This year [2015] marked the 19th anniversary of the death of rapper Tupac (2 Pac) Shakur. Interest in his death, when he was fatally wounded in Las Vegas in 1996 and the death of Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. has waxed and waned over the years but has never been fully extinguished.
Documentaries about their deaths like ‘Biggie & Tupac‘ and ‘Tupac: Assassination‘ has kept the fires burning but has also added to the confusion surrounding those tragically unprosecuted crimes. In 2011, Greg Kading, an LAPD detective who headed the Biggie Smalls murder investigation, wrote ‘Murder Rap‘, a book revealing his findings that generated some controversy upon its release.
Now the book has been turned into a documentary entitled “Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders”. While the book, which was published in 2011, implicated Puff Daddy in the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, the documentary is shedding light on that theory once again.
Murder Rap features a 2008 recorded police interrogation between Kading and gang member Duane “Keffe D” Davis in which Keffe D says he was approached by the Bad Boy CEO twice in an effort to get Pac and Suge Knight killed. On the recordings, Davis says he and Puff were such good friends that he loaned the Bad Boy CEO his 1964 Impala for Usher’s “Can U Get With It” music video. Apparently, Puff Daddy was afraid of retaliation after his friend and bodyguard Anthony “Wolf” Jones allegedly killed Suge’s close friend and alleged Bloods member Jai Hassan-Jamal Robles, also known as “Big Jake.”According to Keffe D, Puff offered to pay he, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, and Eric “Zip” Martin $1,000,000 for the hit. However, he was never paid because Puff allegedly gave $500,000 to Zip, who in turn never paid the money out.
This Puffy revelation shouldn’t be surprising to anyone as Puff was also implicated in Kading’s 2011 book and has been rumoured to be involved in the infamous failed hit on Shakur’s life outside of Quad Studios in New York two years prior to Pac’s death. Davis also maintains Big was oblivious to the alleged plot to kill Pac and Suge as Lance “Un” Rivera had him focused on his career. Still, the rapper was gunned down six months after Pac’s murder as payback, according to Kading, who was able to link Suge to Big’s death. But with the LAPD being the LAPD, the case was shelved indefinitely.