,821 --> 00:41:05,868 to come over to the MGM." 910 00:41:05,868 --> 00:41:07,641 And he was like, "No, we need you over here. 911 00:41:07,641 --> 00:41:08,841 You get over here." 912 00:41:08,841 --> 00:41:10,881 So Mike went over to the club. 913 00:41:10,881 --> 00:41:14,181 So I was the only one left with Pac. 914 00:41:14,181 --> 00:41:16,851 Keep in mind, my weapon was in my car. 915 00:41:16,851 --> 00:41:20,511 I didn't have a phone, I had no way of communication. 916 00:41:20,511 --> 00:41:24,801 Reggie was also over at the club. 917 00:41:24,801 --> 00:41:29,541 Reggie normally is Suge's bodyguard, 918 00:41:29,541 --> 00:41:31,881 and Reggie is always with Suge. 919 00:41:32,961 --> 00:41:36,324 That night, why he wasn't with Suge, only Reggie knows that. 920 00:41:40,256 --> 00:41:45,256 (soft expectant music) (car zooming) 921 00:41:52,431 --> 00:41:56,001 At this time everyone in the car, not just me, 922 00:41:56,001 --> 00:41:57,178 looked at the gas and was like, 923 00:41:57,178 --> 00:41:59,871 "Yo Frank, we're gonna run outta gas." 924 00:41:59,871 --> 00:42:01,761 I was like, "What y'all want me to do, 925 00:42:01,761 --> 00:42:03,231 pull over and get gas?" 926 00:42:03,231 --> 00:42:06,621 I go, "You know if we pull over, we lost them," right? 927 00:42:06,621 --> 00:42:08,331 So I said, "I can't pull over. 928 00:42:08,331 --> 00:42:11,121 I might as well take the chance and run outta gas," right? 929 00:42:11,121 --> 00:42:12,348 Thinking we're just gonna go to Suge's, 930 00:42:12,348 --> 00:42:14,751 and from Suge's back to the club. 931 00:42:14,751 --> 00:42:18,116 But the light had been on forever at this point, 932 00:42:18,116 --> 00:42:20,001 on the gas light. 933 00:42:20,001 --> 00:42:22,201 - [Interviewer] How long were you all, were at Suge's house? 934 00:42:22,201 --> 00:42:24,171 - We were, when we got to Suge's house, 935 00:42:24,171 --> 00:42:27,441 we were at Suge's house probably a good 30 minutes. 936 00:42:27,441 --> 00:42:29,751 Suge went in, he changed clothes, you know, 937 00:42:29,751 --> 00:42:31,764 they were all just BS-ing a little bit. 938 00:42:32,811 --> 00:42:35,541 When Suge finally came out, hopped in his car, 939 00:42:35,541 --> 00:42:38,331 we came through the security guard 940 00:42:38,331 --> 00:42:41,961 that guards the homes going into Suge's place, 941 00:42:41,961 --> 00:42:46,641 there had to been 20, 30 cars out on the road 942 00:42:46,641 --> 00:42:48,921 just waiting for us to come out, to follow us. 943 00:42:48,921 --> 00:42:51,801 We leave outta Suge's, again we're flying, 944 00:42:51,801 --> 00:42:56,801 70, 80 miles an hour going back toward Las Vegas Strip. 945 00:42:56,811 --> 00:42:58,851 We get back on the Strip at this point, 946 00:42:58,851 --> 00:43:02,961 and why the car didn't run outta gas is a miracle 947 00:43:02,961 --> 00:43:04,844 right now to me, because it should have. 948 00:43:06,231 --> 00:43:07,251 We get back on the Strip. 949 00:43:07,251 --> 00:43:09,681 We're proceeding to go down the Strip. 950 00:43:09,681 --> 00:43:11,511 It's a fight night, the fight's over. 951 00:43:11,511 --> 00:43:14,634 The Strip is jam packed, crowded. 952 00:43:15,831 --> 00:43:19,701 We're probably about in front of the Excalibur hotel, 953 00:43:19,701 --> 00:43:22,974 which is right by Tropicana on the Las Vegas Strip. 