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

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 1, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suge-knight-canny-rap-mogul-criminal-mastermind-or-just-plain-stupid/192379 "2003-08-01T15:26:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suge-knight-canny-rap-mogul-criminal-mastermind-or-just-plain-stupid/192379/1 "2003-08-01T15:26:53Z")

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[Suge Knight gets 10 months in prison - Rap mogul found guilty of parole violation after hitting valet](http://www.msnbc.com/news/946849.asp?0dm=C18RL)

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> 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. …
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suge-knight-canny-rap-mogul-criminal-mastermind-or-just-plain-stupid/192379/2 "2003-08-01T19:50:13Z")

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THUG.

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**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suge-knight-canny-rap-mogul-criminal-mastermind-or-just-plain-stupid/192379/3 "2003-08-01T20:23:30Z")

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