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Tupac murdered in Los Angeles September 7th 1996. The story of Biggie & Tupac is the story of two great friends who had a misunderstanding, a falling out and became deadly enemies. Their murders were explained as being the result of the rivalry that had grown up between them. Biggie & Tupac 2002 starring Biggie Smalls archive & Tupac Shakur archive & Nick Broomfield & Russell Poole & Voletta Wallace & Billy Garland & David Hicken & Suge Knight et al, director Nick Broomfield
1994 ... This shooting was not fatal; it happened two years before he was killed in Las Vegas, and it was this attack that Tupac blamed Biggie. ibid.
The Tupac/Biggie dispute really got going after Tupac joined Suge Knight at Death Row Records. ibid.
Tupac’s murder caused massive gang warfare in Compton between the Pirus and the Crips. The Death Row explanation of events was that Biggie & Bad Boy were aligned with the Crips, whereas Suge Knight, Tupac & Death Row were aligned with the Pirus. ibid.
Why for example was Frank Alexander asked by Death Row to say that Orlando Anderson the Crip had snatched a chain from Tupac the night before the fight when in fact that wasn’t true? ibid.
Officers Mack [later arrested for armed robbery] and Perez did everything together. Their loyalty was always to each other. ibid.
Yaki just informed us he was working as an undercover FBI agent a year before Tupac was killed. According to Haki, FBI agents and ATN agents were in cars just behind Tupac the night he was shot. ibid.
Biggie’s last album sold over £10,000,000. ibid.
Biggie used to open for Tupac. ibid.
Biggie went to private school; he was the apple of his mother’s eye. ibid
Biggie was murdered on March 9th 1997, six months after Tupac. ibid.
This is the police composite of Biggie’s hitman, and this is Russell’s [Poole] main suspect Harry Billups aka Amir Muhammad who to this day has never been questioned by LAPD. ibid.
Biggie & Puffy were under surveillance at the time of the murder. ibid.
For years now people have been making a connection between the murders of Tupac and Biggie Small. Who Killed Tupac? I II III IV V VI, History 2018
On January 29 2015 music executive Terry Carter was murdered. Suge Knight charged with murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run. Nick Broomfield, Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie and Tupac, captions, BBC 2021
Suge Knight’s sentencing to 28 years signalled the end to his power, the end of his empire. People now no longer as intimidated since Suge’s incarceration started talking more freely about Suge’s being the shadow behind Biggie Smalls’ and Tupac Shakur’s murders … victims of the gang war that Suge had initiated. ibid.
Death Row had the money to throw the most lavish celebrity parties in Beverly Hills. ibid.
‘Suge was just two-faced. He was two-faced and really wasn’t a man of his word … He set me up to be beat up …’ ibid. Simone Green, Death Row records photographer
They and other members of the police department controlled the streets with a reign of terror. ibid.
It’s hard to equate the image that Tupac presented at Death Row with the young idealistic politically motivated Tupac, the son of a Black Panther. ibid.
Biggie Smalls took Puffy’s [Combs] side on the east coast; Snoop, Tupac and Dr Dre supported Suge Knight on the west coast, Death Row records. ibid.
On the night of the fatal shooting, Tupac to prove his gang loyalty took on a Crip gunman called Orlando Anderson. ibid.
It was this war that Suge Knight had with Puffy Combs that cost so many lives. ibid.
After Tupac’s death a major gang war breaks out between the Bloods and the Crips. ibid.
On the 1996 night Tupac Shakur was killed in Las Vegas, Suge Knight was nabbed for violating his probation (for stomping a guy); he spent five years in prison. During this time, Knight’s former high school classmate and head of security, Reggie Wright junior, took over the bulk of Knight’s duties at Death Row Records, the once–obscenely popular rap imprint, which was about to go downhill.
