Former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who was heavily involved in the Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur murder cases, has revealed the one song that escalated a tragic chain of events.
Tupac was shot dead at the age of 25 back in 1996, and Biggie died a year later, aged just 24.
Ex police officer Kadling has appeared on a number of podcasts and documentaries over the years to tell us who he thinks killed the pair, sharing his evidence with the public.
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Fans believe Kading and his task force's work on the case helped lead to the 2023 arrest of Duane ‘Keefe D’ Davis for the murder of Tupac.
However, the detective believes the infamous 1996 diss track 'Hit Em Up' is what made the already tense feud heat up.
Pac was angry at his former friend Biggie and accused him of being involved in his 1994 shooting in New York.
In the song, he disses Puff Daddy (Sean 'Diddy' Combs) and boasts about his alleged affair with Biggie's wife, Faith Evans.
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'That's why I f**ked your b**ch you fat motherf**ker,' being one of the most memorable lines from the record, along with, 'First off, f*** your b**** and the clique you claim'.
Kading believes this diss track took the whole East Coast-West Coast rivalry to a new level.
"I think Biggie was a little bit more innocent in this whole chain of events than Tupac was," he told the MAD THAT PODCAST.
"Tupac overstepped his boundaries when he got himself involved in that gang type of activity, in that gang life. It was not a place that he should have been in. Suge Knight should never have allowed Tupac to be exposed to a lot of that.
"So there was just some really bad judgment calls made."
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"Obviously I sympathise with both of them because they were young men, they had all kinds of potential, they were giving back culturally and they were going to mature into, probably, you know, leaders within their culture, and so you know the culture was robbed of their potential," he added.
"So I sympathised with that but I also recognise that when people take the law into their own hands, and they want to enact street justice, there's going to be a price to pay.
"And there's an old saying, as a matter of fact, I think there's a big mural somewhere with Tupac Shakur, it says, 'live by the sword, die by the sword,' and that is exactly the prophecy that came true, that he sang and spoke.
"I mean all you have to do is listen to that song 'Hit Em Up' and listen to the viciousness and the violence and the intention within that song that he's directing at other people.
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"And that whole energy just came right back against him."
Topics: Music, Tupac Shakur, Crime
Anish Vij