Deon Best
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47 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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So, you know, by this being my hometown. I knew how to maneuver through the community, through the streets. And I had a way of, you know, let's just say like everybody's aware that Suge Knight and, you know, Puffy had a situation. Suge is a big guy. I'm not a big guy. But I had the type of relationship with Suge that I could, you know, say, you know, Suge, you know, ease up.
And, you know, he would respect the situation.
Not necessarily the area because he's from Compton. This is a distance from even where we are now. Where we are now, this is the scene. and my neighborhood is close to the scene. So it was like one of those things like,
they have a party across the street during the time back back in that time it was called the the uh roxbury it was a club right across the street if they had a party there or a night the hot night my guys myself we're going to be there because this is my area yeah can you tell us about that time when big would come and you said that they had performed at one point
So as I was walking in, it just brought back memories, made me smile. Because I remember the first night Big performed one of his songs. It was across the street at the Roxbury. And I happened to be on stage with him. It was nice. It was cool. People were like, oh, you know Big? I was like, yeah, you know, he's a good guy.
I had a very close relationship with Big. I was actually with him the night he was murdered. You know, he was nothing like his music. I would say for him, he probably wrote music according to the lifestyle that he saw around him. Very humble guy, very cool guy, laid back. Not a rah-rah person. What was Puff like at that point? Sean... He was a little different. Me personally and not knocking him.
You know, some people like bananas. Some people like cherries. Some people like grapes. He just wasn't the type of person that I enjoyed hanging out with.
It wasn't about where we were coming from. It's about where we were. Everyone pretty much has heard the story. I want to say it was an after party for the BET Awards right down the street on Wilshire and Fairfax at the Auto Show Museum. Leaving the museum party, he was shot multiple times.
it always puzzles me and I think about it constantly constantly no matter how long Big has been gone I think about it um The party ended because the fire marshal came in and shut it down because it was just so many people. When the fire marshal shut the party down, we were together. We took a couple of photos and we began to leave. I never understood.
How he wasn't with me when we exit through the door. I never understood it. Today, I think about it more today, meaning in the last year that I felt like somebody literally lowered him away from me like like. Pulled him away and like, let's go this way. But, you know, it's an old saying, when you're in Rome, you do as the Romans. And I tried to explain that to him.
You know, man, you can't just be moving around by yourself. You know, we know the culture. Unfortunately, in gang culture, people die. Unfortunately, you have some people who have a certain type of mentality or attitude characteristic that they don't care about the next person or who's around or even.
if they might miss and hit someone else and, and, and with that comes, especially when you live around it, when your friends have lost their lives to these situations, you understand how to navigate through these streets. I'm here. I'm thankful. Um,
Exactly.
I truly believe that he would still be alive after that night. I don't know what the future would have brought, but that night he'd have made it home safely. He'd have made it to his hotel or place of residence, wherever he was sleeping. He would have made it home safely, made it there safely that night.
Oh, definitely. You know, anything we do, it's tricks to the trade. You know how to troubleshoot things. You know how to maneuver around certain things.
To me, you never hear people ask this question. And I saw so many interviews, but he never said to me what was going on with Puff and Bad Boy Entertainment. And it was a question of if you understood the business, you already knew what was going on. You know, some people don't understand if you come in with a kind heart, good intentions, these relationships, they will last.
And I don't think that his relationship as far as the business with Puffy was fair. And I think that made, you know, Biggie unhappy. So I felt... that he was gonna do his own thing after I felt big was gonna do his own thing after the three album contract was over that he would have left oh definitely yeah definitely you could see you already had Junior Mafia being started you had Lil Kim
then he understood he's the hot guy now yeah and can you tell me how detrimental that would have been if big would have left bad boy and puff you kidding me oh man over yeah now this is just my opinion big leaves puff's not a star um I don't even know what happened with Craig Mack. I don't know what happened with Mase, but you could see the conflict with Mase, but Biggie leaving.
No, no. I don't think he really had an issue. I mean, of course he didn't know that he was going to be murdered. I don't think that he thought Puffy was going to do anything to harm him. So it was no reason to.
I don't want to answer that. I don't want to get into that.
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