Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Memories of Tupac’s 1994 Shooting Are Different Than Tupac’s
In 1994, Sean “Diddy” Combs was in the studio when Tupac Shakur was shot in the lobby. Tupac went up to the studio in the aftermath, where he found Diddy, the Notorious B.I.G., and a number of other people. Diddy recalled rushing to help Tupac. This was not quite how Tupac remembered the day.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs said he hurried to help Tupac after his shooting
In 1994, Tupac walked into the lobby at Quad Studios when men approached him and pulled guns. The men opened fire on him. When they stopped shooting, Tupac went upstairs to the studio. Diddy said he rushed to help the rapper.
“Tupac was shot,” Diddy told Rolling Stone in 1997. “I mean, that’s Tupac! I immediately went to him, sat him down, calmed him, had people call the ambulance.”
Diddy said he did whatever Tupac needed.
“It’s like if you were shot: I’m over you, holding you,” he said. “The phone is here. We calling the ambulance, calling your mom. That’s what happened. That was the last time I saw Tupac. But not Biggie. He saw him the next day.”
Tupac believed Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs had something to do with his shooting
Tupac’s memories of that day were different. He said that when he went upstairs, the scene awaiting him frightened him.
“So we jumped in the elevator and went upstairs,” he told Vibe Magazine in 1995. “I’m limping and everything, but I don’t feel nothing. It’s numb. When we got upstairs, I looked around, and it scared the s*** out of me.”
He said that no one moved to help him. According to him, they didn’t even look at him. He intimated that the others had something to do with the shooting.
“Nobody approached me. I noticed that nobody would look at me,” he said. “Andre Harrell wouldn’t look at me. I had been going to dinner with him the last few days. He had invited me to the set of New York Undercover, telling me he was going to get me a job. Puffy was standing back too. I knew Puffy. He knew how much stuff I had done for Biggie before he came out.”
Diddy worried about getting in trouble for the rapper’s murder
In 1996, Tupac died in a drive-by shooting. Diddy has long denied having anything to do with the artist’s death. He said the news of the murder shocked him.
“We was shocked at first,” he said. “And we was hurt. It was like, ‘Damn, why’d that have to happen?’”
Soon, though, he became concerned that he could get in trouble for the crime.
“Then we became scared, because we know how the media is,” he said. “The news reports in the early couple of days, all in L.A. and Las Vegas, had our pictures. We were the ones they were pointing their fingers to. Kept on talking about it. I didn’t have nothing to do with Tupac getting killed.”
