Mac Casper
@adonnis - pull up, there's refreshments
The first cops at the scene were the first cops at the scene to arrest Tupac in a previous encounter
All Funk Flex did was prove Tupac was a real one
Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
Im pretty sure flex is on drugs. That still of his face crying tells me that. The eyes dont lie.
Shakur was at DJ Ron G's home laying down raps for a mixtape on November 30, 1994. He was called to Quad Studios to rap on a song by Uptown artist Little Shawn, for which he was to be paid $7,000. When Pac got to the studio, he was robbed, beaten and shot a reported five times by the assailants (although some reports say he shot himself twice accidently).
Philips' article also alleges that the main mastermind behind the Shakur setup was Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond who currently manages a slew of artists such as the Game and Gucci Mane.
In 1994, Rosemond was first making his transition from the streets to the music industry. In an interview with Ballerstatus.com in 2007, he explained how he used that transitional status to help Wallace. "Biggie had said in an interview that, after his lifestyle changed, it was hard for him to rap about hustling," Rosemond said. "I didn't guide him in his career as much, but when he wanted to hear the hustler stories and knew the cats that I was around ... we would give him these stories."
Philips said he arrived at this conclusion after years of delving into the incident. He has talked to men who he believes were directly involved in the shooting and has uncovered papers documenting an FBI investigation whose findings coincide with his research.
"The FBI talked to some criminals that said Jimmy Henchman was involved," Philips said.
As Tupac's fans know, Shakur himself accused Henchman of being a part in the scheme in "Against All Odds": "And did I mention/ Promised a payback, Jimmy Henchman/ In due time/ I knew you b---- n---as was listening/ The world is mine/ Set me up/ Wet me up/ N---as stuck me up/ Heard the guns bust/ But you tricks never shut me up."
In response to Philips' story, Rosemond released a statement on Monday calling the writer's motives into question. "In the past 14 years, I have not even been questioned by law enforcement with regard to the assault of Tupac Shakur, let alone brought up on charges," Rosemond said in a statement provided to MTV News. "Chuck Philips, the writer who in the past has falsely claimed that [Biggie] was in Las Vegas when Tupac was murdered and that Biggie supplied the gun that killed Tupac — only to be proven wrong, as Biggie was in New Jersey recuperating from a car accident. [The Times] has reached a new low by employing fourth-hand information from desperate jailhouse informants along with ancient FBI reports to create this fabrication.
"I simply ask for all rap fans and fans of Tupac to analyze this fiction for what it is, along with Philips' motives behind it," the statement continued. "I am baffled as to why the Times would print this on its Web site, when a simple and fair investigation would reveal that the allegations are false. I am currently consulting with my attorneys about my legal rights regarding this libelous piece of garbage."
After the Quad shooting, Shakur considered Combs and Wallace bitter enemies, and their feud continued all the way until Shakur's murder in 1996. But prior to the incident, Pac was supposedly friends with the Bad Boy camp. So why would they turn a blind eye to him being set up, or play any part in it at all? Combs was unable to be reached for comment about Philips' new article, but in the wake of the Quad shooting, both Combs and Wallace appeared on MTV to deny that they had any knowledge of who shot Tupac and said that they had nothing to do with it.
In another shocking allegation, Philips said that the 1994 incident might have been meant to strong-arm Shakur into officially coming to the Bad Boy camp.
"What I believe is that Bad Boy, who was very young then — they had Craig Mack and Biggie back in '93," Philips explained. "They were a brand-new company. Puffy was trying to start his company, and they wanted other artists on this label besides those two. One of them might have been Tupac. Tupac told them no. He told a number of other people no. ... You have to remember, Puffy got a lot of money to start up Bad Boy from Arista. A lot of people wanted to get their hands on some of that money. A lot of people he hung around would do things to try to impress him."
This is not the first bombshell Phillips has dropped concerning Shakur and Wallace. In 2002, he wrote an article alleging that Wallace had offered the Crips $1 million to murder Shakur. In fact, he said Biggie was negotiating the hit on September 7, 1996, the night Tupac was shot in Las Vegas.
That article was immediately refuted by Wallace's family and friends and shown to have some holes in his theories.
"We are outraged at the false and damaging statements," Wallace's family said in a statement in 2002. "For the record, Wallace was at his home in New Jersey on the night of Tupac Shakur's murder, with friends who will continue to testify for his whereabouts, since he is unable to defend himself. Both men will have no peace as long as stories such as these continue to be written."
