It's a man charged in Tupac Shakur speaking out from behind bars for the first time. Dwayne Kefei D. Davis insists he was 300 miles away when the rapper was shot.
Now he's pointing the finger at someone else. But I'm thinking that he was going to make it. Rap star Tupac Shakur died last night after a brief life in a rough business.
He was 25. Suge Knight killed Tupac. What everybody know off the top I ain't Tupac.
I'm but at the same time Buffy can give him a mother and every rat in the world said he the one kill Tupac or had him shot for almost 30 years. One story stuck. Souge Knight, a hotel in Vegas.
A man with a temper big enough to fill a room and a motive everyone could understand without asking too many questions. Case closed, at least in the public's mind. But listen to what the man actually charged with pulling the [music] trigger just said.
Not Souge, someone else. And listen to Snoop's own voice years ago, saying he genuinely believed his friend was going to make it, not a performance. Not for cameras, just a man hoping a 25-year-old was gone.
That part was never in question. But here's what is. Sug Knight, the man everyone was so sure did it, is on record saying he didn't.
And when you ask him who he thinks did, he doesn't hesitate. He says it was Diddy. Not a rival label owner, not a stranger, someone who called himself Tupac's friend, someone who, according to Sugi, had been by his side since day one.
That's a story nobody wants to sit with. Because if it's true, it means the person the world blamed for decades might not be the one who actually needs to answer for it. And then when getting killed and they didn't kill you, but your own people killed you or you know advise you and all that.
So you really got to start thinking what's really going on around you. You know what I'm saying? What she mean by his own people killer.
I mean, you know that you hang around, you know, hanging around death row, you think you the top gangbanger. You know, you sock mouth and doing all that crazy. You know what I'm saying?
He wasn't even supposed to be doing all that. You know what I'm saying? Especially another telling you, "Hey yo, Big Mighty just slapped the You know what I mean?
" And then you go over there when security supposed to be go. This ain't even your fight [music] but didn't know the hit is a stone cold killer. You know what I mean?
And that's why I told you don't let the gang banging get between us coming from my end or anybody else end. It's easy to get sucked up in this by ego. He put his trust into too he put his trust into too many people.
You know what I'm saying? for validation, you know, big hunt. That's my homie.
[laughter] You know what I mean? So, you put your trust in a lot of people and you should put trust in yourself. For a long time, this was the theory that made the most sense to people because Daz says it plainly here.
Tupac didn't create the danger around him. The people in his orbit did. According to Daz, it was the choices other people made.
reckless choices involving genuinely dangerous individuals that put Tupac in a position where he ended up paying the price for mistakes that were never really his to begin with. Think about what that means for a man who was already carrying more weight than most people his age ever will. Tupac wasn't just an artist.
He was raised by a mother deeply connected to the Black Panther movement. Born into a family that understood surveillance, understood being watched, understood what it meant to be a target before he ever picked up a microphone. He grew up fast [music] and by the time he became one of the most famous men in music, he was already used to being surrounded by people whose loyalty came with strings attached.
That's the world Daz is describing. Not a man who went looking for trouble, a man who inherited it from the company he kept. How do you think they could have been avoided by getting shot?
Not going to Vegas. He didn't have no reason to go to Vegas. Should want him to go to Vegas.
We was staying at home doing music like we was doing, you know? But if he wouldn't have went to Vegas, he'd be right here. Remember, he was mo, you know what I'm saying?
So he felt like I got to represent, at least show these [ __ ] big buff n, you know what I mean? Did you see Pock and Suge argue at any point? No, in the beginning it really wasn't that, but I heard when the hotel after Snoop did that and all this, they a lot of people say they got into it.
Then my uncle said they got into it, too. [music] And this is the detail that should stop you. Tupac didn't have a reason to be in Vegas that night.
According to Daz, Sugge was the one who pushed for the trip. Not Tupac's idea, not Tupac's plan. Someone else's insistence pulled him into [music] a city, a fight, a night that ended his life.
And according to a source close to the situation, Dad's own uncle, someone who was actually present, Sug and Tupac argued about this in the hotel. Before any of it happened, two men who were supposed to be aligned, supposed to be building something together, were instead pulling in different directions right up until the moment it was too late to matter. For years, this was enough.
A hot-headed label owner, a man known for intimidation, for control, for building an empire on fear as much as talent. Sug Knight was an easy villain because everything about how he carried himself made the story believable. The public didn't need convincing.
They already had a picture in their head and Sug fit right into it. But an easy villain isn't always the right one. And the further you look into what actually happened in the weeks and months before that night, the more that picture starts to crack.
