Tupac is presented as the doe-eyed victim, led astray by Knight’s gang politics, even though archival photos clearly show them degrading women side-by-side.Īs soon as someone suggests an alternative theory – like a historically violent Tupac willingly leaning into Blood affiliation, P Diddy’s rival Bad Boy Records also being surrounded by murderous gang members, or a generous Knight spending millions of dollars to feed single mothers and employ homeless people – it’s quickly superseded by a more thorough anecdote by a hanger-on that eagerly positions Knight as the devil incarnate. The first half of the documentary revisits familiar ground, recycling tropes and stories about Death Row’s Tupac years that have been in the public domain for decades. The problem is that Broomfield is desperate to arrange the puzzle pieces so that the disgraced Knight is positioned as the sole bogeyman of the piece, and as such it doesn’t feel like we’re given a balanced account of the events that transpired. We subsequently learn about the younger Knight, who liked his chicken cooked a certain way, and how as an adult he kept black piranhas, apparently signifying his James Bond villain credentials.
The latest, Last Man Standing, sees veteran British doc maker Nick Broomfield return to Los Angeles to probe the two unsolved murder cases, acting as a continuation of sorts of his probing 2002 film, Biggie and Tupac.īroomfield is chaperoned by plucky Compton local Pam Brooks, as the pair speak to former gang members connected with Suge Knight, the infamous former Death Row Records CEO who was driving the car that artist Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in on 7 September, 1996.
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Nick Broomfield rakes over the coals of the Biggie vs 2Pac saga but doesn’t find anything particularly new.īarely a week goes by without the release of a new film, podcast, book or documentary series excitedly examining the killings of gangster rap deities Biggie and 2Pac.
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