In 2002, Voletta Wallace, Big's mother, told MTV News that she was outraged by Philips' article.
"For a second, I felt that my son was just murdered [again]. My initial reaction?" she said, with anger. "I'm hurt. Somebody's attacking my son, my son who died five and a half years ago. How do I feel? I'm downright angry. I'm a mother, I'm a human being, and [Chuck Philips] is gonna attack my son that's not here to come forward and defend himself. Damn, I'm mad! ... I will find peace when myself and my lawyers deal with Chuck Philips and the L.A. Times."
Philips still stands behinds his previous story.
"Yeah, I do," he maintained Saturday. "I think the story was misinterpreted. ... What I wrote in that story was that the Southside Crips were in Las Vegas, and so were the Bloods. Tupac punched a Southside Crip, and Suge's guy piled up on that guy. Those guys made a decision the minute this happened that they were going to kill him. ... You don't punch a gang member in a public place, where you're humiliating him. They were going to kill him. And they did kill him. ... Prior to this time, in the month ahead of this, the people I talked to said Biggie had asked the Southside Crips — as had other people in their crew — to kill Tupac. Southside Crips didn't take it seriously. They thought he was just talking. On this night when they decided they were going to kill Tupac, they said, 'Let's make some money out of this.' Then this transaction went down. It's almost like extortion."
Philips' theory contradicts Biggie's claims that he loved Pac.
"I was living in Manhattan," Wallace's widow Faith Evans recalled in 2002 about the night Tupac died. "I was about eight months pregnant with our son C.J. The night [Tupac was shot], I remember Big calling me and crying. I know for a fact he was in Jersey. He called me crying because he was in shock. I think it's fair to say he was probably afraid, given everything that was going on at that time and all the hype that was put on this so-called beef that he didn't really have in his heart against anyone.
"I think it would be some element of fear that would kind of run through his mind," she added, "given the fact that his name was involved in a lot of the situations involving Tupac before his murder. He was already getting threatening phone calls. I'm sure for all he thought, he could be next. Which ironically, months later, he lost his life as well."
Philips' article also alleges that the main mastermind behind the Shakur setup was Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond who currently manages a slew of artists such as the Game and Gucci Mane.
In 1994, Rosemond was first making his transition from the streets to the music industry. In an interview with Ballerstatus.com in 2007, he explained how he used that transitional status to help Wallace. "Biggie had said in an interview that, after his lifestyle changed, it was hard for him to rap about hustling," Rosemond said. "I didn't guide him in his career as much, but when he wanted to hear the hustler stories and knew the cats that I was around ... we would give him these stories."
Philips said he arrived at this conclusion after years of delving into the incident. He has talked to men who he believes were directly involved in the shooting and has uncovered papers documenting an FBI investigation whose findings coincide with his research.
"The FBI talked to some criminals that said Jimmy Henchman was involved," Philips said.
As Tupac's fans know, Shakur himself accused Henchman of being a part in the scheme in "Against All Odds": "And did I mention/ Promised a payback, Jimmy Henchman/ In due time/ I knew you b---- n---as was listening/ The world is mine/ Set me up/ Wet me up/ N---as stuck me up/ Heard the guns bust/ But you tricks never shut me up."
In response to Philips' story, Rosemond released a statement on Monday calling the writer's motives into question. "In the past 14 years, I have not even been questioned by law enforcement with regard to the assault of Tupac Shakur, let alone brought up on charges," Rosemond said in a statement provided to MTV News. "Chuck Philips, the writer who in the past has falsely claimed that [Biggie] was in Las Vegas when Tupac was murdered and that Biggie supplied the gun that killed Tupac — only to be proven wrong, as Biggie was in New Jersey recuperating from a car accident. [The Times] has reached a new low by employing fourth-hand information from desperate jailhouse informants along with ancient FBI reports to create this fabrication.
"I simply ask for all rap fans and fans of Tupac to analyze this fiction for what it is, along with Philips' motives behind it," the statement continued. "I am baffled as to why the Times would print this on its Web site, when a simple and fair investigation would reveal that the allegations are false. I am currently consulting with my attorneys about my legal rights regarding this libelous piece of garbage."
