I must admit to being a big Pac fan before I say this, but isn’t it obvious to everyone that Puffy (Diddy) was clearly aware of the 2pac assault back in ‘94 (at the first floor of his studio)?
I mean like they say, if you’re so big in your city (Puffy and Biggie) stuff like that would not go down inside your studio building without you at least being aware of it (I’m not even saying that they put the request in, necessarily).
In the latest Chuck Phillips article in the L.A. Times things get even deeper.
Apparently a mysterious mob-related cat named James Sabatino was behind a lot of extortion scams in NY during this time…eventhough, get this, he was only 18 or so at the time. Jimmy “Henchman” and Randy “Stretch” Walker were also discovered to likely have been aware of the setup that left Tupac shot 5 times in ‘94, one day before he was due for sentencing in his sexual assault case.
Chuck Phillips says his research is corroborated by official FBI documents as well as interviews with actual participants involved in the assault and shooting of Tupac. One guy even offered to sell Phillips 2pac’s stolen medallion!
The story suggests that Puffy and Biggie were slighted by Tupac when he rejected an offer by Puffy to sign him to Bad Boy. This was all before Tupac signed with Death Row Records less than a year later.
Because of Tupac’s “disrespect” there somehow apparently developed a conspiracy to rob Shakur and teach him some “discipline”. Puffy and Biggie were made well aware of this and eventhough Biggie was helped largely by Tupac in his early career they in some ways seemingly “allowed” the plot…no evidence suggests that they knew he would be shot, however.
It has also been reported that, though Tupac was correct about most of the people he accused of involvement (Haitian Jack, Randy “Stretch” Walker, etc…) he was not correct about “King Tut’s” involvement (now dead) as everyone interviewed independently excluded his participation.
Of course, the day of the shooting it is reported that Tupac reached for the two guns he had strapped to his back but instead of holding off the attackers for a few seconds while Tupac shot them (as he had done those 2 crooked cops before), his “friend” Randy “Stretch” Walker quickly got on the floor and spread them…leaving the 4 assailants to wrestle with Tupac causing him to shoot himself once and get shot 4 other times before they took some of his jewelery. Tupac reported then taking the elevator up to Puffy’s studio and described Puffy and Biggie looking at him “like a ghost” when he first saw him. Tupac then proceeded to sit on a couch and roll a joint while a music executive in the building called 911.
I know some people are still skeptical to this story given his previously controversial story a few years ago about Biggie being being extorted into financing Tupac’s murder. In my country (Peru) they have a saying, “behind every large fortune lies a small crime.” I think there’s more than a small crime lying behind Diddy’s wealth.
This story seems to get deeper and deeper every year. Have any of you read Chuck Phillips’ L.A. Times article yet? Any thoughts?