Suge Knight was knocked unconscious for several minutes on Saturday during a scuffle outside of a nightclub in Los Angeles. While Suge’s guards promptly delivered the kind of smackdown you’d expect, the victim of their aggression was able to make one connect, and good. More »
Suge Knight was knocked unconscious for several minutes on Saturday during a scuffle outside of a nightclub in Los Angeles. While Suge’s guards promptly delivered the kind of smackdown you’d expect, the victim of their aggression was able to make one connect, and good. More »
Suge Knight’s obviously suffered his share of legal and personal and zip code-related indignities lately, but at least he hopes to soon be one step closer to putting the tarnished legacy of Death Row Records behind him. R. Todd Neilson, who’s overseeing the Chapter 11 proceedings for the label that’s still home to certain master tapes by marquee names like Snoop Dogg, has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Los Angeles to put everything Death Row has left on the auction block, and though you’ll need to be able to match the $25 million Warner Music Group has already offered, just look at what you’ll win if you can find an extra million hiding under the couch.
The city of Compton is attempting to run serial white dude dangler and controversy-plagued Death Row records co-founder Suge Knight out of town as part of an anti-gang enforcement strategy that claims Knight has ties to the Piru Bloods. If upheld, the injunction would prevent Knight “from congregating, carrying guns, drinking alcohol in public or staying out past 10 p.m.” in addition to a pre-existing injunction that prevents him from being fed after midnight. Can’t-catch-a-break Suge, needless to say, is contesting:
Dr. Dre has served notice on Death Row Records that he wants The Chronic back in his tender care, hitting his former home base with a lawsuit citing a previous failure to pay agreed-upon royalties as reason enough for the bankruptcy courts to fork over the album’s rights to its creator. More »
Tupac’s mom, Afeni Shakur, is trying to smack down Death Row Records for using unreleased Pac songs to pull itself back into the black. More »
Be warned: Suge Knight has moved from dangling people who cross him out of windows to biting them…. More »
Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Times reviewed the first night of Prince’s stint at Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel; in addition to performing two full sets and hugging Penelope Cruz, Prince managed to drive away some of hip-hop’s biggest names:
Only one awkward moment emerged during Prince’s forays into the crowd. He approached the daunting bunch on what could have been dubbed the “hip-hop power couch” — it included Diddy, Death Row Records founder Suge Knight, Erykah Badu and Nas, among others — and tried to hand the microphone to Nas.
Good news for fans (and ex-wives) of Suge Knight! The Death Row founder will be conducting a live chat with the Washington Post today at noon. Pick a funny online handle (DontDangleMe27? Ain’tDogg?) More »
Just splendid, actually! Knight didn’t kill the guy who made a joke about all of Knight’s employees winding up dead, and he brags about one of his newest musical discoveries, who’s “like a 2000s MC Hammer in the way he can dance and sing and rap with a lot of energy.” More »