And probably some things that might offend you. But don’t listen to this. Can’t wait till you listen. Yeah, don’t. If you’re 18 up, don’t do it. If you’re 18 up. Yeah. Hey everybody, welcome back to the Conspiracy Podcast. It’s us again. Let’s go. You, Sean, Jorge, Eric. Here we are. Yes. And here you are. How are you today? This is going to be a good one tonight. How are you today? So, uh, tonight’s episode is Tupac Shakur. Two Pack Amari Amaru Shakure. I mean, we’re all, I me, this is our, this is our… I was still, when he, when he was hot, I was, I was 14.

Killing the game. So I wasn’t his age, but I was, you know what I mean? Same, same difference for you guys. Bump music though. Yeah. Yeah, like, yeah. Stillen, I still listen to him. Back back then I was, yeah, listening to… What’s your favorite song? Oh God, that’s impossible. But like, I like, I like Dear Mama, just cuz Dear Mama. So b, and I almost, I almost played that for my mom at our wedding, but I was like, but I was, I’m like, saying my mom’s a crack fiend. So, so I’m just going to take that. Mama was a crack fend. Yeah. I like, uh, All Eyes On Me.

That’s a good one to the dead. All Eyes On Me. So this is not really the, the life of Tupac Shakur, but it’s, it’s, uh, it’s, it’s more the, the murder of Tupac. Yeah, the murder of Tupac Chakur. And, and you know, there’s so many conspiracies about this. There’s, I mean, there’s, yeah, there’s still, is there still is, and it keeps going and going and going. Yeah. And so we were like, all right, let’s, let’s dive in, let’s see. Deep dive. Now what I did find interesting in doing all this was that Tupac is always put together with Biggie. Always, always, always. You know what I mean?

So they were the two Titans of the time. Yeah. And he died six months later. I know. Yeah, that’s crazy. So, but I didn’t want to just, I didn’t want to just do it. It’s the Bigg E Tupac show, you know, episode. I wanted to do Tupac. Yeah. And then we’ll do another one maybe for Bigg, right? And, and then we can dive into to Biggie later. But for the most part, this is going to be Tupac. So Tupac… Wait, wait, before we go on, I want to know, like, is Tupac the goat for you? Oh, h, I mean, I think he was the goat of that time.

I wouldn’t say he’s… I don’t want say he’s the… No, the goat is greatest of all time. That’s what I’m saying. I don’t, no, I don’t wouldn’t call him the goat of all time. He was the goat, he was the greatest of that time. So he was the goat when he was alive. He was the goat. He not, he’s like Kareem. Yeah, exactly. That’s a good, that’s a good analogy. That’s a good analogy. At, that was the goat until Jordan arrived. The problem with Eric saying that is that he’s saying that LeBron is the goat now. No, no, that’s what you’re saying. That’s what you’re saying when you say that Jordan the goat, bro.

Jordan was after Kareem. Of all time, right? Yeah. Goat, go between you and me. I put LeBron at 11. 11? I would put LeBron at like three or two or three. I’m at 11. Yeah, your top list is like Steve Nash, Tupac. But who’s your number one? Who is his number one? Are you talking about basketball now, or… So who’s your, who’s the go? Because if he’s not, if Tupac was of the time, then who’s his goat of all time? See, Em. You can’t have a goat of all time. It’s the [bleep] goat, that’s what it is. Yeah, the actual go. Like, I would say Tupac’s like a, he’s like, he’s a top three.

He’s easily top three. Top three, but I for sure, I just can’t. I don’t know if I can put, put him one. I, I know as weird to say, like, I, I honestly do believe that Em’s good when it comes to, is number one, like, when it comes actual lyrics. That’s why I like rap, for lyrics. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll listen to some [bleep] trap [bleep] where they’re, the words don’t matter, it’s just the beat and you’re like, I guess. You don’t say. Drake is your GH? No, no, no. God. This isn’t an, who’s the best R&D artist. God. Drake’s like, hey, if you’re listening Drake, I still like your [bleep], but just like not your new [bleep].

Your new shit’s trash, your old [bleep] is dope. So you’re at Eminem1. Yeah. Who’s your at two? Bus at two. Okay. And then where’s Biggie, like five? Five. Yeah, five or six. Five or six. He’s great, don’t, he’s awesome. Like, yeah, I thought Tupac was better, you know. At this time. At this time, when I was doing the research, Nas was considered number one. Dude, Nas is the best. At this time in the ’90s, dude, I would put, I would probably do, I would probably… No, they were saying a lot of, a lot of, a lot of what was going on was Nas was number one.

That’s why I say. I would say Eminem, Tupac, Nas, Jcole. Jcole. J Cole straight fire. Where’s, and Snoop? No, way down. Because like, NWA was great, but it was, it’s, if you listen to it again, it’s like not that great, right? It’s really… Well, I mean, it’s, it’s changed a lot honestly, right? Even the styles, the everything has changed so much. But in the ’90s for sure, my opinion, Tupac. Tupac was, it was untouchable in the, for sure. Well, Tupac was born, well actually he was born Lesean Parish Crooks. Oh, real name. I like Lesan. His middle name’s Amaru. I don’t even know if I’m saying it right.

