Notorious BIG murder cop: Diddy's true character 'finally coming out'

A detective who investigated the murder of Notorious B.I.G. says Diddy's 'true character is finally coming out'.  

On The Trial of Diddy, the new Daily Mail podcast that launches today, retired LAPD detective Greg Kading reveals what he learned about the disgraced rapper. 

Kading was the lead detective of the Los Angeles task force that investigated Notorious B.I.G's murder, along with that of Tupac Shakur six months earlier.

Biggie Smalls, as the rapper was also known, was a top protégé of Diddy, and the music mogul is widely believed by some to have been involved in Tupac's murder. He has never been charged with any crime in connection to it. 

Kading says that he expected more revelations about Diddy to emerge in light of his sex trafficking arrest. 

'His true character seems to be surfacing… maybe there's another side to him that he's relatively well hidden until recent events are starting to expose the character that maybe he really is,' he said.

Diddy's relationship with rapper Notorious B.I.G catapulted his Bad Boy Records to some of its greatest heights in the 1990s.

The Brooklyn native's debut album, 1994's Ready to Die, was a huge commercial and critical success with hit songs Big Poppa, Juicy, and One More Chance.

Within the first three years, Bad Boy made an estimated $75million in album sales.

But Biggie, real name Chris Wallace, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in LA on March 9, 1997, aged just 24.

The murder was believed to be part of the bitter West Coast-East Coast rap feud between Death Row Records in LA and Bad Boy Records in New York City.

He was killed six months after Tupac was shot four times in the chest during a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996, and died on September 13.

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No one was ever charged in their deaths and the cases remain unsolved, but Kading previously claimed two dead men pulled the trigger.

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He claimed Southside Crips gang member Duane Keith 'Keffe D' Davis was hired to kill Shakur and his manager Marion Hugh 'Suge' Knight for $1 million.

But on the night of the fatal shooting, Keffe's nephew Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson was the one who shot the rapper dead, he claimed. 

In retaliation for Tupac's murder, Suge hired rival Blood gang member Wardell 'Poochie' Fouse to kill Biggie Smalls for just $13,000, Kading said.

Both Fouse and Anderson were later killed in gang-related shootouts.

Suge, who headed Death Row Records, is serving a 28-year prison sentence after his 2018 conviction for murder in a hit-and-run case.

Kading said the case was solved, but couldn't be prosecuted because too many of the witnesses were dead by the time those who knew came forward.

Phil Carson, a retired FBI agent who worked the case for two years, instead claimed Biggie was shot dead by Nation of Islam member Amir Muhammad.

He agreed Suge was the man who paid for the hit. 

Carson also claimed Diddy, who was riding in the vehicle ahead of the SUV that was carrying the late rapper on the night he was shot, was the real target.

Former LA gang leader Duane 'Keefe D' Davis is accused of masterminding the drive-by shooting that killed Tupac in Las Vegas. 

He pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and is set to go to trial in later in the year.

He claimed in 2009 that Diddy offered him $1 million to assassinate the rapper.

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