Word: marion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MARION BERRY (D) District 1 (Northeast--Jonesboro; West Memphis...
...been a big week for Death Row Records owner MARION ("SUGE") KNIGHT, one of the most controversial impresarios in an industry not known for blandness. First, he was arrested for failing to take a drug test that's part of his probation requirements on a 1992 assault charge. (He has been scarce since Tupac Shakur was shot in a car he was driving.) Then the Los Angeles Times disclosed that the prosecutor overseeing his case, Lawrence Longo, had been removed, after the D.A.'s office learned that Knight had given Longo's daughter a record deal and had rented...
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...
...paranoid royalty 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...
...MARION BERRY Democrat--Arkansas 1st This seat, held by retiring Blanche Lambert, stays Democratic. Berry attacked his opponent on the Medicare issue, claiming the other candidate would force seniors to choose between food and medicine...