Flavor Flav Says He Is 'So Happy' over Arrest of Suspect in Tupac's Murder: 'God Turned This Guy in' (Exclusive)

The rapper discussed his reaction to the arrest with PEOPLE at the Brent Shapiro Foundation Summer Spectacular on Saturday

Flavor Flav is speaking out on the arrest of a suspect in connection with the murder of his late friend Tupac Shakur.

The former Public Enemy rapper, 64, shared his reaction to the arrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davis in connection to Tupac’s death while talking exclusively to PEOPLE at the Brent Shapiro Foundation Summer Spectacular, held in Los Angeles on Saturday.

“I'm so happy right now that they finally found Tupac's shooter," he says. "It was bound to happen one day if he didn't turn his own self in, because he told on himself, I heard.”

“He wrote a book about it and all of this stuff, but if he didn't do it, I felt the streets would turn him in one day,” Flav adds. “So I'm so happy that they found him.”

Related: Jada Pinkett Smith Reacts to Tupac Shakur Suspect Arrest: 'Now I Hope We Can Get Some Answers'

“Tupac is the reason why I'm able to stand here and talk to you today,” Flav goes on to explain, before revealing a powerful connection between the pair that, he says, changed his life.

“Way back in the day, there was an incident to where I almost committed a murder by accident. Tupac is the one that stopped me from doing it.”

“So thank God for Tupac being in my life,” Flav adds.

The rapper also says that the first time he met Tupac was when “he asked for my autograph.”

“That was crazy,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee recalls. “Yeah, I was crazy honored.”

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On Friday, Davis was arrested by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in connection with the 1996 murder of Shakur, marking the biggest development in the cold case in nearly 27 years, Associated Press and ABC News reported.

Davis was taken into custody Friday morning and charged with one count of murder with a gang enhancement, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced at a Friday press conference.

Flav hopes that Shakur’s family will now have justice following the suspect’s arrest.

“Because it's been a minute,” Flav says. “It's definitely been a minute now. You know what I mean? So yeah, God is good, man. God turned this guy in. So glad. So glad.”

Flav has spoken publicly before about his friendship with Tupac and he previously collaborated with the late rapper on the 1993 track “You Can’t See What I Can’t See” by Heavy D and the Boyz.

Related: Suspect Arrested in Connection with Tupac Shakur's 1996 Murder

His chat with PEOPLE came a day after he posted his response to the new development in Shakur’s murder case on Instagram. “Poetic Justice for my man 2Pac,” Flav captioned an image of Tupac with details of the new arrest written across.

Flav's social media post came as Jada Pinkett Smith — who called Shakur her “best friend” — shared her reaction to Davis' arrest on Friday. Smith, 52, said she hopes for “closure” over the death of Shakur in a post on her Instagram Story, following the news.

“Now I hope we can get some answers and have some closure,” Smith wrote in response to the arrest. “R.I.P. Pac,” she finished, adding a dove emoji.

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