Suge Knight
Born: 1965-04-19
Place: 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). 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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- 10 nominations
2000
2001
- Welcome to Death Row as Self - CEO, Death Row Records (archive footage) 🏆
- Suge Knight: On The Real Death Row Story as Himself 🏆
2003
2005
2009
- Tupac Assassination Conspiracy Or Revenge as Self 🏆
- Married to the Game: The Real Inside Story of Death Row as Self
2010
2012
2017
2018
2021
- Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie and Tupac as Self (archive footage)
- Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell as Self - Co-Founder, Death Row Records (archive footage) 🏆
2022
- BODR (Bacc On Death Row) as Himself (archival footage)
- Who Killed Biggie and Tupac? as Self (archive footage) 🏆