A book published in 2008 and written by John Potash keeps on making headlines these days for its controversial content. Entitled The FBI War On Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders: U.S. Intelligence’s Murderous Targeting of Tupac, MLK, Malcolm, Panthers, Hendrix, Marley, Rappers & Linked Ethnic Leftists, the book has been republished along with a supporting DVD. 

A Columbia University graduate, Potash admits not to have any Hip-Hop background, but that he spent his last ten years researching on Tupac Shakur’s mysterious death. He believes that the FBI was targeting Shakur for his activist lyrical content, the same way they were targeting Tupac’s parents, who were Black Panthers.

“One of the many strange twists in the case, the officer who raced to the scene after Shakur’s friends called 911 was the same officer who arrested him a year ago. So I called [Shakur’s] New York trial lawyer and said, ‘Do you think they’re targeting him in the same way they targeted his activist parents? So that’s how I got into it all.”

Potash also believes that Death Row Records was out to boycott Tupac Shakur’s messages by publishing his “most negative songs.” The author asserts that the FBI and CIA were against Tupac because he was the symbol of Black activism and the most

“influential black man in the black community in the Country.”

The message set forth by the book is extremely controversial and could present an answer to the unsolved case of 2Pac’s murder.