Picture on my channel of Cory Jones, uh, Cory Jones, Cory Jacobs, I think Cory Jacobs and Pop right next to each other. Those was the real bad boys of bad boy. You understand?
Those are the one who got the 16 n 16 of life sentencing that pot was going to go [music] and be with them first. But then more said when it became just big and puff because Cory went to jail, he changed his direction. But nobody know why Pac and Puff fell out like they did.
You understand what I'm saying? Nobody know why, but Puff had an obsession with him for whatever reason it was, cuz he started wanting to act. He started wanting to rap.
He had an obsession so bad that at his Grammy award winning speech, he used the same speech that Pac used. That's crazy. So when mother say I'm obsessed with talking about Puff and telling y'all the truth, Jean Deal worked close enough [music] to Diddy to see things most people never got to see.
And what he describes here isn't jealousy. It's something closer to obsession. According to Jean, Diddy didn't just admire Tupac's success.
He wanted to become him. The walk, the presence, the way rooms shifted when Tupac entered them. Jean says Diddy wanted that at any cost.
That's not a rivalry. That's a man trying to replace someone else's identity with his own. Everybody knew that Puff took Tupac blueprint and changed Bigs [music] and Bad Boy in image.
I get around I get around talked about how fly you [music] was, how many girls you mess with, how many cars you drive, how much money you got, what you willing to do. He took his image. Pac was the first one on the scene wearing Versace shirts.
He went and got the same Versace shirts Pac had which all right some dudes would do that you'll never catch me wearing something else something that somebody else got. And it didn't stop at style. Jean says Diddy allegedly copied Tupac's moves so consistently that people around them noticed.
Even the women Tupac was involved with Diddy reportedly pursued them too once Tupac was out of the picture. Sit with that for a second. Sugay's motive, if it existed, was about money and control.
This is different. This is about wanting to disappear into someone else's shadow and come out the other side wearing it. I mean, [ __ ] he had three album deal.
He dropped two already. Was working on the next one, and he said he was going to do his thing with Quincy Jones. Here's what most people don't factor into this story.
Tupac wasn't planning to stay at Death Row much longer. He owed Sugs three albums under their deal, had already delivered two, and was working on the third, the last one he'd ever have to hand over. After that, according to Daz, he was moving on to work with Quincy Jones.
That's not a small detail. That's an exit plan. I never heard you say that before, man.
I never heard that story. So, Pac, he wanted you to come with him. Yeah, cuz he he allowed me and Corrupt to be a part of the Outlaws.
He gave Corrupt the name Young Gotti. And he told me, "What's your name going to be? " I told him, "My name going to be Daz Dillson.
I'm a thief. I rob. And so, you know, we was the only two outside of the Outlaws to be in the Outlaws.
And, you know, whatever he wanted for me as a production, I gave it to him. I did a lot of songs, songs that you might not never ever hear that I know of. And that's why I'm going to go to court and tell him I need copies and I need uh information on these songs, these songs, and why they not out.
Daz produced with Tupac. He was in the room for the work. And he says he never saw all of Tupac's music [music] actually surface, which is part of why there was even a court case just to figure out where those songs went.
[music] If that's true, someone had a reason to hold on to what Tupac was leaving behind. And someone had a reason to make sure he never got the chance to walk out the door on his own terms. That's Sug's motive.
clear, financial, easy to understand, but it's not the only motive in this story, and it might not even be the deepest one. When Tupac got shot in Vegas, was Snoop at the hospital? So, Snoop didn't go nowhere near the hospital.
So, when it happened, as [music] you know, for some strange reason, but now we know the real reason. Snoop did not attend the fight with us or the club uh the after party at Club 662. And it was so crazy about that.
We thought it [music] was strange that he wasn't there. This the first one he didn't uh attend. And according to Warren G and everybody else, now we know why [music] he didn't.
But to get straight to the point was this. I was at my house in Vegas. And I [music] started calling Snoop telling, "Hey, what's up?
" You know, like it's something wrong with this situation. Pocket in the hospital. Come holl at him.
Come check on him. So he drove down and I was at the house waiting on him and Tupac's mother was at my house. So we back by the pool and in the pool area is like two big guest houses.
[music] So as when St come up and there's other people out there, we walk in [music] the back to talk. As we start talking, I said, you know, I'm on him like, man, why you ain't here? You should have been at the hospital.
