Report: Notorious B.I.G. was killed by hitman hired by Suge Knight as revenge for Tupac
UNDATED (WKRC) - According to reports from The Daily Mail and New York Post, a retired FBI agent alleges that rapper Notorious B.I.G. was killed by a hitman hired by Suge Knight.
The retired agent, Phil Carson, says that in 1997 Suge Knight paid a hitman to kill Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. The hit was allegedly revenge for the killing of Tupac Shakur.
Rapper Notorious B.I.G., whose legal name was Christopher Wallace and who also went by the name "Biggie Smalls", was in the same vehicle as Sean "Diddy" Combs at the time of the hit in Los Angeles on March 9th, 1997.
Notorious B.I.G. was killed in the hit, instead of Combs. He was just 24-years-old at the time. No charges were filed in the case of his murder.
The killing has long been believed to be the result of a feud between rival record labels: Suge Knight's LA-based Death Row Records and Sean Comb's NYC-based Bad Boy Records. Smalls was under contract with Bad Boy Records.
His alleged killer was Nation of Islam member Amir Muhammad, who was originally known as Harry Billups, says the retired agent.
Billups changed his name to Amir Muhammad once converted but has since changed his name back, reports The Daily Mail.
"All the evidence points to Amir Muhammad," retired FBI agent Phil Carson told the New York Post. "He's the one who pulled the trigger. There were plenty of others who helped orchestrate it [and] allowed him to pull the trigger."
The retired FBI agent also claims that corrupt cops from the Los Angeles Police Department played a part in covering up the murder.
Suge Knight is serving out a 28-year prison sentence after his conviction in 2018 for murder in a hit-and-run case. Billips is reportedly a worker in real estate in Georgia.
