When Tupac went for his own gun stashed in his waistband, they shot him. They went straight for Tupac, ordering him to the floor and demanding he give up all his jewelry and money. Two of the three men pulled identical handguns, NYPD Detective George Nagy said.
As they walked toward the elevator, Tupac, according to the police report, was ambushed by the three men, including the man who had been standing just outside the lobby. Tupac and his group didn’t think twice about the men. At the time, Quad had recording studios and equipment on five different floors.īack on the street, on Seventh Avenue, as Tupac and the others approached the entrance to Quad Studios, they could see two black men, near the elevator, wearing Army fatigues, recognized by Tupac as gang garb worn mostly in the Brooklyn area a third man, also black, was in the lobby, pretending to read a newspaper. They were working on Biggie’s “Warning” video. Also there to record, but on a different floor from where Tupac was scheduled to record, were Biggie Smalls and Puffy Combs. Were excited in anticipation of the popular rapper’s arrival. Word had spread that Tupac would be recording there. It was a large studio and a lot of people were there that night. They hollered down to Tupac to say hello, then went back inside to tell everyone that Tupac had arrived. Mafia, a group Biggie Smalls was sponsoring. Standing on a small terrace overlooking 48th Street, for a smoke break, were a couple of teenage members of J.U.N.I.O.R. Nine minutes later, Tupac and his group arrived in front of the studio, a police report said.
Then they walked the short distance, around the comer, to the studio on Seventh Avenue. They left their car in a parking garage at 148 West 48th Street. By that time, it was just after midnight.Īt 12:16 a.m., according to Detective George Nagy with the NYPD’s Midtown North 18th Precinct, Tupac, along with his manager Freddie Moore, his common-law brother-in-law Zayd Turner, fellow rapper Randy “Stretch” Walker, and his half-sister Sekyiwa arrived at Quad Studios. Finally, Tupac got a fourth call from Booker telling him that Uptown Entertainment would take care of the fee, which would be waiting for him when he finished recording. Tupac told Booker he wouldn’t record unless he was paid, and hung up. Then came a third call telling Tupac they didn’t have the money to pay him. While heading out to the studio, Tupac got a second call from Booker asking why he was taking so long. Booker agreed and told Tupac it was to take place at Quad Studios, at 723 Seventh Avenue between 48th and 49th streets in Times Square. Tupac told him he’d do it that day, for $7,000. After finishing the taping session, Tupac was paged by a rapper named Booker, who asked him to tape a song with Little Shawn, an East Coast rapper. (He usually charged other rappers a fee to record on their albums.)īased on statements made to police by witnesses to the shooting, it went down like this. Tupac had agreed to do the recording for free, as a favor to the young rapper, whom he wanted to help out. Tupac’s attorneys afterward said the shooting “looks like a setup and smells like a setup.” Later, Tupac publicly blamed Biggie Smalls, who was upstairs in a recording session at the time, in helping to set up the attack.Įarlier in the evening, Tupac had been invited by Ron G., a deejay in New York, to record with him. Tupac’s team of criminal attorneys had been in New York with Tupac awaiting a verdict on sexual-assault charges against the rapper.
On Wednesday November 30, 1994, Tupac Shakur was ambushed and shot inside the lobby of a recording studio in Manhattan’s Times Square. The Quad Recording Studios where the rapper was shot the first timeĮxcerpt from / The Killing Of Tupac Shakur By Cathy Scott/ Book
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