Rapper gunman who ‘opened fire on Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight was paid £80,000 for the hit’
AN UP-and-coming rapper accused of shooting Tupac Shakur is said to have been paid an £80,000 bounty for the infamous hit.
The wannabe music star opened fire on the rapper following a long-running row over a stolen record track and a brutal gangland beating he had suffered.
It's now been claimed he was paid a fortune to pull the trigger on the car carrying Tupac and his Death Row Records boss Suge Knight.
Earlier, we revealed how the gunman's identity had come to light in a "confession letter" written by his "partner in crime".
The rapper is said to have targeted Tupac after saying he had stolen one of his tracks.
He was then reportedly "beaten" by some of Tupac's crew for making the claims.
The bounty is said to have been put up by "interested" parties who were looking to take over Death Row Records - worth a reported £500m at the time of the shooting. Its present owners are not linked to these parties.
Tupac died after the drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on the night of September 7 1996. The star was hit four times - in the chest, arm and thigh - and died six days later.
Tupac and his entourage had been driving from Mike Tyson’s boxing match with Bruce Sheldon to a nightclub, and had got into his own fight with gang member Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson.
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The new letter was revealed by RJ Bond the man behind the hit .
He has long dismissed the LAPD's beliefs that Anderson killed Tupac in a revenge attack.
"The LAPD still pump out the theory Orlando Anderson was the killer but to be honest that is just very convenient for them," he told The Sun Online.
Anderson was shot dead in Compton following a gang gun battle in 1998.
The 23-year-old was gunned down moments after arriving at a Compton car wash following a dispute over money.
"The public wants to believe the Anderson story because it's nice to go to sleep thinking the bad guys are bad guys and those looking after you aren't a bunch of goons," said Bond.
"It's always a tricky process dealing with the LAPD and we have uncovered evidence of police corruption over the years.
"Everything we have discovered over the years has been in spite of the LAPD, not with their help."
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