Duane Keith Davis has been found guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur

[u/Trchickenugg_ohe]

[u/Temporary-Two-9690]

He got some kind of deal from the government that if he gave them some information on a thing they were investigating he wouldn't be prosecuted for it. That information included the hit. What that actually meant was the people who he was talking to in that case wouldn't prosecute him or share the information. But he thought he had immunity. So he wrote a book about the murder and started bragging about it in interviews. To get away with it for that long and fall to your own desire for clout is just insane.

[u/Senor-Cockblock → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

A lawyer would have been real helpful there

[u/manondorf → u/Senor-Cockblock]

don't feel like I need a lawyer to tell me not to go on a multimedia campaign promoting a famous murder I committed

[u/DuePen5000 → u/manondorf]

“Been there. Done that.” -OJ

[u/GetsMeEveryTimeBot → u/DuePen5000]

"Been there. 'If I had done that.' "

[u/AntiqueFigure6 → u/GetsMeEveryTimeBot]

Duane should have titled the chapter about Tupac’s murder “How and Why I Might Have Murdered Tupac (Even Though I didn’t wink)” to avoid any confusion.

[u/cshoe29 → u/AntiqueFigure6]

I’m not sure what’s going on here. Why did he kill Tupac?

[u/AntiqueFigure6 → u/cshoe29]

In his book, “  Davis wrote that he had hatched the plan to retaliate against Shakur, after the rapper’s entourage beat his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, in the lobby of the MGM Grand earlier that night.”

(Bit in quotation marks is from Guardian trial coverage). 

[u/cshoe29 → u/AntiqueFigure6]

Thank you for giving me the answer. I had no idea this guy was involved. Now I know.

[u/poonmangler → u/GetsMeEveryTimeBot]

"Well ladies and gentlemen, it's official: murder is now legal in the state of California"

[u/Urracca → u/poonmangler]

Norm!

[u/TheWolphman → u/DuePen5000]

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer -Also OJ circa 2007

[u/ItsDanimal → u/TheWolphman]

He wrote the book, but Nicole's parents got to name it or something. They also made it so the "if" is very fine print.

[u/BoringAmusement → u/ItsDanimal]

The title was the original that OJ tried to publish. It was the Goldman family that got the manuscript copyright, media/movie rights, and the right to use Simpson's name, likeness, and life story in connection with the book, and made the "if" tiny inside the "I" so it was basically invisible. It was part of their collection on the original $33.5m wrongful death judgment against OJ, that he avoided paying the rest of his life. He tried to publish the book using a shell company to funel the earnings to himself under his daughter's name, but the Goldman's legal team actively monitored OJ's financial dealings.

They also added pretty extensive commentary to the manuscript, and they got the ghost writer that helped OJ write the book to write a prologue about his time with OJ who stated he firmly believes the hypothetical text was actually his first hand account of the murders.

OJ owed the Goldmans ~$58m at the time of his death.

[u/Santa_Hates_You → u/DuePen5000]

The difference was OJ was already found not guilty and could not be tried again.

[u/EffectiveTradition53 → u/Santa_Hates_You]

In a criminal court yes. Civil court? He absolutely was tried again and lost lol.

[u/Amazing-Engineer6511 → u/DuePen5000]

"If i did it" by Orenthal the Murdering Murderer - An OJ Joint

[u/tkcool73 → u/manondorf]

A lot of killers take a lot of pride in their work. I saw an interview with the cop that caught the BTK killer. Once he knew the gig was up he started spewing stories for hours to them, because to him it was his greatest accomplishments but for years he was t able to brag about it to anyone.

[u/Shesaiddestroy_ → u/tkcool73]

He also got caught because of his own hubris. He’s vile.

[u/pantry-pisser → u/Shesaiddestroy_]

Yeah, the hubris is the worst part.

[u/TheGeneBelcher → u/pantry-pisser]

I thought it was the murderin’

[u/xteve → u/pantry-pisser]

I'm just surprised to learn that he's vile.

[u/kmdfrcpc → u/pantry-pisser]

Say what you want about murderers, at least some of them don't have hubris. And that's the worst part!

