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50 Cent found fresh ammunition Thursday, laughing as Keefe D’s Tupac murder trial dragged Diddy back into a decades-old $1 million allegation.
The G-Unit boss posted a courtroom clip on Instagram and wrote, “WTF 🥷🏿 tell everything SMH Zip got low wit the bread 😆 @50centaction.”
On Thursday, jurors heard Keefe D’s secret 2008 interview, called a proffer. He claimed Diddy proposed a $1 million bounty for Tupac and Suge Knight. During the recorded proffer, Keefe D described the alleged proposal: “Man, I want to get rid of them dudes,” Diddy supposedly said to which he replied: “We’ll wipe their ass out, quick. It’s nothing…We wanted a million.”
The “Zip” in 50 Cent’s post is Eric “Von Zip” Martin, a Harlem drug dealer whom Keefe D said connected him with Diddy. Keefe D also claimed Martin supplied the .40-caliber handgun in Las Vegas and later became the middleman for money allegedly promised after the shooting.
That makes “Zip got low wit the bread” a money joke, with 50 Cent mocking Keefe D’s claim that Martin kept the alleged payout.
Keefe D now disputes his old account, telling FOX5 before trial, “My lawyer gave me a script to read. He said that’s the only way you’re going home. So I read the script.”
His lawyer Michael Sanft challenged the prosecution’s reliance on those statements: “What facts do you have to support any of what Keffe D said in any of his interviews or the book?”
Diddy has denied any role in Tupac’s death for years, saying in 2011, “This story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous.”
Diddy remains imprisoned at New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix under a 50-month term for transporting people for prostitution after jurors acquitted him of racketeering and sex trafficking.
Keefe D has pleaded not guilty to Tupac’s murder, with lawyers estimating the Clark County District Court proceedings could consume roughly six weeks.
