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Suge Knight Arrested In Las Vegas
Marion “Suge” Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records is in a Las Vegas jail today after he was arrested on drug and assault charges.
According to the Associated Press, Knight, 43, is accused of “beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife.”
Knight was hit with multiple charges, including assault with a deadly weapon, battery domestic violence and illegal possession of prescription drugs.
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.7592 Marion “Suge” Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records is in a Las Vegas jail today after he was arrested on drug and assault charges. ... more -
Death Row Records auctioned for $24 million
Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been auctioned for $24 million.
The New York-based Global Music Group Inc. said in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday that on June 24 it purchased Death Row, including its enviable back catalog and current artist contracts.
The purchase concluded the roller-coaster saga of one of hip-hop's most famous labels. Under owner Marion "Suge" Knight, Death Row sold tens of millions of albums in the heyday of early `90s rap — its artists often flashing the spoils of the high life in music videos — before collapsing in debt and mismanagement.
A former couple, Lydia and Michael Harris, claimed they helped found the label, and won a judgment of $107 million, which they tried to collect in 2006. Unable to pay, Death Row and Knight filed for bankruptcy in April 2006, claiming debts of more than $100 million.
In 2006, a federal judge ordered a bankruptcy trustee takeover of Death Row Records, saying the label had undergone gross mismanagement. Knight's decision to file for bankruptcy protection staved off a move by the court to appoint someone to take control of the record label and his assets.
Global Music Group, an independent label, takes ownership of albums including Dr. Dre's "The Chronic," Shakur's "All Eyez on Me" and Snoop Dogg's "Doggystyle."
Other assets are believed to include unreleased material from Shakur that could result in another posthumous release from the rapper.
Knight has a history of legal problems. He was convicted of assault in 1992 and placed on probation, then jailed for five years in 1996 for violating that probation.
He was returned to jail in 2003 for again violating parole, this time by punching a parking attendant at a Hollywood nightclub. He was released the next year.
In 2006 under questioning from his creditors, Knight denied having money tucked away in foreign countries. His bank account then contained just $11.
Global Music CEO Anthony Davi, Jr., said the label planned to get "the best economic results of the catalog and provide long term stewardship of the artists' work." The company plans to later announce details of its plans for Death Row. Death Row Records, the hip-hop label that released seminal gangster rap albums by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, has been aucti... more -
Dre's former right hand man talks Big, Pac, and Ghostproducing
“The stylized black-and-white footage rolled, and there was Dre rapping in close-up, just as expected. Negativity sucked the conference room empty, just as expected…
…But the music sounded like a Death Row track, by which I mean it was a Dr. Dre track. And Dre was doing the hook. That was bad enough. Then the East Coast niggas started showing up in cameos. First some East Coast basketball cats, big and impressive names if you’re from Brooklyn. This was the San Fernando Valley, though. And there was a war going on.
Tupac said, ‘If I see one more East Coast nigga in this motherfucker…’
…Then Kool G. Rap entered the video frame.
‘What the fuck!’ shouted Tupac.
And everybody began to beat the shit out of Sam Sneed.
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1127 “The stylized black-and-white footage rolled, and there was Dre rapping in close-up, just as expected. Negativity sucked the conferenc... more -
Dr. Dre's Former Right Hand Man Tells All
Bruce Williams, Dre's right hand man for over 15 years talks about Doggystyle never being completed, Al Sharpton shaking down Dre for half a million some Suge Knight beatdowns...
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1126 Bruce Williams, Dre's right hand man for over 15 years talks about Doggystyle never being completed, Al Sharpton shaking down Dre... more -
Suge Knight got knocked the F out!!!!
So rap mogul/ bully Suge Knight got knocked the F out at a Los Angeles night club!
Apparently Suge was up to his thuggin' ways, demanding money from someone outside a night club. Suge's body guards reportedly beat the guy to the ground but just before going down, he managed to connect a solid right hook to Suge's 365 pound noggin. Word. So rap mogul/ bully Suge Knight got knocked the F out at a Los Angeles night club! ... more -
UPDATE: Suge Knight Assaulted And Hospitalized
According to TMZ.com, who obtained pictures of the incident, Marion "Suge" Knight, controversial founder of Death Row Records was assaulted last night in Shag Nightclub in Los Angeles last night.
Knight was seen by witnesses arguing with a man, reportedly screaming "I want my money!" According to the reports, Suge and his entourage began assaulting the man, when Suge was struck in the face by the other party, and knocked out.
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.6914 According to TMZ.com, who obtained pictures of the incident, Marion "Suge" Knight, controversial founder of Death Row Record... more
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