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Suge Knight Theories
A Little Background Info:
When Tupac was sent to prison in 1994 he was planning on spending atleast 3 years there. He hated prison and would have done anything to get himself out of there. Suge had previously asked him to join Deathrow, but he said "he just wasn't ready." The reality of it is that Tupac didn't want to join Deathrow, but changed his mind when faced with prison. Suge said he'd get Tupac out, in exchange Tupac had to do 3 albums for Deathrow. In 1995 Suge Knight bailed 2Pac out of jail with the contract of 2Pac doing a double album and a single album for Death Row Records. They worked out a contract in which Tupac would receive an advance of $1 million for the first album, in addition to $125,000 for a car, a $120,000 expense allowance for one year, a $250,000 legal fund to be spent as Tupac desired, and David's legal services. Tupac would be paid a royalty of 18 points for sales of the first album, plus a bonus of 1% if it went Gold, and another 1% if it went Platinum. For the second and third, Tupac would be paid an advance of no less than $1 million, or $1 million for every million copies of the prior album which was sold, and he would be paid a royalty of 18% of sales, plus a bonus of l% if it went Gold, and another 1% if it went Platinum. Tupac said at the time he signed the contract "I know I'm selling my soul." But he couldn't stand another few years in prison.

   Tupac agreed and Deathrow lawyer David Kenner went about bailing Tupac out of jail. The New York Court of Appeals granted him leave to post bail. $850,000 was raised by Atlantic Records, which was posted in a corporate guarantee. The rest was put up with a $300,000 bail bond and $250,000 in cash from Suge or Interscope. Tupac immediately began and released the album All Eyez on Me, a double CD which covered the first 2 cd's of the contract. While on Deathrow Tupac really seemed to change, influenced by Suge in the mob lifestyle and obviously bitter for the setup in the rape case and being shot 5 times. While on Deathrow he was jacked by Suge Knight repeatedly. He was charged rent on a Wilshire apartment that other Deathrow artists lived in on 9 seperate occasions. He was charged $23,857 for repairs to a porche owned by Steve Cantrock and Suge. Suge and another Death Row representative, who were in California at the time, on the phone told him that he had spent $2 million more than he was entitled to receive. He was charged $115,507 for three pieces of jewelry from B.L. Diamonds, Suge said that the jewelry was a gift to Tupac from Suge, but the bills were never paid. On May 2nd, Tupac was charged $14,500 rent for a house in Malibu which David Kenner lived in. He was then charged $100,000 rent for David Kenner, then $12,000 more. He paid $2700 for Nate Dogg's child support and charged $5,845 for jewelry that Suge bought from XIV Karats Ltd, and millions of dollars worth of more charges that were not due to Tupac. Tupac died owning very little to his name due to DeathRow ripping him off like this!

   There's no question Deathrow was run corruptly, and they owed Tupac a lot of money, which is reason enough to kill Tupac. With Tupac's last CD, Makaveli The 7 Day theory, Tupac was poised to leave the row as he'd filled his contract agreement. He was ready to setup Makaveli Records and Euphanasia, a production company from which he wanted to make movies. He was going to be the first artist on the label, One Nation was the second and he had plans to sign Greg Nice and Smooth, another group at quest and Ghetto Starz which is an offshoot of The Outlaws. He also had another company called 24/7, for his music and video work, the scripts he was writing, and the books he would begin as soon as he finished the plans he was doing with Leila to reform the educational system. On August 26th, 12 days before Tupac was shot, he was on the set all day and at the studio all night. On the 27th, Tupac sent Yaasmyn Fula, who managed his business affairs, to the studio to get tapes of what he had done because he wanted to listen to them. Deathrow said no, David Kenner wouldn't allow it. Tupac fired him. Yaasmyn wrote a letter saying that Tupac had finished his last album and he wanted to leave Death Row. Tupac gave Yaasmyn permission to hire another lawyer. On september 7th, Tupac went back to L.A. He decided he wasn't going to go to Las Vegas, but to Atlanta to settle problems with some relatives instead. Suge got him to change his plans because weeks before he'd promised Suge he'd go to the Tyson/Seldon fight with him. He said he didn't want to go, but he'd given Suge his word. At the MGM Grand Tupac was mad because Suge showed up at the last minute. He sat in section 4, row E, seat 2.

   After the fight they got into a fight and beat Orlando Anderson, a crip who snatched a deathrow chain from Travis Lane. They went back to Suge's place and got ready to go to club 662 owned by Suge. Tupac had wanted to drive his Hummer, but Suge said that they had things to discuss and got Tupac to ride with him. They drove first in a caravan of cars towards club 662. A white cadillac pulled up beside them and opened fire. Tupac tried to get into the backseat, but Suge pulled him down, and a bullet bounced off of his right hip bone and hit is lung. He was also hit in his right hand and chest. Suge was grazed by a bullet, and suffered a minor head wound. Immediately after the shooting, the Cadillac went south on Koval. Suge made a U-turn from the left lane of Flamingo and sped West toward Las Vegas Blvd., away from the nearest hospital. Yafeu Fula (Khadafi) had been in the car behind the BMW with bodyguards and said he could identify the shooter. He was later found dead in New Jersey with one shot to the back of his head. What reason would Suge have to kill Tupac ? Well Tupac had over 200 master tapes, tapes which would leave Deathrow if Tupac left, if dead they would own rights to the tapes and they wouldn't have to pay the enormous amount of money they owed him. Perhaps Tupac had knowledge of the Row that Suge didn't want him to have if he left. Whoever it was that shot Tupac, didn't seem to want to kill Suge. 13 shots were fired at the car and Suge was grazed by one. Orlando Anderson, who was rumored to have been part of the shooting was a crip, and Suge was a blood. Anderson originally testified that Suge had participated in the beating in the MGM theater, a violation of Suge's parole. He later changed his statement. It was rumored that Anderson was paid off.

