Death Row’s former CEO, Marion “Suge” Knight, was arrested on Los Angeles on Thursday morning and he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. He was said to be drawing his gun towards another motorist in a public place, as stated by Los Angeles cops.
Knowing this, the California High Patrol officers pulled over the hip-hop chieftain in a white Cadillac Escalade around midnight Thursday. The rapper was held custody after the incident and the bail was set at $65,000.
Knight was the former CEO of the Death Row records. He co-founded it with Dr. Dre, a member of the N.W.A. and who wished to depart from both his group and their label, Ruthless records, run by Eazy-E. Knight promised to make the Death Row records “the Motown of the 90’s”.
Knight made good on his ambitions, as he secured a distribution deal with Interscope and Dre’s 1992 solo debut, “The Chronic” which became one of the most influential rap albums of all time. Death row records also discovered Snoop Doggy Dogg, whose debut album, Doggy style, was another smash hit in 1993. Death row became a brand name for gangster rapper fans out there.
On 1995, Knight offered to pay the bail of Tupac, if he will agree to sign in for the Death Row records. Tupac Amaru Shakur agreed and had a 1996 blockbuster double album All Eyez on Me and the smash hits “California Love” and “How Do U want it”. Shakur was the one who helped Death Row records to be on top of a market place.
However, with the death of the famous Tupac, Snoop Doggy Dogg openly blasted Suge Knight for the murder of Shakur and he decided to leave the label, which he did in 1997.
There were big troubles for Suge until now and he was arrested for many times for cases like drug and aggravated assault charges, assault with deadly weapon and he was also seen beating his girl friend of three years on August 2008.
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