Nineties hip hop stars implicated in Tupac and Biggie's murder (2024)

Some of the biggest names in nineties hip-hop have been implicated in the murders of Tupac and Biggie, according to an anonymous retired cop.

The former LAPD officer told The Sunthe artists are referenced in documents linked to the arrest of Duane 'Keefe D' Davis - but they'll never be released to the public.

Davis, 61, was arrested in September 2023 over the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. The former LA gang leader has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

A Las Vegas law enforcement source has now told the newspaper that the files attached to Davis' case also include accusations against some of the 'biggest names in music' from the nineties.

'Without the help of the ex Los Angeles cops, the case against Keefe would be less concrete,' the anonymous source told The Sun.

'Their knowledge of evidence, witness statements and Keefe's criminal past have prosecutors confident that 'Keefe has almost no defense.'

'The DA's team are sat on biggest ever evidence file relating to Tupac's murder, including paperwork which may never become public,' they added.

'They include accusations against some of the biggest names in music from the 1990s.

'It has been an epic workload, taking over three years to assemble and collaborating with retired LA officers and mining vaults for evidence, which is still coming to light almost 30 years on from the incident.

'Broadly they feel their case strongly outlines a precise trail of evidence confirming Keefe was a central figure in Tupac's death from witness statements and circ*mstantial evidence.'

Davis is the only person to have been charged over Tupac's 1996 murder. His trial date is set for November this year in Nevada. He remains in jail in Las Vegas.

His public defenders, Charles Cano and Robert Arroyo, said they intend to file documents seeking his release on bail ahead of trial.

They declined to comment about the case, saying they have not yet had time to examine what prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo termed 'voluminous' evidence.

Davis, 61, is originally from Compton, California. He was arrested September 29 outside a Las Vegas-area home where police served a search warrant July 17.

Davis said publicly in recent years and in a 2019 tell-all memoir that he orchestrated the drive-by shooting that killed Shakur and wounded rap music mogul Marion 'Suge' Knight.

Knight, now 59, is serving 28 years in a California prison for the death of a Compton businessman in 2015.

Prosecutors allege the 1996 shooting of Tupac followed clashes between rival East Coast and West Coast groups for dominance in the musical genre dubbed 'gangsta rap.'

The grand jury was told that Tupac was involved in a brawl at a Las Vegas Strip casino with Davis' nephew, Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson, shortly before the shooting.

Anderson, then 22, was in the car with Davis but denied involvement in Shakur's killing. Anderson died two years later in a shooting in Compton.

Davis implicated himself during multiple interviews and in his memoir that described his life leading a Crips gang sect in Compton.

He wrote that he was promised immunity from prosecution in 2010 when he told authorities in Los Angeles what he knew about the fatal shootings of Shakur and rival rapper Christopher Wallace six months later in Los Angeles.

Wallace was known as The Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls.

Tupac died at age 25. He had five No. 1 albums, was nominated for six Grammy Awards and was inducted in 2017 into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He received a posthumous star this year on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

A street near where Tupac lived in Oakland, California, in the 1990s was renamed last Friday in his honor.