James Rosemond

So all of the way that you just explained it is the way I also understand it.

Tupac was supposed to show up at the studio and do some background vocals i think on a guy named little sean's yes um on little sean's either video or song whatever it was to be and uh he wanted the money up front and um there was a guy named jimmy henchman that was involved in orchestrating and in in coordinating this thing and henchman was a little bit put off and Tupac was being a little bit demanding.

You know, we've asked you to go over there.

Don't worry about it.

So what was the real relationship or the nature of the relationship between, say, Puffy and Big and the people who did what they did to Tupac in the lobby?

These were all kind of street relationships.

The henchman, you know, Jimmy Henchman, James Roseman, you know, who was involved in the record industry to a certain degree, kind of, you know, a producer, had his own label.

But he's also a street guy, as was obviously Haitian Jack, was an extortionist and a robber and, you know, running around in these circles that... creating all kinds of havoc with people against each other.

He pulls out this check out his back right pocket- And showed us the numbers, and it was for a million dollars.

He said he got it from Barry Hankerson and, come on, uh, Barry Hankerson and Jimmy Henchman for Blackground Records.

That's what he told us he got the check for.

For Blackground Records.

Look, listen, I...

Game straight, but Game don't have nothing to do with Game or Game manager was Jimmy Henchman, which was everybody know that story.

And his other manager at the time was a guy who drove trucks, and everybody know that story, right?

Mm-hmm.

But none of it involved the Game.

I'm talking about Suge Knight, Jimmy Henchman stuff, uh, um, Big U, Suge Knight.

It was, it was going on at this cemetery.

Gangster party.

So.

Now, was it about that time that Jimmy Henchman became your manager?

Um, f- Jimmy Henchman became my manager about, yeah, about that, about the same time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so, um, Jimmy came to me and he was like, you know, he came through my, you know, my homie D-Mac, uh, who, uh, helped me out, uh, and was the sub-company to, you know, Aftermath with his Desperado, uh, company, him and K-Dog in, in the early stages of my career.

Um, he, he came to me with Jimmy.

He was like, "Yo, Jimmy, you know, wanna man- wanna manage you." At first I ain't even know this was the Jimmy Henchman that, uh, you know, Pac was talking about in the records, or just based off of that I might not have did it just because Pac was, you know, had niggas minds going crazy.

I will fight for the right to not make the situation worse for you, right? I'm not just gonna hand it over to the police.

In fact, with Jimmy Henchman, I fought them trying to get the interview, which was for his, uh, retrial or his appeal trial.

They wanted to get this one interview where he talked about the case.

I fought it, spent like 10,000 legal fees.

You gotta still perform like everybody's here.

Why would the game and Jimmy Henchman be in one segment, you may ask? Because as Tony Yayo says it, it was because of Jimmy that the feud between the game and 50 Cent started.

I'll tell you the poison

in that was Jimmy Henchman.

Jimmy Henchman never liked Chris Leighton.

For those that don't know who Chris Lighty is, he is 50's former manager who died in 2012, and Jimmy Hinchman was the game's manager who knew Supreme.

Another interesting fact about Jimmy is that he single-handedly planned the robbery of Tupac in 94, so he was very dangerous for 50.

But he never received a response.