Today the LA Times has yet another story on what "really happened" to Tupac Shakur six years ago. In short; hours after Tupac's bodyguards beat up a man at a Tyson fight in a Bloods-Crips fued, this man took action against Tupac. His gang, the Crips, already going to take action decided to make some money too so asked Biggie for support who gave them the gun to use.

Tupac ("west coast", Death Row Records) and Biggie/Notorious B.I.G. ("east coast", Puffy's Bad Boy family) had fueded for years, and this was just an opportunity for Biggie to finally take action against the situation. Many have suspected this for years, so it comes at no surprise. But at the same time many claimed these allegations to just be romanticizing the whole 'gansta' rap feud. So is this finally the answer?

Many say the story is short sighted and flat out wrong. The man in question was never seriously considered a suspect by the police even with the MGM Grand incident just hours before. This though lead some to theorize the police were involved in a cover-up, but the police claim witnesses were uncooperative. Biggie's girlfriend Charli Baltimore of Murder Inc. says she "knows for a fact" (whatever that means) that Biggie wasn't in Las Vegas at the time of the shooting. The director of the Biggie & Tupac documentary says it is much more complicated then this story suggests. Leaving out many details. And of course Biggie's family says it's garbage.

Do to the fact all three principle men are dead (Biggie was gunned down just six months later possibly in retaliation for Tupac's death and the Crips gang member in question, Anderson, was also killed in an "unrelated" incident a few years later) it is hard to back anything up. Will we ever know? Did Anderson set up a meeting with Crips that night after the MGM Grand incident to take action against Tupac? Did then Biggie meet with the Crips that night in Las Vegas and give them his .40-caliber Glock pistol so he could have the satisfaction of Tupac dying at the hand of his own gun in return for him giving the Crips a million dollars? Did Anderson then drive up in a Cadillac along side Suge Knight and Tupac's BMW and shoot Tupac? Did Suge Kinght order Biggie's death to retaliate? Or did maybe Suge himself order Tupac killed on fears he was leaving Death Row Records? Does it matter?

(source: Yahoo! News/AP Wire)

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