954 00:43:25,011 --> 00:43:27,811 Tupac and Suge was in the car in front of me, 955 00:43:27,811 --> 00:43:29,661 and their music was playing pretty loud, 956 00:43:29,661 --> 00:43:30,921 'cause we could hear it. 957 00:43:30,921 --> 00:43:35,301 And there was bicycle cops, a couple bicycle cops pulled up 958 00:43:35,301 --> 00:43:40,281 and one of them went over to Suge's side and asked him, 959 00:43:40,281 --> 00:43:42,591 I guess to turn down the music, I'm assuming. 960 00:43:42,591 --> 00:43:45,411 And then the next thing I know, Suge opens the door, 961 00:43:45,411 --> 00:43:46,941 steps outta the car. 962 00:43:46,941 --> 00:43:48,861 He and the cop walks to the back of the car, 963 00:43:48,861 --> 00:43:50,631 and he opens up the trunk. 964 00:43:50,631 --> 00:43:51,531 The car was brand new, 965 00:43:51,531 --> 00:43:53,181 didn't have a license plate on it. 966 00:43:53,181 --> 00:43:56,244 So he looked in the trunk and well, 967 00:43:57,201 --> 00:43:58,288 I'm just sitting there and I'm thinking, 968 00:43:58,288 --> 00:44:00,801 "Oh shit, I hope they don't get popped." 969 00:44:00,801 --> 00:44:04,401 He let them go, so now we're still in gridlock traffic. 970 00:44:04,401 --> 00:44:06,861 So we, you know, proceed to go down the Strip. 971 00:44:06,861 --> 00:44:11,211 We're going down the Strip, Pac and Suge are up there, 972 00:44:11,211 --> 00:44:13,011 doing their thing, talking. 973 00:44:13,011 --> 00:44:15,021 Myself and Outlawz, we're in there, 974 00:44:15,021 --> 00:44:16,581 you know, listening to their music. 975 00:44:16,581 --> 00:44:19,371 We get to Flamingo off of Las Vegas Strip. 976 00:44:19,371 --> 00:44:20,661 We gotta turn right. 977 00:44:20,661 --> 00:44:23,091 We make a right off of the Strip. 978 00:44:23,091 --> 00:44:25,944 The next light is Koval. 979 00:44:27,531 --> 00:44:31,164 Little did we know that anything was about to happen. 980 00:44:32,203 --> 00:44:35,536 (soft foreboding music) 981 00:44:41,661 --> 00:44:43,641 We pull up to the light. 982 00:44:43,641 --> 00:44:48,501 I am the second car, actually I'm the third car. 983 00:44:48,501 --> 00:44:53,361 One of Suge's homeboys was in front of Suge, 984 00:44:53,361 --> 00:44:55,311 which never, ever, ever happened 985 00:44:55,311 --> 00:44:57,681 with anyone being in front of Suge. 986 00:44:57,681 --> 00:45:00,471 Then another one of his homeboys, Travon, 987 00:45:00,471 --> 00:45:04,131 was to the left of Suge, 988 00:45:04,131 --> 00:45:07,791 which would've been to his side of the car. 989 00:45:07,791 --> 00:45:10,701 So you got Travon to the left, 990 00:45:10,701 --> 00:45:14,811 you have K-Dove in the front, and you have me in the back, 991 00:45:14,811 --> 00:45:16,011 and we're sitting at this light. 992 00:45:16,011 --> 00:45:19,191 September, it's hot, sticky, 993 00:45:19,191 --> 00:45:20,031 and we're all just sitting there, 994 00:45:20,031 --> 00:45:21,171 pretty much just vegging out, 995 00:45:21,171 --> 00:45:22,851 waiting on the light to change. 996 00:45:22,851 --> 00:45:26,631 Then all of a sudden I noticed this white Cadillac. 997 00:45:26,631 --> 00:45:31,041 Cadillac pulls up and it was not like a thought of mine 998 00:45:31,041 --> 00:45:33,081 that something was about to happen, 999 00:45:33,081 --> 00:45:37,011 because in the entourages we're proceeding 1000 00:45:37,011 --> 00:45:38,124 to go to Club 662. 