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From Allan Starbury:

It's been nearly 15 years since Tupac Shakur was shot for the first time in what appeared to be robbery attempt inside the lobby of New York's Quad Recording Studios in 1994. Although the shooting has remained unsolved, much like his murder in Las Vegas in 1996, new evidence has surfaced that links Diddy to the shooters.

Via a web-only presentation that will appear on LATimes.com on Monday (March 17), staff writer Chuck Philips -- who has been covering the murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. for the paper for years -- deconstructs the 1994 ambush of the superstar rapper, which he calls the first shot of a lethal, bi-coastal feud that culminated in the killings of both rappers.

According to the report, the article will go live on Monday at http://www.latimes.com/tupac. Phillips alledges that James Sabatino (who sued Diddy in October, claiming he had not been paid for Biggie audio and video he had recorded) was the one who told Diddy of the planned attack on 2Pac.

Phillips spoke with AllHipHop.com and had the following to say:

"One of the people involved in what happened to Tupac has family associated with the mob. It wasn’t by them; it didn’t have anything to do with the mob," Phillips continued. "This person was at Quad studios that night, and this person knew Puffy and Biggie and Jimmy Henchmen and Haitian Jack. A white Italian guy; he’s now in jail. He’s involved in this and frankly I never knew anything about this situation." ...

"I don’t believe that Biggie and Puffy set Tupac up [to be shot]," Phillips said. "According to these people I have interviewed and according to these documents, they knew about it," he said. "But they didn’t know they were going to get shot. They knew he was going to get beat up. Then it kind of went haywire when it all happened."

It's an interesting story. I think it should be taken with a grain of salt, though, at this stage. For context, it's important to note that Phillips reported back in 2002 that Biggie paid $1 million dollars to have 2Pac killed and supplied the gun that was used to murder Shakur. Back then, he said:

"The revelation of Biggie was shocking to me," Philips told MTV News on Thursday. "When this came up, I was just, ... 'I don't believe it.' So I went about trying to disprove it in various ways with various sources and that's not what happened. What I ended up writing is what happened."

So, I suppose, if you really want to believe that Biggie and Diddy killed 2Pac, this is fuel for you. But, otherwise, consider it carefully. This is serious stuff because of what it can cause. For example, a crazy 2Pac fan trying to take "revenge". The report shouldn't just be taken as gospel. Let's see the evidence. Whatever happens, you can expect some sort of statement from Diddy will follow, even though he's probably already spoken on this matter in the past. After the Biggie report in 2002, Bad Boy made available studio logs showing that Biggie had been at Daddy's House that day and even furnished an audio tape of the recording.