Marion Hugh " Suge " Knight Jr. (born April 19, 1965) is an American record producer, music executive, and former American footballer. He is known as co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Death Row Records rose to dominate the rap charts after the groundbreaking album. Dre The Chronic in 1992. After several years of successful charts for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Outlawz and Tha Dogg Pound, Death Row Records stagnated after the imprisonment of Knight over alleged violations of probation in September 1996 and bankrupt in 2006.
In February 2015, Knight was accused of murder and attempted murder following a fatal attack in Compton, California. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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Marion Hugh Knight Jr. born in Compton, California, son of Maxine (Dikemen) and Marion Knight Sr. His name, Suge, comes from "Sugar Bear", a nickname of childhood. She attended Lynwood High School near Lynwood, where she was a football and track star. He graduated in 1983. From 1983 to 1985, he attended and played soccer at El Camino College. In 1985, he moved to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and played there for two years.
After college, Knight was not designed by the National Football League (NFL) team, but was invited to the Los Angeles Rams training camp. He was cut by the Rams, but he became a substitute during the 1987 NFL player strike, and played two games for Rams.
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Beginning career
After the NFL, Knight found work as a concert promoter and bodyguard for celebrities including Bobby Brown. In 1989, Knight formed his own music publishing company. His first big advantage in business came when Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle) agreed to sign the royalty of the big hit "Ice Ice Baby", because the song included material written by Knight's client, Mario Johnson. Knight and his bodyguard confronted Van Winkle several times. On one occasion, Knight entered Van Winkle's hotel room and allegedly hung it with his ankle from the balcony. Van Winkle simply said that Knight threatened to throw her off the balcony; the claim was settled in court.
Knight subsequently formed an artist management company and signed up the famous West Coast hip hop artist DJ Quik and The D.O.C. Through the first, he met with some members of the rap rap group NUP.
Death Line Record
Dr. Dre and The D.O.C. wanting to leave N.W.A and their label, Ruthless Records, run by Eazy-E, another member of N.W.A. According to N.W.A manager Jerry Heller, Knight and his accomplices threatened Heller and Eazy-E with lead pipes and baseball batons to get them to release Dre, The D.O.C., and Michel'le from their contracts. In the end, Dre and D.O.C. founded Death Row Records in 1991 with Knight, who vowed to make it "The Motown of the 90s".
Initially, Knight fulfilled his ambition: he got a distribution deal with Interscope, and Dre's 1992 solo debut album, The Chronic , went on to Triple Platinum status in the United States in late 1993. It also made a career for Dre's protÃÆ'Â © gÃÆ'Â ©, Snoop Dogg, whose self-titled Doggystyle album won Quadruple Platinum certification in the United States in 1994.
Meanwhile, Death Row started a public feud with 2 Live Crew's Luther Campbell, and when Knight traveled to Miami for a hip-hop convention in 1993, he appeared to be seen openly carrying a stolen gun. The following year, he opened a private nightclub with an appointment in Las Vegas called Club 662, so named because his numbers read MOB on the phone keypad, Tupac Shakur, MC Hammer, Dr. Dre, and Death Line Label
The Knight feud with East Coast businessman Sean Combs ("Puff Daddy") flourished when Knight insulted the creator of the Bad Boy label in the air at the Source Awards in August 1995. Publicly criticized Combs's tendency to ad-libbing his artist's song and dancing in their video, Knight announced to the audience, "Anyone out there who wants to be a recording artist and wants to remain a star, but not to worry about executive producers trying to be all in the video, all on record, dancing, coming to Death Row."
That same year, Knight offered to send bail ( US $ 1.4 $ million ) to Tupac Shakur if the rapper agreed to sign a contract with Death Row. Shakur agreed, setting the stage for his 1996 double album All Eyez on Me and the song "California Love" and "How Do U Want it.
M.C. Hammer's relationship with Suge Knight dates back to 1988. With the success of Hammer's 1994 album, The Funky Headhunter (featuring Tha Dogg Pound), Hammer signed with Death Row Records in 1995, along with Snoop Dogg and his close friend, Tupac. The label did not release a Hammer music album (titled Too Tight ) when he worked with them, even though he released a few songs on the next album. However, Hammer performs a track record with Shakur and others, most notably the song "Too Late Playa" (along with Big Daddy Kane and Danny Boy). After Shakur's death in 1996, Hammer left the record company. He then explains his concerns about this situation in an interview on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) since he was in Las Vegas with Tupac the night of his death. Hammer released 2Pac's "Unconditional Love", on his Family Affair album, in 1998. The friendship of Hammer (played by Romany Malco), Tupac (played by Lamont Bentley) and Suge (played by Anthony Norris) depicted in a television movie, Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story (aired on VH1 in 2001).
