By Alana Gonsalves
On September 7, 1996, at 11:15 p.m., the loved rapper Tupac Shakur, aged 25, tragically lost his life in a drive-by shooting in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada. At the time, Tupac was riding in a black BMW alongside Suge Knight, the head of his record label, when a white Cadillac pulled up next to him and a gunman opened fire. Tupac was shot many times.
Six months after Tupac’s death, another rapper, The Notorious B.I.G., met a similarly tragic fate. Many people believe that the deaths of these two artists were connected. Tupac and Biggie became pals, and Pac and Biggie became close. Biggie approached Pac to be his manager, but Pac declined. Pac said in his 1996 diss track against Biggie “Hit ‘Em Up’ ‘ that while Biggie was in town, he let Biggie stay in his California home.
Tupac was shot five times in the studio while working with Biggie, in 1994. Pac believed that the events of the day were planned by Biggie and his manager Diddy. Tupac interpreted Biggie’s song “Who Shot Ya?” as a slight insult against him. However, Biggie insisted that the track was more ambiguously directed at drug dealers he had encountered in the past.
Tupac later signed a west coast record label, sparking an east coast-west coast rivalry. Pac was finally assassinated and killed a few months after the release of “Hit ‘Em Up” and his February No. 1 album, All Eyez on Me.
Many people believed that Biggie’s people murdered Tupac and Tupac’s people murdered Biggie in revenge. Following his death, there were many theories regarding who murdered him and if he was really murdered, including the possibility that he staged his own death and is still alive.
Tupac’s murder was revealed this week, almost three decades later. The person’s name is Duane “Keffe D” Davis. Davis, according to authorities, planned and carried out the deadly shooting.
During a news conference on Friday, prosecutors disclosed for the first time that a suspect named Duane “Keefe D” Davis had been indicted on counts of open murder with a deadly weapon and gang enhancement. Police also revealed that Davis purchased the weapon used to murder Shakur from a “close associate.” Davis was described as the “shot-caller” of a group of three suspects, all of whom have been killed since then In an interview conducted in 2018, Davis said that everyone in the Cadillac that night belonged to the South Side Compton Crips gang.
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