Tupac death conspiracy twist as actor claims Snoop Dogg carried enough gangland weight to have the hit called off
Comedian Faizon Love believes Snoop had the power needed to halt 'Crips killing'
RAPPER Snoop Dogg had the power needed to call off the "gangland hit" on rap rival Tupac Shakur, a Hollywood actor has claimed.
Heavyweight comedian Faizon Love believes Snoop had the connections within the deadly Crips organisation needed to put any plans to gun down Tupac on ice forever.
During an Instagram Live session, The Couple's Retreat star said: “I always felt when Pac died...Snoop could have stopped the whole thing.
“I mean, because like I said, Snoop was a Crip. Pac affiliates were Crips doing some gang s**t. Some dumb n***a gang s**t, really.”
Love added that Tuac’s "tension with Snoop set off a chain of events” that ultimately led to his untimely death.
Had Pac “not crossed Snoop,” he concluded, the hit-making Death Row Records star would still be living today.
Just last week, a top cop involved in Tupac's murder investigation claimed the killing was a run-of-the-mill gangland revenge hit.
The officer – who asked not to be named – dismissed the conspiracy theories to say “It was simple retaliation: you mess with one of ours, we will mess with one of yours.”
The LAPD source said the motive for the 1996 drive-by shooting in Las Vegas was “all about gangs. It was a gang retaliation murder”.
The rapper’s links with gun-toting street gangs reportedly started when he signed to Suge Knight’s label Death Row Records in the autumn of 1995.
And hours before his murder, Tupac was involved in a high-profile brawl with Crips member Orlando Anderson in the MGM Grand casino.
Trouble flared as earlier that year Anderson and his crew stole a Death Row Records medallion from one of Tupac’s entourage – also a Mob Piru member.
Tupac was caught on camera joining in the vicious “beat down” of Anderson.
Hours later he was shot as he drove down the Las Vegas strip with Knight.
The star was hit four times times – in the chest, arm and thigh – and died six days later.
The LAPD insider says later a former leader of the Crips admitted Tupac’s death was revenge for this beating.
In April, Snoop described Tupac as the “greatest rapper of all time” during the latter’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Snoop spoke of Tupac as “many different things at once. Hardheaded and intellectual, courageous and afraid, revolutionary and….oh yeah, don’t forget it f*****d up, gangsta.”
Snoop has yet to comment on Love’s claims.