In a recent interview with TMZ, Marion “Suge” Knight made a shocking claim regarding Tupac Shakur’s cremains. Knight alleged that after Tupac’s death in 1996, his cremains were rolled into blunts and smoked by friends and family members in a Las Vegas hotel room.

According to Knight, the incident took place in a hotel room rented by Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, shortly after the rapper’s death on September 13, 1996. The most likely location for this event is the Golden Nugget, where Tupac’s biological father, Billy Garland, claimed to have met Afeni on the night of Tupac’s death.

“I think I hooked up with Afeni down at the Golden Nugget,” Garland told XXL in 2011.

Knight mentioned that the idea to smoke Tupac’s cremains was Afeni’s own.

Smoke Him if You Got Him

According to Knight, the unusual farewell started with a rush to cremate Tupac’s body. Afeni wanted her son cremated immediately, so Knight contacted a funeral home worker on the same evening. The worker was initially unavailable, but Knight made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

He arrived at the worker’s home with two bags of cash totaling $1.2 million, with the worker agreeing to cremate Tupac that night.

Puff, Puff, Pass

Due to his probation status, Knight chose not to smoke his friend’s remains as he feared violating the terms of his release. Tupac passed away on September 13, 1996, following a shooting on September 7, 1996, a crime that remains highly scrutinized in hip-hop history.

Knight, who survived the shooting, believes that Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the only person charged in connection with Tupac’s death, was not the only one involved. Knight is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter and has expressed his desire to have no involvement in the murder trial.