Snoop Dogg sat down with SOHH.com for a CRWN interview where he discusses how Suge Knight and Death Row Records turned his back on him when he tried to make peace with Puff Daddy and The Notorious B.I.G.
Snoop’s attempt to make amends was during a time when the Coolaid rapper just had his son and was on his way to being the father of a second child. It was also a time when the East Coast versus West Coast rivalry was heating up, resulting in the deaths of Biggie and Tupac Shakur. “I’m trying to live, y’all niggas trying to die,” the 44-year-old Long Beach rapper says of Death Row‘s scandalous activities that landed Suge Knight behind bars.
“Just to share this with you and y’all, when he was locked up, it was a pivotal moment where I wanted to go see him and I couldn’t see him because they shut the visiting down,” Snoop says. “But I was able to get on the phone with him and I was like, ‘Cuz, why don’t you let me shake Biggie and Puffy’s hand on TV and end this so we can figure out a way to move forward?'”
According to Snoop, his want to extend an olive branch to Puff and Big was met with a stern “Fuck them bitch ass niggas” from one of Knight’s cohorts.
“Then slowly but surely, they turned on me because they seen I wasn’t with the business, I wasn’t with the bullshit,” he recalls.
Snoop also calls out Suge Knight for being a hypocrite when he got on The Source Awards stage in 1995 and made his infamous speech aimed at Puffy: “To all you artists out there, who don’t wanna be on a record label where the executive producer is all up in the videos, all on the records, dancing, then come to Death Row.”
“I don’t mean to talk about him because I love Suge Knight to death to this day for what he did for me and the opportunity that he gave me,” the Doggfather says. “But there is such a thing as hypocritical. You can’t talk about and then become…The same way he talked about all of them people being in videos and all of that, six months later he was in videos doing the same exact thing. He was on the front of magazines. On the front would be me and Tupac. ‘What are you doing? Why are you up here? It’s not enough room for all three of us.'”
Watch Snoop Dogg‘s Exclusive CRWN interview with SOHH.com below.
I don’t remember guys talking about suge this much when he wasn’t locked up. Snoop was smart to leave, but also don’t tell half of the truth tell the full thing, You knew suge was bad for business years earlier. But you talked all that crip stuff, all that ganster stuff and when it actually started getting ganster you couldn’t adapt, real gansters are use to losing people around them it usually makes them more heartless. Snoop was never a real ganster, I just dislike when these guys portray that lifestyle, but then when that lifestyle knocks on your door your ready to change your life.
Gucci mane is a real ganster
you’re right, 2pac, big, snoop were just pretending to be G’s, they come from the hood alright but not everybody coming from the hood is a gangsta though they might look and talk that way… they saw the warm reception of te behaviour and impersonated it but none actually crossed the bridge from acting it to living it, pac & big lost their lives, snoop and dre ”changed life”
Im my opinion
There is a vast Difference between posing with your team like Suge and strategically building them up in such away that they maintain and promote you specifically…to the point where u become synonymous with their efforts and they reap near zero benefits-as in the puffy effect. The only person who got fucked by deathrow was suge for making his artistes legends. Regardless of the media demonizing the man and yes-his own wrong doings; the effect he had on all his artistes is beyond beneficial to them to this day…even artistes who didnt get records out or atleast albums released during the hey day of the Row or did not sell well are notable for their skills..prime example the lady of rage, nate dogg daz dillinger and crooked i. Yet suge was so bad that all these multi millionnaires couldnt even put together an event to raise bail money or make even a commisary offer?….wow.. and now heres this dude talking like he wasnt once seen as the worst thing that happened to popular culture at one time….
Geez…
Suge is and has always been bad news.
He should of just appreciated what suge did and left it at that if it wasnt for suge he wouldn’t be where he is today. Same way Dre,, Cube, Ren should have just said thank you to Eazy and Jerry, When someone opens the door for you just say thank you.
Are you stupid? Your talking like these guys weren’t going to be able to find opportunity any other way. If anything it should work the other way around. Look who’s still eating vs who kept making the wrong choices with being served the worst of the worst consequences. Look who’s in jail based off those choices. Naw man not just a thank you keep it one hunnid, the good the bad and the ugly just like a true G should.