1001 00:45:39,531 --> 00:45:41,488 People are, I mean, women are like, 1002 00:45:41,488 --> 00:45:44,341 "Yo Pac, Pac, Suge, Suge." 1003 00:45:44,341 --> 00:45:46,341 And, "Can we go, can we go?" 1004 00:45:46,341 --> 00:45:48,111 You know, groupies and things like that. 1005 00:45:48,111 --> 00:45:51,891 So it was not anything out of the ordinary 1006 00:45:51,891 --> 00:45:53,241 for this car to be pulling up, 1007 00:45:53,241 --> 00:45:55,101 thinking that something's gonna happen. 1008 00:45:55,101 --> 00:45:59,370 And as soon as the car pulled up, my head turned back 1009 00:45:59,370 --> 00:46:01,941 and I'm looking, and I'm watching the car. 1010 00:46:01,941 --> 00:46:06,168 Malcolm, who is sitting in the seat behind Yak Fula. 1011 00:46:06,168 --> 00:46:10,461 Yak Fula was in a passenger seat with me up in the front, 1012 00:46:10,461 --> 00:46:14,961 and K, was K Castro, was directly behind me. 1013 00:46:14,961 --> 00:46:17,961 Before the Cadillac pulled up, we were all just vegging, 1014 00:46:17,961 --> 00:46:19,851 they're looking out toward the right. 1015 00:46:19,851 --> 00:46:21,588 Cadillac pulls up, we notice it, 1016 00:46:21,588 --> 00:46:26,588 and then all of a sudden this arm comes out, 1017 00:46:26,598 --> 00:46:27,984 and the arm comes out, 1018 00:46:28,841 --> 00:46:30,784 and it just started firing immediately. 1019 00:46:30,784 --> 00:46:32,511 And I'm like, "Oh my God." 1020 00:46:32,511 --> 00:46:34,245 And all you see, and all you hear. 1021 00:46:34,245 --> 00:46:37,412 (soft poignant music) 1022 00:46:52,064 --> 00:46:54,814 (siren wailing) 1023 00:46:58,584 --> 00:47:01,881 They had Suge out of the vehicle on the ground, 1024 00:47:01,881 --> 00:47:03,861 and as I was approaching him, 1025 00:47:03,861 --> 00:47:05,781 the blood was shooting up out of his head. 1026 00:47:05,781 --> 00:47:07,701 So I'm yelling, "Let him up, let him up. 1027 00:47:07,701 --> 00:47:09,921 He's with us, he's part of the entourage." 1028 00:47:09,921 --> 00:47:10,881 And when they let him up, 1029 00:47:10,881 --> 00:47:13,941 Tupac is still sitting in the passenger seat, 1030 00:47:13,941 --> 00:47:15,141 the door's still closed. 1031 00:47:15,141 --> 00:47:16,884 So Suge says, "I could do it, I could do it. 1032 00:47:16,884 --> 00:47:18,351 It's my car, I'll open it." 1033 00:47:18,351 --> 00:47:20,001 The door was actually stuck. 1034 00:47:20,001 --> 00:47:21,981 So Suge got over there, opened the door, 1035 00:47:21,981 --> 00:47:23,481 and we pulled Pac out of the car. 1036 00:47:23,481 --> 00:47:25,011 When we pulled him outta the car, 1037 00:47:25,011 --> 00:47:27,891 we lied him down on the side of the car, 1038 00:47:27,891 --> 00:47:30,531 and I'm kneeling down at this time, 1039 00:47:30,531 --> 00:47:33,351 and I'm talking to him like, "Pac man, Pac, Pac." 1040 00:47:33,351 --> 00:47:36,981 And he's like (panting), he's trying to breathe. 1041 00:47:36,981 --> 00:47:40,008 And then he goes, "(panting) I can't breathe." 1042 00:47:40,008 --> 00:47:43,258 (soft poignant music) 1043 00:47:48,261 --> 00:47:50,391 - [Narrator] Las Vegas police never arrested anyone 1044 00:47:50,391 --> 00:47:52,581 in connection with the cold-blooded murder, 1045 00:47:52,581 --> 00:47:55,461 even failing to follow up with Yaki Kadafi, 1046 00:47:55,461 --> 00:47:58,641 a member of Tupac's entourage who was there that evening 1047 00:47:58,641 --> 00:48:00,841 and claimed he could identify the assailant. 1048 00:48:01,821 --> 00:48:04,611 It seems too much of a coincidence that two months later, 1049 00:48:04,611 --> 00:48:06,591 Kadafi was murdered before he could 1050 00:48:06,591 --> 00:48:08,064 give his damning statement. 