
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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