RBX enjoyed a short but memorable stint on Death Row Records, which was in part derailed due to him mistakenly eating some chicken that belonged to Suge Knight.
The West Coast native rehashed how the chicken incident led to the fracturing of his relationship with the intimidating Death Row boss in a recent interview with The Art of Dialogue.
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“The chicken situation. We go through the performance, we come back,” RBX explained, “there’s eight performers and eight bags of chicken sitting there. We had two shows and hadn’t eaten shit … [I had] an educated guess, there’s eight performers, we ain’t eaten … I grab the chicken; I get to popping.
“Come to find out Suge come walking upstairs with a couple of his homies and that chicken he had bought for his boys. He get to tripping, tripping, woo-wop, wop, wop. I’m frustrated. I’m saying, ‘We up here making this money as a team. We starving. We can’t go — there’s eight of us and there’s 14,000 people out there … Do you know how we’d get mobbed?'”
According to RBX, when Death Row were on the road their issues would never reach a boiling point because they “all needed each other” for the tour, but once everyone got back home, it was a different story.
“When we got back home [Suge] got to doing some things that I just didn’t feel like was appropriate as a business — that was conducive to good business; so I felt like I needed to move around,” he said. “But if I’m gonna keep bumping heads with this dude it’s not gonna be a good thing.
“It’s just best for me to look out for me and not care what your feelings is … And that’s what I was striving to do, just be an artist, less the nonsense.”
The “Remember Me?” rapper joined Death Row in 1992 and made appearances on Dr. Dre’sThe Chronic and his cousin Snoop Dogg’sDoggystyle before departing from Suge’s label two years later in 1994.
RBX joined Premeditated Records where he unleashed his The RBX Files debut album in 1995 before reuniting with Dr. Dre and signing with his Aftermath Records in 1996.
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As for Suge, he remains behind bars serving a 28-year sentence for the deadly hit-and-run incident outside Tam’s Burgers in Compton in 2015.
