Duane ’keffe D’ Davis - Compton Street Legend: Notorious Keffe D’s Street-Level Accounts of the Tupac and Biggie Murders, Death Row Origins, Suge Knight, Puffy Combs, and Crooked Cops

COMPTON

street

LEGEND

COMPTON

street

LEGEND

Notorious Keffe Ds Street-Level Accounts of

Tupac and Biggie Murders , Death Row Origins , Suge Knight , Puffy Combs , and Crooked Cops

Los Angeles New York

Keffe D

with

Yusuf Jah

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Introduction

M any people will pick up this book for its celebrity value. Its true that my Gangster lifestyle has led me to cross paths with some of the biggest names in the history of Hip-Hop; Tupac Shakur, Christopher Notorious B.I.G. Wallace, Sean Puffy Combs, and Marion Suge Knight, resulting in a massive collision with fatal consequences. I mourn, like millions of others, the loss of two Hip-Hop giants Tupac, and Biggie, and the impact their loss has had on their families and fans.

My reality, however, doesnt allow me to give a fuck about the celebrity aspect of this story. Never have and never will. What I do care genuinely about and hold in high esteem are the values of LOVE, FAMILY, UNITY, BROTHERHOOD, LOYALTY, TRUST, and HONOR. That is what this story is about.

Its been more than twenty years since the premature, yet understandable, deaths of Tupac and Biggie occurred. Premature, because as talented and influential as both men were, they were killed long

Introduction

before either of them had a chance to reach their full potential. Understandable, because in the streets, and Ive lived a Gangster lifestyle for most of my life, theres a strict code that real niggas live, kill, and die by. Tupacs and Biggies deaths were direct results of that code violation and the explosive consequences when the powerful worlds of the streets, entertainment, and crooked-ass law enforcement collide.

In the past couple of years, there have been several TV specials, documentaries, newspaper and magazine articles, and numerous websites dedicated to the subject of who killed Biggie and Tupac. But at the end of the day, none of the private investigators, retired police officers, informants, Hip-Hop heads, actors, or academics who have weighed in on the topic know what happened and the reasons behind it. None of them were there. Im one of the only living eyewitnesses to Tupacs killing, who also knows the much larger story around the reasons why both Tupac and Biggie were killed. I was considered a prime suspect in both the Biggie and Tupac killings for years. I know the real fucking story.

I admittedly lived most of my life as a gangster, a real gangster that did all the shit that real gangsters do. Not the bullshit you see in this generation where everybody faking with all this IG shit. So, Im not trying to paint myself as a fuckin saint. I am well aware that Im a walking miracle, and I thank my Lord for his

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love, mercy, and grace. I could very easily be sitting in a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, or Marion shackled with the death penalty, waiting in misery for my name and number to be called. Instead, I finally get the opportunity to tell my side of the story.

This process has been therapeutic for me because Ive been carrying this shit with me for all of these years. People out there who played dirty are putting salt on my name, character, and reputation yet, I am the only one looking dirty in this shit. People judge and develop opinions based on the bullshit theyve heard about me without knowing the full story. They dont know what I was up against. The FBI did me like they did to John Gotti and theyre trying to do Donald Trump; they flipped all the bottom feeders underneath me then came and got me. But when the police that were involved with this case tell their stories, they protect everybody elses identities except mine.

The most challenging part about telling this story is that some of the guys who ended up betraying me were the closest friends I had on Earth. In fact, some were even members of my own family.

I tell my story with utmost confidence because as Winston Churchill once said, The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Im a good person who, the truth will reveal, saved a lot of