1994 Quad Studios Shooting
The November 30, 1994 Times Square robbery in which Tupac was shot five times.
On November 30, 1994, while in New York recording verses for a Ron G mixtape, Tupac Shakur was offered $7,000 by music manager James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond to stop by Quad Studios in Times Square and record a verse for his client Little Shawn. Shakur agreed, needing the cash to offset legal costs, and arrived with Stretch and one or two others.
Quick Facts
- Date
- November 30, 1994
- Place
- Quad Studios, Times Square, New York
- Injuries
- Shot five times, pistol-whipped
- Session
- Verse for Little Shawn (Jimmy Henchman Rosemond)
- Aftermath
- Who Shot Ya?; Hit 'Em Up
Lore & Background
In the studio lobby three men robbed and beat him at gunpoint; he resisted and was pistol-whipped and shot five times. Shakur later accused Rosemond, Sean Combs and The Notorious B.I.G., who were at Quad Studios that night, among others, of setting up or being privy to the robbery.
Reader's Guide
The accusations fed the East Coast-West Coast rivalry: months later Combs and B.I.G. released "Who Shot Ya?", which Shakur took as mockery of his shooting, and he answered with the diss track "Hit 'Em Up". Still recovering from his wounds, Shakur surrendered to the Bellevue Hospital Jail Ward on December 23, 1994, after failing to post a $3 million bond.
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