The Game is not surprised by the arrest of Duane “Keefe D” Davis in connection with the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, and he is not convinced it means justice is being served.
The Compton rapper says he has known the details of Tupac’s killing for well over a decade, and he believes the timing of Keefe D’s arrest has more to do with public pressure than genuine law enforcement pursuit.
“I’ve known for a good 15 years,” he said, speaking on the Tupac case. He stopped short of naming names directly, but made clear that for anyone with deep roots in Compton and Los Angeles, the story has never been a secret.
“If you’re from Compton or you’re from LA and you deep as deep in the streets as I am, then you know what’s up,” he said.
On the arrest itself, The Game was blunt. He pointed out that Keefe D had already written a book about his alleged involvement and had previously cooperated with authorities. His deal maybe his deal with them people ran out and now they feel like they need a scapegoat,” he said.
The suggestion is that Keefe D had some form of prior arrangement with law enforcement that eventually expired, leaving him exposed.
The Game also argued that public attention, not investigative momentum, drove the arrest. He described being told by law enforcement contacts that police leadership actively monitors social media and directs resources toward cases generating the most visibility.
The millions of views that the interview got and all the other interviews he did put it on Las Vegas’s radar,” he said, “and here we are.
He acknowledged conducting his own interview with Keefe D, which he believes contributed to that visibility, but he did not accept responsibility for the arrest. “It’s not like I dug up the story,” he said.
Keefe D had already gone public through his book, and in The Game’s view, the man brought the scrutiny on himself. “He decided to do the interview,” he added. If you’re going to be involved, you want to write a book about it, I don’t have a problem interviewing you about it.
The Game also addressed his personal connection to the figures involved. He said he had never met Keefe D, but had crossed paths with Orlando Anderson, the man widely named in street circles as Tupac’s shooter, when he was younger. “Compton ain’t that big,” he said, explaining how those worlds overlapped naturally.
As for whether the arrest accomplishes anything meaningful, The Game was dismissive. He does not believe charging Keefe D at this stage moves the needle on real accountability.
The Tupac and Biggie murders, he said, are no mystery to people who grew up in that world. Who killed Tupac, who killed Biggie is no mystery to living in LA, man,” he said.
His overall read on the situation is that Keefe D talked too much, too publicly, and that the system responded to noise rather than evidence. Whether the case leads anywhere significant, The Game seems doubtful.