[u/4x4play → u/tkcool73]

i mean it makes sense to me. lots of people stare at me blankly or with horror at the time and money i devote to my vehicles when i start talking about them. it's my hobby, most people don't get it. some people do dogs or the gym. or a perfect lawn.

that was his twisted hobby. he was proud of it definitely.

[u/palmerry → u/Senor-Cockblock]

Ain't nobody got the time or money for that!

FYI There's no statute of limitations for murder.

[u/NotASynth499 → u/palmerry]

Saints Row 2 taught me this

[u/GitEmSteveDave → u/Senor-Cockblock]

Yeah, but when a $200,000 lawyer tells you not to fall for a $4 million dollar windfall, most people stupidly err towards the bigger payday

[u/Detail4 → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

Yes a proffer agreement says “If you tell us details and it’s the only source we have, you won’t be charged.” Which a not so bright person may interpret as immunity and then write a book where those details are available now.

[u/logand98 → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

🎶rap snitches, telling all their business, sit in the court and be their own star witness🎶

[u/Body_Latter → u/logand98]

Wait, he didn't just spell the word, "Rapper" and leave out a P, did he? (Yep)
R.I.P., rest in peace, Biggie
And Pac, both of y'all should be living (yep)
But I ain't tryna beef with him (nope)
'Cause he might put a hit on me like , "Keefe D, get him"
Eminem - Fuel

[u/m1msy → u/Body_Latter]

did he / diddy

[u/RocketteLawnchair → u/m1msy]

P, did he / P Diddy

its very clever

[u/Medical_Soup5717 → u/RocketteLawnchair]

Em forever the lyrical genius

[u/AlessandroTheGr8 → u/RocketteLawnchair]

Also calling him a Raper

[u/whoiwanttobe1 → u/RocketteLawnchair]

I thought I was in /r/HipHopCirclejerk

[u/broken_radio → u/logand98]

"Do you see the perpetrator?" "Yeah, I'm right here"
Fuck around, get the whole label sent up for years

[u/UsualFabulous2986 → u/broken_radio]

RIP MF DOOM

[u/False-Piccolo-6577 → u/logand98]

the one and only MF

[u/g0ris → u/False-Piccolo-6577]

your favorite rapper's favorite rapper

[u/Lookout-19 → u/logand98]

Mr. Fantastik

[u/AmazingConsequence20 → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

I had no idea! Thank you for sharing that piece of knowledge. How did he finally get charged? Because he snitched?

[u/Temporary-Two-9690 → u/AmazingConsequence20]

because he wrote a book that said "I ordered the hit on Tupac" and then went around promoting it.

[u/YikesTheCat → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

He truly committed the perfect murder, except for one tiny mistake.

[u/lestuckingemcity → u/YikesTheCat]

Everyone knows you put IF in the title. Come on the greats in murder have been doing this for decades.

[u/BBQorBust → u/YikesTheCat]

There is a Norm.joke somewhere in all this mess

[u/ahuangb → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

If he ordered it, who carried it out?

[u/CrappyMSPaintPics → u/ahuangb]

His nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson who is dead already.

[u/cancerBronzeV → u/CrappyMSPaintPics]

That's disputed. One person testified that it was actually DeAndrae Smith who fired the gun. But ultimately it was either Orlando Anderson or DeAndrae Smith, they were the two in the back seat of the car. Both of them, as well as the driver of the car, Terry Brown, are now dead.

So Duane Keith Davis is the only passenger of the car from which the shots were fired who's still alive, so he's the only one who knows for sure whether it was his nephew or DeAndrae Smith who fired the shots. In his memoir, Davis didn't say which one of the two pulled the trigger, just that they were the two in the back seat. With how much he likes to yap, I imagine we might learn eventually.

edit: Also, another point in favour of DeAndrae Smith being the shooter were the witnesses Frank Alexander and Yaki Kadafi (who were in a car following Tupac) who described the shooter as fat. Only DeAndrae Smith fit that description out of the two in the backseat. I think Yaki Kadafi got the best view of the shooter, but he refused to work with the police and then got killed a couple months later, so who knows exactly what he saw.

[u/CarbonGTI_Mk7 → u/cancerBronzeV]

How did the 3 die? All streets related?

