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Keffe D, whose legal name is Duane Keith Davis, is one of the most closely watched figures in the long-running investigation into the murder of Tupac Shakur.
His name rose back into global headlines after law enforcement in Las Vegas moved forward with a case that places him at the center of one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries.
For decades, the killing of Tupac Shakur in 1996 has been examined through documentaries, interviews, police reports, and books, yet public certainty has remained elusive.
That uncertainty is one reason the question “Who is Keffe D?” continues to attract such strong search interest, media attention, and public debate.
His name rose back into global headlines after law enforcement in Las Vegas moved forward with a case that places him at the center of one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries.
For decades, the killing of Tupac Shakur in 1996 has been examined through documentaries, interviews, police reports, and books, yet public certainty has remained elusive.
That uncertainty is one reason the question “Who is Keffe D?” continues to attract such strong search interest, media attention, and public debate.
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00:00Dwayne Davis is sitting in a Las Vegas courtroom this week, on trial for a murder that happened
00:05almost 30 years ago. The man he's accused of killing is Tupac Shakur, one of the biggest
00:10rappers who ever lived. And the evidence against Davis is largely made up of his own words.
00:16So who is this man? How did he end up as the only person ever charged in Tupac's death?
00:21And how did his own book and his own interviews become the thing that put him here?
00:25Let's start with what's happening right now, this week, in that Las Vegas courtroom.
00:30The man everyone calls Kefty is Dwayne, Kefty Davis, whose long-delayed trial was scheduled to begin.
00:36With prosecutors leaning heavily on the story he told about the killing himself,
00:41expected to last roughly a month. He's 63 years old now, he's pleaded not guilty,
00:46and has remained jailed since late 2023. Here's the wild part, the prosecution's theory
00:51does not require Davis to have been the person who pulled the trigger.
00:55Prosecutors allege he was the shot caller who arranged the attack and supplied the weapon.
01:00While Davis' defense attorneys argue there is no evidence he directed the shooting.
01:05So nobody in that courtroom is claiming Davis had his finger on the trigger.
01:09They're claiming he set the whole thing in motion. And the reason prosecutors think they
01:14can prove that isn't some secret informant or a D and a match, it's a book.
01:18Dwayne Davis, who goes by the nickname Kefty, wrote a tell-all book in 2019,
01:23laying out his role in the fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur. And the book, Compton Street Legend,
01:29opens in Las Vegas on the night of September 7, 1996. With a play-by-play account of his plan
01:35to
01:35confront Tupac and Death Row Records CEO Marion Suge, Knight in retaliation for an earlier fight.
01:42Think about that for a second, he wrote it down. Davis wrote that he got a gun, hopped in a
01:47Cadillac with
01:47three others, and drove around looking for Tupac at night. And then they spotted Tupac in a car
01:53and pulled up next to it. And then there's the line that prosecutors have quoted again and again
01:58in front of grand juries and in court filings. Where Davis described the moment, the car pulled
02:03alongside Tupac's, as the point where the time for talking had passed. Now why is a man who
02:08essentially confessed in print, only now standing trial, 30 years after the fact? That's the first
02:14thread we need to pull. Homicide detectives spent close to three decades chasing this case with no
02:19arrest. Homicide detectives spent close to three decades investigating who was behind Tupac Shakur's
02:26murder during a drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas Strip on Sept 7, 1996. Then, out of nowhere,
02:33it broke open. A Clark County grand jury handed down a murder indictment for Dwayne Kef D. Davis.
02:39And the Las Vegas sheriff stood up in front of cameras and said the department had never stopped
02:44caring about getting justice for Tupac. The morning it happened, police didn't storm a hideout or stage
02:49some dramatic raid. Davis, 60, was arrested while on a walk near his home. Prosecutors laid out exactly
02:56why they felt confident enough to finally rule. Chief Deputy District Attorney Mark DiGiacomo described
03:02Davis as the on-ground, on-site commander who ordered the death of Shakur. That phrase,
03:08on-ground, on-site commander, is doing a lot of work. It's the whole prosecution case in five words.
