my take on things... I guess. Liked this alot!
SPOILERS AHEAD...I didn't fix grammar on punctualion eiber ;) Feel free to correct me on things I got wrong without being a douche lol
So we'll start when...
Pac is shot and robbed outside ny studio. Biggie and Puff are in the same building - so this leads Pac to believe they set him up.
They next day (or week?), Pac is sentenced to 5 yrs in CCF for sexual assault. I have always felt this was a *beep* charge - set
up by SOMEBODY (gov, cops, puffy, skank ho lookin for money...) just to shut him up.
In repsonse to pac's claims biggie and puffy set him up, bad boy releases 'Who Shot Ya?' The 'east coast/west coast beef' escalates further, and Suge bails pac
out of jail in exchange for signing with him. This is his downfall. (I believe what happened to him in prison was set up by suge, to further force the record deal
along - just my sepculations). Pac hits the sudio, fuelled and fired up and records more than enough tracks for a double cd. Hit 'Em Up is the diss track released
towards bad boy.
Suge Knight has a bunch of chains with the death row logo made up for his closest friends. Pac, Snoop, Suge and a few others all have these chains.
ALLEGEDLY - Puffy says he'll give 50,000$ to anyone who can bring him one of these necklaces. At some point in time, in LA one of suge's boys WITH A
CHAIN is beathen and robbed by ORLANDO somebody.
At some point, death row crew and bad boy crew are at the same club in nyc and puffys bodyguard shoots and kill sone of suge's crew (possibly a
close friend or relative?) when *beep* starts over nothing as usual. Ignance!
ALLEGEDLY - Puffy is scared of retaliation (possibly due to hit em ups not so subtle lyrics) and being since death row is all criminals where as bad boy
is a company trying to act like they criminals - he tries keeping ties to the streets. Blood or crips I forget who's on who's side. ALLEGEDLY, puffy in a
room with at least 50 gang members - after a show and all of whom he gave free tickets too - says he'll pay half a million for "their heads'. (this story and most
of the rest is told
by Kieffe D, who's claims are all his own and cannot be corraborated in SPECIFIC places). Kiefe D claims to know puffy personally but this is one of the things
I don't believe. He claims to know puffy through a mutual friend named 'zip', a new york guy who frequents l.a. I'm confident he literally only met puffy and big
for a quick second at one of the many concerts
he and his crew were at (why would puffy give some la gangsta bum tickets to all his shows? Doesn't add up, more than likely Zip got him tickets to all the
la shows they could make). Keffe D also claims the next day or so puffy says he'll pay him a million to get the job done (again, no one else can back up that
this meeting or conversation even took place). Keiffe and his boys are going to the fights in las vegas , just to see the fights. Not knowing pac and suge and all
would be there. One thign to add is when keefe tells his story he only adds things, the cops basically lead him into what to say or basically say it for him. He's
more or less agreeing with them all they time BUT it's his little details that make the plausible situations seem possible.
After the fights, in the lobby of the mgm casino, suge's boy who'd been robbed earlier sees ORLANDO and points him out to pac, who then bum rushes Orlando
and he and suge and the rest of the crew lay a beatin on him. It's broken up by security and the death row crew quickly exist the building. Witness' sate they
heard orlando instantly planning some kind of revenge as he's being helped off the floor by his boys ('we bang out here.') Orland proceeds to call his UNCLE,
who just happens to be keife d!?!?! Looking at orland, who was the most logical suspect should have always been top prority. He gets beaten and less than 2 hrs
later pac is killed? HELLO!? Damn right he had something to do with it. Especially when you have witness statements like that!? wtf man!? Anyways...
When originally interviewed by the police about it over 10 yrs ago, Keefe said he told his nephew to just relax and leave it
alone....lies! Keffe in fact hooks up with his newphew and his boys and go after the death row crew. Pac and suge made it known they'd be at the opening of
suges
new club 'Club 662'(?) so keefes crew knew where to look. After ciricling for 20 mins and finding nothing they take off to get food. They decide to go back and
try again. Around this time the death row entourage show up near the club as do keefe and his crew. There is a car with 2 girls in it parkd beside suges bmw
(containing himself in the drivers seat, pac in the passenger and two others in the back) and they recognize them and start freaking out. PAc is trying to get them to
come to club so they're creating quite a scene thus fingering themselves to keefes crew. Had these 2 bitches just shut the *beep* up and drove off - pac might still be
alive - according to keefe anyways)!
Keefes crew pull up along side the bmw in a white cadillac - but behind the girls - (keefe always rented cars when he came to town and they traced it back to
t-brown's - the driver- mother. So this WAS the car used in the shooting) ready to shoot. Unfortunately Keefe was in the passengers seat and would
have had to have shot over the driver. so ALLEGDLY he passes the gun to andre 'dre' (in the back seat behind the driver) and he says NO so keefes nephew Orland
takes the gun, leans over him and shoots 9 times into the car. the girls scream and panic and drive off, 'followed' by the cadillac AND one of suges cars (they're
were two behind the bmw). the girls escape but the caddy and suges boys have a mild shoot out, suge's crews' car is hit so they stop and the caddy gets away.
