Unsolved Hip Hop Murders

Why is the rap game so hard? People dying over records make no sense, but not being able to solve these murder cases is preposterous. How is it that the late Tupac Shakur is murdered on the busy strip of Las Vegas after a World Watched heavy weight title Bout (Mike Tyson for that matter) and there isn't even one witness? Biggie Smalls was killed a year later in a drive-by shooting in a populated part of Los Angeles. Both incidences are still open cases. In 2002 Jam Master Jay was shot in the head consequently killing him in a Queens, New York recording studio. All of these cases have had no leads, no leaks, and no suspects until now.

Federal prosecutors have suspected that a low-level career criminal may be the killer of the member of Run DMC, Jam Master Jay. In court papers, the prosecutors identified a suspect by the name of Ronald "Tenad" Washington as the armed accomplice of a second unidentified gunman who shot Jay in the Queens recording studio. These same court papers say that the accused Washington is also a suspect of the 1995 fatal shooting of Randy Walker, who produced several songs for Shakur. Walker was a close link to the late Tupac Shakur Yahoo Music reports.

Washington is only an accused accomplice in this crime. Washington allegedly "pointed his gun at those present in the studio, ordered them to get on the ground and provided cover for his associate to shoot and kill Jason Mizell,[Jam Master Jay]" prosecutors said in court papers. Supposedly these "papers" came out due to Washington being convicted of many armed robberies in 2002 after the death of Jam Master Jay.

Without doing heavy math calculations that was over 5 years ago. Now not being a police detective, but if these papers have been around for 5 years, why are they only just coming out now? Is there a mass cause to hide evidence in Hip Hop murder mysteries? In this case, Ronald Washington could be the link to two out of the three above Hip Hop deaths. Does this all make sense? Of course it doesn't. With all these murders being in the majority of the public eye, it is odd that America has only produced this small of evidence. As with all cases, the more time elapsed the harder they are to solve. Not only are these rappers a victim to the system, but the hip hop community also loses.