After the Quad shooting, Shakur considered Combs and Wallace bitter enemies, and their feud continued all the way until Shakur's murder in 1996. But prior to the incident, Pac was supposedly friends with the Bad Boy camp. So why would they turn a blind eye to him being set up, or play any part in it at all? Combs was unable to be reached for comment about Philips' new article, but in the wake of the Quad shooting, both Combs and Wallace appeared on MTV to deny that they had any knowledge of who shot Tupac and said that they had nothing to do with it.
In another shocking allegation, Philips said that the 1994 incident might have been meant to strong-arm Shakur into officially coming to the Bad Boy camp.
"What I believe is that Bad Boy, who was very young then — they had Craig Mack and Biggie back in '93," Philips explained. "They were a brand-new company. Puffy was trying to start his company, and they wanted other artists on this label besides those two. One of them might have been Tupac. Tupac told them no. He told a number of other people no. ... You have to remember, Puffy got a lot of money to start up Bad Boy from Arista. A lot of people wanted to get their hands on some of that money. A lot of people he hung around would do things to try to impress him."
This is not the first bombshell Phillips has dropped concerning Shakur and Wallace. In 2002, he wrote an article alleging that Wallace had offered the Crips $1 million to murder Shakur. In fact, he said Biggie was negotiating the hit on September 7, 1996, the night Tupac was shot in Las Vegas.
That article was immediately refuted by Wallace's family and friends and shown to have some holes in his theories.
"We are outraged at the false and damaging statements," Wallace's family said in a statement in 2002. "For the record, Wallace was at his home in New Jersey on the night of Tupac Shakur's murder, with friends who will continue to testify for his whereabouts, since he is unable to defend himself. Both men will have no peace as long as stories such as these continue to be written."
In 2002, Voletta Wallace, Big's mother, told MTV News that she was outraged by Philips' article.
"For a second, I felt that my son was just murdered [again]. My initial reaction?" she said, with anger. "I'm hurt. Somebody's attacking my son, my son who died five and a half years ago. How do I feel? I'm downright angry. I'm a mother, I'm a human being, and [Chuck Philips] is gonna attack my son that's not here to come forward and defend himself. Damn, I'm mad! ... I will find peace when myself and my lawyers deal with Chuck Philips and the L.A. Times."
Philips still stands behinds his previous story.
"Yeah, I do," he maintained Saturday. "I think the story was misinterpreted. ... What I wrote in that story was that the Southside Crips were in Las Vegas, and so were the Bloods. Tupac punched a Southside Crip, and Suge's guy piled up on that guy. Those guys made a decision the minute this happened that they were going to kill him. ... You don't punch a gang member in a public place, where you're humiliating him. They were going to kill him. And they did kill him. ... Prior to this time, in the month ahead of this, the people I talked to said Biggie had asked the Southside Crips — as had other people in their crew — to kill Tupac. Southside Crips didn't take it seriously. They thought he was just talking. On this night when they decided they were going to kill Tupac, they said, 'Let's make some money out of this.' Then this transaction went down. It's almost like extortion."
Philips' theory contradicts Biggie's claims that he loved Pac.
"I was living in Manhattan," Wallace's widow Faith Evans recalled in 2002 about the night Tupac died. "I was about eight months pregnant with our son C.J. The night [Tupac was shot], I remember Big calling me and crying. I know for a fact he was in Jersey. He called me crying because he was in shock. I think it's fair to say he was probably afraid, given everything that was going on at that time and all the hype that was put on this so-called beef that he didn't really have in his heart against anyone.
"I think it would be some element of fear that would kind of run through his mind," she added, "given the fact that his name was involved in a lot of the situations involving Tupac before his murder. He was already getting threatening phone calls. I'm sure for all he thought, he could be next. Which ironically, months later, he lost his life as well."
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Dexter Isaac (one of the shooters) from his book detailing the shooting.
"Dexter Isaac, is currently serving life without parole for multiple murders and armed robberies. He has released a book detailing his life in the New York City street, as a hitman and muscle for convicted drug kingpin Jimmy "Henchmen" Rosemund who is also serving life in jail for drug trafficking, money laundering and witness tampering. I'm going to break down some of the more interesting stories he shares and try to make sense of all this.
