Ex-LAPD detective: 'Suge Knight and P Diddy were behind hits on Biggie and Tupac'

Ex-police officer claims he has proof pair ordered the killing of rap superstars

An ex-LAPD detective claims he has proof Sean "Puffy" Combs - or P Diddy - and Suge Knight ordered the murders of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur.

In a new, self-published book, former detective Greg Kading, who was removed from the double investigation into the murders of the rival rappers, alleges the Los Angeles Police Department suppressed evidence, including taped confessions from hired hitmen, and removed him from the case just as he was on the verge of solving it.

Responsing to the accusations, Diddy wrote in an email to LA Weekly:

This story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous.

Shakur, who recorded for Knight's Death Row Records, was gunned down in Las Vegas in September 1996.

Smalls, real name Christopher Wallace, a friend and colleague of Diddy's, was shot and killed six months later in Los Angeles.

[Edited 10/5/11 19:22pm]

I'll just say this: These deaths will never bear any truth... Sad, but true! Suge and Diddy are shady, but I don't know how to feel about this statement.

silverchild said:

I'll just say this: These deaths will never bear any truth... Sad, but true! Suge and Diddy are shady, but I don't know how to feel about this statement.

Yeah it's nuts, look at what LA Weekly printed about what PUFFY said:

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.

behind the alleged assassinations of Shakur and Smalls (Wallace).

ok....Chris Rock need to clear this up again

HuMpThAnG said:

behind the alleged assassinations of Shakur and Smalls (Wallace).

ok....Chris Rock need to clear this up again

Malcolm X was assassinated, Martin Luther King was assassinated, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, THEM TWO NIGGAS GOT SHOT!

[Edited 10/5/11 19:47pm]

Can you trust anything that comes out of a self-published book?

errant said:

Can you trust anything that comes out of a self-published book?

I question it myself.