If this has been posted already then my mistake. I broke down the vibe article on Pac's Murder that's in the latest issue of Vibe. I will just put some of the interesting things about the article is was tooooo long to type the entire thing, hope yall enjoy.
Tupac Shakur was dead, murdered at 25 after a brutal ambush on a warm neon night near the las vegas strip, and a few awful days later, Marion "Suge" Knight convened a meeting a Death Row Records heasdquarters in Los Angeles. In a large office above busy Wilshire Blvd. a cross section of the labels employees from the artist roster to the office staff to the security force-quietly commemrated their fallen colleague.
But, then Suge asked the ladies to leave the room, says someone who was there that day-someone who, more than eight years later, is still so wary of offending Death Row's corporate code that he would not allow his name to be printed in this story. "when the ladies were gone and the door was closed behind them, he confides, "the mood of the meeting changed."
Suge was talking to the security guys who were supposed to be protecting him and Tupac that night," the source recalls, the memory of Knight's wrath still fresh. "Suge kept asking them, "What happened? How could this have happened? He was pissed. Then he told everybody what he had seen that night-who he had seen. Suge said, "I saw the shooter. The shooter was dark skinned."
Apparently, everybody understood.
"Orlando Anderson," the source explains. "Orlando Anderson was dark-skinned-darker probably than anybody in the room that day. Suge was saying that the shooter was Orlando Anderson."
These days that almost goes withought saying. AS years have passed, the growing consensus is that Anderson, a 22-year-old affiliated with the Southside Crips, was the triggerman in Shakur's murder. Anderson always denied it-right up to his own death in a gang shootout at a Compton, Calif., car was in 1998.
I was the initial officer at the scene, recounts Detective Dan Long, who found Knight's car perforated by bullet holes and limping on two flat tires with the upholstery drenched in Shakur's blood. "When I first got there, I didn't know who was shot. But it was obvious we had lots of witnesses, including a carload of four girls. It looked like a ase we'd be able to solve very quickly. But suddenly, everybody froze up. The girls didn't want to speak at all, which maybe you could understand. But who would have thought that Suge Knight wouldn't speak?
Consequently, the tragic murder of one of this generation's great artistic voices has sunk into the gunky pop-culture realm of amatuer criminologists, overamped conspiracy therists, and hip hop's version of Elvis-lives looneyism. It's gone on so long that, around the time Shakur's 8th posthumous CD, Loyal to the Game, was released last December, the original supervisor on the case, Sergeant Kevin Manning, no longer handled the case anymore. Now Det. Long oversees the investigation, such as it is, which largely involves fielding phone calls.
They seem to come in groups, and you are the fourth one today, he said. The one just before you was a guy telling me that Tupac was murdered by former President Jimmy Carter. Occasionally something a bit more substantial comes in, said Long, such as a recent tip that prompted him to interview a prisoner in California. And I just got another one I'm going to look into, he said. But you know, we've filled 32 files with this stuff, and we're on to number 33. It's so convoluted now that it would be hard to prove anything. Through all the investigations and evidence and theories, we've never been close to making any arrests.
Afeni is beyond that now ( Pac's murder investigation), said Richard Fischbein, a NY attorney and longtime friend who helps Tupac's mother administer her son's multimillion-estate. She pretty confident about what happened, but those are issues she overcame a long time ago. What she's attempting to do now is preserve Tupac's place in the music industry and, more importantly, secure his legacy.
Ultimately, Tupac's fate-and his legacy-will always be tied to the choice he made in 1995, when Knight posted bail of $1.4 million to spring him from a New York prison so he could come to the West Coast after joining what was one of the most notoriously successful record companies in the world.
"There were two sides to Death Row-the recorld label and the gang," said the man who sat in that mournful meeting after Shakur was killed. "Pac's mistake was joining the gang."
If I get a chance I will break down the Biggie and Jam Master Jay article later and if yall are interested. Real quick about BIG's article it says that someone in Puffys crew recieved a call from a trusted friend saying "They are coming for you". So the guy went upstairs and told Puffy what was said. Puff said, Man I don't want to hear that! I'm going to have a good time. And it states how Dwayne "Keefee D' Davis and Orlando Anderson were at the party also.
