Wow, that documentary blew my mind. So many facts I wasn't aware of. Just...wow.
I was under the impression that Puff got involved with the Compton Crips BECAUSE of his beef with Suge. Now, one might speculate that his involvement with the crips is the whole reason Suge disliked him in the first place. He was fukking with them since 93, before Biggie and Pac even had a "feud". They were in the club with Puff when Suge body guard got whacked? It all makes sense now.
Same here... I thought that sh!t too. But we should really try to build a timeline of events and piece it together. When did the Beef really start?
Help me Brehs!
-Death Row was founded in 1991
-Bad Boy was founded in 1993
-1994 Snoop's Murder was the Case 18 minute film was premiered in NY with Bad Boy and Death Row all in attendance. That's where the infamous Puff and Suge picture is from.
Youtube video below of Suge, Puff, Biggie, Dr. Dre, and Lil Cease being interviewed that night... Classic Footage but you could tell there was some tension in the air from the questions being asked. BIG fukked with Snoop tho.
--November 30, 1994 Pac is shot in the Lobby of Quad studios in 1994
-Feb 7th 1995 Pac is sentenced to 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years in prison for sexual abuse.
Rapper Faces Prison Term For Sex Abuse
-The Source awards were August 3, 1995 Where Suge called out Puff.
-Suge's man Robles was killed in Atlanta the next month, September 23, 1995.
Law enforcement sources view the Sept. 23, 1995, shooting death of Jai Hassan-Jamal Robles at an Atlanta nightclub as the primary catalyst for a bicoastal feud during the 1990s between New York-based Combs and Marion "Suge" Knight, founder and owner of Los Angeles-based Death Row Records.
Knight attended the Atlanta party that evening with Robles, a friend and former gang member nicknamed "Big Jake." Knight had hired Robles straight out of prison to do marketing and promotion for the Death Row label not long before the shooting.
Last month, Atlanta police investigating Robles' death contacted New York authorities seeking background checks on Combs and his bodyguard Jones, who were charged with gun violations stemming from the 1999 shooting in Manhattan. A stolen weapon from Atlanta was found on the floor of the vehicle in which New York police arrested Jones, Combs and his girlfriend, actress-singer Jennifer Lopez, after a high-speed chase.
Possible Link of 'Puffy' Combs to Fatal Shooting Being Probed
-October 12, 1995, Suge posted 1.4 Million to get Pac out of Prison after closet to 8 months.
-Hit'em Up was release June 4, 1996
“Misa and Faith was at the studio, our studio. And the ‘Hit ‘Em Up’ track was playing,” Knight said. “[But it wasn’t] ‘Hit ‘Em Up.’ I don’t think it was Misa cause Misa is too down. And I think I made her feel a lot better than Pac made Faith feel. So, I think it was Faith that went and told him that Pac was doing that track and he was putting some lyrics to it. So, before we could finish that track they beat us to it and put out ‘Get Money.’ But that was already pretty much what we was talking about on the track before the [lyrics were even] laid. So, when Faith whispered in they ear they came out with ‘Get Money’ before us. When Pac heard it on the radio he eventually called me and was going crazy. He was like ‘Man, turn on the radio. You hear this shyt? Aw man, they just took our shyt.’ He was like ‘I know Puffy baby mama her punk ass told Puffy and Biggie.’”
“When we put the track back up, Pac was so pissed off in the studio about them jumping the gun, getting the song,” he said. “Naturally, he turned around and changed everything up and called it ‘Hit ‘Em Up.’ And everything he said was like a knife sticking in somebody’s wound twisting it…He said some shyt to make a grown many cry. Talking about fukking your wife…That’s some powerful shyt he saying. And he was willing to back it up…It’s one of those songs that it’s gonna be around forever.”
http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.28370/t...hit-em-up-was-enough-to-make-a-grown-man-cry-
Suge Knight Says Tupac's "Hit 'Em Up" Was Enough "To Make A Grown Man Cry"
Pac was shot September 7th, 1996