American Dream/American Knightmare (2018)

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[MALE NEWS ANCHOR]
Breaking news out of LA.

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A music industry mogul
under arrest

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after a deadly hit-and-run.

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[SIRENS BLARING]

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Rap mogul, Suge Knight,
has been arrested.

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Not just detained. Arrested.
Now accused of murder.

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The arrest follows
a deadly crash

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yesterday in Compton.

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[MALE NEWS REPORTER]
They say the altercation

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had started earlier
on the set of a movie.

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The movie is called
Straight Outta Compton.

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It's about
the rap group N.W.A.

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[FEMALE NEWS REPORTER 1]
Knight turned himself in,

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casually puffing on a cigar
as he made his way inside.

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This will be a third-strikes
case against Knight.

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If convicted,
Knight faces life in prison.

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SUGE KNIGHT:
I started off with dreams.

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If you come from that ghetto,
that's all you got, is a dream.

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When I was in elementary school,

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I mean,
I was in the third grade.

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-ANTOINE FUQUA: Right.
-And they had career people.

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They came up there
and they was like,

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"Look, what you wanna be
when you grow up?"

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So, I was like, "Shit.

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-"I'm gonna be
a pro football player."
-FUQUA: Right.

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So, they was like,
"Well, pick something else,

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"'cause the chance of you
being a pro football player

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"is, like, the same as
you seeing a black president.

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"You will never in life
see a black president.

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"If there ever be
a black president,

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"maybe your kids' kids'

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"kids' kids,
you'll be long-gone dead,

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"but you'll never see
a black president."

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-They used to say that to you?
-That's what they said to me.
So, I'm in elementary school

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and I raised my hand again
and the teacher say,

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"What do you want?"

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I stood up. I said, "Fuck you."

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And the teacher was like,

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"See, that's why
you gotta go to the office."

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I said, "Well, send me
to the office, bitch."

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And they had
the career people there.

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I said, "You know what?
Y'all telling this bullshit.

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"They should fire
your motherfucking ass

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"for shooting our
motherfucking dreams down."

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I met my wife in
high school.

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I was a football player,
and she was a cheerleader.

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She was the one who really
pursued me and said...

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I said, "I'm gonna get me
a football player.

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"That's gonna be him."

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-I had no choice.
-[CHUCKLING]

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She was a little, pretty thing
back then, you know...

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"Back then"? I'm not pretty now?

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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

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So, you had the traditional
American family.

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Yeah. My pops worked,

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my mama stayed home
and was a housewife.

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California was
the land of opportunity.

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So my whole family
moved out here.

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You know, growing up
in Compton, to me, was, like,

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the best thing in the world.

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People don't realize, you see,

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Compton started off
with majority white.

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When we first moved to Compton,

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we were the only blacks
on the street.

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So that first year,
of being in Compton

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every morning,

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I watched the stories,

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I had some coffee,
had some toast with my mama.

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-When I was four years old.
-[LAUGHS]

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So my mama was making
her coffee,

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shit, I was making me
some coffee.

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She gave me some,
you know what I mean?

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I probably had a lot of milk
and a lot of sugar,

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-but, shit, I had
my coffee going, you know.
-[LAUGHING]

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Chopping it up, being too grown.

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And, you know,
I was real blessed.

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I got great parents.

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My old man told me I could do
any fucking thing I wanna do,

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as long as I be the best at it.

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My mother, shit, she let me do
whatever I wanna do.

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-Right, right.
-As long as I don't lie to her.

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[SUGE SPEAKING]

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FUQUA: Selling the towels.

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FUQUA: Right.

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So, how old were you
the first time you ever
saw somebody get shot?

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FUQUA: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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FUQUA: Right, right, right.

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Ba-rap.

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I came from school one time,
there was a motherfucker there.

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If they was dead, you know,
we'd check their pockets

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and took their rings
and their watches.

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But one time, you know,
we got, like, $5,500.

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And me and my mama tight,
so, you know, I go home,
I tell my mama.

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-She at least want half.
-[LAUGHING]

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She'd go, "What? You took
this money from a dead man?

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"Where's my cut?"

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-You know what I mean?
-[LAUGHS]

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FUQUA: Is that where
you got that ambition from?

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SUGE: Yeah, I mean,
because, like...

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If you come from the ghetto,

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and you make it out that water,

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you gotta be a cold-ass shark.

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You gotta be
a fucked-up motherfucker.

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If you make it out,

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and you don't got
all the battle wounds,

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and you're half-crazy
and on dope or something,

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they figure you must be
a serious beast.

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MARION KNIGHT SR.:
I loved football,

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and I got him into football.

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And I told him he could play
anything he wanted to play.

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But you got to be rough.

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You can't be a crybaby
and stuff, you know.

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[CHUCKLES]

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And he started off
in Pop Warner.

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I knew he was gonna be
kind of rough

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when an older kid
hit him really hard.

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And I looked, "Oh!"
I thought, I know he ain't...

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And he jumped on up, like,
nothing happen to him

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and got back in there
and went on to do his thing.

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I knew he was gonna be
kind of rough then,

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when he kept playing.

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SUGE: I used to go to practice
to see how many motherfuckers
I could hurt.

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My own players.

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If I had to punch
the linebacker,
I'd try to break his leg

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-or his neck.
-[PLAYERS GRUNTING]

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On the sidelines,
you see maybe, like,

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-five hundred motherfuckers
or more.
-FUQUA: Right.

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-They're at the practice.
-Right.

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So you see the motherfuckers
coming out there,

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you know, the running backs,

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-they got a cute little bitch
with them or something, right?
-Right. Right.

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I'm from Compton.
So, I'm, like, "Shit, nigga."

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I could imagine their
little bitches and stuff
be cheering, "Go, go!"

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And when I crack them...

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[WHISTLE BLOWING]

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I used to peel all the skin

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off their fucking
motherfucking foreheads.

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I could peel all the skin
off their helmet.

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I used to have all this...

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All this shit
all in my nails and shit.

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Why did you do that?

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Well, I felt like this.

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I played defense,
they played offense.

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-At that time,
they were my enemy.
-Right.

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You got motherfuckers
trying to block me,

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to make sure I don't
get to the running back.

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And you got the running back
trying to score a touchdown

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and make me look bad.

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Whatever I had to do to win.
That's all I knew to do, is win.

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Where'd that come from though,
Suge? Where did that come from?

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Probably because,

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when you're growing up,
you grow up in the ghetto,

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everything's a competition.

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They can't give everybody
something.

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So, whoever wins
gets the reward.

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FUQUA:
How do you navigate, Suge,

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when you're a young dude,
the gang life?

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When you grew up in Compton,

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the neighborhood you grew up
was mostly what?

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Pirus. Ain't no "mostly."

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Either you were a Piru
or you were nothing.

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Right.

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-You were a Blood
or you were nothing.
-You were nothing.

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You ain't gonna go
for nothing else,

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you know, period,
not in that neighborhood.

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SUGE: It didn't start off
where they were just saying,

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"Okay, we're gonna start a gang

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"and start
shooting motherfuckers."

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But the Crips
were running around, like,

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taking motherfuckers'
jackets and shoes.

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So homies
put their shit together.

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It was like,
protect the neighborhood.

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So it started off by
protecting your neighborhood.

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Said, "Okay, I don't care
what you got going over there,

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"but you ain't gonna
do this shit over here
in our neighborhood."

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I didn't have to be
part of a gang for protection.

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I fucked with the homies
on the simple fact that...

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Pssh.

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'Cause I love my homies.

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♪ Well, I'm Marion Knight
with the wavy hair

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♪ I'm quick and fast
and always there

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♪ I'll take on any O-lineman
what I know, yeah

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♪ That's why they call him
the Sugar Bear! ♪

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MALE COMMENTATOR:
Marion Knight, number 54!

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And you can see his jubilation.

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[SUGE SPEAKING]

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He asked me which school
should he go to, you know.

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I said, "I'm gonna support you,
either one you want to go.

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"I don't care which one
you go, just, you know,

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"you got to do your best
and make things happen."

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But I was real happy
he got them scholarships.

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MALE COMMENTATOR:
...Marion Knight.

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That was the best time
of my life.

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I would go to the game first

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and then go gamble.

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...with Marion Knight of
the two down linemen

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in a very interesting defense.

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MALE NEWS ANCHOR:
Marion Knight finally making
the stop on this play.

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THOMAS KNIGHT: I thought
he was gonna be a ball player.
He was a good ball player.

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He got with the Rams

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you know, doing training camp
and stuff, you know, and...

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I mean, he would
whoop everybody out there,

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I mean, all of the pros.

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You know,
they couldn't stop him.

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So we just knew that
this guy's gonna...

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He gonna make
the first-string squad.

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And he played first-string
all through the pre-season.

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Then when he got to, uh,
the season games,

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they sat him down.
This, he's not used to.

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He'd been playing first-string
ever since Pop Warner.

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But he always told me,

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"Pop, I know I'm good,
better than these guys.

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"I know I'm better
than these guys.

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"But they don't give me
any game time.

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"They don't give me
a shot at it.

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"They don't give me
a shot at it."

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I said, "Man, you just
got to hang in there.

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"Just don't give up.
Don't give up," you know.

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But, uh, he couldn't
take it. Uh-uh.

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"No, I'm gonna go ahead
and do something better."

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Was it what you thought
it was gonna be, the NFL?

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Hell, no.

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The NFL is the worst
motherfucking place

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in the world to be.

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Why is that?

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Because the NFL is like
a plantation for slaves.

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They treat you like a kid.

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Because when you're big,
it represents dumb.

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-When you're big?
-No matter what. No matter what.

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I walk in here
and people see me,
and they'll be like,

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even when I was young,
they'll be like,

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"Oh, man, that's a big
crazy motherfucker.

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"He must be the bodyguard."

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Shit, why do I gotta be
the bodyguard? I'm a CEO.

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And then, the darker you are,

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the more stupid
they think you are.

237
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Because, I think,
you remind them of a slave.

238
00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,667
I've had like,
conversations with people

239
00:12:46,750 --> 00:12:48,041
who'd tell me, like,

240
00:12:49,250 --> 00:12:51,083
"You're an African-American."

241
00:12:51,166 --> 00:12:52,250
And I get pissed off.

242
00:12:52,333 --> 00:12:54,458
I ain't no fucking
"African-American."

243
00:12:54,542 --> 00:12:57,000
Africans don't even call
their motherfucking selves
"Africans."

244
00:12:57,875 --> 00:12:59,333
If you look at an African,

245
00:12:59,417 --> 00:13:00,875
if they're from Kenya,

246
00:13:00,959 --> 00:13:02,834
they call themselves "Kenyans."

247
00:13:02,917 --> 00:13:04,625
And then the motherfucker
tells me, he said,

248
00:13:06,834 --> 00:13:10,458
"Well, your ancestors
were slaves."

249
00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:13,083
I heard the fuck out of that.

250
00:13:13,166 --> 00:13:15,500
How do you know my ancestors
weren't the slave owners?

251
00:13:16,792 --> 00:13:18,250
Suge, with that mentality...

252
00:13:18,333 --> 00:13:20,083
Suge, no, I get that,
but with that mentality...

253
00:13:20,166 --> 00:13:22,458
Let me ask you this,
after college,
you did what as a job?

254
00:13:22,542 --> 00:13:23,834
First thing I did,

255
00:13:23,917 --> 00:13:26,083
-I went out there
to play some ball.
-Right.

256
00:13:26,166 --> 00:13:27,834
After playing some ball,

257
00:13:27,917 --> 00:13:30,667
like on the off-seasons,
even in college.

258
00:13:30,750 --> 00:13:32,000
-Right.
-Off-seasons...

259
00:13:38,625 --> 00:13:40,000
All the big shows, big concerts.

260
00:13:43,834 --> 00:13:45,917
Were you just rolling
with them as an employee

261
00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,417
or were you body guarding them?

262
00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:48,667
-Shit.
-A little bit of both?

263
00:13:48,750 --> 00:13:50,083
A little bit of everything.

264
00:13:50,166 --> 00:13:52,041
There was times when, you know,

265
00:13:52,125 --> 00:13:54,000
you got to get your hands dirty
on that road.

266
00:14:08,083 --> 00:14:09,625
-FUQUA: What year was this?
-It's the '80s.

267
00:14:09,709 --> 00:14:10,709
-FUQUA: The '80s right?
-Yeah.

268
00:14:15,917 --> 00:14:17,959
From the artists?

269
00:14:18,041 --> 00:14:20,500
My guys come to me.
They're like, "Shit, what's up?"