1051 00:48:09,411 --> 00:48:11,421 One theory comes from Russell Poole, 1052 00:48:11,421 --> 00:48:13,821 a former LAPD detective. 1053 00:48:13,821 --> 00:48:16,494 He believes that Suge Knight set up Tupac's murder. 1054 00:48:17,961 --> 00:48:20,181 This might seem unlikely, considering Knight 1055 00:48:20,181 --> 00:48:22,641 was hit in the shooting, but Detective Poole 1056 00:48:22,641 --> 00:48:25,391 thinks he had his own motives for the contract killing. 1057 00:48:26,571 --> 00:48:29,154 Apparently Knight owed Tupac a lot of money. 1058 00:48:30,081 --> 00:48:32,094 Some accounts point up to $10 million. 1059 00:48:33,021 --> 00:48:36,231 Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, backs up the theory 1060 00:48:36,231 --> 00:48:39,081 as she sued Death Row Records in 1997 1061 00:48:39,081 --> 00:48:41,001 for mishandling her son's funds, 1062 00:48:41,001 --> 00:48:43,434 and withholding millions of dollars from Tupac. 1063 00:48:46,671 --> 00:48:49,101 Seemingly more proof for this theory comes by way 1064 00:48:49,101 --> 00:48:52,314 of the fact that Tupac intended to leave Death Row Records, 1065 00:48:53,541 --> 00:48:56,031 firing his lawyer at the time, David Kenner, 1066 00:48:56,031 --> 00:48:58,611 who in addition to being Suge Knight's lawyer, 1067 00:48:58,611 --> 00:49:01,524 also wrote up Tupac's agreement with Death Row Records. 1068 00:49:03,531 --> 00:49:05,511 A week after the lawyer was fired, 1069 00:49:05,511 --> 00:49:08,514 Knight invited Tupac to the fateful boxing match. 1070 00:49:11,571 --> 00:49:16,491 - I saw no reason why anyone would sit in a vehicle 1071 00:49:16,491 --> 00:49:20,241 or next to anyone, that they would put a hit on someone 1072 00:49:20,241 --> 00:49:22,911 and be sitting next to them with the bullets flying 1073 00:49:22,911 --> 00:49:25,074 all through the car like it did that night. 1074 00:49:25,074 --> 00:49:27,801 Suge was a target as well as Tupac was. 1075 00:49:27,801 --> 00:49:30,531 I stick by that, I said that in my book. 1076 00:49:30,531 --> 00:49:34,191 Why would I have put in "Rolling Stone" magazine, 1077 00:49:34,191 --> 00:49:36,021 or with this Detective Poole, 1078 00:49:36,021 --> 00:49:38,061 as he said, I said these things. 1079 00:49:38,061 --> 00:49:40,311 Why would've I told him these things 1080 00:49:40,311 --> 00:49:42,361 when I didn't even put it in my own book? 1081 00:49:43,221 --> 00:49:44,151 It would've gone in my book 1082 00:49:44,151 --> 00:49:46,101 before it would go in "Rolling Stone" magazine. 1083 00:49:46,101 --> 00:49:48,291 I'm shocked at "Rolling Stone" magazine 1084 00:49:48,291 --> 00:49:50,301 would even print something like that 1085 00:49:50,301 --> 00:49:52,791 without checking a secondary source. 1086 00:49:52,791 --> 00:49:55,311 They could have gotten ahold of me through my publisher. 1087 00:49:55,311 --> 00:49:58,161 I never said that Suge Knight 1088 00:49:58,161 --> 00:50:00,321 was one of the shrewdest gangsters. 1089 00:50:00,321 --> 00:50:03,591 Suge personally never did anything to me. 1090 00:50:03,591 --> 00:50:07,551 He treated security very well, as I've stated before. 1091 00:50:07,551 --> 00:50:10,914 There was no beef with anyone in security with Suge Knight. 1092 00:50:12,261 --> 00:50:15,710 - [Interviewer] Do you have a idea why Tupac was killed? 