Keffe D tells the cops he was offered $1 million to kill Death Row
rapper Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight, the label’s former CEO. The
informant tells his interrogators in plain language, albeit at a cool
street clip, that Sean Combs — then known as Puff Daddy, the ringmaster
of Bad Boy Entertainment, Death Row Records’ bitter cross-country rival —
commissioned Shakur’s legendary murder in Vegas in September 1996.
(Knight would survive that night’s shooting with a bullet wound to the
head.)
Six months later, Bad Boy Entertainment rap star Christopher
Wallace, best known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G., was shot to
death in L.A. In the decade and a half since the two most famous
homicides in hip-hop history, police have made no arrests.
Now, in the pages of his potentially game-changing self-published
book Murder Rap, set for release Oct. 4, former Los Angeles Police
Department Detective Greg Kading reveals that LAPD has been sitting on
extensive tapes and documents containing confessions from key players
behind the alleged assassinations of Shakur and Smalls (Wallace). LAPD
higher-ups pulled Kading off the double investigation right when he was
poised to drive it home, he says. Then they shut it down completely. An
LAPD spokesman insists in an email that the case is still
“active/ongoing” but that no further information is available. If true,
this means the LAPD has only in the past couple of months revived the
probe.
Perhaps luckily for the rappers’ families and fans still seeking
closure, Kading made copies of nearly every investigative report and
taped confession before he left LAPD. His explosive book details the
behind-the-scenes failure by LAPD to bring Shakur’s and Smalls’ killers
to justice.
In a taped confession fully reviewed by L.A. Weekly, Keffe D says,
“[Combs] took me downstairs and he’s like, ‘Man, I want to get rid of
them dudes.’ … I was like, ‘We’ll wipe their ass out, quick. It’s
nothing.’ … We wanted a million.” In another stunning confession,
detailed in LAPD documents reviewed by the Weekly, the mother of one of
Knight’s children, identified in Kading’s book as “Theresa Swann,”
breaks down in tears, stating that the former Death Row boss gave her
the money to pay Wardell “Poochie” Fouse — Knight’s close associate and a
fellow member of the Mob Piru Bloods — to kill Smalls.
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