Flavor Flav and Tupac Shakur.Photo:Noam Galai/WireImage; Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
Noam Galai/WireImage; Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
Flavor Flavis speaking out on the arrest of a suspect in connection with the murder of his late friendTupac Shakur.
The formerPublic Enemyrapper, 64, shared his reaction to thearrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davisin connection to Tupac’s death while talking exclusively to PEOPLE at the Brent Shapiro Foundation Summer Spectacular, held in Los Angeles on Saturday.
“I’m so happy right now that they finally found Tupac’s shooter," he says. “It was bound to happen one day if he didn’t turn his own self in, because he told on himself, I heard.”
“He wrote a book about it and all of this stuff, but if he didn’t do it, I felt the streets would turn him in one day,” Flav adds. “So I’m so happy that they found him.”
Flavor Flav with rapper Tupac Shakur at the 1989 American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California.Clarence Gatson/Gado/Getty
Clarence Gatson/Gado/Getty
“Tupac is the reason why I’m able to stand here and talk to you today,” Flav goes on to explain, before revealing a powerful connection between the pair that, he says, changed his life.
“So thank God for Tupac being in my life,” Flav adds.
The rapper also says that the first time he met Tupac was when “he asked for my autograph.”
“That was crazy,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee recalls. “Yeah, I was crazy honored.”
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Duane “Keefe D” Davis was arrested Friday in connection to Shakur’s murder.Ethan Miller/Getty
Ethan Miller/Getty
Davis was taken into custody Friday morning and charged with one count of murder with a gang enhancement, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced at a Friday press conference.
Flav hopes that Shakur’s family will now have justice following the suspect’s arrest.
“Because it’s been a minute,” Flav says. “It’s definitely been a minute now. You know what I mean? So yeah, God is good, man. God turned this guy in. So glad. So glad.”
Jada Pinkett Smith reacted to the arrest over “best friend” Shakur’s death on Friday.Mychal Watts/WireImage
Mychal Watts/WireImage
His chat with PEOPLE came a day after heposted his responseto the new development in Shakur’s murder case on Instagram. “Poetic Justice for my man 2Pac,” Flav captioned an image of Tupac with details of the new arrest written across.
Flav’s social media post came asJada Pinkett Smith— who called Shakur her “best friend” — shared her reaction to Davis' arrest on Friday. Smith, 52, said she hopes for “closure” over the death of Shakurin a poston her Instagram Story, following the news.
“Now I hope we can get some answers and have some closure,” Smith wrote in response to the arrest. “R.I.P. Pac,” she finished, adding a dove emoji.
source: people.com
