JDL Suspected Of Extorting Rapper Tupac Shakur, Others, FBI Says

The legacy of Rabbi Meir Kahane continues. The FBI has released files on the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, revealing that the Jewish Defense League (JDL) was suspected of "extorting money from various rap music stars via death threats, including Tupac and another performer, Eazy-E.

 

Files show FBI suspected JDL of extorting Tupac
Jewish Defense League threatened famously murdered rapper, provided bodyguards for hip-hop stars, according to released FBI documents.
By LAHAV HARKOV • Jerusalem Post
   
The FBI has released files on the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, revealing that the Jewish Defense League (JDL) was suspected of "extorting money from various rap music stars via death threats, including Tupac and another performer, Eazy-E.

"The scheme involves (name redacted) and other subjects making telephonic death threats to the rap star," the files, declassified this week, explain. "Subjects then intercede by contacting the victim and offering protection for a fee. The victim and their family are taken to a 'safe haven', usually a private estate, and are protected by gun-toting body guards associated with the Jewish Defense League."

After the victims were brought to the "safe havens," the JDL would allegedly "convince the victim they have worked a 'deal' out...and the threats cease. The victim then pays the subjects for the protection services rendered and resume their normal lifestyle with no fear of further death threat."

An unidentified source identified Eazy-E as a target of the JDL's extortion before he died from AIDS. Another source, from within the JDL, "had also reportedly targeted Tupac Shakur prior to his recent murder in Las Vegas, Nevada."

Tupac was shot four times in Las Vegas in September 1996, and died several days later. The circumstances surrounding his murder remain unclear.

[Hat Tip: AEA.]

Comments

[tooclose2detroit]

Having a hard time rapping my head around the image of a famous rapper, probably surrounded by some of the strongest and most capable and violent fighters on this rock actually feeling he needed protection using jewish boys.

[Maskil]

"The legacy of Rabbi Meir Kahane continues."

Really, Shmarya?! He was your friend.

[Shmarya]

The legacy of Rabbi Meir Kahane continues."

Really, Shmarya?! He was your friend.

Posted by: Maskil | April 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM

Right before he was murdered, I asked Kahane why he associated with thugs and goons.

His answer was that he had to work with what he had.

I didn't find that very convincing then, and I find it less convincing now.

[Dr. Dave]

Who wears a black hat and goes oy oy?

A dyslexic rapper.

[effie]

It may have been some lame scheme thought up by JDL, but as someone already noted, these rappers have their own security, their own guns, and their own entourage who are always armed. Now, everyone is dead.

[Anon]

The FBI never got their Jews straight. There was one individual in the Jewish militancy department never associated with JDL. His primary weapon was the phone. JDL died many years before Kahane and there hasn't been a person with a brain in that organization since 1974.

And I know of what I speak.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Apologies to Aerosmith, Run DMC:

Black hat bochur always hidin' 'neath the Gemara
'Til I talked to the Rebbe he say
He said you ain't seen nothin' 'til you've downed some tchulent
Then you're sure to be a-changin' your way
I met a JDL-er was a real young fellow
Oy the times I could reminisce
'Cause the best things of fightin' with a brother and a whitey
Only started with a little curse
A like this...

See-saw swaggin' with the Goys of the old school
And your fists flyin' up in the air
Singin' hey Yiddel, Yiddel
With Kahane in the middle of the sting like you didn't care
So I took a big chance at the hip-hop dance
With Tupac who was ready to play
Wasn't me he was foolin' 'cause he knew what he was doin'
And I know of extortion and slay
When he told me to:

Refrain:
Walk, oy vey (8x)
Just a star and a fist
Like this...

Shul boy Svengali with a Kalashnikov
Little thug's trying to recruit thee
It was three young laddies in a shul coat locker
When I noticed they were lookin' at me
I was a high school loner never made a hand grenade
'Til the Goys told me something I missed
Then Kahane's brigade wants a slaughter of Arabians
So I gave him just a little curse
A like this...

Seesaw swaggin' with the bochurim in shul
And your fist flyin' up in the air
I sing hey Yiddel, Yiddel
Watch your kugel in the middle of your plate like ya didn't care
So I took a big chance at the mixed dance
With a rapper I was ready to slay
Wasn't me he was foolin' 'cause he knew what he was doin'
When he told me take a walk, oy vey
He told me to:

Refrain.

[FM Fan]

YL, one of your saddest creations. Yiddel Yiddel watch your kugel?

Give me a break.

You can do better.

[Dr. Dave]

Pronounce it "kiggel" and it rhymes.

As always YL:

"We're not worthy! We're not worthy" - Waynes' World

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thanks Dr, Dave. Fm Fan: Can't always hit 'em out of the park.

[nobody]

But this wasn't Rabbi Kahane. It was Irv Rubin who insisted that the "JDL" (or whatever he turned it into) worked with death row records or whatever other rap groups he wanted to be friends with. Why would they redact the name involved? Come on, those in the know, know why. Because it's not who you think it is and who they want you to think it was.