The detective who investigated Tupac Shakur's murder has revealed what really would have happened to the rapper if he survived his fatal shooting.
Known also as 2pac and Makaveli, the American music artist rose to fame in the 1990s with hits such as 'Keep Ya Head Up' and 'Me Against the World' gaining him popularity before dropping his most memorable tune, 'California Love'.
Sadly though, in 1996, his life ended in tragedy.
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Tupac was gunned down after watching Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson in Las Vegas on 7 September 1996 while making his way to his record label's nightclub, Club 662, with record executive Suge Knight.
He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he would die from internal bleeding days later.
Aged just 25 at the time, Tupac's death is considered one of the most tragic in the music industry.
But now, the detective who worked on the 'Hit Em Up' star's murder has spoken about how his life would have looked if he somehow survived the shooting.
Former LAPD detective Greg Kading is known for working on both the Biggie Smalls (Christopher Wallace) and Tupac Shakur murder cases.
Since then, many have credited Kading and his task force for laying down the foundations for the 2023 arrest of Duane ‘Keefe D’ Davis for the murder of Tupac.
Speaking on the Mad That Podcast, Kading claimed: "If Tupac didn't get shot and killed, nothing happens to Biggie. That's just guaranteed.
"If Tupac would have survived in Las Vegas, a lot of people won't realise, his life was going to be forever changed."
Kading went on: "Even if he had survived the shooting, he had lost a lung, (so) he would've been a different Tupac."
The former detective opened up on the events before Tupac's death too, where, along with his associates, they assaulted a man in the hotel lobby as one of them claimed he tried to rob them previously.
As it was caught on CCTV, Kading claimed: "Maybe he would've went back to jail, because he was out on bond and now he just participates in an assault in public, which is videotaped."
However, he also said that if the fight at the MGM hotel never happened, both iconic rappers would be alive today.
Biggie Smalls was gunned down the year after Tupac's death in a similar drive-by shooting scenario. He was just 24 years old.
Though it's been almost 30 years since the shooting, conspiracies continue to fly around that Tupac and Biggie might still be alive somewhere as they survived their shootings.
However, the first responder on the scene following Tupac's death says otherwise, as Las Vegas Police Officer Chris Carroll held the rapper in his arms after the shooting.
He recalled: "I go 'Who shot you, who did this' and he's trying to get a breath together and he's looking at me and I was like 'he's actually going to tell me' and he looked at me and said 'F**k you'."
Topics: Music, Crime, Celebrity, Tupac Shakur
Joshua Nair