Now I break here and possibly call a foul. Why would they knowingly pull up on the wrong side? Why would keefe then pass the gun to (even though hes in a
'better position') someone he knew wouldn't pull the trigger? Dre has the charcater of a pussy and I don;t believe anyone who knew him wouldn't think so.
But whatever - not really THAT unbelievable. But I have an issue with orlando. I'd assume that after they kicked his ass he would get HIS crew and go seek
revenge. But he called his uncle, a known drug dealer, gang leader and all around horrible human being/scumbag. He's only like 19 here I think so I'm assuming
hes all talk as far as murder goes (and the later actions of both dre AND orlando lead me to suspect their boastings is what maks them possible killers seem iffy).
Oh he'll rob someone at gun point and take their chain and then kick theyre ass - pussy *beep* but murder? who knows? It's just odd. He called someone else to do
it for him - then hes like *beep* ill do it! If that was a scene in a movie you'd think it was bad writing... But again it could have happend. It just seems like they're
GONNA DO THIS and then drive around and when the moment comes they turn into the 4 stooges lol "uuuhhhh were all idiots now, shoot them!" I dunno...
HOWEVER - the film never tells us if the bullets DID go into the car from that angle spefically indicating the shooter was in the back passenger seat leaning over.
Again - could have happened but why didn't they mention it specifically? Seems important to me. My theory is that keefe leanded over and shot in because to hit
pac that way - and as hes trying to jump into the back seat - from where dre was in the car and orlando leaning over him he'd be firing into the back seat. Keefe is in
front BUT also behind the GIRLS car - they're alongside the bmw. Keefe blaims the newphew did it on the tape because HE'S DEAD and can't deny *beep* Keefe is
scared from the starting of
the tape, that they're gonna get him no matter what - this is why I believe most is true but alot are 'lies'. To me the cars and angles dont line up with anyone else
shooting but keefe and why not blame it on orlando cuz hes dead...even IF they say nothing he says can be used against him (ironically it wouldn't have mattered because once the
original lawsuit was disproven they stopped the investigation) later on.
Keefe killed pac. End of story. I'm even going to assume that because of his bragging about it at family events etc KEEFE killed orlando cuz he was talking to much.
Sounds a bit theatric but real enough. Keefe is a human sac of garbage. This is what disturbed me most about the movie and made me feel so BAD on a human level.
The way kefe LAUGHS about killing 2pac (of all people!?) and tells how they ditched the car in a parking garage and as they hit the street the ambulance carrying
pac and suge drove past them as "some funny ass *beep* Disguting. Just horrible, horrible! And when the officer asks them what they did after he respond swith
"they went to drink and get high" like it was nothing. Jesus that's cold. Orlando was just a goon, a robber...not sure about murdering 2pac over an ass kicking,
but keefe D was a cold piece of work.
The movie never tells us how orlando died - just he was already dead when they restarted the investigation 10 yrs later. So someone got rid of him early. This is
anotherreason I believe the basic events becasue both the supposed 'shooters' are dead. Seems ironically profound. Apparently WHO killed biggie and pac wasn't
that big a secret in the right circles. So one way or another they each got got in retailliation I'm sure. Both Pookie and orlando.
SO...
Now pac is dead, everyone thinks the lapd had something to do with it...and keefe and the situation go undetected for 10 yrs until the lawsuit by biggies mom
and wife against the city of la. Possibly up to 450 million in damages (his projected lifetime earnings - that puffy prob gotm ost of in the end). That is why the
case is reopend. sad but true. NOT to find the ture killer per say, but to DISPROVE the theory of the lapd being involvedand stop the lawsuit (which would have
been devastating for the city).
This is another reason why some of the movie doesn't stick perfectly - because the case is (understandaby) never 'solved'. So everything ends up being a story
told by two utter trashbags.
Before we go to biggies side of the story...orlando dies within this 10 yr period and keefe during this new investigation is also looked at again. Mainly because
he pops in a bunch of photos, is picked out of a photo line up by lil cease and is now seen as being present at all the bad boy shows in la - forming a connection to badboy
in la. Again the movies theory is that puffy is responsible for the 'hit' on 2pac (where as I believe just like a similair incident 30 mins before pac got shot - this was just 'random').
This goes along with his
claim of knowing puffy (when in fact hes only been confirmed by knowing puffy by his own stories). So the fbi task force sets him up (through an eventual drug bust) and
thus the deal and cofession which are the center of this tale begins. Now I don't believe he knew puffy besides nothing more than that slapping hands at a show
(referenced in the film). I don't necessarily believe the 50,000$ chain bounty as legit either. I think, like the cops - this and 500,000.00$ for their heads - was all
just boasting by puffy (just trying to look big. small mans complex to the MAX this guy has. DON'T FORGET THAT.) Keefe says he never even got the money.
