An Essay on Suge Knight
Suge Knight, was born Marion Knight on 19th April 1965, to a custodian father and schoolteacher mother. (Suge is short for Sugar Bear, so its pronounced as in the first syllable of ‘sugar’). He was born and grew up in Compton, Los Angeles. He attended Lynwood High School, Lynwood, CA, before he studied at the university of Nevada in Las Vegas. As a youth, he was involved with the Mob Piru Bloods street gang, and during his later years was frequently seen wearing their colors. However, he remained an excellent student and athlete, Knight went to college on a sports scholarship, and played football as a replacement player for the ‘Oakland Raiders’ during the ‘NF’L strike of the early 1980′s. He then retired from professional sports and entered the music industry as a celebrity bodyguard, working for Bobby Brown amongst others, after his limited success as a professional footballer. During this period of body guarding, according to him, he learned that “the key to artistic and financial freedom is owning your masters”. A physically huge man, standing 6 feet and 2 inches tall, and weighing in at around 320 lbs., Knight has been accused of acts of violence including forcing business rivals to drink urine and having extensive ties to street gangs, specifically the Bloods. Knight first ran afoul of the law in 1987, when he faced auto theft, concealed weapon, and attempted murder charges, but got off simply with probation. Two years later, he managed formed his own music-publishing company, and allegedly made his first big money in the business by coercing Vanilla Ice into signing over royalties from his smash album To the Extreme, owing to material that he supposedly sampled from one of Knight’s company creations. Rapper Vanilla Ice has accused Knight of dangling him out the window of a high-rise building several stories up. Vanilla Ice claims that he was forced to agree to grant him a majority of Ice’s own royalties from his signature hit “Ice Ice Baby”. Even though