After watching a string of recent interviews by people in Death Row's inner circle during the 1996 shooting of 2Pac & Suge Knight, I find myself coming back to the same question: why the fuck is Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs still walking the streets?
It's been alleged for years that the East Coast/West Coast beef that led to the deaths of rap's biggest stars was spearheaded by label owners Suge Knight & Puff Daddy, but now we have proof of Puffy's direct involvement. In 2008, the assassin's uncle confessed to ex-LAPD officer Greg Kading that Puff Daddy hired the Southside Crips to kill Suge & 2Pac, offering a $1 million bounty in exchange for their murders. Furthermore, Puffy had previously offered to pay the Crips $10,000 to steal a Death Row chain--the same chain 2Pac got into a fight over at the MGM just hours before his killing. (If you want more of the backstory on how 2Pac & Suge Knight were deeply entrenched with the MOB Piru Bloods & how this resulted in a deadly war with the Southside Crips, there are hours of videos on the subject on Youtube. Check out The Art of Dialogue, VladTV, bomb1st & Cam Capone News channels for more).
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| The 4 men in the white Cadillac that shot 2Pac, plus affiliate "Zip" Martin |
After the murder of 2Pac, Puffy paid NY drug dealer Eric "Zip" Martin half the money promised--500,000 dollars--to be divided among the Southside Crips who killed 2Pac. Zip was connected to the Southside Crips via a man named Keith Ed (aka Keefe D), a Crip who dealt PCP & cocaine to him. The 4 men in the car the night 2Pac was killed in Vegas included Orlando Anderson (the shooter), Keefe D, Deandre Smith & Terrence "Bubble Up" Brown (getaway driver), with Orlando being the man who was assaulted in the MGM earlier that night. Zip Martin allegedly kept the money for himself according to Keefe D's taped confession, though that doesn't change the fact that Sean Combs hired & paid him in the first place. What he did with the money is irrelevant. Puffy's connections with the Southside Crips are extensively documented as his Bad Boy entertainment label used them as "security" whenever they performed on the West Coast.
Keefe D is the only surviving member of the Crips directly involved in the shooting. Biggie (the artist on Puffy's Bad Boy label) sometimes made subliminal references to his affiliation with the gang, such as in the song "Long Kiss Goodnight"--a blatant 2Pac diss released after his death. The line "my team in the marine blue six Coupe" is one example. The photo at the top of this page with Puffy & Big wearing dark blue, the color of the Southside Crips, is another subtle sign of their gang affiliation. And here's yet another smoking gun piece of evidence that Puffy & Biggie engaged in the war of words during the height of the East Coast/West Coast drama despite claims to the contrary.
Diddy Put 10K Bounty on Death Row Chains to Southside Crips
Needless to say, putting a hit out on somebody's life is highly illegal. Charles Manson was blamed for single-handedly ending the freewheeling 1960s & sentenced to death (later commuted to life without parole) for ordering his followers to kill Sharon Tate & the LaBiancas, and he didn't pay them a dime for their troubles. So why is Sean Combs still walking free after actually ordering AND paying the ultra-violent Southside Crips for the successful murder of one of the biggest entertainers & activists of the 20th Century? My only guess is that, aside from Puffy's ability to buy the best legal representation available, the Feds & other law enforcement agencies were glad to see Tupac eliminated. They considered what Puff did a public service.
Like so many Black Panthers & other leftist agitators before him, Tupac represented a persistent threat. Not only was he the child of one of the infamous Panther 21, he was close with a number of political prisoners & exiles including Mutulu Shakur, Sekou Odinga, Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu-Jamal & Geronimo Pratt whom he often name-checked in his songs. He even shot two (white) off-duty cops for beating up a Black man... and won the case in court. After their unsuccessful attempt at keeping 2Pac incarcerated on trumped-up "unlawful touching" charges at one of the nation's toughest prisons, the government must've been sick to death of him. Near the end of his life, close friends like Napoleon of the Outlawz say he was thinking of getting involved in politics, something he alluded to himself in a few of his last interviews. This would've certainly pissed off the powers that be.
