SPECIAL EPISODE: Datzhott Preview - Did Suge Knight Use Tupac As A Human Shield? - Verdict: TRUE!

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Today's episode, we examine Shug
Knight's responsibility in Tupac

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Shakur's death.
For 29 years, people have been

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asking who killed Tupac.
We're asking a different

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question.
Why did Shug night survive?

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We examine every scenario from
that night and then we deliver

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our verdict.
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Las Vegas, September 7th, 1996,
11:15 PM.

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The desert heat still clings to
the asphalt on Flamingo Road.

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Red and gold lights from The MGM
Grand pulse in the rear view

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mirror.
Inside a black BMW750 sedan.

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Tupac Shakur leans back in the
passenger seat, windows down,

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night air rushing past behind
the wheel.

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Suge Knight, 6 foot four, £300
Former college football player

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Death Row Records CEO
Untouchable.

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They've just left The MGM Grand
where Mike Tyson knocked out

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Bruce Selden in 96 seconds.
The crowd is still buzzing.

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Money changing hands.
Champagne and veins.

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Energy Electric.
They're rolling down Las Vegas

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Blvd. toward Club 662.
Shugs nightclub.

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No security detail, no
bulletproof vests.

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Just the two of them in a luxury
sedan on a Saturday night in

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Vegas, at the intersection of
Flamingo and Koval, they stop at

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a red light.
Women in a nearby car recognize

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Tupac.
They lean out, yelling his name.

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Tupac smiles, talks back.
The light turns green.

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A white Cadillac pulls up on the
passenger side.

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Four men inside. 13 shots RIP
through the night.

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Glass shatters, metal tears.
Tupac takes 4 bullets, Chest,

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pelvis, thigh, hand.
Suge Knight takes 1A graze

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across his skull.
The Cadillac speeds off,

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disappears into Saturday night
traffic.

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Suge drives himself and Tupac to
the hospital, walks out that

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same night with stitches and a
bandage.

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Tupac fights for six days in a
medically induced coma.

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On September 13th, 1996, he's
pronounced dead.

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For 29 years, everyone's been
asking who killed Tupac Shakur?

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Wrong question.
The real question is why did

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Suge Knight survive?
Let's walk it back.

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Earlier that night, Tupac Shakur
wasn't supposed to be in Las

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Vegas.
He was supposed to be in Los

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Angeles finishing his double
album.

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But Suge Knight wanted him
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Mike Tyson was fighting at The
MGM Grand.

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It was a Death Row event.
Cameras, clout, power.

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Tupac arrives with his
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Death Row affiliates,
bodyguards, hangers on.

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Tyson destroys Selden in 96
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The arena erupts.
Tupac and Suge ride the wave.

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Then chaos in The MGM lobby.
Someone from Tupac's crew spots

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Orlando Anderson, a Southside
Crip.

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Word is Anderson and his crew
jumped a Death Row affiliate

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weeks earlier and stole his
Death Row chain.

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Tupac doesn't hesitate.
Security footage captured what

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happened next.
Tupac, Shug and several others

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surround Anderson near the
casino elevators.

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Punches fly.
Anderson hits the ground.

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Hotel security breaks it up.
No arrests.

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Anderson leaves, humiliated.
Angry, Tupac and Shug leave,

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Invincible.
They head to Shug's Las Vegas

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home to change clothes, then
back out, headed to Club 662.

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Tupac climbs into the passenger
seat of Shug's black BMW, Shug

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behind the wheel.
They roll down Las Vegas Blvd.

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The Strip is packed, music
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neon lights reflecting off
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They stop multiple times, talk
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Flamingo and Kaval.
They hit a red light.

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Women pull up beside them.
Tupac leans out the window,

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laughing, talking.
The light turns green.

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They roll forward. 1115 PMA.
White Cadillac appears on the

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passenger side.
Gunfire.

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Tupac tries to climb into the
backseat.

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Multiple witnesses confirm this.
He's trying to get out of the

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line of fire, but Shoo grabs
him.

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Shug's version.
He was trying to save Tupac,

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throw him over the seat, get him
down. 13 shots fired, four hit

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Tupac, one grazes Shug.
Shug drives to the hospital,

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refuses to give a statement,
walks out the same night.

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Tupac never leaves.
So what happened in that car?

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Let's examine every version.
Scenario one.

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Orlando Anderson's revenge This
is the story most people know.

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Orlando Anderson, the Southside
Crip who got jumped in The MGM

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lobby, is in the white Cadillac,
passenger seat, gun in hand.

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When the Cadillac pulls
alongside shugs, BMW Anderson

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leans out and fires.
Witnesses described a beefy arm

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hanging out the window.
Orlando Anderson was 6 feet to

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£200.
It fits.

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The Cadillac speeds off.
No license plate, no trace.

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Orlando Anderson denied
involvement until the day he

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died, killed in a gang shootout
in 1998.

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But here's what doesn't fit.
Suge Knight is 6 feet four, 300

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lbs of muscle, former college
linebacker.

