From the time he co-founded Death Row Records with Dr. Dre in the early 90s, Marion “Suge” Knight has made his presence felt on the West Coast. From the stories of the former N.W.A bodyguard hanging Vanilla Ice over a hotel balcony to his legendary “renegotiating tactics,” Suge has been the subject of countless chapters in LA folklore. But unlike Rick James and Prince, these tales are often more film noir than comedic.
Former NFL player and current co-host of Max & Marcellus on ESPN radio Marcellus Wiley was nice enough to share with HipHopDX a time when he almost found himself on the wrong end of one of those stories.
“I was at a club and we had like two tables combined, so we sit down at one and [the hostess] is looking for the [people at] the other one, I’m like, ‘let’s just take this one next to us.’” recalled Wiley to DX during Power 106’s recent Powerhouse concert. “[The hostess] was like, ‘No I don’t think you can use that one.’ I was like ‘Why? I thought you said we had two tables.’
So we just take over cause there’s too many of us and nobody’s there. I love getting to clubs early. I don’t know why, cause I’ma spend thousands of dollars so I wanna get my money’s worth. So I’m there and all the sudden we hear the security like ‘Y’all gotta get up. Y’all gotta get up. That’s supposed to be Suge’s table.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, well if it’s Suge’s table I’m about to get up but I don’t want to. Next thing you know [The] Game went up and he started freestyling and rapping at the club so I’m like, ‘Forget that, Game’s rapping, I ain’t moving,’ and I kinda got absentminded. Suge’s supposed to have his table.”
After a while Suge’s party showed up and Wiley, whose crew had scattered throughout the club had to make a choice.
“So all of a sudden everybody just starts scattering and stuff,” Wiley said with a laugh. “Next thing you know I’m like damn near at the table by myself. I’m like ‘What the hell done happened? Everybody dipped,’ and they were like ‘Yo, Suge’s table came.’ So, I get up. I move somewhere else, I punked out, I had to! (Laughs) I mean this is Death Row days!* So we get outside and I’m in a Rolls Royce, a white Phantom and I’m sitting there and it’s almost like the Jaws music starts going off, ‘Duhn-Duhn Duhn-Duhn.’ I’m lookin’ around and then Game and Willie McGinest came up to me and were like, ‘Dawg, you better get outta here.’ I’m like, ‘What’s up?’ And supposedly [Suge and his people] took me not getting up [from their table] immediately as like beef and Suge and his people were looking for me. I was like ‘whoa.’ So I bail out. I get outta there.”
After a few days and the looming certainty of crossing paths with the rap mogul, Wiley and Suge crossed paths.
“Maybe a week or two later I see Suge and then we chopped it up, I was like ‘Dawg, I heard you was sending your boys after me.’ He was like ‘That was you Wiley? My bad (Laughs),’ I was like ‘Man you almost got me killed up in there talkin’ bout ‘My bad!’ So the moral of the story is if you get to the club early be prepared to move!”
*Editor’s Note: Not the good ‘ol Death Row days per se, but obviously Suge still had a presence in the rap game.
complete bullshit
^This x 1000. Shit don’t add up
*Editor’s Note: Your a lame emo thug and Suge old ass will still destroy you pussy
Dumb nigga hush. Suge won’t do shit to nobody. He got beat by a nigga half his size. He a bitch without his crew
I thought Black lives mattered and they’re were going to kill someone for sitting at a table.
Hippocrates
I catch your drift but italians lives still matter, even when they kill eschother over spaghetti sauce….go to an irish bar in boston, after one lager they stump eacother, but itish lives matter….white people kill their own selves cause thebstick market went down 2 points, but white people lives still matter right?
There bad apples from every tree fuckboi, but the apple tree can still produce good apples
So make sure next time somebody goes into a public place and just starts randomly shooting people that the police treat them like they treat the black people they pull over in there cars that haven’t just shot a room full of innocent people. DIfference is they treat the shooter like a mental case and make sure they don’t kill him its always a certain race that does that, they always take them alive!!! Now on the other hand a black person gets pulled over for broken tail light or expired tag and gets shot and killed??? Yall people living under a rock!!
^ Exactly this dude is always on this site playing the race card black this white that ,black this white that …And his boring rants go on,and,on,and,on ,and,on ….
Game? Around innthe death row days? That football concussion sh!t is real yo
I dont even think he was old enough to strip yet
also talked about a Phantom?? Like how
also talked about a Phantom?? Like how
LOL at the editor’s note. Clearly another wannabe “writer” who has no about hip hop.
Your grammar . (“writer” who has no about hip hop) For obvious reasons your opinion is null and void .Thank you please come again.
“who has no about hip hop”??? and you’re clearly another wannabe “intellect”.
Suge not really tough like that. He just had the Mob Piru’z and Lueders Park Piru’z backing him up. They’re like 2 of the biggest gangs in Compton along with South Side Compton Crip.
Wrong. Suge is a bully like that. I’ve heard and read countless stories about him back in those Death Row days. Dude was a beast and a bully. Nobody fucked with Suge. Understand that I’m not talking nowadays, I’m talking back in the day when he was young/healthy and Death Row had money, power and a lot of peoples (rappers, gang affiliations etc). Suge was to be respected. I’m sure he was an aiight dude, as long as you show respect. Hope he can over come his issues he’s dealing with.
Lay off writer and read. He obviously said this wasn’t back in the day.
Suge not really tough like that???? AInt nobody that typed that in they comment gonna do anything if Suge and his boys run up on you!!!! YOU aint really tough like that!!!!
Suge mainly bullied industry folk when he was on top in the mid 90’s! He was never street like his homies from the MOB piru, he went to college to play football. His size, presence and fuck you attitude was enough to scare the shit out of most of the people running the music industry back then but once his blood homies ended up dying left right and centre suges power depleted rapidly. Once he ended up broke the industry blacklisted him and he hasn’t been part of a hit record since 2pacs until the end of time.
I don’t care bout this story but it makes me think of
Alex wiley …super dope Rapper
Was this after Suge got knocked out by the barber or Akon’s men? Because after that, not many people could take him seriously anymore lol.
Everyone knows that suge don’t play around and you might get what biggie got if you don’t run
Cause biggie wasnt a pussy like 2pac and suge were. Pac couldnt handle one little fight in the casino by himself and had to get in a car with suge and drive off. Biggie went cross country to enemy turf and partied all night in a LA venue. Biggie went out like the real one. Pac got murked by his own kind on the west coast.
I can smell from what’s under your skirt that you get ALL your street knowledge from rap music.
That’s kind of dumb to act tough and overbearing everywhere you go. Anyone who gets pissed off enough could easily get revenge against you with a gun at any time, doesn’t have to be in public.