270
00:14:20,917 --> 00:14:22,709
I said, "Shit,

271
00:14:22,792 --> 00:14:24,959
"I'm bringing Compton
to this motherfucker."
You know what I mean?

272
00:14:25,041 --> 00:14:26,417
Is that where you learned
the music game,

273
00:14:26,500 --> 00:14:29,917
as far as the business,
through that experience?

274
00:14:33,625 --> 00:14:34,625
I've seen guys
come up and be, like,

275
00:14:34,709 --> 00:14:36,417
"Man, I got this hit song,"

276
00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:40,250
and they give a demo
to an artist or the manager.

277
00:14:40,333 --> 00:14:41,875
All of a sudden, somebody else
is singing that song,

278
00:14:41,959 --> 00:14:43,542
and he's not getting no credits.

279
00:14:43,625 --> 00:14:46,125
Or he sold it to them
for $1,000,

280
00:14:46,208 --> 00:14:49,333
and it was worth half-a-million.

281
00:14:49,417 --> 00:14:51,959
So the first thing I did was
I started a publishing company.

282
00:14:52,041 --> 00:14:53,333
You started
a publishing company?

283
00:14:53,417 --> 00:14:54,625
-By yourself?
-By myself.

284
00:14:54,709 --> 00:14:56,166
You just took your own cash?

285
00:14:56,250 --> 00:14:58,917
I took my own cash and started
this publishing company.

286
00:15:00,667 --> 00:15:01,917
So, I didn't have writers.

287
00:15:06,250 --> 00:15:08,959
Once, I'm lying on the couch,
and I hear this song.

288
00:15:09,041 --> 00:15:11,458
♪ Ice Ice Baby ♪

289
00:15:11,542 --> 00:15:13,125
So, I hear that...
[HUMMING TUNE OF ICE ICE BABY]

290
00:15:18,875 --> 00:15:20,625
He's dancing in the video,

291
00:15:20,709 --> 00:15:22,500
and, shit, I'm dancing, too.

292
00:15:22,583 --> 00:15:23,875
When they're singing,
Ice Ice Baby.

293
00:15:23,959 --> 00:15:25,917
I'm like, "Shit, money, money."

294
00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,583
-"Shit, I'm gonna make money."
That's my song!
-That was your song?

295
00:15:29,667 --> 00:15:30,792
That was one of your artists?

296
00:15:36,041 --> 00:15:38,208
So, that was my first experience
with the music business,

297
00:15:38,291 --> 00:15:40,250
because when I first called
these motherfuckers

298
00:15:40,333 --> 00:15:41,500
about my bread,

299
00:15:41,583 --> 00:15:42,959
they basically told me,
"Fuck me."

300
00:15:43,041 --> 00:15:45,166
When you called, uh,
Vanilla Ice?

301
00:15:49,166 --> 00:15:50,542
So, your artist...
What's his name,
the artist who wrote that?

302
00:15:55,542 --> 00:15:57,125
♪ Ice Ice Baby ♪

303
00:15:58,333 --> 00:16:00,083
BRIAN ROSS:
Who is Mario La Vell Johnson?

304
00:16:00,166 --> 00:16:01,458
His name is listed.

305
00:16:01,542 --> 00:16:02,917
That's the guy that Suge Knight
brought over there,

306
00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,291
that is an acquaintance
of mine

307
00:16:04,375 --> 00:16:06,875
that had nothing to do
with that song.

308
00:16:06,959 --> 00:16:09,250
-And you signed over the rights?
-Signed over the rights to him.

309
00:16:09,333 --> 00:16:12,083
So that Suge and them
could get paid for it.

310
00:16:12,166 --> 00:16:13,625
ROSS:
So Mario La Vell Johnson
didn't write that song?

311
00:16:13,709 --> 00:16:14,875
VANILLA: No way.

312
00:16:18,458 --> 00:16:20,417
Suge roughed
one of my bodyguards up.

313
00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:22,583
They roughed everybody else
in my whole entourage up.

314
00:16:23,625 --> 00:16:24,959
Suge took me
out on the balcony,

315
00:16:25,041 --> 00:16:26,500
started talking to me
personally.

316
00:16:26,583 --> 00:16:28,375
-ROSS: On the balcony?
-On the balcony.

317
00:16:28,458 --> 00:16:29,583
ROSS: High above?

318
00:16:29,667 --> 00:16:31,000
VANILLA: Like, 15 floors.

319
00:16:31,959 --> 00:16:33,417
He had me look over the edge.

320
00:16:34,792 --> 00:16:36,917
He showed me how high
I was up there.

321
00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,250
-Were you scared?
-[SCOFFS]

322
00:16:39,458 --> 00:16:40,959
[CHUCKLES]

323
00:16:41,041 --> 00:16:43,750
I needed to wear a diaper
on that day.

324
00:16:43,834 --> 00:16:45,291
I was very scared.

325
00:16:47,959 --> 00:16:49,750
ROSS: How much were
those points worth?

326
00:16:49,834 --> 00:16:51,291
Three or four million dollars.

327
00:16:51,375 --> 00:16:52,792
SUGE: Never happened.

328
00:16:52,875 --> 00:16:54,250
-You didn't take him out
to the balcony?
-No, I did not.

329
00:16:54,333 --> 00:16:55,625
-It never happened?
-Never happened.

330
00:16:55,709 --> 00:16:57,500
-He's afraid of you.
-He shouldn't be afraid of me.

331
00:16:57,583 --> 00:16:58,667
'Cause I can make him a star.

332
00:16:59,583 --> 00:17:01,208
-You can make him a star?
-Exactly.

333
00:17:02,375 --> 00:17:04,250
I remember the first time
I got a big check.

334
00:17:05,375 --> 00:17:06,917
I wasn't gonna give
the bank my check

335
00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,583
until they showed me some money.

336
00:17:09,875 --> 00:17:11,542
So I talked to the clerk.

337
00:17:11,625 --> 00:17:13,583
I talked to
the assistant manager,
I talked to the manager.

338
00:17:13,667 --> 00:17:15,834
"Show me some money.
I wanna see some shit.

339
00:17:15,917 --> 00:17:17,250
"If I'm gonna give you
my motherfucking check,

340
00:17:17,333 --> 00:17:18,959
"I want to see some money."

341
00:17:19,041 --> 00:17:20,291
They're like,
"Man, we don't do that."

342
00:17:20,375 --> 00:17:21,667
"I'm from Compton, I don't
care about anybody else.

343
00:17:21,750 --> 00:17:23,542
"I wanna see the money.

344
00:17:23,625 --> 00:17:25,458
"Let me see
how all that money looks."

345
00:17:25,542 --> 00:17:26,792
-[LAUGHS]
-They took me to the back,

346
00:17:26,875 --> 00:17:29,500
opened the vault.
I seen that money.

347
00:17:29,583 --> 00:17:32,250
I put my change in there,
and I felt like... [EXHALES]

348
00:17:33,917 --> 00:17:37,083
Anybody need any help,
I got you. I'm rich.

349
00:17:37,667 --> 00:17:39,417
MAN: Yo!

350
00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:41,625
Dude, I wanna tell you
about a little history
that they just made.

351
00:17:41,709 --> 00:17:45,125
Their album Niggaz4Life
debuted at number two.

352
00:17:45,208 --> 00:17:47,583
Only artist to do that
before them

353
00:17:47,667 --> 00:17:48,917
was Michael Jackson.

354
00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,792
And the next week,
guess where they went.

355
00:17:50,875 --> 00:17:52,625
Number one. Straight to the top.

356
00:17:52,709 --> 00:17:54,792
Number one pop album in America.

357
00:17:54,875 --> 00:17:57,041
N.W.A, Niggaz Wit Attitude.

358
00:17:57,125 --> 00:17:58,458
What does that all mean,
you know?

359
00:17:58,542 --> 00:18:01,041
Look, Niggaz4Life  started out...

360
00:18:01,125 --> 00:18:02,917
We got the title because,
you know, we niggas,

361
00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,709
ignorant brothers out here,

362
00:18:04,792 --> 00:18:06,000
trying to make a dollar,
you know what I'm saying?

363
00:18:06,083 --> 00:18:07,875
Yeah, but how ignorant is N.W.A?

364
00:18:07,959 --> 00:18:09,625
Come on, G,
y'all went to number one.

365
00:18:09,709 --> 00:18:10,917
You got a billboard
on Sunset Boulevard.

366
00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,333
What's up with all that, man?

367
00:18:12,417 --> 00:18:14,083
It don't mean nothing
till you get them dollars.

368
00:18:14,166 --> 00:18:15,333
SUGE: I was managing Andre.

369
00:18:18,709 --> 00:18:19,625
-FUQUA: Dr. Dre?
-Yeah.

370
00:18:23,250 --> 00:18:24,333
FUQUA: And what was
the manager's name?

371
00:18:24,417 --> 00:18:25,792
-Jerry Heller?
-SUGE: Jerry Heller.

372
00:18:25,875 --> 00:18:27,667
Wasn't that supposed to be
Eazy-E's company?

373
00:18:27,750 --> 00:18:29,458
SUGE:
It was Eazy's company.

374
00:18:29,542 --> 00:18:33,375
Jerry would take
20% off the top.

375
00:18:33,458 --> 00:18:34,959
And he added himself
as a group member.

376
00:18:35,041 --> 00:18:36,291
FUQUA:
A group member to N.W.A?

377
00:18:38,667 --> 00:18:41,542
You said,
"If I stole from these guys,

378
00:18:41,625 --> 00:18:43,208
"why did they never sue me?"

379
00:18:43,291 --> 00:18:45,333
Nobody ever sued, so obviously

380
00:18:45,417 --> 00:18:49,834
they were just using it
as an excuse in...

381
00:18:50,542 --> 00:18:52,917
In Compton or wherever,

382
00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,750
to say, "You know, we got rid of
the white guy, you know,

383
00:18:55,834 --> 00:18:59,667
"because he was helping Eazy
steal or whatever."

384
00:18:59,750 --> 00:19:04,458
But nobody ever sued me
and nobody ever sued him.

385
00:19:04,542 --> 00:19:06,667
So, obviously it was
all bullshit.

386
00:19:06,750 --> 00:19:08,250
[SUGE SPEAKING]

387
00:19:09,959 --> 00:19:11,250
I turned him down.

388
00:19:20,125 --> 00:19:24,291
Instead of Dre being there,
Suge Knight was there,
and guys in black jackets

389
00:19:24,375 --> 00:19:27,333
with lead pipes
and baseball bats.

390
00:19:27,417 --> 00:19:30,625
And forced him,
under threat of his life,

391
00:19:30,709 --> 00:19:32,959
and telling him that
they would kill his mother,

392
00:19:33,041 --> 00:19:34,750
and that they were
holding me hostage.

393
00:19:34,834 --> 00:19:37,083
Under those kinds of duress,

394
00:19:37,166 --> 00:19:39,417
got him to sign releases
for Dr. Dre.

395
00:19:41,166 --> 00:19:43,083
You know, he probably
cost me personally,

396
00:19:44,792 --> 00:19:47,750
like $25 or 30 million,
you know?

397
00:19:47,834 --> 00:19:49,792
MALE INTERVIEWER: Eazy said
y'all came at him with bats,

398
00:19:49,875 --> 00:19:51,917
-you know what I'm saying?
-No, man.

399
00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,625
Swinging and all that
whole thing,

400
00:19:53,709 --> 00:19:55,000
you know what I'm saying?

401
00:19:55,083 --> 00:19:58,041
Dr. Dre came that way at Eazy-E,
know what I'm saying?

402
00:19:58,125 --> 00:19:59,250
Is that the way
you got him to sign...

403
00:19:59,333 --> 00:20:00,875
I don't know
what he's talking about.

404
00:20:03,500 --> 00:20:05,208
SUGE: Force can get you
in the door.

405
00:20:06,959 --> 00:20:09,709
Brain is gonna keep you there
to be able to create
and do something.

406
00:20:09,792 --> 00:20:11,750
'Cause if you force somebody
to do something...

407
00:20:11,834 --> 00:20:13,000
If you're a dummy,
how would you know

408
00:20:13,083 --> 00:20:14,458
if they're giving you
a great deal?

409
00:20:20,834 --> 00:20:23,166
FUQUA: How did you create
the name "Death Row"?

410
00:20:23,250 --> 00:20:25,834
We were just trying to
come up with a name
for the record label.

411
00:20:25,917 --> 00:20:28,750
Andre was like,
"I got the perfect name
for the company."

412
00:20:28,834 --> 00:20:29,750
"What you got?"

413
00:20:29,834 --> 00:20:31,250
"Future Shock."

