Video summary
The video centers on the highly anticipated murder trial of Dwayne "Keefe D" Davis in Las Vegas, where he is accused of orchestrating the fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur thirty years after the incident took place. A significant point of discussion regarding this case involves the composition of the jury, which has been selected and consists entirely of white individuals with only one African-American member present. The speaker questions whether a single Black juror can truly represent justice in such a high-profile case involving another Black victim, suggesting that the demographic makeup might influence how the trial is perceived or played out by those seeking to make an example of Davis for killing Tupac.
The narrative delves into the conflicting stories and theories surrounding the night Tupac was killed on September 7, 1996, following a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas. While some accounts describe it as gang retaliation between the Southside Crips and Piru Bloods over a stolen medallion chain, others suggest involvement from figures like Sean "Puffy" Combs or financial motives involving Biggie Smalls' estate. The speaker highlights Davis's role in reviving his own notoriety by writing a book titled *Compton Street Legend* and giving numerous interviews on platforms like Vlad TV, only to later recant those statements as the legal pressure mounted. This behavior is criticized as an attempt at self-promotion that ultimately backfired, leading to his arrest and current trial charges for masterminding the murder rather than just pulling the trigger himself.
A critical argument presented in the video concerns how Davis's own actions contributed significantly to his downfall; had he remained silent about his involvement with Tupac over the decades, investigators might never have reopened a cold case that lacked sufficient forensic evidence at the time of the crime. The speaker notes that criminal defense attorneys and former prosecutors agree that keeping quiet could have saved him from prosecution entirely, yet Davis's desire for fame led him to brag about the event even when police raided his home. Additionally, there is speculation about whether Suge Knight will testify during the trial while serving a separate prison sentence, with some humorously suggesting he might travel to Las Vegas just to get away from his current confinement in San Diego before returning to serve more of his twenty-eight-year term.
Ultimately, the video concludes by reflecting on the tragic loss of Tupac Shakur at age 25 and the complex web of street politics that led to his death, while emphasizing that Davis's pursuit of infamy has cost him everything he once had. The speaker reiterates the importance of silence in serious matters, noting that speaking out about crimes can lead to severe consequences regardless of one's intentions or past claims of innocence. As the trial moves forward with opening statements expected soon, the focus remains on whether a conviction will be reached for this historic case and what it means for the legacy of Tupac Shakur and the gang culture of Los Angeles that defined his era.
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>> And demographic wise, it is a mix of
middle-aged people. There is only one
African-American person in there. Um, a
gentleman.
>> Wow. Guys, make sure you like, subscribe
to the channel. Ke's trial is really
pretty much done took off. You know,
it's going now. Uh, the jury has been
selected. There's only one black man.
They didn't say what color the other
folks was, but we got one black man,
which they trying to make equate that to
he might have a shot at it. One black
man will be on the jury for this Kefi D
30 years ago trial. And I know he know
who Tupac is. Reality TV, you there?
>> I'm here,
>> man. Here she go again. Is in the
building with you today. The one talking
[ __ ] last time. What's up with it?
>> What he do?
>> So, I'm trying to figure out y'all. Have
y'all ever heard of Tupac? Cuz I know
y'all young.
>> Don't play with us. We know Tupac.
>> Okay. Okay. Well, give me a give me a
song or something. I want a little
evidence to know that I'm not just
wasting my time with this guy. What song
do you know from Tupac?
>> Brenda got a baby.
>> Oh, wait a minute. Brenda got a baby.
>> CAN SPELL A BABY.
>> WHOA. WAIT a minute. By got can barely
spell her name.
>> I got to come with this. I got to come
with this.
>> Yeah. You can run the street.
>> Oh man, y'all. Okay. All right. I'm
sorry. I shouldn't have never questioned
the truth. There she go again with that
[ __ ] There they come. Listen, I'm
telling you right now, this trial is
crazy cuz I've never seen anybody get
taken. You know, there is no no term, no
no set. You can't just disqualify a
murder. Uh uh anytime there's a mur
murder involved, it's it it can always
be brought to trial. But 30 years later,
Kefi D is brought to trial. And now
they're saying, "We're going to convict
him for Tupac's murder." Now, everybody
else that was around during that time,
except for Suge Knight, um is is dead.