Label shrinks when Dr. Dre, frustrated by the worsening corporate reputation and violent tendencies of Knight, decides to leave and form his own label, Aftermath Entertainment. Dre-Dissing record flow followed.
The Murder of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls: Theories Accusing Knight
Tupac Shakur was shot four times in a shootout in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 7, 1996, and died six days later on 13 September. When Shakur's East Coast rivals, The Notorious B.I.G. (AKA Biggie Smalls), was killed in the same shootings in Los Angeles, California on March 9, 1997, there was speculation that Knight was involved and Biggie's death was a revenge kill. Former Death Row artists, including Snoop Dogg, also later accused Knight of being involved in Tupac's murder.
A theory that accuses Suge Knight of the death of Biggie and Tupac is former detective Russell Poole, who suspects that Knight had killed Tupac before he could part with the Knight label and then conspired to kill Biggie to distract himself from the Tupac case. Biggie's complicated killing theory involved Suge Knight, a mischievous policeman, a mortgage broker named Amir Muhammad (who never became a police suspect) along with the police chief and LAPD in a conspiracy to kill and cover Biggie's murder. Biggie's theory formed the spouse's $ 500 span by his family, Wallace, of the city of Los Angeles. The main source for Poole's theory is Kevin Hackie. Hackie has involved Suge Knight and David Mack. Hackie, a former Death Row colleague, said he has knowledge of the involvement between Suge Knight and David Mack and other LAPD officers. The information was used by the Wallace family in their lawsuit against the city of L.A. to Biggie's death. However, then Hackie told a Los Angeles Times reporter Chuck Philips that Wallace's lawyers had changed his declaration. The lawsuit brought by the Wallace family against the city of L.A. based on Russell Poole's theory dismissed in 2010.
The 2005 Los Angeles Times claims that another source for Biggie's killing theory involving Amir Muhammad, David Mack, Suge Knight and LAPD is a schizophrenic man known as "Psycho Mike" who later claimed to be a rumor. and memory misconduct and misidentified Muhammad. John Cook of Brill's Content notes that Philips's article "destroys" Poole-Sullvan's theory of Biggie's murder.
Around the same time, Philips wrote L.A. Times two-part series entitled "Who Kills Tupac Shakur?" into the killing of Shakur and surrounding events based on written statements of police, court documents and interviews.
The L.A. Times story shows that "the shooting was carried out by Compton gang called the Southside Crips to avenge one of its members by Shakur a few hours before.Arkans Anderson, the Crip the Shakur had attacked, shot a fatal shot.The Las Vegas police discounted Anderson as a suspect after questioning him occasionally, he was later killed in what the police said was an unrelated gang. "This article involves East Coast musicians, including Christopher" Biggie Smalls "Wallace, Shakur's enemy at the time, alleging that he paid for the weapon. Before their own deaths, Smalls and his family and Anderson dismissed any role in Shakur's killing. The Biggie family produced documents showing that the rapper was in New York and New Jersey at the time. The New York Times calls inconclusive documents stating:
The pages contained three computer printouts from Daddy's House, showing that Wallace was in the studio recording a song called "Nasty Boy" in the afternoon Shakur was shot. They show that Wallace writes half a session, Enter and exit/sit and put ref, abbreviation for the vowel reference, equivalent to the first take. But nothing shows when the document was created. And Louis Alfred, the recording engineer listed on the sheet, said in an interview that he recalls the song with Wallace in the late-night session, not in the daytime. He can not recall the date of the session but says it may not be Shakur's night shot. We will hear about it, said Mr. Alfred.
As soon as the article was published, The Smoking Gun revealed that the Philips FBI document was false.
Mark Duvoisin, an editor at L.A. Times, writes in an opinion in Rolling Stone that the Philips account has stifled attacks against its credibility.
But L.A. Times printed the full retraction of the two-part series and released Philips shortly thereafter during a wave of layoffs.
In Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake, a documentary by bodyguard Tupac Shakur, he and Cathy Scott, the writer of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls murder , saying that Knight would not put himself in the bullet line that he knew would come. On his website Archived Letters Scott responded to a reader of his book stating that he felt there was no evidence to link Knight with Tupac's murder. Scott also told CNN , "The theory does not even increase." Open fire in my car, but try not to hit me? '"
The law enforcement lawsuit in 2006 into the Biggie Smalls murder, including LAPD Detective Greg Kading, included the killing of Shakur. In his self-published book in 2011, Murder Rap, Kading writes that Duane "Keefe D" Davis, a member of the street gang "Crips", admits years later claiming that he rode in a used car. in Las Vegas Shakur shooting. The Crips claimed they had been offered a million dollars by a Bad Boy record partner to kill Shakur. Kading, named Sean Combs who had been involved in the conspiracy, also wrote that a gift was awarded for the Suge Knight killing.
While in Las Vegas, Kading's book claims, Davis and his fellow Crips members cross the street with BMW carrying Knight and Shakur. The fatal shot was fired by Orlando's "Baby Lane" Anderson, who sits on the side of the car closest to BMW.
Kading alleges that Knight hired Wardel "Pouchie" Fouse to kill the most precious star Sean Combs, Biggie Smalls, a murder committed after a party at the Peterson Automotive Museum. Pouchie later survived the assassination attempt, but died within a year of the first attack. Allegations were never filed against Fouse or Knight and the task force was disbanded for "internal affairs" reasons.
After the death of Shakur and the release of Tha Doggfather Snoop Dogg publicly criticized Knight for Shakur's murder and left the label in 1998. He signed a contract with No Data Record P and then formed his own record label, Doggystyle Record. In 2002, Snoop released the song "Pimp Slapp'd", in which he rejected Knight and Death Row. In 2006, Snoop again attacked the Knight verbally. Knight replied, stating that Snoop is a "police informant" who "never jailed".
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On April 4, 2006, Suge Knight filed for bankruptcy due to a civil litigation against him in which Lydia Harris claimed to have been deceived from a 50% stake in Death Row Records. Prior to filing, Knight was ordered to pay US $ 107 Ã, million to Harris. Under interrogation by creditors, he denies having money stored overseas or in an African company that deals with diamonds and gold. The bankruptcy filed documents show Knight has no income this year from work or business operations. According to the financial records, his bank account only contains US $ 12 , and he has US $ 1,000 worth of clothing , furniture and equipment worth US $ 2,000 , and jewelry worth US $ 25,000 . He also testified that the last time he reviewed the label's financial records at least 10 years earlier. Knight's lawyer says that his client is still "at the helm" of Death Row and has worked to get distribution deals for label catalogs. Harris told reporters that he had received a $ 1 million payment but did not agree to resolve the issue. "I tell you I did not make a settlement for US $ 1 Ã, million . That's silly.Let's stay real," he said.
Knight missed a meeting with his creditors after injuring himself in a motorcycle accident. Another scheduled meeting with the creditors has been missed after Suge says he has suffered death in his family. Finally on July 7, 2006, federal judge Ellen Carroll ordered a bankruptcy takeover from Sals Knight's Death Row Records, saying the record label had been mismanaged.
He filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which allowed the company to resume business operations while restructuring. Death Row was operated by Neilson during the bankruptcy process, while Knight oversaw the estate bankruptcy as a debtor in possession.
In June 2007, he placed his 7 bedroom, 9 ½ bath house in Malibu, California on the market for US $ 6.2 Ã, million as part of his "financial change." The mansion was eventually sold in December 2008 at the bankruptcy court for US $ 4.56 Ã, million .
In June 2008, Death Row Records was prepared for auction at the Bankruptcy Court. The winning bid went to the New York-based company Global Music Group, which confirmed it had bought the company in a statement to the Associated Press news agency. Global Music Group failed to get funding and Death Row Records catalog finally went to Wideawake Entertainment.
On January 25, 2009, the auction was held for all found in Death Row Records offices after the company filed for bankruptcy, including some Knight personal effects. Noteworthy is the Death Row Records electric chair that sells for US $ 2,500 . Some of Knight's personal items appeared in the auction during the debut episode of A & amp; E's Storage Wars , and the stuffed safe (including the mantle) was purchased by buyer Barry Weiss features.