414
00:20:32,250 --> 00:20:34,000
A guy named Unknown was like,

415
00:20:34,083 --> 00:20:36,333
"Russell and them got Def Jam.
What if it was like

416
00:20:36,417 --> 00:20:38,667
"Deaf Row, but like 'deaf,'
you can't hear?"

417
00:20:38,750 --> 00:20:42,291
I was like, "Look, we ain't
no kids around here.

418
00:20:42,375 --> 00:20:43,875
"We ain't Hollywood.

419
00:20:43,959 --> 00:20:45,917
"Motherfucker,
we still in the ghetto.

420
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,333
"We're gonna do some shit
where it's 'Death Row.'

421
00:20:48,417 --> 00:20:49,792
"Like the real death row,

422
00:20:49,875 --> 00:20:51,000
"the electric chair
type of shit."

423
00:21:07,333 --> 00:21:09,375
So that's when it really
became officially Death Row.

424
00:21:16,208 --> 00:21:19,083
MALE EMCEE: Let me see
you put your hands together
and say, "Oh, yeah."

425
00:21:19,166 --> 00:21:20,333
CROWD: Oh, yeah.

426
00:21:20,417 --> 00:21:22,917
Let me see somebody
give Dre, Suge,

427
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,959
DOC, a round of applause.

428
00:21:25,041 --> 00:21:29,000
Death Row Records is gonna be
the record company of the 2000s.

429
00:21:29,083 --> 00:21:30,583
Put your hands together!

430
00:21:30,667 --> 00:21:32,125
-Come on, y'all,
make some noise.
-[APPLAUDING AND CHEERING]

431
00:21:36,375 --> 00:21:38,333
MALE INTERVIEWER: You just
recently bought a studio.

432
00:21:38,417 --> 00:21:40,041
What did you do
to get where you are now?

433
00:21:40,125 --> 00:21:41,834
Work hard. Hard work.

434
00:21:41,917 --> 00:21:44,458
I started on a 4-track
in a garage in Compton.

435
00:21:44,542 --> 00:21:47,041
Dr. Dre was gonna do
his own thing.

436
00:21:47,125 --> 00:21:50,959
And with a lot of help from
Suge Knight and Harry O,

437
00:21:51,041 --> 00:21:53,125
and a number of people
and we got it all together.

438
00:21:53,208 --> 00:21:54,542
SUGE: I get DOC, I get Snoop.

439
00:22:02,208 --> 00:22:04,250
DOC: Death Row is capable

440
00:22:04,333 --> 00:22:08,208
of totally annihilating

441
00:22:08,291 --> 00:22:11,291
any other label
in this music business,

442
00:22:11,375 --> 00:22:14,041
but we ain't like that.
[LAUGHS]

443
00:22:14,125 --> 00:22:17,250
We got the best producers,
we got the best artists.

444
00:22:17,333 --> 00:22:19,792
And we were getting
the talent off the streets
that they can't get.

445
00:22:19,875 --> 00:22:21,542
There's a lot of talent around.

446
00:22:21,625 --> 00:22:23,083
Guys who didn't have
the opportunity

447
00:22:23,166 --> 00:22:25,583
to have a chance
to prove themselves.

448
00:22:25,667 --> 00:22:27,250
As far as GF Entertainment goes,

449
00:22:27,333 --> 00:22:29,709
with the studio and the films,

450
00:22:29,792 --> 00:22:31,750
we're giving all the youngsters
the opportunity,

451
00:22:31,834 --> 00:22:33,417
from all the neighborhoods.

452
00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:35,709
Well, basically,
we haven't forgotten
where we came from.

453
00:22:43,959 --> 00:22:45,208
[SUGE SPEAKING]

454
00:22:52,250 --> 00:22:54,291
See, that's the time we were
putting some music out.

455
00:22:54,375 --> 00:22:55,959
Most of the shit
we were talking about

456
00:22:56,041 --> 00:22:59,542
had something to do
with the troops or the riots.

457
00:22:59,625 --> 00:23:01,291
You know,
shit that was really going on.

458
00:23:01,375 --> 00:23:02,583
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

459
00:23:05,417 --> 00:23:06,500
[DR. DRE RAPPING]

460
00:23:27,917 --> 00:23:29,291
MAN: This guy is
laying in the street.

461
00:23:29,375 --> 00:23:30,500
Hit the siren, Doug.

462
00:23:30,583 --> 00:23:32,000
[SIREN BLARING]

463
00:23:35,875 --> 00:23:38,208
I was raised like...

464
00:23:38,291 --> 00:23:42,500
Music, it was like
the struggle of the slaves,

465
00:23:42,583 --> 00:23:44,375
the struggle of the blues,

466
00:23:44,458 --> 00:23:45,792
the struggle of depression.

467
00:23:46,792 --> 00:23:50,542
So, when I got of age,

468
00:23:50,625 --> 00:23:54,041
we weren't about
the struggle of depression

469
00:23:54,125 --> 00:23:57,166
and crying out for help.

470
00:23:57,250 --> 00:23:58,625
We were about saying,

471
00:23:58,709 --> 00:24:01,208
"Fuck you,
we're taking this and...

472
00:24:01,291 --> 00:24:02,583
"This bitch over here..."

473
00:24:02,667 --> 00:24:04,125
And people were cussing
on the records

474
00:24:04,208 --> 00:24:05,917
and saying the fuck
what they wanna say,

475
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,208
and expressing themselves.

476
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,458
[DR. DRE RAPPING]

477
00:24:16,333 --> 00:24:18,166
♪ Yeah, and you don't stop ♪

478
00:24:18,250 --> 00:24:19,291
[SNOOP DOGG RAPPING]

479
00:24:31,083 --> 00:24:33,125
FUQUA: So,
you got your label going,
you got your money

480
00:24:33,208 --> 00:24:35,583
from the soundtrack.
So how did you meet Jimmy?

481
00:24:35,667 --> 00:24:37,166
SUGE: So we go to
the meeting with Interscope.

482
00:24:37,250 --> 00:24:40,208
I said, "I'm gonna get you
the best song
for the summer.

483
00:24:40,291 --> 00:24:43,125
I said, "Better yet,
the best song
for the whole year.

484
00:24:43,208 --> 00:24:46,083
"And I got an album done,
I got a record label.

485
00:24:46,166 --> 00:24:48,083
"The album's called
The Chronic."

486
00:24:48,166 --> 00:24:49,625
They're like,
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."

487
00:24:49,709 --> 00:24:51,875
So I play 'G' Thang  for them.

488
00:24:53,709 --> 00:24:55,125
Jimmy and the rest
of those dudes said

489
00:24:55,208 --> 00:24:57,375
it was the worst song ever.
"Oh, this is not a hit song."

490
00:24:57,458 --> 00:25:00,250
I tell Andre, "Let's go."
So we pushed.

491
00:25:09,458 --> 00:25:10,875
So I take the song to radio.

492
00:25:12,458 --> 00:25:14,625
The song is everywhere,
it's blowing up.

493
00:25:14,709 --> 00:25:17,041
-And then they want
the song back.
-Right.

494
00:25:17,125 --> 00:25:19,000
They say, "We wanna meet."

495
00:25:19,083 --> 00:25:20,834
I met with Ted and Jimmy
and they told me

496
00:25:20,917 --> 00:25:24,625
they didn't wanna mess with
no R&B, hip-hop, rap music,

497
00:25:24,709 --> 00:25:27,125
because they basically
flat-out said, you know,

498
00:25:27,208 --> 00:25:29,458
"Black motherfuckers
is headaches

499
00:25:29,542 --> 00:25:31,750
-"and we don't like
dealing with them."
-Right.

500
00:25:31,834 --> 00:25:34,625
I said, "All right, well,
maybe you shouldn't."

501
00:25:34,709 --> 00:25:35,792
"That's why
I'm dealing with them."

502
00:25:35,875 --> 00:25:38,125
I said, "Because we're
from the same place.

503
00:25:38,208 --> 00:25:39,625
"You're saying
you don't like them,

504
00:25:39,709 --> 00:25:40,917
"you don't know them,

505
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,583
"how could you understand them?"

506
00:25:42,667 --> 00:25:44,750
I said,
"Shit, but the way you say it,

507
00:25:44,834 --> 00:25:47,083
"we're not talking about like,
we monkeys or something.

508
00:25:47,166 --> 00:25:48,500
-Right.
-"You guys are fucked up.

509
00:25:48,583 --> 00:25:50,500
"It's not animals,
this is real people."

510
00:25:50,583 --> 00:25:54,250
We had that bomb-ass music
for that ass.

511
00:25:54,333 --> 00:25:55,792
That sounds good.

512
00:25:55,875 --> 00:25:57,000
People talking about stuff

513
00:25:57,083 --> 00:26:00,208
that they really
identify stuff with.

514
00:26:00,291 --> 00:26:02,208
You got a record
where a song playing...

515
00:26:02,291 --> 00:26:04,458
If it was 'G' Thang
or something like that,

516
00:26:04,542 --> 00:26:06,417
it makes you feel like, "Shit,

517
00:26:07,750 --> 00:26:09,583
"we got hope around
this motherfucker."

518
00:26:09,667 --> 00:26:12,500
MALE NEWS REPORTER 1: Bloods
and Crips, some 100,000 strong

519
00:26:12,583 --> 00:26:15,166
may turn their anger about
the Rodney King verdict

520
00:26:15,250 --> 00:26:16,750
into peace.

521
00:26:16,834 --> 00:26:18,917
The message rose through
the smoke and flames.

522
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,500
Gang graffiti never seen before.

523
00:26:21,583 --> 00:26:24,166
A plea, a call for unity.

524
00:26:24,250 --> 00:26:25,709
MALE NEWS REPORTER 2:
In the past, the mere sight

525
00:26:25,792 --> 00:26:27,291
of their rival gang's colors,

526
00:26:27,375 --> 00:26:29,500
red for Bloods, blue for Crips,

527
00:26:29,583 --> 00:26:31,458
could trigger deadly violence.

528
00:26:31,542 --> 00:26:33,208
FUQUA: What about
the gang affiliations

529
00:26:33,291 --> 00:26:34,542
that everybody
was talking about,
Death Row with the Blood?

530
00:26:36,041 --> 00:26:39,291
Homies who got red rags on
got their red rags on.

531
00:26:39,375 --> 00:26:41,667
Homies, you know,
they wear blue.

532
00:26:41,750 --> 00:26:43,959
Snoop and the Dogg Pound,
they got their blue rags.

533
00:26:44,041 --> 00:26:47,875
It was about the most
powerful movement

534
00:26:48,792 --> 00:26:50,458
that ended up in a negative way.

535
00:26:50,542 --> 00:26:52,458
But it was spreading
all over the world,

536
00:26:52,542 --> 00:26:54,458
it's like gang banging.

537
00:26:55,166 --> 00:26:56,291
Red and blue.

538
00:26:56,375 --> 00:26:57,875
Getting real money.

539
00:26:57,959 --> 00:26:59,667
There ain't no shooting,
there ain't no violence.

540
00:26:59,750 --> 00:27:02,542
I really enjoyed that shit
when the peace treaty was on.

541
00:27:02,625 --> 00:27:04,834
Actually going to
Blood neighborhoods,

542
00:27:04,917 --> 00:27:07,458
having smoke-outs,
chilling at picnics.

543
00:27:07,542 --> 00:27:09,959
That was a feeling that
a motherfucker can't explain.

544
00:27:10,041 --> 00:27:12,458
Everybody was accepting
everybody for what they was,

545
00:27:12,542 --> 00:27:13,750
not for where they were from.

546
00:27:13,834 --> 00:27:16,166
You could still wear
your gang colors.

547
00:27:16,250 --> 00:27:20,083
You know what I'm saying?
You still from this,
you still from that.

548
00:27:20,166 --> 00:27:21,875
It don't matter.

549
00:27:21,959 --> 00:27:24,083
And everybody was black
at that moment,

550
00:27:24,166 --> 00:27:25,458
you know what I'm saying?

551
00:27:25,542 --> 00:27:27,917
Snoop and Dre made
Soul Train  tonight.

552
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,750
But Death Row still got
some time to do this

553
00:27:29,834 --> 00:27:32,166
for Dre and Death Row
and everybody.

554
00:27:32,250 --> 00:27:34,000
We gave our own awards out.

555
00:27:34,083 --> 00:27:37,250
Everybody, we got an award
for Dre for Best Producer,

556
00:27:37,333 --> 00:27:39,041
Best Artist,

557
00:27:39,125 --> 00:27:40,709
best motherfucker around here.

558
00:27:40,792 --> 00:27:42,500
[ALL LAUGHING]

559
00:27:44,959 --> 00:27:47,208
Hey! And he ain't no
Captain Save-a-Ho, either.

