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Suge Knight
Compton, California, USA
An American record producer, music executive, and a former replacement player as an American football defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL).…
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An American record producer, music executive, and a former replacement player as an American football defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). 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 2006. In February 2015, Knight was charged with murder and attempted murder following a fatal hit-and-run in Compton, California. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. Known gang banger of at least two Blood gangs. Was driving the car that Tupac Shakur was shot in on September 7, 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tupac died six days later.
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2025
Sean Combs: The Reckoning
TV show Self - Founder of Death Row Records (archive footage)
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2024
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
Movie Self (voice)
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2022
Who Killed Biggie and Tupac?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
BODR (Bacc On Death Row)
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie and Tupac
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
Movie Self - Co-Founder, Death Row Records (archive footage)
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2018
American Dream/American Knightmare
Movie Self
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2017
Who Killed Tupac?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
The Defiant Ones
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2012
Vanilla Ice Archive
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
One Night in Vegas
Movie Self
- 2009
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2009
Tupac Assassination Conspiracy Or Revenge
Movie Self
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2005
Tupac: Live at the House of Blues
Movie Self
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2003
Tupac: Resurrection
Movie Self (archival)
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2002
Last Call with Carson Daly
TV show Self
More credits
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2001
Welcome to Death Row
Movie Self - CEO, Death Row Records (archive footage)
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2001
Suge Knight: On The Real Death Row Story
Movie Himself
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2000
Death Row Uncut
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1995
Murder Was the Case
Movie Executive Producer
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Horrifying Hollywood Murders
Movie Self
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Hopelessly in Love: Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Andre Rison
Movie Self (archive footage)
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FEARED
Movie Executive Producer