Dexter mentions partying, specifically drinking and smoking with LL Cool J back in the late 80s and early 90s. Most people don't understand that back in those days LL Cool J was one of only a few hip hop stars and was the first to make the incredible money. He was well paid because he was the first hip-hop star not to be signed to an awful one sided contract, from the beginning Russell Simmons always paid his artists correct. So here's, LL Cool J, rich and black, when the list of other guys who were rich and black, is mostly athletes and drug dealers. LL Cool J was around all these guys, and they all respected him because he never changed who he was. LL never acted like a star, he knew the rules of the game, and showed respect and got it the same. He spoke on it on this record off DJ KaySlay's "The Streetsweeper Vol. 2: The Pain From The Game" LP
He mentions the financial ties between the "The Supreme Team" crime orginaztion and Eric B and Rakim. Its never been any secret in hip hop circles, that Eric B always had some of the most notorious street dudes around back then. You have to remember when Rakim came out with that persona of like a mafioso rapper very early in the game, and not one person, ever, EVER questioned the creditibility of Eric B or Rakim.
Dexter explains the motivation behind shooting Tupac Shakur at Quad Studios in 1994. Jimmy Henchmen was managing Salt N Pepa and Brandy at this time. Jimmy was dating Salt, and even got them the "Shoop" beat for free. Remember Tupac was in the Salt N Pepa "Whatta Man" video. Dexter says the beef began because Jimmy owed Tupac money and Jimmy wanted to cut Tupac a check, and Tupac responded. "have that shyt ready for me in cash you bytch ass nikka". The industry legend is that Jimmy actually wanted Tupac to pay for protection and security when Tupac was in New York filming, "Above The Rim". Tupac refused and insulted the idea he needed any kind of protection. I would speculate that young and coming into his acting and musical prime, he likely felt no one could touch him and wouldn't understand how drastically Jimmy would react. Jimmy was extorting money from Puff, Andre Harrell, Mobb Deep, almost all the New York rappers and expected Tupac to do the same. There's another theory which I thought deserves some mention is that King Tut wanted Tupac to cut some verses for artists he was affiliated with and when Tupac asked to paid, Tut was pissed because he cut verses for DJ Ron G & MC Breed for free. Then Tut had Jimmy get Dexter to rob Tupac. My problem with that theory is its hard to connect Dexter to Tut without Jimmy, and if Jimmy is involved the other scenarios are more logical. The speculation on the motive continues, however it seems like all three versions could all fit together in combination with Pac already having an issue with Tut, Jimmy wouldn't have needed as much permission for this sort of show of strength. Remember Jimmy Henchman in 1994 was still new on the scene relatively speaking. Dexter decided to shed light on how the altercation played out. Jimmy approached Dexter and a few of Dexter's associates and ordered them to rob 2Pac when he got to the studio that evening. Dexter was paid $2,500 cash. Jimmy told Dexter not to shoot him, but to catch him by surprise and pistol whip him, then kick him around and take his biggest diamond ring, that Haitian Jack had took Tupac to buy in the Diamond District for $35,000. Dexter says that he saw Puff immediately after that conversation with Jimmy and they made eye contact, that Dexter claims confirmed to him that Puff was aware of the plan. He says there's no way Biggie or any of Junior Mafia that were there that night would have known because Puff had went into to the other studio to work with Andre Harrell. Later in that evening he describes the incident in detail. He says the initial head wound was because Dexter's associate, JD, pistol whipped Tupac. Then he says Tupac reached for his gun and they were wrestling for it before Tupac could pull it out completely, it went off and shot him in nuts. Dexter and his guys proceeded to fire four more shots into him because Tupac wouldn't quit fighting back and they took all his jewelry.
After now learning all of this, re listen to "Against All Odds" and you see Tupac brings it all together.
If we recall back, Tupac left the hospital the first chance he could get out the door, this was because of fear that Jimmy was sending someone to finish the job. A few months later Dexter says he was with another well known drug kingpin named, Wolf, and Dexter wanted to set up and rob Puff at the Tunnel. Wolf told Dexter that he had invested a lot of money in Bad Boy, and Puff has a pass. When the original Biggie Smalls sued Bad Boy Records over Notorious BIG going by Biggie Smalls on the "Party And Bullshyt" single. Wolf and 2 of his associates paid off the lawsuit and became minority owners of the record label. Dexter says one night Suge Knight and at least 50 bloods caught Puff and Wolf with only a small entourage and after this incident Puff asked one of Jimmy's associates, Zip, to hook him up with protection in California. Dexter says Suge Knight was having an affair with Puff's baby mom, he supposedly had pictures with Misa (Puff's BM) and Justin (Puff's son) sitting on his lap. Puff was furious and was doing everything he could to get those photos. He was so enraged that he put a $10,000 bounty on every Death Row chain. Zip hooked Puff up with the Southside Crips or SSC, in particular, gang leader, Keefe D who was also Orlando Anderson's uncle.
