Remember Tupac Shakur? Good looking, talented, excellent in Juice as the unhinged Bishop. He had it all apart from one vital thing – he really never made a decent record. Sure, there were a coupla good moments, but he was never truly great. So good thing he died young to cement his place in the pantheon of hip hop’s greatest.
Of course, his premature end was a big twist in one of pop-cultures most fascinating sagas. The Tupac/Biggie beef was big news for the music press at the time and, when Shakur was pictured flicking the bird while being wheeled onto an ambulance after getting shot, everybody was hooked, despite the lack of good records.
As you know, ‘Pac was eventually gunned down and the whole thing spawned a million conspiracy theories from blunted wasters, all scurrying around their modems trying work out whodunnit?, but to no avail. Then there were the corpse cash-in releases (posthumous, if you prefer). And now, the New York Police Dept. are investiagting a Tupac shooting all over again.
Now, seeing as New York City is like the modern equivalent of Rome, with all manner of immoral and dodgy stuff going down constantly, you’d think the NYPD would have something better to do than to look at the case of Tupac Shakur again, mainly because all their efforts won’t bring him back to life and, more pertinently, won’t stop the unending dross released under his name since he shrugged off his mortal coil.
That’s not stopping them though as they’ve launched a formal investigation into an online posting from felon Dexter Issac who claims to have shot and robbed Shakur in ’94. NYPD have to determine whether this claim is legitimate first. So if you’re living in NYC currently, and generally alive and a target for bullets, the police might not be able to help as quickly because they’re all having a circle jerk over a celebrity cadaver. Okay? Good.
Dexter, who is currently serving a life-sentence for a whole bunch of nasty shit, has decided to ‘fess-up, claiming that he was paid $2,500 dollars by James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond to rob Tupac at a studio in Manhattan.
Dexter says:
“He [Rosemond] gave me $2,500, plus all the jewelry I took, except for one ring, which he wanted for himself. It was the biggest of the two diamond rings that we took. He said he wanted to put the stone in a new setting for his girlfriend at the time, Synthia Ried. I still have as proof the chain that we took that night in the robbery.”
This is lovely timing on Issac’s behalf as it is the eve of what would have been Tupac’s 40th birthday. And with that, he’d like to apologise.
“I want to apologize to his family [Tupac Shakur] and for the mistake I did for that sucker [Jimmy Henchman]. I am trying to clean it up to give [Tupac and Biggie’s] mothers some closure.”
Here we go again…
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