Uh uh uh uh the boy uh Baby Lang, all
them guys is dead that that allegedly
pulled the trigger. Do y'all see them
convicting him for this? He wrote a
book. He been on all these damn social
media platforms. He was on Vlad TV. He
was on a few different uh uh shows, but
do y'all think they gonna send him up
the creek for this?
>> Hell yeah. Because they gotta make it
seem like they closed something so big.
This was a big thing in the rap, you
know, uh music industry period. So yeah,
these white Oh, excuse me. These folks
want to u Oh, well, I say that the white
folks definitely want to make an
example, you know, that they closed this
big case of him killing Tupac,
>> another black man.
>> Another black man.
>> Wow. And when you think about Tupac,
Tupac was one that has so much uh done
so much in so little time. He passed
away at the age of 10, the age of 25
years old. But when you look at his
catalog is he got more songs than a lot
of people that been living to be uh 50
years old. So at the end of the day, he
was a workaholic during the time he was
here. He was in multiple movies. Uh
y'all know he was in Poetic Justice and
he was in uh Gritlock and he was in
Juice, you know. This guy was working.
There was another one as well. There was
a few, you know, but at the end of the
day, Tupac, man, he was all he was in a
different world. all them sitcoms. He
would show up. He was on the Martin
show, Martin Lawrence show. This guy was
everywhere in such a small limited small
time. But we all know everybody when you
say his name, like I just said with
y'all, you guys come up with the songs.
I would have said All Eyes on Me. I
would have said uh Me against the World
Baby. You know, I I would have said it's
so many songs that he done and so many
things that he done in such a small
amount of time. I would shut the
definition of balling and you know what
I'm saying? Thug life. You know that a
whole different movement than everybody
else. The Yeah. The hate you gave the
little infant children. You know what I
mean?
>> Thug life. So
>> And so when you when when you think
about this guy, man, you got to give him
props. But propers, as E4 said when he
was on my show, propers, you got to give
him propers. But at at any at any rate,
just let's let's just let's just talk
about it for a minute, y'all. Like, what
did y'all what do y'all think?
[clears throat] Did he just open his
mouth too much, Kefi D?
>> Nobody asked him for that.
>> Nobody,
>> you know, and people credit just to say
or just to just to be running in their
mouth. And yeah, it's going to get him
in a world of trouble.
>> Now, tell who did it then.
>> Oh, he said he said uh at first he said
the nephew did it. Now he's saying they
forced him. Listen at this. I want y'all
to hear this. And we going to go all the
way through there on this case. Watch
this.
>> The trial of former Compton Crips gang
leader Dwayne Keid Davis for
orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur
is underway in Las Vegas. Gang beef is
at the heart of it. It took nearly 30
years to get this cold case off of the
rap icon's murder to a courtroom. So we
put together a timeline of how it got to
[music] this point. In early summer
1996, tensions escalated between the
Southside Crips and the mob Piru Bloods
in LA when Dwayne Keid Davis's nephew
Orlando Anderson stole the Death Row
Records medallion chain of a Bloods
member. On September 7th, 1996, after a
Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas, Death Row
Records founder Suge Knight and his
artist, rap icon Tupac Shakur, jumped
Orlando Anderson and gave Kefi D's
nephew a retaliatory beatd down.
>> Wow. Stop right there. A retaliator
beatd down. And she called him the P
ruse. She don't she I don't know where
this woman [laughter] she reporting on
this damn thing, man. the gang violence
in the neighborhoods and the perus and
the and and
so so you guys just heard what she was
saying. Did did y were y'all aware there
was a fight after a Mike Tyson fight?
Did y'all know about that?
>> Yeah, I did.
>> We see the videos.
>> Okay. And and and did y'all know that
that that there was a retal
retaliatorial beatdown? Did y'all know
that?
