Diddy's links to Tupac murder suspect Keefe D revealed

Following revelations that Sean 'Diddy' Combs is facing implicit 100 allegations of intersexual maltreatment astatine his infamous parties, the disgraced rap mogul's alleged links to the execution of Tupac person travel nether scrutiny. 

The producer's melodramatic autumn from grace has been elaborate successful DailyMail.com's latest deed podcast The Trial of Diddy, hosted by Marjorie Hernandez, Daily Mail’s West Coast News Editor. 

In the second episode of the deed show, Greg Kading, 1 of the investigators assigned to Tupac's murder, dissects the renewed spotlight connected Diddy's alleged transportation to Tupac's infamous 1996 slaying. 

Hernandez explains that successful the 1990s, a beef betwixt Diddy's Bad Boy Records connected the East Coast and Marion 'Suge' Knight’s Death Row Records connected the West Coast dominated the Hip Hop industry. 

Hernandez opens successful the podcast: 'Tupac Shakur had accused his one-time friend, Bad Boy’s flagship creator Biggie, and Diddy with shooting and robbing him connected Nov. 30, 1994 astatine Quad Recording Studios successful Manhattan.

'Many thought Diddy and Bad Boy were someway progressive with the attack.

'Shakur adjacent openly accused Biggie and Puffy of having anterior cognition of the shooting, thing they some denied.

'The Quad studios shooting sparked the infamous and deadly East Coast vs West Coast rivalry that would yet outgo Tupac and Biggie their lives successful drive-by shootings wrong months of each different successful 1996.' 

Tupac's execution came connected September 13, 1996, erstwhile helium was gunned down connected the Las Vegas portion successful a car driven by Suge Knight. 

Six months later, arsenic helium was leaving astatine a enactment successful LA aft the 1997 Soul Train Awards, Biggie was changeable and killed. 

'Both men’s decease shook the industry. Diddy was present successful fearfulness for his life,' Hernandez said. 

Retired LAPD homicide detective Greg Kading investigated the Tupac and Biggie murders. He says Combs hired members from the notorious Crips thoroughfare pack successful 1995 during a halt of the Summer Jams circuit successful Anaheim, California. 

Among the salient Crip members astatine the clip was Duane 'Keefe D' Davis and his nephew, Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson.

As explained by Kading, 'Keefe D was dealing some PCP and cocaine from Los Angeles to different cause dealer, a fig retired successful New York, feline named Eric Martin. 

'They called him Zip. And Zip was a precise well-known cause dealer, hustler, changeable caller retired successful New York who happened to beryllium affiliated with Puffy Combs' dad.

'And aft Puffy's dada died, Zip benignant of took implicit arsenic benignant of similar a play uncle fig for Puffy Combs. And besides helium became precise adjacent with Christopher Wallace and Faith Evans and was adjacent the godfather of Christopher Wallace's son. So that was the connection.

'Keefe knew a cause dealer, that cause trader was affiliated with Puffy and Biggie and that was however the instauration happened erstwhile Puffy said that helium needed immoderate information connected the West Coast due to the fact that of each the problems that helium was having with Suge Knight and Death Row Records.

'His person Zip, his play uncle said, hey, I've got conscionable the cleanable radical for you. I cognize immoderate pack members retired determination that tin grip that benignant of work. Let maine present you to them. And that's however the relation began.' 

Hernandez explained that aft Tupac's death, 'Keefe D - on with 3 others - were pinpointed arsenic the suspects successful the get-away car.

'Keefe D told investigators it was his nephew, Baby Lane, who changeable and killed Tupac and changeable astatine Suge Knight.

Nearly 30 years aboriginal aft Tupac’s murder, Keefe D was arrested and is facing execution charges successful Nevada.

Prosecutors allege Davis was the mastermind down Shakur’s shooting, and helium is the lone remaining idiosyncratic from the alleged fishy conveyance live today.

Prosecutors submitted interviews of Keefe D, who alleged Diddy offered him $1 cardinal to assassinate Tupac, and tribunal documents amusement cops asked if Combs 'play[ed] a relation successful this thing?' to which Keefe responded, 'Yeah, I deliberation helium did.'

Hernandez explained successful the podcast: 'Davis said Puffy contacted him astir Pac’s death, and that Combs 'reached retired wondering if the South Side Crips were liable for Shakur’s decease by asking, ‘Is that us?’ [Keefe D], beaming with pride, answer[ed], ‘Yes.’' 

With the eyes of the Hip Hop satellite connected the rivalry, Kading said that 'Puffy would person known that helium was targeted erstwhile helium came to the West Coast.' 

'And truthful erstwhile things were truly getting bad, that's erstwhile Keefe D says that helium met with Puffy astatine Greenblatt's up successful Hollywood connected Sunset Strip,' helium said. 

'Puffy called him speech and made it much pronounced, made it much emphatic. Hey, truly request you to instrumentality attraction of this problem. Because, you know, I'm a dormant antheral walking if you don't. That was benignant of the gist.' 

'According to Keefe D, and this is wherever I springiness this caveat. This is simply a speech wherever I deliberation there's emotions going connected and desperation and fear,' Kading said. 

'And Keefe D says that helium offered him a cardinal dollars. And of course, Keefe D is not going to crook that down. So that was the benignant of fig that was thrown retired there.' 

Hernandez besides hosted writer Gerrick Kennedy, who noted that erstwhile it comes to Diddy's spot successful the euphony world, helium was idiosyncratic who had 'tentacles crossed truthful much' of the industry. 

'He has his manus connected truthful overmuch of it to the constituent that it's really dizzying to commencement to deliberation astir however tin you untangle yourself from, if you contiguous wanted to say, I don't privation to perceive to thing that Puff had thing to bash with, what are you gonna play?' helium said. 

Now, with the eyes of the satellite connected Diddy's alleged crimes, Hernandez concluded: 'Over the years, helium gained planetary occurrence and became a bonafide A-lister and mogul, mixing with politicians and dignitaries each implicit the world.

'But controversy, aggregate lawsuits and arrests inactive followed the hot-headed Diddy. Yet, helium continued to debar jailhouse clip and the other, sometimes deadly, consequences that befell others who were closest to him.

'In the end, it would beryllium a two-minute viral video of Diddy repeatedly abusing Cassie to enactment a ace successful Comb’s protected bubble - and what immoderate accidental revealed the Bad Boy for who helium truly is.'

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