Sean “Diddy” Combs isn’t having a superb 2024. We will say that with some confidence, in as far as Combs is at present sitting in a detention heart someplace in Brooklyn proper now, having been arrested final month on federal prices of racketeering and intercourse trafficking. He’s additionally apparently staring down the barrel of one other 100-plus lawsuits associated to allegations of sexual assault and different misconduct, most of them linked to statements concerning the rappers’ notorious “freak off” events. Which, we guess, is pretty much as good a time as any for the household of Tupac Shakur to start out asking some contemporary, pointed questions, too: The household has reportedly employed an lawyer to launch a brand new investigation into the at present incarcerated Combs, wanting into rumors linking Combs to the rapper’s 1996 loss of life.
That is some pretty aged beef, as these items go: Rumors about Diddy being in some way concerned in Shakur’s drive-by-shooting in Las Vegas in September of ’96 have circulated within the rap world for practically 30 years at this level. (You’ll be able to hear Eminem reference it in a number of tracks, for example, together with 2018’s “Killshot”.) They have been exacerbated in 2008 when Duane “Keefe D” Davis—who’s at present going through homicide prices in relation to Shakur’s loss of life, and who faces trial subsequent yr—mentioned Combs allegedly supplied him cash to kill Shakur and Suge Knight. Combs, for his half, has at all times denied any of this, and authorities have acknowledged on a couple of event that they’ve by no means thought-about him a suspect in Shakur’s homicide. None of which has stopped the Shakur property from hiring New York lawyer Alex Spiro (who lately made headlines serving as Alec Baldwin’s lawyer in his ultimately dismissed Rust taking pictures case) to research “hyperlinks” between Combs and Shakur’s loss of life. (That is all per CourtTV, who talked to Spiro to verify the information.) No additional particulars about how that investigation is being carried out are being launched at the moment, however we’re positively in a “When it rains, it pours” scenario relating to individuals seeking to extract some measure of penalties from the immediately embattled Combs.
