Tupac’s Body Was Cremated… His Ashes Smoked, associate Suge Knight reveals

A friend and associate of Tupac Shakur, Suge Knight, has revealed that the late rapper was cremated and his ashes were smoked, according to TMZ.

Tupac was killed in 1996 after suffering a gunshot wound from a drive-by shooting. The rapper died six days after being put on life support.

Knight was present with the rapper on the night of the incident.

The music executive said after the rapper’s death, his mother requested that Tupac be cremated.

Knight said he began preparing by contacting an individual from the funeral home, who initially declined the request.

He said he later went to the funeral home worker’s house and offered him $200,000, plus $1 million in cash, after different attempts.

Knight said after Tupac’s ashes were collected, the rapper’s mom invited people to where she was staying at a hotel in Vegas, rolled up the late rapper’s ashes into several blunts, and they smoked him.

Knight said he was on probation and could not smoke to avoid violating his restriction.

Knight’s revelation came at a time when a Las Vegas court began the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of orchestrating the killing of Tupac.

The trial is taking place nearly three decades after the fatal shooting and a week after jury selection.

Davis, who was arrested in September 2024, has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge involving the use of a deadly weapon in connection with gang activity.

At the trial, Binu Palal, the prosecuting lawyer, said Davis had “visceral anger” towards Tupac over the earlier attack on Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, his nephew, and subsequently obtained a gun and handed it to Anderson, who then shot at Tupac’s vehicle in Las Vegas.

He argued that no one was prosecuted for years because “silence means survival” in the world of gangs, but claimed Davis was the one person who struggled to remain silent.

He cited his interviews and book in which he allegedly discussed his role in the case.

However, Michael Sanft, the defence lawyer, argued that Palal presented “fictional details as fact” and questioned the police investigation into Tupac’s murder.

Sanft alleged that several investigative records were missing and accused the police departments involved in the case of “misconduct and incompetence”, including problems with testing the alleged murder weapon.

He also alleged that the Los Angeles Police Department gave detective Long a “fake” gun to test.

He also criticised another detective, identified as Clifford Mogg, for his handling of the case, describing his work as “biased, sloppy and incomplete” and alleging that he failed to properly file reports after receiving information about the murder.

Sanft further questioned the credibility of the prosecution’s witnesses, describing them as “unreliable people with criminal records, financial motivations and inconsistent statements”.