Biggie and Tupac (2002) on Netflix
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Rap stars Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G., were gunned down months apart. Ex-detective Russell Poole has evidence that police concealed links to the Death Row label.
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Plot summary
Russell Poole, an ex-detective with the Los Angeles police, holds that the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G., were planned by Marion "Suge" Knight, who ran Death Row Records, and that the department concealed his part. The two were gunned down in separate incidents in 1997, killings blamed on the rivalry between East Coast and West Coast rappers. According to Poole, Knight had Shakur killed before he could leave the label and had Wallace killed to turn suspicion away from himself. Poole says he was forced out after bringing his superiors information on officers who took side jobs as bodyguards for Death Row. Kevin Hackie, a former Death Row bodyguard, is a key source, and Wallace's mother Voletta Wallace and Shakur's father Billy Garland also appear.
Cast
- Russell Pooleas Himself - LAPD Detective
- Billy Garlandas Himself - Tupac's Biological Father
- Chico Del Vecas Himself - Rapper
- Don Seaboldas Himself - Mark's Lawyer
- Donald Hickenas Himself - Tupac's Teacher
- Frank Alexanderas Himself - Tupac's Bodyguard
- Kevin Hackieas Himself - Tupac's Bodyguard
- Marshall Bigtoweras Himself - Sonia's Lawyer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Biggie and Tupac (2002)
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- A former Death Row bodyguard wrote in a statement filed on June 6, 2004 that he had "personal knowledge" about Wallace's slaying, alleging that "persons within Death Row Records offered $25,000 to a law enforcement officer" to kill Wallace.
- The Wallace family used claims made in the film as the basis of their $500 million lawsuit against the city of L.A. for Biggie's death, but Hackie, the former Death Row bodyguard who made them, later told the LA Times that the Wallace attorneys had altered his statements and that he did not testify. The suit was dismissed in 2010.
- The Wallace family used Kevin Hackie's claims in the film as the basis of their $500 million lawsuit against the city of L.A. over Biggie's death; Hackie later told the LA Times the Wallace attorneys had altered his statements and he did not testify, and the suit was dismissed in 2010.
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