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| The "Panther 21": Tupac's mom Afeni bottom left |
It's a fact that the FBI had both 2Pac & Biggie under surveillance at the time they were murdered. The so-called "Hip Hop Cops" are a well-documented presence, stalking rap artists for nothing more than simply being minorities & making rap music. They also had extensive files on Bob Marley, John Lennon, Grace Slick, John Denver & Jimi Hendrix among others. Entire books have been written on the subject of the FBI's unconstitutional surveillance of musicians & what its true purpose might be. There's no indication that this activity has stopped today.
As soon as 2Pac & Biggie passed, the gritty reality rap of the early-mid '90s was quickly replaced by vapid party tracks courtesy of Bad Boy CEO Puff Daddy, Jay-Z & bubblegum crooners like Ja Rule & Nelly. Some say it was "time for a change" while others say this change points to something more sinister in the industry. Either way, never again would we hear profound songs like "Changes," "Tennessee" or "Fight the Power" on mainstream Top 40 radio. Now it was all about cars, coochie & cash. And most importantly, capitalism.
(For the convoluted story behind the Biggie Smalls murder, check out the bombshell ID docuseries "Who Killed Biggie & Tupac?". His killing proves beyond a doubt that law enforcement including the FBI are capable of conspiring to cover up murders of this kind, and that gang loyalties run deep).
Puffy's Violent Past... and Present
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| 1999 mugshot after nightclub shooting |
People often ask when Keefe D is gonna be arrested for bragging all over the internet about his involvement in the 2Pac murder. Indeed, his attitude is disgusting. He comes across as a proud thug with zero remorse who would kill again without batting an eyelash. The kind of person borne of poverty, poor education, toxic exposures, domestic violence, systemic racism & a lifetime of bad choices that furthered his own downward spiral into violence & crime. But Puff Daddy is something far more sinister: a cowardly white collar criminal who uses his power to have people snuffed out while hiding behind lawyers & a businessman facade. Nearly everyone who's ever worked for him says the same thing--that he's a cutthroat narcissist with no regard for fairplay or other people's feelings. The amount of societal influence someone like Keefe D has vs. a man like Puff Daddy is virtually non-existent.
To this day he continues to threaten anyone who speaks out on his role in the 2Pac killing, even high-profile celebrities like Eminem, who he threatened to have "handled" for joking that he was involved in the shooting in one of his songs. He's had many other violent brushes with the public, such as the time he fired shots inside a nightclub with a stolen gun in 1999, which he managed to wiggle (read: pay) his way out of, leaving his artist Shyne holding the bag. Shyne ended up serving 9 years in prison for Puffy's crime & then was deported back to Belize for an additional 12 years. After this ugly incident, Combs was inspired to change his alias to P. Diddy as if that would somehow absolve him of his hideous actions. In 2015 he was arrested for assaulting his son's UCLA football coach with a kettlebell, an outburst that could've killed the man if the weight had connected.
Here's a more recent interview where he's asked straight out about his alleged role in the 2pac murder. Note his lack of denial. He just claims he wants to focus on "the positive" now which, like his name-change in 1999, is very superficial & lacks any sense of accountability. He also seems livid that this interviewer had the gall to bring this up on the air.
If Puffy was paying the Crips to snatch Death Row chains off the necks of people in Los Angeles prior to 2Pac's murder, that means he was inciting violence that wouldn't have otherwise existed. Meanwhile he lived on the East Coast where he was safe from the fallout. This chain-snatching was the direct cause of the fight that triggered 2Pac's demise in Las Vegas. When you look at it from that angle, it starts to reek of a bigger conspiracy. WAS Puffy involved in setting up the Quad Studio shooting? Was "I Shot Ya" a direct blow at 2Pac while he was locked up & unable to respond? Could Puffy have been working with the FBI in some capacity to get Tupac "Black Panther" Shakur caught up in something too deadly to escape?
