For decades, Suge Knight has refused to cooperate with authorities on the investigation into the 1996 murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur.
But the hip-hop mogul just made a series of claims about the night a gunman opened fire on the BMW he and Tupac were in.
In a new interview — from prison — the convicted Death Row Records founder discussed the upcoming trial of former Crips leader Duane “Keefe D” Davis, the only person ever arrested in connection with Tupac’s murder.
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Knight and Davis grew up together in the same Compton neighborhood. In his interview with The Art of Dialogue podcast, posted online Sept. 27, Knight was asked about an allegation Davis made that Sean “Diddy” Combs offered a $1 million bounty for Tupac’s murder.
Knight said he discussed the alleged murder-for-hire plot with Davis after the killing, and the ex-gang shotcaller implicated Diddy, then known as Puff Daddy.
Knight said Davis told him, “I’m gonna give you something that’s real true, and I’ve been wanting to tell you, because we’ve been knowing each other, since we was kids.”
He recalled Davis saying, “Look, I needed the money. Puffy and them supposed to give me a million dollars. They gave us most of the money, or half of the money. And that’s how everything unraveled as far as what happened in Vegas.”
Knight said he was on parole at the time, for another case, and did not retaliate.
“My blood was boiling,” he recalled. “But at the same time, I am an intelligent, wise man and businessman, so I can’t do nothing to him, I might as well get him to answer some questions. I double back on him and say, ‘What you mean?'”
He said Davis told him Puffy allegedly was willing to pay “big money.”
Knight continued, “Now according to him, he said it was security that accepted money, participated in it, and it was so called homies… So he laid it out to me in a way that he’s spilling his guts to me, saying it wasn’t just him. It wasn’t just Puffy.”
Knight recalled Keefe D gave him names, some of which he said in the interview.
“He named people. And usually when people name names the way he was naming names, I believe him, because he wasn’t talking just to be talking. I felt he was also coming straight,” Knight said.
Near the end of the interview, Knight dissed Diddy as “the guy that twerk.”
And he paid tribute to the late “California Love” rapper. “Long live Tupac. It’s not a day that don’t go by, I don’t think about him.”
Now in his 60s, Keefe D previously admitted in interviews and in his memoir that he was in the white Cadillac that ambushed Tupac and Suge on the Vegas strip. The three other men in the vehicle are all dead.
Las Vegas police arrested Davis in connection with Tupac’s murder in September 2023.
In July 2024, The Sun published a story saying Davis was a “confidential police informant,” who went undercover after landing in trouble with police in a drug case, and attempted to implicate Combs in Tupac’s murder.
The article included documents and audio recordings submitted into evidence in Davis’ murder case.
The outlet said Diddy was mentioned a total of “77 times” in the filing and recordings. Keefe D reportedly told authorities Diddy offered “a million dollars” to “handle” Tupac and Suge in Las Vegas.
After the shooting, Diddy allegedly called Keefe D and asked, “Is that us?” Davis said he answered, “Yes,” the documents stated.
The documents were filed in court earlier this year in Davis’ murder case. USA Today viewed the filings and published details on Sept. 7, 2025.
Davis alleged he discussed the plot with Combs during a meeting at a deli on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
“I have a couple of problems I need to be handled: Big CEO and Pac,” he alleged the Bad Boy Records founder said, referring to Tupac and Suge.
They allegedly settled on a “$1 million bounty on the two men’s heads,” the documents said.
Combs has vehemently denied any involvement in Tupac’s killing. In a 2016 interview with “The Breakfast Club,” he called rumors about his alleged involvement “nonsense.”
“We don’t talk about things that are nonsense. We don’t even entertain nonsense, my brother,” he told host Charlamagne tha God. “We’re not even gonna go there, with all due respect, but I appreciate you as a journalist asking.”
Combs is currently jailed in Brooklyn, New York, awaiting sentencing on Oct. 3 for his convictions on two-prostitution related charges.
Knight is serving a 28 year sentence in a California state prison for killing a man with his pickup truck during a hit-and-run in 2015, in a fit of rage at a music video shoot.
Keefe D was scheduled to go on trial for Tupac’s murder on Nov. 4, 2024, but his trial has been postponed until 2026.
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