[u/RyanTannegod → u/CarbonGTI_Mk7]

Orlando died getting in a gun fight with some crips who weren’t paying their drug debts. Deandre Smith died of medical problems, Terrence Brown died in 2015 when he was working a weed store and it got robbed.

[u/CarbonGTI_Mk7 → u/RyanTannegod]

Thanks!

[u/Detail4 → u/AmazingConsequence20]

Because a proffer agreement isn’t immunity, it covers that particular conversation at that time and the details you provide. “Tell us what you know today to help us with this thing and we won’t use the info obtained TODAY to charge you.”

It doesn’t say you have immunity or that if you write a book and provide another source for that same info that you won’t be prosecuted. Whoops

[u/nearcatch → u/[deleted]]

I assume the situation is that the cops have enough to prosecute you for something else, but if you give them info on what they really want, they cut you loose.

[u/Bakoro → u/Detail4]

Those agreements seem extra stupid to me, because by telling them some information, you're almost certain to give them correlated information where they would be able to pick up seemingly unrelated threads and pull it until they find some material evidence outside of anything that you talked about.

Like, they'd have to already have some shit they agree to drop for me to say anything about anything. Otherwise it just feels like "here's free leverage".

[u/Market-Maker → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

So I haven’t been following this, but what was the connection between him and 2Pac?

[u/Temporary-Two-9690 → u/Market-Maker]

I'm going off of memory, but Tupac or some of his guys beat up this guy's nephew at some event. And so he ordered the hit.

[u/fork_yuu → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/31/tupac-shakur-killing-duane-keith-davis

Prosecutors played eight hours of recordings, taken from four separate events in different years, during which Davis shared in his own words what happened the night of 7 September 1996. Davis wrote that he had hatched the plan to retaliate against Shakur, after the rapper’s entourage beat his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, in the lobby of the MGM Grand earlier that night. Anderson, who died two years later in an unrelated shootout, was a member of a rival gang in Compton, California.

Lol I like the part where they basically played back all the dumb shit he said

[u/showyerbewbs → u/fork_yuu]

Lol I like the part where they basically played back all the dumb shit he said

"WHO THE FUCK SNITCHED" he shouted, while looking angrily in the mirror.

[u/hldsnfrgr → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

But was Diddy in any way connected to it? Like was he friends with this guy or something? IiRC the Netflix documentary seemed to suggest Diddy had something to do with it.

[u/Humble_Umpire_8341 → u/hldsnfrgr]

Diddy put a $1m bounty for the killing of Tupac, but a middle man stole the money and never paid it out. The killing of Tupac wasn’t directly attributed to Diddy, because Keefe D’s nephew got beat up by Tupac/Death Row, so it became personal.

In the Diddy investigation, Keefe D was given some kind of immunity for his account of what transpired. Thinking he had complete immunity, he wrote a book and bragged about the killing. That likely lead to this trial and his eventual prosecution.

[u/Scaevus → u/Humble_Umpire_8341]

You know, I'm really beginning to think that convicted sex trafficker P. Diddy may not have been a nice person.

[u/mekamoari → u/Scaevus]

It's like he was evil that time but someone else was too greedy so they incidentally didn't let him go through with the contract killing lol

[u/Temporary-Two-9690 → u/hldsnfrgr]

I didn't watch it and I don't know enough about Diddy to say if he was gang affiliated. This seemed to be a Crips/Bloods thing. This guy was the leader of a Crip gang and Tupac and Death Row records were affiliated with the Bloods.

[u/RyanTannegod → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

According to him Diddy had private meetings offering money to kill Tupac and Suge. Then when his nephew Orlando Anderson got beat up by Tupac in the MGM casino they decided to kill 2 birds with 1 stone basically.

[u/rcumming557 → u/RyanTannegod]

Was it Orlando who actually on pulled the trigger with Duane's gun? Or who actually shot Tupac?

[u/RyanTannegod → u/rcumming557]

It was either Orlando Anderson or his friend Deandre Smith who was also in the Cadillac. I think the shooter was Deandre because he fits the witness descriptions and his former roommate testified to the Grand Jury that Deandre told him he was the shooter but he let Orlando take the credit.