Yeah, they
>> because of a ch a chain, right?
>> Yeah. Sometimes the mouth
>> and I
>> You ain't mad at him.
>> That's why he That's You know, and I
ain't mad at him.
>> It cost him his life. How in the hell
you ain't mad at him?
>> I'm saying the video. Remember the
beginning of I ain't mad at you video.
>> Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He did say that.
Yeah. Yeah. What you know about that
video? That was all white.
>> He did He redid the I guess the vision
he already had of him dying. Remember he
was beating him up in the stomping the
man out. Y'all remember that video?
>> Oh yeah. Well, we was once two [ __ ] of
the same kind. Quick to holler at a
hoochie with the same rhyme. You were
just a little smaller, but you still
roll that video.
>> Your memory. That's all.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So, I definitely remember
when he had on all white and he he
walked out and he had a a guy playing uh
uh uh Red Fox and he introduced him and
brought him on into the heavenly gates
on that video. I remember that video.
But when you look at what they're saying
now, how they equated to gang violence
and that this was a the Southside Crips
versus the Peruse, and you see how she's
going with it. Now, these are not people
that look like us. This is a actual
woman, a clear person, as OG would say,
a woman who don't look like us who's
telling a story about gang violence and
how they're projecting what happened
during this time. Do you think that it's
it's something that they can follow
through their guidelines of what they're
investigating or do you think there's
more street stuff to it and a lot of the
stuff and the details she will leave
out?
>> Yeah, I think they um
Yeah. Well, you know, whites going to
always make it more than what it really
is not to us. But anywh who when it
comes to that I feel like yeah they may
have more than what they stand for them
to take him to you know convict him
possibly um they have to have more with
the street game though they want to make
an example still of even though it was
20 30 years ago somebody has to take the
file for it and it got to be one of
these gang members because that's what
LA was known for and still known for.
What about the other scenario though?
What about that other scenario where
Diddy came down and gave Zip a a million
dollars or whatever the amount was a a
hell of amount of money and and Zip gave
Kefi D a gun and Ki D goes out and do
this because of the retaliation of
Biggie towards Tupac. That's another
scenario out there. Now, we can't
everything can't be true. Baby Lang
situation. Uh uh this other situation
with Zip, the guy who's dead already.
What's true and what's not? Did Did he
have anything to do with this? That's
another thing that people are saying.
>> I don't think Dee did. [clears throat]
Bad boy. Take that. Take that.
>> Reality TV. You have got quiet over
there. Did Does D diddy play any part to
this?
>> What you think? I Well, I got to be in
it. No, I'm just playing. I I don't I I
feel like it was a lot going on. And I
feel like men love to drop their nuts.
>> Okay.
>> They got to show who who the baddest,
you know, who the toughest, who who who
the biggest thug of us.
>> We do know that during that time it was
a West Coast, East Coast back and forth.
And we do know that Tupac and Biggy were
going through a hell of a lot and then
he ends up dying. So, a lot of people
really just went ahead and started
saying that was a part of what was going
on. But was it or was it not? A lot of
people say it was just a a gang
retaliation. A lot of people said it was
because um u hit them up came out and it
was a bunch of stuff being said about
people's wives and everything else on
that damn song. And a lot of people was
equating it to that. So, there's a lot
of different ways you can look at it,
but at the end of the day, it doesn't
negate the fact that he's gone. There's
also people that says there was a hit
put out on Suge Knight. There's so many
different scenarios here, but you got
KVD sitting up in there, done wrote a
whole book, did numerous of uh vuh
interviews, and now he looking dumb. Now
he's telling people he didn't have
nothing to do with it. He said he was a
actually like he brought Tupac uh to
death row like he was with him now is
what he said in the latest interview but
hell he in trouble so he'll say whatever
to try to stay out of trouble you know
>> I think or he wanted to have this fame
of yeah I brought down Tupac not knowing
that it was still going to cost him his
life even though that is so many years
old now everything is unfolding now he
want to recant what he said because he
it wasn't a Oh. Oh, you the realest. Cuz
you killed Tupac.
