The killers of Biggie and Tupac have been identified in Murder Rap: Inside The Biggie & Tupac Murders, which was released Monday (February 1).
Available on iTunes, The film showcases the work of retired LAPD detective Greg Kading, who led a special task force to investigate the murders.
Kading’s findings led him to conclude that Puff Daddy hired Crips gang member Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis to kill Shakur and Suge Knight. The bounty was $1 million. According to Kading’s work, Keffe D’s nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, shot Tupac in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996. The rapper died September 13.
Kading says that Knight hired Bloods gang member Wardell “Poochie” Fouse to kill The Notorious B.I.G. as retaliation. Biggie Smalls was shot to death in Los Angles March 9, 1997.
The retired detective refers to a quote from Perry Sanders, the attorney of Voletta Wallace, Biggie’s mother, regarding the status of the Biggie case.
“It’s not that the case is unsolved,” Kading says during an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. “It’s merely unprosecuted and because of a variety of circumstances, the cases are unprosecutable. But that doesn’t mean they’re unsolved. So internally, we realize that we’ve solved the cases but perhaps the public, by not having gone through a trial process, doesn’t understand how they can be solved and not prosecuted.”
Kading says there are several reasons prohibiting these cases from going to trial. For one, several of the key witnesses are dead, including both Baby Lane and Poochie. Another problem is that the confession from a participant in the crimes is Keffe D, a convicted drug dealer and documented gang member making a claim against a powerful music icon, namely Puffy Combs.
“Any good district attorney is going to realize the fallibility of trying to put a case in court against the kind of defense that Puffy Combs could mount in easily discrediting somebody such as a Compton gang member with his history,” Kading says. “It comes down to a matter of a DA looking at it and going, ‘What is the probability of success in this prosecution?’ And when there’s not high probability they elect not to prosecute. The same set of circumstances goes for the Biggie Smalls case.”
Murder Rap director-producer Dorsey echoes that sentiment.
“I think if it had ended at Keffe D and Orlando Anderson and the Crips and it just stayed in the street level thing, maybe this would be a solved case now,” he says. “Looking at where else it led, they didn’t want to go down that road with Puffy and Suge both.”
Biggie & Tupac Cases Likely To Remain “Cleared Other”
As the 20-year anniversary of Tupac’s death approaches, Dorsey says he believes the cases will remain as “cleared other” internally, meaning that they have been cleared under other circumstances and will not go to trial.
“I think because these are such high profile murders that they will never declare these ‘cleared other’ [to the public] because it would really upset people and open up a whole other can of worms,” Dorsey says, “and they would have to explain why they’re basically closing these cases down without having prosecuted anybody.”
Not having an official resolution to these cases does not serve the public, Kading says.
“It’s not a service to the public,” he says. “It’s a self-preservation, protective [tactic]. The LAPD’s motto is, ‘To protect and serve.’ But the LAPD’s motto also means ‘To protect and serve itself,’ and so unfortunately the police department does what’s in its self best interest instead of what’s in the public’s best interest.”
Regardless, Kading says that his work as presented in Murder Rap: Inside The Biggie & Tupac Murders should be taken as fact.
“We’re not espousing a theory,” he says. “We’re espousing the truth based on empirical evidence. We’re claiming this is the truth. We’re not promoting a theory that could be true. That’s the difference. We have a completely fact-based investigation, an evidence-based investigation.”
The Murder Rap: Inside The Biggie & Tupac Murders trailer, in which the killers of Biggie and Tupac have been identified, is as follows:
somewhere in that theory lies the truth..wouldn’t be surprised if Puffy or Suge were involved. They both hated each other back then. The tension was real.
1.) This guy is still a cop, so anything he says is still a cop speaking on these issues. The players in his theory are correct, but the story is wrong.
LA is not that big, especially South Central. Death Row was a label dominated by bloods. Bloods on the payroll, and many of the other blood gangs not directly associated with Suge were still down by affiliation or perpetrated to seem down in LA…everybody wanted to be on Death Row in the 90s. Rappers didn’t use Securitec and shit for security they outsourced goons, so when puffy is in LA he can’t have bloods as security…that wouldn’t be smart so he deals with South Side CCs.
Fast forward to Pac joining…wanting to be a blood…Trayvon Lane gets his chain snatched at Lynwood Mall by south siders….they see them in Vegas weeks later lane points dude out to Pac…they stomp Anderson out, and it turns into set trippin. It’s sad but it’s simple. LA was fucked up in the late 90s because of all that. A lot of people died including Biggie. But Puff didn’t pay to have Pac killed. They had rap beef….Pac died because he wanted to Set Trip
Puff did have a contract on pac, the orlando beating sped up that process, it was now a legitimate excuse for the crips to kill pac, like you said “set trippin” the problem with all this is 99.9% of what was said was true but would never be accepted in a court room bc of the people saying it, bc they’re criminals, but it is a fact, the contract was paid out, just didnt get to the hands of the shooters.
1. He’s not still a cop. 2. the people involved in the shootings and the evidence tell the story of what happened not the cop. Everything points to Puff being responsible for Pacs shooting and Suge being behind Biggies
watch the “fbi war on tupac shakur and black leaders” on youtube and the testimony of michael rupert former lapd det who exposed cia infultration into the police. these guys were killed to keep revolutionary ideas out of rap and to keep the prison for profit mill of gangster rap promoted violence going on forever. you think its a coincidence no white men in suits are named and those who are are now dead? same way the cia jfk hit went down, and the watergate burgler e howard hunt exposed that as an offical dc move. same criminals who ran the school of the americas death squads destabilized the black communtiy to where it is today, same as cartels in mexico are a destabilization program. read up on it.
all that you’re saying I have also seen or read about. whenever we talk about how the games rigged against us some people take that shit lightly. they under estimate the deviousness of the powers that be.