When Tupac started working on Above the Rim he first met up with Haitian Jack, Jimmy and King Tut because he was really just trying to learn more about the character- they gave him gave- they have him cleaned up, got him some jewels, got girls for him, really made him feel like one. However, they did all that and felt like they were owed something. When that didn't go down they wanted to teach him a lesson. On that Monster Kody Pac phone call Tupac even casually said like it was common knowledge that his accused victim was friends with all of those guys. The robbery was supposed to just jack him, humble, and embarrass him, but he resisted and shyt got real.
Linda Bruck is an award winning writer for the New Yorker with long time a connection inside the NYPD. Linda wrote a book that included previously unheard circumstances surrounding the supposed rape incident between Tupac and the accused victim. She details what she calls the pathological hatred police and prosecutors had for Tupac. She explains that Jacques Agnant (Haitian Jack), who Tupac accused of being an informer on his final album, The Don Killuminati (7 Day Theory), was arrested with Tupac in the "date rape" case that sent Tupac to prison. Yet Haitian Jack's case was severed and the indictment against him dismissed. His lawyer was Paul Brenner, who had worked for the Policemen's Benevolent Association and bragged that "the police are friends of mine." Ayanna Jackson, the nineteen-year-old woman who brought the assault charges against Tupac , says that Haitian Jack told her, as Tupac was led away, that he "would hate to see what happened to Mike [Tyson] happen to Tupac."
Bruck reports that Tyson called Tupac from prison and warned him to watch out for Haitian Jack. Linda Bruck does not mention what may have prompted the call but after Tyson's release from prison, five members of his jury said they wanted to change the verdict when they found out that defense evidence had been suppressed that showed Tyson's alleged victim, Desiree Washington, had been willingly going at it hot and heavy with Tyson in a limo and that, contrary to her testimony, Washington had a financial agreement with a civil attorney.
Linda concludes that the parallels are eerie: Two black male celebrities who are hated by the police and are well known by Haitian Jack, two "victims" who sue for civil damages, two prosecutors with obvious agendas beyond determining guilt and innocence. One black celebrity dead and one reeling, at least partly as a result of his false imprisonment.
Tupac believed till his dying moments that the rape charge was a setup by Haitian Jack, Jimmy and Tut as retaliation for him not being willing to sign with Bad Boy as Jimmy had promised Wolf. Jimmy believed he could pressure Tupac after the shooting into a contract where Jimmy would manage Tupac and take a large cut and have him sign to Puff. In later years, Haitian Jack would attempt to extort Jay-Z and 50 Cent while using the NYPD as his own security force, however the damage done from Tupac's "Against All Odds" (see above) was so severe in the streets, no one trusted him any longer. Eventually they moved him to Beverly Hills to try and set up west coast drug dealers, then once he served his purpose the feds left him for dead and he was deported back to Haiti.
I want to end this by summarizing a few things. Christopher "Notorious BIG" Wallace, was not involved in the set up. Tupac knew this and never accused him of the setup. BIG knew all the players involved and after the fact was certainly made aware of what just happened. Tupac found out what happened pretty quickly because Jimmy was not shy about shyt talking that night about getting Tupac robbed. Tupac was upset because he felt he and BIG had become friends and felt BIG should have went against Jimmy & Puff. BIG had just released Ready To Die, his family and friends all lived in New York. Going against Jimmy, Tut, Jack, Wolf, Puff was just not an option even if he felt strongly enough to side with Tupac.
20 Years Later..
2Pac's dead, BIG's dead, Orlando Anderson's dead, no ones heard from Keefe D or Haitain Jack in over a decade. Dexter is doing life. Jimmy is doing life, Wolf is dead, Tut is doing life. All these pieces of the puzzle, all these players in this real life game of "American Gangster" all fit together in this deadly combination of events that would be buried for quite some time. The reason details never came out was not for a lack of knowledge or effort it was a general lack of proof of anything and a general fear of what Jimmy, Jack and Tut were capable of and there resources within law enforcement."
