\n The hours-long interview \u2014 part of a proffer agreement<\/a> related to drug charges \u2014 was at times filled with jovial back-and-forth between Davis, his attorney and investigators, with the former South Side Compton Crip recounting some of the highest points of his power and influence.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cNothing you say today will be used against you,\u201d Greg Kading, who was a Los Angeles Police Department detective, told Davis in the recording.\n <\/p>\n \n But prosecutors say Davis\u2019 decision to write his book and speak openly about his story in interviews effectively negated the deal, and the judge in his trial agreed to allow the recording to be played to the jury.\n <\/p>\n \n After the notorious fight between Davis\u2019 nephew, Orlando Anderson, and people associated with Death Row Records \u2013 Shakur\u2019s label that was co-founded by Marion \u201cSuge\u201d Knight \u2013 at the MGM Grand, Davis and his crew headed to Knight\u2019s Las Vegas Club 662, staying there briefly before giving up on finding their targets, Davis said in the recorded interview.\n <\/p>\n \n While driving after a liquor store pickup, Davis recounts hearing fans yell on the street, \u201cTupac! Tupac! Tupac!\u201d and seeing the rapper hanging out the window of a car while waving, he said in the recording.\n <\/p>\n \n The jury was listening intently and looking at the screen as the story of the shooting unfolded, more engaged after already listening to hours of the recording.\n <\/p>\n \n Davis\u2019 car did a U-turn to go back around and drive up to the car Shakur and Knight were in, Davis said. Terrence Brown was driving, with Davis in the passenger\u2019s seat, while Deandre Smith was on the left passenger side and Anderson, also known as \u201cBaby Lane,\u201d was on the right passenger side, Davis told investigators.\n <\/p>\n \n The driver pulled up on the passenger side of Shakur\u2019s car, and Davis told investigators, \u201cIf we would have been on my side, I would have blast.\u201d But since the car was on the other side, Davis said he handed the gun to Smith in the back seat.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI gave it to Dre, and Dre was like, \u2018No, no, no,\u2019\u201d Davis said in the recording. \u201cAnd Lane\u2019s like, \u2018Give it here.\u2019 He popped it to him.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Davis said Knight looked over at him during the shooting, and the investigator asks him why.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI don\u2019t f**king know,\u201d Davis said in the recording, adding he had known Knight since they were 7 or 8 years old. Davis thought Knight was killed in the shooting because a bullet struck him in the back of the head, he said in the recording.\n <\/p>\n \n Shakur apparently tried to jump in the backseat while Knight was ducking out of the way, Davis continued. He estimated that about six bullets were shot.\n <\/p>\n \n As the recording played, with Davis recounting seeing the ambulance that was carrying the rapper, Shakur\u2019s sister clenched her left hand against her mouth. A family friend moved to put their arm around her.\n <\/p>\n \n After they made their getaway, Davis\u2019 group dumped their car at the nearby Carriage House, leaving the gun on a tire, Davis said in the recording, and went back the next day to pick it up.\n <\/p>\n \n Investigators questioned why the group left the gun with the car, saying it didn\u2019t make any sense, and Davis retorts in the recording, \u201cYou want the truth, or you want me to tell you a lie? \u2026 Okay, we left a f**king gun on the car, dude.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI ain\u2019t never told nobody that story,\u201d Davis said in the recording after detailing his plan to go after Shakur.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cDoesn\u2019t it feel good, man, to get it off your chest?\u201d one officer says.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cOprah\u2019s going to be, like, \u2018Mr. Davis, we really appreciate it,\u2019\u201d Los Angeles Police Department detective Daryn Dupree, who testified in court Wednesday, jokes.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201c\u2026and then he\u2019ll be like, \u2018Read my book,\u2019\u201d another officer chimes in.\n <\/p>\n \n The recorded interview shared in court Thursday and Davis\u2019 book contain two major differences: how the gun got in the back seat, and who instigated the shooting.\n <\/p>\n \n In Davis\u2019 book, he wrote that when his crew went to the liquor store, he took the gun and \u201ctossed it in the backseat.\u201d Later, when Davis\u2019 car pulled up to their opponents, and he locked eyes with Knight, Davis says \u201cTupac made an erratic move and began to reach down beneath his seat.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cPac pulled out a strap, and that\u2019s when the fireworks started. One of my guys from the back seat grabbed the Glock and started bustin\u2019 back,\u201d the book reads.\n <\/p>\n \n In the police recording, he said he handed the gun to Deandre Smith, and that Anderson \u201cleaned over on the window, he rolled down the window, popped.\u201d Davis doesn\u2019t mention to police whether Shakur fired or had a gun.\n <\/p>\n \n The recording revealed more than just details about the night of the shooting, with Davis going into the inner dynamics of the South Side Crips and the gangsters associated with Death Row Records, including allegations that Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs offered Davis a million dollars to kill Shakur and Knight<\/a>. CNN has reached out to Combs\u2019 representatives for comment on the alleged bounty.\n <\/p>\n \n Court will continue Friday morning and prosecutors are expected to play another recording from 2009.\n <\/p>\n \n CNN\u2019s Alea Motwane and Josh Campbell contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Earlier this week, the defense attorney representing Duane Davis said during opening statements that his client\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-591195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gettyimages-2290737520.jpg\")
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