Tupac. Snoop blamed the man that was driving the car he got shot in that night. The most feared figure in all of hip hop. You put all of our lives in jeopardy like that. You don't care about pop. And confronted him face to face. Come up to my room. Ain't going to be nobody in there. Just me and you. This either the moment you going to kill me or we going to get some clarity in this air. But did Snoop Dogg know something was going to happen that night? The next day when we turned on the news, all we seen was the yellow tape and it just was all bad. Shakur was shot four times after leaving the Mike Tyson boxing match in Las Vegas in a car driven by Marian Suge Knight head of his label, Death Row Records. So I jumped in my Hummer and we drove to Vegas. Suge was at home. He was standing up, but he had like a patch of his head was wrapped up and he came and explained to us as far as what had happened. what he was explaining to us like joyful. He was like, "Man, them start shooting at us trying to jump in the backseat." I'm like, "Get down." I pull him down and you know, he was like, he was saying it like Pop was going to live. You know what I'm saying? Like, because that's must have been the spirit that Pot showed him. like even when he said he was driving to the hospital. So I jumped right on the highway to see him. I had a chance to to sit there with him at that time. Me and him really wasn't it wasn't eye to eye. [Music] It was it was all bad. It was all bad. He was my friend before death row and I [ __ ] met him at the poetic justice rap party. So I get to the party and DJ put something on. He like, "Yeah, I got my little cousin Snoop Dogg in the house. Come up here and rap." Before he could give me the mic, Tupac grab a mic. He say his little burp, you got the mic. thing. Boom. Bang. He take it back. We like rapping at each other like sort of kind of aggressive. We do like four or five raps. Everybody in the party like it just made a circle now. Finish rapping. We go outside. I'm like, "Let me get your number cuz I'm holl at you." And fell in love with that. I was like, "Cuz this hard." So I suggested to Suge that man, we need to put C cuz with us because he already get down like we get down. He needs a team. You know, we're the best team out here and we need him because he's going to make our team better. Like, we're great, but with him, we'll be the greatest. Were you guys intimidated at all to work in the studio together? I mean, he bring the best out of me. You know, that's how it is. Yeah. Snoop took the baton. He ran with him. When Tupac got the baton, he took Death Row to the next level. Next year, Death Row going to start printing our own money. But Snoop Dogg started to notice Suge Knight's growing influence on Tupac. I think Suge stared him where he wanted to be. Pac wanted that. He wanted the glamorous gangster mafia lifestyle. He wanted it. And Suge gave it to him. SH was great at giving you what you wanted. If he loved you, boy, he loved you. Death Row was a death row family. Well, if he hated you, he hated you. controversial CEO of Death Row Records, the most feared figure in all of hip hop. Vicious assaults, beatings, pistol ripping. If it wasn't for him, I don't know what I would have did. This guy was going to go to jail for 25 years of life. I wasn't late to put up almost $5 million for attorney's fees, staff, 50, 60 guys, escort them in the court for they want to get beat up. He was the fixer, the cleaner. Yeah. Something's wrong, he knows what to do. I look at like if I'm with you and I'm with you, we're on the same team. I'mma do what I can do to always help you. But Snoop Dogg was worried about the kind of help Tupac wanted from Suge. Pac had the spirit of animosity, revenge, retaliation. Shakur has accused rappers Puff Daddy and Notorious B.I. of involvement in his New York shooting. Pac was like, "Look, I go to New York. I go to the studio. These have me up and shot me. Period." I was like, "What? You with us said your friends is my friends. Joining me is my enemy. And I never felt like they had something to do with it because it just didn't feel right. They was his friends at the time. Shot me five times. I came out of jail and sold 5 million with us. That's how we do it. You know the players is on the west side. That peace. I ain't even trying to make peace them all. If somebody miss me, I'm going be right by his side. They created a war. They were fueling each other's fire like they was tip for tat like nobody would put water. And things escalated beyond just Tupac and Biggie. When you see a Vive magazine, when you see Puff and Biggie on the cover and see East First in the hood don't read articles. They just see East First. Oh, it's on. When I see them, it's on. They were checking to see who could win in a physical confrontation. Whose camps could win if the two met up with one another. We got strength and numbers. We already run the streets out here. So all these suckers, they battling off of east and west like this is a game. This ain't no game. If this was chess, we'd be yelling checkmate three years ago. Cuz we've been beat these. It's not a game. These days, it doesn't take much to start a gang war. What started out as music to inform has turned into music that incites. Gang violence in Los Angeles and three people are dead. The shootings were part of warfare. The East West thing is not a