Your right snoop is still eating, dre and cube is still eating, Suge in jail Eazy dead. But one thing about the industry is Their are millions of talented people out there, but their are few people that have the money to spend and willing to spend it on the artist. Suge had dre and still would have got Pac even if snoop wasnt around. Eazy put the money up over 6 figures to get Ruthless and NWA off the ground. It’s easier for a suge to find a snoop then it is for a snoop to find a suge, It’s easier For a Eazy E to find a cube then it is for a cube to find a Eazy E, People weren’t just walking around giving out record deals and spending millions on the artist. Dre and cube had been doing their thing before Eazy E got into music, they didn’t blow until Eazy put real money behind them if they were so dope why didnt they blow up before Eazy??? Suge doesn’t owe Snoop anything, but Snoop owes Suge a thank you for putting him on and he did that.
Snoop turned his life around after that murder case. It is what it is and fuck thefact dre couldve saved the case if he wouldve showed up. But didnt and he just frgt and just got happy he was free n said fuck death rowm.im tryina live!! Kico back snoop
Snoop was smart if you noticed suge and puff are still alive! The artist were the one’s getting killed
Snoop you must sit down, to make discussion with label and suge
Snoop also should think suge for the protection also without suge real bloods and crips would have got at him ran him out of the rap game and out of L.A, Snoop always needed to be protected back then, First death row and then NO Limit
Aren’t most rappers hypocrites ????? They rap ’bout killin’, gangbangin’ and sellin’ drugs, but really don’t live that life.
Nobody’s rappin’ I don’t like living in the hood with these scary people, I just want out
That’s not really the definition of a hypocrite though bro.
Naw bro that’s just flat out lying. A hypocrite is someone who talks down on another for doing something they do themselves, mostly in secret. Like many of today’s Christians for example.
I believe most of you all off. Dr. Dre is responsible for the of eazy e. Along with ice cube… we have the movie. Dre produced and cube was ghost writting for eazy e. You guys are missing the fuckin point. Without the talent of Dr Dre and Cube writting they have nothing. I don’t give a shit who put what kind of fuckin money was put up. Money gets you only so far and you don’t have the longevity as long as Dre did without talent.
All this bickering bullshit about suge and eazy e putting so and so on is irrelevant. If Dr Dre isn’t around you don’t have the world class wrecking crew, you don’t have Eazy E or Nwa. You don’t have ice cube and ruthless records is non existant. So if you don’t have all what I just said… how the fuck could a deathrow records happen? You would have never heard snoop, Daz, kurupt, nate, Warren g. Also suge knight never would exist if it wasn’t for Dr dre.
When dre had enough of suge and wanted out of deathrow. He parted ways and with nothing. Suge was happy to inherit all and was under the assumption that dre didn’t have left. Now the reason dre left everything is obvious. We know the fuckin history and it’s either you all forgot or just to young to know facts. What happen to deathrow when dre left. It was crumbling and 2pac dead. What did dre do on his own…. let’s see Aftermath. He discovers Eminem, who happens to be white and possibly the best of not one of the best ever. What else happens…. old friends like DPG and snoop rejoin Dr Dre everything is back dre is hot with another label. A talented roster and does the up smoke tour.
So what does that fuckin tell you. Dr dre is ruthless, dre is deathrow and dre is the aftermath. You all need to show more respect for Dr. Dre.
Your just a dr dre fan, suge didnt inherit anything he took the label from dre while dre was on it. Money gets you further than talent on any day of any year in any city. One thing I never understand about you dr dre fans is you keep saying without dre their is No Eazy E ok I’ll give you that maybe no Eazy E, but still a Eric Wright, Eazy had money before he got into the music biz, the man drop 6 figures of his own money, with or without Dre Eric Wright was going to find talent and get rich off music. But without Eazy dre is still in the world class wrecking crew doing tenchno, dance, love music working for alonzo, Cube is in that group with jinx. Dre was so dope why didnt the world class wrecking crew blow up??? Cube is such a great writer why didnt hes group Blow up??? Nobody seen them until Eazy came and put the money behind them to get them out there, also Eazy was the boss, do you think any other labels would have oked f the police, or even the name NWA. You Dr dre fans try to give dre to much credit and then not want to give Eazy his credit and Jerry also, Without Jerry they dont get distrubution. but you dr dre fans prob want to give him the credit for getting distrubution too. Aftermath was a huge flopp when he first came out, you dnt remember that been there done that?? It flopped bad, dre didnt get hot again until Em came out and made him hot to a completely different audience. Without Interscope SPENDING MONEY after that floop Dre career prob takes a diff turn. Moral to the story and the business world money is king, if
@West coast Marv, you got t twisted up & you’re an eazy e fan boy bro! World class wrecking crew did blow up….They had hits like surgery, turn out the lights etc which was getting heavy rotation…the prob was Dre,yella wasn’t seeing the money & that techno shii was getting played out by 87 like jazz, gospel, disco b4 it…
secondly, Alonzo Williams put Eazy,dre, Cube etc on by giving Dre a start,giving Cube his first record deal, hooking Eazy up with Jerry/giving him points in the biz….Aftermath releases like ‘presents, the firm all went platinum but didnt blow up to Jimmy’s or Dre’s or the standard.