And so, and then Tupac mother was there at a fanny. She was like, "Yeah, uh, I know he [music] you should want to see him. " He told her, he was like, "Well, look, Tupac hating [music] me right now.
He mad at me. He hates me. So, I feel bad and that's why I didn't go up there.
" And Tupac mother said, "Well, look, [music] Pac was mad at me, too, for for a few things. I rather not swear because I'm stealing, [music] right? " But, you know, we all do that with our mothers.
So she said, "Well, he was mad at me too, but that's my son. I'm there and if he hates you, you still must go do the right thing and go visit him. " Right?
So as we start talking, Snoop start crying and fell down [music] and start throwing up. Like literally throwing up, right? So we looking at him like, "Damn, what happened to this dude?
" So once he get up and explain to him, you know, we didn't think weird or nothing weird. We just thought he really emotional right now. throwing up, you know.
So, when he got himself together and we was still talking to him, Pac's mother says, "It's [music] going to be all right. " He said, "Look, here's the something that still doesn't sit right with people who were actually there. " When Tupac was shot, Snoop wasn't at the hospital.
Not right away, not for hours. For two men who were supposed to be his closest brothers, that absence stood out to everyone around them, including Sou. According to Suga, it wasn't until later that Snoop showed up at his house with Tupac's mother in the room.
And when he did, Snoop broke down. Not quiet grief. According to Sue, Snoop was crying uncontrollably, saying over and over that nothing was going to be all right.
We have to be careful with what that means. Sugay doesn't present hard proof here. He presents a feeling, an instinct based on what he personally [music] witnessed.
But the theory he's pointing to is this, that Snoop may have already made some kind of arrangement with Diddy, and that the guilt of that arrangement is what kept him away [music] from a dying friend's bedside. If that's true, it would explain something that never made sense to the people who loved Tupac most. Why the person closest to him disappeared at the exact moment he was needed, and why when he finally showed up, he wasn't just sad.
He sounded like a man who already knew what was coming. And then there's this moment which has nothing to do with money or motive and everything to do with how tangled these relationships actually were behind closed doors. Suge hints in his own words that Diddy and Snoop were involved with each other in a way that had nothing to do with music.
We want to be clear about what this is. [music] It's not a confirmed fact. It's not something that's been proven anywhere.
It's Sug's own claim. Said the way Sug says most things bluntly without much concern for how it lands. But it does something important to this story.
It [music] reframes what people assumed was simple loyalty between three men who came up together because loyalty doesn't usually come with this much tension underneath it. Whatever was actually going on between them, it wasn't the easy brotherhood the public was sold for years. Make sure that people [music] that work with me don't feel like they work for me.
And when they're ready to leave and if we have a misunderstanding, if there is a separation, [music] it's ended on love. It's never bad vibes or anything of that nature. [music] So I try to to be a better boss based off of the bosses that I was around when I was just an employee, just an artist.
So I try to like take the good things that they did and and subtract the bad things that they did. Some of the things I didn't know what they did because I was only entitled to certain information as an artist or a friend. So yeah, as a businessman, I've learned to just just be be good to people because I know what it feels like to have bad business done on you and to have bad contracts.
So I try to give my people that I do business with a great experience. So that way at the end of the day, you know, we feeling good about each other and we don't have to end up facing [music] each other talking about how bad we treated each other. Decades later, Snoop is still being asked to react to Diddy's name.
And this time, it's not about Tupac. It's about the trials, the lawsuits, the allegations that have taken over headlines for months. Snoop says he was genuinely surprised watching it all unfold.
He says he never personally witnessed anything like what's being described. And in almost the same breath, he makes a [music] point of saying he treats the people around him differently than some of the men he used to be surrounded by. That's not a small thing to say out loud.
It's not a direct accusation, but it's not nothing either. It's the sound of a man quietly putting distance between himself and someone he used to call close without ever having to say the word guilty. Sometimes the space between what someone says and what [music] they don't say tells you more than the interview itself.
Diddy just might be called [music] up on that Tupac once they go through the money trail. Once do they go through the money trail and find out why certain people was given certain positions that it's gonna it may be a problem cuz they going to look at all that anything they can bring up they going to bring it up. Wow.
So you think it's possible that they might pit pock murder on Diddy? Yeah. According to Jean Deal, Diddy's undoing in the Tupac story won't come from a confession or a courtroom slip up.
[music] It'll come from the money. D says plainly that if investigators ever actually follow the financial trail tied to Tupac's death and everything that came after, it's Diddy who ends up caught in it. That's a serious claim from someone who worked directly inside Diddy's camp as head of security, not an outsider speculating from a distance.
