The murder of Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace has remained unsolved as far as the law is concerned for over 20 years.
The Bad Boy Records rap phenomenon was gunned down on March 9, 1997 — just six months after his friend-turned-foe Tupac Shukar.
According to now-retired FBI agent Phil Carson, the timing of the Biggie killing was far from incidental. He not only claims it was a paid hit — ordered by infamous Death Row Records mogul Suge Knight — but also a massive police cover-up across the board.
“[Biggie’s murder] was the biggest miscarriage of justice in my 20-year career at the FBI,” Phil Carson told The New York Post in an article published on Sunday (May 30). “I had evidence that LAPD officers were involved and I was shut down by the LAPD and city attorneys inside Los Angeles.”
1990s Hip Hop fans undoubtedly have heard the names “David Mack” and “Amir Muhammed” centered around Biggie’s murder investigation and a 2003 FBI report obtained by The Post outlines their direct involvement.
“Amir Muhammad, AKA Harry Billups, the godparent to LAPD Officer David Mack’s two children, has been identified by several sources as the trigger man,” Carson wrote at the time, demanding LAPD step up and take a closer examination. “Mack is a registered owner of a 1995 Black SS Impala with chrome wheels, the exact description given as being driven by Wallace’s shooter.”
Mack was eventually cleared in Biggie’s case, but the Rampert corruption probe of the late ’90s discovered him to be a dirty cop, leading to his arrest in December 1997 for robbing a Los Angeles bank of nearly one million dollars. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison and released in 2010.
Even more remarkably, the written testimony claims Diddy — not Biggie — was the intended hit. During the wee hours of March 9 in Los Angeles, the Bad Boy team were all partied out at the Petersen Automotive Museum celebrating the pending release of B.I.G.’s final album, Life After Death.
Diddy and Biggie left the party in separate vehicles and the late “Hypnotize” rapper’s SUV was fired upon, striking him four times.
Carson says he shared the information with Puff Daddy, who became “freaked out” over the revelation.
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“I knew one day I was going to tell the truth,” Carson told The Post. “What I went through at the time from the LAPD was sheer hell.”
Following Biggie’s murder, the LAPD had been so rattled with racial corruption in the aftermath of the Rodney King “not guilty” verdict, they were looking to avoid all sorts of friction and negative press.
Carson says the US attorney’s office swept things involving the case under a rug (in this case, likely a dusty file cabinet in the basement) as a result.
In 2002, Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace, would file a wrongful death lawsuit in wake of the rampant allegations but ultimately saw the case dismissed in 2010.
Deceased LAPD detective Russell Poole dedicated the latter half of his life attempting to expose all the corruption in the department. Following his retirement in 1999, he turned to private detective work and began writing the book Chaos Merchants: Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG before dying in 2015 from a brain aneurysm.
With justice on Carson’s brain, he’s given the proverbial “thumbs up” to the much-maligned Johnny Depp film, City Of Lies. Although shot in 2018, the movie was finally unearthed to streaming platforms in April after multiple delays.
City Of Lies producer Don Sikorski says he and director Brad Furman used the sealed FBI documents to construct the film, which stars Depp as Poole and Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker as journalist Jack Johnson.
“When you read those [sealed] documents there is overwhelming evidence that paints for you exactly who did the murder and why [the LAPD] covered it up,” Sikorski said while also naming Amir Muhammad as the killer.
Suge Knight currently sits in San Diego’s RJ Donovan Correctional Facility where he’s serving a 28-year sentence for the manslaughter of his supposed friend Terry Carter. He’ll be eligible for parole in 2037.
For his part, Diddy would famously move on from the scandal unscathed, even winning a Grammy Award in 1998 for his Biggie tribute, “I’ll Be Missing You.”
In March, for the 21st anniversary of The Notorious B.I.G.’s death, he memorialized his legendary friend writing on Instagram, “B.I.G. FOREVER!!!!!!! We love and miss you King!!!!!”
This theory with Amir Muhammad as the killer has already been discredited.
Apparently it is being recredited.
By the biggest Crip Set in LA, The LAPD.
Discredited by who? The police? LMAO
They need to request a FOIA for Russel Poole’s death. Isn’t it funny how he happened to have a “brain aneurysm” during a confidential meeting where he intended to show that off duty LAPD officers orchestrated the shooting against Knight at the airport
Be quiet kading
retaliation because diddy ordered the hit for baby lane to fire on suge
So what’s this shit about Pouchie then? Explain that for us please?