Snoop Dog problem. If it's personal, it need to stay personal. And y'all need to deal with it and handle it if it's a problem and handle it and keep it out of our faces. I've been dealing with this my whole life. They don't play with like this. Rapper Tupac Shakur put out a diss track insinuating he slept with Biggiey's wife, fanning more flames to the East versus West War. When he played it for me, I was like, "Cuz I ain't really I ain't really feeling that, cuz that's You thought he took it too far. We want to make sure we mash they ass like we did Big. You see that [ __ ] Quiet as a church mouse. You buying more problems, girl. There is no mercy in my heart. If you're going to act like you a gangster, a G, or the king of New York, I'm expecting. And when you don't come through, then I'm going to crush your empire. And that's what it's time for. And just a few days later, what Snoop Dogg feared became a reality. Tupac Shakur has been taken to a hospital where he remains in critical condition. He is being surrounded by friends and family hoping for a recovery. When I went to go see him, that ain't what I got. He wasn't moving. He wasn't talking. He wasn't breathing on his own. His mama, she pulled me to the side and that's when I knew it was bad cuz she telling me to be strong and all this [ __ ] I'm like, and he laid up. I just get right on the side of his head and just start talking to him in his ear. Just talking to him. It was some other [ __ ] cuz then as soon as I walked out of there I went in the bathroom and I throw up. Did you know at that at that moment or early on that Pac wasn't going to make it? No. That's Superman cuz I thought he was coming out of that. We seen it before. We watched him do it before. So I was like he'll be all right. He going to come out of it. And that broke my heart. I mean we all felt like that you know because we were death row and that that's the life we was living. and we felt like we was untouchable until that fatal until that fatal day. While Snoop Dogg was grieving, Suge Knight was sent to prison for violating his parole on the night of the shooting. But that didn't stop Suge from wanting revenge. When Tupac got shot, my main concern was keeping the family together. It's no time to be weak. There's no time to feel bad or sorry for nobody else. that there's something need to be done. Something need to be done. In Compton, California, a gang war and five-day blood bath apparently left three men dead and 10 wounded. Some of our shootings may be in retaliation for the events that happened in Las Vegas. Police say they've had 12 shootings and an increase of violence in Compton since September 7th. And we was right in the middle of all of that madness and the deaths and the tragedy. He didn't realize how much influence he had, but he was very influenced by it. Snoop believes Suge had something with Tupac's death. It was a dark alley and he was the leader. He led us. When you put all of our lives in jeopardy like that, you don't care. And that's what happened. Our lives was in jeopardy. I started to see that Death Row wasn't for me. I'm here to make good music. That's what I signed my contract to Death Row Records for, to make good music and perform and put out good albums. I didn't sign a contract to hurt nobody or make people hate me or hate people. I've been there. I've done that. So, I'm going to go this route. You know what I'm saying? After years of being a Death Row Records, Snoop Dogg has decided to jump ship to the No Limit Soldiers record label, leaving unwanted problems behind. This did not sit well with Suge because Snoop would not take his side and Suge demanded loyalty. Either mother riding with us or they riding against us. Ain't no in between. You with us or I guess it's those are not with us. You nothing. It became to turn on me after that. Now it was like it was it was animosity. They was bitter. You lose your biggest star. Then I started hearing they going to you up. They going to cut your hair. They going to do this. And then he had Crips working for him that was going to do something to me. If it wasn't for Suge Knight, he would still be in in somebody's cell making dinner, washing clothes. Suge Knight recently said he used to be a superstar and now he's just a no limit soldier. What do you say to that? Nothing. He used to be a CEO, now he's just a hearmate. Thanks a lot. While Snoop thought he was now safe, Suge was about to show that he could still get to him. We was at the universal. I was with no limit there. We was at the show. We sitting on the inside. Death row guys walk up. He come in in peace, smiling, shaking my hands. Walked me in the corner talking to me. Now the other one was surrounding. 