Tupac Amaru. So he literally made up a middle name too. Damn. No, actually his mom did. His mom changed his name when he was one. Oh, I don’t know know that. Yeah. So, but he was born Lesea Parish Crooks, and he was born in 1971, June 16th. Um, and yeah. So we’re just kind of talking about how he was, he sold more than 75 million records, dud. In the ’90s. You were like, sland, he’s killing you. S that many? You’re like vaporizing. That’s when they had records, right? You actually sold CDs and [bleep]. So Shakur was born June 16th in East Harlem, which is the upper part of Manhattan in New York, which is funny because west side, east side.

Yeah. Yeah, he was born in the east. Yep. I always thought that was funny. One other thing I want to add is like, why the name Tupac? He was named after Peruvian revolutionary Tupakamaru II. Yeah. When he was a year old, like you just said. Yeah, but that has a lot to do with the, the whole revolutionary thing or whatever. It’s because his mom was Black Panther. That’s right, there you go. So Shakur’s parents, Aeni Shakur was born Alice Fay Williams in North Carolina, and his biological father Billy Garland, and they were Black Panther Party members in the 60s and 70s. Okay. So the, the, the Peruvian guy that you’re talking about, yeah, uh, he’s the descendant of the last Incan ruler.

This is weird, cuz the Incas are South American. Yeah. So a month before Tupac was born, his mother was tried in New York City as part of something called the Panther 21 criminal trial. Yeah, it was a bunch of Black Panthers basically who were charged with a bunch of explosions and different stores and that sort of thing, so it was charged as a conspiracy. So it’s like, it’s like us. G, yeah, it’s like us as a group charged with all the things that you did, all the things I did, all the things you did. So everybody just charged. Yeah, so 150 charges. Jesus Christ. She was acquitted.

Oh good. H, nice. So she was acquitted of those charges. Just to give you an idea, uh, Tupac’s stepfather was also, uh, he spent four years among the FBI’s top 10 wanted fugitives. Holy [bleep]. Black Panther Party. Yeah, she had him when she was in jail, man. Was birthed in jail, physically. Yeah, I’m sure they was at the hospital, but she was incarcerated. Probably like the, the not the nursery, what the [bleep] is it called? Like the [bleep] [bleep], the what they, what they call the medical [bleep]. Infirmary. The infirmary. I think that’s what I was think. Yeah, we hella smart. We hella smart. Hella smart.

Yeah, our new hit single, Hella Smart, coming out this, coming out this summer. But um, so Tupac’s stepfather Mut Mutulu was apprehended in ’86 and convicted for a robbery of those armored trucks. Oh [bleep]. Oh wow. Where a couple officers were killed. And this is like the town, like a real. Th, Thug Life tattoo. Yeah. So Tupac’s godfather was named Elmer Gono Pratt. What, the name I’ve ever heard. Elmer. Elmer Gono Pratt. Yeah, I mean, this guy sounds a comic. And he was part of the Black Panthers, and he was convicted of murdering a school teacher during a 1968 robbery. Wow. Jeez. This is, this really standup guys in his life.

Say, but after spending 27 years in prison, theyna conviction was overturned because the prosecution concealed evidence that proved his innocence. Holy [bleep]. After 27 years. 27 years. No, I would be like, just just kill me, like it’s useless. 27 years of your life. I guess where we’re going with this is that one, in his life is a criminal or no, or Black Panthers and part of the… This guy was acquitted. That’s true. His mom was acquitted. So it’s kind of like, I guess, I don’t want to say, I can see how that would, that for him that would still like, [bleep] the police, they’re after you, they’re going to try to pin [bleep] you even though you are doing illegal [bleep], it doesn’t matter, cuz they’re after you even though you’re breaking the law.

That for sure is a start. But we’ll get into it also, but like, when you, the way he grew up as, at according to his songs at least, right? Like the cops are always after, you know, black people in his neighborhood. And I mean, I think things were a little saucy there for sure, we’ll just put it that way. So in the’80s, Buck’s mom found it difficult to find work, and she also had a drug addiction, so she was dealing with, yeah, even as a… Mama always was a black. Although, although it does go back to, was it difficult to find work because you were addicted to crack, or was it difficult find then you got adct?

Yeah. Yeah, one or the other. But then you would think, like, if you, if it was difficult to find work, why would you spend your money on crack thing? Yeah. So you, you got to think, it’s the inverse of that. [bleep] addicting, that’s why. But maybe you could find a job if you weren crack. Yeah, maybe if you were sp crack. You like, she’s a crack fiend. A crack fi. We’re going to hit that lent, we’re going to hit that line so many times. So in 1984, his family moved from New York to Baltimore. He attended 8th grade at Roland Park Middle School, then ninth grade at Paul Lawrence Dunbar.

