There are many theories about who shot Tupac and why. To this day no-one has been convicted. ibid.
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, caption, 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.
But rest assured the words, phrases and images such as Ass! Booty! Yo, bitch! Bush is a dickhead! Big butt women in tiny bikinis! will not be used without warrant or in any gratuitous manner. Fear of a Black Hat 1993 starring Rusty Cundieff & Larry B Scott & Mark Christopher Lawrence & Kasi Lemmons & Rose Jackson & John Singleton & Spike Lee & M C Hammer & Vanilla Ice & Salt n Pepa & Queen Latifah et al, director Rusty Cundieff
A year in the life of the rap group NWH [Niggaz With Hats]: Tone Def, Tasty Taste & Ice Cold. ibid. caption
The controversial and never released Kill Whitey album. ibid. Nina Blackburn
Ice Cold: My Peanuts. ibid.
‘That’s what NWH is all about: we got a whole hat philosophy.’ ibid.
They released Guerrillas in the Mist uncut. ibid.
Skating rinks held 2,000 and 3,000 people. So they were the first big arenas for rappers to perform in. Storyville: United Skates, Vin Rock, BBC 2020
A freestyle rap went viral during an open mic night in July 2019. It was so intense and chilling it left people wondering if they were watching a man confess to an actual crime. True Crime Recaps: Rap Confession: Is There Truth Behind the Lyrics? Youtube 5.32, 2022
Robert Camou grabbed the mic at the King Eddy Saloon in downtown LA, looked straight at the camera, and spit out some gruesome lyrics about killing his girlfriend and burying her in the dirt. ibid.
Six hours later Robert was arrested and later charged with the murder of his girlfriend Amanda Custer; the single mom went missing the day before his bizarre performance on July 29th 2019. ibid.
Amanda’s body has never been found. ibid.
He [Richie Suck] is probably the greatest vampire rap artist of all time. What We Do in the Shadows s4e3: The Grand Opening, Nadja, BBC 2024