560
00:27:47,291 --> 00:27:48,834
[ALL LAUGHING]

561
00:27:50,333 --> 00:27:53,750
Here it is. Snoop Dogg
got the Pimp Award.

562
00:27:53,834 --> 00:27:57,333
"Pimp of the Year."
My bitch better have my money.

563
00:27:57,417 --> 00:27:58,709
MAN: Snoop Dogg!

564
00:27:58,792 --> 00:27:59,959
MALE EMCEE:
Come on, nigga, get up.

565
00:28:00,041 --> 00:28:02,208
MAN: Give a speech and shit.

566
00:28:02,291 --> 00:28:04,750
Let me give a shout-out
to all the new talent
on Death Row.

567
00:28:04,834 --> 00:28:05,792
Just a few things
I think are proper

568
00:28:05,875 --> 00:28:07,125
with Death Row, the new artists.

569
00:28:07,208 --> 00:28:08,917
We're gonna make room
for everybody.

570
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,166
So everybody can come up here
and get one of these next year.

571
00:28:11,250 --> 00:28:13,542
There's enough room
for everybody,
you know what I'm saying?

572
00:28:13,625 --> 00:28:14,917
I would take artists
on Death Row

573
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,250
and make them a household name

574
00:28:16,333 --> 00:28:18,166
before they even put
a record out.

575
00:28:18,250 --> 00:28:20,375
Like, everybody knew
who Danny Boy was,
and he didn't have a record out.

576
00:28:20,458 --> 00:28:22,917
Everybody knew who Jewell was,
and she didn't have
a record out.

577
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,667
Or the Dogg Pound, or Nate.
You know.

578
00:28:26,750 --> 00:28:27,792
FUQUA: Explain to me
how you worked.

579
00:28:27,875 --> 00:28:30,417
I go to the studio
from beginning to end.

580
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:33,000
And once I hear them
and once we do the song,

581
00:28:33,083 --> 00:28:36,583
then it's all about
picking the best song.

582
00:28:36,667 --> 00:28:38,417
For me, I picked
the best song for radio.

583
00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:41,041
At first, in rap music,

584
00:28:41,125 --> 00:28:43,875
if they were getting 5%,
they got 10% airplay,

585
00:28:43,959 --> 00:28:46,458
they popped champagne
and had a party.

586
00:28:46,542 --> 00:28:47,917
So when I told them
I was bringing people in

587
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,625
to do radio,
specialize in radio,

588
00:28:49,709 --> 00:28:51,458
they said, "Don't do it,
it won't work."

589
00:28:51,542 --> 00:28:53,417
I damn near had
100% of the music

590
00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:55,291
playing on the radio
was my shit.

591
00:28:55,375 --> 00:28:57,542
How do you do that?

592
00:28:57,625 --> 00:29:00,625
-Well, I can't tell
everybody that. [LAUGHS]
-I got you.

593
00:29:00,709 --> 00:29:03,583
I mean, 'cause you know,
they say it's called
payola or something.

594
00:29:08,333 --> 00:29:09,500
-You make good music.
-Yeah.

595
00:29:16,208 --> 00:29:18,166
FUQUA: There's a lot of
stories about Death Row

596
00:29:18,250 --> 00:29:20,250
and how it was run from
the inside. They had a, uh...

597
00:29:20,333 --> 00:29:22,166
They said there was
a "red room."

598
00:29:22,250 --> 00:29:24,667
And a lot of people
said that, basically,

599
00:29:24,750 --> 00:29:27,250
if you came in there
wanting a record deal,

600
00:29:27,333 --> 00:29:28,875
then you were gonna rap,

601
00:29:28,959 --> 00:29:30,333
and you'd rap right there
on the floor.

602
00:29:30,417 --> 00:29:32,333
If it was garbage,
you got a beat-down.

603
00:29:33,166 --> 00:29:34,959
[SUGE SPEAKING]

604
00:29:51,208 --> 00:29:52,875
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER:
22-year-old Snoop Doggy Dogg

605
00:29:52,959 --> 00:29:56,041
will be arraigned
later this week
on murder charges.

606
00:29:56,125 --> 00:29:57,500
MALE JUDGE: What is
your plea at this time?

607
00:29:57,583 --> 00:29:58,834
Not guilty.

608
00:30:02,125 --> 00:30:03,917
SUGE: Snoop was supposed
to go to prison

609
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,417
for the rest of his life.

610
00:30:07,125 --> 00:30:09,041
Well, I laid the money out
to fight Snoop's case,

611
00:30:09,792 --> 00:30:11,458
when he have no songs done.

612
00:30:11,542 --> 00:30:13,458
If we had lost, he would have
been gone to prison

613
00:30:13,542 --> 00:30:15,750
for the rest of his life,
and that's it.

614
00:30:16,792 --> 00:30:18,750
You know, that was my people.

615
00:30:18,834 --> 00:30:20,375
So I didn't wanna see
this nigga go to jail

616
00:30:20,458 --> 00:30:22,834
for the rest of his life,
or anybody else.

617
00:30:22,917 --> 00:30:26,291
So I did whatever I had to do
to put my money to use

618
00:30:26,375 --> 00:30:27,583
and make sure
he didn't go to prison.

619
00:30:28,208 --> 00:30:29,917
And before that,

620
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,917
I stopped Andre from
going to prison three times.

621
00:30:36,291 --> 00:30:38,375
So, we paid all that money,

622
00:30:38,458 --> 00:30:40,583
worked out a little deal,
worked out the situation,

623
00:30:40,667 --> 00:30:43,792
where he had to go
to county jail for a minute.

624
00:30:43,875 --> 00:30:46,208
Nate Dogg had damn near

625
00:30:46,291 --> 00:30:49,333
five Taco Bell robberies
on camera.

626
00:30:49,417 --> 00:30:51,083
FUQUA: He was on camera
five times robbing Taco Bells?

627
00:30:51,166 --> 00:30:53,375
Taco Bells. I paid a quarter
of a million dollars

628
00:30:53,458 --> 00:30:55,917
to get the shit beat
so he wouldn't go to prison.

629
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,417
Everybody had their situations

630
00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:01,834
where they were supposed to
go to prison and nobody went.

631
00:31:01,917 --> 00:31:04,000
When I made it,
when I got some money...

632
00:31:04,083 --> 00:31:07,583
Shit. You best believe
I couldn't wait

633
00:31:07,667 --> 00:31:09,291
to do something back
and give something back.

634
00:31:09,375 --> 00:31:10,625
[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]

635
00:31:13,083 --> 00:31:15,917
And one of the things that
I felt was really important.

636
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,750
Everybody have opportunity.

637
00:31:17,834 --> 00:31:21,834
A lot of artists come from
the same place
you guys came from.

638
00:31:21,917 --> 00:31:23,375
The same place I came from.

639
00:31:23,458 --> 00:31:26,333
Death Row Records held
its annual turkey giveaway,

640
00:31:26,417 --> 00:31:28,208
with the compliments of
Death Row co-founder,

641
00:31:28,291 --> 00:31:29,458
Suge Knight.

642
00:31:29,542 --> 00:31:31,375
Hundreds of turkeys
were handed out

643
00:31:31,458 --> 00:31:33,333
at the parking lot of
the Compton Fashion Center.

644
00:31:33,417 --> 00:31:35,458
MALE NEWS REPORTER:
Death Row Records played
Santa Claus today

645
00:31:35,542 --> 00:31:38,208
to children at
the Martin Luther King
Junior/Drew Medical Center.

646
00:31:38,291 --> 00:31:40,667
Meanwhile, in Beverly Hills,
some 600 single mothers

647
00:31:40,750 --> 00:31:42,667
and their children from LA's
urban neighborhoods

648
00:31:42,750 --> 00:31:43,792
were treated to a feast,

649
00:31:43,875 --> 00:31:45,917
courtesy of Death Row Records.

650
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,750
MAXINE KNIGHT: I didn't know
where the money at.

651
00:31:47,834 --> 00:31:49,333
Then he started giving me money.

652
00:31:49,417 --> 00:31:50,583
KNIGHT SR.: Buying you cars.

653
00:31:50,667 --> 00:31:52,583
He bought me cars all the time.

654
00:31:52,667 --> 00:31:54,375
I wanted some kind of van.

655
00:31:54,458 --> 00:31:57,291
He said,
"No, my momma got class.

656
00:31:57,375 --> 00:31:58,750
"I think you should have
a Cadillac."

657
00:32:00,125 --> 00:32:01,959
Then I fell in love with
the Cadillac.

658
00:32:03,166 --> 00:32:05,959
He liked to come back
to the hood, you know.

659
00:32:06,041 --> 00:32:10,000
And nothing but trouble
in the hood. We all know that.

660
00:32:10,083 --> 00:32:13,959
He liked to socialize with
the guys and stuff like that,

661
00:32:14,041 --> 00:32:16,041
but when you're up
in that bracket

662
00:32:16,125 --> 00:32:18,458
you just can't, uh...
You just can't come back

663
00:32:18,542 --> 00:32:20,208
and sit on the corner.

664
00:32:20,291 --> 00:32:22,000
You know what I'm saying?

665
00:32:22,083 --> 00:32:23,542
[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]

666
00:32:26,417 --> 00:32:27,875
[INAUDIBLE]

667
00:32:27,959 --> 00:32:29,000
[MALE INTERVIEWER SPEAKING]

668
00:32:50,208 --> 00:32:51,667
MALE REPORTER:
Snoop Doggy Dogg's album,
Doggystyle,

669
00:32:51,750 --> 00:32:54,250
has already sold advanced orders
of two million.

670
00:32:54,333 --> 00:32:56,291
Released last Monday,
it sold out immediately.

671
00:32:56,375 --> 00:32:59,625
It's the first debut album ever
to enter the charts
at number one.

672
00:32:59,709 --> 00:33:01,250
MALE REPORTER 2:
We're here at Tower Records,

673
00:33:01,333 --> 00:33:03,917
where this is really
the hottest album
on the shelves right now.

674
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,166
[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]

675
00:33:12,583 --> 00:33:14,250
FUQUA: Do you feel like
some of these artists

676
00:33:14,333 --> 00:33:16,041
are portraying themselves

677
00:33:16,125 --> 00:33:18,500
as these characters
they grew up with in movies?

678
00:33:18,583 --> 00:33:20,041
[SUGE SPEAKING]

679
00:33:23,333 --> 00:33:24,291
Right. What's your
favorite movie?

680
00:33:24,375 --> 00:33:25,709
Bugsy.  Bugsy Siegel.

681
00:33:25,792 --> 00:33:27,458
-Bugsy Siegel.
-Yeah.

682
00:33:27,542 --> 00:33:29,875
-Tell me why.
-Bugsy was Jewish.

683
00:33:29,959 --> 00:33:31,792
Right, yeah.

684
00:33:31,875 --> 00:33:34,709
And you know, I'm not hatin',
but I'm pretty much,
like, Jewish also.

685
00:33:34,792 --> 00:33:37,083
I just don't want to be
a part of the American dream,

686
00:33:37,166 --> 00:33:38,750
I want to own
the American dream.

687
00:33:38,834 --> 00:33:40,542
[LAUGHS] So, you know...

688
00:33:40,625 --> 00:33:42,750
That's why I feel like,
you know, I'm Jewish.

689
00:33:42,834 --> 00:33:45,417
Like Bugsy Siegel was Jewish,

690
00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:47,583
-but he was running
with the Italians.
-Right.

691
00:33:47,667 --> 00:33:50,709
He was airing motherfuckers out
like he was Italian.

692
00:33:50,792 --> 00:33:53,000
As far as
shooting 'em in the dome,
taking their birthdays.

693
00:33:53,083 --> 00:33:56,125
Right. But he went out,
violently.

694
00:33:56,208 --> 00:33:57,709
-[GUNS FIRING]
-[GLASS SHATTERING]

695
00:34:04,291 --> 00:34:05,500
I like Scarface,  though.

696
00:34:05,583 --> 00:34:07,375
Scarface  was like,
he learned a lot...

697
00:34:07,458 --> 00:34:09,208
What I learned about Scarface
is that

698
00:34:09,291 --> 00:34:11,333
I take it from a different view,
you know what I mean?

699
00:34:11,417 --> 00:34:12,917
I think it was about
a motherfucker having faith

700
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,750
and believing in himself.

701
00:34:14,834 --> 00:34:17,041
If you believe
you can do better,
you can do better.

702
00:34:17,125 --> 00:34:18,458
And that's what  Scarface
was about.