1093 00:50:15,710 --> 00:50:20,661 - No, I don't. (soft somber music) 1094 00:50:20,661 --> 00:50:22,881 - [Narrator] In Orlando Anderson's initial testimony, 1095 00:50:22,881 --> 00:50:24,801 he said that Suge Knight was part of the brawl 1096 00:50:24,801 --> 00:50:27,141 in the lobby, but then later changed his story 1097 00:50:27,141 --> 00:50:30,238 to say that Suge had tried to stop the fight stating, 1098 00:50:30,238 --> 00:50:32,298 "I see him pulling people off of me." 1099 00:50:34,251 --> 00:50:36,531 One theory is that Anderson changed his story 1100 00:50:36,531 --> 00:50:38,544 because of a payoff by Knight himself. 1101 00:50:39,861 --> 00:50:42,381 The detective also claimed that the bullet wound 1102 00:50:42,381 --> 00:50:44,871 Knight received that night was never verified 1103 00:50:44,871 --> 00:50:47,571 by the hospital, eyewitnesses, or the police. 1104 00:50:47,571 --> 00:50:50,181 However, this finding conveniently contradicts 1105 00:50:50,181 --> 00:50:53,421 the 2014 Las Vegas report by Chris Carroll, 1106 00:50:53,421 --> 00:50:56,331 who insisted that Knight's head was gushing blood, 1107 00:50:56,331 --> 00:50:58,671 and he had clearly been hit in the head. 1108 00:50:58,671 --> 00:51:01,791 Carroll emphasized in his report 18 years later 1109 00:51:01,791 --> 00:51:04,131 that Knight expressed legitimate concern, 1110 00:51:04,131 --> 00:51:05,904 and believed it wasn't acting. 1111 00:51:09,231 --> 00:51:11,451 Greg Kading proposed a different story. 1112 00:51:11,451 --> 00:51:13,971 A former LAPD detective assigned to the case 1113 00:51:13,971 --> 00:51:17,064 in 2006, 10 years after the event. 1114 00:51:18,831 --> 00:51:20,901 Sean Combs, AKA P. Diddy, 1115 00:51:20,901 --> 00:51:23,421 the CEO of East Coast Bad Boy Records, 1116 00:51:23,421 --> 00:51:25,041 was whom he held responsible 1117 00:51:25,041 --> 00:51:26,814 for orchestrating Tupac's death. 1118 00:51:28,191 --> 00:51:31,101 Detective Kading met with Crips' gang member Keith Davis, 1119 00:51:31,101 --> 00:51:34,341 to confess on tape that P. Diddy paid him $1 million 1120 00:51:34,341 --> 00:51:36,791 to carry out the murder of Tupac and Suge Knight. 1121 00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:41,050 (uneasy ambient music) 1122 00:51:42,021 --> 00:51:43,971 He also said that Orlando Anderson, 1123 00:51:43,971 --> 00:51:46,011 who was in fact Davis's nephew, 1124 00:51:46,011 --> 00:51:48,531 was the one who pulled the trigger. 1125 00:51:48,531 --> 00:51:50,601 He also admitted to being in Anderson's car 1126 00:51:50,601 --> 00:51:51,901 at the time of the murder. 1127 00:51:53,211 --> 00:51:55,941 To quote Davis, "Orlando rolled down the window 1128 00:51:55,941 --> 00:51:58,761 and popped him, if they would have driven on my side, 1129 00:51:58,761 --> 00:52:00,018 I would've popped him." 1130 00:52:02,301 --> 00:52:05,481 Davis said that the motive for Diddy was fear and paranoia 1131 00:52:05,481 --> 00:52:07,374 that Suge Knight would strike first. 1132 00:52:08,931 --> 00:52:11,631 He also said that Tupac was only included in the hit 1133 00:52:11,631 --> 00:52:13,131 because P. Diddy was furious 1134 00:52:13,131 --> 00:52:15,168 about his diss track, "Hit 'Em Up". 1135 00:52:16,341 --> 00:52:19,461 Because of the shooting in 1994 and the aftermath, 1136 00:52:19,461 --> 00:52:21,981 Tupac repeatedly stated that he suspected Diddy 1137 00:52:21,981 --> 00:52:24,341 to be the perpetrator of the incident. 1138 00:52:24,341 --> 00:52:27,424 (soft somber music) 1139 00:52:28,851 --> 00:52:33,051 In 2011, Dexter Isaac, who was serving life in prison, 1140 00:52:33,051 --> 00:52:35,661 confessed that a P. Diddy associate hired him 1141 00:52:35,661 --> 00:52:37,344 to rob Tupac that night. 