Tupac Shakur
March 17, 2008 | by The Maven | Filed under celebrity, death, tragedy
In 1994, Tupac Shakur was pistol-whipped, shot five times and left for dead outside a New York City recording studio. Paramedics carried him out on a stretcher. Blood seeped through bandages from five gunshot wounds.
New evidence has linked two associates of entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and the late Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace to the 1994 beating of iconic rapper Tupac Shakur.
The story claims that Combs was present in the Quad Recording Studio with at least two dozen Bad Boy Records associates when the assault took place ten floors down in the lobby.
Here’s an excerpt of the story written by Chuck Philips:
The Quad ambush had its roots in events a year earlier, when Shakur returned to New York from California to film the movie “Above the Rim.” The Brooklyn native, then 22, had two hit albums under his belt and was starting to taste success as an actor.
While in New York, he befriended Rosemond, the son of Haitian immigrants, who had run with street gangs and worked in the crack trade before gravitating to the hip-hop scene. He had a prominent scar on his forehead and cultivated an air of danger.
According to accounts given by the two men and others over the years, Rosemond, then 29, took Shakur under his wing, showing him around the city and introducing him to friends, including an ex-convict named Jacques “Haitian Jack” Agnant. Shakur and Agnant hit it off and were soon partying at clubs across Manhattan.
There was a serious side to the revelry. Rosemond was trying to establish himself as a talent manager — he had formed a company called Henchman Productions — and he and Agnant hoped to represent Shakur. They encouraged the rapper to sign a recording contract with Combs’ fledgling Bad Boy label, which had recently received more than $2 million in capital from BMG’s Arista division.
Shakur also became acquainted with Sabatino, a 19-year-old Italian American who co-promoted rap conventions with Rosemond. Sabatino had Brooklyn roots of a different kind that gave him cachet in the hip-hop world: His father was a captain in the Colombo crime family, according to federal authorities.
Like Rosemond and Agnant, Sabatino wanted to ride Combs’ rising star, and he too leaned on Shakur to leave Interscope Records and sign with Bad Boy.
Shakur rejected these overtures. Members of Combs’ circle saw this as an act of disrespect.
Hmmm….
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