If money is really king,why didn’t suge succeed after he came out of prison with da row & signed 50 plus artists? Why did Eazy sign 20+ artists after Dre left & none blew up….Bonethugs saved Ruthless plus the Eazy E’s 93 album which sold off beef with Dre. Besides that which album went platinum on Ruthless? Bone blew up after Eazy’s death anyways….Eazy struggled after Dre left musically
Dre was World class wrecking crew, he left & it was over, he left Ruthless & it was no longer the no 1 rap label in the WC. He left DR & it was over for suge & Aftermath blew up. It can’t all be a coincidence?!!! FOH
Talent over money then bro…..but it ain’t so nowadays coz music is wack & the fans are sheep like you
You do make a better argument then most of these guys, and bring up good logical points, Bone thugs blew up when Eazy was alive thuggish rugguish bone, foe the love of $, Creeping on tha come up went triple plat, but your def right Bone thugs def saved Ruthless. Suge didnt succeed when he came home because for one label had no interest in having him around, nobody wanted to give him money to put out music, no one wanted to even give him a distrubution deal, no one wanted him around. But you bringing up Jerry and Alonzo only further my points even more, Cube and Dre knew jerry before Eazy ever even meet him, Why couldnt they get something going with Jerry before Eazy??? Without Eazy dre stays in the world class wrecking crew, NWA was Eazy’s Idea he came up with the name and concept of the group. Death Row died because Pac died, not because dr dre left. Yea dre blew up when he left ruthless why, because the label put GOOD MONEY into his projects, I’m far from a sheep but I do understand the business concept, if you run a business, you go with the person that can make you the most money not with the most talented person. Eazy E deserves majority of the credit for Ruthless Records being a success, Eazy would have created a Ruthless without dre, Its alway easier for Money to find talent, then for talent to find Money. Now I give dre huge credit for Death Row, but also lets not act like dre leaving was the reason it fell apart it fell apart because Pac died. Dre fans or similar to Dre alway want credit for something you didn’t do, think about all the times dre got credit for records he didn’t even prduce.
Lol! Bro,am an old head…Firstly, Eazy E the rapper was created by Dre & Cube….Bro,stop hating on Dre, Jerry Heller himself said Dre was the reason ruthless succeeded, go read his book….Cold 187 said in his Vlad interview that ruthless was built by Dre.
You skipped over valid points I made & picked the ones you had answers for…nice!
Bone’s debut was an Ep dropped in late 94 & did not go triple plat in 94, may have done that later (Wikipedia can be misleading) rem Eazy died in march 95. bone really blew up when E died & they dropped their LP.
Go watch Alonzo’s vladtv interview, Eazy E’s debut album was a joint effort by dre,Cube,ren, d.o.c, Arabian prince…the single BITH attracted Jerry & so Dre etc were pushing E in the background. Eazy couldn’t have done it w/o Dre….dre dropped SOC,NODIB,Michel’le in one year…plus EDI,JJ fad the previous year.
You’re been contradictory…if money is all that matters, Suge should succeeded coz he signed kurupt by paying him millions, after Dre made him hot on Dr Dre 2001, he signed made artists like left eye, Petey Pablo saying them millions, Petey was paid 3million lol! And didn’t drop an album while there…Suge put Jay z,ja rule,sisquo etc (who were all hot then) on that dysfunctional album sdntrk in 2001 & it flopped!!!! Suge was fucking rich then,he was eating off the pac albums like makaveli (96), AYSD (97) & even UTEOT (2001), better days (2002)…plus the 50m & masters Dre left on the table…..as much as Suge was shunned by labels, he couldn’t drop dope albums, it ain’t js bout distribution. Master P was successful independent.
Dre leaving Deathrow contributed to its downfall….coz he could have continued with snoop,dpg after pac died or signed other artists like he had always done. pac’s fame would have declined in 97 anyway….The game was already shifting to the East coast…Eminem, 50 and Game could have been on DR, imagine that!!! DR died because Suge knows nothing bout running a label! Dre gifted him a record label and pac blew in 96 with the help of Dre and snoop… California Love was pac’s biggest single while he was alive….Dre and pac went on TV promoting AEOM….it’s on YouTube lol!