1142 00:52:38,871 --> 00:52:41,698 P. Diddy has repeatedly denied the claim stating, 1143 00:52:41,698 --> 00:52:45,078 "This story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous." 1144 00:52:46,371 --> 00:52:48,591 Another theory comes from Chuck Phillips, 1145 00:52:48,591 --> 00:52:50,751 a former "LA Times" journalist. 1146 00:52:50,751 --> 00:52:52,821 He believed that Orlando Anderson, 1147 00:52:52,821 --> 00:52:55,371 Biggie Smalls and the Southside Crips gang 1148 00:52:55,371 --> 00:52:56,971 were responsible for the murder. 1149 00:52:58,341 --> 00:53:01,281 The "LA Times" investigated the murder for over a year, 1150 00:53:01,281 --> 00:53:03,354 and came up with the following findings. 1151 00:53:04,551 --> 00:53:07,071 The Crips retaliated against the beating of Anderson 1152 00:53:07,071 --> 00:53:10,701 by shooting Tupac, Anderson was the shooter. 1153 00:53:10,701 --> 00:53:12,591 Biggie Smalls paid $1 million 1154 00:53:12,591 --> 00:53:15,144 for the supplied gun and murder of Tupac. 1155 00:53:16,581 --> 00:53:18,801 Biggie's motive for wanting Tupac dead? 1156 00:53:18,801 --> 00:53:21,294 His year-long feud was well documented. 1157 00:53:22,431 --> 00:53:24,561 His claim in "Hit 'Em Up" that he had slept 1158 00:53:24,561 --> 00:53:27,594 with Faith Evans, Biggie's wife, was reason enough. 1159 00:53:29,391 --> 00:53:31,551 According to the investigative journalist, 1160 00:53:31,551 --> 00:53:33,951 Biggie nor anyone who was affiliated with him 1161 00:53:33,951 --> 00:53:36,561 was not questioned by the police. 1162 00:53:36,561 --> 00:53:40,011 On March 9th, 1997, less than six months 1163 00:53:40,011 --> 00:53:43,314 after Tupac's murder, Biggie was shot and killed. 1164 00:53:46,221 --> 00:53:48,321 Biggie was leaving a party in Los Angeles 1165 00:53:48,321 --> 00:53:50,121 after the Soul Train Awards. 1166 00:53:50,121 --> 00:53:52,581 He was sitting in an SUV when another vehicle 1167 00:53:52,581 --> 00:53:54,684 pulled up next to his and shot him. 1168 00:53:56,511 --> 00:53:59,511 The shooter who fired at Biggie at least five times, 1169 00:53:59,511 --> 00:54:00,534 fled the scene. 1170 00:54:02,151 --> 00:54:05,544 Biggie died later that night, he was 24 years old. 1171 00:54:07,761 --> 00:54:09,501 A spokesperson for the LAPD 1172 00:54:09,501 --> 00:54:12,291 told "Business Insider" of Biggie's murder. 1173 00:54:12,291 --> 00:54:13,881 The case is still open. 1174 00:54:13,881 --> 00:54:16,914 As long as a case has not been solved, it remains open. 1175 00:54:19,071 --> 00:54:21,171 There are theories that Suge Knight could have had 1176 00:54:21,171 --> 00:54:23,361 something to do with either death. 1177 00:54:23,361 --> 00:54:25,191 People believe he wanted Tupac dead 1178 00:54:25,191 --> 00:54:27,441 so he wouldn't switch record labels, 1179 00:54:27,441 --> 00:54:29,721 or that he had Biggie killed out of revenge 1180 00:54:29,721 --> 00:54:32,331 for Tupac's murder, or that he had Biggie killed 1181 00:54:32,331 --> 00:54:34,641 to distract investigators from pointing the blame 1182 00:54:34,641 --> 00:54:36,534 for Tupac's death in his direction. 1183 00:54:37,731 --> 00:54:40,941 LAPD officer Russell Poole, who was a lead investigator 1184 00:54:40,941 --> 00:54:44,961 on Biggie's murder, once again accused other LAPD officers 1185 00:54:44,961 --> 00:54:48,141 of having connections to Death Row Records and Suge Knight, 1186 00:54:48,141 --> 00:54:50,511 who he thought planned Biggie's murder. 