I'm baaaaack. After soaking up as much material for this blog as I could over the last week, I am back and I'm bringing the goods back.  After what I could only describe as a life vacation, I am back into the swing of everyday life.  Before I get to back to the daily deeds, links and such, I wanted to go ahead and post the story writing by Pulitzer Prize winner writer Chuck Phillips who goes on to write about the night that Tupac got shot at Quad Recording Studios in New York back in 1994.  Those that know me, know my taste for anything Tupac related, music, film, poetry or otherwise and know that I have studied the theories extensively on what could have/did happen back in 1994 and the timeline leading up to his death.  Tupac swore that even up until he was killed in 1996 that Sean "Diddy" Combs and his Bad Boy crew had something to do with the shooting at Quad studios.  This shooting sparked the first shot of the east/west coast feud that first claimed the life of Tupac then 6 months later the life Notorious B.I.G.  Now Chuck Phillips, along with new information compiled by the FBI, claim that Diddy was behind the assault along with talent manager James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond and promoter James Sabatino.  Phillips has put concrete evidence rather then just hearsay mumbo jumbo when he compiled the information for this investigative article on the night that Tupac got shot at Quad City studios.

Over the last 2 years, I have come across 2 different people (1 who was named in Chuck Phillips article) in social situations that after building a familiar report with them we were able to touch on that night in question.  One of them is working on a book and who is going to open his book with what happened at Quad City that night and there I was with a friend of mine, listening to his direct account of what happened.  Of course this guy had been interviewed before on what happened that night and I had read his interview but hearing it in the direct way gave me goose bumps.  Tupac spoke out on this persons account in a very intense and what would be his final interview and said that it was all lies and that how he had no reason to lie about what happened because he was the one with the 5 bullet holes and how he felt that the setup was just imminent and that when he was able to open his eyes and the elevator doors opened and saw them, he felt the betrayal wash over him more so than the shots.  Of course I asked this person what he thought and as it was reported in his account, he said that they were only there to help him and that there was no way in Tupac's condition that he could have put together any sorts of coherent thoughts and that he just placed the blame on who he saw when his eyes first opened.  Of course I didn’t buy it and neither did the person who was sitting there listening with me.  It's not that I didn’t buy it because I was a fan of Pac's and wouldn’t go against what he thought about it until he died but I always thought that this person was not 100% genuine but of course, there was no way he would come clean to me or anyone for that matter.  It was a personal struggle for me to work with this person, which I did for a period of over 6 months.  I kept thinking to myself "what would Tupac do if he knew I was working closely with a person who he thought was involved in that night".  After one shady thing after another, I no longer worked on a project with this person.  Silly to most of you I know, but to me who has listened and adored Tupac and what he did ever since I was a catholic school toting girl, I was torn.  I didn’t grow up like Tupac did but he affected my life nonetheless. 

65 days after Tupac was killed, his first posthumous album "The Don Killuminati: was released and had the #1 spot and sold over 800,000 copies in its first week (also made Tupac the first rapper to have 2 #1 albums in one year).  The album demonstrates many of his clues on what happened that night and holds no punches.  Tupac was not only a musical genius but he was a genius about his business.  He always knew that he would not make it past a certain age in his life and was very careful about mapping out the way that he wanted all his unreleased music to be put out.  Depending on how he died and the different collations related therein he make specifics requests on how he wanted his albums to be laid out and The Don Killuminati was the first and most perfect example that even in death they wouldn’t shut him up.

The NYPD has hit an impasse on the Quad City shooting but fortuneately (I hope) federal prosecutors are conducting a more intensive investigation on the assorted rap/hip hop people questioned in Phillips article and are believed to be going in front of a grand jury again in the near future.