"Dexter Isaac, is currently serving life without parole for multiple murders and armed robberies. He has released a book detailing his life in the New York City street, as a hitman and muscle for convicted drug kingpin Jimmy "Henchmen" Rosemund who is also serving life in jail for drug trafficking, money laundering and witness tampering. I'm going to break down some of the more interesting stories he shares and try to make sense of all this.
Dexter mentions partying, specifically drinking and smoking with LL Cool J back in the late 80s and early 90s. Most people don't understand that back in those days LL Cool J was one of only a few hip hop stars and was the first to make the incredible money. He was well paid because he was the first hip-hop star not to be signed to an awful one sided contract, from the beginning Russell Simmons always paid his artists correct. So here's, LL Cool J, rich and black, when the list of other guys who were rich and black, is mostly athletes and drug dealers. LL Cool J was around all these guys, and they all respected him because he never changed who he was. LL never acted like a star, he knew the rules of the game, and showed respect and got it the same. He spoke on it on this record off DJ KaySlay's "The Streetsweeper Vol. 2: The Pain From The Game" LP
He mentions the financial ties between the "The Supreme Team" crime orginaztion and Eric B and Rakim. Its never been any secret in hip hop circles, that Eric B always had some of the most notorious street dudes around back then. You have to remember when Rakim came out with that persona of like a mafioso rapper very early in the game, and not one person, ever, EVER questioned the creditibility of Eric B or Rakim.
Dexter explains the motivation behind shooting Tupac Shakur at Quad Studios in 1994. Jimmy Henchmen was managing Salt N Pepa and Brandy at this time. Jimmy was dating Salt, and even got them the "Shoop" beat for free. Remember Tupac was in the Salt N Pepa "Whatta Man" video. Dexter says the beef began because Jimmy owed Tupac money and Jimmy wanted to cut Tupac a check, and Tupac responded. "have that shyt ready for me in cash you bytch ass nikka". The industry legend is that Jimmy actually wanted Tupac to pay for protection and security when Tupac was in New York filming, "Above The Rim". Tupac refused and insulted the idea he needed any kind of protection. I would speculate that young and coming into his acting and musical prime, he likely felt no one could touch him and wouldn't understand how drastically Jimmy would react. Jimmy was extorting money from Puff, Andre Harrell, Mobb Deep, almost all the New York rappers and expected Tupac to do the same. There's another theory which I thought deserves some mention is that King Tut wanted Tupac to cut some verses for artists he was affiliated with and when Tupac asked to paid, Tut was pissed because he cut verses for DJ Ron G & MC Breed for free. Then Tut had Jimmy get Dexter to rob Tupac. My problem with that theory is its hard to connect Dexter to Tut without Jimmy, and if Jimmy is involved the other scenarios are more logical. The speculation on the motive continues, however it seems like all three versions could all fit together in combination with Pac already having an issue with Tut, Jimmy wouldn't have needed as much permission for this sort of show of strength. Remember Jimmy Henchman in 1994 was still new on the scene relatively speaking. Dexter decided to shed light on how the altercation played out. Jimmy approached Dexter and a few of Dexter's associates and ordered them to rob 2Pac when he got to the studio that evening. Dexter was paid $2,500 cash. Jimmy told Dexter not to shoot him, but to catch him by surprise and pistol whip him, then kick him around and take his biggest diamond ring, that Haitian Jack had took Tupac to buy in the Diamond District for $35,000. Dexter says that he saw Puff immediately after that conversation with Jimmy and they made eye contact, that Dexter claims confirmed to him that Puff was aware of the plan. He says there's no way Biggie or any of Junior Mafia that were there that night would have known because Puff had went into to the other studio to work with Andre Harrell. Later in that evening he describes the incident in detail. He says the initial head wound was because Dexter's associate, JD, pistol whipped Tupac. Then he says Tupac reached for his gun and they were wrestling for it before Tupac could pull it out completely, it went off and shot him in nuts. Dexter and his guys proceeded to fire four more shots into him because Tupac wouldn't quit fighting back and they took all his jewelry.
After now learning all of this, re listen to "Against All Odds" and you see Tupac brings it all together.
