Here’s s mini-backstory for some who may have the story mixed up or don’t know. Pac may not have been 100% on all the details (Tut, etc), but it’s no coincidence how everybody was directly connected.
The East Coast controlled all the media, so that’s why they villainized Pac and made the East Coast angels. Same reason the Pac and Angie Martinez interview will never come out. Things have changed now with social media and Puffy’s fall from grace.
- Pac catches the rape case and is the only one who does time, even tho the girl knew Haitian Jack and his friend Ricky Lee, who were the ones in the bedroom with her.
- The night of the shooting Pac first recorded with DJ Ron G.
- Jimmy Henchmen asked Pac to do a feature for his artist Little Shawn at Quad Studios
- Pac needed the money due to the court cases.
- Jimmy Henchmen was blowing up Pac’s phone to see where he was at and in return
- Pac cussed him out or talked to him in a way that he felt “disrespected.”
- It’s been said that Stretch was giving Henchmen’s people the updates on where he and Pac were.
- Biggie and Jr Mafia were there recording and Puffy was there having just filmed the car scenes for the Biggie “Warning” video
- Andre Harrell and a bunch of other people were there too
- Pac was uneasy about it until Lil Cease yelled his name out from the balcony at Quad. Cease hopped on the elevator to welcome Pac
- Pac gets in the lobby and dudes in fatigues don’t acknowledge him and then they pull the guns out on Pac nem when they reach the elevator. They clearly had the drop on them from Henchman and/or Stretch.
- Stretch complies immediately and gets on the ground. They rush straight to Pac even though Stretch is by far the largest threat in size
- Elevator door opens, Cease sees the robbery and they make him go back upstairs
- Pac reaches for a gun and gets shot and pistol whipped
- They make sure to steal all of Pac’s jewelry EXCEPT the most expensive piece of jewlery, a gold Rolex that Haitian Jack had gotten Pac. This was a message being sent to him by Henchmen.
- On the video of the shooting aftermath, Henchmen is talking to Puffy and then slips out (he has the green Perry Ellis jacket)
- Pac wears the Rolex when he’s in the wheelchair the next day going to court
- Stretch sends messages to Pac in the hospital from Jimmy Henchmen.
- According to this pic, the robbers sell Pac’s jewlery to Ivory “Peanut” Davis, who is a Brooklyn d-boy that was also a boyfriend of Lil Kim around the same time.
- Peanut is the dude in the Coogi she’s rapping to in the “Get Money” video.
- Stretch starts hanging with people affiliated with Henchmen
- Pac does the infamous Vibe interview where he says what happened. Here’s the unedited version Tupac Vibe Magazine April 1995(unedited)
- Puffy says he knows who shot Pac at Quad in Vibe Magazine before Pac’s death
While the records fly off the shelves and the streets get hotter, Puffy and Big have remained largely silent. Both say they’ve been reluctant to discuss the drama because the media and the public have blown it out of proportion. At press time, there were rumors festering that Puffy—who was...
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“But Puffy says Tupac’s barking up the wrong tree:
“He ain’t mad at the nikkas that shot him; he knows where they’re at. He knows who shot him. If you ask him, he knows, and everybody in the street knows, and he’s not stepping to them, because knows that he’s not gonna et away with that shyt. To me, that’s some real sucker shyt. Be mad at everybody, man; don’t be using nikkas as scapegoats. We know that he’s a nice guy from New York. All shyt aside, Tupac is a nice, good-hearted guy.”
- Cease and Jr Mafia likely didn’t know the Quad shooting was going to occur. Big likely didn’t. But Puffy likely was told by Jimmy Henchmen/Haitian Jack, who were extorting Bad Boy.
- Puffy disses Pac on Bad Boy Mixtape Vol 4, yet in the mainstream he acts like they never responded. Pac talked to Sway about how the East Coast people were dissing on mixtapes. That’s why he planned to release Makaveli as a street mixtape.
- Big and Cease “send shouts out to the enemies” in May 1996
- Big sends another subliminal
- Long Kiss Goodnight and the whole Life After Death album are full of taunts to Pac.
- Haitian Jack was involved with the Fugees, which is likely why they diss Pac on MTV while hosting Yo! MTV Raps after “California Love” played saying “nah East Coast is the best coast”
- @5:25 you hear Ed Lover reppin East Coast AFTER Pac died