He disappeared in May, amid federal drugs charges, complaining that events had "caught off guard" in a letter to XXL magazine. Now a manager for stars including Sean Kingston and the Game, Rosemond is allegedly on the run. "Heard the guns bust, but your tricks never shut me up. "Promised pay back Jimmy Henchman in due time," he rapped on Against All Odds. But Shakur himself had made these claims before his death. The LA Times ultimately admitted their allegations were based on fabricated FBI reports. In 2008, the LA Times published – and later retracted – an article contending that Rosemond and other associates of Sean Combs (AKA Diddy) arranged the attack as payback for Shakur's rejection of Combs's record label. He and Rosemond have long been linked with Shakur's robbery, though neither man was ever charged. Isaac has spent the past decade behind bars, serving time on a 1998 indictment for murder, robbery, fraud and witness intimidation.
TUPAC SHOT 5 TIMES AND SURVIVED PLUS
He gave me $2,500, plus all the jewellery I took, except for one ring, which he wanted for himself." In 1994, James Rosemond hired me to rob 2Pac Shakur at the Quad studio. Now I would like to clear up a few things, because the statute of limitations is over, and no one can be charged, and I'm just plain tired of listening to your lies. "I have stayed silent in prison for the past 13 years, doing a life sentence like a real soldier should, when you and everybody have turned your backs on me. "Jimmy, I say to you: I have kept your secrets for years," Isaac told AllHiphop.
Dexter Isaac, currently serving a life sentence on unrelated charges, said he was hired by hip-hop manager Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond to ambush and mug Shakur, setting off three years of reprisals that left Shakur and Notorious BIG dead. A man has admitted to the non-fatal 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur, claiming he was paid $2,500 to rob the rapper at Manhattan's Quad studio.