unsolved murders of biggie and tupac torrent download ’s killer ‘revealed’ by former LAPD detective on rapper’s 48th birthday. Greg Kading, a former LAPD investigator, shared previously unknown details of the rapper’s death and said he believes Tupac was shot by a man named Orlando ‘Baby’ Anderson in the fatal 1996 drive-by killing. Despite fan theories that the hitmaker is still alive, it is believed that Anderson, a South Compton Crip rival gang member, killed Tupac after he was publicly beaten by members of his crew. Anderson, who died in 1998 in a gang-related shootout, was the prime suspect in the case at the time but denied any involvement in the murder and was never charged. This weekend, Kading told Today Australia: ‘Anderson was the guy that Tupac had a fight with earlier that evening and he came back and retaliated with his crew.’ The detective was portrayed by Josh Duhamel in Unsolved – a Netflix series about the deaths of Tupac and fellow rapper Biggie Smalls – and said that Anderson placed as the main suspect was the only logical explanation. ‘There’s really not much mystery behind these murders, even though there’s a bunch of conspiracy surrounding them. ‘When you just get down to the brass tacks of it they’re relatively simple.’ He previously claimed in a 2016 documentary that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs paid a Crips gang member Duane Keith ‘Keffe D’ Davis $1million (£796,000) to carry out Tupac’s murder. The author said that he had spoken with both Biggie and Tupac’s families and claims they support his theories. He added to the Australian outlet: ‘All of the facts and evidence point to one thing and one thing only. They recognise that also and we’ve all embraced each other and recognise this to be the conclusive and definitive truth behind the murders.’ Speaking ahead of what would have been Pac’s 48th birthday (16 June), the detective’s findings mirror a conclusion reached in 2017 in the explosive new documentary Who Shot Biggie & Tupac? Cops Tim Bennan and Robert Ladd claim the Crips gang member pulled the trigger from a car in Las Vegas in September 1996. The officers, who worked for Compton Police Department in California, had Anderson on their radar after he tried to shoot someone as part of a Crips gang initiation at the age of 15. They were actually investigating him for a murder when the shooting of Hail Mary hitmaker occurred. Although the Tupac murder case remains unsolved, Twitter followers at the time could not help but point out the physical similarities between Pac and Anderson. One user tweeted their shock and wrote: ‘Craziest shit ever is that Orlando Anderson looks exactly like Tupac! Like he got killed by his Twin.’ Another user commented: ‘Its kind of crazy how the alleged killer of Tupac looks exactly like Tupac #WhoShotBiggieAndTupac.’ A third said: ‘Crazy how Orlando & Tupac favour…’ On May 30 1998, Anderson was killed in a triple murder over drug money. Several years later, Brennan was sorting through 3,000 guns that had been held at Compton Police Department when he came across a 40 calibre Glock — the same gun used in the Tupac shooting. However, Las Vegas Police Department seemed to think otherwise, and that was the end of that lead. More: UK. Two more hospitals declare 'code black' as capacity reached amid surging cases. Top four symptoms of Covid in double-vaccinated people. Lucky ticket holder scores £13,000,000 National Lottery jackpot. The documentary also put to bed the theory that , former CEO, had Tupac killed. Suge Knight himself also doubts that the rapper actually died. In a documentary that aired in 2017, Knight – who is currently incarcerated for separate crimes – said: ‘When I left that hospital, me and Pac was laughing and joking. So I don’t see how somebody could turn from doing well to doing bad.’ ‘Unsolved’ re-examines Biggie and Tupac murder cases. The murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls not only robbed hip-hop of two defining artists but also uncovered allegations of conspiracy, bloody rivalries and police corruption — shining a light on rap’s criminal underworld. More than two decades later, with the killers still at large, the cold cases are being revisited in “Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.,” a 10-part series debuting Tuesday on the USA Network. Christopher Wallace — who went by both Biggie Smalls and The Notorious B.I.G. — was killed at age 24 in a drive-by shooting as he visited Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, six months after Tupac, then 25, was gunned down in Las Vegas. “Unsolved” chronicles the separate investigations of detectives Greg Kading (Josh Duhamel) and Russell Poole (Jimmi Simpson), with Marcc Rose reprising his Tupac from 2015 hip hop biopic “Straight Outta Compton” while newcomer Wavyy Jonez portrays Biggie. “With every other story about Biggie and Tupac so far it’s like, ‘This is the take.’ Everything else is negated and vilified,” Simpson (“Westworld,” “House of Cards”), told AFP at the show’s premiere in Hollywood on Thursday. “This is, ‘Here’s a take, here’s a take, here’s a take and here’s a take — here’s four avenues of truth, and when you see them together you’ll understand what happened.’ It’s finally being told with ‘Unsolved.'” Biggie and Tupac remain among the most iconic figures in rap, with fans worldwide drawn to Shakur’s emotional directness and theatrical flair, and his rival’s inventive wordplay and deft vocal delivery. – Conspiracy – Under the monikers 2Pac or Makaveli, Tupac became one of the most identifiable figures in the early 1990s West Coast scene centered around Suge Knight’s Death Row Records. He struck up a friendship with Biggie, taking the younger rapper under his wing, but the two fell out. Many believe they were slain as part of a rivalry between their music labels, LA-based Death Row and New York’s Bad Boy Entertainment, although some music historians say the coastal rift was exaggerated for commercial reasons. Arriving in the wake of a glut of recent shows looking back at notorious 1990s “true crime,” from the O.J. Simpson trial and the Waco siege to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, “Unsolved” is the first narrative TV series chronicling the pair’s demise. Both have been the subject of numerous documentaries, however, and have appeared as characters in several big screen biopics, notably last year’s “” and 2009’s “Notorious.” “Unsolved” follows Kading as he assembles a joint law enforcement task force to take a fresh look 10 years later at the killing of Biggie and the investigation led by Poole. Read Also. The real-life Poole, who was never able to let go of the case and went to his grave in 2015 obsessed with solving Biggie’s murder, was “passionate to figure out why justice wasn’t served,” said Simpson. The detective claimed both in Nick Broomfield’s 2002 documentary “Biggie and Tupac” and the book “LAbyrinth” published the same year that the LAPD had conspired to cover up Knight’s conspiracy to kill Tupac and Biggie. – ‘Just two kids’ – Corrupt LAPD officer David Mack, who spent three years of a 14-year term in prison for bank robbery, was named in a wrongful death lawsuit from Biggie’s family as one of three officers who conspired to murder the rapper, although the suit was dismissed in 2010. Broomfield’s film showed Poole being pushed out of the force after independently pursuing the theory, considered a dead end by his superiors. His partner Detective Fred Miller, played by Jamie McShane (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Bloodline”), testified to a federal jury in 2005 that a prison cellmate of Knight said the Death Row Records founder had confessed to Biggie’s murder. Knight — who has been in jail in downtown Los Angeles since 2015 awaiting trial for murder over a separate hit-and-run killing — has always denied involvement. “It gave me a lot more respect for what rappers do and who these two artists were, and the sadness of what happened to them. These were just two kids,” McShane told AFP. “It’s ridiculous. They got murdered for nothing.” For the soundtrack to the series, music supervisor Lyah LeFlore brought on board Easy Mo Bee, a producer on Biggie’s debut album “Ready to Die” (1994) who also worked on Tupac’s “Me Against the World” (1995). “Tupac was a global star really by the time he was 22, 23 years old. Biggie’s star was just beginning to really shine,” LeFlore told AFP. “To see the impact of their demise and the void that we still feel 20 years later — no one has been able to step into those musical shoes — I think it’s a testament to artistry and the resilience of great music.” This USA True Crime Series Could Provide Brand New Insight Into The Murders Of Biggie & Tupac. Many true crime stories have gotten the Hollywood treatment in recent years and the next one up involves two of hip-hop’s most beloved icons. USA’s new anthology series Unsolved follows the police investigations into the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls a.k.a Christopher Wallace. Their high-profile cases have generated plenty of conspiracy theories over the years as to what exactly happened, but they both remain unsolved. Without a conviction for either shooting, how accurate can Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. be? The 10-episode limited series is based largely on the work of former LAPD detective and taskforce leader Greg Kading, per Billboard , who investigated both murders and chronicled his findings and theories in the book Murder Rap: The Untold Story of Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations.Unsolved series creator and executive producer Kyle Long told the magazine that he’d been “obsessed” with the details surrounding the deaths of Shakur and Wallace ever since he’d moved to Los Angeles over 20 years ago. Although, it wasn’t until he found Kading’s book that he was inspired to create the series. There are three narratives in Unsolved, according to Collider. The first narrative is set in 1993 when Tupac (Marcc Rose) and Biggie (Wavvy Jonez) were at the peak of hip-hop fame. The next follows LAPD detective Russell Poole (Jimmi Simpson) as he investigated the death of Wallace in 1997, believing that it was somehow connected to Shakur's, which had occurred six months previous in Las Vegas. The third narrative involves Kading (Josh Duhamel) reopening the case. At 25, Shakur was ambushed and shot in Las Vegas in 1996, per The . He was pronounced dead six days later from respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary arrest. Wallace, then 24, died in a similar attack in early 1997 after leaving a party, according to another LA Times piece. While there have been no charges brought against anyone in either case, there are many theories. Nonetheless, according to Long, the series isn't on a mission to villianize anyone. Former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight was suspected of being involved by Poole, according to the book LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates The Murders Of Tupac Shakur And Notorious B.I.G., The Implication Of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, And The Origins Of The Los Angeles Police Scandal. "My thing is trying to treat everyone with respect and not judging anybody," Long told Billboard about the series. "Like, Suge Knight's not a super villain, he's a human being and it's an impressive story that this guy took over the record industry as a young man from Compton. The same with Puffy, all these guys. So everyone is human and everyone has layers. So I think we've done a really good job of showing like people are complicated, cops are complicated, gang members are complicated. We don't want to depict people in a way that isn't fair. But we also want to tell the truth." Meanwhile, Wallace's mother Voletta Wallace believes she has a good idea of who killed her son. In a 2017 Daily Mail interview, she claimed that a “conspiracy” is standing in the way of justice being served. “I have a very good idea who murdered Christopher and I genuinely believe that the LAPD knows exactly who did too,” she said. “They’ve done their investigation, but they just refuse to move forward. I don’t know why they haven’t arrested who was involved. It seems to me that it’s one giant conspiracy, and someone is definitely being protected somewhere down the line.” According to her, “there’s no closure until that murderer is behind bars and sentenced.” She has not commented publicly about Unsolved. But in addition to theorizing what happened to the two rappers, the series will also explore their friendship and subsequent East Coast-West Coast rivalry, according to comments that Rose, who portrays Shakur, made to Shadow & Act. “The difference that this show has is that you get a chance to see the friendship that Tupac and Biggie actually had,” the actor said. “Often, we see everybody broadcasting beef that Tupac and Biggie had, but nobody spoke about the friendship.” Like fans of the artists may well be, Rose was also skeptical about the accuracy of the series but says that was reassured by the “great writing and thorough fact-checking,” done by the Unsolved creative team. One example involves a scene in the pilot episode, that initially raised Rose’s eyebrow according to the interview. “In the pilot, there’s a scene where you see Biggie and Tupac, as well as a few of their friends, [are] running around in the backyard with guns. And then sprinklers come on; now they’re running through sprinklers and stuff,” the actor described to Shadow & Act. “I just remember reading it and I’m like, obviously this did not happen. I had a conversation with the writer, Kyle Long, and it actually happened. It’s real, it’s noted, it’s factual. The friends who were there in the backyard spoke about that experience in real life. And I was like, ‘wow.’ Kyle Long really, really did his research with bringing all the facts and stuff together.” But while the show is true to life in many regards, viewers shouldn’t expect to hear Tupac nor Biggie's chart-topping music in the series. “The music that you hear in the pilot is more inspired by the era,” co-producer and music supervisor Lyan Beth LeFlore said at the Television Critics Association press tour, as reported by The Wrap. “What we are doing is respecting the estates. There’s still a lot of pain with both of those stories." Although the series won't be able to provide any concrete answers, fans can rest assured that they'll most definitely learn something new about the rappers from Unsolved. And perhaps some new and credible theories about what happened to Shakur and Wallace will finally come to light. Editor's note: After publication, we discovered this article did not meet our editorial standards: There were portions that did not correctly attribute another source. It has been updated to meet our standards. ‘Unsolved’ Review: ‘The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.’ Has Big ‘Ambitionz’ But Fails to ‘Hypnotize’ What could've been called "Murder Rap" is instead a wannabe franchise starter that may engage the masses, but doesn't offer much beyond party and bullshit. Feb 27, 2018 4:04 pm. Share This Article Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Print Talk. Isabella Vosmikova/USA Network. For a show called (branded, really) “Unsolved,” the first season certainly drives toward a definitive ending. The new USA anthology series serves as a detailed, time-jumping, and exploratory journey into multiple, years-long investigations, but it isn’t a nuanced take on the criminal justice system (or nuanced at all, for that matter). Nor is “Unsolved” a human story meant to honor the victims or the men seeking justice for their deaths. It plays out like a mystery, and by the end of the seventh episode (out of 10 total), “The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.” takes a stand behind one theory. For cable TV, perhaps that should be expected. It would take a lot of moxie to launch a franchise based around big questions without any answers — kind of like making an entire TV show based around a mystery that will never be solved — and USA’s big prestige play clearly aims to be the network’s “American Crime Story.” Like NBC’s “Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders” before it (both channels, for what it’s worth, are owned by NBC Universal), “The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.” is meant to be the first entry in a new, ongoing, anthology franchise that will reap the awards and ratings FX’s hit did just a few years ago (but not with its most recent season). That might work out for USA. There are enough elements of pure entertainment to hold viewers’ interest, be it the basic thrill of seeing Biggie (Wavyy Jonez) and Tupac (Marcc Rose) plow through famous and infamous moments in music history or the elevated artistry of Jimmi Simpson’s performance. (I take it back: The “Westworld” star always works in nuance, so there’s one aspect of “Unsolved” — his character — given delicate shading.) Fans may even walk away with more catharsis toward the rappers’ deaths than before, but “Unsolved” isn’t brilliant investigative journalism or even must-see TV: It’s a bluntly told story that falls back on cliches as often as it falls prey to expository redundancies, even if it offers an ending that real life hasn’t. Telling three stories at once, “Unsolved” makes it easy to pick favorites. First, there’s the story of Biggie and Tupac. Involving a lot of big names who don’t look as much like their real-life counterparts as Marcc Rose does Tupac (who also played Shakur in “Straight Outta Compton”), it’s the storyline that’s most easy to engage with, followed closely by the LAPD’s initial 1997 investigation into their murders. Simpson plays Detective Russell Poole, a homicide cop who gets too deeply invested in the case, but the actor slowly rolls out Poole’s mannerisms slowly and specifically, making his obsession look and feel legitimate. You’re as frustrated as he is, which can’t be said for the 2006 arc focusing on Det. Greg Kading (Josh Duhamel) and Det. Daryn Dupree (Bokeem Woodbine). Motivated by a massive lawsuit pending against the police department from Christopher Wallace’s mom, Kading is tasked with solving the unsolvable case in order to save the city $400 million. Predictably, he hits a lot of walls, and the progress he does make isn’t all that interesting until the very end. There are specific positives (Anthony Hemingway’s direction in early episodes shows off the solid production design) and negatives (how often characters clarify that Christopher Wallace is Biggie Smalls), but like the three separate arcs in the show, “Unsolved” all boils down to three separate mistakes: As mentioned, it doesn’t embrace the idea of unsolved crimes enough to be artistically or otherwise profound. For instance, “The People V. O.J. Simpson” delivers a verdict, and thus solves the crime, but it doesn’t try to take a side in the ongoing debate over whether or not O.J. really did do it. Instead, it uses