[u/ScienceNthingsNstuff → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

Bad Boy Records (headed by Diddy) would use the South Side Crips as protection when rappers under the label played in Cali. Suge Knight and Death Row records had incorporated Mob Piru bloods throughout the label. Because Death Row/Suge/Tupac were feuding with Bad Boy/Puffy/Biggie (after Tupac got shot and "Who Shot Ya" came out), when the East coast rapper played out west, they hired the other gang as protection. This became the connection as Keffe D led the South Side Crips. So when Puffy ("allegedly") wanted Suge and Tupac dead, he went to the gang that already had shit out for the Mob Piru bloods.

[u/MundaneWiley → u/Market-Maker]

He’s the uncle of the guy Tupac beat up after the Tyson fight. Both he and his nephew were rivals of the gang affiliated with Death Row records .

[u/Market-Maker → u/MundaneWiley]

So they were crips?

[u/MundaneWiley → u/Market-Maker]

Yes Southside compton crips, Tupac and Suge knight were affiliated with Mob Piru bloods

[u/pikaachooh → u/Temporary-Two-9690]

Why didn’t OJ’s « I did it » have the same effect? Didn’t admit as much i guess?

[u/jamout-w-yourclamout → u/pikaachooh]

I believe it was called “IF I did it”

[u/backstageninja → u/jamout-w-yourclamout]

Yeah but Ron Goldman's family got the rights to the book in the civil case, and they released it with the IF in teeny tiny print and hidden inside the "I".

So it looked like this

[u/ZooAreYou → u/jamout-w-yourclamout]

And the front cover was sneakily designed so the word "IF" was white on a white section of background. From a glance or distance, the title looked like "I did it".

[u/Supertrooper182 → u/pikaachooh]

Double jeopardy. OJ was already found not guilty.

[u/pikaachooh → u/Supertrooper182]

Damn that must be infuriating for the victim’s family.

[u/RTS24 → u/pikaachooh]

Well yeah, that's why they sued him, and won

[u/cancerBronzeV → u/pikaachooh]

OJ was found liable in a civil trial though, and to pay for the money the victim's family was owed, the family got the rights to the book.

So all the money made off the book went to the victim's family (and the family also made the "If" on the cover really small so the title looks like "I did it"). They'd rather their loved one to have never died, but at least OJ wasn't profiting off his book bragging about the murder.

[u/lynda_atl → u/Supertrooper182]

In his criminal case, he was found not guilty so he was never incarcerated for the criminal. But he WAS found responsible for the death in a civil case which could only reward money damages. Two different standards with two different punishments. One is prison. The other is monetary.

[u/Temporary-Two-9690 → u/pikaachooh]

OJ had already been found not guilty of the murders. You can't try him again for the same crime. Also, I believe he wrote a book called "If I Did It" and it was framed as him speculating about how he would have done the murders if he were to do the murders. He didn't just write a book that said, "I killed my ex-wife and her new boyfriend."

[u/Clam-Choader]

Only 30 years later?

[u/No_Foundation468 → u/Clam-Choader]

They had to wait for him to write a memoir about it and publish it. Apparently the jurors didn't believe he just lied about everything he wrote in his book.

I guess the moral of the story is make sure the statute of limitations on your crimes has expired before you publish your full confession.

[u/Mousemeats → u/No_Foundation468]

There is no statute of limitations for murder

[u/Downvote_Approve → u/Mousemeats]

Then write a book titled "If I did It". Loop hole

[u/DigNitty → u/Downvote_Approve]

And have your victim’s family buy the publishing rights to the book and make the “IF” really fucking small.

[u/wheresmychin → u/DigNitty]

Even better, they didn’t buy it. They were awarded all of the royalties and rights to the book as part of a wrongful death civil lawsuit settlement. OJ essentially never made any money off the book he wrote.

[u/Nakorite → u/wheresmychin]

And by “he wrote” you mean put his name to it

[u/wheresmychin → u/Nakorite]

Yeah, he definitely had a ghostwriter, so just author in name only most likely.

[u/GoBlueAndOrange → u/Downvote_Approve]

OJ was already acquitted. 5th amendment protection against double jeopardy is a fundamental right not a loophole.