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If Orlando Anderson was aiming
at both of them, why did Tupac

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take 4 bullets while Suge walked
away with a scratch?

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Scenario 2.
Diddy paid for the hit.

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In 2019, Dwayne Keefe D Davis
published a memoir.

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In it, he admitted he was in the
white Cadillac that night.

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He claimed Sean Diddy Combs
offered $1,000,000 to anyone who

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could take out Tupac and Suge
Knight.

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According to Keefe D, he handed
the gun to his nephew Orlando

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Anderson in the back seat.
Anderson fired.

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Diddy has denied this
repeatedly, but the East Coast

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West Coast War was real.
Tupac accused Diddy and Biggie

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of setting him up in his 1994
New York shooting.

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The hatred ran deep.
If Diddy paid for the hit, it

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explains the timing, the
precision.

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But it doesn't explain why Suge
Knight, who was supposed to be a

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target, barely got touched.
Scenario 3.

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Government conspiracy.
Tupac wasn't just a rapper.

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He was the son of Black
Panthers.

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Afini Shakur raised him in the
revolution.

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He spoke about police brutality,
systemic racism, poverty, power.

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The FBI had a file on him.
Co Intel Pro had a history of

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targeting black activists.
What if the government wanted

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Tupac silenced?
Some believe a professional was

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involved.
Someone trained someone who

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could shoot from the crowd while
the white Cadillac served as

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misdirection.
Tupac's mother believed this.

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She questioned why the Las Vegas
Police Department never

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seriously investigated, why
evidence disappeared, why

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witnesses were never properly
interviewed if the government

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was involved.
It explains the cover up, the

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closed case, the silence.
But it still doesn't explain

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Suge Knight's minor injuries.
Scenario 4, the Vegas set up.

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What if the entire night was
orchestrated?

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The women who flagged Tupac down
the multiple stops on the Strip,

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the white Cadillac trailing them
from The MGM witnesses confirmed

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Suge and Tupac stopped several
times on Las Vegas Blvd.

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Talked to people, lingered, drew
attention.

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What if someone was tracking
their route, waiting for the

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perfect intersection?
If it was a setup, it explains

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how the shooters knew exactly
where they'd be, how they knew

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Tupac would be in the passenger
seat, how they escaped so

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cleanly.
But again, why did Suge Knight

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survive almost unharmed?
Scenario 5.

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Suge Knight used Tupac Shakur as
a human shield December 2025 A

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clubhouse room.
Hip hop manager Cash Jones,

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better known as WAC 100, repeats
a claim he's been making for

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months.
Suge Knight used Tupac as a

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human shield.
It sounds impossible.

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Suge was Tupac's boss, his
mentor, the man who bailed him

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out of prison and made him a
superstar.

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Why would he sacrifice him?
But let's look at what we know

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for certain.
Suge Knight was driving.

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He had full control of the
vehicle when the white Cadillac

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pulled up.
He saw it.

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He had seconds to react.
He could have ducked.

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He could have swerved left into
traffic.

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He could have hit the gas and
floored it down Flamingo Rd.

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He didn't.
Tupac was in the passenger seat,

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fully exposed when the shot
started.

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Tupac tried to climb into the
back.

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Keith D, who admits he was in
the Cadillac, said in a recorded

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interview that he saw Tupac
trying to get over the seat and

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he saw Suge grab him.
Suge's version?

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He was trying to pull Tupac
down.

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Save him.
But Suge Knight is 6 feet four,

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£300, a former college football
player with fast reflexes and

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massive strength.
If he wanted to duck below the

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dashboard, he could have.
If he wanted to throw Tupac into

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the back seat, he had the power
to do it in one motion.

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Instead, 13 shots were fired.
Four hit Tupac, chest, pelvis,

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thigh, hand.
One grazed Shug's head.

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Shug walked into the hospital
and walked out the same night.

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Minor laceration, Refused to
cooperate with investigators,

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refused to give a statement,
left Las Vegas.

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Tupac never regained
consciousness. 6 days later, he

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was gone.
For nearly 30 years, Shug Knight

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has never explained what
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He's told different stories to
different people, but he's never

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been held accountable.
So why is Cash Jones Whack 100?

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The one saying it out loud?
Let's talk about Cash Jones.

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Before he was Whack 100, he was
the truck driver.

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That's what Suge Knight called
him.

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Not because he drove Suge
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Whack denies that, but because
everyone at Death Row had a

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nickname, The rapper.
The game was PlayStation Cash.

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Jones was the truck driver.
After getting out of prison at

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19, Cash made his first
$5,000,000 running a trucking

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and logistics business.
Legitimate business.

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By the early 2000s, he was a
death row associate.

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Not interested in the streets,
interested in the business

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Masters distribution, publishing
the money.

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But here's where it gets
interesting.

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The FBI has been watching hip
hop for decades.

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In 1996, the NYPD created the
Hip Hop police.

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By 1999 it was official the Rap
Intel Unit.