Tupac Shakur was dead, murdered at 25 after a brutal ambush on a warm neon night near the las vegas strip, and a few awful days later, Marion "Suge" Knight convened a meeting a Death Row Records heasdquarters in Los Angeles. In a large office above busy Wilshire Blvd. a cross section of the labels employees from the artist roster to the office staff to the security force-quietly commemrated their fallen colleague.
But, then Suge asked the ladies to leave the room, says someone who was there that day-someone who, more than eight years later, is still so wary of offending Death Row's corporate code that he would not allow his name to be printed in this story. "when the ladies were gone and the door was closed behind them, he confides, "the mood of the meeting changed."
Suge was talking to the security guys who were supposed to be protecting him and Tupac that night," the source recalls, the memory of Knight's wrath still fresh. "Suge kept asking them, "What happened? How could this have happened? He was pissed. Then he told everybody what he had seen that night-who he had seen. Suge said, "I saw the shooter. The shooter was dark skinned."
Apparently, everybody understood.
"Orlando Anderson," the source explains. "Orlando Anderson was dark-skinned-darker probably than anybody in the room that day. Suge was saying that the shooter was Orlando Anderson."
These days that almost goes withought saying. AS years have passed, the growing consensus is that Anderson, a 22-year-old affiliated with the Southside Crips, was the triggerman in Shakur's murder. Anderson always denied it-right up to his own death in a gang shootout at a Compton, Calif., car was in 1998.
I was the initial officer at the scene, recounts Detective Dan Long, who found Knight's car perforated by bullet holes and limping on two flat tires with the upholstery drenched in Shakur's blood. "When I first got there, I didn't know who was shot. But it was obvious we had lots of witnesses, including a carload of four girls. It looked like a ase we'd be able to solve very quickly. But suddenly, everybody froze up. The girls didn't want to speak at all, which maybe you could understand. But who would have thought that Suge Knight wouldn't speak?
Consequently, the tragic murder of one of this generation's great artistic voices has sunk into the gunky pop-culture realm of amatuer criminologists, overamped conspiracy therists, and hip hop's version of Elvis-lives looneyism. It's gone on so long that, around the time Shakur's 8th posthumous CD, Loyal to the Game, was released last December, the original supervisor on the case, Sergeant Kevin Manning, no longer handled the case anymore. Now Det. Long oversees the investigation, such as it is, which largely involves fielding phone calls.
They seem to come in groups, and you are the fourth one today, he said. The one just before you was a guy telling me that Tupac was murdered by former President Jimmy Carter. Occasionally something a bit more substantial comes in, said Long, such as a recent tip that prompted him to interview a prisoner in California. And I just got another one I'm going to look into, he said. But you know, we've filled 32 files with this stuff, and we're on to number 33. It's so convoluted now that it would be hard to prove anything. Through all the investigations and evidence and theories, we've never been close to making any arrests.
Afeni is beyond that now ( Pac's murder investigation), said Richard Fischbein, a NY attorney and longtime friend who helps Tupac's mother administer her son's multimillion-estate. She pretty confident about what happened, but those are issues she overcame a long time ago. What she's attempting to do now is preserve Tupac's place in the music industry and, more importantly, secure his legacy.
Ultimately, Tupac's fate-and his legacy-will always be tied to the choice he made in 1995, when Knight posted bail of $1.4 million to spring him from a New York prison so he could come to the West Coast after joining what was one of the most notoriously successful record companies in the world.
"There were two sides to Death Row-the recorld label and the gang," said the man who sat in that mournful meeting after Shakur was killed. "Pac's mistake was joining the gang."
If I get a chance I will break down the Biggie and Jam Master Jay article later and if yall are interested. Real quick about BIG's article it says that someone in Puffys crew recieved a call from a trusted friend saying "They are coming for you". So the guy went upstairs and told Puffy what was said. Puff said, Man I don't want to hear that! I'm going to have a good time. And it states how Dwayne "Keefee D' Davis and Orlando Anderson were at the party also.
