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For 24 years, the identity of who exactly clipped the fast-rising rap star has been cloaked in mystery — but that may be changing... Phil Carson told the New York Post that Knight — founder of Death Row Records — allegedly had B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls) murdered as revenge for the Las Vegas slaying months earlier of Tupac Shakur. Knight is serving a 28-year prison sentence for a 2015 hit-and-run case... But according to Carson, the intended target was Sean “Diddy” Combs. Smalls, 24, was collateral damage. Combs was in the SUV behind Smalls on the night of the slaying......

“Hasbro, the company which owns Monopoly, Play-Doh, Furby, and Power Rangers, now owns Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’, Tupac’s ‘All Eyez Me’, the rapper’s first album [recorded at] Death Row Records, and one of the undisputed best rap albums ever made, Snoop Dogg’s ‘Doggystyle’, Dr. Dre and Suge Knight’s ‘Above the Rim’, and many more classic West Coast hip-hop records from the early 90s...”

Marion “Suge” Knight, 53, has arrived at the Wasco State Prison and Reception Center in California, where he could be staying for the remainder of his 28 years prison sentence....The plea deal called for the former Death Row Records exec to serve 22 years in prison on the voluntary manslaughter count, five years because it is a third strike violation, and one year for deadly weapon allegations, PEOPLE confirmed.

Former rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight, founder of one of the genre’s leading labels, had his $2 million bail revoked in Los Angeles after his arrest in running down and killing a man. Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokeswoman Nicole Nishida says detectives asked a bail commissioner Monday to keep the Death Row Records founder behind bars because he is a possible flight risk. Authorities also cited Knight’s history of violent crimes and the possibility he would intimidate witnesses. …

Scandal Erupts at the L.A. Times By Jan Golab FrontPageMagazine.com | December 2, 2005 Times are bad at the L.A. Times. Competition from new media and “a lingering feeling of bias” continue to plague the paper and drive down circulation. Editors John Carroll, Michael Kinsley and leftist icon Robert Scheer have all recently been sent packing. Now, the once venerable paper faces a scandal of Jayson Blair proportions, one that may topple key players—including a Pulitzer Prize winner—and permanently sully its reputation. The Times’ questionable coverage of the Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. (AKA Biggie Smalls) murders has long been...

Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was shot in the leg early Sunday during a party hosted by Grammy-winning hip hop artist Kanye West, police said. Knight, 40, was hospitalized in good condition, police said. He was shot during a celebrity-studded party at the Shore Club, part of a celebration of the MTV Video Music Awards scheduled for Sunday night, said Miami Beach Police Officer Bobby Hernandez. Sonja Mauro, a guest at the club, said a shot in the party's VIP section rang out shortly before 1 a.m. "I was in there and I heard a pop and I ran out...

SHREVEPORT, La. - It was billed as "Super Safe Sunday," a concert to promote nonviolence, but as people were leaving, gunfire erupted, killing one and wounding four others. The shootings happened around 9:40 p.m. near the entrance to the Louisiana State Fairgrounds, where the rap concert, which drew an estimated 5,000 people, took place. The event was closing when someone in a group of people walking away from the fairgrounds threw a bottle at a passing car. Witnesses told police that three of four occupants of the car got guns from the trunk and began shooting, sending people diving and...

There isn't much the city can do about a raunchy record company billboard that is causing an uproar on the Westside, legal and zoning officials told the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday. The news prompted Councilman Jack Weiss, who represents the area, to consider proposing a local law restricting the content of billboards near residential neighborhoods, schools and places of worship. The council also voted 11 to 0 to send the matter to a committee that will study the council's options regarding Tha Row Records' billboard, which features a cartoon character sitting on a toilet and a corresponding vulgarity....