Tupac: Resurrection Page #12

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Six-foot-three, 335-pound

Marion Knight,

known by the nickname of "Suge",

short for "Sugar".

It's an efficient camp over here,

professional, business-oriented.

I like that.

At the age of only 30,

and with a lengthy criminal record,

including three felony convictions,

Suge Knight has managed

to become the head

of a $100 million record company

and one of the most powerful

and feared men in the music industry.

The controversy

over Death Row Records

and its owner

being sort of a gangster.

Everybody's asking about Death Row.

- Suge ain't no gangsta. He's chilling.

- No?

No, man, Suge a rider.

I know what good morals are,

but you're supposed to disregard

good morals when you're

living in a crazy, bad world.

If you're in hell,

how can you live like an angel?

You're surrounded by devils,

trying to be an angel?

That's like suicide.

I'd like to tell Tupac to keep

his guards up. We're with him.

One other thing I'd like to say,

any artist out there

that want to be an artist

and wants to stay a star

and don't wanna have to worry

about the executive producer

trying to be all in the videos,

all on the records, dancing,

come to Death Row.

When I got out of jail, the West Coast-

East Coast sh*t was really starting.

Wait, the East Coast don't love

Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg?

The East Coast

ain't got no love for Dr. Dre

and Snoop Dogg and Death Row?

West Coast was Death Row.

The East Coast was Bad Boy.

Check this out.

I'm the executive producer that

a comment was made about earlier.

Everybody thought it was a war,

a war for record sales and attention.

But to me it was personal.

I love the East Coast.

I'm from the East Coast.

But I felt like Puffy and Biggie wanted

to dirty up everything I worked for.

So it made me come back

more relentless.

I'm mad at Biggie. I'm rushing

the nigga. What's the problem?

Yo, Piggie, man,

we got it going on, baby.

It's on and cracking, man.

He's gone, baby. You the man.

So I directed videos.

'Pac, you alive? I mean, you safe?

Man, I'm so happy you're free.

Yeah? Happy to see you,

lying piece of sh*t.

'Pac, please don't kill me.

It was Buff's idea.

- No, man.

- I'm just a rapper.

Please don't take me out of the game.

I ain't going to kill you.

We was homeboys once, Pig.

Once we homeboys,

we always homeboys,

even if you is a fat phony.

And I did a song

with Faith, Biggie's wife.

Faith's my homegirl. I just want

to send a shout-out to Faith. Hey, girl.

Then I did "Hit 'Em Up".

That's why I f***ed your b*tch,

You fat motherf***er

Which is a classic battle record.

First off, f*** your b*tch

And the clique you claim

West Side, when we ride

Come equipped with game

You claim to be a player

But I f***ed your wife

We bust on Bad Boys

Niggas f***ed for life

I'm a self-made millionaire

Thug living out of prison

Pistols in the air

Biggie, remember when I used

To let you sleep on the couch

And beg a b*tch

To let you sleep in the house

- Now it's all about Versace

- You copied my style

- Five shots couldn't drop me

- I took it and smiled

Now I'm about set the record straight

With my AK, I'm still the thug

That you love to hate

Grab your Glocks

When you see Tupac

Call the cops when you see Tupac

Who shot me?

But you punks didn't finish that

You're about to feel

The wrath of a menace

Everything happened

so fast at that point.

I was looking at things,

the East Coast-West Coast thing,

it just got out of control.

Dudes was getting killed,

and I felt responsible.

But I couldn't stop it.

We ain't mad at the whole New York,

just certain people.

I got this project coming out along with

some brothers called One Nation.

It's like an East Coast-West Coast

collaboration

to kill this whole new vibe.

Everybody want it to be a war

between the East Coast

and West Coast.

It's really a problem

with two rappers.

The East Coast-West Coast thing

is something journalists

are making up to get paid off,

so it can drag out

and everybody can have albums. They

perpetuate this, so it can be drama.

When it go down,

don't look at me and Biggie

and be like, "Why is there a big

East Coast/West Coast war?"

When you're shooting this

to 3,300 homes, 300 countries,

telling them about a war

that they would never know exists.

That's where information

becomes a problem.

We both need

to exercise greater restraint.

Damn, sometimes life gets

messed up.

When I was on Death Row,

I was successful but not happy.

Tupac, your life has been marred

by considerable pain.

Do you think you'll get to the point

where you can live a normal life?

No. But, I...

I'm going for it. I'm trying for it,

and until then

I have to make the life that I do live

as happy as I can

and try to do the best

with what I have.

Live the best life I can live,

be as happy as I can be.

Nothing is perfect for anybody,

I don't think.

I felt trapped.

They say, "You made your bed,

lay in it"?

I tried to move.

I can't move to no other bed.

I felt I can't live a different lifestyle.

This the life they gave me,

this the life I made.

I felt I can't change, not for the courts,

not for the parole board,

not for nobody. This is it.

I also felt like something was gonna

happen to me because I'm paranoid.

And I put it in my videos.

That nigga ain't want none.

I been drinking. Where he at?

No, no, no, where he at?

Yo, watch out.

It was a prophecy.

I had a prophecy about my death.

That's why I go in the studio and do

three songs a day, get things ready.

We don't have time or the luxury

to spend all of this time

doing one song. We don't have it.

If I die, it can happen.

If anything were to happen to me,

that album's ready to go.

So it's all good.

I felt as if the only thing

that can kill me is death,

and even then my music

will live forever.

At approximately 9:00 p.m.,

security cameras at the MGM Grand

captured Tupac, Suge Knight and

members of the Death Row entourage

beating an alleged South Side Crip,

Orlando Anderson.

Tupac, Suge and others jumped

Anderson, punching and kicking him.

Terrified bystanders scattered

as the group streamed into the casino

then out into the street.

Whoa.

Just after the Mike Tyson fight,

Shakur, with record company

executive, Suge Knight,

headed for a club.

While stopping at this intersection

a car with four people pulled up

and fired on Shakur and Knight.

Shakur was shot

several times in the chest.

The driver, his record producer,

was grazed in the head.

He's returned to intensive care

after another surgery,

still in critical condition.

All week long fans of Tupac

have gathered outside the hospital.

He's undergone two operations.

His right lung was removed.

He's intermittently conscious.

Jesse Jackson's been here.

Family is keeping vigil.

Despite reports that his wounds

were not life-threatening,

people at the hospital continue to tell

us he is in very serious condition.

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