Personal and legal issues
In October 1987, Knight was arrested for domestic violence after he attacked his girlfriend and cut off his ponytail on the road. On October 31, 1987, Knight was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada for car theft, carrying hidden weapons and attempted murder. He allegedly shot a man three times while stealing his car. He pleaded guilty to allegations of lawlessness, and received two years of probation.
In 1996, Knight was sent to prison for a probation offense and in February 1997 was sentenced to nine years in prison. He was released on August 6, 2001.
In 2003 he was sent to prison again for violating parole when he hit the parking attendant. Death Row Records revenue declined drastically due to Knight's detention. It managed to save itself from complete bankruptcy by releasing a compilation album Snoop Dogg archived and Tupac album posthumously. Despite signing a new artist, Knight has never released their album.
In 2006 Knight engaged in another dispute with former friend and former colleague Snoop Dogg after Snoop insulted him in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
On May 10, 2008, Knight was involved in a dispute involving a monetary dispute outside a Hollywood nightclub. She was beaten for 3 minutes, taken to the hospital, and reportedly not working with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
On August 27, 2008, Knight was arrested for drugs and aggravated assault charges after leaving the Las Vegas strip club. When the police arrived on the scene, Knight beat his three-year-old girlfriend, Melissa Isaac, and held up a knife. The report also states that it is under the influence of ecstasy and hydrocodone. On December 5, 2008, Knight was acquitted of all charges. Knight's lawyer, David Chesnoff, said prosecutors had "problems of discovery and witness problems". When Knight was asked about a positive verdict, he replied, "God is good, Happy Holidays".
As part of the October 30, 2008, bankruptcy claim, Knight also filed a lawsuit against Kanye West and his colleagues. The suit relates to the August 2005 shooting at the Western Music Prestige Music Party party, in which Knight was injured by a shot to the top foot. The lawsuit mentions the damage to mental and physical pain caused by shootings, operating costs, loss of income and the theft of diamond diamond earrings (3.0 g) US $ 147.000 . In February 2009, Knight was taken to Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn to be treated for a facial injury he received during an altercation at a private party at the W Scottsdale Hotel, where Knight was reportedly hit by Robert L. Carnes Jr. after exchanging words with her. Officers saw Carnes punching Knight and arrest Carnes and Thomas Leon Anderson Jr., both accused of assault and disorderly behavior.
The remaining items from Knight's private property are auctioned on the first episode of Storage Wars on A & amp; E, which aired on December 1, 2010.
On February 8, 2012, Knight was arrested in Las Vegas, after police found marijuana in his car and several warrants for a previous traffic violation.
2014 Shot
On August 24, 2014, Knight was shot at a pre-Video Music Awards party hosted by Chris Brown in Los Angeles. Despite being shot six times, he can walk from place to ambulance. The wound needs surgery. It was reported by investigators that evidence from closed-circuit television footage (CCTV) indicates that Knight was the target of the targeted shoot. Knight was released from hospital on August 27. Keith Middlebrook's friend told the New York Daily News that Knight returned home with the intention of "recovering in a few days and becoming stronger than ever".
Knight has so far refused to cooperate with law enforcement on this issue. Jeezy later claimed at the Breakfast Club that he would be shot if he had not been pushed out of the way just before the shot.
Prosecution of a robbery allegation (2014-present)
On October 29, 2014, Knight and comedian Katt Williams were both arrested and charged with second-degree robbery in connection with alleged camera theft from paparazzi photographer Leslie Redden in September 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. Knight lawyer Richard Schonfeld said during extradition and bail hearing that Knight suffered from dizziness and chest pain after falling into prison. He was taken to the University Medical Center, where doctors found a blood clot in his lungs.
Both Knight and Williams have pleaded not guilty to robbery. In 2016, the robbery trial was postponed until an unrelated murder trial resolution.
Prosecution of murder indictment (2015-present)
On January 29, 2015, Knight was involved in a hit-and-run incident that left Terry Carter (founder of Heavyweight Records and Knight's friend) dead and another man hospitalized in Compton, California. Knight surrendered to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department the following morning and was arrested on suspicion of murder. The second victim, filmmaker Cle Sloan, suffered a broken leg and head injury. Witnesses claim that Knight followed the man into a burger burger parking lot after a fight about the Straight Outta Compton movie set, and the collision was deliberate. The safety footage video shows Knight running above the two men but what Knight's lawyers say helps her client's defense claim.
