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Shakur and Wallace are known as two of the greatest rap artists of all time. Both of these men were murdered in the past 6 years. After the death of Shakur, there was a lot of controversy about who had killed him and if he was really dead or not. He was killed in 1996 so the blabber had stopped for many years until last month.      Before I get into the new findings, Ill give you some background information. Wallace and Shakur were once good friends and thence became enemies. Both men would rap mean, nasty stuff about each other and Shakur even claimed to have slept with Wallaces wife, Faith Evans. Wallace was an East coast bosom and best friends with Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. They were both affiliated with Bad Boy Entertainment, which had close ties to the Crips gang.     Tupac came to be associated with the West Coast rappers and Death Row Records. Death Row was owned by Marion "Suge" Knight, a former NFL player and a guy who was always up to no good. Suge Knight and Tupac were both members of the Bloods gang. This gang happened to be archrivals of the Crips.     One night in Las Vegas in 1996, Tupac was in town for a Mike Tyson fight. After the fight, he and his friends beat up a Crip by the name of Orlando Anderson in a hotel lobby. Anderson had lately taken part in assault up one of Tupacs bodyguards. After the beating Anderson and his Crip friends quickly planned to get revenge on Shakur. This is where everything began to get interesting.      In a new report from the L.A. Times, it says that the Notorious BIG himself was in Las Vegas at the time and was most involved in Tupacs death.      The report also says that the murder instrument was supplied Christopher Wallace who agreed to pay the Crips $1 million to kill Shakur. In the article it says, "he didnt just want Shakur dead. He wanted the satisfaction of knowing the lethal bullet c ame from his gun."      This gun was a .40-caliber Glock pistol that Biggie reportedly handed over to the Crips in a Vegas hotel room.      The day after the article ran, Wallaces family said that he was not even in Las Vegas at the time. Another report also said that a friend claims that he and Biggie were in Teaneck, N.