LAbyrinth

The True Story of City of Lies, the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. and the Implication of the Los Angeles Police Department

By: Randall Sullivan

Narrated by: Kevin Free

Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, eventually to discover that the officer killed was tied to Marion “Suge” Knight’s notorious gangsta rap label, Death Row Records. During his investigation, Poole came to realize that a growing cadre of black officers were allied not only with Death Row, but with the murderous Bloods street gang. And incredibly, Poole began to uncover evidence that at least some of these “gangsta cops” may have been involved in the murders of rap superstars Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.

Igniting a firestorm of controversy in the music industry and the Los Angeles media, the hardcover publication of LAbyrinth helped to prompt two lawsuits against the LAPD (one brought by the widow and mother of Notorious B.I.G., the other brought by Poole himself) that may finally bring this story completely out of the shadows.

©2002 Randall Sullivan (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

You’re nobody till somebody

Solves this. Rest In Peace big and pac. Murder Rap is better and more accurate

Very well researched!!!

This book goes into sooooo much of the background surrounding these two cases and the dirty cops that were involved whether directly or indirectly and how corrupt our justice system really is specially at the time in Los Angeles in the 1990s and probably still to this day the narrator did a very good job in that’s why I would have to read this book with all 5stars definitely a must read!!!!

A must read

If you are interested in crime and conspiracy this is the book for you. It’s a shame that the corruption ran so wild.

Great book!

Very detailed. So much corruption going in LA Police Department. With all these clues, and the crime has yet to be solved.

Interesting take

I found the book interesting. I work in law enforcement and I heard through my career that LAPD did not do proper background checks on its employees. I also heard Barnard Parks was not liked by the officers of the department. His rules hurt the department and it’s officers. I can see Parks covering things up to protect the department. It was a different version of events I have heard. A good look at the LAPD at the time.
I don’t believe any cops were involved in the Biggies murder. I do believe there are people who know what went down and they are afraid to come forward because Suge Knight will have them killed. I believe he has that kind of reach.