Meanwhile, Tupac kept rumors about himself and Faith alive with vague comments in interviews like “You know I don’t kiss and tell.” But in “Hit Em Up,” released this May, he does just that, telling Biggie, “You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.” (Faith, for her part, denies ever sleeping with Tupac.) Death Row now denies that such an ad ever existed.
Death Row allegedly printed up a magazine ad featuring Misa and Suge holding Puffy’s two-year-old son, with a caption reading “The East Coast can’t even take care of their own.” The ad-which was discussed on New York’s Hot 97 by resident gossip Wendy Williams-never ran anywhere, but reps were tarnished nonetheless. The latest story was that Tupac was boning Biggie’s wife, Faith Evans, and Suge was getting with Puffy’s ex, Misa Hylton. That video featured stand-ins for Tha Dogg Pound’s Daz and Kurupt being kidnapped, tortured, and tossed off the 59 th Street Bridge.īy this time, the rumor mill had kicked into overdrive. Then came “LA, La,” an answer record from New York MC’s Tragedy, Capone, Noreaga, and Mobb Deep. No one was hurt, but the message was clear. In Red Hook, Brooklyn, shots were fired at the trailer where Death Row artist Tha Dogg Pound were making a video for “New York, New York”-which features Godzilla-size West Coasters stomping on the Big Apple. `On December 16, 1995, it became apparent that the trouble was spilling into the streets. When the conference came and Puffy did not attend, Billboard reported that it was due to threats from Death Row. Puffy was said to be bringing a massive of New York drug lords and thugs. Suge, who has never concealed his past affiliations with L.A’s notorious Bloods, was rumored to be coming with an army.
Also after Tupac Shakur’s death, Billy Garland took Afeni Shakur to court, claiming half of Tupac’s estate, but was denied.Less than two weeks later, when it came time for the “How Can I Be Down?” rap conference in Miami, the heat was on. A laboratory tested Shakur’s DNA and found out the probability of Afeni and Billy 99.97% parentage. Tupac, to V ibe magazine’s Kevin Powell, June 1996 Tupac and Billy Garland at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, 1995Īfter Tupac’s death, Afeni and Billy sent his blood to Long Beach Genetics. We still didn’t take no blood test but the nigga looked just like me and the other nigga’s dead so now I feel that I’m past the father stage.”
And he was my father that’s when I found out. After I got shot, I looked up there was this nigga that looked just like me. Tupac mentioned William Garland once: “I thought my father was dead all my life. Tupac’s Father, William “Billy” Garland Interview approached him at the hospital while visiting Tupac, and he believed that he wasn’t involved in the shooting. Garland claimed that The Notorious B.I.G. Shakur was told by his Mother that his father was dead. He later visited Shakur in Bellevue Hospital when he was shot in 1994.
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He didn’t see Tupac again until he starred in the movie ‘Juice’ in 1992. Garland did very little to help raise his son, only seeing him a few times until Tupac was around the age of 5.
He was a black activist belonging to the Black Panther Party, maintained a relationship with Afeni Shakur (also affiliated with the party) and is the biological father of Lesane Parish Crooks, who is better known as Tupac Shakur. He was given the birth surname “ Garland” meaning “The Crown of a King” for his kinship-relation and lineage of a royal descent to the Sub-Saharan African kingdom called the Garamantes civilization, modern the direct descent of today Tuareg people. Garland’s great-grandparents were the “first generation immigrant” Sub-Saharan African-Americans. William “Billy” Garland (born March 14, 1949) to African American parents.
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