Suge Knight is reportedly suing Dr. Dre for allegedly hiring a hitman to kill him over his Beats By Dre deal with Apple.
Suge is claiming he and Dre had a lifetime management deal, entitling Knight to 30 percent of Dre’s entertainment earnings, which included his partnership deal with Apple and the Beats By Dre brand, TMZ reports. The deal made Dr. Dre Hip Hop’s first billionaire and was partly responsible for Forbes naming him the top Cash King after the publication celebrated a decade of curating the top-earners in the rap game.
The suit names Dre, Apple, Universal and Tam’s Burgers as defendants for unspecified damages, including his 30 percent cut from Apple buying Beats for $3.2 billion in 2014.
According to the lawsuit, Dre wanted out of the terms of his contract with the Death Row mogul and allegedly hired a hitman to murder Knight. Suge suffered wounds to the abdomen after being shot seven times at Hollywood nightclub 1 OAK during VMA weekend in 2014. He also announced earlier this year that he’s suing Chris Brown, who was hosting the party that night, for not providing proper security at the venue.
Suge says even though there were 37 cameras in 1 OAK, no one was arrested for the shooting. The case cites court documents from April that say an individual who goes by the name T-Money told the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department that he was paid by Dre to kill Suge. The suit also claims that Dre and Universal paid a man named Cle “Bone” Sloan $300,000 to take care of the “Suge problem.”
Suge currently sits behind bars for a hit-and-run at Tam’s Burgers in Compton that caused the death of Terry Carter, where Sloan was also injured. Suge claims the incident was an accident and he was trying to escape an ambush after visiting the set of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton. Knight cited the 1 OAK incident in court as reason for him being afraid for his life.
A lawyer for Dr. Dre tells TMZ that Suge is the one in the wrong as the two haven’t associated with each other since 1996.
“We hope that Suge’s lawyer has lots of malicious prosecution insurance,” the Doc’s lawyer says.
The only “Hittman” Dre ever was involved with and hired was Brian Bailey.
What if Dre hired Hittman to hit Suge?
If Dre did hire a hitman, it would be that; A HITMAN…. From Russia, or James Bond himself; better yet Agent 47 himself.
Funny. Dude is complaining that there were 37 cameras and nobody was arrested… Sounds awfully familiar to something that happened 20 years ago. can’t put my finger on it. Karma is a muthaFer, not a big one because Suge survived, but still a muthaFer nonetheless.
this is fool is crazy
Not crazy , he just scrambling for justification for why he ran that guy over.
Does anyone seriously care what happens to these OLD dusty ass niggas?
I only Hit women. Not men.
Cuz you a coward. And you lost your touch musically. Sounding like a weirdo trying to rap like Kendrink. And your productions are now average. It’s over for you and Suge too.
Damn could be real bad for Dre if true.hope not
Dang he’s even suing the burger joint too? Suge desperate for the cash…I don’t feel sorry for him at all…considering all the terrorizing he did in the 90s to 2000s
A ‘Lifetime management Deal’?! Sounds like SLAVERY & ORGANIZED Crime! A management Deal in California can ONLY be 7 years MAX, (which would have expired in 1997), but Marion ‘Suga Bear’ Knight was NEVER Dre’s ‘manager’, but a onetime partner in an illfated label. Suge acts like Dre OWES HIM FOREVER….GTFOH! He’s facing 3rd strike on MURDER CHARGES & trying everything including the ‘kitchen sink’. To think Dre thought he was gettin’ out of a ‘bad deal’ with Eazy-E & Jerry Heller, ONLY to meet the REAL DEVIL: a brother named Marion…a ZILLION Times WORSE! #SugeGonnaFry
About time someone killed Him anyway guys a cancer to the whole music industry
Let’s be honest… if Dre really wanted to kill Suge, he would have done want he does best- hired someone else to do the hiring and then take the credit. I can’t stand either of them two. Dre is a dope producer but he has ALWAYS been a weirdo. It’s evident from those early MTV interviews, with Fab Five Freddy, that dude seemed uncomfortable in his own skin. Now I look back at those interviews and see a frightened young man, that would stoop so low as to even whoop a woman ass- like she was a man- just to come off as a tough guy. But little did he know that the same men he was trying to impress, where thinking, “Beating up a bitch don’t make you shit, but then again. Some niggas think it makes a man!” DAMN smh
Dre always been a weak awkward coward indeed with his fake laugh.