Jason Weaver On 2Pac & Suge Knight Crashing Andre Harrell’s Party & Causing People To Flee The Event

But I want to ask you, I want to go back

to earlier. You said you had two runins

with Pac. Tell me about the second run

in you had with Pac and Suge.

>> Oh, with Pac and Suge. Yes. So, so um

this was during the time that I was

signed to Mottown Records and

Andre Herel had taken over Mottown. I

think this is this was the first year

of his tenure there. And so

it was all the buzz of black music that

Andre was about to turn Mottown around.

Or at least that's what they were

hoping.

And so, uh, so Andre had all these big

billboards

along Sunset Boulevard where he was in

the big chair, had the Mottown sweater

hanging over, and it had the the slogan

or the mantra at the bottom of it, and

it was it's on, and everybody was

talking about it. So, I believe it was

the Soul Train Music Awards. I forgot

which Soul Train Music Awards, but all

of the acts from Mottown and the

executives, all of us were flown out

from New York so that we could attend

the Soul Train Awards and so that the

industry could see the fleet of artists,

if you will, that Andre was going to be

putting out during his tenure there. And

I was one of them. So Andre threw this

big afterparty

at this restaurant off of Sunset Plaza.

And if anybody knows Sunset Boulevard

and particularly Sunset Plaza, there's

the a little strip on Sunset Boulevard

called Sunset Plaza that basically has

all of these kind of high-end hangout

restaurants where people eat outside

and, you know, do the Hollywood bougie

thing. It's like right there in the

middle of all of the power and affluence

of Hollywood.

And so Andre throws a Mottown party at a

restaurant there in Sunset Plaza

and everyone's there and it's cracking.

You know, you got your industry who's

who and and usually how these industry

parties go for people who aren't

familiar with it, especially during

awards season. You know, you hit five or

six different parties in one night after

the actual award show. So, you kind of

just bounce from party to party. So,

there's always a new a new crowd that

circulated in and out of these parties.

Well, I was only

what 18, 17, 18 at the time. So, I

couldn't go to too many parties where

they would legally let me in. So, me and

my cousin Kevin, who was my guardian at

the time, and my road manager, we just

decided to opt and just stay at the

Mottown party. It was already cracking

anyhow. The food was there. I was able

to, you know, sneak a couple fluts of

champagne, you know. So, I was happy

where I was at.

Parties going

and the way that the club was, it's like

it was kind of open or the way that the

restaurant is, it was kind of open where

you could see outside on the street.

So, as I'm dancing, I'm dancing with

some young lady or whatever, and I

happen to glance over to my right where

the entrance of the restaurant is, and I

just see all of these executives and

industry folk just literally scrambling

out of the door. And I mean, at a

feverish pace, like they leaving like

the about to get shot up or

something. So, I'm looking around like,

man, what the hell is going on? And so

all of a sudden you see the two Bentleys

pull up. I think Suge was in a red one

and Pac was in a in a white one or

something like that. So I'm looking and

then I see Suge and Pac get out and Dre

and I think Dre was with him. I think

Dre was with him too. And they start

mobbing through the party and they're

asking for they're asking where's Andre

at. They're asking where is Andre? I

don't know if they asked for Puff. I

don't think they asked for Puff, but I

know that they asked for Andre and they

asked for a couple of the other Mottown

executives who were former Uptown

executives.

And so I'm seeing them mob through the

party and I mean they, you know, they

doing the the LA West Coast. They up in

people's faces. They like, "Man, where

so and so at? Oh, what you drinking?

What you eating? What?" Like they, you

know, they like that. It's pretty

aggressive. So Pac comes towards the

area where I was because I was kind of,

you know, in the back. I was trying to

stay low-key because I was drinking

champagne underage. So I wasn't trying

to draw a whole bunch of attention to

myself. I was trying to keep it low. And

so all of a sudden, Pac just starts

moving around me. And of course, I'm in

amazement because it's Tupac. I'm like,

"Oh my god, it's Pac." And as he's

looking over people, looking around, he

just directly centers on me.

Hey, little Mike. Man, what you doing up

in here, man? What you, man? What you

doing drinking? And and and he just, you

know, he and I had a quick laugh. I

think he was really, you know, I think

he was amused at the fact that I was so

young in there. I was probably one of

the youngest people in there. I'm in

there partying, dancing with a grown

woman. I got a little fluted champagne

or whatever. And I think he just got a

big kick out of that. And then he

remembered meeting me um during that

time when him and Jack him and Janet

came to the Jackson set. So that's when

he hit me with the little mic and uh no

it was cool man and and I was like man

what's up Pac you know it wasn't no beef

although that whole bad boy uh death row

thing was going on at the time and

although some executives from Mottown

caught like the residual aspect of that

you know due to their association with

Puff or whatever you know when it came

to the artists and particularly when it

came to me and Pac J Dre, they they

weren't tripping on nothing. And and

when they realized that the people that

they were looking for were no longer

there or scured out of the restaurant

that they went on about their business

or they went to the next spot, I guess

trying to find whoever whoever it was

they were looking for, you know.

>> Crazy. So they had everybody shook when

they pulled up.

