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We are closing in on the 30th anniversary of the 1996 and 1997 murders of legendary rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
There have been numerous conspiracy theories put forth regarding the murders of the two music icons, but one has ever been charged with killing either of them.
Two other key players at the time of the rappers’ slayings were Suge Knight and Sean Combs, AKA Diddy.
Knight, who was in the car with Tupac when he was killed and was shot himself, was the head of Death Row Records on the West Coast, while Diddy ran Bad Boy Records on the East Coast.
Their feud is largely blamed for Tupac and Biggie Smalls, AKA The Notorious B.I.G. losing their lives at ages 25 and 24 respectively, but neither was charged in either murder.
In October of last year, retired Las Vegas Metro Police Detective Clifford Mugg claimed Tupac’s murder was, in fact, related to the killing of Smalls.
Now, retired Los Angeles Police Department detective Greg Kading tells New York Magazine that Diddy ordered a hit on Tupac a few months before he was murdered.
Kading, who was involved in the investigations of both Tupac and Biggie’s murders, says Diddy instructed Duane “Keefe D” Davis to assassinate both Tupac and Suge Knight and even offered him a bounty of $1 million for each killing.
Davis was arrested and charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon in September of 2023 in connection with Tupac’s murder.
“During a stop on the 1995 Summer Jam tour in Anaheim, Combs allegedly told a hotel room full of Crip gangsters — Davis included — that he wanted ‘them dudes’ heads,’ as Davis put it; i.e. for someone to kill Tupac and Knight,” the lengthy New York Magazine article states. “Combs may have simply been caught up in the moment; tensions were running high and he was by all accounts legitimately concerned for his safety. But later, Davis said, over lunch in L.A., Combs offered him a million dollars to get the hit done. According to Davis, he had agreed to the hit, telling Combs, ‘Man, we’ll wipe their a– out quick.’ (Davis later told Kading he would have done it for $50,000.).”