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Suge Knight Indicted For Making Death Threats
Suge Knight made a death threat against famed “Straight Outta Compton” director F. Gary Gray … so claims the L.A. County Grand Jury which indicted Suge on felony criminal threats. Suge Knight allegedly made the threat during the filming of the movie, but months before he killed a man involved in the production by driving over him in a Compton parking lot. TMZ obtained a copy of the Grand Jury indictment, which reads in part, “On or about August 8, 2014, Suge … threatened to commit a crime which would result in death and great bodily injury to Felix Gary Gray.” Suge was extremely unhappy with his portrayal in the…
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“Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Me” Trailer
Michel’le is ready to tell her story. The singer, who rose to fame in the late 1980s hip-hop world alongside N.W.A., narrates Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le, a Lifetime original movie based on her tumultuous life in and out of the limelight. Directed by Janice Cooke (One Tree Hill, UnREAL), the film follows Michel’le (played by Lincoln Heights’ Rhyon Nicole Brown) from her early days in Los Angeles to her success with N.W.A., the hip-hop group whose journey was chronicled in 2015’s breakout biopic Straight Outta Compton. At the height of her success, Michel’le dated N.W.A. member Dr. Dre (Curtis Hamilton), a relationship critics said the Oscar-nominated film glossed…
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Dr. Dre Accused of Hiring Hit Men to Murder Suge Knight
A lawyer working on behalf of Marion Hugh “Suge” Knight, Jr. filed explosive court documents on Monday (April 4th) alleging that legendary producer, Andre “Dr. Dre” Young, worked in cahoots with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in effort to murder Knight. The incident occured in 2014 when Knight was shot 7 times while attending an after party for the Video Music Awards in Los Angeles nightclub 1OAK. Knight’s attorney, Thaddeus Culpepper, accuses a sheriff’s deputy of purposely letting the shooter inside of the Hollywood hotspot where Suge was later injured. In court documents, Culpepper, says his claims are solidified by two damning videos: a club surveillance video depicting Deputy…
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#HappyBirthday Eazy E
With his dark sunglasses, jheri curls and high-pitched rapping style, Eazy-E became one of the defining figures of west coast hip-hop. He’s also one of hip-hop’s more sorely missed. The N.W.A legend born Eric Wright would’ve been 52 years old today.
