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Love is not a word most people use when they talk about Marion ("Suge") Knight. They talk about money--Knight is the head of Death Row Records, a hip-hop record label that generated $100 million in revenue last year. They talk about violence--Knight, a 6-ft. 4-in., 315-lb. former pro-football player, is an intimidating figure to some--and Death Row, whose roster of artists includes Snoop Doggy Dogg, is a driving force in the controversial genre of gangsta rap. Knight was behind the wheel of the BMW in which Tupac Shakur, a rapper...
...love, not violence or money, was on Shakur's mind at the end, according to Knight. "We were in the hospital, and I was sittin' on the bed," he says, in one of his first interviews since Shakur's death 1 1/2 weeks ago, "and he called out to me and said he loved...
...wake of the still unsolved murder of Shakur, all eyes have been on Knight, 30. He is a major player in the world of pop music--Death Row is rap's most successful label--and he is a key figure in the life, and death, of Shakur, a young rapper villainized by millions and idolized by millions more...
...seem increasingly compelled to live out the grotesque violence that fills its art. Many initially connected the murder to the rapper's vocal participation in an ugly feud between his California record label, Death Row, and its East Coast competitor, Bad Boy. It was Death Row president Marion ("Suge") Knight who was driving his black BMW after the Tyson fight, with Shakur standing up through the sun roof. Four men rolled up in a white Cadillac, fired about 13 rounds, and sped away, losing the police in traffic. Knight told authorities his head was turned the other...
...charges, but a 1993 sexual-abuse complaint stuck. He arrived for sentencing in a wheelchair; days earlier, he had been shot five times in a Manhattan "robbery" he regarded as a failed hit. Out on appeal last October, he sought protection under the wing of the massive, much feared Knight, who was deeply embroiled in his feud with Bad Boy and the East. In two years the conflict had moved far beyond artistic issues to beatings and perhaps worse: Knight is thought to hold Bad Boy head Sean ("Puffy") Combs indirectly responsible for the shooting death of a friend...