Suge Knight
Suge Knight
Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. is an American record producer and music executive. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Death Row Records rose to dominate the rap charts after Dr. Dre's breakthrough album The Chronic in 1992. After several years of chart successes for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Outlawz and Tha Dogg Pound, Death Row Records stagnated after Knight's incarceration on probation violation charges in September 1996 and went bankrupt in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth19 April 1965
CountryUnited States of America
I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.
The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.
How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?
If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.
My kids get everything they want and are raised well.
Coming from prison, you're more appreciative. Somebody gives you a bottle of water, you're like, "Thank you." Because that water means something. It might not be too good. It might not even be drinkable, but you know, you gotta do what you gotta do.
I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.
I don't care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.
Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
People don't know how hard it is to have your own business
When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.
No person ever gave me nothing but God.
I'm gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I'm on my way.