He transferred to Baltimore School for the Arts in the 10th grade, which is sophomore year. Yeah, 10th grade. Yeah. He studied acting, poetry, jazz in ballet. Oh wow, ballet, that’s crazy. He performed in Shakespeare’s Place, y, or the fake Shakespeare. Yeah, episode number, yeah, four. Lord, Lord [bleep], whatever his name was. So then he, so at the Baltimore School for the Arts, he met a person and be became really close with Jada Pinket. Oh, that’s right, they had the whole thing. Maybe that’s why she’s such a [bleep] to. She, dude, are you kidding me? She’s openly [bleep] another rapper, like openly. She’s openly doing it.

It’s not okay. Have you seen the Chris Rock special? Oh, I know, I heard about it though, I’m going to launch it. I just heard, I just saw that part where he goes into… No, he goes in. And I’m paraphrasing, yeah. He’s like, what kind of [bleep] she cheats on you and then puts you on live television and say makes you apolog how you feel about it? That’s just… And they had that little interview, it was so weird. So bad. It’s so weird. I kind of agree. I feel, I kind of feel bad for, I feel super bad for him. I don’t really feel bad for Chris Rock.

No, I don’t feel bad, I mean he just got smacked. I me, a big deal. F. So uh, at this school anyways, they became friends, and you know, they started doing poetry together and that sort of thing. And then he won a competition, which was the school’s best rapper, cuz he was the only one. He the go, cuz he was the go. So in 1988, Shakur moved all the way to the west, and he moved to Marin Cityia. Yeah, it’s the Bay Area. Uh, it’s Marin City, and it’s kind of like, it’s nearby Mil Valley. It’s not really San Francisco, it’s kind of on the other side, that sort of thing.

But does it say why? I think for work, for the mom, stuff like that. Some of the research I did, it was like, he, he was getting in trouble a lot, and the people he was hanging out with and [bleep], and so the mom’s like… Kind of like the, the Will Smith, you know? No, but it was like that. Maybe that was what was bacy. That’s pretty funny. I didn’t know that. Freshman is literally loosely based off to. I didn’t know that. But just as a point in note, he never graduated high school. So he left. He did later get his GED, his like 20s.

Yeah, so like, you know, take that for what is. Good job. So he, Shakur then started recording under a stage name named MC New York. That’s a… Now it was, it wasn’t in New York. It wasn’t in New York, it was in the Bay Area. So it was MC New York in the Bay Area. No. Yeah, okay. That year he began attending a poetry class, uh, Leila Steinberg. She became his first manager. She organized a concert for Shakur, and you know, she has a rap group called Strictly Dope. You got to love the 8s. Yeah, and then that’s, yeah, that’s when they, that’s when he met a, a group called Digital Underground.

Yeah, and that was when he like kind of got hooked up with Digital Underground. And in 91, that’s when Tupac debuted under, for the first time, under the name Tupac. And it was with, underr MC New York. That’s right. Okay. So in 91, then he was with Digital Underground and he was like, hey, I’m Tupac. That was his name, hey, Tupac. Under a new record label, which was Inner Scope. Nice. Yeah, okay. So that’s when Tupac joined Digital Underground. That’s right. And he was in that song Same Song, is what it’s called. Sing it all around the world, same song, baby. No, no, no, those are two different songs, the Hty Dance and the Same Song.

That’s right, that’s… So he was in Same Song. I think that’s probably his first big, you know, his first big r where people, music video guy first. Yeah, actually he was a backup dancer for them. Yeah, really, right? That’s when theyour. He using that ballet skill. Yeah. So he was with Digital Underground, and then October 31st, which is Halloween, 1993, thank you Eric for that, thank you for that, which is Halloween. Disclaimer, I had no idea. W the 4th of July. So Tupac, so Tupac was arrested for the first time, or at least the first time on record, in Atlanta for shooting two off duty police officers.

For shooting two off duty what? The, the police were brothers, and the Atlanta police claimed that the shooting occurred after the brothers were almost struck by a car that was carrying Tupac while they were crossing the street with their wives. So they were off duty cops, basically. They argued with the driver, Tupac, his car pulled up, and he shot one of them in the butt, in the abdomen. Damn. Damn. Anyway, so there’s conflicting accounts. Tupac says that it was in self-defense, and the other guy said, well, Tupac shot me first. Tupac was charged with two counts of aggravated assault. Tupac on this one. Well, okay, aggravated assault for shooting two cops.

Also, one of the cops was charged with firing at Tupac’s car. Oh. And making false statements later. What an idiot. There you go, that’s what I’m saying. So, idiot. So the cop admitted to possessing a gun that he had taken from the evidence room. Oh my god. Wow. So prosecutors ultimately dropped the charges because of all that, because this guy was shady as [bleep]. Okay. I happen to have some cash from the cocaine from the evidence room. But, and the cop resigned 6 months later, six or seven months later. It’s like, on sh, I got get out of here. But um, the cops filed civil suits against Tupac, and they were settled out of court.

