"They smoked it": Suge Knight’s surprising claims on Tupac Shakur’s ashes

This story has significance for readers across Kenya and beyond.

- Suge Knight revisited a shocking story about what happened to Tupac Shakur's ashes in the hours after the rapper's death in 1996

- Suge claimed he paid $1.2 million (KSh 155 million) in cash to ensure Tupac was cremated on the same night he died in Las Vegas

- The account resurfaced 30 years after Tupac's killing, as his accused shooter faces a murder trial

One of the strangest stories in hip-hop history has found its way back into the spotlight, and it centres on what allegedly happened to Tupac Shakur's ashes in the immediate aftermath of his death.

Suge Knight, the former Death Row Records boss who was alongside Tupac on the night the rapper was shot in Las Vegas, spoke to TMZ about events that unfolded shortly after Tupac passed away in September 1996.

According to Suge, Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, wanted her son cremated as quickly as possible.

What happened to Tupac's ashes?

Getting that done on such short notice turned out to be no small task. Suge said he tracked down someone connected to a funeral home late that same evening.

The man was unavailable and could not arrange a cremation for several more days. Suge showed up at his home with two bags of cash anyway.

He started with the smaller bag. The man turned it down. Suge then put both bags on the table, bringing the total to $1.2 million (KSh 155 million).

That offer proved impossible to refuse, and the cremation took place that very night.

What allegedly followed is the part of the story that has kept people talking for decades.

Suge claims that Afeni gathered people in her Las Vegas hotel room after the cremation.

According to his account, those present took a portion of Tupac's ashes, rolled them into blunts, and smoked them together as a final farewell to the rapper.

Suge says he sat that one out.

At the time, he was on probation, and he was concerned that smoking anything could land him in legal trouble.

So while others in the room took part in what they considered a tribute, he chose not to join them.

The story itself is not new. It has circulated in hip-hop circles for years, but Suge's narrative brought it back to mainstream attention.

This is partly because 2026 marks 30 years since Tupac was killed, and the conversation around his death remains very much alive.

Duane Davis, who has been publicly identified as a key suspect in the shooting, is currently facing a murder trial.

Whether every detail of the ashes story holds up is something only those present could confirm.

Source: TUKO.co.ke

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