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Suge Knight Says Tupac Pleaded for Death and Friends Smoked His Ashes

From his prison cell, Knight said Tupac’s mother demanded his body be cremated immediately after surgery

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Overview

  • Knight said the wounded rapper repeatedly begged for release from life support, asking Suge Knight and later his mother for pills to end his suffering.
  • He alleged that upon doctors reviving Tupac, Afeni Shakur instructed medical staff to withhold further interventions and allow her son to die.
  • According to Knight, he delivered $1 million in cash to expedite a same-night cremation, overruling Tupac’s expressed wish for a public funeral.
  • Knight described a private gathering where a small circle of friends and family symbolically smoked Tupac’s ashes rolled into a blunt.
  • Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested in September 2023 in connection with Tupac’s 1996 shooting and remains jailed pending a February 2026 trial.