So yeah, I’ll give you 50 bucks, like, deal. No, I mean, at that time he’s making money. The cop sued Tupac for $2 million and it was settled after Tupac died by his estate. Oh really? Yeah. That’s weird. Y. So 1993, that’s where we’re at now. Tupac and Notorious B meet for the first time. They meet on the set of the movie Poetic Justice. You remember that movie? John Singleton movie with Janet Jackson, Regina King. Anyways, they, they, they clicked. He said, Biggie said, we just clicked off the top and we were cool ever since. So Biggie and him actually were, they were friends. Most people don’t necessarily know, but they were friends, right?

So at that time, Biggie was not happy with his recording career, so he asked Tupac, he said, hey, can you be my manager? Oh really? Yeah. And so Tupac said Biggie looked like he was wearing the same pair of Tiber Lands for a year straight, and he advised Biggie to stay with Puff Daddyy, and said the bad boy founder Puff Daddy will make you a star. And he sure, sure enough, he did. Sure [bleep]. So there you go. So uh, 19 Prophet too. And I guess, I guess, I guess the point of that story though, is that, the point of that story though is that they were friends originally.

Yeah, and he said, hey, stay with, with Puff Daddy. Yeah, you know I mean, there whole, there’s all, there’s a whole reason why like east and west started, but go ahead. Probably Puff. Puff. In ’94, uh, Tupac released Thug Life Volume One, and this is when started to really get, you know, this is 94, was like 94. So he already had done Juice or… Yeah, yeah, good movie. And probably Above the Rim too, cuz that’s also what kind of catapulted him. Actually Above the Rim is coming up, like, we, we’re in there. I don’t like that, but I thought Juice was great. Juice is good, is good.

I have to watch that one again. So he was, yeah, so he was acting and he was doing a lot. He was, yeah, he was all over the place. Think was in all the pets. This point he’s a bigger actor than, than rapper, right? No, no, he, he was selling, he was selling millions. He was selling millions and he was also just drifting into the acting world. Yeah, okay. Kind like 50 set. Yeah. Okay, so in November 30th, 1994, this is when everything went wrong. This is when everything went wrong. And this is called the Quad City shooting. Okay. I don’t know if you know, if you’ve heard of this, but essentially this is what kind of set everything in motion, East Coast West Coast, right, situation, right?

So what’s strange about Tupac, and we’re going to go through this a lot, but what’s strange about it is he was always broke. This is weird. H, it’s always broke. So even is when he’s famous. Even when you’re rich, you’re broke. He was broke. I mean, it, you know, the record label would give him car and the, the watches and this, but he never really had, like, he was never like liquid. He never had financial acumen, you know? like he was never really. I mean, but back assume, you know, it was, it wasn’t like it is now back then, right? Meaning now you sign, you might get, I don’t know, maybe few million, like I even know what you get.

But like back then you wouldn’t get a few million just for signing. Like now they just give you an advance, and they pretty much, it’s an advance against estimated record sales, and then, and then they take the money back, and then they, then they have it set up to like, okay, we’ll give you an advance and then you’ll get like x% after set money is recouped. And a lot of times the guy, there, there big contracts, those guys won’t read it, all they see is the advanced money. [bleep], yeah, they’re like cool, we’ll get advan to this, and then you get [bleep] 1%. But, but we also have to mention, like back then it was the, the whole gangster rap thing was going on, right?

And it wasn’t everybody’s buying gangster rap albums, you know, like, like they buy rap albums now. Yeah, true. Yeah, true. So there’s not a lot of money going on. But go ahead. Well, so November 30th, 1994, so he was in New York, and he was offered by a music manager named Jimmy Henchman. Um, he offered… You like, make that up, Jim. He offered Tupac seven grand to stop by a place called Quad Studios and record just a verse to be on a track for Little Shawn, right? See, so he was like… That’s what I’m talking about, like nowadays, nowadays, I, I heard hun G for that.

No, like, I heard what’s his name, Snoop, he was saying 250 grand just for a verse. Wow. Crazy [bleep]. Shut up. Crazy. Yeah, exactly. So like that’s the difference, that’s what I was talking about. Well, but apparently, so he was unsure if he should do it, but he was [bleep] I need the money. Thatat damn, seven Gs bro. Yeah. So because what happened is, is, and we’ll go into it in a little bit, but he was being charged for sexual assault, and so he had lawyer fees at this time. Yeah, he had legal fees, and, and apparently just didn’t have a lot of cash. Yeah.

And so he was, oh, I’m getting offered seven grand, like, yeah, that’s, let go, one track, CP. Yes, exactly. So it was in Time Square. But he agreed to do it, he needed the cash. So he arrived with Stretch, which is one of his homies, and in the lobby he saw a guy, and he later talks about this guy, and he says most black men always recognize him or say hello out of jealousy or out of admiration, but this guy didn’t say anything to him. He just tipped his cop down, and he just didn’t look at him, and he was wearing camo. Oh, this is, this is what’s his, this is what’s his name.

