Duane “Keffe D” Davis grew up in Compton in Los Angeles County after moving with his family from Watts in 1965, according to his 2019 memoir “Compton Street Legend.” His father was a U.S. Marine from Virginia, and he claimed to be a descendant of Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion in 1831. Davis said he had “lived a gangster lifestyle for most” of his life and was “one of the only living eyewitnesses to Tupac’s killing.”
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Davis almost died from colon cancer in 2014, the same disease that killed his mother. He claimed in the 2018 “Death Row Chronicles” documentary that this is what led him to reveal what he knew about Shakur’s murder. Davis said he was “a Compton kingpin, drug dealer” and “the only one alive” who knew the truth about Tupac’s murder — contradicting his 2019 memoir, in which he suggested there were others.