03:14So here's where the title's question really lives. Who is this man that police believe commanded a killing
03:19but never fired a shot? Before we get into the trial happening this week, we need to go back and
03:25figure out how Dwayne Davis, a Compton Street kid, ended up in a car outside the MGM Grand,
03:31deciding Tupac Shakur needed to die. To understand why Dwayne Davis was even in that Cadillac in 1996,
03:37you have to understand what he was before any of this. He wasn't some outsider who got pulled into
03:43a rap feud by accident. He was already deep in the life. He grew up in a big family in
03:48Compton,
03:49one of 12 siblings. Davis grew up surrounded by family. It wasn't an easy childhood. His mother
03:54died from colon cancer in 1980, when Davis was 15. Loss followed him. Two of his brothers also died,
04:02one from cancer, and the other was shot in the streets of Compton. That's the environment that
04:07shaped him. Violence and grief were woven into ordinary life before he was even out of his teens.
04:12And then there's the connection that ties directly into the Tupac story.
04:16Davis said he first met Death Row Records CEO Marion Suge, Knight when he was nine years old.
04:22Long before Death Row became the most feared label in music, before Tupac ever signed there.
04:27Davis and Knight already knew each other from the neighborhood. That relationship matters,
04:32because it's part of why Davis ended up connected to a record label at all.
04:36He wasn't a music industry guy, he was a Compton guy who happened to know the guy who eventually ran
04:42the label. By the time the 90s rolled around, Davis had climbed the ranks of one of the most
04:47notorious gangs in Southern California. According to his own account and to law enforcement,
04:52he became a shot caller for the notorious Southside Compton Crips.
04:56While running a multi-million dollar, multi-state drug empire. That's not a guy on the corner,
05:02that's a guy running an operation. Court documents back this up directly.
05:06In court documents, witnesses said Davis, a longtime gang member, was a known drug trafficker.
05:12And one witness, someone who ran in the same circles, described exactly how central Davis was
05:17to any violence that happened around him. According to testimony, the associate said Kef is the one
05:23who's going to make all the arrangements, and all the plans, until that gun goes into somebody else's
05:29hand. That's not somebody describing a bystander, that's somebody describing an organizer, a guy who
05:35puts things in motion and lets someone else finish them. So now picture the two worlds colliding.
05:40On one side you've got Death Row Records, run by Sujknight, stacked with artists like Tupac,
05:45Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre. On the other you've got a set of gangs that had real ties to that
05:50label,
05:50and to its rivals. Hundreds of pages of grand jury transcripts portray Tupac,
05:55Shakur's shooting, as a culmination of a long-standing feud. Between rival record labels,
06:01Death Row Records, and Bad Boy Records, and rival gang sects mob Peru and Southside Compton Crips.
06:07This wasn't some abstract industry rivalry, it had real teeth. Witnesses said Southside Compton
06:13Crips hung out with and provided protection to Bad Boy Records, which was founded by Sean Diddy
06:19Combs, and included rappers like the Notorious B.I.G. While Mob Peru, part of the larger Bloods
06:24gang, was associated with Death Row Records, which featured rappers like Shakur, Snoop Dogg,
06:30and Dr. Dre. And this wasn't a one-time flare-up, the rival gangs fought and retaliated against each
06:36other both before and after Shakur's death. Davis was Southside Compton Crips, that put him,
06:42structurally, on the opposite side of the fence from Death Row, even though he personally knew Sujknight
06:47since childhood. It's one of the strange contradictions of this whole story. The man
06:51accused of orchestrating Tupac's murder had known Death Row's founder since they were kids,
06:57and yet gang lines put him at war with the label anyway. There's one more person we need to bring
07:02into this picture before we move forward, because he's the direct link between Davis's gang life and
07:08the night Tupac died. That's Orlando Anderson, known on the street as Baby Lane. He was Davis's nephew.
07:14Kev D. is the uncle of the late prime suspect in the case Orlando Anderson. For years, long before
07:20Davis was ever charged with anything, Anderson was the name attached to Tupac's murder in the public
07:26imagination. Anderson has long been the prime suspect on suspicion of shooting Tupac out of
07:32revenge for the attack in the hotel, though he denied any involvement in the murder and was also
07:36killed two years later in a gang-related shooting in 1998. So going into September of 1996,
07:43you've got a Compton drug trafficker with deep gang ties, a childhood friendship with the head of
07:49Death Row Records that didn't override gang loyalty, and a nephew who was about to get into a fight that
07:54would change hip-hop history forever. All the pieces were already on the board, nobody in that
08:00family circle knew it yet. But a boxing match in Las Vegas was about to set all of it off.
