Gangster admits ‘I killed Tupac Shakur’ and boasts it was just ‘another day at the office’ in shocking book
A COMPTON gangster has boasted about his key role in the murder of Tupac Shakur in a tell-all book - bragging that the night of the shooting was just "another day at the office".
Self confessed criminal Keffe D Davis delivered a detailed breakdown of how he and his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson shot Tupac dead then fled the scene - in a memoir of his life called Compton Street Legend.
Pals of Keffe told The Sun he is hoping to have his life story turned into a film - similar to the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton.
But the gangster insists that while he has some remorse for the murder of the cultural music icon, Tupac was “no angel”
“I don’t understand why people act like Tupac was an angel. S*** the n**** busted on some off duty cops in Atlanta a few years earlier,” he writes in the book.
He added: “The moral of the story, real gangsters, are nothing to f*** with...it’s a ruthless way of life...for us Vegas was another day at the office.
He added that although it sound "cold hearted" the killings of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls are as considered just "collateral damage” from a street perspective.
In the book, Keffe wrote about how he helped secure a gun to murder Tupac as revenge for Pac beating up Orlando after a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand in September 1996, then helped co-ordinate a team of fellow LA gangsters to kill him and fellow rap icon and owner of Death Row Records Suge Knight.
While Orlando, who died in 1998, was arrested by Los Angeles police three weeks after Tupac’s death, Keffe has never been charged for any role in the murder.
Keffe’s full admission appears in the chapter entitled "The Main Event" in Compton Street Legend.
He describes how on the night Tupac was murdered, a fight took place at the MGM hotel - after which Orlando accused Tupac of beating him up and leaving him with a damaged shoulder.
Pac’s friends already had issues with Orlando and Keffe over a previous fight in Lakewood, California so tensions had escalated.
Keffe wrote: "We couldn’t let no record company gangsters do us like that.
“Had they lost their f***** rapping’ a** minds?’
The gangster also made other accusations about Tupac - over alleged bribes and pay-offs not being repaid.
Keffe chillingly wrote that the fight with Orlando meant "Strike three homey, you’re out!!"
He says that he was given a Glock pistol by a New York based pal called Zip - before they began their hunt at Knight’s Club 662.
However after their enemies did not show, their mood switched to partying and they bought cases of Cristal and Dom Perignon champagne at a Liquor Barn store, before heading back to party at a hotel called Carriage House.
Keffe, Orlando and some pals then headed along the southern end of the Strip, when they heard fans scream Tupac’s name as he leant out of Suge’s BMW.
After catching up with them, Keffe says he caught Suge and Tupac’s eyes as they sat in traffic, adding: "Like two rams locking horns Suge and I looked each other dead in the eye....No words exchanged, the time for talking had passed, the s*** was about to go down."
“...Tupac made an erratic move and began to reach down beneath his seat. It was the first and only time in my life that I could relate to the police command ‘Keep your hands where I can see them.’
“... One of my guys from the back seat grabbed the Glock and started bustin’ back.
“The first shot skinned Suge in the head. I thought the motherf***er was dead. I heard stories that Suge supposedly used Tupac as a shield when the bullets started flying. But that’s some bulls****. Suge was already wounded."
The shooting continued and Keffe said he ducked down to avoid being hit - before they all fled the scene.
Keffe mocked Suge’s security detail for failing to respond or catch them and attacked Metro police adding: “I don’t know why Vegas police didn’t check Tupac’s hands for powder burns to see if he was shooting because the car we were in was shot the f*** up.”
Keffe then wrote how the gang ditched the Cadillac in secret, before rushing back to the Strip, where he claims they saw ambulances rush Tupac and Suge to Vegas’ UMC Hospital.
That night he and his crew partied and Keffe claims that when he returned to the Cadillac, the gun stashed on the wheel had disappeared.
He and his crew drove the Cadillac back to LA, where after body shop work they returned it to a rental company.
Keffe says he has some remorse over the killing but is adamant that the rapper and his pals shouldn't have messed with his nephew Orlando.
"He was a talented artist with tons of potential to impact the world. I hate that Tupac’s family, friends, and fans, especially his mother had to go through the pain of losing her son."
"However I stand firm on the point that Tupac, Suge Knight and the rest of those n****s didn’t have any business putting their hands on my beloved nephew Baby Lane. Period."
Keffe went on to say that Tupac chose the "wrong n****s" to "play with" and that Suge and his crew should have protected him better.
He added: “Tupac was a guppy that got swallowed by some ferocious sharks. He shouldn’t ever have got involved in that bulls*** trying to be a thug.”
Keffe’s book, which is published through a small independent Los Angeles company King Do Media, is the clearest admission of his claimed involvement in the murder - which remains unsolved by Las Vegas Police.
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The book, available on Amazon, has barely been promoted around the world.
Earlier this year The Sun revealed that film maker and investigative producer Mike Dorsey was urging Las Vegas Police to finally kill 23 years of speculation about Tupac being alive.
Currently the murder case of the rapper remains open, even though Dorsey has met with cops to present his entire research including an eye witness statement that Tupac was gunned down by Anderson. Las Vegas police did not respond to requests for comment.