A Suge Knight advocate has created a campaign via GoFundMe to help bail the Death Row Records founder out of prison.
The “Help Bail Out Suge Knight Fund” was created by KJ Simpson on January 31, two days after Knight was involved in a hit-and-run that left one man dead and another injured in Compton, California.
“Suge is in Lockup for a simple misunderstanding,” the site states. “Please help put together the $202,500 to help get him out. If we fall short we will just put the money on his books. please help.”
$0 of Simpson’s $202,500 goal has been donated. Many of the comments on the campaign site include expletives towards Knight, and question the validity of the funding.
The monetary amount Simpson is asking for is based on the initial $2 million bail that was set for Knight. A person who is incarcerated can be released on bail if 10 percent of the bail amount is paid to a bail bondsman. The bail bondsman covers the rest of the payment. The bail bondsman is then responsible for making sure the accused appears at their court dates.
On February 2, three days after the “Help Bail Out Suge Knight Fund” was created, Knight’s original attorney James E. Blatt told reporters that Knight’s bail had been revoked.
In late March, Knight’s bail was raised to $25 million.
HipHopDX has reached out to Simpson to comment. At press time, he did not respond.
(April 7, 2015)
UPDATE: The “Help Bail Out Suge Knight Fund” has been removed from GoFundMe.
The URL is no longer active on the crowdfunding site and the campaign “cannot be found.”
No reason has been provided regarding the removal of the page.
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I’d be more likely to donate money if it were to keep him locked up, FOH with trying to free this lowlife.
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i hope he will rott in prison.
if you wanna support hiphop buy some music, go to gigs, spread the culture.
or if you wanna donate give money to orphans or sick ppl.
anyway to donote money to the prosecutor team?
lmao
You got to be kidding
Hell fucking no, let this nigga die in prison
How about starting a fund to help provide a state of the art power enrichment center for inner city youth. Not something to let this overgrown imbecile run havoc in the streets again. #KeepSugeLockedUp
LOL I just visited the site and DX actually helped them gain 9000 dollars today. Good job with promoting this nonsense.
Just donated $25. #FreeSuge
Donated $500 #FreeSuge
Gonna donate for sure! #FreeSuge The hiphop game needs you to run over a few more fakes.
Suge never bailed any of us out when we were stuck in life.
Have a giant seat with this mess.
We all know why Suge Knight’s in prison even if there are many who won’t admit it. He’s been on the authorities blacklist for years. They couldn’t get him on those charges against Death Row, Murder Inc and Rapalot so they decide to find another reason.
Suge Knight has done far less than those who form the real powerbase of the world. He’s an easy target as a working class gang associate who made it. Sure Suge’s got his downside but he is no more violent than people who are paid a salary to keep people under the boot.
Suge Knight did NOT kill Tupac but he has paid indirectly and directly for it again and again. He may not have been honorable in his dealings with Dre and some others but he paid Afeni Shakur something more than 3 million but NO he didn’t have to. See Tupac lived it up and his family lived it up in the short while on Death Row. The houses, jewels, cars, designer clothes, balling on vacation, the gigantic tab at luxury LA hotels for Tupac’s extended family as well as his mother all had to be paid for. Death Row paid that and that’s why after Tupac died, DR said truthfully Tupac owed them.
Afeni went on tv and she didn’t say shit about how she and Tupac and their family balled to the tune of millions. Then she jacked Suge Knight for ‘earnings’ from the millions of records he sold before he died.
It doesn’t work like that. Studio time, producers, publicity, travel to promote Tupac’s records had to be paid somehow. Then after that and after his living expenses he was in the hole because he loved that whole lifestyle.
It’s like that and that’s the way it is. Stop blaming Suge Knight for Tupac choosing to be blunted up and liquored up and not handling his business.
Tupac died because of bad choices he made. He could have exercised self control and business sense and Suge would have respected that. Instead he beat down a Crip and gang members outside of Suge’s Bloods had no reason to give him a pass.
Tupac rejected thug life in prison and then embraced it.
As for Suge doing this and that – currently free music and other executives and rappers have caused people to be beaten down and die but they are the most hypocritical people on this earth.
They don’t step up openly like Suge – they hide behind others.
Anybody who knows anything about the prison system and ‘justice’ system in the USA knows that Suge should be free on principle even if the man has done some wrong things in the past.
I got one better.gofundme.com/r9widse
Fuck suge knight. And fuck DX to!
Suge is “too gangster for radio” so he might as well ride it out. If he’s that hardcore dude who is “about that life”, he should have it made in prison while he waits for trial.
He doesn’t even deserve bail. Keep him locked! Oh, and can somebody tell me why the URL wasn’t working when I clicked on it?
Just Donated $11,210.52 #FreeSuge #PrayForSuge
Trevonte Wilkes
Columbus, OH
How, read below.
(April 7, 2015)
UPDATE: The “Help Bail Out Suge Knight Fund” has been removed from GoFundMe.
The URL is no longer active on the crowdfunding site and the campaign “cannot be found.”
No reason has been provided regarding the removal of the page
@that dude he’s clearly lying/trolling man lol…
He is a murderer. Help him to stop breathing. He ain’t shit but a punk ass bitch.. STOP BREATHING!!
if you donate money to this low life, then you are donating money to the killer of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (Biggie Smalls) #DontFreeSuge
He needs to “run over a few more fakes” huh? so terry carter and cle “bone” sloan are fakes? lol, i think you got it twisted. its probably the other way around because thats definitely not what the streets have been saying. suge ran on up a REAL gangster (bone) and got the tables turned on him.
isn’t bone snitching on a snitch doe? looks like bones report card is getting erased
who did bone snitch on? its actually suge who’s the one thats snitching. he told the authorities and such about terry and bone supposedly being gang members. bone isnt the snitch here…
According to investigator’s docs … Cle “Bone” Sloan was still in his hospital bed when he described the incident to cops by saying, “I fu**ed him up!”…..But Sloan also told investigators he was attempting to walk away from the truck when he was hit………snitched on himself and simon
simon told the authorities bone was a gang member? lmao white people from Minnesota know that bone is a gang member gtfoh
I’m about to send this dude some lube…
Somebody explain to me how come every time niggas are on trial all of sudden they need reading glasses for court. Reading glasses will not help your case
It has been proven that juries are less likely to convict a defendant wearing spectacles. It’s one of those defense tricks to make the defendant look less threatening.
LOL they shut his shit down! Fuck Suge, everybody know he’s a real bad guy.
This site helped them raise 9 thousand dollars!
He a piece of shit anyway! Karma!
Good
nope …thats BAD
nope …its BAD