A former LAPD cop claims that Grammy Award-winning artist
Sean 'P Diddy' Combs was responsible for hiring a killer to shoot Tupac Shakur
in a drive-by in 1996.
Both Diddy, from New York, and Tupac, in Los Angeles, had
been caught up in a bitter rivalry between East and West Coast rappers,
the Huffington Post reports.
Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls - a close friend
of P Diddy - was shot dead six months later in a revenge killing, according to
retired detective Greg Kading, who once led a special task force that investigated
the shootings.
**sob..sob...sob* P Diddy, P Diddy, so it is you that shared Tupac's blood ehn? May the witches in your father's village hunt you o.
Tupac my first love, rest in peace my ni**a, there's a heaven for a G.
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Kading claims in a new documentary that Diddy hired Crips gang member Duane Keith 'Keffe D' Davis to kill Shakur and his manager Marion Hugh 'Suge' Knight for $1million.
Kading claims in a new documentary that Diddy hired Crips gang member Duane Keith 'Keffe D' Davis to kill Shakur and his manager Marion Hugh 'Suge' Knight for $1million.
But on the night of the fatal shooting, on September 7,
1996, it was actually Keffe's nephew Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson who
shot the 25-year-old rapper dead, according to the ex-cop. Suge escaped
unharmed.
The documentary, Murder Rap, features a 2008 interview
with Keffe where he claims to have heard Diddy declare in a room full of Crips
members that he'd 'give anything for Pac and Suge Knight's heads'.
He goes on to say in the police interview that the rapper had later approached him and offered him $1million to kill the pair.
He goes on to say in the police interview that the rapper had later approached him and offered him $1million to kill the pair.
Former LAPD detective Kading says he was able to 'trap'
Keffe into giving him information about Shakur's murder to avoid a harsher
sentence for another crime.
Kading says that in retaliation for Tupac's murder,
Suge hired rival Blood gang member Wardell 'Poochie' Fouse to kill Diddy's
long-time friend Biggie Smalls for just $13,000.
Suge is currently in jail awaiting trial after running over two men outside a Compton, California, burger stand in late January 2015, killing one and seriously injuring the other.
Suge is currently in jail awaiting trial after running over two men outside a Compton, California, burger stand in late January 2015, killing one and seriously injuring the other.
He later turned himself in to police, and his attorneys
have contended that he was fleeing armed attackers when he ran over the
men.
Court records show a judge has now cut his access to
phone calls and non-attorney visitors at the request of a sheriff's detective
investigating the case.
Kading claims that the rap mogul was behind the murder
of Biggie - also known as The Notorious B.I.G. - who was one of the
biggest rappers in the U.S. when he was shot dead on March 9, 1997. He was
24.
The artist was killed while leaving an awards ceremony at
Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
He got into the back of a GMC Suburban car in a
three-vehicle convoy, but before the cars moved, a black Chevy SS Impala pulled
up alongside his window and sprayed gunfire.
Kading was assigned to reopen the rappers' murders in
2006 after Biggie's mother Voletta Wallace sued the LAPD over claims they
had covered up the real killer in her son's murder - allegedly a
rogue cop.
Conspiracy theories abounded after the rappers' deaths.
Many believed the murders were part of a 'war' between
top East and West Coast rappers - Diddy and Biggie were part of the East Coast,
New York-based, rap scene while Shakur belonged to the West Coast, LA-based
scene.
But another popular theory was that Biggie's death may
have been the work of David Mack, a corrupt former LA police officer who served
14 years in jail for a $722,000 armed bank robbery in LA in 1997.
FBI files identify the type of bullets used in the fatal shooting as Gecko 9mm, a rare metal-piercing munition.
FBI files identify the type of bullets used in the fatal shooting as Gecko 9mm, a rare metal-piercing munition.
The same bullets were later discovered at Mack's
home along with shrine to Tupac - known as 2Pac on stage - and
a black Chevy SS Impala - the same type of car that was used in the
drive-by.
Kading led the task force whose job it was to disprove
the claims in the $500million wrongful death lawsuit.
His team was able to find enough evidence to clear the
LAPD and all its officers of any wrongdoing, and the investigation was all but
dropped.
Then in 2009, Kading was removed from the task force
during an internal affairs investigation - of which he was eventually
cleared.
But in his 2011 book, Murder Rap, the retired detective
claims the department dropped the case because of P Diddy's fame.
The ex-cop admits his allegations are unlikely to end
anyone in court - unless he is sued.
But he hopes that by publishing his claims that it can
'hold up in the court of public opinion'.
The book has now been turned into a documentary of the
same name which premiered last year and is available on Netflix from spring.
P Diddy blasted claims in 2011 during an interview with
LA Weekly as 'pure fiction and completely ridiculous.'
Tupac's death also remains a mystery as no killer was ever charged.
Tupac's death also remains a mystery as no killer was ever charged.
The rapper was shot multiple times in a drive-by
shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
He had been leaving after watching a Mike Tyson vs Bruce
Sheldon boxing match on September 7, 1996, when he spotted gang member Orlando
'Baby Lane' Anderson and the pair got into a fight.
Shortly afterwards, Tupac had been on the way to a night
club, standing with his head out of the car's sunroof, when another vehicle pulled
up alongside him and and unknown occupants shot him, hitting him in the chest,
pelvis, right hand, thigh and lung.
The shooting has passed into hip hop legend inspiring
numerous theories to who was responsible for the rapper's death - including one
theory that he is still alive after faking his death.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Suge's lawyer, Stephen
Schwartz, and P Diddy's management for comment.
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