703
00:34:18,542 --> 00:34:20,375
I'm Scarface  without the drugs,

704
00:34:20,458 --> 00:34:22,083
and without the motherfucker
getting killed at the end.

705
00:34:22,166 --> 00:34:23,250
[GUN FIRES]

706
00:34:29,417 --> 00:34:31,625
FUQUA: There's a lot
of speculation about,

707
00:34:31,709 --> 00:34:34,750
at that time, the way
most companies got started

708
00:34:34,834 --> 00:34:36,959
in the rap game was through
drug-dealing and all that.

709
00:34:37,041 --> 00:34:38,250
What's your thoughts on that?

710
00:35:28,333 --> 00:35:30,750
Why do you think a lot
of people view Death Row

711
00:35:30,834 --> 00:35:33,417
as a criminal enterprise

712
00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:35,500
as opposed to a record company?

713
00:35:35,583 --> 00:35:37,000
Competition.

714
00:35:37,083 --> 00:35:40,417
You know,
before I started the business,

715
00:35:41,709 --> 00:35:44,333
everybody pretty much done
what they was told.

716
00:35:44,417 --> 00:35:46,208
So, when I decided to
come in and start a label,

717
00:35:46,291 --> 00:35:48,583
where it was owned
by the person

718
00:35:48,667 --> 00:35:50,291
who started the company

719
00:35:50,375 --> 00:35:53,625
and it was black-owned,
people had a problem with it.

720
00:35:53,709 --> 00:35:55,333
Instead of them telling them,
you know,

721
00:35:55,417 --> 00:35:57,917
that I work harder than them,
I'm smarter than them,

722
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,750
they told them I turn around
and I intimidate motherfuckers.

723
00:36:00,834 --> 00:36:03,917
FUQUA:
Some people say you ran
Death Row like a cartel.

724
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,375
Our company
and our organization,

725
00:36:05,458 --> 00:36:08,250
our empire was like
their empire.

726
00:36:08,333 --> 00:36:12,792
Our empire was not ran by a man

727
00:36:12,875 --> 00:36:15,500
who started off on third base
and thought he hit a triple.

728
00:36:15,583 --> 00:36:17,500
You know, I come straight
from the bottom of Compton.

729
00:36:18,083 --> 00:36:19,959
Only thing different was

730
00:36:20,041 --> 00:36:23,250
I was selling music
instead of drugs.

731
00:36:23,333 --> 00:36:25,834
But, as far as being aggressive,

732
00:36:25,917 --> 00:36:29,041
I probably was more aggressive
than some of those dudes,

733
00:36:29,125 --> 00:36:31,959
because I believed
in the business,
I believed in the vision.

734
00:36:32,709 --> 00:36:34,250
So when it came down to it,

735
00:36:35,333 --> 00:36:38,375
I felt I would do
anything and everything

736
00:36:38,458 --> 00:36:40,125
to make sure the people
on my team win.

737
00:36:40,208 --> 00:36:41,875
Make sure these babies get fed.

738
00:36:43,500 --> 00:36:44,375
[SNOOP DOGG SPEAKING]

739
00:37:10,125 --> 00:37:13,083
FUQUA: How'd the whole
East Coast/West Coast conflict
even start?

740
00:37:15,417 --> 00:37:16,750
SUGE: I don't think
there never was no

741
00:37:16,834 --> 00:37:18,125
East Coast/West Coast

742
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,834
-shit like that.
-Right.

743
00:37:20,917 --> 00:37:23,917
SUGE: At one point in time,
when you really look at it,

744
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,000
it was two individuals
who bumped heads.

745
00:37:27,083 --> 00:37:29,542
They started off friends
and they bumped heads.

746
00:37:29,625 --> 00:37:31,583
Me and Puffy, we used to
run around with each other.

747
00:37:31,667 --> 00:37:34,625
You know, we'd hang out.
Went to clubs and shit.

748
00:37:34,709 --> 00:37:36,750
And it was way back different
then, you know.

749
00:37:36,834 --> 00:37:40,083
He was getting in the business,
I was in the business.

750
00:37:40,166 --> 00:37:42,542
So he got at me by...
When he first started
his first album,

751
00:37:42,625 --> 00:37:44,834
when he did that first project
with Biggie...

752
00:37:54,291 --> 00:37:56,458
MAN 1: Open C-74! Smalls!

753
00:37:58,750 --> 00:38:02,333
MAN 2: Mr. Smalls,
let me walk you to the door.

754
00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:08,625
SUGE: Me and Puffy,
we was friends.

755
00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:57,208
How it really got out of hand,
is that the Source Awards.

756
00:38:58,667 --> 00:39:01,208
MAN: Now I lay me down
to sleep

757
00:39:02,041 --> 00:39:04,000
Pray the Lord, my soul to keep

758
00:39:04,083 --> 00:39:05,875
And if I should die
before I wake

759
00:39:07,542 --> 00:39:09,792
I pray to God
I die a Bad Boy.

760
00:39:11,375 --> 00:39:15,709
I live in the east
and I'm gonna die in the east.

761
00:39:16,375 --> 00:39:19,625
MAN 2: Yeah! Yeah!

762
00:39:19,709 --> 00:39:23,083
♪ Grab your d...
if you love hip-hop

763
00:39:23,166 --> 00:39:26,083
♪ Rub your...
if you love Big Poppa ♪

764
00:39:26,166 --> 00:39:27,542
-Everybody performed.
-Right.

765
00:39:28,333 --> 00:39:29,583
And then we performed.

766
00:39:29,667 --> 00:39:31,542
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]

767
00:39:36,083 --> 00:39:37,458
Come on, New York!

768
00:39:37,542 --> 00:39:40,333
♪ Yeah! As I look up
at the sky

769
00:39:40,417 --> 00:39:43,500
♪ My mind starts tripping
a tear drops my eye ♪

770
00:39:54,709 --> 00:39:56,792
-FUQUA: Right.
-Back in the years before,

771
00:39:58,166 --> 00:40:00,041
nobody had no respect
for the west.

772
00:40:00,125 --> 00:40:02,583
So, as they're going up there,
they're so used to booing them

773
00:40:02,667 --> 00:40:05,333
and going crazy on them.
You know what I'm saying?

774
00:40:05,417 --> 00:40:07,583
So even when they went
to get their award...

775
00:40:08,875 --> 00:40:10,625
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]

776
00:40:13,583 --> 00:40:15,709
What's up, baby? Yeah!

777
00:40:16,125 --> 00:40:17,458
In the house.

778
00:40:18,750 --> 00:40:20,000
-What?
-Wait, wait, wait!

779
00:40:20,083 --> 00:40:22,625
The East Coast don't love
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg?

780
00:40:22,709 --> 00:40:23,959
[AUDIENCE SHOUTING
INDISTINCTLY]

781
00:40:24,041 --> 00:40:25,542
The East Coast
ain't got no love

782
00:40:25,625 --> 00:40:29,083
for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg?
And Death Row?

783
00:40:29,166 --> 00:40:32,041
We know y'all East Coast.
We know...we at.

784
00:40:32,125 --> 00:40:33,667
Y'all don't love us?

785
00:40:35,583 --> 00:40:36,917
DR. DRE: Check it out.

786
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,750
I got to give a shout-out
to my homie, Big Suge,

787
00:40:39,834 --> 00:40:42,542
for paving the way
so I can make my music.

788
00:40:42,625 --> 00:40:45,375
Shout-out to everybody
at Death Row once again.

789
00:40:45,458 --> 00:40:47,333
And we out.

790
00:40:47,417 --> 00:40:49,709
When I went up there
and grabbed the award,

791
00:40:49,792 --> 00:40:52,917
and I basically told
the motherfuckers the truth.

792
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,500
Second of all, I'd like
to thank my whole,
entire Death Row family.

793
00:40:55,583 --> 00:40:57,000
On both sides,

794
00:40:57,083 --> 00:40:58,417
-you know what I'm saying?
-SNOOP DOGG: West side, baby!

795
00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:00,208
SUGE: And one other thing
I'd like to say.

796
00:41:00,291 --> 00:41:02,417
Any artist out there
who wanna be an artist,

797
00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:04,125
and wanna stay a star,

798
00:41:04,208 --> 00:41:06,417
and don't wanna
have to worry about
the executive producer

799
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:09,875
trying to be all in the videos,

800
00:41:09,959 --> 00:41:13,750
all on the record, dancing,
come to Death Row.

801
00:41:13,834 --> 00:41:16,125
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]

802
00:41:16,208 --> 00:41:18,333
If you're an executive
and you're on the business side,

803
00:41:18,417 --> 00:41:20,041
-be on the business side.
-Right.

804
00:41:20,125 --> 00:41:22,625
Don't turn around
and be in a nigga's video.

805
00:41:22,709 --> 00:41:24,500
Don't turn around
and hop on their record.

806
00:41:24,583 --> 00:41:26,500
-Let the artist be the artist.
-Right.

807
00:41:26,583 --> 00:41:29,166
I'm the executive producer
that a comment was made about

808
00:41:29,250 --> 00:41:31,583
a little bit earlier. But...
Check this out.

809
00:41:31,667 --> 00:41:34,166
Contrary to what
other people may feel,

810
00:41:34,250 --> 00:41:35,750
I would like to say

811
00:41:35,834 --> 00:41:38,125
that I'm very proud of Dr. Dre,

812
00:41:38,208 --> 00:41:40,959
of Death Row and Suge Knight
for their accomplishments.

813
00:41:41,041 --> 00:41:42,750
They want the fame,
they don't want the money.

814
00:41:43,917 --> 00:41:45,542
I'm the only nigga
who wants the money.

815
00:41:46,875 --> 00:41:47,959
They want the fame.

816
00:42:00,417 --> 00:42:01,542
Period.

817
00:42:06,875 --> 00:42:08,792
Like to tell Tupac
to keep his guards up.

818
00:42:08,875 --> 00:42:09,875
We ride with him.

819
00:42:13,709 --> 00:42:15,542
TUPAC: The police violence
against us.

820
00:42:15,625 --> 00:42:18,125
That's making us crazy.
That's what's making us
kill each other.

821
00:42:18,208 --> 00:42:19,417
'Cause we really want to
kill the police,

822
00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:20,750
but we're scared,
so we kill each other.

823
00:42:20,834 --> 00:42:22,458
You know, we got guns.

824
00:42:22,542 --> 00:42:24,458
We're just scared to shoot
the motherfuckers
that's doing it to us.

825
00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:26,458
Rapper and actor, Tupac Shakur,

826
00:42:26,542 --> 00:42:28,041
has been arrested in Atlanta

827
00:42:28,125 --> 00:42:30,875
for allegedly shooting
two off-duty police officers.

828
00:42:30,959 --> 00:42:32,500
You can't survive out here
by yourself.

829
00:42:32,583 --> 00:42:33,875
The police ain't nothing
but a gang.

830
00:42:33,959 --> 00:42:36,709
The National Guard is a gang.
The Army is a gang.

831
00:42:36,792 --> 00:42:38,709
We learn all our gang shit
from the government.

832
00:42:38,792 --> 00:42:40,500
MALE NEWS REPORTER:
The rap music artist,
Tupac Shakur

833
00:42:40,583 --> 00:42:42,750
says he's getting a bum rap
in New York City,

834
00:42:42,834 --> 00:42:44,417
where he is now accused
of sexual abuse.

835
00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:46,667
I grew up Panther-wise,
you know what I'm saying?

836
00:42:46,750 --> 00:42:48,458
Nowadays, a nigga like,
"Fuck that,"

837
00:42:48,542 --> 00:42:49,792
'cause you've got to survive.

838
00:42:49,875 --> 00:42:51,458
You know, I'm screaming
"Black" like the next man,

839
00:42:51,542 --> 00:42:53,208
but when the first shot
lick off,

840
00:42:53,291 --> 00:42:54,583
you know, it's all good.

841
00:42:54,667 --> 00:42:56,625
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER:
Rap musician, Tupac Shakur,

842
00:42:56,709 --> 00:42:59,750
is hospitalized
with gunshot wounds
in the head and groin,

843
00:42:59,834 --> 00:43:01,458
suffered in an apparent
robbery attempt.

844
00:43:01,542 --> 00:43:03,000
MALE NEWS REPORTER:
Shakur was shot in the head

845
00:43:03,083 --> 00:43:05,709
and groin outside a New York
recording studio.

846
00:43:05,792 --> 00:43:07,875
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER:
Shakur's expected
to make a full recovery.

847
00:43:07,959 --> 00:43:09,834
Excuse us through. Excuse us,
excuse us, excuse us.

848
00:43:09,917 --> 00:43:11,875
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER 2:
Tupac Shakur has been
sentenced to a maximum of

849
00:43:11,959 --> 00:43:13,709
four-and-a-half years
in prison.