5 minutes later, it's about seven of them around me. I ain't paying attention. So the soldiers then went on stage. Now I'm back here talking to these dare [ __ ] by myself. So now they were like, "You owe Suge apology." I'm like, sure. Like, what? Try to take off on me. Whoa, he missed. I get out of there and Snoop just comes flying by. Master P and him get the word while they on stage. They literally ran off the stage in the middle of the front and boom boom and everybody was like running out the gates. So, we about run after a riot. This happened to me. I get a whiz. No cuts, no scores, no hits, no nothing. But I run right into the law with weed in my pocket and everything when I'm trying to save my life. As soon as we come out the door, we got officers drawing punks in our faces and helicopter on the ground. They didn't know where Snoop was. They're screaming, "Where the is Snoop? Snoop." All right. Snoop Dogg managed to escape Suge's attack, but he started to become reckless. I was going to make a record dissing death row like death row cuz I just didn't give a at that time. They was coming after me. I was going to come after them. Sugar night's a [ __ ] and that's on my life and I will end your you keep talking uncle. This was Shook's message to Snoop. Death Row Record CEO Suge Knight celebrating his newfound freedom after serving 5 years for a probation violation. Damn, you still ain't nothing to change. Death is back. Back on the streets, back on the clubs. You're out of jail. We're on par for parole. Is LA divided now between where Suge goes and where Snoop goes? Yes. Suge goes everywhere in LA. Snoop goes nowhere in LA. He can't go nowhere without 20 people holding his hand. I look at it a way, well, I'm going respect you. You going to respect me. If you can't respect me, I'mma teach you how to respect me. Snoop Dogg was again facing death, but this time he was at his most vulnerable. He now had to take a long look at how things got to this. They broke me, man. They broke my spirit. Win my murder case. Tupac get killed. Death row want to kill me. That's all right here. I don't really understand death and I never did. And even as a kid, my homies started dying from gang banging like like all the time that I went to school would play football with. It's like you you don't become numb to it, but it's like it's a feeling of okay, all right, I guess it's what it's supposed to be. And I I look back at all of the rappers that was writing about death. They all dead. [Music] RPN is what we was writing. I I hope I live to see 21 and blah blah this and that and I know I ain't going to make it and death around the corner and I'm ready to die and that's the era we come from to to prepare ourselves for death. And it just made me feel like my pen created this. I got a baby. I got a wife. Yeah, I wanted to live folks. I wanted to live. [Music] Snoop Dogg knew he had to face Suge Knight one last time. I seen him in uh Vegas. I was uh you know, moving around doing my thing and um I'm like around [Music] And my security, he immediately on it. Boom. Shook like doggy dog, man. Tell this [ __ ] I ain't tripping, man. Tell this [ __ ] to kick back. I said, "All right, [ __ ] Check it out. You know where I'm at." He said, "Nigga, let me come holl at you." I said, "Let me finish with this real quick." What was the temperature at that point between the relationship? Right. Okay. hot. Like I had that wanted to write. They seen him before I did, right? I had to tell them, "Let me holler." Right? So, this is what I do. I say, "When I finish with this little walk up with, I'm going to have my folks come down here and tell you what room I'm in. And then when you come up to my room, ain't going to be nobody in there. Just me and you." about 45 minutes. I sent my down, go get cous, and tell him to come up. I said, matter of fact, don't even come up with it. I want him to feel comfortable. Matter of fact, give me the room, kid. [Music] Come on in. The whole conversation is I loved you n I could have saved you. I had nothing but love for you. And his conversation was, I love you. I ain't got nothing but love for you. Why did you try to get me pop when you love me? There's outside that want your head right now. You know what? I forgive you. I ain't going to do nothing to you. You can go and walk up out here and we going to be cool from this day forward. And we've been straight. I wasn't ready to go to war. And then I was like, that I got to defend my pride. But my pride would have got me killed. And sometimes you got to be smarter than the average bear. You got to know and understand why you here. And looking at my family and where I want to be and how I got to prepare myself in order to be here. And that's what forced me to find a new path. I started writing life. So my pen became more I'm going to live my life. Let me have fun. Let me live a little bit. I'm going to wake up tomorrow. And then my life became that as well. I made it out barely. So I won't give my kids a better chance to make it out by putting them in an environment where they have less to deal with. They have no gang activity. They're not worrying about getting shot at, looking over their shoulders, this and that. When I was younger, I had no respect. I just did whatever I wanted to do. But as I become a grown man, it's my job to do what's right. You have to start doing some things that matter for the future. I just feel like out of that tree, something had to fall. It's always a great family portrait in the beginning and by the end there's two or three key people in that family picture that's gone. But then there's something that's still there and they're keeping the legacy going on from just surviving. Just being able to be peaceful and be smart enough to say that I'm going to leave that behind and I'm just going to smile a little bit and be me to make people happy, to inspire, to influence. And me personally, I I love the fact that people love me and follow me. I want to be loved while I'm here. And only way to get love is to give love. [Music]