Tupac's chilling footage goes viral alleging Diddy's role in Quad Studios shooting amid his arrest
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Chilling footage of Tupac discussing Sean 'Diddy' Combs' possible role in a shooting two years before his death has resurfaced online.
The iconic rapper was shot five times during a robbery at Quad Studios in Times Square on November 30, 1994. In an April 1995 interview with Vibe magazine, Tupac alleged that Combs orchestrated the attack.
In the interview clip, which was reposted by YayAreaNews on X (formerly Twitter) last week, Tupac, who passed away at 25 in September 1996, was asked, "Do you think Puffy was involved in the shoot?"
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The rapper responded that "only they can answer that," explaining he had his own views but wouldn't defame them as they had done to him.
“I believe so, I do believe so,” Tupac stated, adding, “I have proved things that I can say that will back up my claim” but said it wasn’t something for the public to know.
“It’s between me and him, and only he knows,” he added.
Tupac had agreed to feature on a track by rapper Little Shawn on the day of the shooting, but he admitted he had concerns about his safety before entering Quad Studios.
“As we're walking up to the building, somebody screamed from up the top of the studio,” Tupac recalled in the 1995 Vibe interview.
“It was Little Caesar, Biggie's sideman. That's my homeboy. As soon as I saw him, all my concerns about the situation were relaxed,” he said.
Reassured, Tupac and his crew proceeded into the building, but as they neared the elevator, he noticed a group of men he initially believed were associated with Biggie.
However, things quickly took a turn when Tupac realized they weren’t part of Biggie's security team.
“Even Biggie's homeboys love me, why don't they look up? I pressed the elevator button, turned around, and that's when the dudes came out with the guns — two identical 9 mms,” he remembered.
“Don't nobody move. Everybody on the floor. You know what time it is. Run your s***.' I was, like, What should I do?”
Tupac was shot five times, suffering serious injuries, including one that grazed his skull.
After the attackers fled, Tupac and his crew took the elevator upstairs. Describing the aftermath, Tupac said, “I'm limping and everything, but I don't feel nothing. It's numb. When we got upstairs, I looked around, and it scared the s*** out of me.”
In a disturbing twist, Tupac said he found Combs, Biggie, and others in the studio. Their lack of reaction to his injuries made him suspect they might have known about the attack beforehand.
“Nobody approached me. I noticed that nobody would look at me,” he said, expressing his growing sense of betrayal.
“Andre Harrell wouldn't look at me. I had been going to dinner with him the last few days. He had invited me to the set of *New York Undercover*, telling me he was going to get me a job.”