Based on Puffy's history of throwing associates under the bus to save his own ass (see: Shyne), I'd put nothing past him. The fact that he's remained free after all this evidence has emerged about his involvement in the murder also stinks. As stated in my previous article on this subject, the East Coast/West Coast war is very reminiscent of the COINTELPRO tactics used to turn the Black Panthers against other pro-Black groups in the '60s. Perhaps Puffy was the (Federal) agent that sparked the whole thing. It would've been a win-win for himself and the FBI. Eliminating the top-selling rap artist would allow Biggie and the rest of the Bad Boy crew to rise to the top of the game while giving the Feds what they wanted in the form of a very dead Shakur. It'd be the ultimate revenge for their failure to keep him or his mother (or godmother) locked up. He wasn't even able to have a child in his short life so his bloodline was effectively snuffed out with the killing.
Now What?
All this is proof we don't have a justice system in America--we have a legal system. By all means, go after Keefe D and any other low-level offender involved in violent crime. But don't stop there. I'm not sure what Mr. Kading & Co. were even bothering with this case for if not to catch the "big fish" who orchestrated it all. Did they just want to sell books, or did they actually try to apprehend Puffy & fail due to FBI apathy? It's not like they could prosecute Keefe D: they'd already promised him immunity in exchange for his testimony.
And what's with the Vegas Metro PD's lack of action? Either take down the monster who paid to have 2 people assassinated or stop LARPing as law enforcement officers on the public's dime. The Uvalde massacre proved we have more than enough do-nothing pigs filling that role already. Compton residents have known who killed Shakur since the day it happened. His mother filed a lawsuit against Orlando Anderson shortly after the killing too. It's not exactly a revelation.
What WOULD be a revelation is if someone of Puffy's wealth & stature was actually held accountable for their despicable actions for once. The way this has been handled leads me to believe that Puffy's an FBI informant himself or is otherwise being protected for the killing of Tupac Shakur by people in high places within the government. Until somebody proves otherwise, I can't help believing this is the case. If I or any one of my readers put out a (successful) hit on a high profile celebrity after paying to have their expensive jewelry stolen, we'd be rotting in prison or sentenced to death, likely after a lengthy public trial a la the Manson Family case. So why are the FBI and Vegas Metro so silent about Puffy's involvement in the murder of Tupac Shakur? The evidence is overwhelming yet he continues to walk free.
I'm calling on the media to hold his feet to the fire. Include #justicefortupac in your annual memorials & tributes. More specifically, demand that law enforcement interrogate Sean Combs for his role in this horrific crime & stop referring to it as an "unsolved murder". Failure to do so is a slap in the face to Tupac's memory, his loved ones & all victims of violent crime. There's no statute of limitations on murder; as long as this narcissist is still breathing there's still time to hold him accountable in a meaningful way.
Update 6/27/24: Since this article was posted, Keefe D was arrested for the murder of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas (Sept. 29, 2023). Shortly thereafter (March 25, 2024), Diddy's homes were raided by the Department of Homeland Security for alleged sex trafficking offenses. No link between the two events has been made, at least publicly. However I have little doubt that Keefe squealed as he was known to do long before he was locked up. Videos of him implicating Sean Combs in the murder of 2Pac are all over Youtube, and he confessed as much to officer Greg Kading in 2008.
Due to a lack of hard evidence, I doubt we'll ever see Diddy prosecuted for that crime, but if we're lucky he'll have plenty of time to think about it while serving time for his other vile crimes against humanity. The only question is, what the hell took law enforcement in Las Vegas & the Feds so long to take action against these two pieces of human refuse? How much more suffering could've been prevented if Combs had been locked up right away instead of being allowed to become a literal billionaire who used the people around him as stepping stones? And how many more aspiring Puff Daddys are in the process of doing the exact same thing right now while law enforcement knowingly looks the other way?
Stay tuned as it looks like Act II of this saga is just getting started.
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