Last Update on the Left - Episode 16 - Biggie & Tupac: An Interview with Greg Kading
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Last Update on the Left - Episode 16 - Biggie & Tupac: An Interview with Greg Kading

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 1, 202648 min

In light of today’s historic guilty verdict in the murder of Tupac Shakur, we’re revisiting our conversation with former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who led the task force investigation into the murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. and later wrote *Murder Rap*. Recorded in 2024, before Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty, Kading takes us inside the rivalry and retaliation that led to both killings, the evidence investigators uncovered, and the forces that kept two of the most infamous murders in music history unsolved for nearly three decades. For Live Shows, Merch, a...

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Welcome to Last Update on the Left. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Marcus Parks. I'm here with Henry Zabrowski. Yes, you are Fred and Ed Larson. How you doing? And our guest Today we're doing an update on the series that we did on the murders of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. We have the author, one of the sources we used, we have Greg Kating, author of Murder Rap.

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How you doing today, sir? Hey guys, what's happening? Don't worry man, we're just trying to shift books, dude. We're going to shift them around, man.

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Thank you for updating us because things have changed. Yeah, a lot has changed. So like, so your book was first published in 2011. Right.

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