Dre got full credit and failed to credit his co producers…thats true but Dre is the reason the Westcoast got noticed (ruthless), Westcoast took over (Deathrow), Westcoast made a comeback (aftermath)…DR DRE!!! Give the man his credit, no producer in hip-hop has been involved in four dynasties
Dazz couldn’t save Deathrow when Dre left, shii fell on his head. His albums didn’t sell. Doggfood was really produced by Dazz,dre and soopafly. Soopafly has co produced with Dazz….he has used co producers lol! All eyes on me was mixed by quik and the other half done by JJ
Quik couldn’t save Ruthless when Dre left, he still came over to join him at DR..Quik should have kept Ruthless hot or Deathrow hot too….what happened? How come Quik’s music is regional? Only on Westcoast! He should have transcended the west…DJ mustard blew up with YG without Dre, Jimmy iovine.
Like Jay z said, you made Hov, create hov…Eazy E was the man and he could not create another DRE till he died…while Dre put out snoop immediately he left. Alonzo William is the reason NWA members succeeded including Eazy. Give the man his credit
Lol! Bro,am an old head…Firstly, Eazy E the rapper was created by Dre & Cube….Bro,stop hating on Dre, Jerry Heller himself said Dre was the reason ruthless succeeded, go read his book….Cold 187 said in his Vlad interview that ruthless was built by Dre.
You skipped over valid points I made & picked the ones you had answers for…nice!
Bone’s debut was an Ep dropped in late 94 & did not go triple plat in 94, may have done that later (Wikipedia can be misleading) rem Eazy died in march 95. bone really blew up when E died & they dropped their LP.
Go watch Alonzo’s vladtv interview, Eazy E’s debut album was a joint effort by dre,Cube,ren, d.o.c, Arabian prince…the single BITH attracted Jerry & so Dre etc were pushing E in the background. Eazy couldn’t have done it w/o Dre….dre dropped SOC,NODIB,Michel’le in one year…plus EDI,JJ fad the previous year.
You’re been contradictory…if money is all that matters, Suge should succeeded coz he signed kurupt by paying him millions, after Dre made him hot on Dr Dre 2001, he signed made artists like left eye, Petey Pablo saying them millions, Petey was paid 3million lol! And didn’t drop an album while there…Suge put Jay z,ja rule,sisquo etc (who were all hot then) on that dysfunctional album sdntrk in 2001 & it flopped!!!! Suge was fucking rich then,he was eating off the pac albums like makaveli (96), AYSD (97) & even UTEOT (2001), better days (2002)…plus the 50m & masters Dre left on the table…..as much as Suge was shunned by labels, he couldn’t drop dope albums, it ain’t js bout distribution. Master P was successful independent.
Dre leaving Deathrow contributed to its downfall….coz he could have continued with snoop,dpg after pac died or signed other artists like he had always done. pac’s fame would have declined in 97 anyway….The game was already shifting to the East coast…Eminem, 50 and Game could have been on DR, imagine that!!! DR died because Suge knows nothing bout running a label! Dre gifted him a record label and pac blew in 96 with the help of Dre and snoop… California Love was pac’s biggest single while he was alive….Dre and pac went on TV promoting AEOM….it’s on YouTube lol!
Dre got full credit and failed to credit his co producers…thats true but Dre is the reason the Westcoast got noticed (ruthless), Westcoast took over (Deathrow), Westcoast made a comeback (aftermath)…DR DRE!!! Give the man his credit, no producer in hip-hop has been involved in four dynasties
Dazz couldn’t save Deathrow when Dre left, shii fell on his head. His albums didn’t sell. Doggfood was really produced by Dazz,dre and soopafly. Soopafly has co produced with Dazz….he has used co producers lol! All eyes on me was mixed by quik and the other half done by JJ
Quik couldn’t save Ruthless when Dre left, he still came over to join him at DR..Quik should have kept Ruthless hot or Deathrow hot too….what happened? How come Quik’s music is regional? Only on Westcoast! He should have transcended the west…DJ mustard blew up with YG without Dre, Jimmy iovine
West coast Marv, you got t twisted up & you’re an eazy e fan boy bro! World class wrecking crew did blow up….They had hits like surgery, turn out the lights etc which was getting heavy rotation…the prob was Dre,yella wasn’t seeing the money & that techno shii was getting played out by 87 like jazz, gospel, disco b4 it… secondly, Alonzo Williams put Eazy,dre, Cube etc on by giving Dre a start,giving Cube his first record deal, hooking Eazy up with Jerry/giving him points in the biz….Aftermath releases like ‘presents, the firm all went platinum but didnt blow up to Jimmy’s or Dre’s or the standard. If money is really king,why didn’t suge succeed after he came out of prison with da row & signed 50 plus artists? Why did Eazy sign 20+ artists after Dre left & none blew up….Bonethugs saved Ruthless plus the Eazy E’s 93 album which sold off beef with Dre. Besides that which album went platinum on Ruthless? Bone blew up after Eazy’s death anyways….Eazy struggled after Dre left musically Dre was World class wrecking crew, he left & it was over, he left Ruthless & it was no longer the no 1 rap label in the WC. He left DR & it was over for suge & Aftermath blew up. It can’t all be a coincidence?!!! FOH Talent over money then bro…..but it ain’t so nowadays coz music is wack & the fans are sheep like you
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Suge Knight has the same attitude that I have towards Chicago. I don’t like the fact that the city of Chicago tried to play trying is still trying to play me. Suge Knight doesn’t seem to understand that the people who think he’s dumb will not stop trying to get at him. He should have known that the sick, ignorant hating Moozlim Lady that set him off and said he robbed her is with the Moozlims. They are haters and a street gang.
