re: Keffe D found guilty of murdering Tupac

I grew up blaring BIG and PAC. I tried to tune in to as much of this trial as I could but I missed a lot. What I did see was a circus. After 30 years…no movement, what changed. Where was Suge Knight? The biggest theory was PAC was about to leave Death Row and that was going to burn the label?

Lost all respect for 2pac when I watched his gay high school interviews. Dude definitely liked the D

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After 30 years…no movement, what changed. Where was Suge Knight? The biggest theory was PAC was about to leave Death Row and that was going to burn the label?

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Keffe D had a proffer agreement - detailing shooting - to avoid drug charges. He violated the agreement by publishing books & going on podcasts. Suge is serving a life sentence. Never testified.

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He violated the agreement by publishing books & going on podcasts.

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its not that he violated the agreement. Its that they can use the books and podcasts against him in court, they couldn't use the proffer stuff against him

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discovered & trained

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Gonna disagree on the whole “he was a Daniel Day Lewis-level method actor” theory. You do you. No worries.

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Both Dre and Tupac are/were homosexuals. Same for Puffy, Busta Rhymes, Ja Rule and a host of others. Rap is littered with figs.

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dont think dre and snoop were....the rest yes, same with easy. pretty sure ice cube and ice T werent on the downlow either

50 cent wasnt either from everything I have seen

granted I dont keep up with this BS and havent in 25 years. but in the late 90s there was always rumors of the ones you mentioned, especially Pac, Puffy and Ja Rule and that Big liked to get BJs from figs too.

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Keffe D had a proffer agreement - detailing shooting - to avoid drug charges. He violated the agreement by publishing books & going on podcasts. Suge is serving a life sentence. Never testified.

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He didn’t violate the agreement. He was too stupid to understand that writing a book and doing podcasts talking about the murder essentially amounted to new evidence against him because it was outside of the original agreement… the basic timeline is that the audio of the proffer agreement leaked and Keefe decided to cash in with a book and a Vlad interview. That blew up and suddenly he was everywhere pimping his book and doing the podcast circuit.. The Vegas PD and DA sat back and listened for months building their case against him.

He'll die in prison after "mysterious circumstances"

More black on black crime.

Suge Knight

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Years later, Knight finally got the confrontation he'd imagined. In June 2007, he says the moment he'd long anticipated finally arrived: an alleged face-to-face with Combs. But this wasn’t some back-alley confrontation in Compton or backstage standoff,  it happened at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, with Prince allegedly playing puppet master.

"I’m sitting there, eating,” Knight recalls, leaning into the memory like a punchline. “And everybody’s always thinking the gangster’s the guy in the room looking all hard and tough. But let me tell you, the gangster was Prince.”

According to Knight, the icon himself sent someone mid-show to summon him. “They come over and say, ‘Man, Prince is performing right now, and he wants you to come watch the show.’ Who gonna say no to Prince? Sh--” Knight says, laughing. “You already know.”

Escorted through the venue, Knight was led to a special table Prince had set aside, which was prime real estate in a packed house. “Prince comes up playing the guitar, I never seen Prince smile so much in my life,” Knight remembers. “Laughing, happy. And I tell him, ‘We both had two of the best rappers in hip-hop.’”

Then, Knight saw the seating arrangement. “He set me down at this table where Puffy was there. Nas was there, other people. Prince knew what he was doing. Must’ve been pissed at Puffy. I think he [allegedly] planted me at that table on purpose.”

Knight claims the tension cracked soon after. “I got under Puff’s skin,” he says, claiming he whispered some things in his ear, it probably hit a nerve. “I told him, ‘Let’s go to the restroom together and get it out of the way.’ You know, settle it.”

But Combs, Knight claims, wasn’t interested in squaring up.

“He stood up, heated. That’s when I realized he wasn’t ready for it — 'cause not only did they rush him out, they [allegedly] threw coats and shite over his head so you couldn’t see his face and had jackets to hide him.”

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Knight, still grappling with it all, doesn’t mince words: “I end up with a bullet an inch into my skull, but at the same time, everybody knows where a million dollars came from,” he says, pausing momentarily. "Like what would Pac want? What he really want is truth. I believe that if something smells like sh--, look like sh--, it's sh--.”

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“I got out and tried to tell the officers what happened while I was bleeding everywhere,” says Knight. “Also, I then was getting Tupac out the car, even when the door was open. I had to go over there bleeding everywhere, take the seat belt off him. When we get into the ambulance, Pac is funny as f---. He cracking jokes. I'm cracking jokes. Pac’s like, ‘Sh--, when we heal up, you know what we doing.’ That type of sh--.” The ambulance transported them to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.