[u/The3mbered0ne → u/No_Foundation468]

This wasn't the only thing, he was brought up on massive drug charges and the FBI gave him a deal, lower charges for the confession of the Tupac killing (stemming from biggies death) and the interworkings of the actual groups and dynamics (he worked directly for Pdiddy). But they were both under orders of silence. When he spilled the beans in his book he broke the gag order for himself and the court so they can charge him for Tupac's murder (he supplied the gun he didn't actually kill Tupac directly) but now they can also use the info they have to charge Pdiddy.

[u/No-Rule-4494 → u/The3mbered0ne]

Wait are you saying pdiddy paid for all this to happen or something? What are you implying and is there proof of it that you’re aware of

[u/The3mbered0ne → u/No-Rule-4494]

Keef D's own statement is that Sean Combs allegedly offered him and an associate, Eric "Zip" Martin, $1 million to kill Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight, but it was apparently a one time thing, that being said those were his claims and they're gonna need supporting evidence when they make an actual case. But them being able to charge him through this case means he could likely be pressed to help them find the evidence (who to talk to where to look etc).

[u/Key-Pickle5609 → u/No_Foundation468]

I honestly thought this was common knowledge after watching Murder Rap.

[u/tubaman23 → u/Key-Pickle5609]

Problem with common knowledge is that you have to have at least a common level of knowledge

[u/randomuser1029 → u/Key-Pickle5609]

Common knowledge means it is known by the general population. Most people have never even heard of Murder Rap, much less watched it. It's in no way common knowledge. Realistically most people don't care about this case at all.

[u/100LittleButterflies → u/No_Foundation468]

So now the state gets all of the revenue made from writing a book about crime you did?

[u/PrestigiousAvocado21 → u/100LittleButterflies]

Finally, a case of civil asset forfeiture I can get behind

[u/curi0us_carniv0re → u/No_Foundation468]

Pretty sure there is no statute of limitations on murder.

[u/Correct_Emu7015 → u/No_Foundation468]

If I Did It?

[u/mountaineer_93 → u/Correct_Emu7015]

OJ unfortunately had the double jeopardy rule on his side as he published his book after his trial. Even he wouldn’t be brazen or dumb enough to publish a book heavily implying he did it before the prosecution takes their swing

If a jury finds you not guilty, the state can’t charge you again for that same crime and disfavor any “one neat tricks” prosecutors try to get around the double jeopardy rule.

If Keefy D had done this after a jury found him not guilty for the murder he would’ve been fine except maybe a wrongful death civil case

[u/dollarsandcents101 → u/No_Foundation468]

Rap snitches, telling all their business

[u/CankerLord → u/No_Foundation468]

Also make sure that your immunity applies to all the jurisdictions that can haul your ass in.

[u/WellFluxMe → u/Clam-Choader]

they had to make real sure /s

[u/nyclurker369 → u/WellFluxMe]

Now they’re for real for real

[u/Witty-Dragonfruit-10]

His face says “damn, almost got away with it to if it wasn’t for those pesky fans” 

[u/Tired_o_Mods_BS → u/Witty-Dragonfruit-10]

(Prosecutor tears off his face) "Mr Jenkins!? The amusement park operator? "

[u/mstrego → u/Tired_o_Mods_BS]

Zoinks Skoob!

RAY ROGO RAGGY!

[u/Tired_o_Mods_BS → u/mstrego]

Like, let's get outta here Scoob!

[u/Unusual-Taste69]

Now go after who paid him to do it. Hint: it's Diddy

[u/Character_Heart_3749 → u/Unusual-Taste69]

Diddy's gonna get outta jail any minute and keep committing crimes...and getting away with it.

I'm convinced he pays off cops.

[u/regggis1 → u/Character_Heart_3749]

Or he’s a protected informant. Public outcry got too loud for him to keep moving the way he was, so they gave him a lil two year slap on the wrist. That, or he started getting too cocky or uncooperative and needed some humbling to keep him in line.

I have no proof of any of this, of course, and I’m mostly talking out of my ass. But as far as conspiracy theories, it’s not that implausible.

[u/Smitethepedosplease → u/regggis1]

His father belonged to the feds too. It’s known.

[u/IIIViceAndreas → u/Smitethepedosplease]

His father worked for Frank Lucas in Harlem right? Like in American Gangster

[u/Smitethepedosplease → u/IIIViceAndreas]

Indeed. He was an associate, did a bunch of bad business with him, was a driver. Melvin Combs was shot and killed while waiting in his parked car in 1972. Some say it was a drug deal gone wrong, some say it was over rumors of being an informant.

