On 13 September 1996, the greatest rapper in history, Tupac Shakur, died. The American musician, entertainer and songwriter died in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas as a result of the East Coast-West Coast feud.
His death, coupled with that of fellow rapper Biggie Smalls months later, is still unsolved, so conspiracy theories are rife.
His father, Billy Garland, on the other hand, is more certain. On the YouTube channel 'The Art of Dialogue', he explained that for him the perpetrator of his son's murder is the US government.
How did Tupac die?
On the night of Tupac's murder, he and other members of his group of friends from his record label, Death Row Records, beat up Orlando Anderson, a member of a rival gang in Las Vegas, at a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon.
Orlando Anderson allegedly stole a Death Row pendant, which Sean Combs (creator of Death Row's rival label Bad Boy Records) had said he would give 20,000 dollars for.
After the beating, Orlando Anderson would chase Tupac and Suge Knight's car out of the fight and open fire on the vehicle, resulting in the rapper's death.
Billy Garland said his son's behavior was not appropriate and that he only did it to gain respect and prove himself in front of Death Row and Suge Knight's people.
Billy Garland felt the incident was staged
However, Tupac Shakur's father does not believe that Orlando Anderson was responsible for his son's murder, as all the evidence found was inconclusive.
Furthermore, Anderson's uncle, Keefe D, an important member of the Crips gang, has been blaming his nephew's death on himself for years, but Garland warns that it is all part of the government cover-up.
"I think the key point is the government," he said.
"The government offered him the deal. He was being followed by agents the night of his murder, just as he was being followed at Quad Studios. That's a well-known fact,"
"I don't know this guy, Keefe. Maybe he was forced to say that to solve some problems. I don't know. I just know it sounded like a set-up to me. Somebody would tell him to stay there and, with the whole Death Row thing, we've come up with what we have now. But I don't think he had anything to do with my son's death. Not at all."