Diddy Once Told Elliott Wilson To Ask Him If He Killed 2Pac

Diddy once gave Elliott Wilson permission to ask him if he was behind 2Pac‘s murder, the veteran Hip Hop journalist has revealed.

Wilson — who serves as Editorial Director of Hip Hop Journalism at UPROXX Studios, HipHopDX‘s parent company — recalled this conversation on the newest episode of The Bigger Picture.

Wilson explained that he has “never had a good rapport” with Puffy due to him publishing an outspoken interview with Shyne in XXL, where he famously served as editor-in-chief, following the contentious 1999 nightclub shooting for which the ex-Bad Boy rapper spent almost a decade in prison while Diddy walked free.

Around the time of his Money Making Mitch mixtape in 2015, however, the rap mogul gave Wilson the impression that he was ready to sit down for an interview and talk about “some real shit” — specifically, the long-running rumors of him being involved in 2Pac’s death.

“I was kicking it with him for a day or two on-and-off, just talking to him and stuff. He acted like he finally wanted to give me an interview,” Wilson explained. “I remember he said to me, he goes, ‘You gotta ask me some real shit. You gotta ask me if I killed 2Pac.’ And then he walked out of the room.”

Wilson added that, from his perspective, Diddy “didn’t say it in a way like, ‘I did it.’ He said it in a way of almost like, ‘I want this moment of redemption, of me explaining the situation.’ That’s how I took it, but maybe I’m wrong.”

The former XXL boss never got the opportunity to pose the question to Puffy, though, as “that was probably the last time I saw him,” he said.

Diddy once told Elliott Wilson to ask him if he killed Tupac 🤯 Elliott remembers Diddy wanting him to conduct an interview and encouraging him to ask the "real" questions, using that as an example. However, the interview never took place. Full episode of #TheBiggerPicture drops… pic.twitter.com/xqlDNuVWEV

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Diddy has long been plagued by rumors that he orchestrated the murder of 2Pac, who was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September 1996.

Duane “Keefe D” Davis, the former Compton Crip who is the only suspect charged in the case, told detectives in 2008 that the Harlem-bred hitmaker offered him $1 million to kill both ‘Pac and Suge Knight during the Bad Boy-Death Row beef in the mid 1990s.

According to a recent filing from prosecutors, Keefe was asked by cops during that conversation if Diddy “play[ed] a role in this thing?” to which he replied: “Yeah, I think he did.”

Keefe elaborated on the alleged encounter in a separate YouTube interview, claiming that Diddy phoned him after 2Pac had been shot and asked him: “‘Is that us?'”

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The Bad Boy boss previously denied any role in the murder, telling the L.A. Weekly in 2011 that Keefe D’s story was “pure fiction and completely ridiculous.”

Nevertheless, the speculation has refused to go away, with the likes of Eminem, 50 Cent and former Diddy signee Ma$e all referencing the rumors in recent months.

It was even reported this past summer that 2Pac’s family hired a team of private investigators to look into Puffy’s alleged role in the late rapper’s death, although the mogul has yet to be charged in the case.

He is, however, facing multiple federal charges in New York stemming from allegations that he abused women for decades and coerced them into having sex with male prostitutes for his pleasure.

The full episode of The Bigger Picture airs on Saturday (September 21) on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Additional reporting by Elise Ricks.