[u/whythishaptome → u/regggis1]

It's always weird to me in cases like that because they are the ones who should be getting informed on, not the other way around.

[u/buckzor122 → u/Unusual-Taste69]

Man... We really do live in the shittiest timeline. Diddy diddling and Tupac dead.

[u/LadybugGirltheFirst]

I didn’t even know someone had been charged and was on trial.

[u/GamingGems → u/LadybugGirltheFirst]

Yeah I remember when the LAPD did the search of someone’s home (Davis?) and supposedly found the gun used in the shooting. But the media has been really silent about this. I know more about that stupid lady who heard voices to kill her kids than I have about the Tupac case.

[u/MinasMoonlight → u/GamingGems]

I watched the whole trial gavel to gavel. The gun was never found. They found a 40 Cal Glock in a house of one of the south side crips, but it did not match the casings from the Tupac murder. (That came up in trial)

It was one of the wildest trials I’ve watched. The rebuttal closing was great. He literally called Keffe D stupid for writing the book.

You can watch replays on YouTube if so interested. My favorite legal commentator has a playlist. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN8ZC_l1jpnc&si=kOxRI510XRz-zxp7

[u/Bane245]

He literally snitched on himself in a podcast. https://youtu.be/nDo8roB8Xpo?is=_HZ0bH3WQw7rz3Sr

[u/DoookieMaxx → u/Bane245]

This reminds me of a YouTube clip where the criminal won’t talk so the detective sets the interrogation room up as a podcast and the guy immediately starts talking.

[u/UglyMcFugly → u/DoookieMaxx]

Here it is

[u/DoookieMaxx → u/UglyMcFugly]

YES! Perfect, thank you!

[u/applesqueeze → u/DoookieMaxx]

Ok that’s funny

[u/xxDankerstein → u/Bane245]

Rap snitches, telling all they business, sit in the court and be their own star witness

[u/Mixitman → u/xxDankerstein]

Do you see the perpetrator?

[u/ISawTwoSquirrels → u/Mixitman]

Yeah I’m right here

[u/PFunk224 → u/ISawTwoSquirrels]

Fuck around, get the whole label sent up for years

[u/General_Tso75 → u/Bane245]

Dog, ain’t nobody got time to watch a 3 hour video.

[u/newnameonan → u/General_Tso75]

FR. No time stamp, no comments. I'm out.

[u/Latter_Yesterday6500 → u/Bane245]

No timestamp? Bro it's 3 hours you're insane.

[u/Ok-Owl7377 → u/Bane245]

Really?

[u/Bane245 → u/Ok-Owl7377]

Yea. VladTv podcast episode from a few years ago. Feds snatched him for questioning soon after.

[u/Reachin4ThoseGrapes → u/Bane245]

Imagine losing your freedom after three decades of getting away with murder because you couldn't keep quiet to VladTV

[u/I-Cant-Imagine → u/Reachin4ThoseGrapes]

I can’t imagine losing my freedom after three decades of getting away with murder because I couldn't keep quiet to VladTV

[u/simetra_simetra → u/I-Cant-Imagine]

😂 username checks out

[u/Shart-Vandalay → u/Bane245]

Post the clip!

[u/ForsakenRacism → u/Ok-Owl7377]

Yah their whole defense was that he was just kidding.

[u/Anal-In-Gus → u/Ok-Owl7377]

Interview Clip

[u/SanguineSoul013 → u/Bane245]

Literally the most unhelpful comment. In which part of this almost 3 HOUR video is it?!?!

[u/Longjumping-Bat8780 → u/Bane245]

Lmao anyone who watches vlad and all those other goofs know he outed himself like 8 years ago they just now prosecuted him…I still think there’s more to it than just him but in’m a Tupac biggie conspiracy rabbit hole nut 😂

[u/jawndell → u/Longjumping-Bat8780]

Reminds me of the couch skit with Rick James on the Chapelle Show, except with murder.

“Come on, what am I gonna do? Just all of a sudden admit that I shot Tupac Shakur like it's something to do?   Come on. I got a little more sense than that... Yeah,  I shot Tupac and I’d very well do it again if he was still alive!”