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They compiled dossiers on every
major artist, photos, arrest

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records, associates, gang ties,
real or imagined.

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Jay-Z, Nas, $0.50, Camron all
had files.

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The NYPD shared those files with
the FBI, the DEA, police

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departments across the country.
They called it public safety.

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Activists called it COINTELPRO
2.0, the same program that

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targeted Martin Luther King and
the Black Panthers.

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When Biggie Smalls was murdered
in Los Angeles in 1997, NYPD

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detectives were already there.
They'd followed him to LA.

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The FBI opened an investigation,
closed at eight years later.

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No arrests.
FBI Agent Phil Carson later

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accused the LAPD and the US
Attorney's office of covering up

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police involvement.
Death Row Records was under

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federal investigation for years.
Money laundering, gang ties,

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drug trafficking, the FBI, the
DEA, the IRS, all watching Sean

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Diddy Combs, his father worked
for a Gambino crime family

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associate, was murdered in a
Harlem drug deal in 1972.

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In 2024, Homeland Security
launched a federal sex

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trafficking and racketeering
investigation into Diddy.

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Hip hop has been treated like
organized crime for 30 years and

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the feds have had informants
embedded the entire time.

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So when people ask if Cash Jones
could be one of them, you have

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to understand the history.
October 2022 whack 100 posts of

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video exposing a Kia Pete known
as Stutterbox as an FBI

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informant.
Stutterbox is A5 Deuce Broadway

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gangster Crip.
In November 2016, he pleaded

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guilty to federal racketeering.
He cooperated, testified against

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gang members who are extorting
Shaquille O'Neal.

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According to WAC, Studebach
snitched on him too, Called him

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one day, asked to meet.
When WAC got off the elevator,

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he saw people in FBI jackets.
He'd walked into a setup.

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But if WAC was the target, why
is he still free?

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Why is Stud a box in the system
and WAC managing?

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Takashi 69 March 2025 Eugene Big
U Henley, a respected figure in

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Los Angeles gang culture, turns
himself in on federal Rico

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charges.
Before he does, he posts a video

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accusing Cash Jones of being an
FBI informant.

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Big U claims WAC helped the feds
build the case.

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WAC 100 denies it.
But his name appears six times

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in Big U's federal indictment,
not as a defendant.

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As a reference, August 2024, WAC
tries to bail out Keef D, the

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man who admitted being in the
car when Tupac was shot.

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WAC offers $750,000.
The judge rejects it.

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The financial documents look
suspicious and prosecutors play

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a recorded phone call.
WAC tells Keef this can set you

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up for the rest of your life.
I'll get you out and then we'll

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sit down and talk.
Why would someone who says Suge

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Knight is responsible for
Tupac's death try to bail out

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the man who fired the gun?
Unless he's trying to control

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what Keef says next.
Then there's Takashi 69.

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In 2021, WAC became his manager.
69 is a confirmed federal

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cooperator.
He testified against the 9 Trey

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Gangster Bloods in open court,
one of the most famous snitches

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in hip hop history.
Why would a street figure manage

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a known informant?
WAC is a regular on No Jumper, a

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podcast monitored by the FBI.
Multiple No Jumper hosts have

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been arrested after federal
agents watched the show.

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In March 2025, the FBI visited
host Adam 22's home about big

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use Rico Case St.
Rumors claim Cash Jones's

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trucking business wasn't just
logistics.

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Some say it was a front for
moving narcotics the same way

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organized crime has used
legitimate business for decades.

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So who is Cash Jones?
A hip hop manager?

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A businessman?
An informant meddling with

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purpose?
Here's what we know.

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He keeps saying Suge Knight used
Tupac as a human shield, and

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whether he's a Fed or not, his
claim checks out.

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This episode is commentary based
on public sources and recorded

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statements.
Check the sources and decide for

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yourself.
But here's what we know for

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certain.
Suge Knight was driving.

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He had control of the car.
He's a former athlete.

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Massive, strong, fast reflexes.
When the white Cadillac pulled

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up, he had options.
Duck, swerve, floor it.

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He didn't.
Tupac tried to climb into the

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backseat.
Witnesses confirm it.

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Keef D confirms it.
Suge grabbed him.

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Thirteen shots.
Four hit Tupac, one grazed Suge.

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Suge walked out of the hospital
that night.

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Never gave a statement.
Never cooperated.

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Tupac died six days later.
The math doesn't lie.

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When you have the receipts, you
don't use words like claimed or

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reported.
You deliver a verdict

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unapologetically.
Tupac Shakur didn't die because

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of one person, He died because
of many.

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Some fired the gun, some gave
the order, some made a choice in

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a split second that saved
themselves and condemned him.

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Suge Knight had control of that
car.

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He could have ducked, he could
have swerved.

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He could have saved them both.
Instead, Tupac took 4 bullets

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while Suge walked away with a
scratch.

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Suge Knight used Tupac Shakur as
a human shield.

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Verdict True.
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