If we recall back, Tupac left the hospital the first chance he could get out the door, this was because of fear that Jimmy was sending someone to finish the job. A few months later Dexter says he was with another well known drug kingpin named, Wolf, and Dexter wanted to set up and rob Puff at the Tunnel. Wolf told Dexter that he had invested a lot of money in Bad Boy, and Puff has a pass. When the original Biggie Smalls sued Bad Boy Records over Notorious BIG going by Biggie Smalls on the "Party And Bullshyt" single. Wolf and 2 of his associates paid off the lawsuit and became minority owners of the record label. Dexter says one night Suge Knight and at least 50 bloods caught Puff and Wolf with only a small entourage and after this incident Puff asked one of Jimmy's associates, Zip, to hook him up with protection in California. Dexter says Suge Knight was having an affair with Puff's baby mom, he supposedly had pictures with Misa (Puff's BM) and Justin (Puff's son) sitting on his lap. Puff was furious and was doing everything he could to get those photos. He was so enraged that he put a $10,000 bounty on every Death Row chain. Zip hooked Puff up with the Southside Crips or SSC, in particular, gang leader, Keefe D who was also Orlando Anderson's uncle.
When Tupac started working on Above the Rim he first met up with Haitian Jack, Jimmy and King Tut because he was really just trying to learn more about the character- they gave him gave- they have him cleaned up, got him some jewels, got girls for him, really made him feel like one. However, they did all that and felt like they were owed something. When that didn't go down they wanted to teach him a lesson. On that Monster Kody Pac phone call Tupac even casually said like it was common knowledge that his accused victim was friends with all of those guys. The robbery was supposed to just jack him, humble, and embarrass him, but he resisted and shyt got real.
Linda Bruck is an award winning writer for the New Yorker with long time a connection inside the NYPD. Linda wrote a book that included previously unheard circumstances surrounding the supposed rape incident between Tupac and the accused victim. She details what she calls the pathological hatred police and prosecutors had for Tupac. She explains that Jacques Agnant (Haitian Jack), who Tupac accused of being an informer on his final album, The Don Killuminati (7 Day Theory), was arrested with Tupac in the "date rape" case that sent Tupac to prison. Yet Haitian Jack's case was severed and the indictment against him dismissed. His lawyer was Paul Brenner, who had worked for the Policemen's Benevolent Association and bragged that "the police are friends of mine." Ayanna Jackson, the nineteen-year-old woman who brought the assault charges against Tupac , says that Haitian Jack told her, as Tupac was led away, that he "would hate to see what happened to Mike [Tyson] happen to Tupac."
Bruck reports that Tyson called Tupac from prison and warned him to watch out for Haitian Jack. Linda Bruck does not mention what may have prompted the call but after Tyson's release from prison, five members of his jury said they wanted to change the verdict when they found out that defense evidence had been suppressed that showed Tyson's alleged victim, Desiree Washington, had been willingly going at it hot and heavy with Tyson in a limo and that, contrary to her testimony, Washington had a financial agreement with a civil attorney.
Linda concludes that the parallels are eerie: Two black male celebrities who are hated by the police and are well known by Haitian Jack, two "victims" who sue for civil damages, two prosecutors with obvious agendas beyond determining guilt and innocence. One black celebrity dead and one reeling, at least partly as a result of his false imprisonment.
Tupac believed till his dying moments that the rape charge was a setup by Haitian Jack, Jimmy and Tut as retaliation for him not being willing to sign with Bad Boy as Jimmy had promised Wolf. Jimmy believed he could pressure Tupac after the shooting into a contract where Jimmy would manage Tupac and take a large cut and have him sign to Puff. In later years, Haitian Jack would attempt to extort Jay-Z and 50 Cent while using the NYPD as his own security force, however the damage done from Tupac's "Against All Odds" (see above) was so severe in the streets, no one trusted him any longer. Eventually they moved him to Beverly Hills to try and set up west coast drug dealers, then once he served his purpose the feds left him for dead and he was deported back to Haiti.
I want to end this by summarizing a few things. Christopher "Notorious BIG" Wallace, was not involved in the set up. Tupac knew this and never accused him of the setup. BIG knew all the players involved and after the fact was certainly made aware of what just happened. Tupac found out what happened pretty quickly because Jimmy was not shy about shyt talking that night about getting Tupac robbed. Tupac was upset because he felt he and BIG had become friends and felt BIG should have went against Jimmy & Puff. BIG had just released Ready To Die, his family and friends all lived in New York. Going against Jimmy, Tut, Jack, Wolf, Puff was just not an option even if he felt strongly enough to side with Tupac.
