Jada Pinkett Smith is still making the rounds to promote her new book, and in a new conversation she opened up about the time Suge Knight brought some of 2Pac‘s ashes to her in the wake of his death.
The actor and author sat down with Extra in an interview shared on Wednesday (October 18). Referencing the portion of Worthy where she discusses the topic, Pinkett Smith elaborated on the seemingly callous interaction with the Death Row mogul.
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“Having to receive ‘Pac’s ashes in that way was a really devastating moment … to just get him in this little cardboard box,” she explained. “And yeah, I was very rageful about the whole thing. He was [cavalier about the delivery.]”
When asked if Suge’s energy made her believe he was behind 2Pac’s murder, Jada chose not to pass judgement.
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“One thing I’ve learned – not to make assumptions,” she responded. “Lord knows so many assumptions gave been made about me of what people think they know front-facing. And there’s always more to the story so I can’t make assumptions.”
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Amid Duane “Keefe D” Davis’ recent arrest in relation to 2Pac’s murder, Suge Knight was accused of holding up the investigation by a retired LAPD detective with intimate knowledge of the case.
The claim was made by Greg Kading, who was the lead detective of an interagency task force launched in 2006 to investigate Biggie’s 1997 murder and who wrote the 2011 book Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations.
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His book theorizes that 2Pac was killed by South Side Compton Crip Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, who was allegedly handed the murder weapon by his uncle and fellow gang member Duane “Keefe D” Davis.
Davis — the only remaining suspect who is still alive — was recently charged in the rapper’s murder, marking the first-ever arrest in the 27-year-old case.
In an interview with Rolling Stone published earlier this month, Kading blamed Suge Knight for ‘Pac’s 1996 death going unsolved for almost three decades.
“If there’s anybody in the world to blame for this taking 27 years to solve, it’s Suge Knight,” he said of the Death Row Records co-founder, who was in the car with 2Pac when he was fatally shot. “He knew the moment it happened who did it.
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“And all Suge had to do when Las Vegas [PD] asked him to come in and sit down for an interview, all he had to do was say, ‘They pulled up alongside, I looked right across the car, I saw Keefe D in the front seat.’ That’s all he had to say: ‘I saw Keefe D.’ That alone, that witness statement would’ve changed everything.”
He added: “There’s nobody else who could have helped more than him, and he didn’t, because evidently, his reputation was more important than 2Pac’s life.”
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Kading’s comments come shortly after Suge Knight broke his silence on Keefe D’s arrest, telling TMZ that he won’t testify against the 60-year-old if called to do so and that he doesn’t believe Orlando Anderson was the one who killed 2Pac.
“I never had nothing bad to say about Orlando because […] he wasn’t the shooter,” he said. “It wasn’t Anderson, so that’s all I got to say about that part.”
