Suge Knight is one of the characters depicted in the N.W.A film Straight Outta Compton, which opened Friday (August 14) and brought in more than $60 million at the box office its opening weekend.
“I’m sure he wouldn’t like it because a lot of it is exaggerated and silly and ridiculous,” Suge Knight‘s lawyer, Tom Mesereau, tells TheWrap.
In the movie, the former CEO of Death Row Records, played by R. Marcos Taylor, is shown assaulting a man because he took his parking space and also having his crew attack Eazy-E for not releasing Dr. Dre from his Ruthless Records contract, among other violent acts.
Mesereau says he hasn’t seen the movie, but has been told of his client’s depiction in the film. The lawyer says that Knight’s contributions to the city of Compton, California have been overlooked in exchange for this vicious image.
“A lot of the media does not realize how many good things he did for people, particularly in his community,” Mesereau says. “He financed athletic facilities in schools. He gave money to the homeless, money to people in need. He tried to arrange truces on the streets so people weren’t killed….He funded funerals for families who were devastated by violence. He used to give a dinner every year for single moms in Compton to recognize their courage and their achievement. He’s a good person, and this will come out in due time.”
Mesereau says that the January hit-and-run near the set of the film, which left Terry Carter dead and Cle “Bone” Sloan severely injured, is also misunderstood and believes Knight will be freed.
“The only comment I have on these facts was that he was ambushed, he was defending himself at all times and he will be vindicated,” Mesereau says.
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Man Please!! Everybody know Suge Knight was a intimidating Asshole back then.. If he would of have sit his ass down and got out them streets like a real OG. He wouldn’t be in jail right now.. So shut the fuck up and do your time!! POT NAaa !!
FREE BIG SUGE, A HIGH POWERED LAWYER LIKE HIS THAT BEAT MICHAEL JACKSONS CHILD MOLESTATION CASE SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE THIS & I HOPE HE DO !!!!! WORST CASE SCENARIO 3-5 YEARS MANSLAUGHTER.
SUGE is a ‘dead man walking’ IF he’s freed……EITHER WAY, the World is AGAINST this crook, this rat, this thief, this buffoon! Either life in a rat hole OR a walking ‘target’ on the streets, we’ll ALL celebrate the greatest party ever, when this EVIL CHUMP is off this planet! This attorney is misled, thinking he’s defending a ‘good person’….. F*CK HIM! He’s gor PAC & BIGGIE’s blood his hands!
How he a rat? u sound real tough typing that shit from behind a screen……….pussy. If u was in a room with Suge u would never repeat those words. Tail between his legs nigga, lol. smh.
FREE SUGE
All this guy is ‘ is a leach and a bully. Now it looks like he’s finally getting what’s coming to him and he can’t handle it. Every time his bail gets rejected he calapses in court. Bull shiting mother fucker.
Free Suge. We want a Suge Knight biopic. will sell more than SOC.
No it wouldnt
Remember when Suge kidnapped Happy Walters and tortured him by stubbing cigarettes on his body, shaved him, drugged and beat him then dropped him off naked in Beverly Hills? He should be given life just for that one incident alone
Man sugar need 2 sit his ass down he suppose to be hard now when it looking like prison is his resting place for life now he want people to see him as a nice guy u reap what u sow.and it time to pay the time for what u bestowed upon others even for tupac death and biggie don’t drop the soap
“He did so many good deeds in the community blah blah blah” Yeah, and so did John Wayne Gacy but it doesn’t change the fact that he killed 30 people……John Gotti also sponsored Youth athletic leagues, guess he should have gotten a pardon too huh??
His lawyer talking shit! Suge ain’t coming back for long time or bail wouldn’t be so high, I think his luck ran out and it only his own fault
20 years I reckon. He’ll be 70 then and unable to bully/extort people in the entertainment industry
There is a time for everything in life. Every seed you sow has to reap a harvest. That can be good or bad. Only Suge knows what he has done. Can he stand before God and make it in. Only God knows that. But I will say Suge repent and nake Jesus Christ your Lord.
Suges a Muslim
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, dancin’ then come to Death Row !
lmao hahahahahaah CLASSIC!
Tha Row is dead…Aftermath gets the last laugh!
@world Dominator i can understand you my nigga there’s never been a bitch ass nigga who loves Suge and you’re surely not one. Jerry Heller was so shook he hired a pair of weightlifters called Animal and Michael as bodyguards, he made Heller’s bodyguards crawl on all fours like little dogs lmaooooo. he shove the new york’s reporter towards a large tank of pirhanas lollll. Happy Walters a bitch ass that mocked Knight on a record he kidnapped him , shaved him and put him naked lolll. there was a bitch nigga named stanley using his phone Suge told him no, he said don’t fuck with me like that then He beaten him and his brother they were found naked in death row offices lollll. Mark Anthony Bell had to drink his own urine as he was bitching not wanting to give puffy’s number lolll. as a conclusion a bitch like you would never love Suge….
Someone’s read a book recently
Wow
I think he did knight did killed. Eazye and 2paca and smalls and the other people and ithink eazye wife and yella had something to do with it to.