In March 2015, Knight was hospitalized after he told the judge that he suffered from blindness and other complications. Knight dismissed the lawyer who handled his murder case and claimed he received inadequate medical care while in detention.
In the same month, the court set a guarantee of his release for US $ 25 million . Knight collapsed in court shortly after the bail arrangement was announced. On April 16, 2015, Knight's warrant was reduced to US $ 10 Ã, million . Until August, he remains in prison.
In July 2015, Knight's lawyer claimed that Knight may have a brain tumor. This information came on the same day when Suge's request for a lower guarantee was rejected.
In January 2016, Stephen L. Schwartz replaced Thomas Mesereau as Knight's lawyer, changing his fourth turn in murder. In May 2016, criminal defense attorneys Antoine D. Williams, Jamal Tooson, and Jeremy Lessem replaced Schwartz and Thaddeus Culpepper as defenders.
In May 2016, Knight requested court approval for permission to visit his hospitalized mother pending trial in pending murder cases.
In July 2016, Judge Ronald Coen denied Knight's actions to reveal the identity of several key prosecution witnesses in a criminal case involving alleged assassination of Terry Carter, citing the long history of Knight's violence. Knight became emotional after the decision, stating that because of his health problems, he would die in prison.
In March 2017, Knight was hospitalized after suffering a blood clot, a condition that has affected him for 2 years. The inpatient of the Knight caused a delay in the pending murder trial. On April 6, 2017, a judge ruled on January 8, 2018, for the murder trial to commence; as of March 2018, the trial is scheduled from April 19, 2018.
Prosecution of alleged death threats (2017-present)
In August 2017, the grand jury sued the Knights for allegedly "threatening death or bodily harm" to F. Gary Gray, director of Straight Outta Compton, on August 8, 2014. The indictment accused the Knights of making "decisive, requisite, immediate and specific "threats against Gray, causing him to fear for his safety and the safety of his family. Knight pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Biographical explanation in movie
References
Further reading
- Biggie & amp; Tupac . Dir. Nick Broomfield. Lafayette Films, 2002.
- Brown, Jake. Suge Knight: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Death Row Records: The "Suge" Knight of Marion, A Hard Beating Study for One Person, One Company That Changed The Way Of American Music Forever . Amber Books, October 1, 2001, 218 p. ISBNÃ, 0-9702224-7-5
- Kading, Greg. Rap Killing: The Undefined Story of Biggie Smalls & amp; Investigating the murder of Tupac Shakur by the detective who solved both cases. One Time Publishing, 2011. ISBNÃ, 0-9839554-8-4
- Philips, Chuck. "Who Kills Tupac Shakur? How Is The Vegas Police Probe Beatled". Los Angeles Times , September 7, 2002, p. 1.
- Raftery, Brian M. "A B.I.G. Mystery." Weekly Entertainment . 27 September 2002, p.Ã, 19.
- Ro, Ronin. Have Gun Will Travel: The Spectacular Rising and Falling Violence from Row Row Records . Doubleday, 1998, 384 p. ISBNÃ, 0-385-49134-4
- Poole, Russell. "Chaos Merchants" ISBN: 9781310940200
- Scott, Cathy. Tupac Shakur killing . Huntington Press, October 1, 2002, 235 p. ISBNÃ, 0-929712-20-X
- Scott, Cathy. Biggie Smalls Murder . St. Martin's Press, 210 pp.Ã, 2000. ISBNÃ, 978-0312266202
- Scott, Cathy. "Unsaved Killings from Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls." Crime Magazine . July 23, 2012, p. 1.
- "Suge Knight Sentenced to 10 Months for Conditional Conditional Breach." MTV.com. July 31, 2003.
- Sullivan, Randall. LAbyrinth: Detectives Investigating the Murder of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. 2002.
- Sullivan, Randall. Labyrinth: Corruption and Representatives at L.A.P.D.: The truth behind the murder of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls . Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2, 2002, 384 pages ISBNÃ, 0-87113-838-7
- Welcome to Death Row . Dir. S. Leigh Savidge & amp; Jeff Scheftel, 2001
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Pro-Football-References
- Suge Knight Biography
- "Dead Poets Society," George magazine, Cathy Scott
- Suge Knight photo gallery
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