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If the FBI Can’t Even Find Tupac’s Killer, They’re Not Locating Osama

10/18/07, 10:40 am EST

Was Tupac’s posse infiltrated by the FBI? Former Death Row bodyguard David Hackie told an LA audience Tuesday night that he wasn’t only an informant for the Feds while serving the late rapper: he was an undercover FBI agent. Hackie’s revelation came during a Q&A session that followed the screening of the new documentary Tupac Assassination: Conspiracy or Revenge?. The film examines, for what feels like the millionth time, a conspiracy plot to murder Tupac and the LAPD’s ineptitude during the investigation. Hackie’s presence in the whole Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. murders is immutable. In 2004, he alleged that Death Row Records (particularly Suge Knight) offered a police officer $25,000 to kill B.I.G. That murder remains unsolved. Hackie also once claimed that Knight had several “covert agents” in the LAPD, and that Knight himself masterminded the Shakur slaying because he owed the rapper millions in unpaid royalties. It begs the question: Given Hackie’s involvement, how can the FBI not even solve this thing? Even if there was corruption on the 1996-97 LAPD roster, you’d think the U.S. government would straighten this whole mess out. To this day, no arrests have been made in either murder, but Hackie expects that might change soon.

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Clamhorn | 10/18/2007, 11:29 am EST

Lost in the “tragedy” that was Tupac’s demise is the fact that he was an admitted thug and little more than a common criminal. Whoever had him taken care of was doing society a favor.

Andy | 10/18/2007, 11:53 am EST

It’s not about the FBI or the LAPD being incompetent. It’s about all the “gangstas” not telling on each other so they can “keep it real”.

They should just let it go. Tupac brought it on himself. The “gangstas” did this to themselves, and if they refuse to follow the law, this is what they get. No big loss either way.

Nick | 10/18/2007, 11:56 am EST

Yeah, “gangsters!”
Woo, “gangsters!”
All right! “Gangsters!”

Johnny Kickass | 10/18/2007, 3:05 pm EST

‘Begs the question’ doesn’t mean ‘leads to an obvious question…’. ‘Begs the question’ is shorthand for logical fallacies where the question and conclusion amount to the same thing.

RS Editors: consider yourself schooled!!

Marty P. | 10/18/2007, 3:14 pm EST

Live like a no talent thug, then die a no talent thug.

jaoman1 | 10/19/2007, 10:50 am EST

Tupac was a great artist, probably the greatest rap has ever seen. Anyone who says he is a talentless thug is an ignorant fool. Listen to his music before you make those stupid statements. Unfortunately he did get caught up in a ridiculous lifestyle with some bad people around him. He was 50 Cent/Jay-Z/whoever else, before they were. Tupac is a legend, stop the hate/ignorance…..

frank | 10/19/2007, 3:02 pm EST

jaoman, that’s not music! Do you know what music is? But that’s also no reason for someone to die…I really hope they charge someone soon…and I really hope that justice is dealt someday.

Kruzinski | 10/19/2007, 3:05 pm EST

I’m just a middle-age white guy, but as a non-trad college student,I’ve seen the reverence that African-Americans hold for Tupac, and “common criminals” don’t hold that type of attention for over a decade after their death. “No big loss either way,” and “doing society a favor.” Listen to yourselves. Disgusting!

Kruzinski | 10/19/2007, 3:07 pm EST

P.S. You want to see a common criminal? Does the name Phil spector ring a bell?

whatever | 10/19/2007, 4:08 pm EST

Tupac was a rapper, i hate rap, but Tupac had incredibly amounts of talent, and just because of some unknown reason, he was killed. He’s dead, its over that was years ago, let it stay years ago, remember him for his talent not the fact he died, think of this way, the person that killed tupac has to go to bed at night knowing that fact, he has to hear the man that he MURDERED on the radio all the time, he knows he killed an innocent man, he’s in enough shit already.
let it go, rap sucks anyway, listen to punk. At least people who kill punk rockers admit to it.

what? | 10/20/2007, 2:54 am EST

huh?

what? | 10/20/2007, 2:56 am EST

there’s nothing worse than people who can’t write pretending they can.

SHiN | 10/21/2007, 6:51 pm EST

i love 2pacs music and i will never stop lovin his music. the man has multitudes of talent, some of which he may not have been given the chance to use because his life was cut short abruptly and tragicly. the man or women or group who did this horrific act will be punished in due time. if not by a court of law, by the Almighty Himself. oh yeah, and punk sucks donkey balls. i’d rather listen to rusty nails be scratched down a blackboard. and i have no desire to ever listen to rusty nails. some of the new rap aint all good, but old school hiphop from the 80s and early to mid 90s rap was hot. this lil jon/yung joc bullshit is for the birds. if i want to listen to crap i’ll put a mic by a cow shittin. knamean?

africanoutlaw | 12/23/2007, 11:33 am EST

why is it hard for the white man to see greatness beyond themselves??? reading these ignorant comments makes me question if the white man is not the devil himself… the black man is always the easy target. i mean all we have to do is turn the history books and we can all see the atrocities thru out history generated From the ” PURE BREED”; ALL kind of devilish thoots, extrem hate toward another human beein, world war atrocities…. i can go for weeks with this list. the impact pac has on the world and still having on it is uncomparable. asia, africa, europe … every single continent in some ways heard of this young black man. fans accros the planet of all races still rever this man as a genius; who else had such a status in the music world huh???? elvis??? elvis is only known here in the states that s it;who the hell knows elvis in africa??? in asia?? by the way it s also known that alot of his songs were written by black artists back in the days that were not given radio play. ever since i can remenber, the white man been trying to keep the black man down. all means necessary. TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR; young sir, you still lives on. ur intelligence, the power of ur words, and your potentials gat even the vice president of the usa worried; they had to silence you; for my brothers out there who know. the murder will never be solve. those beyond the scene are the Law; the feds, the usa goverment…. for my brothers who know.
love u pac. rip.

STEPH | 12/23/2007, 12:07 pm EST

LOVE U PAC

steven a.k.a thug 4 | 12/19/2008, 4:17 am EST

any body who says crap about tupac or his music has’ nt head what he says .toppac i sa u my hero en my inspiration r.i.p en stay blesd

Jacob EsTrada | 4/20/2009, 2:11 pm EST

2paC ii$ Hard COre tHO deR aNt No OtheR Rapper Liike 2pac suge hiired some1 2 kiiLL 2paC DAM he iiZ aY haTer tHo
-LEM4$-

g man | 5/7/2009, 10:03 pm EST

fuck tupac

g man | 5/7/2009, 10:05 pm EST

i killed tupac

Mike | 5/10/2009, 8:57 am EST

The vacuity of some comments here is just ….

stevo | 5/14/2009, 10:54 pm EST

2pac is the best and always will be

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