Suge Knight - Canny rap mogul, criminal mastermind, or just plain stupid?

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Suge Knight gets 10 months in prison - Rap mogul found guilty of parole violation after hitting valet

LOS ANGELES, July 31 — Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was given 10 months in prison Thursday after a parole board found that he struck a Hollywood nightclub valet. …

Knight, 37, was instrumental in driving gangsta rap into the mainstream in the 1990s while heading Death Row Records. He fielded a stable of rappers that included Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur.

The 6-foot-3, 315-pound Knight was placed on probation after being convicted in 1992 of pistol-whipping a man in a recording studio. In September 1996, Knight violated that probation and was imprisoned for five years after being caught on videotape, along with Shakur and others, beating a gang rival in the lobby of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.

Shakur was shot and killed three hours later as he was riding in a BMW with Knight, who was wounded in the attack.
Knight was paroled from prison in 2001, but served 61 days behind bars earlier this year for associating with a known gang member in violation of his parole.

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