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A notorious former gangbanger scoffed at lawyers asking him about Tupac Shakur\u2019s murder \u2014 daring the court to \u201ctreat me as a hostile witness\u201d in fiery testimony on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMob James\u201d McDonald \u2014 former member of Compton\u2019s Mob Piru Gang and private muscle for Death Row Records \u2014 scoffed at lawyers on both sides who peppered him with questions about the gang war that led to the rapper\u2019s 1996 murder on the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m aware of a lot of things. Things that was going on. People ain\u2019t talked about it in 30 years. Today ain\u2019t one of them,\u201d McDonald said as the prosecution attempted to tie the now 63-year-old Duane \u201cKeffe D\u201d Davis \u2014 of the rival South Side Compton Crips gang \u2014 to the murder plot.<\/p>\n

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McDonald was a lieutenant for Suge Knight, a fellow Mob Piru member and the head of Shakur\u2019s label Death Row Records. <\/p>\n

\u201cMe or anybody else raising up the dead is wrong,\u201d McDonald said when asked to talk about the 30-year-old beef.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to send [Davis] to prison. Even though we don\u2019t like each other,\u201d McDonald declared before ripping the court for forcing him to dredge up memories of the old life he wants to put behind him and protect his grandchildren from.<\/p>\n

McDonald\u2019s testimony seemed to do little to help prove his former rival was the one who orchestrated Shakur\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say Davis gave a gun to his nephew Orlando Anderson and told him to shoot Shakur as an \u201cact of revenge\u201d after the rapper and his pals beat Anderson up.<\/p>\n

It took more than 25 years to arrest and charge Davis, who has acknowledged that his nephew \u2014 now dead \u2014 was the one who fired the shots, but has denied giving the order. <\/p>\n

McDonald had been managing security at Suge Knight\u2019s Las Vegas club, where Knight and Shakur were headed during the ambush.<\/p>\n

He said he knew who was and wasn\u2019t present during the attack, but he wouldn\u2019t name names \u2014 nor answer questions about the skirmishes that erupted in Compton after the murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re asking me something that\u2019s gonna hurt this dude!\u201d McDonald said to Davis\u2019 attorney Michael Sanft.<\/p>\n

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The testimony ended in a shouting match with McDonald throwing up his hands and saying \u201cI\u2019m not answering nothing. I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, turning to Davis, he said: \u201cCover your lawyer, man. That dude is trippin.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not gonna send him to prison. You are,\u201d he said of his old enemy.<\/p>\n

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