2Pac, his true face (part 3): how did the murder really happen?

Archive note: The feud was supposedly pure show and the state the perpetrator: On August 3, 2008, this opinion piece appeared on the site’s blog (then Thuglove.de / United-Tupac.Com) as the conclusion of the series “2Pac, his true face.”

The feud as show, the state as murderer

The author interpreted Biggie’s “Who Shot Ya?” as a justification along the lines of “It wasn’t me, who then?” and Tupac’s “Hit ‘Em Up” as an exaggerated response that primarily served his label. In the hip-hop business, much was show, and both labels had profited from the feud. Even in interviews from prison, Tupac had still referred to Biggie as his “little brother.”

In the end stood the thesis that the state had Tupac assassinated, just as had allegedly been confirmed in 2001 for Martin Luther King. The post closed with “Rest in peace” for King, Tupac, and Christopher Wallace.

Bitter earnest instead of show, false King comparison

Regarding “Who Shot Ya?”, Biggie himself clarified that the song was written before the attack on Tupac and was not directed at him. Tupac nonetheless took it as mockery. That the feud was pure show is untenable: both sides expressed feeling hurt and aggrieved until the very end.

The claim regarding Martin Luther King is false. In 1999, a civil jury in Memphis did conclude that there had been a conspiracy and awarded the King family a symbolic $100. The U.S. Department of Justice investigated the allegations afterward, but in June 2000 found no reliable evidence to support them. There was never any confirmation that the FBI had King murdered.

Guilty verdict in Las Vegas: Gang revenge instead of state conspiracy

In 2008, the author wrote that Tupac’s death would eventually be solved. In court, that did indeed happen, though differently than assumed: on August 31, 2026, a jury in Las Vegas found Duane “Keffe D” Davis, former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, guilty of first-degree murder. According to prosecutors, the crime was revenge for the brawl against his nephew Orlando Anderson at the MGM Grand. Evidence pointing to state actors played no role in the proceedings.

As of October 2026: The verdict is not final (Davis announced he would appeal), and sentencing is scheduled for October 13, 2026. Where the blog suspected a state conspiracy, the courtroom proceedings ultimately came down to gang revenge.

Mehr: Tupac’s killer unmasked after 22 years? · Part 1 · Part 2