The conspiracy to hit Pac and or Suge Knight for Puffy supposedly began one evening at a now closed Los Angeles landmark, a place me and my dad liked to go to before it closed during Pandemic- Greenblatt's deli on Sunset boulevard. In early 96 Puffy met up with Keefe and some of the fellas and made some sort of statement about wanting to get rid of Pac and Suge, who were harassing him in music, and making it uncomfortable for them in Los Angeles. Remember, Los Angeles is the CAPITAL of the movie AND music business. Prior to the rise of social media you absolutely HAD to be in L.A. and move around a lot if you were operating in the entertainment business. This is where Keefe D Davis claims Puffy, whom he knew through Von ZIp, offered him the million dollars. So 6 or so months later when they all crossed paths in Las Vegas, Von Zip appears like an evil Djnni, gone in hand, to make Sean Combs' wish come true.
For those of you in the 2PAC was murked by the "government" conspiracy camp, I will say this. I would not be surprised if the FBI kept a lazy eye on Shakur and his family, as he had money and his mother had actually been an EXTREMELY serious violent "ACTIVIST" with ties to an FBI top ten most wanted criminal "Assata Shakur", thus the government's watchful eye likely haunted the margins of 2pac's life. NOT because he was any sort of revolutionary threat- promoting the reefer/Hennesee/Gang lifestyle is, in fact, anti-revolutionary- but because of his potential to help his mother's very serious former associates. That being said, the only people promoting the idea that he died at the Government's hands are washed up Revolutionaries who have to talk crazy in order to keep getting interviewed.
Biggie's murder definitely results from Pac's murder, either revenge, or penalty for unpaid debt; don't discount the possibility that Keefe D and the South Side went over to Puffy to press him for the unpaid Bounty on Pac. Puffy brushed them off with some excuse. Remember over a year had passed at this point, the Southside had suffered murder victims and had various law enforcement all over them, assuredly, putting a damper on any dealing they had been doing. Keefe D says Puffy got them tickets to the Party at the Petersen that night and the Crips showed up 18 deep. Only some were from the South and probably close to none knew about the 1 million dollars. You keep things like that a secret in the street, or else everyone who helped you collect in the slightest will have their hand out. A gangster has to be able to move his pieces around on the board, without those pieces even knowing they're being moved.He said he had Grape Streets and Nutty Bloccs with him, he would't have mentioned any money to them, but some of the guys would have known. Orlando for sure, and I doubt that Keefe D would have just left it alone, maybe rolling up on Puffy was giving him a last chance to pay and the shooter that hit Biggie was doing it to send a message to Puffy.
And there is the nefarious Eric Von Zip foreseeing that he could blackmail Puffy into giving him the money, via the chain of entertainment companies that connected him to Jimmy Henchman to Bad Boy. And why not just keep the cash, since Keefe D, his connect to the Southside Crips, was apt to be dead or locked up for something sooner rather than later. And, in fact, Keefe D did go to prison for about 5 years not long after Biggies death, emerging around 2003, then getting back onto police radar for selling coke and PCP by 2008-2009, which is when Greg Kading got him to make the infamous confession where he "closed the books" on the 2pac homicide by blaming Orlando Anderson.