850
00:43:13,792 --> 00:43:15,250
The state judge
in New York condemned

851
00:43:15,333 --> 00:43:16,667
the 23-year-old rapper

852
00:43:16,750 --> 00:43:18,333
for the crimes
he said had escalated

853
00:43:18,417 --> 00:43:19,959
as Shakur's career progressed.

854
00:43:34,500 --> 00:43:36,250
MALE NEWS REPORTER:
In a recent interview
from behind bars,

855
00:43:36,333 --> 00:43:38,041
rapper and actor, Tupac Shakur,

856
00:43:38,125 --> 00:43:40,917
has accused rappers Puff Daddy
and Notorious B.I.G.,

857
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,834
of involvement
in his New York shooting.

858
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,583
You were on house arrest
while this was going on?

859
00:44:09,291 --> 00:44:11,583
Rapper, actor,
and sex-abuse convict,
Tupac Shakur,

860
00:44:11,667 --> 00:44:12,959
walked out of a New York jail
last week.

861
00:44:13,041 --> 00:44:15,333
Bailed out to the tune
of $1.4 million

862
00:44:15,417 --> 00:44:17,333
by Suge Knight
of Death Row Records,

863
00:44:17,417 --> 00:44:19,125
which has signed Shakur
to a record deal.

864
00:44:19,208 --> 00:44:22,083
When I got Pac out,
it was like, "Okay, look."

865
00:44:22,166 --> 00:44:23,542
I said, "I'm gonna be
working on these songs."

866
00:44:23,625 --> 00:44:24,959
I said, "You don't got to do it.

867
00:44:25,041 --> 00:44:28,333
"If you want to be on Death Row,
you got to work.

868
00:44:29,083 --> 00:44:30,458
"And it's immediate work."

869
00:44:31,458 --> 00:44:32,959
Pac looked at me and said,

870
00:44:34,166 --> 00:44:35,917
"Man, this all
I've ever been waiting for.

871
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,000
"To be in a situation
to fuck with you,

872
00:44:38,083 --> 00:44:39,792
"and I can go into the studio
as much as I want to."

873
00:44:39,875 --> 00:44:42,417
He said, "Man, you know how
hard it is to go to a studio?

874
00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:44,500
"God, they had me begging
to find a studio to go to.

875
00:44:44,583 --> 00:44:46,500
"Then there'd be
some bullshit."

876
00:44:46,583 --> 00:44:49,709
He said, "Man, y'all be having
your artist shit right."

877
00:44:49,792 --> 00:44:53,041
I said, "Shit. 24 hours,
you can go to the studio
as much as you want."

878
00:44:53,125 --> 00:44:55,041
-You left the studio open?
-Twenty-four hours.

879
00:44:55,125 --> 00:44:56,583
It's a lot of money.

880
00:44:56,667 --> 00:44:58,542
Two rooms out of my money.

881
00:45:03,625 --> 00:45:04,792
♪ Out on bail, fresh outta jail

882
00:45:04,875 --> 00:45:05,917
♪ California dreaming

883
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,500
♪ Soon as I step on the scene

884
00:45:07,583 --> 00:45:08,834
♪ I'm hearing hoochies
screaming

885
00:45:08,917 --> 00:45:10,458
♪ Fiending for money
and alcohol

886
00:45:10,542 --> 00:45:12,041
♪ The life
of a West Side player

887
00:45:12,125 --> 00:45:13,792
♪ Where cowards die
and the strong ball ♪

888
00:45:26,458 --> 00:45:29,834
Nobody ever thought about doing
a double CD

889
00:45:29,917 --> 00:45:31,792
on a rap album, but me.

890
00:45:31,875 --> 00:45:33,834
I was the first one
who thought of that.

891
00:45:33,917 --> 00:45:36,583
Pac wanted to name
his album Euthanasia,

892
00:45:36,667 --> 00:45:38,750
meaning "life after death."

893
00:45:38,834 --> 00:45:41,083
I wanted to name it,
All Eyez On Me.

894
00:45:41,166 --> 00:45:43,291
And I named it
All Eyez On Me.

895
00:45:43,375 --> 00:45:44,625
FUQUA:
What did you see in Tupac?

896
00:45:44,709 --> 00:45:46,000
What did you see in him
that made you know

897
00:45:46,083 --> 00:45:47,500
-he was that talented?
-Shit.

898
00:45:48,834 --> 00:45:51,417
I seen myself.
I seen me in Pac.

899
00:45:53,792 --> 00:45:55,333
And anytime you get
to a certain level,

900
00:45:55,417 --> 00:45:58,667
when you're dealing with men
on a certain level who got...

901
00:45:58,750 --> 00:46:00,625
If they're good friends,

902
00:46:00,709 --> 00:46:01,959
they got a lot of things
in common.

903
00:46:02,959 --> 00:46:05,667
I could tell that Pac was down.

904
00:46:06,917 --> 00:46:09,458
But you could tell
he ain't never had no real love.

905
00:46:09,542 --> 00:46:10,542
Like, no real homie love.

906
00:46:10,625 --> 00:46:12,291
He ain't never had no homies.

907
00:46:12,375 --> 00:46:13,792
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]

908
00:46:18,709 --> 00:46:21,709
SUGE: I had confidence
in our squad.

909
00:46:21,792 --> 00:46:23,041
And everybody did their part.

910
00:46:23,750 --> 00:46:26,333
So you need a team.

911
00:46:26,417 --> 00:46:28,834
If it's really gonna be tight,
you're gonna need a family.

912
00:46:28,917 --> 00:46:31,875
And at that point,
we were a family.

913
00:46:32,625 --> 00:46:34,208
For us, a Death Row family.

914
00:46:34,291 --> 00:46:36,166
-Death Row.
-MAN: Death Row.

915
00:46:36,250 --> 00:46:37,542
West Coast at its finest.

916
00:46:37,625 --> 00:46:39,125
Niggas better not
wanna see this!

917
00:46:39,208 --> 00:46:40,667
West Coast at its finest.

918
00:46:41,166 --> 00:46:42,959
Pac was like,

919
00:46:43,041 --> 00:46:46,125
"Look, I go to New York,
I go to the studio.

920
00:46:46,208 --> 00:46:49,375
"These niggas set me up
and shot me. Period."

921
00:46:49,458 --> 00:46:51,500
I was like,
"Shit, you're with us.

922
00:46:51,583 --> 00:46:54,083
"Your friends are my friends.
Your enemies are my enemies."

923
00:46:54,792 --> 00:46:56,375
Niggas shot me five times.

924
00:46:56,458 --> 00:46:58,625
I came out of jail
and sold five million.

925
00:46:58,709 --> 00:47:00,583
Them niggas can't fuck with us.

926
00:47:00,667 --> 00:47:01,750
That's how we do it.

927
00:47:01,834 --> 00:47:03,291
You know the playas
are on the west side.

928
00:47:03,375 --> 00:47:04,875
Fuck that "peace" shit.

929
00:47:04,959 --> 00:47:07,583
I ain't even trying to
make peace. Fuck them all.

930
00:47:07,667 --> 00:47:09,083
The playas are on this side.

931
00:47:09,166 --> 00:47:10,583
Pac was saying,

932
00:47:10,667 --> 00:47:13,291
"They set me up at the studio.

933
00:47:13,375 --> 00:47:17,083
"They shot me, they robbed me,
blah, blah, blah," right?

934
00:47:18,041 --> 00:47:19,709
He didn't say it in code.

935
00:47:20,625 --> 00:47:22,583
Shit, Pac called out names.

936
00:47:22,667 --> 00:47:24,208
When they say something to us,

937
00:47:24,291 --> 00:47:26,875
we wanna make sure we mash
their ass like we did Biggie.

938
00:47:26,959 --> 00:47:29,125
See that nigga quiet
as a fucking church mouse.

939
00:47:30,417 --> 00:47:32,500
Dropped Hit 'Em Up,
that nigga quiet as fuck.

940
00:47:32,583 --> 00:47:34,208
He ain't got shit to say.

941
00:47:34,291 --> 00:47:35,959
His wife's pregnant,
that nigga is waiting like

942
00:47:36,041 --> 00:47:39,208
an expectant father
not knowing whose the baby is.

943
00:47:39,291 --> 00:47:41,875
The world don't know I used
a rubber, so it ain't mine.

944
00:47:43,458 --> 00:47:45,166
I'll tell you straight.

945
00:47:45,250 --> 00:47:47,542
I didn't wanna fuck
that fat bitch, no way.

946
00:47:49,041 --> 00:47:51,458
But you know
that's the secret to war.

947
00:47:51,542 --> 00:47:53,208
He's my enemy,
so she looked all right.

948
00:48:04,166 --> 00:48:06,458
Fat motherfucker, Biggie,
came in a gang

949
00:48:06,542 --> 00:48:08,208
gonna try to cross a nigga.

950
00:48:08,291 --> 00:48:09,417
Them niggas don't know.

951
00:48:09,500 --> 00:48:11,750
They gangbang in LA.
They love fighting.

952
00:48:12,500 --> 00:48:13,750
MAN: Killing and shooting.

953
00:48:32,417 --> 00:48:34,000
Niggas trying to play
that gangsta shit,

954
00:48:34,083 --> 00:48:36,083
but we MOB
for motherfucking real.

955
00:48:40,750 --> 00:48:43,166
Every nigga on the road
got strikes and shit.

956
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,083
I see Biggie throwing up this.

957
00:49:01,166 --> 00:49:03,291
Biggie don't know nothing
about no gang signs.

958
00:49:03,375 --> 00:49:05,417
Why does the nigga keep
throwing up gang signs?

959
00:49:05,500 --> 00:49:06,917
Be careful, homie.

960
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,000
All you fake brand-ass niggas,
you've got to be careful,

961
00:49:10,083 --> 00:49:12,083
'cause it's very dangerous
out here.

962
00:49:12,166 --> 00:49:13,667
You can do that little
set-me-up in the studio

963
00:49:13,750 --> 00:49:15,166
and shit in New York.

964
00:49:15,250 --> 00:49:17,625
But in California, nigga,
that's where the Gs ride.

965
00:50:51,542 --> 00:50:53,500
MALE INTERVIEWER: If any,
what pressure do you feel

966
00:50:53,583 --> 00:50:55,625
without Dre?

967
00:50:55,709 --> 00:50:57,000
I mean,
it's a lot of pressure,

968
00:50:57,083 --> 00:51:00,291
but this label was built
on the fact that

969
00:51:00,375 --> 00:51:01,792
Snoop Dogg was tight,

970
00:51:01,875 --> 00:51:05,041
Daz was tight,
Nate Dogg was tight,
Kurupt was tight.

971
00:51:05,125 --> 00:51:06,709
Dre fell off and not here
no more,

972
00:51:06,792 --> 00:51:08,542
and it's hurting us a whole lot,

973
00:51:08,625 --> 00:51:10,625
but the push is that we've
got to keep everything going

974
00:51:10,709 --> 00:51:12,125
because that's what
it all started from,

975
00:51:12,208 --> 00:51:13,542
us having belief in ourselves

976
00:51:13,625 --> 00:51:15,792
and knowing that we could do
with or without anybody.

977
00:51:15,875 --> 00:51:17,709
So, just keeping that push alive

978
00:51:17,792 --> 00:51:19,625
and keeping the dream alive
on Death Row.

979
00:51:21,875 --> 00:51:23,709
TUPAC: Ain't no other
record company out there

980
00:51:23,792 --> 00:51:25,083
that sold as many records
as we did.

981
00:51:25,166 --> 00:51:27,375
We outsold Bad Boy, LaFace,

982
00:51:27,458 --> 00:51:29,125
every black record label
out there,

983
00:51:29,208 --> 00:51:31,166
we outsold them in one year.

984
00:51:31,250 --> 00:51:34,083
And I'm a convict,
and my homeboy
just got off a murder case.

985
00:51:34,166 --> 00:51:36,041
So that tells you
that it's pure talent.

986
00:51:36,125 --> 00:51:38,417
No hype, we don't got no
all-American smiles.

987
00:51:38,500 --> 00:51:40,083
They don't even
wanna buy our records.

988
00:51:40,166 --> 00:51:42,333
But they gotta buy our records
'cause we represent the street.

989
00:51:43,458 --> 00:51:45,041
We were in Maui,
you know what I mean,

990
00:51:45,125 --> 00:51:48,125
and Pac had never been to Maui
or Hawaii or just a vacation.

991
00:51:50,041 --> 00:51:52,166
He get to talking about
faking his own death.

992
00:51:53,417 --> 00:51:55,166
No, no, no. Where he at?

