New York ( CNN ) -- New York police said Thursday that they will talk to an inmate who admitted to being part of the 1994 robbery and shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur . The inmate was quoted on the website allhiphop.com this week admitting to being a part of the attack and saying he was paid by a music mogul for it . `` Detectives are going to speak to the individual , '' a New York Police spokesman said early Thursday morning . Shakur publicly blamed the 1994 attack , which occurred at a music studio in New York , on Christopher `` Notorious B.I.G . '' Wallace and Sean `` P-Diddy '' Combs . While Shakur survived the 1994 attack , he was fatally shot in Las Vegas in 1996 . Wallace was shot and killed in 1997 in Los Angeles . Both murders have not been solved . The 1994 shooting and robbing of Shakur is viewed as sparking the infamous West Coast versus East Coast feud in rap music , which ultimately led to the shooting deaths of both Wallace and Shakur . The hip hop website named the inmate as Dexter Isaac and said he is an inmate currently serving life in prison for an unrelated murder and robbery . Isaac apologized to Shakur 's family for the incident and blamed it on the music mogul . CNN is witholding the music executive 's name because he has not been reached for comment . CNN 's Jason Kessler contributed to this report .
`` Detectives are going to speak to the individual , '' a New York Police spokesman says . The 1994 attack on Shakur is viewed as starting the West Coast versus East Coast feud in rap music . Shakur survived but was shot and killed in 1996 in Las Vegas .