>> Hell yeah, man. Like Suge in particular

back then back during the death row era

and when Death Row was really active in

LA with LA was really active. Yeah, man.

Like Suge and Death Row that was that

was a force like you know cuz they they

they had cats within that organization

that were representing on both sides and

representing the blue flag and the red

flag and everything else in between. You

feel me? So they had a lot of LA street

power and muscle. So whenever you would

see any of those guys, you know, it was

like a like, oh these here like I

remember I kicked it at the Hotel Nico

one time. It may have been during an

All-Star game or something in Los

Angeles, but I'll never forget it. It

was at the Hotel Nico on it's on

Lassienga Boulevard. It's now called I

think I think it's still called the SLS

or whatever, but it was a Hotel Nico and

it used to be a fat burger. It's

actually the fat burger where Pac shot

to live and die in LA. That's now it's

been bulldozed down or whatever. But

anyway, Hotel Nico was a big industry

hangout especially during um event

weekends where you know everybody was in

town.

is I'll never forget, man. I was sitting

there chilling in the lobby of Hotel

Nico and I was just having a random

conversation with John Sally, who at

that time, you know, I didn't even know

he smoked or nothing like that, but John

Sally was like from the Bulls and from

the Detroit Pistons. So, I was like

tripping on the fact I'm sitting with

John Sally. He's smoking a little doobie

or whatever. And we kicking in this, you

know, it's a party going on in the

lobby. And then Suge walks in

and evidently he came there to see

somebody because he immediately walked

into the area where everybody was

congregating and and and hanging out and

drinking and he got at somebody and a

fight broke out and it was cats hopping

over the sofas, hopping over chairs. It

was like it was mayhem. But that was the

kind of energy, you know, that defro

would bring, you know, um to in into

certain situations. So I I got a chance

to see, you know, all of that with, you

know, from with a front seat uh point of

view. I was able to see a lot of that,

you know, activity that took place then.

Really interesting. Really interesting.

>> When Big got killed, was you in LA?

>> Yes, I was. Yes, I was there. As a

matter of fact, I would when Big got

killed,

my cousin Kevin and I were living in

Los. We had just shot the pilot to Smart

Guy. I'll never forget because

we were living on a street. We were

staying in this apartment in Korea Town

that my mother had gotten us. She didn't

really know Los Angeles like that, but

she had us in this random ass

uh apartment that she had booked for us

in Korea Town.

And I remember I was frustrated living

there or staying there at the time

because all of the parties where

everything was happening was west of us.

It was everything was in Beverly Hills,

you know, everything was off of Fairfax,

Mid Wilshire, you know, that area.

And um

the night that Big got killed, my cousin

Kevin and I were actually going to meet

up with my ANR director and my my big

brother at that time, uh Chuck Bone, who

was a ANR at ANR executive at Mottown.

And he was all cool with the with the

bad boy crew. And so he's like, "Yo, we

about to go over to this party and that

party. Um you know, if y'all can make

it, you know, pull up." But Kevin and I

ended up not pulling up because I think

I had to maybe work or something the

next day. But then that's when we got

the call. It was like 5:'lock in the

morning and Chuck had called me and

Kevin to let us know what had happened

to Big and then he was letting us know

that everybody that was from New York

that was there was scrambling to get on

flights to go back east. It was a it was

a serious situation because nobody knew

the level of the threat or even where

the actual threat came from. People, you

know, were speculating that it could

have been from death row or, you know,

to serve as some kind of retaliation or

whatever, but nobody really knew. And

seeing LA like that, like you always got

to play it careful cuz who you think may

be the suspect in the situation may not

actually be. There may actually be some

whole other politics going on. So when

when things first crack off in LA like

that, there's always this cloud of

uncertainty that kind of lingers until

the information starts trickling out. So

everybody was really nervous, you know,

with with with being out there in LA

like that and not knowing where the

threat was coming from or to what level

of threat it was. So it was um you know,

and of course everybody was sad to to

learn that that that Big had gotten

killed. I had the pleasure of meeting uh

Biggie a couple of times and and man, he

was so nice, man. Such such a nice guy

and, you know, to be um be tragically

killed like that, you know, at such a

young age, it was, you know, we were all

affected by it in some some way.

>> And you said people were scrambling to

get back to the East Coast.

>> Hell yeah, people were definitely

scrambling. Oh, yeah. No, I mean it's so

funny because well not funny but um I

saw a interview with Ed Lover years ago

and Ed Lover was talking about how you

know all of them when Big first got

killed everybody had rushed to Cedar

Sinai Hospital where they were trying to

save Big's life and so pretty much

everybody from New York was there in the

emergency waiting room praying and

waiting to receive news regarding his

condition. And from what I recall from

him in this interview, what he's saying

is soon as they found out, you know,

that he had passed, then that's when

everybody began to, you know, kind of

scramble and figure out, well,

maybe I need to get up out of here

because we don't know, you know, what

kind of threat this is and where it's

coming from. And so I think he even from

what he had said, if I remember um

correctly, I think he had to catch a a

flight out of Long Beach airport because

like everybody was converged upon LAX

and Burbank, you know, just trying to

get out. It was it was that kind of

situation.