2Pac’s father has spoken for the first time about the arrest of Duane “Keefe D” Davis on suspicion of murdering his son.
Sitting down with The Art of Dialogue, Billy Garland — who is ‘Pac’s biological father — gave his own view on his son’s 1996 death and who was ultimately responsible.
Garland called Keefe D “just a tool” and implied a wider conspiracy to murder 2Pac that involved the U.S. government and various units of law enforcement.
“He’s not a very intelligent individual,” he said of the former South Side Compton Crip. “When you go on air and say you participated in a high-scale assassination, eventually it’s gonna come back on you. I’m surprised he went that far and that long without them arresting him.
“He was in the car — that’s aiding and abetting in a murder! But he was doing his part with the rest of the people who were talking about the Orlando Anderson — he was fulfilling that glitch and adding to their truth, which we all know wasn’t true.”
Garland also said that Keefe’s arrest — which marks the first time charges have been made in the 27-year-old case — does “absolutely nothing” for him in terms of achieving closure over his son’s death.
“I’m just as empty by the loss of my son as the rest of the world is,” he admitted. “I have no feelings about it whatsoever because it’s not true. It’s not the truth. It’s just another pawn being moved in the game of chess to create that continuous story that we don’t know who did it. And that’s what they want.”
Further suggesting a wider conspiracy behind 2Pac’s death, he added: “Everybody can see through this thin veil of deceit. It’s ridiculous. I don’t think we’ll ever find out who really did the shooting. But we know it wasn’t no one individual. Keefe D might have been involved in it, but he was a pawn — maybe by the government, maybe by Death Row.”
Garland also insinuated that Death Row Records, who 2Pac was signed to at the time of his death, had ties to the government: “Death Row and the government are one and the same at this particular time.”
This is not the first time Billy Garland has suggested that the U.S. government was responsible for the death of 2Pac.
In an interview earlier this year, Garland hinted at a relationship between Keefe and the government.
“Well, I think the key question there is the government. The government gave him the deal,” he said, referring to Keefe D’s 2008 police confession that granted him immunity in a PCP ring case. “[2Pac] was being tailed by the government the night of his assassination. He was being tailed by the government while in the studio — that’s a known fact.
“So I don’t know this guy Keefe, I don’t know. Maybe he had to say that to get out of some issue, I don’t know. I just know it looked like a set up to me. Somebody told this guy to stand there with the Death Row thing and it pursued to what we had, but I don’t think [Orlando Anderson] had anything to do with the death of my son…not at all.”
The theory that the U.S. government was involved in 2Pac’s killing has also been spread by author John Potash, who wrote the book The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders.
Eh, I think Pac and his entourage beat up a gangbanger, and that gangbanger did exactly what he was “supposed” to do and sought immediate revenge. Don’t overthink it.
Naw fam, sorry you don’t know, or are deliberately running interference. Lot of you on here now.
God bless you, and the 3 (or more) fools upvoting you.
Naw Fam, you dont know what I know, nor do you know what happened in 1996. You really think the government was involved in killing Tupac? I know we all love Pac, but dont make it a bigger deal than it is. By the time Pac got with Suge, he was running wild. It was only a matter of time before something like this happened. There is nothing in Keefe D’s story that is so outlandish that it couldn’t have happened. This is literally what gangbangers do. They fight, they retaliate, and in Orlando’s case, get killed over some unrelated dumb shit. God Bless you too fam.
Nah… the thug life killed ‘Pac. Nothing more, nothing less. There’s no conspiracy. And even if there was, Until Black folks take responsibility for the state of their communities, we’re going to keep sleepwalking into them. Enough with the victim narrative.
Acting like it would’ve taken a whole army to get rid of 2Pac. 2Pac was not that dangerous.
🤦🏽♂️ you keep missing the point with this tough guy stuff… it was a setup the man just said death row and the gov’t were 1 in the same read between the lines fam
@MoneyMac I for one believe Greg Kading’s theory. The Crips got 2Pac and the Bloods got Biggie (via Poochie). I don’t believe all that government conspiracy theory bs. Peace!
The crips didn’t get Pac, it was an assassination so stop thinking so surface level
If you weren’t old enough to witness Pac’s journey in realtime… your opinions are likely rooted in heresay.
Did the gov kill b.i.g. too
is this the same father i done here 2pac diss so many time, right 2pac left didn’t leave you a dime, why are the asking this Guy anything about 2pac, he don’t know nothing, when 2pac was alive all i heard him did was dis is pop’s
now he’s like 2pac this and 2pac that all for 15 min of fame crazy
This reminds me of an interview or documentary about Tupac (I forget which one) where they talked about Tupac sonnin’ Jimmy Henchman on the phone. Some real disrespectful sh it. The when the call was over, Tupac was like “Who’s Jimmy Henchman?” When they told him who he was he asked “You think I should bring my gun?” lol. Uum…yeah. You should do that. That was right before the Quad Recording Studios shooting. My point is that people don’t realize (or forget) how reckless Tupac was.