08:05Now we get to the night itself, because everything that Dwayne Davis has been charged with traces back
08:11to a few hours in Las Vegas in September of 1996. It started of all places at a boxing match
08:18on Sept 7,
08:191996. Shakur was in the passenger seat of a black BMW and Death Row Records co-founder Marion Suge,
08:26Knight was driving. After they had just watched Mike Tyson knock out Bruce Seldon and were headed to a
08:32nightclub where Shakur was scheduled to perform. Vegas was packed that night. Everybody who was anybody in
08:38hip-hop and boxing was in town for that fight. And that includes people from both sides of the gang
08:43rivalry we just laid out. Before the shooting, before any of that, there was a fight in a hotel
08:49lobby. And that fight is the entire reason prosecutors say Davis did what he allegedly did
08:55next. Prosecutors allege Davis orchestrated the shooting to get revenge after Shakur and his entourage
09:00beat up Davis' nephew, Orlando, baby Lane Anderson. At the MGM grand hours before Shakur was killed,
09:07let's slow down on that fight because it's the spark. Orlando Anderson had attacked Trevon Lane,
09:13a mob Peru blood, at Lakewood Mall. And during that altercation, Anderson allegedly tried unsuccessfully
09:19to steal Lane's gold Death Row medallion, which was a gift from Suge Knight. That beef didn't stay in
09:25Lakewood, it followed everybody to Vegas. On September 7, 1996, Tupac Shakur, Suge Knight and
09:32several associates of Death Row records, including Lane, went to Las Vegas to attend the Bruce Selden
09:37versus Mike Tyson boxing match. And after the match, the Death Row entourage were walking in the lobby of
09:43the MGM Grand Hotel, where Lane spotted Anderson. What happened next is the moment that set the whole
09:49tragedy in motion. Tupac Suge Knight's people and their entourage jumped Anderson right there in the
09:55lobby, on camera, in front of hundreds of people. It's one of the most replayed pieces of hip-hop footage
10:01that
10:01exists. Anderson got beaten badly, and word of it reached his uncle fast. Prosecutors say that's when Dwayne
10:08Davis stepped in. In the hours before the murder, Shakur's group reportedly attacked Orlando Anderson, a
10:14member of a rival gang and Davis's nephew, in a brawl at the MGM Grand, involving members of the two
10:21rival
10:21gangs, which included security personnel from Shakur's recording company, with both groups in town for a
10:27Mike Tyson fight. And then, according to the case against him, Davis didn't let it go. After the incident,
10:33Davis reportedly ordered a retaliatory hit on Shakur before a performance at Marion, Suge, Knight's now
10:40closed club 662. So here's the timeline prosecutors have built. Fight at the MGM Grand, family loyalty
10:47kicks in. A plan gets made within hours, and then a car full of men goes hunting. By his own
10:53account,
10:53written in his own book years later, Davis described getting behind that plan directly. Davis wrote that
10:59he got a gun, popped in a Cadillac with three others, and drove around looking for the pair. And
11:04they spotted Tupac in a car, and then pulled up next to him. What happened at that red light,
11:09became one of the most infamous moments in music history. At a red light near the Las Vegas strip,
11:15a white Cadillac pulled up beside them, and gunfire erupted. And Shakur was shot multiple times,
11:20and died six days later, while Knight survived with minor injuries. Tupac was 25 years old. He was
11:27gunned down 27 years before Davis's eventual indictment, which tells you just how long this
11:32case sat cold. He held on for less than a week before he died from his injuries. And here's a
11:38detail
11:38that a lot of people forget, Suge Knight was in that car too, and he survived. He's a living witness
11:44to what happened, and the book Davis wrote even calls attention to that fact directly. The infamous
11:49Suge Knight and Kef D are described as the only living eyewitnesses to the deadly confrontation on the
11:55Las Vegas strip. A violent confrontation that led to the deaths of two of hip-hop's biggest stars,
12:01and changed hip-hop history forever. That's a chilling thing to read, honestly, two men who were there
12:06when Tupac was shot. Both still alive decades later, both carrying pieces of the truth that the public
12:12spent 30 years trying to dig out of them. The shooter's identity has never been confirmed by a
12:18conviction. Orlando Anderson, the nephew, was suspected for years but he always denied it. And then he was
12:24killed in an unrelated gang shooting in 1998, taking whatever he knew to the grave. That left a case
12:31with a working theory about who ordered it. But no clean answer about who actually pulled the trigger.