>> Yeah. That man 63. He need to go on.
>> You know, NO THAT THEY IN THE GANG. They
baby, that's a a high rank.
>> Yeah, cuz he he actually bragged about
it when the police kicked his door in at
his house.
>> Take it.
>> He bragged about it. He said, "Uh,
listen at this y'all. I got to play the
end of this. Listen at this. It It ain't
that long. Listen."
Later on September 7th, 1996, Davis
pulls up alongside the black BMW being
driven by Suge Knight with Tupac Shakur
in the passenger seat. Tupac was fatally
shot and Suge was wounded. Fast forward
to 2008. Davis is questioned by police
about an unrelated drug case and makes
statements reportedly admitting
involvement in Tupac shooting and is
given a profer basically conditional
immunity. In 2019, Davis releases a
tell- all book called Compton Street
Legend by Kei D and Yousef Jaw in which
he details the night of the Tupac
shooting. He promoted it extensively on
Vlad TV and other platforms, but now
claims he didn't write it. In July 2023,
police raid his home. Then in September
2023, he's arrested and charged with
murder.
>> We know Kei D, he's not the person who
killed Tupac, right? He didn't pull the
trigger. Now the state is charging him
in Nevada. They're charging him with
masterminding the plan which he can be
punished equally the same as the person
who did pull the trigger.
Now over the years there were also many
false starts by investigators in LA and
Las Vegas that didn't get anywhere
because no one wanted to talk. And back
then there was little forensic evidence
and scant digital data like what police
use regularly today. Ironically,
criminal defense attorneys and former
prosecutors tell me that if Kefi D had
just kept his mouth shut, he may never
have even been charged.
>> Wow.
[laughter]
>> Boy, the folks on the news is talking.
They say if he just kept his mouth shut,
>> dummy. He need his picture need to be on
the side of that dummy.
>> If he would have just kept his mouth
shut, this woman just said he would have
been okay.
>> They It still would have been an
unsolved mystery. Now, now the crazy
part about him is he he running around
here acting like he like he got it going
on at his house when they came over
there. He trying to tell him, you know,
I'm the one that uh they say killed
Park. He happy about it. He puts it in a
book. So, I agree with you. Uh uh he
just saying whatever to try to be this
big time gangster mobster and now it's
done cost him his damn life. You know
what I
He thought he were going to be on a lot
of podcasts and YouTubetubes and people
talking about it. That's what he
thought.
>> And that's what happened. When you
flashing, you talk too much with you,
you do stuff, you supposed to be quiet
about it. The prime example of shut up
when you doing these crimes. Shut up.
Nobody want who cares.
>> It goes back to what you said. Compton
Street Legend is the name of the book
that he was uh that he had. Compton
Street, [laughter]
>> the whole book.
>> He wanted fame. He wanted to be on
>> Compton Street Legend.
>> Name Barbara B. Not Bobby. What was that
lady name? That was the white lady that
did all the interviews back in the day.
>> Shoot, man. You had a bunch of them. Uh
Shny Kung, you had B W W W W W W W W W W
W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W
W W W W W W W W W Walter Kung Kite, you
had uh
>> You done had a bunch of them, man.
Barbara Walters, that's who you talking
about.
>> He was going to be on the
>> Barbara Walters, man. and Keith Ada
messed around and throw his whole life
away playing games. You know, you play
silly games, you get some real silly
prizes. You know what I mean? Uh uh this
is crazy that he would even take himself
and put himself in a scenario that got
him in a world of trouble. It says Tupac
Shakur mur murder jury selected in Las
Vegas for the trial of suspect Dwan
Kefei D. Davis. Jury selection in this
case against Dwan Kei D. Davis has
concluded six men and 10 women making up
the jury. Opening statements for the
trial are expected to begin Monday,
August the 17th in Las Vegas. A jury has
been set in the case against Dwan Keidi
D uh Davis, an ex gang leader accused of
orchestrating Tupac Shakur's 1996
murder. The Tupac murder trial uh jury
selected uh uh a jury of six men again
and 10 women uh had been uh selected to
Man, and the women love Pac. He should
have wish he' have got more men.
