In the late 2000s, under a proffer agreement with the authorities, Keffe D made a shocking revelation to Greg Kading, a former LAPD detective who had worked on Tupac’s case for years and subsequently self-published a book about it. Keffe D claimed that Sean “Diddy” Comb offered him $1 million to assassinate Tupac and Marion Hugh “Suge” Knight Jr., the head of Death Row Records, a rival to Diddy’s Bad Boy Records.
In the interviews reviewed by LA Weekly, Keffe D claimed that the initial target was Suge, sparked by a public insult at an award show. “He took me downstairs and [Diddy’s] like, ‘Man, I wanna get rid of them dudes, man.’… I was like, ‘We’ll wipe their a** out quick, man. It’s nothing,'” However, Tupac came into the picture following the release of the track “Hit ‘Em Up,” which directly dissed Diddy. “That pissed [Combs] off,'” Keffe D said. While Keffe D mostly followed through with the deal (Suge managed to survive), he never received the payment he was promised, which factored in his decision to break his silence. “If he would have just given us half the money, I would have stayed strong.”
Only Keffe D has made these assertions so far, so there’s no way of telling if any of it is true. According to Kading, more people would have to move forward with similar claims. “They’re going to need very credible substantiating witnesses,” he told Rolling Stone. “Whether those people exist or not, I don’t know. I’ve always given a caveat to the whole ‘Puffy’ Combs connection.”