It was a bad time to be in charge for the ex–Compton police officer, and Wright spent much of his stint fighting lawsuits and dealing with an exodus of artists from the label, notably Snoop Dogg. Making matters worse, LAPD Detective Russell Poole’s murder investigation implicated Wright in the 1997 murder of rapper Biggie Smalls, though he was never charged. Furthermore, former bodyguard Frank Alexander publicly blamed Wright for Tupac’s death.
Wright and another former Death Row business associate, Lloyd Lake, are producing a documentary on the crimes, Justice for the Murders of Tupac and Biggie, which is in the fundraising stage.
Wright advances the claims made in LAPD Detective Greg Kading’s 2011 book, Murder Rap, which blew the case wide open and was the subject of an LA Weekly cover story.
Murder Rap, for which a documentary of the same name is also in the works, implicates Southside Crip Orlando Baby Lane Anderson for the murder of Tupac, and Mob Piru gang member Wardell Poochie Fouse for the murder of Biggie Smalls. (Both Anderson and Fouse have since been murdered themselves.) The book fingers Sean Combs (aka Puff Daddy) and Knight, respectively, for setting the deaths in motion. Combs and Knight could not be reached for comment for this story. L A Weekly online article Jake Paine 10th April 2014, ‘Time to Close the Book on the Tupac & Biggie murders?’
Seventeen years after the murder of Notorious B.I.G. a source tells RadarOnline.com that the Los Angeles Police Department knows who was responsible for the planning and execution of the rapper’s murder, but will never make an arrest because doing so would expose a pervasive cover-up of police involvement, the revelation of which would shake the department to the core.
Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G., was murdered while riding in the front seat of a Suburban after leaving a hip-hop party in the Miracle Mile area of Los Angeles on March 9, 1997.
Several years after his death, Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace, and his widow, Faith Evans, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the LAPD, former LAPD Officer Rafael Pérez and his partner, Officer Nino Durden, alleging that the murder was committed in ‘in a very efficient, organized and professional manner, suggesting that a high degree of coordination and planning preceded his murder,’ according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also claimed that disgraced former Officer Pereź, who was the central figure in one of the biggest scandals in the history of the LAPD, admitted to cops that he and former cop David Mack, ‘conspired to murder, and participated in the murder of Christopher Wallace’. Radar online article 15th August 2014, ‘Explosive Claim: The LAPD Knows Who Killed Biggie Smalls But Will Never Prosecute, Says Source, Because Doing So Would Expose Department Corruption’
Fans of the Notorious BIG said a final goodbye to the rap star. There were tears at the memorial service. But when the funeral procession made its way through the streets of Brooklyn, there were angry confrontations, even an explosion of pepper spray. City of Lies 2021 starring Johnny Depp & Forest Whitaker & Rockmond Dunbar & Neil Brown jr & Xander Berkeley & Shea Whigham & Wynn Everett & Toby Huss et al, director Brad Furman
I got called to a road-rage incident eight miles northeast from where Christopher Wallace, the Notorious BIG, had been gunned down nine days prior … On that street corner the first door to the labyrinth opened. ibid. Poole
Neither Notorious BIG’ nor Tupac’s murder has been solved. ibid. TV news
Suge Knight has LAPD in his circle. ibid. undercover rozzer
I’m obsessed with the truth and that’s my sickness. ibid. Poole
I believe that Officer Gaines may have been an accessory to Biggie Smalls’ murder. ibid.
D-Mack and Kevin Gaines are both connected to Death Row. Both surely involved in Biggie’s shooting. And both untouchable. Why? Cos they’re both LAPD. ibid.
If the cops can be bending the rules, where does that leave the rest of us? ibid. Jack
We were a criminal organisation within the LAPD. ibid. rozzer
So you’re saying Rampart, the greatest scandal in LAPD history, which implicated 70 cops of corruption, was a diversion? ibid. Jack
I can’t work for a man who’s in bed with the very institutions that we should hold accountable. We have to do better. ibid.