So he walked in, so he walked into the lobby, and near the elevator they were robbed and beaten and then shot. He was shot like four times, and per the reports he took the elevator up to the top floor, and he, and he was bleeding [bleep], and he opened the top floor and there was Biggie and Puff Daddy. And he just walked in and he sat down on the couch and he smoked cigarette. What a [bleep] legend. And then they called, they called an ambulance. What, called an ambulance? What [bleep] badass. He’s like, give me a cigarette, [bleep] Newport. But what sucks, what the problem with this situation is, Tupac then thought it was because Biggie and, and Puff were there.

Yeah, right. So he thinks that. Wasn’t he going to record for them or with them? No, totally coincidence. Oh, okay. They’re in the same building, right? So then of course he’s thinking like, why are these guys have, like, trapped me basically? I know, they, oh yeah, you got to get rid of the competition. Yeah. So, so who shot him? Yeah, so okay, so I wrote, I wrote this note down. So in 2011, it was reported that Dexter Isaac, which was an imprisoned murderer serving a life sentence, confessed that he was one of the men who shot and robbed Tupac at Quad Studios. Oh, one of the guys.

And he was order on the order from Jimmy Henchman, which is the guy was paying him the seven grand to be there in the first place. Damn. Oh. Go. He said, he said Henchman hired me to rob Tupac. He gave me 2500 plus all the jewelry that I took, except for one ring which he took for himself. So was a setup. Same, like, that’s what Tupac said from the start, like, forever. I wonder who the other guy was, like [bleep] chug. No, that, there’s, there’s the suspicion. So, so then, so, so he gets taken to the hospital, right? And he has surgery, then instead of staying there at the hospital, he decides to leave the hospital, and he, the next day is the jury’s verdict of his sexual assault case.

So he shows up, and there’s video, he shows up in a wheelchair and arm brace and like, he’s like shot, etc, like right, even has a bandage on his head, bandage turn him. So he shows up the next day at the thing and he’s, he’s ready to get the verdict. Now, now we’re going to talk about the sexual assault case. All right, ready? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so to, so what are we doing? Aot ji. It’s a lot. So 1993, so one year earlier. Okay, one year earlier, right? There’s somebody named Ayana Jackson, okay, and she was 19 years old, and she admitted that before this night she was having sex with Tupac.

H, oh, so okay. So they, they’re already, they’re boning. They’re already doing it. Yeah, she’s admitted that consensual sex has happened. So now, November 19th along, he’s staying at a hotel and he invites her over, and she comes in, and she claims that he said, these are my boys, I like you so much I decided to share you with them. He had his hand in my braids and I can’t physically move. And then Shakur reportedly left the room, and then Jackson then said she was raped by these three other guys. Oh, that’s the worst. I know it. I don’t know how you, I can’t be like, she’s lying.

Yeah. So then she says, Tupac was lying on the couch. In my mind was thinking, this [bleep] just raped me and he’s lying up there like a king acting as if nothing happened. So I began crying hysterically and shouting, how could you do this to me? I came here to see you, I can’t believe you did this to me. She later confirmed though that she didn’t have sex with Tupac that night, but she was raped by the other people. Okay, but she’s accusing him. No, she’s accusing him of set it up, almost, almost like he, like the, he’s like the trafficker. Yeah. Yeah, yes. Okay, yes, exactly.

So that’s super [bleep] up. So he gets shot, remember, he got shot at Quad City. Karma. He wheels in, and then he’s there for the verdict. What’s the verdict? Okay. Guilty. A f, he got, yes, he was, he was convicted, and he got 18 months to four years. That’s what the, the judge said. The judge said it was an act of brutal violence against a helpless woman, and Tupac was out of line, and, and anyways, and setting it up, and inhumane, and set the bail at $3 million. That’s a damn, that’s a hefty bail, especially in those days. He had to go to jail for how long?

18 months to four and a half years. That was the conviction. Yeah, 18 to four and a half. Yeah. Now Tupac said the following. He said, how am I going to force a woman to do something to me that we’ve already done consenti? Well, you didn’t force her to do it with you. If the case is about me and this girl, then we wouldn’t be here. I’m guilty of a lot of things, but I’m not guilty of rape. Just because I don’t want to be with a girl doesn’t mean they can accuse me of rape. Oh, see, see. Crime for that girl to turn this into a rape charge.

In the report it says I was in concert. Where are those guys? I don’t want to go to jail for something they did. See, that’s what he’s saying, I didn’t rap her, so I didn’t rap. Crazy though, none of them got convicted, did, only he? Yeah, that’s weird. So that part, want to make an example out of him. Gu, he’s the star, I mean, for those guys. Yeah. So he goes to jail. So uh, there you go, Tupac goes to jail. Coral facility. Yeah, I remember from one of his songs. So then, so then he’s in jail, and when he was in jail, he, LL Cool J released a song called I Shot You, Biggie released a called a song called Who Shot You.