12:37A gap that still exists heading into this week's trial. For years, this is where the story just
12:43stopped. No arrests, no charges, just theories, documentaries, and conspiracy podcasts filling the
12:49silence. That silence is exactly what makes the next part of this story so strange. Because the
12:54thing that eventually broke this case open wasn't a new witness or a lab breakthrough. It was Dwayne
13:00Davis talking, on camera, in writing, voluntarily. This is maybe the strangest part of the entire Kef
13:07D story. For the better part of two decades, the guy prosecutors now call the mastermind, was out
13:12there in public, on TV, in interviews, basically narrating his own alleged role in one of the most
13:18famous unsolved murders in America. It started well before his book ever came out. Dwayne Kef D
13:25Davis, a former shot caller for the Southside Compton Crips, and kingpin of a Compton-based
13:30drug operation, rose to national prominence, as one of the only living witnesses to the 1996 slaying
13:37of rapper Tupac Shakur. After being featured in several TV specials on A&E, USA Network, Fox,
13:44and Bet. Think about that run of appearances, four different networks, over the span of about a year.
13:50All wanting Davis to talk about the same thing, and he did, repeatedly. He wasn't hiding from cameras,
13:56he was actively going on them, and telling the story of the car, the gun, and the night Tupac died.
14:02Then in 2019, he took it a step further, and put it all in a book. He rose up the
14:06gang-banging ranks
14:07to become a shot caller for the notorious Southside Compton Crips. While running a multi-million dollar,
14:13multi-state drug empire, and Kef D has been a central figure in both the Tupac Shakur
14:19and Biggie murders. For the past 20 years, the marketing for the book leaned hard into that
14:24mystique, framing it as the missing piece hip-hop fans had been waiting decades for.
14:29But there was one detail, buried in that same interview history, that mattered more than anyone
14:34realized at the time. Detective Greg Kading, who investigated both the Tupac and Biggie cases,
14:40had gotten Davis to talk years earlier, as part of a federal task force. And that conversation was
14:46supposed to stay confidential, it didn't stay that way. Davis kept talking publicly anyway,
14:52and eventually those two things, the supposedly protected interview, and the money-making book,
14:57would end up in the same courtroom, cited by the same prosecutors. Because here's the twist,
15:03the very thing that made Davis a minor hip-hop celebrity for a decade. The interviews,
15:07the book deal, the TV specials, became the backbone of the criminal case against him.
15:12The prosecutor's case relies on Compton Street legend. The book Davis co-authored about the
15:18shooting and his time in the Crips, as well as police and media interviews he participated in.
15:23Naturally, once he was actually charged, his story changed. Since his arrest, he has said his prior
15:29statements were false. In just an attempt to sell books, then he has blamed his co-author for
15:34inserting false information. That's a hard position to hold, once you've said the same thing.
15:39Across four television networks and a published memoir for over a decade, his legal team has fought
15:45hard to keep that material out of the trial. Davis' attorneys unsuccessfully fought to block the use
15:51of the book, and a recording of a 2008 police interview in the trial, arguing the book was
15:56fictionalized and had a co-author, making it impossible to know which parts Davis wrote,
16:02and also arguing his interview with a federal task force. Investigating the deaths of Wallace and
16:07Shakur was supposed to be confidential, and not used against him, they lost that fight.
16:13The book stays in, the recorded interview stays in, and that's a massive problem for the defense,
16:19because it means jurors are going to hear, in Davis' own recorded voice, the same story he told
16:25on national television, years before anyone thought he'd actually be charged.
16:29It's worth pointing out just how long this played out publicly before police moved.
16:35Davis was telling this story on camera as far back as 2017 and 2018. He didn't get arrested until
16:41years later, in the fall of 2023, and only after investigators raided his Nevada home and pulled
16:48devices they said were tied to the case. That gap between Guy openly talking about a murder on TV,
16:55and Guy actually charged with that murder, is one of the strangest timelines in true crime.
17:00Why the delay? Prosecutors have addressed this directly, and it comes down to admissibility and
17:06corroboration, not doubt about what Davis had said. Once they felt they could actually use his own words
17:12in court. Once the legal groundwork was there, to get around confidentiality claims, and defense
17:18objections, they moved. And once they moved, they moved fast. Not a smoking gun, not DNA, not a jailhouse
17:25informant flipping for a deal. A talkative man who spent years building himself up as a hip-hop
17:30historical figure, never expecting that his own words would end up read back to him by a prosecutor
17:36in front of a jury. And that sets up exactly where we are right now. Because Davis isn't just the
17:42defendant in this trial. He is, in a very real sense, also the star witness against himself.