993
00:51:56,750 --> 00:51:58,125
[GUNS FIRING]

994
00:52:04,125 --> 00:52:06,458
And Pac was more down
for doing, like,

995
00:52:10,542 --> 00:52:13,542
the last little videos and shit

996
00:52:13,625 --> 00:52:17,083
of him dying and all in white,
you know what I'm saying,

997
00:52:17,166 --> 00:52:20,500
with Redd Foxx and everybody
like that, right?

998
00:52:20,583 --> 00:52:23,208
Man, I've been struggling,
trying to get in here
a long time.

999
00:52:23,291 --> 00:52:24,834
You're gonna have to
earn your way.

1000
00:52:25,875 --> 00:52:27,083
Sure hope you can make it.

1001
00:52:27,166 --> 00:52:28,375
I'm gonna try. Thanks a lot.

1002
00:52:28,458 --> 00:52:29,583
SUGE: We had this situation.

1003
00:52:29,667 --> 00:52:31,875
Pac wouldn't even go
and do his shit

1004
00:52:31,959 --> 00:52:33,667
if I didn't come and be there
on time for the video shoot.

1005
00:52:33,750 --> 00:52:35,542
He wouldn't go on.

1006
00:52:35,625 --> 00:52:37,500
He's cussing everybody out.

1007
00:52:37,583 --> 00:52:39,792
With this particular video,
he was like,

1008
00:52:39,875 --> 00:52:41,166
"Man, what's up, right?"

1009
00:52:41,250 --> 00:52:42,500
But I felt like

1010
00:52:44,834 --> 00:52:46,333
he was talking about his shit.

1011
00:52:48,041 --> 00:52:49,792
Our dreams and our futures

1012
00:52:49,875 --> 00:52:53,250
built together
that we planned on doing.

1013
00:52:53,333 --> 00:52:56,333
So if you're talking about
not being here, losing your life

1014
00:52:56,417 --> 00:52:58,166
in one of these
motherfucking videos,

1015
00:52:58,250 --> 00:52:59,875
or you're dead and shit...

1016
00:53:00,959 --> 00:53:04,667
I'm like, "Shit,
I won't be at that video.

1017
00:53:04,750 --> 00:53:07,083
"Just like if something
really happened to you, nigga,

1018
00:53:07,166 --> 00:53:08,834
"I ain't gonna be there
with motherfucking tears

1019
00:53:08,917 --> 00:53:10,250
"in my motherfucking eyes.

1020
00:53:10,333 --> 00:53:12,125
"I'm gonna be there
motherfucking, like, shit...

1021
00:53:12,208 --> 00:53:14,208
"Still pushing for you."

1022
00:53:14,291 --> 00:53:17,250
MALE ANNOUNCER: Please welcome
the former undisputed

1023
00:53:17,333 --> 00:53:19,458
heavyweight champion
of the world.

1024
00:53:19,542 --> 00:53:21,583
Introducing the one and only

1025
00:53:21,667 --> 00:53:25,792
"Iron" Mike Tyson.

1026
00:53:27,375 --> 00:53:28,458
[SUGE SPEAKING]

1027
00:53:36,417 --> 00:53:38,500
COMMENTATOR: And down goes
Bruce Seldon!

1028
00:53:43,583 --> 00:53:45,125
COMMENTATOR:
Tyson with a left hook

1029
00:53:45,208 --> 00:53:46,333
and Seldon is down on his...

1030
00:54:56,250 --> 00:54:57,375
SUGE: So, you know...

1031
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:05,333
This my little brother.

1032
00:55:06,125 --> 00:55:07,542
He pushing that MOB.

1033
00:56:05,625 --> 00:56:08,500
I'm gonna you down there
and tell you step by step.

1034
00:56:08,583 --> 00:56:12,458
I'll show you exactly what
we started from

1035
00:56:13,250 --> 00:56:14,583
and where we ended up at

1036
00:56:15,375 --> 00:56:17,583
that Saturday night.

1037
00:56:17,667 --> 00:56:20,709
We're in this middle lane.
We've got, like, 20 cars.

1038
00:56:20,792 --> 00:56:22,792
As we're getting right up
to this point right here...

1039
00:56:53,625 --> 00:56:55,583
[GUNS FIRING]

1040
00:58:14,542 --> 00:58:16,583
They wanted to search us
and shit.

1041
00:58:16,667 --> 00:58:18,542
So when the ambulance
finally came,

1042
00:58:18,625 --> 00:58:21,750
I'm like, "Hey, get him
out of the motherfucking car."

1043
00:58:21,834 --> 00:58:24,458
The police
were jamming me up, too.

1044
00:58:24,542 --> 00:58:26,542
So, they didn't know how to
take the seat belt off,

1045
00:58:26,625 --> 00:58:29,125
-because it was that new shit.
-Right.

1046
00:58:29,208 --> 00:58:30,667
So, I'm like, "Hold up, man."

1047
00:58:30,750 --> 00:58:34,625
I had to go in and show them
how to take the seat belt off.

1048
00:58:34,709 --> 00:58:36,792
Tupac was cool, laughing. He was
like, "Man, you could tell

1049
00:58:36,875 --> 00:58:38,458
"y'all are some broke
motherfuckers.

1050
00:58:38,542 --> 00:58:40,834
"Y'all don't know how to take
no expensive seat belts off."

1051
00:58:40,917 --> 00:58:42,000
He said, "If the motherfucker
was in a Honda,

1052
00:58:42,083 --> 00:58:43,709
"you'd have me
out of the car already."

1053
00:58:43,792 --> 00:58:45,709
He was laughing and shit,
you know what I'm saying?

1054
00:58:45,792 --> 00:58:47,625
We both
were going to the hospital.

1055
00:58:47,709 --> 00:58:49,709
We laughed and joked
the whole way.

1056
00:58:49,792 --> 00:58:53,834
He looked at me and was like,
"Man, Simon, sweaty-head.

1057
00:58:53,917 --> 00:58:55,792
"You need to be at
the hospital faster than me,

1058
00:58:55,875 --> 00:58:58,000
"you're bleeding
all out of your head and shit.

1059
00:58:58,083 --> 00:59:00,625
"How could you see with blood
all in your eyes?" Right?

1060
00:59:00,709 --> 00:59:01,709
So we start laughing.

1061
00:59:02,417 --> 00:59:05,542
On the television,

1062
00:59:05,625 --> 00:59:08,625
they never said
that my son was shot.

1063
00:59:08,709 --> 00:59:10,583
They only said Tupac.

1064
00:59:10,667 --> 00:59:12,166
And when Suge got shot,

1065
00:59:13,333 --> 00:59:15,709
he was trying to protect Tupac.

1066
00:59:15,792 --> 00:59:16,917
COSTELLO KNIGHT: My daughter
called me that night.

1067
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:18,750
I was in Compton, California.
I was at home.

1068
00:59:20,333 --> 00:59:22,792
When she called me, she said,
"Suge just got shot."

1069
00:59:23,291 --> 00:59:24,959
And Tupac.

1070
00:59:25,041 --> 00:59:26,917
I jumped straight up
out of the bed,
started putting on my clothes.

1071
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:28,917
I was going to Las Vegas,
right then.

1072
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,667
They called me back and told me
that he was gonna be all right,

1073
00:59:31,750 --> 00:59:33,250
but Tupac had a problem.

1074
00:59:34,166 --> 00:59:35,834
[SIRENS BLARING IN DISTANCE]

1075
00:59:44,333 --> 00:59:46,125
FEMALE REPORTER:
Rap artist Tupac Shakur

1076
00:59:46,208 --> 00:59:49,667
has succumbed to bullet wounds
and died at the age of 25.

1077
00:59:49,750 --> 00:59:51,917
MALE REPORTER: Doctors at
University Medical Center
in Las Vegas

1078
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,250
say Shakur's heart
and respiratory system

1079
00:59:54,333 --> 00:59:55,959
simply were overtaxed,

1080
00:59:56,041 --> 00:59:57,959
by the devastating
gunshot wounds

1081
00:59:58,041 --> 00:59:59,709
and now Shakur has died

1082
00:59:59,792 --> 01:00:02,375
before detectives could
even try to speak to him.

1083
01:00:03,792 --> 01:00:06,166
FUQUA: A lot of people
said that, uh,

1084
01:00:06,250 --> 01:00:08,625
or think that you had something
to do with Tupac's murder.

1085
01:00:27,542 --> 01:00:33,250
I'm the only person that lost
when Pac moved on.

1086
01:00:34,917 --> 01:00:37,834
Not only did I lose the idea

1087
01:00:38,792 --> 01:00:40,875
of a friend you can have

1088
01:00:40,959 --> 01:00:43,125
or a little brother
you can have.

1089
01:00:43,208 --> 01:00:46,000
Pac was one of those
incredible artists that,

1090
01:00:46,083 --> 01:00:49,875
I know for a fact, he's worth
way more alive than dead.

1091
01:01:07,750 --> 01:01:10,000
[SUGE RETCHING]

1092
01:01:29,458 --> 01:01:32,166
FUQUA: Where and why
do you think people say

1093
01:01:32,250 --> 01:01:34,834
Pac wanted to leave Death Row
and that's why he was killed?

1094
01:01:34,917 --> 01:01:37,250
Where do you think
those rumors came from?

1095
01:01:37,333 --> 01:01:39,959
Why? Because of
the motherfuckers
who feared Pac the most.

1096
01:01:40,917 --> 01:01:43,250
Probably just competition.

1097
01:01:43,333 --> 01:01:46,875
When Jimmy Iovine
heard or thought
that Pac was dead, right,

1098
01:01:47,834 --> 01:01:49,125
the first thing he said was,

1099
01:01:52,500 --> 01:01:54,583
He said, "You're lucky as fuck.
You done hit the jackpot."

1100
01:02:29,709 --> 01:02:32,208
MAN: There were some shootings
approximately 12 in nature,

1101
01:02:32,291 --> 01:02:36,333
that we believe may possibly
have been retaliatory

1102
01:02:36,417 --> 01:02:37,959
for the incident
that occurred in Las Vegas.

1103
01:02:43,583 --> 01:02:45,709
MAN 2: Some of the motivation

1104
01:02:45,792 --> 01:02:48,291
for some of the shootings
in the city of Compton

1105
01:02:48,375 --> 01:02:50,041
may have been retaliation

1106
01:02:50,125 --> 01:02:52,875
for events that occurred
in the city of Las Vegas

1107
01:02:52,959 --> 01:02:56,125
on September 7, 1996.

1108
01:02:56,208 --> 01:03:00,750
Las Vegas police department
has not announced any suspect

1109
01:03:00,834 --> 01:03:03,875
in the Tupac Shakur shooting.

1110
01:03:41,166 --> 01:03:42,834
MALE REPORTER: For the
second time in six months,

1111
01:03:42,917 --> 01:03:46,041
real-life violence has taken
the life of a rap star.

1112
01:03:46,125 --> 01:03:48,834
Twenty-four-year-old
Notorious B.I.G.,

1113
01:03:48,917 --> 01:03:51,125
gunned down
in a drive-by shooting

1114
01:03:51,208 --> 01:03:54,583
outside a music industry party
in LA, early Sunday.

1115
01:03:54,667 --> 01:03:56,417
MALE REPORTER 2: Speculation
that it was a result

1116
01:03:56,500 --> 01:04:00,458
of a longstanding
East Coast/West Coast feud
among rap artists.

1117
01:04:00,542 --> 01:04:03,125
MALE REPORTER 3:
Biggie's death comes almost
exactly six months

1118
01:04:03,208 --> 01:04:05,792
after the drive-by slaying
of his arch-rival

1119
01:04:05,875 --> 01:04:09,041
even more popular rap star,
Tupac Shakur, in Las Vegas.

1120
01:04:12,083 --> 01:04:15,000
FUQUA: Right. Now some
people say that you had

1121
01:04:15,083 --> 01:04:17,125
Biggie murdered
because of Pac's murder.

1122
01:04:25,750 --> 01:04:27,041
[SUGE SPEAKING]

1123
01:05:19,834 --> 01:05:22,000
When it's something about me
they push the envelope.

1124
01:05:23,709 --> 01:05:26,333
Try to destroy me.

1125
01:05:26,417 --> 01:05:28,625
But it turns on the next man
who is really guilty
of something.

1126
01:05:29,333 --> 01:05:31,166
According to the facts,

1127
01:05:31,250 --> 01:05:33,000
there's not one thing
being said.

1128
01:05:34,458 --> 01:05:37,041
From that day on,
it changed a lot of shit.