Yeah, I remember that. And Tupac’s [bleep] getting livid. Yeah, what do you mean you [bleep] shot me? First of all, like, hello, just stop, shut, stop doing this. Yeah. So he’s getting m and matter and matter in prison, basically, of. And all he has his friends. He thought his friends were conspiring to kill and paranoid. Yes, exactly, exactly. During, while he was in prison, he released Dear Mama. Oh, that’s a good one. Yeah, classic. And that was a number one release. Y, that was his first number one. Yep, that was during his prison day too. So that, mama was a black queen. Mo always a queen, Mo.

That sounded kind of like a country song to me. What you talking about? Great. Just so, so that was the album Me Against the World. That’s the one that got released. Okay. Okay, so now we fast forward a little bit to August ’95. He’s still in prison, he’s still in jail. So at the ’95 Source Awards, this is when Sug Knight won. He won for, for Above the Rim soundtrack. Su Knight’s the worst human beings ever. And he goes up on stage, and you can watch it on YouTube, he goes up on stage, he’s, and then he disses. And this is what they all say, is that he disses Puffy in the speech.

He says, hey, all of you artists, if you guys want to get your albums produced without me dancing in your videos… Oh yeah, alluding to. Yeah, then come over to Death Row, you know. And then apparently, like, per the people in the crowd including Snoop Dog etc, it was palpable. It was like, people were, it was west coast east coast starting to get. Is the greatest antagonist person who’s ever, he just wants to start [bleep] with everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Meanwhile, couple weeks later, a Death Row employee is shot, you know, in Atlanta. This is just added notes of things are [bleep] wild, like things are getting, you me the wild, the wild.

Crazy. Yeah. So, so come September, Tupac is desperate to get out of jail. I would be too. He’s desperate to get out of jail, he’s, he’s done, he doesn’t want to be in jail anymore. How long has he been in there? 18 to four and a half years. Months, about 6 months. Dam. About six to seven months. Dude. Six months pris, I would have already jumped off myself. He couldn’t figure out how to pay the $3 million bail. Well yeah, cuz you’d have to put up a bond, but you need at least, at least 10%, something like, crazy. It’s like, it’s a lot of money.

So guess who showed up as like a white knight? Su Knight. Mhm, of course. As, as a showed up as a Su Knight. So there’s a, there’s this famous story where that, that Tupac sold his soul to Su Knight on a napkin. So he basically, he’s like, what do I need to do to get out of jail? He’s like, I’ll tell you, need to give me, you need to join Death Row and you need to give me x amount of albums. Yeah, right. And apparently, I mean, this is all a theory, yeah, apparently it was all in a napkin. He’s like, just burn that napkin, I didn’t anything.

Now I did, I did research this a little bit extra, and I did find the original document that Tupac signed. Oh really? Four pages. Yeah, it’s not a napkin, e, right? Now if you keep, if you remember, we were talking about he was originally with Inner Scope. Yeah, yeah. So Inner Scope made it, made them put it in some form of legible contract, and it was four pages long, and it’s a signature of, of Tupac, Suge, and In Scope. Oh, so to pretty much saying transferring over to, to Death Row, right? Anyways, side note, that contract sold for 15 grand like two years ago, an auction.

Yeah. As an auction item. It is known as Tupac’s bail agreement. And then 8 days later, after signing that, he was released from prison. Damn, that was fast. Shook, sh, sh works fast. Yeah, he probably killed, killed the commissioner. So he gets out of prison December of ’95. Snoop Dogg is in New York. Oh yeah. People get shot, fired on, nobody gets hurt. But basically the message was sending to west coast rappers, don’t [bleep] come to New York. M, like it’s, it’s getting west coast east coast becomes a thing, like it’s actually a thing. Yeah. Okay. February of ’96, Tupac releases All Eyes On Me.

Sells best album of all, sells half a million records in days, instantly. Seven days. Yeah. Um, ’96 Soul Train Awards, you know, he, he wins big. The next few months are just the west side, west coast east coast thing just keeps going, and it keeps, it keeps boiling up, and [bleep] you and like west side and like that whole, and they’re dising each other on, in songs now, so it’s like it’s there forever. It’s so, it’s so, so for nothing. We’re both in America, but you’re on the other side of it, [bleep] you. Sh. And then, and then he also released the song of, you know, Biggy’s wife, uhi, no, Eve.

You say you being a player, but I [bleep] your wife. Yeah, I forget her name, but yeah, yeah, it says. And then [bleep] for [bleep] fa, something, I don’t know, whatever. Yeah, Eve. Yeah, Eve. Faith. Faith. Eve. Uh, so in June of ’96, Jay-Z drops A Reasonable Doubt, which features Biggie, and he says some, some [bleep] about having twins with, with his wife, and it’s called Tupac. Anyways, they keep going and going and going, and you know, so it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse. In August of ’96, Tupac records his, his album called The Don Kimani, the sday theory. Cinati.

