The Tupac Assassination film tries to solve one of Hip-Hop’s biggest whodunits, naming Suge Knight and Reginald Wright Jr. as the prime suspects behind Tupac’s murder. In recent shocking developments Makaveli’s former bodyguard and Compton police officer Kevin Hackie claims he was working alongside the FBI during his tenure of watching over ‘Pac. According to Hackie, the Feds suspected Suge Knight and company of carrying out criminal activities through his then dominant Death Row Records empire.  Hackie funneled information to the FBI as he was already positioned inside of Death Row through his security services. The presence of off-duty Los Angeles police officers working hand in hand with known gang members would lead many to believe that law enforcement corruption was a major hurdle in closing the case. With all this heat on Death Row, former general manager and head of security Reginald Wright steps up to address all the accusations stemming from the new documentary. In a candid interview Wright goes over the videotape and gives his side of the story on Pac’s rumored monetary gripes with the label, the lack of security in Vegas and the motives behind the shooting. AllHipHop.com: Can you give the AllHipHop.com community a run through of your background? Reginald Wright: First off, my name is Reginald Wright.  I was a police officer for the city of Compton up until January of ‘96 when I retired.  I had a traffic accident that messed up my ankle and I got a medical retirement.  However, prior to that I opened up a security company in May of ‘95 where I started providing services for Death Row Records and different movie production studios.  I was the head of security for Death Row and a vendor of Death Row where I supplied a company which is called Wright Way Protective Services.   When Suge was incarcerated for the probation violation in ‘97 I started operating and doing the day to day business for the record company for Mr. Knight up until his return.  I then stopped working for Death Row in January 2002 and started working as a consultant for two to three years. AllHipHop.com: I know your main reason in getting in touch with us was to respond to the recent statements from your former employee Kevin Hackie.  At a recent screening of Tupac Assassination Kevin admitted he was working with the FBI during his time at Death Row.  The movie is headed by another one of your former employees “Big” Frank Alexander. Reginald Wright: That’s true.  Suge and I have taken a lot of criticism over the years.  Out of respect for Pac, we didn’t really care what people think, just as long as Afeni Shakur, members of the Outlawz, and people that were close to him at the time knew our relationship with him.  I’ve worked hand in hand with Miss Shakur and her staff on putting out the Tupac items while they were in custody and everything like that.  I was instrumental in putting out the greatest hits album of course with Suge’s blessings.  As long as I knew they didn’t believe any of these theories and all the false stuff out there in the media, we didn’t care.  But now when I see guys keep popping up, keeping their fame, going on and making money and exploiting him for their own personal gain and believing their own lies you get tired of seeing that. Once I saw the tape and read the things online, I said, Hey these guys can’t get away with this because some people really believe this stuff.  Over sixty to seventy percent of the accusations in the film are outright lies.  Kevin Hackie was not an FBI implant he was a school district police officer that I knew from being a Compton police officer.  He’s an FBI informant, not an FBI implant.  He was a snitch who had some jail time that [he] wanted to try to work off and I’m sure the FBI wanted an implant in there.  Either he was a bad informant or we didn’t do anything wrong.  We have never been indicted.  So if he was an informant or this and that, either we weren’t [doing] anything wrong or he was a bad informant. We didn’t care about informants; that’s why Suge hired police officers.  We knew these guys were police officers. I didn’t do a good enough background check as I should have on guys like Frank Alexander who represented himself as a retired Orange County sheriff and had a badge and ID that I can supply you copies of and stuff like that.  Then I find out later he was nothing but a marine on steroids.  Kevin Hackie was a cop but I didn’t know he was being investigated where he ended up doing federal penitentiary time and is still on probation.  He’s a convicted felon who is trying to portray himself as a security officer or a FBI [agent].  Those are all the bad guys.  Suge Knight did jail time for an alleged kick.  I’ve never been to jail but everyone wants to make us the bad guys. AllHipHop.com: So you have viewed the Tupac Assassination film?Reginald Wright: I did see it.  AllHipHop.com: When I spoke to Kevin Hackie he basically explained to me that he was a cop but was moonlighting as security for Death Row.  FBI agents approached him about working with the FBI because he was already working within Death Row.  Kevin Hackie stated that they were keeping an eye on you and believed you were carrying out criminal activities for Suge Knight. Reginald Wright: I don’t know that to be true or not.  I know that by an article in the LA Times he backtracked on saying all of that stuff with [LA Times writer] Chuck Phillips.  He can tell you that right before the trial he backtracked from all of that.  That it was all lies and said it was [Former LAPD] Russell Poole said all of that.  […]