Paulie called Jimmy on his cell when we arrived. "Dex wants to holler at you before he does the job." "Come upstairs," Jimmy replied, "But leave everyone else in the lobby." Paulie and I crossed the street and entered the building. The lobby was shaped like a reverse L. When I stepped into the building, the first thing I noticed was a vacant desk and a chair for a security guard. We went around the corner to the elevator and pushed the button. It was a narrow elevator that ascended ascended slowly, floor after floor. When we got off the elevator, Jimmy was right there waiting for us. To my right, I saw Biggie sitting there on a sofa, talking to Lil Cease by the window. To the left, up front, I saw Lil Shawn behind a glass booth. All the way down to my left, I could see Puff Daddy. He was talking to some dude with a dark bronze complexion like his, but the dude was a little taller. He had a low haircut and his eyes flitted back and forth behind black-rimmed glasses. I would later find out that this dude was Puffy's mentor and 186 ex-boss, Andre Harrell. I wondered why they were all here. "How many people know what's about to go down?" "He knows," Jimmy replied, nodding his head in Puffy's direction. Puffy looked me dead in the eye and that's when I knew he was involved. "What Paulie told me, is that the real? "Yeah, it's all official," Jimmy stressed. "But I don't want y'all to kill him. Just rough him up and take his shyt."