Then he says Zip stole it. Nothing he says can be proven aside from the obvious like the actual shooting. anything else is heresay. Whether hes thinking
of book sales for puffys involvement or maybe he thinks hes telling them what they want to hear (what all people believe that it was a stupid diddy/suge east
coast/west coast rivarly)...who knows?
the puffy stuff seems like bs to me. No proof from a liar? hmmm....not sure about that. I'm sure biggie never knew anything if it is true so it'd have be all bond
villain puffy in secrecy.
Diddy was the head of a company - he's not suge just walkin around tryin to be gangsta and kinda be music producer guy 24/7. No one can prove he met with
puffy alone and when he allegedly called him (ON ZIP'S PHONE NO LESS) - no one can prove that either. That was the "was it us?" part. I don'y buy that either.
I think it comes down to death row. Had pac stayed in jail he'd probably still be
alive - or would had lived alot longer. That nonsense over the chain got his ass killed. Keefe claims that when orlando called him, zip or whomever was like
now the chance to take care of the hit at the same time. Again I think the whole puffy hit thing is silly and he just killed him just cuz they ignant that way.
Literally. Stupid street bravado nonsense. He's adding the puffy thing to sell the
story. And a litte sizzle to the steak. It's all POSSIBLE sure cuz no one can dispute keefes story and all the players fit and know each other and connect.
I just dont buy the puffy part...completely.
So onto biggie. Now pac is dead, 6 months later and biggie's king *beep* His crew has an altercation with some islam boys but this thoery never really goes
anywhere - that they're involved in biggies death. There's an muslim looking dude in a bow tie hanging around acting suspicious during this incident and
possibly a simlar guy in the car who shot biggie but nothings ever made of it and it doesn't fit the movies theory of who killed biggie.
The muslim boys are under farrakahn (or more his son) and I don't see them being so offended by puffys crew that they murder biggie lmfao that's so
bad it couldn't even be a bet movie of the week.
The movies theory is that suge had biggie killed in retalliation for pac. To some this could confirm that puffy had a hand in it but then why not just kill puffy?
Biggie's character was hustler not a g'd up, thuggged out hardcore gangsta like pac TURNED INTO (the foolish persona that got him killed. Being 'hard'
and REAL are two different things. Pac was real, and that death row persona got his ass killed over some dumb ass *beep* Plain and simple. His is a lesson to
learned and it's shame it's been left in the gutter.
So biggie is shot and killed in his car leaving a club late night. Lil cease was in the back seat with him - puffy in one of the other cars, I believe. They get him to
the hospital 5 mins later but the doc said he prob died instantly on the second shot (which went through his heart and lung). Now I got fuzzy here a lil bit cuz it
was a long movie and biggies murder is a small part near the end mostly so I forget some *beep* here... So the fbi task
force goes through one of suges baby mamas. Also, connecting someone else by way of their letters from prison, the task force discovers the
name pookie(?) and that 'he killed biggie'.
Pookie was ALEGEDLY a hitman for suge. he never chilled with the crew, him and suge only always meeting in private... so basically theyre saying either he
was his boyfriend or his gunner. Only one prob, same as before. Pookie, like Orlando had been dead along time. Both shooters dead and dead men tell no tales.
He was shot riding his motorbike 10 TIMES in the back. Ouch! That's not just a drive by, that is SERIOUS PAYBACK for 'something' lol.
Now Suge's baby mama was a REAL scumbag as well. Feel no pitty for her. Her claim of "just doing what suge said, i got kids to feed..." is BS. She's complicit
in many ways. She knows shes guilty and after meeting with her about her wrongdoings the fbi finally askes if she knows why theyre really here. They wanna
know if she knows who killed biggie. She says yes and the decide to bring her in.
So the fbi draws up a fake confession signed by pookie 2 years earlier and present it to her. The confession is a 'best to their knowledge, pieced together' account
of how biggies murder went down. She reads it and agrees with it.
So that's not REALLY PROOF right there. She's just like keffe d, trying to save her own scumbag ass. She's implied in the confession as having a role too so this
and the other stuff they had on her already - shes *beep* Shell say anything.
BUT she adds details later that fill some things in. So basically that's where the story ends. I don't believe the puffy stuff myself. I do believe the shug/pooike
thing cuz that's the difference. Pac got killed over dumb *beep* But with all the stories
and stuff maybe suge did think puffy had a hand in it. or did KNOW it. Who knows? Shug was gangsta. puffy isn't. Keefe was like shug. they're douchebags
through and through. Non redeamable in any way. We don't know what happend with keefe d - i guess just
witnes relocation or some kind? The baby mama, that stuff I believe. Shug's nature I guess? Who knows what his ultimate reasons were?
Nothing is resolved really.The lapd shelves the case because this all 'proves' (not literally but in regards to the lawsuit) that the lapd was not involved and was in
fact orlando (my guess keefe d) and pookie. Since both men are dead and keefes testimonial is unusable against him...there's nothing much left to go with.
So biggie and pac died over some gangsta *beep* Silly and sad.
The End.
You Suck...now deal with it.