We live in hell. We live in the gutter. We got us stacked up 80 deep in one building.
You know, by the time you get out your house, you strapped for to protect yourself cuz you living in the same community that the police is carrying rifles and riot gear. Same they need them, right? Excuse [music] my language.
I'm so sorry. The same reasons they need the riot hat, the riot jacket, the flat jacket, the double vest, the 9mm Glocks with extra bullets, the tear gas, the mace, all that. Who do you think the police is using that against?
Dogs. So we fighting the same villains that they fight in the street, but instead of them seeing us fighting villains in the street, we all villains. Is your generation the one that is picking up for where the Panthers left off saying, "All right, enough is enough.
" The generation before us forgot about the fight. We're picking it back up. Not only forgot about the fight, forgot about us.
Yes. [music] And we're picking it back up. But at this level, all we're trying to do is unite.
And right now, as a year, we got a million people that's listening. Now we can tell them something. Now we can try to get them that way.
And we might lose some. We might gain some. But we would never even had that audience had we not said what was real.
You know what I'm saying? And the main thing for us to remember is that the same crime element that white people are scared of, black people are scared of. The same crime element that white people fear, we [music] fear.
So we defend ourselves from the same crime element that they scared of. You know what I'm saying? While they waiting for to for the legislation to pass and everything, we next door to the killer.
We next door to them, you know, cuz we up in the projects where it's 80 in the building. All them killers that they letting out, they right there in that building. But it's better just cuz we black, we get along with the killers or something.
We get along with the rapist cuz we black and we from the same hood. What is that? [music] We need protection, too.
Finally, I want to ask you about something that someone else asked you in the interview, and I thought the answer was interesting because I think it speaks to you and your generation a lot. Someone said, "Where do you see Tupac 10 years from now? " You said, "Hey, I just want to be alive.
" That's real for you. That's so real. I can't I I made a metamorphice.
I'm a new person today because I used to strongly and honestly honestly I feel like I could represent my generation so much cuz I honestly did not care whether I lived or died. Before any of these theories about Souge, Snoop, or Diddy existed, Tupac was already telling everyone exactly how dangerous his world was. He describes it as a war zone plainly, not as a metaphor for effect.
He says innocent black people end up protected by the same criminals they're afraid of because that's the only protection available to them and the authorities never bothered to understand that reality from the inside. It's a chilling thing to hear now because it sounds less like commentary and more like a man explaining the rules of the environment that eventually eliminated him. I'm not mad at that.
I'm just mad at my little brother when he don't respect me. And when you don't respect me, I'mma spank your ass. I don't give a what you got on the block.
I'm your big brother. I will break your big ass there. Everybody that thinks that I disrespected or I love I love my East Coast fans.
I'm from there. I'm eating New York pizza. I drive New York G's want to hear New York.
But I'm saying, let's keep it real for a second. If you have the level of music that you are, study. Go back and study.
Study why I would be mad. Study why people would be mad when half of New York half of the major New York rappers or they or they managers or they agents or they somebody was there when I got shot and nobody couldn't give me no information. Just study that.
It's all I ask for. If you're going to act like you a gangster or a G or the king of New York, I'm expect time for Why is it suddenly when I do it? Why?
Everybody else could have a war, have beef within the music, talk about differences, and it's okay as music as hip hop is groundbreaking. When I do it, it's war. This next clip is the one fans say never should have resurfaced the way it did.
It's an old interview allegedly released by Jean Deal, only after he left Diddy's camp. And in it, [music] Tupac openly admits he survived being shot once already, and he's still standing still talking. He says it's war, like it's just a fact of life, not a warning.
knowing what came after that line lands differently than it would have matter most to this entire investigation because it's Tupac choosing restraint. He talks about how the media let Diddy provoke him without ever holding Diddy accountable for it without so much as blinking. But instead of naming names or airing everything he knew, Tupac says he won't slander anyone.
He says he already has proof. He says this is between him [music] and Diddy. That's the last piece of the puzzle he left behind.
A man who knew something, chose silence anyway, and never got the chance to change his mind. We've gone through Suga's suspicions, Snoop's absence, Gan Deal's money trail, and now Tupac's own words recorded before he died. Two questions remain, and neither one has ever been answered publicly.
If Tupac really did have proof, as he claimed on camera, where did it go? And did it die with him, or is someone still sitting on it? And if the people closest to him all had reasons to stay quiet, Suug with his business ties, Snoop with his alleged deal, Diddy with his obsession, then whose silence actually mattered the most?
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