Hi Greg Kading, we know it’s you who lied to us about him.
We already knew Diddy was the target. But since they couldn’t get to him, Biggie was the next best thing.
Good cuz Diddy deserved a hot slug, too bad it got Biggie instead of him tho.
Diddy knew he was a marked man in LA that’s why he it took him years and lots of connections, protection, and homo dollars to keep him safe everytime he went out west until things died down for a while.
I would say that every last dollar puffy has is a “homo dollar”. Next to Rick Ross, he is the biggest poser hip hop has ever seen.
Fuck Diddy
puffy was in the car with BIG, not a separate car
Diddy was in the vehicle in front of the suv B.I.G. was riding in.
wrong, and this info is common knowledge
pac was in the same car with suge…i think you got the 2 cases confused bruh….RIP to both though…huge losses for hip hop…95 eazy, 96 pac, 97 big, 98 pun, 99 big L…every year there was a major loss….and the shit has continued to this day smh
so why would diddy want to kill b.i.g. or 2pac? why would suge knight want to kill diddy? i thought south side l.a. had to do with it.
people are forgetting biggie was puff biggest artist and larger in size he easier target for his size had harder kill because of it yet still succcsed i on other new he was already faker
That wasn’t even in English.
No Cap
Yes BIG was talented and fat…very very fat.
do you think it is a good idea having to dwell on this shit all the time.
The B.I.G. Stickers on ONLY Biggie’s SUV & NOT the one Diddler was riding in……….
‘Big E – Small’ is my favourite rapper!!!
Who the fuck is Big E?
Who Killed Tupac Shakur? Cover-Up In Compton. YouTube that shit. the truth is right there
Then Diddy will go in jail an get fucked
The getting fuck part doesn’t bother him tho… he’s like Toothpick on Don’t Be A Menace.
How the fuck does the shooter miss his target when the mothafucka target wearing a bright shiny highlighter puffed up suit looking like the Michelin man.. but reals, Diddy gone woulda been better for HipHop
Yeah. Maybe read the article? They were in different cars. Dude pulled up and shit thinking Puff was in the seat.
the car Puff was in also ran a yellow or red light, leaving BIG’s car first car up at the red light. Maybe the shooter couldnt realistically get to Puff’s car and figured getting BIG was better than no one at all
Suge is an FBI/CIA informant that is why he is still alive. Everyone around Suge is dead, but him, he did his part to spread death and violence. CIA kills or imprisons black people of power when they are done using you up. Anyone that had beef with Suge would always said he would just show up out of the blue. You have to have inside tracking to know where everyone is. Devonte, Vanilla Ice just to name a few. Puffy is also garbage and protected until his time is up.
yep the whiteys are out to get you bruddah!
Always wondered why Suge would want to kill Biggie when he knew full well who killed Pac and why. Puffy is a different story tho…
Check out Gene Deal channel. “The Last Big Night” He explains what happened that night. Puffys ex bodyguard who was in the truck with puff that night. Solid dude has lots of stories.
Suge should just spill the beans to VladTV lol
The reason why it’s unsolved was because crooked cops took sides, obviously there was a lot of hush money on this. With Pac you see video evidence of him fighting in a Casino before Tyson fight so his was retaliation. With B.I.G. it’s prob one of Suge’s goons. When B.I.G. got shot all that East vs west coast hype had slowed down. The media made the beef bigger than it was honestly.
Puff got so much Coma comming to him.Bigg should hav stayed his Ass in NYC.Tha plan was to go soul train awards and get he’ll out of there.LA is known for Driv bys.i was at passing wen Biggs casket came threw Fulton st.God bless Miss Wallace & fam.God Rasheem Ebbets fields finest.
Rip Back Rob Puff could hav done better but chose not too.I went to Funeral jus to see all those grown men arguing over nothing.i jus left did not like vibes.I want too say thanks to Red Alert.Kiss.Smith Wesson.Puma.for showing up.God bless Ross fam in this difficult time.God Rasheem Ebbets fields finest.
Jay Z killed Biggie, not Suge. Jay wanted to be the king of NYC and shots later, bang!!!
Crazy!!!!!!!!
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