Suge Knight: The Boogeyman of Hip Hop

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Whether through legacy or the sheer force of their personalities, there’s plenty of industry figures who’ve cut such historic and well-documented paths in hip-hop, that they seem more like fictional characters than human beings. And where some people are seen as leaders, anti-heroes or even tragic martyrs, Suge Knight’s role was that of the supervillain.

The final boss when it comes to merging the worlds of hip-hop and gang-related, Marion “Suge” Knight rose from football prospect to a label kingpin that guided the west coast to greatness in the mid 90’s. But in doing so, he muddied the waters between where the business of Death Row Records ended and where street enterprise began.