[laughter]
Damn.
Opening statements are expected to begin
in Las Vegas Monday. Davis faces a
single count of murder with a deadly
weapon with an intent to promote further
assistance of criminal gang in Shakur's
death. Davis trial is expected to last
up to six week and may feature
testimonies from Death Row Records
co-founder Marian Suge Knight. The
former rap mogul was with Shakur the
night he uh was killed and is now
serving 28 years in prison sentenced to
an unrelated voluntary manslaughter
conviction. Uh the backstory, Shakur was
only 25 when the when he was gunned down
in a driveby shooting near Las Vegas
strip on September the 7th, which is my
daughter birthday, 1996. Shakur was the
passenger uh that uh it was in the
passenger seat of a black BMW. The night
he was driving, Shakur and and Knight
had just watched the Mike Tyson fight.
He defeated Bruce Sheldon in the boxing
match and were traveling to a nightclub
where Shakur was uh actually scheduled
to perform. At a red light near the Las
Vegas strip, a white Cadillac pulls up
beside them and a shooting occurred.
Shakur was shot multiple times and died
six days later while uh Knight survived
the minor with minor injuries injuries.
No weapon was found in Knight Ora's car
according to the retired Las Vegas
police detective Clifford Mog who was
assigned to the investigation in 2018.
The Associate Press reported that the
case went cold until Davis began making
public statements and his involvement as
a leader of the Southside Compton Crips.
In 2019, he he published a tell all
memoir. The book along with interviews
with Davis gave revive the police. It
revived the police investigation. Shakur
legendary rap career was highlighted by
the by more than 75 million records
worldwide with which included California
love changes and Dear Mama which we
didn't mention none of those but those
are also bangers from Tupac. 75 million
records worldwide guys. Uh this here is
a a huge case now. Um, guys, I I I don't
know if you understand what's about to
happen, but Suge Knight gets to come
from the prison in San Diego, and now
he'll be over in Las Vegas. It's a
little trip for him. He's has 28 years
that he's uh got sentenced to. He's done
11 years already. And then he got to
walk down 17 more. Um, and now he got to
come to trial to to to talk about Tupac.
But he said earlier this week, I'm not
saying nothing, but I'll be damned if he
don't get in that car and bring his butt
all the way over there to Vegas so he
can have him a little vacation from the
people that he's around. Cuz if I don't
know if y'all been locked up, but when
you've been locked up, just a little bit
of vacation to get away from everybody
helps you to understand, hey man, shoot.
I done got out the house for a day. You
know how it is when you just get out for
a day? Like, man, I just got out man,
man. I was over there. So when he get
back, he'll have something else to talk
about. And I believe he's going to be
happy with that trip. When you got 28
years in prison and you've been locked
up for 11 years and you probably been
over there at that same spot for uh hell
no telling how many years, he going to
get his ass up and go over there to Las
Vegas where them lights at. Uh I
remember I met him in Las Vegas. Let me
say that. I met him in Las Vegas when he
came in the Palms Hotel. They went to
whispering. They whispering and he walks
in. I remember I held the dice in a dice
game uh at the table uh for a guy who
called uh me Gucci cuz I had a Gucci
bucket hat on. I remember this. And not
long after that, I think he beat a woman
up on the strip too next time we was up
there. So, he love frequent in Vegas.
So, I be damn if he don't go to Vegas. I
bet he'd be in Vegas for this trial. Uh
uh my people still there reality TV. Uh
there she go again. She's in the
building, guys. She got a friend with
her today. Um man, like I said, closing.
And I'll let y'all both close uh and say
some final things. Uh whether it's for
Tupac, Kei D or Suge Knight, what would
be the thing that you would say leaving
this conversation?
>> RIP died a day before my birthday
for Killy Pop.
>> Whoa. [laughter]
>> He should have said what he said. Keep
your mouth.
It is what it is. That's that she go
again with that bush.
>> Go ahead. Got it. Okay. All right, man.
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