Conspiracy theories about his death abound: they usually insist that he faked his death, that the shooting was a government
assassination, that
Suge Knight arranged the killing, or that Biggie was involved. The theory has attracted a considerable following online and is referred to as the
7-Day Theory, a reference to the fact that much of the evidence supporting it stems from the
Makaveli album.
Some evidence for these theories can be found in the following examples:
Shakur's last album before his death was
The Don Killuminati: The Seven Day Theory. Its cover eerily depicted him crucified and was recorded under the pseudonym "Makaveli", an allusion to
Machiavelli of old, who, among many other strategies, suggested that faking one's death could be used to fool enemies. The executive producer was mysteriously listed as "Simon" instead of Suge Knight.
Tupac was known for making many allusions to his own impending death in his music and even depicted himself in the
music video of "I Ain't Mad at Cha" as an
angel in
Heaven with other dead celebrities after being shot in a public place, a music video which was released only two days after Shakur's death.
Those who knew him personally find the idea that he is still alive laughable. Indeed, the many believers who expected him to return after seven years in
September 2003 were proven wrong.
Although many hoped that Shakur's death would help heal the East Coast/West Coast rivalry, his rival, Notorious B.I.G., was gunned down under similar circumstances six months later. Further clouding Shakur's death,
Orlando Anderson, the man later suspected of being the shooter, was killed in an unrelated gang shootout in
May 1998.
The theory that Shakur's death was orchestrated by
Suge Knight is explored in the
2002 film
Biggie & Tupac by
Nick Broomfield. The crux of this argument is that Tupac was planning to leave
Death Row Records, taking tapes with him, and in order to stop this, he was killed by police officers who also worked for Death Row as security. The
Biggie Smalls killing, it is suggested, was a cover-up in order to make the murder look like a simple product of the East-West rivalry. When asked "Who killed Tupac?" in a
BBC Radio interview dated
March 7,
2005, Broomfield stated "The big guy next to him in the car...Suge Knight."
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