Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders (2015)

The tape was running in a Los Angeles Police Department interrogation room as a gang leader spilled the details about the shots fired at Tupac Shakur. In 2015, Michael Dorsey brought these recordings to the public: his documentary Murder Rap is built around Detective Greg Kading, who in the 2000s was part of a multi-agency task force investigating the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. After his retirement in 2010, he wrote the book Murder Rap (2011) about it. Dorsey’s film brought this investigation to the screen-and years later took on a significance that no one could have foreseen at the time.

From Book to Film: The Key Facts

Confession in the Cadillac and Serious Allegations

The film draws on case files, interviews with Kading and witnesses, and audio recordings of interrogations. The most important is the statement by Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a leader of the Southside Compton Crips. In 2008/2009, during a protected interrogation (a proffer agreement protecting against direct self-incrimination), he described to Kading and his colleagues that he was sitting in the white Cadillac from which Tupac was shot.

According to Davis, his nephew Orlando Anderson fired the fatal shot; he himself passed the gun to the back. Hours earlier, Anderson had been beaten up by Tupac and his entourage at the MGM Grand. Anderson denied any involvement, was never charged, and died in 1998 in an unrelated shooting.

Kading also presents two claims that go far beyond the Tupac case. First: according to Davis, Sean Combs put out a bounty on Tupac and Suge Knight. Combs has denied this, calling Kading’s account “pure fiction”; he was never charged in this case. Second: Suge Knight allegedly ordered Biggie’s murder in retaliation. That too is an investigator’s theory, not a court ruling. Kading himself summarized his view this way: the cases are not unsolved, merely unprosecuted.

From Documentary to the Courtroom: The 2026 Verdict

Davis later repeated his story in interviews and in 2019 in his own book-this time without the protection of a confidential interrogation. In September 2023, he was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with murder.

On August 31, 2026, a jury found him guilty of the murder of Tupac. The prosecution saw him as the organizer, not the shooter. During the trial, Murder Rap producer Michael Dorsey also testified as a witness. Davis announced an appeal; sentencing was set for October 13, 2026 (as of October 2, 2026). More on this under Shooting 1996.

Case Files Instead of Myths: The Assessment

Murder Rap delivers a sober investigator’s perspective: more matter-of-fact than the conspiracy films, but told entirely from the perspective of a man defending his own findings. The portion concerning Tupac’s death is essentially supported by the 2026 verdict. The claims regarding Combs and Biggie’s murder, by contrast, remain unproven allegations.

Anyone who wants to understand why the Tupac case took nearly 30 years to reach a verdict will find a deep look into the case files here. For comparison, Nick Broomfield’s very differently oriented film Biggie & Tupac is well worth watching.