17:48While prosecutors were building their case, entirely around Davis's own words. The defense
17:54had to build something out of almost nothing. And that fight has played out publicly for over two
17:59years now, in courtrooms, in press interviews, and in a bitter feud that has nothing directly to do
18:04with Davis. But keep circling back to him anyway, start with the actual legal defense. Davis's team has
18:11consistently argued the physical evidence just isn't there. Davis attorneys argue there is no
18:17evidence he directed the shooting. And the state relies on witnesses who weren't there. They've also
18:22tried to refrain who Davis even was by the time any of this became relevant to a jury. The defense
18:28said
18:28Davis left the narcotics trade in 2009 and worked a steady job before illness forced him to retire in
18:352014. That illness, by the way, was the same cancer that killed his mother decades earlier. Davis wrote that
18:42in 2014, he got the same cancer, now in remission, that killed his mother. It's a strange detail to include
18:49in a murder case. But it's part of the larger portrait his lawyers have tried to paint. An old sick
18:55man, far
18:56removed from his gang days, being prosecuted off a book deal gone wrong. The defense also tried a much bigger
19:02swing, pointing the finger somewhere else entirely. One of his earlier attorneys argued in court that
19:08without evidence, Reggie Wright Jr., a security employee for Death Row Records, and his team were
19:14responsible for the rap great's death, not Davis. With Death Row Records belonging to Suj Knight,
19:20the record executive whose BMW Shakur was riding in when he was gunned down. Wright didn't take that
19:26quietly. He shot back publicly, saying, Good luck finding someone saying that, that's credible,
19:32and added that it was painful having his name dragged into the case again, calling it one of
19:37the worst days of his life when he first heard what happened to Tupac. That defense theory that
19:42someone else altogether orchestrated the killing became part of the reason the trial kept getting
19:48pushed back. Davis lawyers filed a motion saying new witness testimony from a private investigator
19:54could prove that Davis was not in Las Vegas at the time of Shakur's killing, and also claimed new
20:00evidence had come out. That could prove someone else orchestrated Shakur's killing. That first delay
20:06bumped the case from an early 2026 date all the way out. The judge overseeing it wasn't thrilled,
20:12but felt she had no real choice. Noting there were still quite a few things left to prepare,
20:17before Davis could have effective legal representation. Then it happened again,
20:22just months before the case was actually supposed to start. Davis' team swapped out lawyers entirely.
20:28Davis changed legal teams in August, hiring Draskovich and Michael Pendullo to represent him,
20:34after he was found guilty of fighting another inmate while in Clark County Detention Center.
20:39The new attorney told the court flatly that the volume of material to review was enormous.
20:45Keith D.'s attorney, Robert Draskovich, told the court that the discovered material is voluminous,
20:50and requires significantly more time to review. That pushed the trial back a second time,
20:56all the way to this month, even while behind bars. Davis kept insisting on his innocence directly to
21:02reporters. In one exchange he told a BC News, I'm innocent. A line he's repeated in various forms
21:09since his arrest, even as he also tried to have the entire indictment thrown out. That appeal went all
21:15the way to the Nevada Supreme Court and failed. With a lower court's decision to uphold the charges
21:21standing. Meanwhile outside the courtroom entirely, a separate and much messier fight was unfolding.
21:27One that had nothing to do with legal strategy. And everything to do with old grudges in hip-hop
21:33refusing to die. Suge Knight, serving a lengthy sentence for an unrelated fatal hit-and-run,
21:39started publicly accusing Snoop Dogg of quietly trying to help get Davis out on bail. Knight's theory was
21:45that Davis was talking too much. And someone wanted him silenced, or at least out from under a
21:50microscope. In a prison call interview, Knight claimed that, since I've been in here, Snoop,
21:56and other people been trying to bail Keith D out. Cause he talking too much, Snoop didn't let that
22:01sit either. He denied it outright and turned it back on Knight. Posting online that Knight wouldn't
22:07stop talking about him, and suggesting jealousy over Snoop now owning Death Row Records,
22:12was behind the accusation. It's a strange side plot, but it shows just how much this decades-old case
22:18still runs through every relationship that touched Death Row Records in the 90s. Nobody involved with
22:24that label, even peripherally, has fully moved on from that September night. Not the survivors,
22:30not the rivals, and certainly not the man. Now sitting in the defendant's chair, so here we are in a
22:35Las Vegas courtroom, nearly 30 years after a rapper was shot at a red light. Watching the one man ever
22:41charged, in connection with it, face a jury. The charge itself is precise and worth repeating clearly.
