Keffe D Called Tupac WHAT Before He Died?

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
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**Tony Brueski** (0:21)
Kind of liking this jazzy music. I feel like I should be sitting here playing the drums to it or something. Your thoughts in the comment section, SubStack and YouTube as we get into day seven of the trial that is supposedly gonna tell us whether or not Keffe D is officially the man or one of the men behind the murder of Tupac Shakur. In day seven, Malcolm Greenridge took the stand. He was court ordered to be there. He didn't volunteer and he told the jury that Tupac Shakur was his childhood friend, his big brother, his mentor. He wrote to LasVegas with Tupac and his fiancee.
Oh, did you know Tupac had a fiancee? Yeah. Kadeah Jones for the Mike Tyson fight. He was in the car behind the BMW when shots hit the, hit it on the LasVegas Boulevard. The prosecutor asked Greenridge where the shots came from. From inside the vehicle, Greenridge said, the backseat. The answer matters because the prosecution alleges Duane Keffe D Davis was in the front. And in the world, the prosecution spent day seven building for the jury. The front seat is where the orders came from.
Greenidge is also known as EDI. Mean, a rapper and producer, founding member of the Outlaws, the group that recorded an album with Tupac and was featured on many of Tupac's tracks. He is prosecution witness number 19 and the first person from Tupac's inner circle to take the stand. Every witness from Tupac's world has been compelled to appear. People closest to the murder don't want to participate in the case built around it. Greenridge rode to Vegas for the Tyson fight and Alexis with Tupac and Jones, Quincy Jones' daughter, by the way. He didn't go to the actual fight. He waited for Tupac's call and never got it. He was in a car behind the BMW on Las Vegas Boulevard when a white Cadillac pulled up alongside it. He told the jury he saw the shooter's arm but could not see the faces of the people inside. He could not identify anyone in the vehicle.
When he was able to reach Tupac, he yelled at him to get on the ground. They're coming, going to shoot you.
When he turned around, a police officer had a shotgun pointed at his face. He gave a statement to the police that night. After the shooting testimony, Greenidge told the jury that Tupac was building when he died. Tupac was starting his own record label. He wanted to release the Outlaws album, distributed through Death Row Records. He was in talks with Quincy Jones, his fiance's father, to do business together. Tupac was only 25 years old. He had a label, an album, and a meeting with one of the most powerful men in the music industry. The manny in the front seat of the white Cadillac allegedly ended all of it. A juror asked Greenidge, One question, were shots ever fired from your crew towards the attackers? His answer, no.
The shooting on September 7th, 1996 was one directional shots from the Cadillac into the BMW. Tupac's side did not ever fire back. In the afternoon, the prosecution called Robert Ladd. Ladd is a former Compton Police Department gang detective who spent years working the South Side Compton Crips as part of the department's two-man gang unit. He and his partner carefully tracked the gang's membership operations and internal hierarchy until Ladd retired in 2014 He has said publicly that he and his partner tried to tell investigators who was responsible for the shooting decades ago. Ladd testified he was familiar with Davis in the 95-96 time frame. He told the jury Davis was ranked as high as you can get in the South Side Compton Crips. He identified Davis as a shot caller, the person in the gang hierarchy who decides what happens and who does it. A shot caller doesn't carry the gun. He doesn't fire a shot. He gives the order. That's the distinction the prosecution has been building towards for seven days. And Ladd is the witness who explained it to the jury in plain language. Ladd was asked about Orlando Anderson. The nephew Davis had described in recordings as his best friend, his everything. Ladd said he'd made contact with Anderson many, many times over the years. He testified that he witnessed what was essentially Andre's gang initiation.
Gunfire erupted so close to Ladd and his partner that they barely survived it. That later learned the shooting was part of the initiation process. Anderson became a full member of the South Side Compton Crips. He was shot and killed in an unrelated gang shooting in May of 98 At the age of 23, all three other men who were allegedly in the White Cadillac that night are dead. Anderson is dead. DeAndre Smith, who prosecutors allege was in the back seat with Anderson, is dead at Terrence Brown, allegedly in the driver's seat, also dead. Hey, kids, what's a great industry to get into? Gang banging. Yeah, it works out well. Everybody ends up dead.