Haunting footage of Tupac resurfaces in which he discusses Diddy’s involvement in filming at Quad Studios two years before his murder

Haunting footage has resurfaced online of Tupac discussing P. Diddy’s involvement in a shooting two years before his murder.

The legendary rapper was shot five times during a robbery at the Quad Studios in Times Square on November 30, 1994, and in an interview with Vibe magazine in April 1995, he claimed that Sean “Diddy” Combs was the mastermind behind the scheme.

In an excerpt from the interview reposted last week by YayAreaNews on X (formerly Twitter), Tupac, who died in September 1996 at the age of 25, was asked: “Do you think Puffy was involved in the shooting?”

The hip-hop star claims that “only they can answer that,” adding that he has his own opinion but would not drag their name through the mud like they did his.

“I believe it, I really believe it,” Tupac said, admitting, “I have proven things to support my claim,” but the whole world should not know about it.

Tupac Shakur was shot at the height of the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry in the 1990s. He is pictured with Combs and his rap rival Biggie Smalls, aka Christopher Wallace (right) and Sean “Diddy” Combs (left).

The rap legend, who died aged just 25, is pictured with Combs at his 1994 birthday party at the Roseland Ballroom.

“This remains a matter between him and me, and only he knows,” he said.

Tupac had agreed to appear on one of rapper Little Shawn’s songs on the day of the shooting, but admitted he had concerns about his safety before entering Quad Studios.

“When we got to the building, someone was screaming from the roof of the studio,” Tupac told Vibe Magazine in a 1995 interview.

“It was Little Caesar, Biggie’s sideman. That’s my buddy. When I saw him, all my concerns about the situation vanished,” he said.

Reassured, Tupac and his men entered the building. But as he approached the elevator, he noticed a group of men who were presumably associated with Biggie.

But things quickly took a dark turn when the rapper realized they were not Biggie’s security guards.

“Even Biggie’s buddies love me. Why don’t they look up? I pressed the elevator button, turned around and the guys came out with the guns – two identical 9mm pistols,” he recalled in the interview.

“Nobody move. Everyone on the dance floor. You know what time it is. Run your shit.” I was like, “What am I going to do?”

Tupac was hit five times and suffered serious injuries from the surprise shots, including a graze on the skull.

As the shooters fled the studio, the singer and his crew rushed up the elevator, but Tupac described the moments after the attack as follows: “I’m limping and stuff, but I don’t feel anything. I’m numb. When we got to the top, I looked around and I was scared shitless.”

In a disturbing turn of events, Tupac said he found Combs, Biggie and the others in the studio, but their lack of reaction and shock made him doubt whether they had known about the attack beforehand.

“Nobody came to me. I noticed that nobody was looking at me,” he said, expressing his growing sense of betrayal.

“Andre Harrell didn’t look at me. I had been out to dinner with him the last few days. He had invited me to the set of New York Undercover and told me he would get me a job.

Pictured: Tupac Shakur on August 15, 1996, one month before his murder

This photo from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows the bullet-riddled car in which rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas in September 1996.

“Puffy was in the back, too. I knew Puffy. He knew how much I had done for Biggie before he came out,” he said.

Years later, in 2008, when the allegations resurfaced, Combs repeatedly denied any knowledge or involvement in the attack.

The now disgraced music mogul denied the allegations in a scathing statement, saying: “The story is a lie, it is beyond ridiculous and completely untrue.”

“Neither the late rapper Notorious BIG nor I had any knowledge of any attack before, during or after it occurred.”

Two years after the Quad Studios shooting, Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas after leaving a boxing match at the MGM Grand.

He was sitting in a black BMW sedan with Suge Knight, the head of his record label, when a white Cadillac pulled up next to him and a gunman opened fire, hitting him multiple times.

Six days later he succumbed to his injuries.

Earlier this year, it emerged that the former LA gang leader accused of Tupac’s murder had previously claimed that Combs had offered him a million dollars to kill the rapper.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis is accused of orchestrating the drive-by shooting that killed the rapper, but he pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Davis – the only living person who was in the vehicle from which the shots were fired and the only person ever charged in the case – has been held in a Las Vegas jail since his arrest last September and has filed a motion to reconsider his bail.

Davis told LAPD investigators in 2008 that Combs allegedly offered him $1 million to kill Shakur (left) and Death Row Records boss Suge Knight (right).

Combs was arrested a week ago on a sex trafficking charge, accusing him of forcing women to participate in “freak-off” orgies and running a sordid criminal empire of sexual crimes.

But Clark County prosecutors objected to the motion in July, arguing that Davis should remain incarcerated because he had previously accused Combs of Tupac’s murder.

Citing a 2009 interview with Las Vegas police, prosecutors alleged that Davis “implied” that Combs “paid Eric Von Martin a million dollars for the murders” and “offered to arrange a secret phone call” with driver Terrance Bown, according to a July 18 court report obtained by Fox 5.

Combs, who was mentioned 77 times in the nearly 180-page court documents, was never a suspect in Shakur’s murder. Law enforcement sources told TMZ at the time that he was still not considered a suspect in the case.

The sensational interview footage emerged shortly after Combs was arrested a week ago on sex trafficking charges, accusing him of forcing women to participate in “freak-off” orgies and running a sordid criminal empire of sex crimes.

The disgraced musician was high-profilely arrested at the Park Hyatt hotel in New York City and has since been charged with sex trafficking and transportation for the purpose of prostitution. He pleaded not guilty to all of those charges in a Manhattan court on Tuesday.

The charges are related to so-called “freak-offs,” forced sexual acts that Combs allegedly staged and recorded, according to an indictment.

In a desperate attempt to stay free, he asked for bail, offering his own home and that of his mother as part of a $50 million bond.

But Combs’ request was denied and he will remain in custody, as it was revealed that if convicted he faces more than two decades behind bars.