Pussssy ass snoop talking big now suge locked up.
Pussy ass Snoop? Shut fuck up and go get a job, Who’s the pussy? Talking behind a keyboard, You would never say that shit to his face so go get a hobby, You act like you know Suge personally, He’d probably tell you Go fuck yourself too..Respect the trailblazers, You new generation rap fans don’t know shit about hip hop.
Truth for real. Fuckin simpletons wanna feel important and talk ike THEY WERE actually their.
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Snoops security would twist suge into a pretzel and if suge brings a gang snoops got enough money to buy a mercenary army if he needed to suges gonna rot in jail till he dies and he deserves it i hope he enjoys bending over alot
Dre and DOC left and your dogfather album was weak on beats and lyrics. AND you already said years ago you left because you were broke and not getting paid and didn’t own anything.
Plus, Pac escalated the situation with Dre just because of him. Dre didnt give sh*t about him, but Pac did when he locked up. After Pac was murdered, this lame ass n*gga was flirting with puffy. Do you remember any big tribute for PAc that he participated? Hell No! But I can show you tons of tributes that he showed up for biggie. No respect for this biggot!
If you are black, rich and successful snub the Black Moozlims is the bittom line. When will people in the money learn this. The Black Moozlims are a street gang that harasses all well known Black people for money. They are the cause of your problems from day one but you all run straight to them when you are in trouble. It has always been this way.
Who wasn’t in Vegas the knight Pac got shot?Where did the envy really hide?The hand that hides the snake and on the take.Was it a crip that shot Pac?I can’t remember,so long ago.Any ways,free Suge Knight!!!!!!!!!!
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Snoop a Buster..
Always faking..
A weak gangbanger mascot..
Hiding behind security then claim he peaceful..
Hypocrite, SUGE had you scared to go anywhere..
This Phony should be banned from representing crips and any gang for that matter,
PAC didn’t like you for being a groupie and You are the fakes pimp in the world who cried when ya wife wanted to date another man..
Sure gave you a pass and you are not welcomed in LongBeach.
ASK Trey Dee./ ASK lil Half Dead, ask B.G. Lockout .ask DAz,,, ask warren G ….NAte Dogg is rolling like a rotisserie in his grave because this phony did nothing to help the people who put him on
Lol you sound like a fuckin 15 year old ignorant motherfucker long beach representa… Gang banging is fuckin stupid and so are you. Lol trying to act all hard on the internet like the “gangbanger” you thinkyou are lmao get a fuckin job!!
You are street trash! N word till the day you die. Never going to grow up.
All you know it all up in here. Nigga please don’t talk big. You stupid ass hoes listen snoop doggs music. Hes got more money than you wanna be tough guys talking negative about him. Man this era’s crazy
LOL ?
What good is being rich on earth, clothes for days, many cars, many females, world loves you and on judgement day before “JEHOVAH” your in eternal suffering. Sucks when you have many possesions or you have very little in your possession that you lie, cheat, steal, kill, extort your brothers. Just to maintain or attain possessions. Seek to build your riches in the “HEAVENS” cuz you may die a poor, middle class, or rich man on earth tonite or tomorrow but have riches waiting for you in the “HEAVENS”. King David was the poorest of all his brothers but he was chosen to to be king. “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of “God”.-Mathew chapter 5 verse 9.
Please keep dissing each other. this is more entertaining than the article! boom _EAT BOOGERS FOR LIFE