Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight were two of the most important people in music during the 1990s. Suge Knight was one of the founders of Death Row Records along with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg was one of the top artists on the label. But recently, the one-time comrades have been unable to see eye to eye.
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Suge Knight Hits Back at Snoop Dogg
Knight is currently serving a prison sentence. And since being incarcerated, Knight has had some disparaging things about several of his former running mates, including Snoop. Snoop recently hit back at Knight, accusing him of being bitter after the rap star acquired Death Row Records in February 2022.
Knight recently hit back at the artist, putting Snoops’s ownership of the label under a microscope.
“Snoop, you said I’m mad because you bought Death Row? What did you buy? Show me the paperwork. Show me what you own,” he said.
Knight followed up his statement by noting that Snoop has a murky history as a music executing. Noting that his Doggystyle label flopped and his lack of success as an executive for Def Jam Records.
“And you were running Def Jam. Did you do anything good for Def Jam? Absolutely not. Now you wanna start something that has nothing to do with you. You are going backward,” he added.
“You tryna create something that Suge Knight created. But instead of going big, you disappointing the world by making everything flops.”
He also accused Snoop Dogg of “destroying hip-hop” and said that he is “making it worse.”
“We should be trying to figure out how to make Hip Hop better. Everybody destroying Hip Hop – you guys are making it worse. If you have Death Row, you destroyed it. You messed up the name,” Knight added.
It will be interesting to see what the next chapter in this saga will be.