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2pac is Kendrick Lamar reincarnated
1.) You mean Kendrick Lamar is 2Pac reincarnated
2.) You’re barely smarter than a toaster
Just take the “L”
You mad cus ya moms gets throatfucked on the daily?? Lmao.
puffy is the devil and will go to hell
Smh @ Diddy
R.I.P. P.DIDDY Youre next
Kading himself, years ago, said Puff didn’t order no hit for that night in particular, them niggas was just out there for the Tyson fight like everybody else. After Pac stomped dude out, THEN they was like fuck it, we about to find them dudes anyway, might as well try to extort Puff over some conversations he had about trying to kill them months before. Not sure why he’s not making that clear now, unless it’s more DX fuckery…
illuminati took out pac/odb/pimp c……slash slash slash*facts not opinions*check out the interview where dirty was exposing them & meth chimes in saying I love yall at the cia*letting them know thts dirty’s opinion not mine*Scared*….then we have pimp c who went on an epic rant about the homosexuality in rap*ends up Dead*Lean???No*…going against the agenda*look how gay hip-hop is now*facts not opinions*
And here we go(In Joker voice) I don’t know what’s worst. For someone to make a movie like this or the idiots in the comment section that actually believe it. As they say, no one cares about the truth if the lie sounds better. I didnt know Tupac death was still a mystery. He stomped out a gang member and that said gang member bragged about killing him hours later. Also there was a huge reason why Puff wouldnt want Tupac dead, the main reason is that it bought so much attention to Biggie and Bad Boy. As tragically as the beef ended for both parties you had people taking sides and looking at Biggie as the King of New York, you couldn’t buy that type of exposure. That’s like if you were an up and coming singer and Beyonce started beefing with you, you can’t buy that type of notoriety.
……..WRONG. Listen fuckboi, this shit was deeper than just music and making money, you cock homo.
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Certain types of celebs seem to not to be allowed to leave an industry clean. P Diddy and Suge probably had nothing to do with the murder of BIG or Pac. If they did why did it take 20 years to reach this conclusion. If the proof has only come to light recently via an informant then I have doubts over the validity of the information based on the number of years that have passed. Also finger pointing will need to pointed at police officials who have failed to arrest and charge earlier. This seems like a opportunity for someone to make a name for themselves by planting lies on Suge and Diddy. You also have to question the motive of someone who releases this information on the anniversary of someone death. This si not the action of someone who has best interests at heart.
Ok, so Poochie is dead….but can they still go after Itchy and Scratchy?
Man fuck this snitchfest. Fact is both these niggas and they labels had beef and now they dead, no civilians killed here. Ffs let sleeping dogs lie and stop this snitchery , smfh.
Wow dude grow up and get a clue and stop the cooonery. Silly cooon.
Ok so Orlando was the shooter? So ‘Pac knew that the guy came to kill him and that’s why they stomped him out in the casino? Then Orlando followed him in the car? So ‘Pac left in the car with Suge and they tried to get away cause they knew Orlando was coming to kill them but he caught up and shot? Why didn’t they just finish him off in the casino?
You’re a fool
right in front of all those cameras
Certain types of celebs seem to not to be allowed to leave an industry clean. P Diddy and Suge probably had nothing to do with the murder of BIG or Pac. If they did why did it take 20 years to reach this conclusion. If the proof has only come to light recently via an informant then I have doubts over the validity of the information based on the number of years that have passed. Also finger pointing will need to pointed at police officials who have failed to arrest and charge earlier. This seems like a opportunity for someone to make a name for themselves by planting lies on Suge and Diddy. You also have to question the motive of someone who releases this information on the anniversary of someone death. This si not the action of someone who has best interests at heart.
Yeah homie, they were tied to the LAPD. There were bloods on the LAPD that were tied to it. Suge knew all the guys.
Old news… next
New movie fuckface. Unless you are in a time machine 10 years later, Feb. 1 is 3 days ago. Until then, shut the fuck up troll bitch.
Its based a book you clown which is mad old and this is old news anyway, go back under your rock.
Also, this movie has been leaked online for a few months at least, so once again, go back under your rock.
Feminine tendencies have you!
So HiphopDX is officially stating that these are the killers? It’s not alleged? This is being stated as fact?
Can you autograph my Asher Roth – Asleep In The Bread Aisle vinyl?
Just to be clear: The article says that the movie and Kading’s police work says this. Thank you for reading the story.
damn you click bait
Here’s my review of the film from last September that goes over the allegations in more depth: https://hiphopdx.com/editorials/id.3007/title.murder-rap-inside-the-biggie-tupac-murders-seeks-to-decode-the-truth-behind-the-crimes
We been knew this. And its been a documentdocumentary movie before. Hella old news
Do you even English bro?
Biggie’s mom has LAPD by the balls with that 400 mill . So their pulling lies out their you know what 20 years later . Open your eyes people .
I wouldn’t be surprise if both the murders set up by corrupted officers…. Because back then music rang thing’s and in order to get the power of control both well know leaders needed to be taken out. As I don’t get, how much witness came forward and nothing was done… And those Who presumably were involve or a lead were murderer…… But by whom….
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Maybe she can help.She helped other cold cases.Worth a try ppl PAC and Big deserve justice!!!! She probably knows all the answers!
They need to incarcerate every police officer involved and give big mom,Pac mom peace of mind ,yeah even if Pac mom’s with Pac she deserves spiritual closing Amen