The Theories: Most of the theories below are back-up up by a Yak Kadafi's half brother, in an email he sent to a Tupac site, the email can be read below to prove this. Yak was killed soon after Tupac for saying he could identify the killer!

(1)  Its a fact Tupac was about to leave Death Row Records. His album "The Don Killuminati: The Seven Day Theory" was the last album he had to do for Death Row. He had completed his contract, in which he had to record a double album (All Eyez On Me), and a single disc album (Makaveli: TDKSDT). He was now going to work on his new record company called "Makaveli Records".

(2)  After 2Pac was killed Death Row Records changed their name to "New And Untouchable", what was the meaning for the change in name?

(3)  With 2Pac gone, Death Row Records was not going to make any money off him. Plus 2Pac had a lot of unreleased material at Death Row Records so if 2Pac died they could make a lot of money off him. On August 26th, 12 days before Tupac was shot, he was on the set all day and at the studio all night. On the 27th, Tupac sent Yaasmyn Fula, who managed his business affairs, to the studio to get tapes of what he had done because he wanted to listen to them. Deathrow said no, David Kenner wouldn't allow it. Tupac fired him. Yaasmyn wrote a letter saying that Tupac had finished his last album and he wanted to leave Death Row.

(4)  Death Row Records was very uncooperative with the police after 2Pac's death. They hardly told the police anything! In many occasions, the police and newsreporters couldn't even find people on Death Row Records to question. Suge Knight was asked in an ABC interview "If you know who shot 2Pac, would you tell the police" he replied to this "Absolutely Not!". Why would Suge not unleash the killers identity, maybe because it was him, or someone affiliated with him!

(5)  One of the members of the Outlawz Kadafi (Yak Fula), was riding behind Suge's car, with Tupac inside, after the Tupac shooting as Suge speed off. Yak was reportedly going to cooperate with the police and said he could point the killer out. A short time after Tupac's death Kadafi was killed as well, by a single bullet to the back of the head. Also the police didnt say that Yak had said he'd be a witness until after fulla was shot, the only person who knew aobut this was Suge. So why would he tell someone about this, or feel he had to act on it?

(6)  If it was the 'Crips' who killed Tupac, like evryone thinks, they would have gone for Suge not Pac. Suge was the one in the 'Bloods' (rival gang to the 'Crips') and he was the one who hit Orlando Anderson (a 'Crip').

(7)  Suge Knight was caught on surveillance camera at the MGM telling 2Pac to take his bullet proof vest because it was hot in there. He said: "Yo Pac take off your vest (bulletproof) its hotter than a motha fucka." This comes from reliable sources such as Yak's half brother.

(8)  Suge Knight was in the car at the time of the shooting and after speeding as fast as he could to the hospital he apparently had a long conversation with 'Pac. But how is this possible as Tupac had been shot 5 times and was heavily bleeding, he lost 22 ounces of blood on the way.

(9)  Death Row Records owed 2Pac a reported $9,892,814 at the time of his death. To achieve not paying 2Pac, Death Row would just lend him cars, houses and jewelry. They wouldn't ever pay the revenues which were in 2Pac's contacts for album sales. Death Row Records even went so far to tell 2pac that he actually owed them money! Obviously, if 2Pac is dead they don't have to worry about ever paying up this money and like I said they'll get all future revenues.

(10)  Suge passed 2 hospitals on the way 2 the one he brouht Pac too. Why would he do that? To make Pac bleed more?

(11)  2Pac had recorded around 200 songs and if he left Death Row, the songs left with him. If he died on Death Row, Suge makes millions. Suge could have set the date of the murder to be suspicious because if niggaz thought he was alive they'd buy the 200 songs for sure.

(12)  Suge Knight was in the car at the time of the shooting and after speeding as fast as he could to the hospital he apparently had a long conversation with 'Pac. But how is this possible as Tupac had been shot 5 times and was heavily bleeding, he lost 22 ounces of blood on the way.

(13)  Suge may have shot Tupac himself. Some bulletholes were in the drivers seat where Suge should have been, but they miraculously missed Suge, even though he was 'sitting there'.

(14)  Listen carefully to the first song on the Makaveli album at the beginning of "Bomb First" before the church bell rings. Someone in the background says "Suge shot me". It doesn't sound like Tupac, and was thought to be Kadafi, because he was the one who claimed he knew who killed Tupac. He probably put it on the album after Tupac was murdered. I think Suge heard it and had Fula killed. Fula was able to get to the track because he was one of the Outlaw Immortalz and plus he was on a couple other tracks on Makaveli. But Yak's half brother believes it was a man called Hakeem who put this in, but why say it, if it wasn't true?

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