While a prolonged era of peace has settled over rappers who hail from the East Coast and those from the West, last month the conflict, which culminated in the murders of L.A.’s Tupac Shakur and Brooklyn’s Notorious B.I.G., returned to the news. Dexter Isaac, who is serving life for an unrelated murder-for-hire, confessed to the 1994 shooting of Tupac that triggered the war. Isaac alleges that a music manager named James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond paid him $2,500 for the attack. Shortly thereafter, Rosemond was arrested on a separate charge. Are the cases about to be cracked?
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