*Diddy’s former bodyguard claims the late-great Notorious B.I.G. was not killed during a drive-by in Los Angeles.
Speaking to Art of Dialogue, Gene Deal, who worked as Diddy’s security in the 1990s, claims he witnessed the attack on Biggie and he seemingly suggests Big’s killing was a coordinated attack.
“Before we left Andre Harrell’s house, Puff told me I didn’t have to go,” Deal said, Complex reports. “Now, I went because I knew that somebody was going to die that night, somebody was going to get shot. I did everything in my power to stop it from being Puff, and it wasn’t Puff,” Deal says. “The people that was bodyguarding Big didn’t do everything in their power to stop it from being Big — and that hurts me, even though it wasn’t my principle.”
Biggie was gunned down on March 9, 1997, after leaving Soul Train Awards afterparty in Los Angeles. The longstanding story has been that a Chevy Impala pulled up next to the rapper’s SUV and opened fire. Biggie was allegedly shot four times and later pronounced dead.
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Deal said he rushed to Big’s car, pulled him out of the vehicle and “watched this kid lose his life.”
“I wouldn’t put nobody in my shoes ’cause I don’t feel like they could handle it,” he said. “If I didn’t have God in my life, if I didn’t have people praying for me, I don’t know if I could have handled it.”
Since that dreadful day, there have been endless reenactments of Biggie’s death in movies and TV shows that Deal says are totally inaccurate.
“It just hurts because they lie too much,” he said in the interview.
“A lot of that shit be lies the way they put it together ’cause they listening to these white boys who wasn’t even there. I don’t want to make this racial, but they take these white boys who wasn’t even there and want to use the stories that they want to tell, which is not the truth,” Deal continued. “Wasn’t no drive-by. The car was standing there at the corner. The stories they tell is not truthful. And now people are sitting here believing.”
Watch him speak on Biggie’s death via the YouTube clip below.
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