"I got out and tried to tell the officers what happened while I was bleeding everywhere,” says Knight. “Also, I then was getting Tupac out the car, even when the door was open. I had to go over there bleeding everywhere, take the seat belt off him. When we get into the ambulance, Pac is funny as f---. He cracking jokes. I'm cracking jokes. Pac’s like, ‘Sh--, when we heal up, you know what we doing.’ That type of sh--.” The ambulance transported them to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.

At the hospital, Knight was treated for minor injuries and released while Shakur was listed in critical condition. “When I came to see him, Pac was sitting up talking. He [allegedly] said, ‘Well, look. One, bring me a blunt. Matter of fact, bring me two blunts.’ And I said, ‘You going to smoke in the hospital?’ He [allegedly] said, ‘Yeah, I am.’”

Knight chuckles softly recalling that moment — Tupac joking, allegedly requesting Hennessy too. Knight says Shakur grabbed him closer, as Knight kissed him on his forehead, and the two said, "I love you" to each other. But that joy cracked under the weight of what came next.

Before the second of two emergency surgeries, including one to remove Shakur's right lung to stop internal bleeding, he made a chilling request. As he lay in his hospital bed, fading in and out of consciousness, Knight claims Shakur allegedly turned to him, desperately begging to be killed. He spoke with eerie clarity, suggesting they could even capture it on camera, that he’d record a will or even lay down a song explaining everything. It wouldn’t matter, Shakur said. The world would still make Knight pay the ultimate price for it.

Knight recalls them both laughing, but beneath the nervous laughter was a hard truth: Shakur believed he was going to be sent back to prison once the chaos subsided, a payback for the brutal casino beatdown caught on security footage hours before the brutal shooting.

Prison, to Tupac, wasn’t just a fear — it was a fate he believed was worse than death. "I’ll die before I go back," he allegedly told those around him. Still, suicide was off the table. According to Knight, he believed taking his own life would bar him from heaven, a line he wouldn't cross. So instead, he turned to his crew — and then to Knight. "Kill me. Shoot me," he urged. Knight says he refused. “No, Pac. We can’t do it.”

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In the haze of hospital lights, beeping monitors and heartbreak, Knight claims Shakur made a final, desperate request to his mother, Afeni: let him go.

According to Knight, who was by the rapper’s side as he lay wracked with pain and failing fast, Shakur pleaded with his mother to help him end his life. Knight claims she allegedly gave him pills in an attempt to honor his wishes.

“The doctors came in and brought him back,” Knight recalls. “And his mom [allegedly] said, ‘Don’t ever do that again. If he’s having complications, don’t touch him. Don’t bring him back. Let him go.’” It was a mother’s raw act of mercy, Knight says — a final promise to her son to respect his suffering.

Doctors, trying to relieve pressure on his battered body, reportedly placed Shakur in a medically-induced coma and hooked him to a respirator, according to Knight. But the damage was irreversible. On September 13, at 4:03 p.m., Shakur was pronounced dead.

What followed, Knight claims, was as surreal and raw as Tupac himself. Immediately after his death, Knight says Afeni, who died at age 60 in May 2016, turned to him and insisted her son be cremated, right then and there. “She came up to me and said, ‘Get it done. Now,’” Knight remembers.

“I told her, ‘Look, I don’t know if I can do that.’” He said he hesitated not out of defiance, but because Shakur, just weeks earlier, had allegedly laid out a different vision for his send-off. They had talked about it in the studio. “He told me, ‘When I go, I want every rapper at my funeral to grab the mic. I want them to kiss me head to toe. Just like in ‘Life Goes On.’” Knight pauses. “He didn’t want to be cremated.”

But Afeni wouldn’t hear it. “She gave me one of those mama looks, like, ‘Shut your a-- up and do what I said.’ Then she started cussing me out. ‘Get this sh-- done!’” Knight says. He did what she asked. “I paid someone a million dollars cash to take care of it.”

Later that night, a circle of Shakur’s closest friends gathered to honor him the way they believed he would’ve wanted. The bag containing Tupac’s cremated ashes was passed around. Some, allegedly, were rolled into a blunt and smoked.

“I was so happy to say I was on probation — I couldn’t smoke,” Knight says. “I told his mother, ‘Moms, I’d love to, but if I hit that, I’ll get in trouble.’” He laughs. “I was probably the only one who didn’t hit him.”

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