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The claim made by Diddy’s former bodyguard that Biggie Smalls death was a complete lie.
Gene Deal was asked about his involvement in one of music’s most infamous unsolved murders as he was speaking to the Art of Dialogue. Deal argued that Biggie wasn’t killed in a drive-by as many people were lead to think. Deal served as Diddy’s bodyguard in the 1990s. How does he make his claim? Because of that he saw the attack firsthand.
“Before we left Andre Harrell’s house, Puff told me I didn’t have to go,” Deal said. “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 … 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.”
In the early hours of March 9, 1997, Biggie was shot and killed after leaving a Soul Train Awards afterparty. Biggie’s SUV was apparently shot at at roughly 12:45 a.m. by a Chevy Impala that had purportedly driven up next to it. According to reports, the rapper was shot four times and later declared dead.
Deal claimed that he pulled Biggie from the car as he saw “this kid lose his life” following the incident.
“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.”
“It just hurts because they lie too much,” he continued. “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. 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.”