Suge Knight claims that Tupac Shakur’s pals smoked his cremated ashes following his dying.

Speaking with PEOPLE, Knight instructed the outlet that a few of Shakur’s family and friends rolled the “I Get Round” rapper’s ashes right into a blunt and smoked it.

A bag along with his ashes was handed round,” Knight stated. “His homies rolled him up. They smoked him. You gotta perceive, that’s what made sense. It was symbolic. It’s like… you retain a part of him.”

“I used to be so comfortable to say I used to be on probation — I couldn’t smoke,” Knight says. “I instructed his mom, ‘Mother, I’d like to, but when I hit that, I’ll get in hassle.’” He laughs. “I used to be in all probability the one one who didn’t hit him.”

Knight additionally stated that Afeni Shakur, Tupac’s mom, wished to have her son cremated instantly with out a funeral. Adhering to her request, Knight stated he paid 1,000,000 in money to ensure her request was granted. By the tip of that fateful evening, Tupac’s inside circle paid tribute to him in an honorable manner,

On September 7, 1996, Shakur and Knight had been ambushed at a pink mild after leaving the MGM Grand. A number of pictures had been fired in Knight’s Bllack BMW. Shakur was shot 4 occasions, and Knight was grazed within the head. Knight recalled the tragic scene.

“I received out and tried to inform the officers what occurred whereas I used to be bleeding in all places,” he says. “I then was getting Tupac out the automobile, even when the door was open. I needed to go over there bleeding in all places, take the seat belt off him.”

Thought to be one of many biggest rappers of all time, Shakur has bought greater than  75 million information worldwide.