Killuminati. There you go. Under Macavelli, you know, that’s the first sign of Melli and that whole thing. Um, another great album, really good. Okay, so then we fast forward, and here we are. So September 7th, 1996. Illuminati. So Tupac Shakur decided to go to Las Vegas. He had a business partner. First mistake. Yeah. So he had a business partner named Tracy Robinson, and it was a, and also he was friends with Mike Tyson. So Mike Tyson was gonna fight Bruce Sheldon, and, and Mike Tyson was super rich, this is Mike Tyson’s peak, right? Super peak, right? So it’s at the MG Grand. So Mike Tyon wins in 40 seconds, like it was, it was one of those, like you remember those fights.

It’s just a quick aside to the way things are now. Nowadays are so different, you know, you have a year to train. Mike Tyson, I think he fought when he was in this championship zone, I think he fought like nine fights in a year. Yeah, it was insane. Every other month he’s like in a [bleep] championship fight and knocks the dudes down. All right, another two months you have another fight. Yeah. Anyway, he was 40 seconds, so he’s like, I’m still in shape, give me another one in two months, I’m still in shape. All right, so to put this a little bit into context. So Suite created these, these, these chains, and they were Death Row Record chains, and they were massive gold chains.

You remember, they were huge, right? Yeah, with the like the, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think they were 10 grand each, and he only gave them to made men. If you, everything is like Good Fellas. Yeah, like it’s a made man, you get them, you’re, you’re in, you’re in. Yeah. Okay. So a little bit before, there was one of the crew of Death Row, where a guy named Orlando Anderson tried to rob this chain from the guy. Okay, sell out a pwn. That was a little bit before, it was at a mall, and anyways he tried to rob it, that’s what happened. Okay, good. So now the, the Tyson fight happens.

Tupac is pumped, and the reason we know that is cuz he’s on camera, like, uh, there’s actual video if you wanted to look it up on YouTube. There’s video of Tupac pumped about Tyson winning, he’s walking the casino floor like [bleep] just yes, like pumped out of his mind, right? Even sh with him. Yeah, yes, yes, exactly. Okay, so they get to the lobby, and this is all caught on camera, you can watch it, it’s all caught on camera. And, and somebody says something, that says hey, there’s that [bleep] Orlando and over there, let’s k where he at, let’s go kill him right now. Tupac and Sugar, and they have a posy of like six people.

They’re trying to steal our chains. Yeah, when I saw it on the, uh, when I saw that video, it looked like 60 people. Yeah, it did, it did look like a m. Also in a casino, that’s… No, no, I know, but go. And Tupac throws the first, of course, like he comes and he rushes, bum rushes Orlando Anderson, and he starts beating on him. Then in the video, Suge looks like, Su is kicking him in the face too, probably 100% chance. Looks stopping, but later on we’ll talk about that because it’s important. Okay. Okay, good. So he beats the [bleep] out of him. Yeah, we [bleep] like Death [bleep] all that [bleep], right?

Okay, good. So that happens, it’s all caught on video. Nobody knows it’s caught on video. Okay. So then he goes back to, gentlemen, it’s cassino, is [bleep] idiots. [bleep] eye in the sky catches everything. So then Tupac, I, I mean even at that time the everything. So Tupac then goes to his hotel room, and at that time he was actually dating, Tupac’s actually dating Kadada Jones, which I don’t know if you guys know that, but Kadada Jones is the daughter of Quincy Jones, also the sister of Rita Jones, who’s in Parks and Reck and a bunch of other stuff. Yeah, she’s also, and she’s in I Love You Man.

Yeah, wife. She’s semi, I give her, I give her famous. Okay. So he goes to the hotel. Now here’s the strange part. Ever since he was shot at Quad City, you know, the Quad City studio, mhm, oh yeah, he was wearing bulletproof vests. Smart. Very smart. Everywhere he went he was wearing a bulletproof vest. For some reason, to, for some reason, he left that hotel room and his bulletproof vest was on the couch. Conspiracy. He didn’t put it on. Sh was like, don’t wear it, trust me. And he told, he told, he told the Kadida, he said hey, I’m going to go to this club, it’s, it’s Su’s club, it’s called Club 669, and it’s kind of 662, sorry, and uh, it’s like a charity thing, and we’re going to just, we’re going to just roll up, and you stay here, you don’t go anywhere, you stay here.

Yeah, I don’t need you the club with me, girl, stop, you crushing my. Additionally, what’s weird is his bodyguard. He said hey, you take her car, and I’m going to roll with Suge. Don’t drive me. So he’s just like, he’s just violating all the normal action, all things. I, I don’t need myprof, I don’t need my own car. Everything you put in place as a protection protocol you’ve broken. He’s like, no, I might, I might bring my wallet. Yeah. So then him and Suge headed to the Death Row nightclub called 662. They went in the black BMW 750, but they were also part of a larger convoy, so they had six cars, and they were, you know, whatever.

Yeah, they’re always rolling with like this a whole sh amount of people. Okay, so at 11:00 p.m. Tupac and Knight were stopped by Las Vegas police officers who were on the bikes, you know, the bike, the bike patrol. Yeah. And they were, hey, your, your stereo is too loud and you don’t have license plates. And there’s nobody driving, what? So they open the trunk, the place were in, in Suge’s trunk. So he just never put him on his car for whatever reason. I guess he was just not trying to. Sketchiest thing ever. Plug li. Anyway, so they released them, or they let them go without a citation or anything.