20 Years Later..
2Pac's dead, BIG's dead, Orlando Anderson's dead, no ones heard from Keefe D or Haitain Jack in over a decade. Dexter is doing life. Jimmy is doing life, Wolf is dead, Tut is doing life. All these pieces of the puzzle, all these players in this real life game of "American Gangster" all fit together in this deadly combination of events that would be buried for quite some time. The reason details never came out was not for a lack of knowledge or effort it was a general lack of proof of anything and a general fear of what Jimmy, Jack and Tut were capable of and there resources within law enforcement."
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u can't talk about street shyt with square nikkas who think shootin yourself makes u "real" 
nikkas giving out participation trophies. real street nikkas only get points for getting the job done. ain't no points for trying
how bout u lames just stick to acknowledging pac as a artist. he wasn't a gangsta or street nikka. just a loudmouth
nikkas giving out participation trophies. real street nikkas only get points for getting the job done. ain't no points for trying
how bout u lames just stick to acknowledging pac as a artist. he wasn't a gangsta or street nikka. just a loudmouth
spliz
SplizThaDon
U a dumb ass nikka. "Get the job done". nikka shut up.u can't talk about street shyt with square nikkas who think shootin yourself makes u "real"
nikkas giving out participation trophies. real street nikkas only get points for getting the job done. ain't no points for trying
how bout u lames just stick to acknowledging pac as a artist. he wasn't a gangsta or street nikka. just a loudmouth
Mac Casper
@adonnis - pull up, there's refreshments
He thinks drawing a gun is as easy as hitting R2
First of all, professional self-defense training instructors advise against drawing your gun when someone has a gun pointed at you . . This is a rather stupid move and for Tupac to do it I'm assuming he saw low caliber Saturday Night Specials which gave him the courage to pull his gun. Tupac is actually lucky he didn't kill anybody that day, I guess he'd still be alive thought - maybe.
Plus the panthers just wouldnt play that fukk shyt,they was willing to kill cops and fbi agents who got out of line
Pac had THAT instilled in him since he was a kid,but nikkas still try to equate it to "bu bu but he wasnt a gangsta"
Maaan fukk a damn gangsta,Pac was raised to do shyt some of the toughest gangstas would be afraid to do
like actually shoot cops and white people for a change
pac wasnt a gangster,but he was the son of a panther
Jay = a hustla who learned how to rap
Pac = a revoltionary who learned how to rap
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MooseMouthMthafuga
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I remember niccaz accusing Pac of "snitching" on Against All Oddz, but he was just exposing snakes.
Looks like it paid off, to.He might've saved a few niccaz lives with that track
spliz
SplizThaDon
nikka fukk is u talkin bout? Jimmy said he wanted to "discipline" Pac. And they didn't take majority of his shyt. It's not out of the realm of possibility that the situation was made to look like a robbery but they didn't really give a fukk about taking his shyt.so taking 40 g's of jewelry is an attempt now?
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like you said they didnt take the majority of his shyt...but they took something...you said it was a robbery attempt...how is that an attempt if they took jewelry off of him...thats not attempt thats taking it...see how easy that was to admit...now your turn how much jewelry did they take?
spliz
SplizThaDon
They left 80k worth of merchandise on him. shytty robbers.like you said they didnt take the majority of his shyt...but they took something...you said it was a robbery attempt...how is that an attempt if they took jewelry off of him...thats not attempt thats taking it...see how easy that was to admit...now your turn how much jewelry did they take?
I remember niccaz accusing Pac of "snitching" on Against All Oddz, but he was just exposing snakes.
Looks like it paid off, to.He might've saved a few niccaz lives with that track
Yeah man. He was fighting a war against street nikkas, bytch nikkas and the fukking feds.
they set him up for rape, they shot him, they robbed him but he kept coming....against all odds
Legendary shyt. He should have stayed away from cats like them from the jump though. He was too trusting of people....and he was a loud mouth..... my God. He was steady always saying too much.
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but you said it was an attempt...shyt they got 40k out of it...and them being shytty robbers proves what henchmen said...they were there to discipline him but im sure you'll turn it into no he held on to his jewelry and they couldnt take it