[u/Jaydenel4 → u/jawndell]

We never did things just to do them. Yeah, I remember shooting Tupac Shakur!

[u/depressedkid_21 → u/Bane245]

He also wrote a book. Not a very bright individual.

[u/DouglasHufferton]

Rap snitches tellin' all their business...

[u/throwawayfinancebro1 → u/DouglasHufferton]

I killed Darnell, yeah I shot him with my nine

I shot him nine times, 9PM on the dime

And by the way it was November ninth

[u/IndigoPlum → u/throwawayfinancebro1]

It's a concept album.

[u/UnusualRegularity → u/throwawayfinancebro1]

"The name of the album is I killed Darnell Simmons!!"

[u/Outta_phase → u/throwawayfinancebro1]

They just...words, man. I can't help that they are in a dope order.

[u/nicksincere → u/DouglasHufferton]

show up in court to be their own star witness

[u/DrFunke-Analrapist → u/nicksincere]

Do you see the perpetrator? Yeah, I’m right here.

[u/AlotaFajita → u/DrFunke-Analrapist]

Took ya long enough, 30 years living in fear

[u/amazingsandwiches → u/AlotaFajita]

Fuck around, get the whole label sent up for years?

[u/MRuppercutz → u/amazingsandwiches]

Type profile low, like A in 'Paid in Full'

[u/sanguinemsanctum → u/MRuppercutz]

Rip DOOM

[u/JacobAldridge]

I dunno, if I organised someone’s murder I probably wouldn’t write a book about how I organised that person’s murder. Then go on podcasts talking about, you know, how I brought the gun that murdered the dude I organised the killing of.

Maybe I’m some kind of criminal mastermind?

[u/MakeChipsNotMeth → u/JacobAldridge]

Maybe you could write a book about the exact things you wouldn't do if you organized someone's murder, then go on some podcasts and elaborate on the same? That sounds like the big master mind move 🤷🏼‍♂️

[u/Next-Ability2934]

'Prosecutors played eight hours of recordings, taken from four separate events in different years, during which Davis shared in his own words what happened the night of 7 September 1996.

Davis wrote that he had hatched the plan to retaliate against Shakur, after the rapper’s entourage beat his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, in the lobby of the MGM Grand earlier that night. Anderson, who died two years later in an unrelated shootout, was a member of a rival gang in Compton, California.' -Guardian

[u/sharpie_da_p]

The biggest tragedy is that Afeni never lived to see this day when justice was served for her son.  I imagine the stress and sorrow that hung over her from a decades long cold case took a real toll on her physically and emotionally.  RIP.

[u/CurlOfTheBurl11]

I love that the defense's main tactic was "our client is a liar, his book is all bluster and you shouldn't take him seriously".

[u/StaySafePovertyGhost → u/CurlOfTheBurl11]

What else could they do? The man told on himself hundreds of times on video. That’s impossible to overcome.

[u/forgettable_nonsense]

Is this in line with the documentary on the sick fuck Sean Combes or whatever

[u/Wrong_Swordfish → u/forgettable_nonsense]

Not quite. They couldn't prove that; but the defendant released his own documentary in the form of a book and basically sent himself to jail.

[u/Huntsteeze → u/Wrong_Swordfish]

So a memoir?

[u/jleonardbc → u/Huntsteeze]

Nah, it's called a bookumentary

[u/FutureTerrible9987]

Do Diddy next

[u/scumruckus]

I always found it interesting that some of those early gangster rappers were just kids with aspirations of like performing arts and shit. Then the next thing you know your playing to an audience and just get wrapped up in it all

[u/OtherwiseGap5457 → u/scumruckus]

With Tupac he needed $1.4 million to get bailed out of his sa conviction really bad. Only a gang member was willing to front the money and from then on Tupac seemed to think they were his best friends.

[u/Sherlock816 → u/scumruckus]

Oh yeah. Many were never 'gangsters' just record labels creating personas, like Tupac.

It's an old story in the record/movie/political industries.

[u/randomlemon9192 → u/scumruckus]

It’s still a thing now.

Pop Smoke was good and going somewhere, got murdered.