So 10 minutes later, while they were stopped at a red light, the intersection of East Flamingo in, in Koval Lane in front of the Maxim Hotel, a vehicle pulled up with two women on their left side. Tupac was talking to them through the window. Hey, sh, like, Tupac I love you, Tac. That’s, he’s like, stay at the hotel baby. I love you Tac. And then he’s like, hey, come over to Club 662. And he invited them, get around and instantly. And they’ve gone, come into the car with us right now. And they’ve done interviews where they were, yeah, he was hey, come over, come, come to Club 662, right?

A couple minutes later, a white four-door Cadillac pulled up to Suite’s right side. So here’s, here’s Suge and here’s Tupac and the car pulls up right. Here’s driving. Yeah, Suge’s driving. And there’s a great photo, because those girls took a photo. So the last photo of Tupac is literally moments before he gets shot. Wow. So the shooter, seated at the back of the Cadillac, rolled down the window and rapidly fired shots from a Smith and Wesson Glock 22. All right. Tupac was hit four times. 22. So Tupac was hit four times, twice in the chest, once in the arm, and once in the thigh. One of the bullets went into Tupac’s right lung.

Oh f. And Suge was hit with a fragment in his head. Oh. Oh, maybe that’s when he went like [bleep] super crazy. So then Suge basically floored it, did a u-turn, crashed into a pole. Damn, like almost made it. Smooth. I mean, it was, it was about a half mile, so I mean, a little bit, he made it a little bit, right? So despite the fact that Suge apparently got shot in the head, he, and he had a flat tire at this point cuz he went over the curb. He was able to drive… Where they got shot, or the tire got shot? I don’t know, information.

And the tires, we don’t know. He was able to drive Tupac and himself half a mile from the site to Las Vegas Boulevard, right? Then those same people on the bikes were the first on the scene, like the cops on the bikes. [bleep] in on it. He was then taken in the hospital, heavily sedated, but reports say that he was alive saying like, help me, I can’t breathe. Oh, cuz his lung. It’s long, like, I can’t breathe and I’m still alive. So he was taken into the emergency room, heavily sedated. He was put on life support machines and was put into a medically induced coma after he kept trying to get out, right?

Out the whatever. That was, that was probably that, that the metan news coma probably did him in. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. So then, love, he still scrapping, like, let me have the [bleep] out. Ser. So then his girlfriend came, Jones, she came, and per her reports she played him Don Mcan’s Vincent on a CD player next to him and he woke up. What, thetically induced coma? Jesus. Music transcends. He moaned, he moaned a bit, you know. Suge, Suge was released the next day, uh, but he, he wouldn’t speak to anybody, he wouldn’t tell them what was happening. So by then Friday happened, so days went by, and he had multiple surgeries.

And at first, the first couple days, it was, he’s going to be, he’s a 50/50 chance of living, he’s going to be fine, going to do well, you know what I mean. All right, he’s hom, going, homie’s been shot before. Exactly, people were, he’s been through this before. Yeah. Um, but Friday September 13th, he died of respiratory failure because of the lung. So they removed the lung in, in the next surgery because it was internal bleeding, you know. Anyway, so they, they, he was pronounced dead at 4:00 on that day. Now the officer that came and was the first one on the scene said the following in an interview, and he said, I got his autograph before I done it’s up on E.

His name was Chris Caroll, and he said that at first he was like struggling, and then eventually got to an I’m at peace and I’m ready to go kind of thing. Just like that, he went from fighting, struggling. You mean like resisting him, or just… No, resisting the, the pain and the, the, the dying and the, you know what I mean, like that kind of thing. To he went from fighting it to, I can’t do it anymore. And when he made that transition, he looked at me and he’s looking right in my eyes, and that’s when I looked at him and I said, one more time, who shot you?

And he looked at me and he took a deep breath and he got the words out, and he opened his mouth and I thought he was going to cooperate, but what he said was, [bleep] you. I know, snitch, [bleep] you. I love this story. And then he looked me dead, and it’s like so serious. Oh my. And we had a moment, we lo, our souls were connected. He was like, [bleep] you ca. [bleep] the police. Story of Tupac, right? [bleep] you. Tupac to the end. L to the end. That’s, that’s, that’s what happened. That’s what we got for you guys tonight, unfortunately. That’s the end of episode number one of Tupac Shakur.

Yeah, we like to, we like to do these endings on like the lowest possible, not driveing into the ground, like, see you next week. No, but, but that’s what happened with Tupac. And you know, next week we’re going to talk about all the things that happened afterwards, the investigation, detective pool. Is he in Cuba? Is he, is he still alive? Where is he? Is he, is he part of the machine? His consciousness is transcendent multiverse. That’s right. So thanks a bunch, thanks for listening guys, we’ll see you guys next week. Next week, tune in, don’t miss it. Hey, night night. Hey guys, hope you enjoyed the show.

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