After over 20 years of speculations, Tupac's shooting may have an ending. New evidence implicates Jimmy Rosemond in the crime, and the facts have come from an unlikely source: Rosemond himself.
Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond has been implicated as the main figure who ordered the shooting of Tupac Shakur in a Manhattan recording studio on the night of November 30, 1994. The shooting was carried out by Dexter Isaac, an inmate currently serving life in prison.
Isaac confessed to Allhiphop.com that he was the person who shot Tupac Shakur and robbed him of jewelry and money because it was ordered by Rosemond.
Rosemond, a Haitian born, New York-raised, businessman has been an elite figure in hip-hop for the last 15 years. He’s the founder of Czar Entertainment, a management company that represented musicians like Akon, the Game and Sean Kingston to name a few.
But what you don’t know about Rosemond just might scare you. From his days rolling with the real 50 Cent, to his dealings with Haitian gangsters, we take a look at the real Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond.
According to the Village Voice:Rosemond secretly admitted to involvement in Tupac's ambush during one of nine "Queen For A Day" proffer sessions with the government last autumn, court transcripts show. (In such sessions, suspects under investigation choose to enter an agreement with the government to confess knowledge of certain crimes with the agreement that the information won't be used to prosecute them.) His confession unfolded as he was trying to carve out a cooperation deal that might lead to a reduced sentence, according to federal prosecutors."If [Rosemond's attorney] is going to argue that this was a fabricated article, it's the government's position that we can put in the defendant's own admission about that particular shooting," the prosecutor said. "In saying it is not true, when in fact it is true, the government should be able to rebut that argument that he's making, [and introduce] that the defendant actually admitted to this 1994 shooting."The revelation surfaced May 14 during a sidebar in the same Brooklyn federal court where Rosemond was later convicted of operating a multimillion-dollar crack ring that moved thousands of kilos of drugs and dirty cash between Los Angeles and New York. Twelve jurors took only two days to issue a unanimous verdict, convicting him of all 13 counts with which he was charged.
Before he was killed, Tupac recorded a song called "Against All Odds," in which he blamed Rosemond for orchestrating the assault at the Quad. He spit:
"Jimmy Henchman. . .[You] set me up, wet me up... stuck me up.But you never shut me up."
The Tupac shooting has been a staple in hip-hop lore, as it triggered the East Coast vs. West Coast war that waged through songs and videos.
Rosemond will never be charged for his role in the 1994 ambush on Shakur, which was classified by NYPD as a robbery.
In New York, the statute of limitations on robbery is seven years, which means the time to prosecute anyone for the Quad case expired 11 years ago. No one will ever go to jail for attacking Tupac: Not Jimmy or anyone who was implicated in the shooting.
source: Village Voice
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