Suge Knight to Release ‘Unflinching’ Memoir - 'Your Pain Is My Joy'

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Suge Knight to Release ‘Unflinching’ Memoir Detailing Tupac’s Murder and ‘Brawls’ With Diddy




Your Pain Is My Joy will be released in August

 Suge Knight, one of the most formidable names in hip-hop as the co-founder and CEO of Death Row Records, will be sharing an “unflinching” look at his life in his upcoming memoir, Your Pain Is My Joy.

The 352-page memoir offers a “candid and unapologetic look inside the mind of the original rap kingpin,” according to the book’s description. It will be published on Aug. 4 by the Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books.

Knight is a central and polarizing figure in hip-hop’s 50-year history. Alongside Dr. Dre, he co-founded Death Row Records in 1991 and helped bring West Coast rap to the global stage with superstars Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg. Once described as “the most feared man in hip-hop,” Knight was known to be an intimidating character with his towering build, affiliation with Compton street gang the Bloods, and having a well-documented history of violent encounters.

The book promises that Knight won’t “shy away from the controversy that has followed him his entire life,” including addressing the infamous rumor that he once dangled Vanilla Ice over a balcony in an effort to get him to sign over publishing rights to “Ice Ice Baby,” and his “blow-out brawls” with longtime rival, Bad Boy Records founder Sean “Diddy” Combs.

He’ll also revisit the events surrounding the East Coast–West Coast hip-hop beef and give his version of events of the night that Shakur was gunned down on the streets of Las Vegas in September 1996, which led to the rapper’s death.

Knight wrote his memoir while serving a 28-year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter, stemming from the January 2015 death of Terry Carter, whom Knight mowed down with his car.

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About The Book

Suge Knight was handed nothing in life. Anything he ever had, he fought for, knowing that he had to take what he deserved. Now in this unflinching memoir from behind bars, Suge takes readers on a thrilling ride through the Golden Age of Rap and the streets of Compton.

Back when the streets and the music business mixed freely, Suge Knight brought rap icons such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur to global superstardom with the creation of his label Death Row Records. Living by the rules of the streets, where might makes right and only the strong survive, Suge made his artists household names the same way he fought his way out of Compton, Los Angeles: By overpowering anyone who got in his way.

Everyone in the rap game has a story about Suge Knight. Now, for the first time, Suge is telling his side. From his legendary encounter with Vanilla Ice to blow-out brawls with P. Diddy and the night when he and Tupac got shot in Vegas, Suge doesn’t shy away from the controversy that has followed him his entire life. He pulls no punches, asks for no forgiveness, and explains exactly how he battled his way to the top.

YOUR PAIN IS MY JOY is more than a music memoir: it’s a candid and unapologetic look inside the mind of the original rap kingpin. Electrifying, raw, and often hilarious, Suge gives readers a shotgun seat tour through the wild, wild west of gangsta rap.

[Rubinho]

Infinite would absolutely love this