1187 00:54:50,511 --> 00:54:52,851 Poole believed that Knight had Biggie murdered 1188 00:54:52,851 --> 00:54:55,071 as revenge for Tupac's death. 1189 00:54:55,071 --> 00:54:57,621 He was ordered to stop his investigation on the case, 1190 00:54:57,621 --> 00:54:59,484 and retired in 1999. 1191 00:55:00,381 --> 00:55:03,501 Poole died of a heart attack in August, 2015, 1192 00:55:03,501 --> 00:55:04,911 while he was discussing the case 1193 00:55:04,911 --> 00:55:07,464 with LA County Sheriff homicide detectives. 1194 00:55:08,511 --> 00:55:11,454 At the time, he was working on a book about the murders. 1195 00:55:12,951 --> 00:55:15,651 According to a retired LAPD detective, 1196 00:55:15,651 --> 00:55:17,691 Biggie's mother, Voletta Wallace, 1197 00:55:17,691 --> 00:55:19,941 believes that Puff Daddy and Suge Knight 1198 00:55:19,941 --> 00:55:22,431 are responsible for her son's murder. 1199 00:55:22,431 --> 00:55:24,411 Voletta Wallace told the "Daily Mail" 1200 00:55:24,411 --> 00:55:27,771 that the murder of her son, "Hurts me every single day," 1201 00:55:27,771 --> 00:55:31,826 and that she has a very good idea about who killed him. 1202 00:55:31,826 --> 00:55:34,491 "They've done their investigation, 1203 00:55:34,491 --> 00:55:37,348 but they just refuse to move forward," she said. 1204 00:55:37,348 --> 00:55:40,311 "I don't know why they haven't arrested who was involved. 1205 00:55:40,311 --> 00:55:43,221 It seems to me that it's one giant conspiracy, 1206 00:55:43,221 --> 00:55:45,321 and someone is definitely being protected 1207 00:55:45,321 --> 00:55:46,728 somewhere down the line." 1208 00:55:47,751 --> 00:55:49,581 The cases remain unsolved. 1209 00:55:49,581 --> 00:55:51,981 With most of the major players now either dead 1210 00:55:51,981 --> 00:55:54,471 or serving lengthy prison sentences, 1211 00:55:54,471 --> 00:55:57,081 it seems unlikely that the actual circumstances 1212 00:55:57,081 --> 00:55:59,421 of Tupac or Biggie's murder will ever 1213 00:55:59,421 --> 00:56:01,551 be conclusively proved in court, 1214 00:56:01,551 --> 00:56:04,254 but it won't stop people from looking for answers. 1215 00:56:07,447 --> 00:56:10,447 (soft uneasy music) 1216 00:56:18,201 --> 00:56:20,301 Biggie's shocking fate spelt the end 1217 00:56:20,301 --> 00:56:22,434 of the East Coast/West Coast rap feud. 1218 00:56:26,211 --> 00:56:28,851 Two of the greatest rappers to ever pick up a microphone 1219 00:56:28,851 --> 00:56:29,994 were dead and gone. 1220 00:56:31,671 --> 00:56:34,851 Hiphop's reputation had been dragged through the gutter. 1221 00:56:34,851 --> 00:56:37,688 Nobody had any appetite for more. 1222 00:56:37,688 --> 00:56:41,021 (soft thoughtful music) 1223 00:56:43,401 --> 00:56:45,081 Tupac and Biggie endure as two 1224 00:56:45,081 --> 00:56:48,534 of hip hop's most iconic figures and most potent enigmas. 1225 00:56:51,801 --> 00:56:54,801 No other artists better illuminate hiphop's fault lines 1226 00:56:54,801 --> 00:56:57,651 between regional pride and mainstream success, 1227 00:56:57,651 --> 00:56:59,061 and the struggle to transcend 1228 00:56:59,061 --> 00:57:01,311 and elevate beyond humble origins, 1229 00:57:01,311 --> 00:57:03,511 while honoring the streets that raised them. 1230 00:57:08,124 --> 00:57:11,457 (soft thoughtful music) 1231 00:57:12,734 --> 00:57:16,317 (mellow hiphop beat music)