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Suge Knight claims Tupac's ashes were put into a blunt
Suge Knight was with Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas the night the rapper was shot and killed in September 1996. Thirty years later, with Tupac’s alleged killer finally on trial, Knight is sharing stories more from the aftermath, including one about Tupac allegedly being put in a blunt and smoked.
Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight — who is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence in California for voluntary manslaughter for a fatal hit-and-run in 2015 — told TMZ that immediately after Tupac died, his mother Afeni Shakur wanted him cremated right away. Knight says he tracked down a man from a funeral home late that evening and asked him to perform the cremation that night.
After the man said he was busy for the next few days, Knight claims he showed up at the man’s house with two bags — one containing $200,000 in cash and another containing $1 million. He offered the $200,000 bag first, and when the man said no, Knight then put both bags on the table and offered him $1.2 million in cash. The cremator took the deal and cremated Tupac that night.
Suge Knight says Tupac’s mother and friends rolled his ashes into blunts and smoked them the night he was cremated
Knight claims that Afeni then had people come to her Vegas hotel room, where they rolled Tupac’s ashes into several blunts and smoked them. Knight says he was on probation at the time and felt smoking Tupac’s remains might constitute a violation, so he passed.
Over 30 years after the shooting, 63-year-old Duane “Keefe D” Davis — a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips — is currently on trial for the rapper’s killing.
Knight, however, has previously told TMZ he believes Davis “wasn’t the only one involved.” Prosecutors seem to agree, as Davis is not accused of firing the shots that killed Shakur, but that he orchestrated the attack, and has been charged with murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further, or assist a criminal gang.