22:48Dwayne Keftee Davis, 63, faces a single count of murder with a deadly weapon. With the intent to
22:54promote, further, or assist a criminal gang in Shakur's death. That gang enhancement matters, it's not just a
23:01murder charge. It's a murder charge tied explicitly to the Compton Crips and Blood's rivalry. We walked
23:07through earlier, everything from Davis's teenage years. Running with Southside Compton Crips to his
23:12nephews, beating at the MGM Grand, feeds directly into that specific legal language. Jury selection and
23:19opening arguments are unfolding this week, and legal reporters following the case have been blunt about
23:24what it will, and won't resolve. The trial, which is expected to last about a month, likely won't
23:30reveal who pulled the trigger. That's a strange thing to sit with. Even if Davis is convicted,
23:36even if the jury believes every word of his own book, the identity of the actual shooter may never
23:41be legally established. Orlando Anderson is dead. Suge Knight, the other living witness, is behind bars on
23:48unrelated charges and hasn't testified to naming anyone under oath. For Tupac's family, none of this legal
23:54complexity changes what the last three decades have felt like. His stepbrother has spoken about what
24:00it means to finally see a trial happen. For Shakur's family, the last 30 years have been exhausting and
24:06stressful, his stepbrother Morris Moprim, Shakur said. Adding that sitting through the trial will be
24:11re-traumatizing, but he's cautiously optimistic justice will come. He put his hope plainly, saying I
24:17hope that the trial is fair and we find out the truth. That word, truth, is doing a lot of
24:23lifting in this
24:24case. Because so much of what jurors will hear isn't fresh testimony from new witnesses. It's old
24:29testimony, it's a book, it's television interviews. Recorded when Davis had no idea he'd ever sit in a
24:36defendant's chair. Prosecutors are essentially asking a jury in 2026 to convict a man based largely on what
24:44he told cameras and readers. Back when he thought he was untouchable, immune from prosecution because he'd
24:50already survived decades without charges. Davis's team is still fighting on every front they can.
24:56They've argued the book can't be trusted because it had a co-author. And no one can say for certain
25:01which lines came from Davis, and which came from the writer helping him shape the story.
25:06They've argued the recorded police interview was supposed to stay sealed. They've floated alternate
25:12suspects. None of those arguments have gotten the case dismissed, but they don't need to win
25:16outright. They only need to create enough doubt in 12 people's minds about whether a man's own
25:22bragging, told for money and fame, should be enough to convict him of orchestrating a killing decades
25:27later. There's also the matter of what Davis himself has said changed. His current position
25:33is that everything in that book, everything in those interviews, was theater. A hustle to sell copies,
25:39dramatized by a co-writer, never meant to be taken as a legal confession. Whether a jury buys that after
25:45listening to years of consistent, detailed, on-camera claims, is the entire question this trial exists
25:51to answer. What's clear is that this case never would have existed without Davis's own choices. Nobody
25:58forced him onto A&E, USA Network, Fox and Bet. Nobody made him write a 200-page memoir, laying out
26:05a
26:05night-by-night account of a killing. He built his own legend, called himself a Compton Street, legend in the
26:11title of his own book, and turned decades of silence about Tupac's death into a marketable brand.
26:16That branding is now Exhibit A. The trial is expected to run through the next several weeks,
26:22with testimony from surviving witnesses. Law enforcement, who investigated the case
26:27across three decades, and very likely portions of Davis's own recorded words, played back to the
26:33jury in his own voice. Whatever verdict comes out of that courtroom, it will close a chapter that has
26:39stayed open since a Saturday night in September of 1996, when a white Cadillac pulled up next to a
26:45black BMW, had a red light on the Las Vegas strip, and changed hip-hop forever. Dwayne Davis wanted to
26:52be remembered as a street legend, who knew the real story behind two of the genre's most devastating
26:57losses. Instead, he may be remembered as the man whose own bragging, recorded for the world to hear,
27:03finally answered a question that three decades of investigators couldn't crack on their own.