Suge Knight (* 19 April 1965 in Compton, California; actually Marion Knight) is Hip Hop producer and together with Dr. Dre founder of Death Row record. Today it continues to operate the label under the name Tha Row. Knight is one of the key figures in the argument East Coast vs. west Coast, which shook the Hip Hop scene into the 1990ern.

Knight buildup in of Los Angeles' quarter Compton, the birth place of the Gangsta RAP. He gets a scholarship of the University OF read Vegas, in order to play there in the American football team.

Particularly in the football it was noticeable because of its good achievements. Since its remaining notes were also not all too bad, he got the scholarship at the University OF read Vegas. When new generation players it brought it on some employments at the professional team Los Angeles RAM, lost however still before conclusion of the study scholarship and university place, since its university achievements became catastrophic.

After the Rauswurf from the university it made independent and beside still worked themselves as concert Promoter and as Bodyguard. Together with Dr. Dre it created 1989 the label Death Row record. The first Acts it under contract took is D.O.C and DJ Quik. 1992 published Dr. Dre its own album The Chronic. It sold itself well enough, in order to secure Dre and Death Row several platinum records. In the following year appeared Snoop Doggs debut album Doggystyle, which was produced by Dr. Dre.

In the year 1995 Suge Knight redeemed because of sexual annoyance condemned RWSby Tupac Shakur for $ 1.4 million bail. This had to produce in response for it a double album and a normal album with Death Row. Shakurss album universe Eyez on ME became e.g. like the uncoupled single California Love with Dr. Dre an international sales impact. From a conflict with The Notorious B.I.G., the 2Pac accused of a notice on it to have committed, came it to one as later turned out consequence-fraught conflict between the bosses of the two disk labels bath Boy Entertainment and Death Row, which often as East Coast vs. west Coast conflict of the media became sophisticated, and which led finally to several dead ones.

Death Row record suffered on a long-term basis from the conflict. 1996 left Dr. Dre the label. On 7 September in the same year delivered unknown quantity several shots on Tupac Shakur, which died six days later at its injuries. Up to then Tupac was a financially with distance most important artist of the label.

Shortly thereafter Knight condemned to of nine years term of imprisonment, since it flogged disliked course on the day, on which Shakur died, together with this in a Casino a member of the Crips. Because of good guidance Suge came in August 2001 from the prison.

When in March 1997 The Notorious B.I.G. von Bad Boy Entertainment were shot likewise, most observers Suge Knight regarded as the responsible person in the background, the police could the murder up at Notorious B.I.G. however not clear. After the release from custody Knight its meanwhile financially label tried to develop expenditure bleeding width unit again. The most important again artist taken under contract, Lisa "Left Eye "Lopes (TLC) died however with a car accident in Honduras, before she could publish something on the label, which was renamed meanwhile in Tha Row.

Suge came back because of illegal possession of arms for 60 days in the prison, afterwards, because he flogged a Parkanweiser, last then in August 2003 for further 10 months.

In August 2005 it became with a party in Miami Beach angeschossen, possibly as act of revenge for the murder of Notorious B.I.G.

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