Disturbing footage of Tupac speaking out about P Diddy’s involvement in a shooting two years before he was killed has resurfaced online.
The legendary rapper was shot five times during a robbery at Quad Studios in Times Square on November 30, 1994, and in an April 1995 interview with Vibe magazine, he claimed that Sean “Diddy” Combs was the mastermind behind the robbery.
In a video of the interview, republished last week by YayAreaNews on X, formerly Twitter, Tupac, who died aged 25 in September 1996, was asked: “Do you think Puffy was involved in the filming?”
The hip hop star says “only they can answer that” and adds that he had his own opinion but would not slander their name like they did his.
“I think so, I really do,” Tupac said, though he admitted that “I’ve proven things that I can say that will back up my claim,” but that it wasn’t for the world to know.
In footage that resurfaced from a 1995 Vibe interview, Tupac Shakur spoke of his belief that Diddy played a role in a 1994 studio shooting in which he was shot five times.
Tupac Shakur was shot and killed at the height of the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry in the 1990s. He is pictured with Combs and rap rival Biggie Smalls, aka Christopher Wallace (right) and Sean “Diddy” Combs (left).
The rap legend, who died at age 25, is pictured with Combs at his 1994 birthday party at Roseland Ballroom.
“It’s something between him and me, and only he knows,” he said.
Tupac had agreed to lend his talents to one of rapper Little Shawn’s songs on the day of the shooting, but revealed he had concerns about his safety before entering Quad Studios.
“As we were walking towards the building, someone screamed from the top of the studio,” Tupac told Vibe Magazine in the 1995 interview.
“It was Little Caesar, Biggie’s musician. He’s my friend. As soon as I saw him, all my worries about the situation disappeared,” she said.
Feeling calm, Tupac and his crew entered the building, but as they approached the elevator, they noticed a group of men they assumed were affiliated with Biggie.
But things quickly took a dark turn when the rapper began to realize they weren’t Biggie’s security.
“Even Biggie’s buddies love me, so why don’t they look up? I hit the elevator button, turned around, and that’s when the guys with the guns came out, two identical 9mms,” he recalled in the interview.
“Nobody move. Everybody get down on the ground. You know what time it is. Run as fast as you can.” I thought, “What should I do?”
Tupac was shot five times and suffered serious injuries in the surprise shooting, including one that grazed his skull.
As the shooters fled the studio, the singer and his team… He ran up the stairs in the elevator, but describing the moments after the attack, Tupac said: “I’m limping and everything, but I don’t feel anything. I’m numb. When we got to the top, I looked around and I was scared shitless.”
In a disturbing turn of events, Tupac said he found Combs, Biggie and others in the studio, but their lack of reaction and shock made him wonder if they had knowledge of the attack beforehand.
“No one approached me. I realized that no one was looking at me,” she shared, expressing her growing sense of betrayal.
‘Andre Harrell wouldn’t look at me. I’d been having dinner with him for the last few days. He’d invited me to the set of New York Undercover and told me he’d get me a job.
Pictured: Tupac Shakur on August 15, 1996, a month before he was murdered.
This photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows the bullet-riddled car in which rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in September 1996 in Las Vegas.
“Puffy was left behind, too. I knew Puffy. He knew everything I had done for Biggie before he came out,” she said.
Years later, in 2008, when the allegations resurfaced, Combs repeatedly denied any knowledge of or involvement in the attack.
The now disgraced music mogul issued a strongly worded statement rejecting the allegations, saying: ‘The story is a lie, it is beyond ridiculous and completely false.
‘Neither the late rapper Notorious BIG nor I had any knowledge of any attack before, during, or after it occurred.’
Two years after the Quad Studios shooting, Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas after leaving a boxing match at the MGM Grand.
He was sitting in a black BMW sedan with Suge Knight, the head of his record label, when a white Cadillac pulled up beside him and a gunman opened fire, hitting him several times.
He died from his injuries six days later.
Earlier this year it emerged that the former Los Angeles gang leader accused of murdering Tupac had previously claimed Combs had offered him $1 million to kill the rapper.
Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis is accused of orchestrating the shooting that cost the rapper his life, but has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
Davis — the only person still alive who was in the vehicle from which the shots were fired and the only person charged with a crime in the case — has been held in a Las Vegas jail since his arrest last September and has filed a request for bail reconsideration.
Davis told Los Angeles Police Department detectives in 2008 that Combs allegedly offered him $1 million to murder Shakur (left) and Death Row Records boss Suge Knight (right).
Combs was arrested a week ago in a sex trafficking case accusing him of forcing women to participate in “bizarre” orgies and presiding over a sordid criminal empire of sex crimes.
But Clark County prosecutors filed an opposition to the request in July, arguing that Davis should remain jailed because he previously implicated Combs in Tupac’s murder.
Citing a 2009 interview with Las Vegas police, prosecutors alleged that Davis “suggested” that Combs paid “Eric Von Martin $1 million for the murders” and “offered to set up a surreptitious phone call” with driver Terrance Bown, according to the July 18 court filing that was obtained by Fox 5.
Combs, who was mentioned 77 times in the nearly 180-page court documents, has never been a suspect in Shakur’s murder. Law enforcement sources told TMZ at the time that he was not yet considered a suspect in the case.
The resurfacing of footage from the bombshell interview comes after Combs was arrested a week ago in a sex trafficking case that accused him of forcing women to participate in “extreme” orgies and presiding over a sordid sex crime empire.
The disgraced musician was sensationally arrested at the Park Hyatt Hotel in New York City and has since been charged with sex trafficking and transportation for prostitution, crimes to which he pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan court on Tuesday.
The charges relate to “freak offs,” forced sexual acts that Combs allegedly arranged and recorded, according to a federal indictment.
In a desperate bid to remain free, he asked for bail, offering his own home and his mother’s as part of a $50 million guarantee.
But Combs’ request was denied and he will remain in custody as it was revealed he could face more than two decades behind bars if found guilty of the charges.
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