Really, really bad. Botched flights? Incorrect hotel bookings? Who knows. The rapper Kurupt , when he visited Power The event happened more than 20 years ago. What he did remember, though, were the details. Like Knight roughing up an employee up before sitting on the employee in the bathroom.
He had ordered everyone nearby to urinate in a bucket. For real. According to Kurupt, the employee, both terrified for his life and protective of what little pride remained in his body, squealed.
He pleaded for another option. Any option. These were just words to Knight, then the most imposing, feared and successful grassroots story in America. The cries — an aphrodisiac to his power trip. You gotta get ready to get on the stage now. The employee drank the urine.
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Acclaimed director F. By James Queally , Marisa Gerber. Prosecutor Cynthia Barnes, while questioning director F. In many ways, ex rap-mogul Suge Knight is one of the last defining figures of a glorious - but bloody - era of hip-hop.
His record label, Death Row Records, helped launched the careers of Dre Dre and Snoop Dogg, but the man himself was known for his violent, bullish outbursts.
As he was sentenced on Thursday for a fatal hit-and-run, the daughter of one victim called Knight "truly a disgusting, selfish disgrace to the human species. Knight reached a plea deal last month, allowing him to avoid charges of murder and attempted murder. Knight was reported to have shown no remorse as he was sentenced, standing emotionless in an orange jumpsuit. The maximum penalty for voluntary manslaughter in California is 11 years, but Knight's sentence was doubled because of his previous convictions.
So where did it all go wrong for Suge Knight? Here, we take a look back at the life and times of one of hip-hop's most eccentric characters:. Born Marion "Suge" Knight in and growing up in Compton, he was always determined to make it out of his parents' two bedroom house.
Knight showed incredible promise as an American football player, but after a short-lived career at the University of Nevada, he turned his attention to music.
Days later, a dazed Walters was found wandering the streets nude, his head shaven and covered in cigarette burns. Walters has never publicly spoken of the incident, and no complaints were filed.
Other stories from the era include Knight and his entourage allegedly beating a security guard so badly that he required extensive surgery to save his organs; Knight forcing a record promoter to drink his urine; and Knight beating an accountant who later went into hiding. That night, Knight was driving his BMW on the Vegas Strip with Shakur in the passenger seat when the year-old rapper was shot by an unknown assailant.
Shakur died hours later in the hospital. Knight received a nine-year sentence for the casino assault. By then, Dre had had enough and left the label. Knight was released from prison in and got into a feud with Snoop Dogg the next year. One music-industry veteran recalls getting caught in the middle of that feud, much as Terry Carter would be between Knight and Sloan years later.
There was actually a bounty on my head. Knight served 10 months in prison in after assaulting a valet. He filed for bankruptcy for himself and Death Row in , and the label was sold six years later.
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