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DJ Quik Says He Was Considered A Suspect in B.I.G. Killing

In an interview with Hip Hop DX, DJ Quik revealed that the LAPD named him a suspect years ago in the murder of Notorious B.I.G.

The West Coast rapper says that the kind of car he drove back then coupled with the rumors that he had gotten into a verbal altercation with Biggie that night, had the cops asking him lots of questions:

“Just because I was there at that [VIBE] party [with Biggie before the shooting], they tapped my phones, found out my accountant’s number and went and posted up and waited for me at my accountant’s office to pick me up for questions….And it was only because I owned a ’95 [Chevy] Impala [SS] that was black-cherry colored like the one that was used supposedly in the shooting, which was probably black, mine was burgundy, but at night they look identical in color.”

This marks the first time Quik has gone on record about the allegations he was a suspect. He did, however, address it in his 1998 song, “You’z a Ganxta”:

“Yeah like that night with Biggie out at Quincy Jones’ spot/Like 400 other people yeah I heard some shots/Broke away with the crowd, nervous obviously/And the mothaf*ckas blamed it on me, what the hell?”

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