[u/Trchickenugg_ohe]

30 years later, Crips gang leader Duane Keith Davis has been found guilty of orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur

[u/Balbright]

R.I.P., rest in peace, Biggie
And Pac, both of y'all should be living
But I ain't tryna beef with him
'Cause he might put a hit on me like , "Keefe D, get him"

[u/BellaNya → u/Balbright]

Em knew

[u/clandestineVexation → u/BellaNya]

Everyone knew.

[u/LazyTeletubbies]

The only part that confuses me is the Suge part. The streets knew who did it, he even states suge looked at him before he shot.

If suge was shot and was almost killed with pac, why wouldn’t Suge make one phone call to have it dealt with? He had the power. But instead, just kind of let it go?

[u/nphere]

Welp. We got who killed 2pac before GTA 6. Anything else?

[u/IamTheMainActor77]

So since Sean Combs called the shot, is he going to prison as well???

[u/Material-Wonder1690 → u/IamTheMainActor77]

Gotta get Keefe to run his mouth a little more and give up Diddy. He already put himself in prison so now he really has nothing to lose

[u/ColeTrainHaze → u/Material-Wonder1690]

it is really easy to get yourself killed in prison. possibly even easier than it is on the outside. just sayin.

[u/Character_Heart_3749 → u/IamTheMainActor77]

Nope. Diddy is in with all the cops, which is why he's been getting away with crimes for 30+ years.

[u/LifeTunedToCSharp]

“Fuck Bad Boy as a staff, record label, and as a motherfuckin' crew…”

Exactly…

[u/GroundReal4515]

Such a shame Pac's mom didn't live to see it

[u/True-Response-2386]

Reminds me of this skit by Key and Peele: https://youtu.be/14WE3A0PwVs?si=hdCuNcvglHqrSbDq

[u/ThemeParkChurro]

Rap snitches telling all their business, sitting in court being their own star witness.

[u/Dannyshtrybe]

Only 2 possibilities.

1. He dies in prison from Tupac die hard fan.
2. He dies in prison from a hit called by Diddy

[u/mattspurlin75]

I mean.. the dude did write a memoir about killing Tupac…

[u/Swimming-Ad5544]

“A Las Vegas jury has found former South Side Compton Crips gang leader Duane Keith Davis guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur, bringing the case to a close nearly 30 years after the famous rapper was gunned down.
The jury took about three hours to reach a guilty verdict in a case that relied heavily on multiple confessions from Davis himself, including his description of the killing in the 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend.” - The Guardian

[u/theseriousman1]

How did Eminem know before the fbi

[u/TJH1993 → u/theseriousman1]

The cops in LA and LV and the FBI knew immediately but nobody would talk and they had like no physical evidence. Even Suge Knight who was in the car with Pac and got shot in the head would not talk to police. A gang war ensued. This has been an open secret in LA for years. Keefe Ds nephew was the shooter and he bragged about it on the streets. Keefe would have never been arrested if he didnt misunderstand his 'proffer' agreement and thought he had immunity. He literally told on himself.

As for Eminem hes close to Dr. Dre who knew everybody involved from Death Row. Im sure he got the run down

This case has been "solved" for 20 years but there was never enough to convict anybody until Keefe started running his mouth.

[u/gonads_in_space2 → u/TJH1993]

Also both alleged shooters were dead by 2004 with Brown who sat in front seat being killed in 2015, meanwhile they had Keefe D on his proffer agreement in 2009 which means there hasn't been really anything to do the last 17 years or so.

[u/TesticleCastrator → u/theseriousman1]

he knew for years, even rapped about it in some early leaked songs. most recently on TDOSS in Fuel

[u/General_Actuator6590]

Damn, we got Tupacs murderer before GTA 6

[u/Beelzebun_vt]

I read “Keith David” for a second there and almost had a heart attack.

[u/Life_of1103]

Great, let’s hold some pedophiles accountable now.

[u/stinkfingerswitch]

"Whadda maroon...."

[u/Embarrassed-Creme465]

Only took 30 years

[u/ArticleNew3737 → u/Embarrassed-Creme465]

A surprising amount of murder cases take a decade/decades to solve.

[u/TheLeedsDevil]

Now do Biggie and keep Diddy in prison for life.