the case itself to make relevant points about systemic issues and racial divisions in America. “Unsolved” is much simpler, when it should be more — or at least equally — complex. It’s content to let the case remain unsolved officially, but the show’s focus is on solving it. The dialogue is clunky at best, and the performances are unremarkable. When you hire the likes of everyman Josh Duhamel and stick Bokeem Woodbine with an all-too-average cop character, not even the great Jimmi Simpson (an exception yet again) can make up for recap after recap of what’s going on in the various investigations. “Unsolved: The Murder of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.” is based on Greg Kadig’s book, “Murder Rap: The Untold Story of Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations”: How dare USA deny TV fans the title “Murder Rap”? How could those executives choose safe branding over an outrageous but accurate and curiosity-spiking moniker? For those familiar with the case, they’re probably aware of the book (plus, they still get to use the words “Murder Rap” when talking about the show), and for newbies (a.k.a. the youths ), their minds will be filled with questions: “Is ‘Murder Rap’ a song?” “Is it new?” “Can I download it?” Picture the next 10 weeks talking about a show called “Murder Rap”: “Hey, Barry, what’d you do last night?” “Oh, I just watched the new episode of “Murder Rap” — have you seen it?” And can you imagine what TV Twitter would’ve done with such a title, especially after seeing what they did with “The Young Pope”? What would Damon Lindelof’s Instagram look like right now, if “Murder Rap” was premiering tonight instead of “Unsolved”? What would your Instagram look like? What would the world’s? “Unsolved” may spark some conversation because of its theorizing. Considering how often people talk about Biggie and Tupac, it’s clear why USA would want to launch a new series with their controversial, conspiracy-driving deaths. But it doesn’t make much of an impact beyond that ballsy move (which, really, could be dialed back or amped up in the final three hours). Not ambitious enough to break the mold but generically effective while fitting within it, “Murder Rap” “Unsolved” isn’t all that it could be or enough of what it should be. The murders of Biggie and Tupac are still a mystery after 20 years — here are all the theories about them. There's a good chance you've heard a "Tupac is alive" joke more than once in your life (or heard it posed as a serious theory). The 20th anniversary of Tupac’s death was in September of last year, and March marks the 20th anniversary of the death of The Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie or Biggie Smalls . The untimely, tragic shootings of the rap stars still weigh heavily on the music world. To this day, both murders remain unsolved. Over the past two decades, so many conspiracy theories have been spread surrounding their deaths. And the cases are eerily similar in many ways. Here’s everything you need to know about the deaths of Biggie and Tupac and the theories about their cases: Tupac and Bigge used to be friends. The hip-hop icons met in 1993. Tupac (real name: Tupac Shakur), though only a year older than Biggie (real name: Christopher Wallace), was something of a mentor to him. Tupac often gave Biggie career advice since he had a couple years more experience, and was more well-known when they met. But then a violent rivalry started. By the mid-1990s, the West Coast had proved itself in the hip-hop world with Death Row Records, the label that included Tupac, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg. Meanwhile, Biggie's 1993 album "Ready to Die" helped give the East Coast label Bad Boy Records — Puff Daddy's label — some recognition, along with Jay-Z's "Reasonable Doubt." Tupac and his fans interpreted Biggie's 1994 song "Who Shot Ya?" as a diss track because he had been robbed and shot two months before the song's release. The track's lyrics described a situation very similar to what happened to Tupac. In the 1996 song "Hit 'Em Up," Tupac struck back: He alluded to having an affair with Biggie's wife, Faith Evans. Tupac was murdered on September 7, 1996, in Las Vegas. Tupac and Suge Knight — the founder of Death Row Records — were driving to a party around 11:15 p.m., after watching a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas. When they stopped their black BMW at a red light waiting for it to change, a white Cadillac pulled up next to them. Fourteen shots were fired, six of them hitting Tupac, who was in the passenger's seat. One shot punctured his lung. Tupac died six days later, at only 25 years old. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told Business Insider of Tupac's murder in a statement, "The case is still open and under investigation. At this time, we have no additional updates to provide." After Tupac's death, Biggie was paranoid that he would be murdered, too. Biggie's wife, Faith Evans, recalled that after Tupac's death, he feared for his own life. Some people believed Biggie planned Tupac's murder — and some still do. "I think it would be some element of fear that would kind of run through his mind, given the fact that his name was involved in a lot of the situations involving Tupac before his murder," Evans said. On March 9, 1997, less than six months after Tupac’s murder, Biggie was shot and killed. Biggie was leaving a party in Los Angeles after the Soul Train Awards. He was sitting in an SUV when another vehicle pulled up next to his and shot him. The shooter, who fired at Biggie at least five times (Biggie was hit four times), fled the scene. Biggie died later that night. He was 24 years old. A spokesperson for the LAPD told Business Insider of Biggie's murder, "The case is still open. As long as a case has not been solved, it remains open." Over the past two decades, many unverified theories have circulated about what happened. Since no one has ever been prosecuted for either murder, there's a lot of room for theories. Many documentaries on the subject have been made, including 2002's "Biggie & Tupac," currently streaming on Netflix . Some theroies make more sense than others. Orlando Anderson. The night of his murder, Tupac and Anderson allegedly got into a fight at the Mike Tyson match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Tupac's former bodygaurd told the Sabotage Times: " On the night of the Tyson-Seldon fight, a friend of Suge Knight's came up to Tupac and whispered that he had spotted Orlando Anderson in the arena. Tupac ran over and that's when they got into it. I ran over and saw Tupac throw a couple of blows. Anderson tried to throw one back, but ended up going down, and that's when a ton of Death Row [Records] guys jumped on him." Many consider Anderson a suspect in the murder. In 1998, he was killed in a gunfight in Compton, California. Suge Knight. There are theories that Suge Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records — the man in the driver's seat when Tupac got shot — could have had something to do with either death. People believe he wanted Tupac dead so he wouldn't switch record labels, or that he had Biggie killed out of revenge for Tupac's murder. Or that he had Biggie killed to distract investiagtors from pointing the blame for Tupac's death in his direction. In January 2015, Knight was arrested after a hit-and-run in Los Angeles. He was charged with one count of murder, one count of attempted murder, and two counts of hit-and-run. If he's convicted, he potentially faces life in prison. The LAPD. This theory ties in with Suge Knight. LAPD officer Russell Poole, who was a lead investigator on Biggie's murder, accused other LAPD officers of having connections to Death Row Records and Suge Knight, who he thought planned Biggie's murder. Poole believed that Knight had Biggie murdered as revenge for Tupac's death. He was ordered to stop his investigation on the case, and retired in 1999. Poole died of a heart attck in August 2015, while he was discussing the case with LA County Sheriff homicide detectives. At the time, he was wokring on a book about the murders. Puff Daddy. Other conspiracy theorists believe that the rapper formerly known as Puff Daddy (now it's usually just Diddy) is actually the mastermind behind Biggie's murder. The theory is that after seeing how well Tupac's posthumous album did for Death Row Records, Puff Daddy wanted sales to skyrocket for Biggie's upcoming album, ironically named "Life After Death." So he hired gang members to shoot Biggie. Diddy's former bodygaurd believes the allegations. According to a retired LAPD detective, Biggie's mother Voletta Wallce believes that Puff Daddy and Suge Knight are repsonsible for her son's murder. Voletta Wallace told The Daily Mail that the murder of her son "hurts me every single day" and that she has "a very good idea" about who killed him. "They've done their investigation, but they just refuse to move forward," she said. "I don't know why they haven't arrested who was involved. It seems to me that it's one giant conspiracy, and someone is definitely being protected somewhere down the line." The FBI. Another conspiracy theory is that the FBI had Tupac and Biggie killed in an attempt to end "violent rap culture" in the heat of the West Coast vs. East Coast hip-hop battle. And probably the most popular theory floating on the internet: They're not dead. This 2012 photo of Rihanna sparked speculation that Tupac is still alive, because the man in the photograh resembles him.