1129
01:05:38,500 --> 01:05:40,750
It changed the fact that
they made it their mission,

1130
01:05:40,834 --> 01:05:42,875
basically, to try to destroy us.

1131
01:05:42,959 --> 01:05:44,583
FEMALE REPORTER:
Now, Los Angeles prosecutors

1132
01:05:44,667 --> 01:05:46,709
claim Suge Knight
was also in the group

1133
01:05:46,792 --> 01:05:48,750
kicking a man on the ground.

1134
01:05:48,834 --> 01:05:50,750
Did Knight take part
in this fight?

1135
01:05:50,834 --> 01:05:52,667
If so, it would be a violation

1136
01:05:52,750 --> 01:05:54,959
of the Death Row Record
executive's probation

1137
01:05:55,041 --> 01:05:57,583
on a 1995 assault charge.

1138
01:05:57,667 --> 01:05:59,792
PROSECUTOR:
Did you punch anybody
during that altercation?

1139
01:06:00,291 --> 01:06:01,875
No, sir.

1140
01:06:01,959 --> 01:06:04,458
PROSECUTOR:
Did you kick anybody
during that altercation?

1141
01:06:04,542 --> 01:06:06,125
Absolutely not.

1142
01:06:06,208 --> 01:06:07,834
KNIGHT Sr.:
I noticed the judge,

1143
01:06:07,917 --> 01:06:12,208
like, he wasn't interested
in what everybody was saying,
you know?

1144
01:06:12,291 --> 01:06:14,208
-And, uh...
-He had already
made up his mind.

1145
01:06:14,291 --> 01:06:17,709
When I first went to court,
I had five lawyers.

1146
01:06:17,792 --> 01:06:20,625
And one of those lawyers
has been the mayor
for Las Vegas forever.

1147
01:06:20,709 --> 01:06:23,667
I gave them
five million dollars.

1148
01:06:24,959 --> 01:06:27,917
So I had five lawyers,
I spent five million dollars,

1149
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:29,291
and then the judge looked at me

1150
01:06:29,375 --> 01:06:31,750
and gave me
nine motherfucking years.

1151
01:06:31,834 --> 01:06:32,959
FUQUA: Because you didn't
show remorse.

1152
01:06:33,041 --> 01:06:34,417
SUGE: I didn't show remorse.

1153
01:06:34,500 --> 01:06:39,291
He told me he watched the tape
92, 98 times.

1154
01:06:39,375 --> 01:06:40,875
Still couldn't see that
I did nothing,

1155
01:06:40,959 --> 01:06:42,667
but I didn't show no remorse.

1156
01:06:42,750 --> 01:06:44,750
He wanted me
to shed a tear or something,

1157
01:06:44,834 --> 01:06:47,917
but I just didn't have it
in me, or I didn't mean it.

1158
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:50,000
What happened today
is a reaction

1159
01:06:50,083 --> 01:06:53,291
to the overall general animosity

1160
01:06:53,375 --> 01:06:56,291
that appears to exist in the
law-enforcement community

1161
01:06:56,375 --> 01:06:58,709
with regard to
Mr. Knight's record label,

1162
01:06:58,792 --> 01:07:00,458
Death Row Records,

1163
01:07:00,542 --> 01:07:03,250
and with regard to
a variety of his artists.

1164
01:07:03,333 --> 01:07:05,125
The judge asked Suge,

1165
01:07:05,208 --> 01:07:07,208
"Do you have anything to say,
Mr. Knight?"

1166
01:07:07,917 --> 01:07:09,250
Suge said, "No.

1167
01:07:09,333 --> 01:07:11,291
"I walked in here like a man

1168
01:07:11,375 --> 01:07:13,417
"and I'm gonna
walk out like a man."

1169
01:07:13,500 --> 01:07:15,250
If I could do it all over again,

1170
01:07:15,333 --> 01:07:17,041
I would've walked in
the courtroom,

1171
01:07:17,625 --> 01:07:19,000
with no lawyer,

1172
01:07:19,083 --> 01:07:21,166
no public defender,
none of that.

1173
01:07:21,250 --> 01:07:22,458
Looked at him and said,
"Okay, Your Honor,

1174
01:07:22,542 --> 01:07:25,125
"I know you're gonna
fuck over me,

1175
01:07:25,208 --> 01:07:26,709
"but let me see
how far I can piss?"

1176
01:07:26,792 --> 01:07:28,083
And I would have
whipped my shit out

1177
01:07:28,166 --> 01:07:29,542
-and tried to pee on him.
-Right.

1178
01:07:29,625 --> 01:07:31,291
Only thing different is,

1179
01:07:31,375 --> 01:07:33,500
I'd have had
five million dollars
in my pocket

1180
01:07:33,583 --> 01:07:35,500
instead of paying the lawyers
that made me get nine years.

1181
01:07:37,208 --> 01:07:39,834
I started off with dreams.

1182
01:07:39,917 --> 01:07:42,583
You come from that ghetto,
that's all you got, is a dream.

1183
01:07:42,667 --> 01:07:44,959
But you know,
if you believe enough,

1184
01:07:45,041 --> 01:07:46,834
that dream becomes your reality.

1185
01:07:48,125 --> 01:07:49,458
But if you dream too much,

1186
01:07:51,208 --> 01:07:55,625
that dream
becomes your nightmare.

1187
01:07:55,709 --> 01:07:57,417
And if you take advantage
of the power,

1188
01:07:58,458 --> 01:07:59,750
God will take it from you.

1189
01:08:11,083 --> 01:08:13,083
SUGE: I was so glad
to get in that motherfucker
and get me some rest.

1190
01:08:13,667 --> 01:08:15,041
It was a good thing.

1191
01:08:15,125 --> 01:08:16,667
You know, before I went
to the penitentiary,

1192
01:08:17,667 --> 01:08:19,208
I never slept in a bed alone.

1193
01:08:19,291 --> 01:08:21,917
If it weren't one bitch,
it was five bitches.

1194
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:24,458
Have you ever slept in a bed
with seven, eight bitches
at once? Just you?

1195
01:08:24,542 --> 01:08:26,208
How could you fucking sleep?

1196
01:08:26,291 --> 01:08:27,792
Every time you doze off,

1197
01:08:27,875 --> 01:08:30,000
there's somebody
sucking on your toes,
licking on your balls

1198
01:08:30,083 --> 01:08:31,875
and trying to wake you
the fuck up.

1199
01:08:31,959 --> 01:08:33,750
So, it was good for some rest,

1200
01:08:33,834 --> 01:08:35,792
but prison gave me
the opportunity

1201
01:08:35,875 --> 01:08:37,291
to see shit that
you normally don't see.

1202
01:08:42,875 --> 01:08:45,208
I had the right
to live like a beast.

1203
01:08:45,291 --> 01:08:47,083
When you open those
motherfucking doors

1204
01:08:47,166 --> 01:08:49,208
and those gates
in that motherfucking jail,
when I hit that yard,

1205
01:08:49,291 --> 01:08:51,083
it's up to me if I want to
slap the shit

1206
01:08:51,166 --> 01:08:52,875
out of a motherfucker,
kick him up his ass,

1207
01:08:52,959 --> 01:08:54,417
stab him or have him stabbed.

1208
01:08:57,375 --> 01:08:59,792
You take me from everything
that I've built.

1209
01:08:59,875 --> 01:09:01,917
You take me from everything
you think I care about.

1210
01:09:02,875 --> 01:09:04,750
You put me in a cell.

1211
01:09:04,834 --> 01:09:06,542
There's no housekeeping
in that motherfucker.

1212
01:09:06,625 --> 01:09:08,166
I had to get down
and keep scrubbing

1213
01:09:08,250 --> 01:09:09,667
because I ain't gonna have

1214
01:09:09,750 --> 01:09:12,125
no dirty-ass
motherfucking cell.

1215
01:09:12,208 --> 01:09:14,542
So prison really taught me
how to be self-sufficient.

1216
01:09:15,875 --> 01:09:18,500
Prison, it really helped me
in a motherfucking way.

1217
01:09:42,458 --> 01:09:44,667
I stood up for these niggas

1218
01:09:44,750 --> 01:09:46,667
and these niggas
didn't appreciate it.

1219
01:09:46,750 --> 01:09:48,792
So, when I got locked up,
these niggas cheered.

1220
01:09:49,959 --> 01:09:51,458
FUQUA: When you say
"these niggas," who...

1221
01:09:51,542 --> 01:09:53,291
Black motherfuckers
in the industry.

1222
01:09:53,375 --> 01:09:54,917
They turned around,

1223
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:56,417
they were happy to see me
go to prison,

1224
01:09:56,500 --> 01:09:57,834
but at the same time,

1225
01:09:57,917 --> 01:09:59,250
I'm going
and telling these dudes,

1226
01:09:59,333 --> 01:10:01,709
"Look, I'm not gonna
let you go in,

1227
01:10:01,792 --> 01:10:03,792
"sell 10 million records
or two million records,

1228
01:10:03,875 --> 01:10:05,625
"or even 100,000 records

1229
01:10:05,709 --> 01:10:07,458
"out of the back door
and don't pay them."

1230
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:19,458
I turned around
and tackled the buses.

1231
01:10:19,542 --> 01:10:20,917
I didn't get thrown
under the bus.

1232
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:24,166
I ran into the bus for these
motherfucking house niggas.

1233
01:10:24,250 --> 01:10:27,458
Shit, Jimmy Iovine,
looked back at me and said,
"We'll take care of you."

1234
01:10:27,542 --> 01:10:29,667
Fuck, taking care of me.
I'll take care of myself.

1235
01:10:33,333 --> 01:10:36,959
If a man lets another man
take care of him,

1236
01:10:37,041 --> 01:10:39,250
he shouldn't be offended
or get upset

1237
01:10:39,333 --> 01:10:41,417
when that man
treats him like a bitch.

1238
01:10:43,542 --> 01:10:45,792
If you allow another man
to take care of you,

1239
01:10:47,583 --> 01:10:49,083
how could you get mad
when they tell you,

1240
01:10:49,166 --> 01:10:52,041
"Shut your punk-ass up
and go get me a drink"?

1241
01:10:52,125 --> 01:10:53,500
Because you're putting
yourself in that position

1242
01:10:53,583 --> 01:10:55,041
by allowing another man
to feed you.

1243
01:10:56,625 --> 01:10:58,917
I didn't allow them to feed me.

1244
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,709
I let them know,
I'll handle my business,

1245
01:11:00,792 --> 01:11:02,458
do what I need to do
to feed myself.

1246
01:11:05,875 --> 01:11:07,917
FEMALE REPORTER: Death Row
Records CEO, Suge Knight,

1247
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:09,792
celebrating
his newfound freedom

1248
01:11:09,875 --> 01:11:13,667
after serving five years
for a probation violation.

1249
01:11:13,750 --> 01:11:15,667
SUGE: Damn! You know,
still ain't nothing changed!

1250
01:11:15,750 --> 01:11:17,333
Death Row is back.
Back on the streets,

1251
01:11:17,417 --> 01:11:19,125
back in those clubs.

1252
01:11:19,208 --> 01:11:22,333
Back in those ghettos,
back in your car.
Back in the system, you know?

1253
01:11:27,875 --> 01:11:30,208
FEMALE REPORTER: Rap music
impresario Suge Knight,

1254
01:11:30,291 --> 01:11:31,750
is in
a California jail tonight.

1255
01:11:31,834 --> 01:11:33,375
He is on parole

1256
01:11:33,458 --> 01:11:35,208
and could be
sent back to prison.

1257
01:11:35,291 --> 01:11:37,083
Knight claims
a long list of arrests,

1258
01:11:37,166 --> 01:11:39,625
parole violations
and prison sentences.

1259
01:11:39,709 --> 01:11:40,959
MALE REPORTER: Police are
looking for a gunman

1260
01:11:41,041 --> 01:11:43,709
who allegedly shot rap mogul,
Marion Suge Knight,

1261
01:11:43,792 --> 01:11:45,750
during a party in Miami beach,
early this morning.

1262
01:11:45,834 --> 01:11:47,667
FEMALE REPORTER: Police say
they have no suspects

1263
01:11:47,750 --> 01:11:49,792
in the weekend shooting
of rap mogul, Suge Knight.

1264
01:11:49,875 --> 01:11:51,667
MALE REPORTER 2: Miami police
say they have complained

1265
01:11:51,750 --> 01:11:54,750
about a lack of cooperation
from witnesses in the shooting.

1266
01:11:54,834 --> 01:11:57,250
Before I went to the
penitentiary and went to court

1267
01:11:57,333 --> 01:12:00,166
my own momma didn't even know
how much money I had.

1268
01:12:00,250 --> 01:12:03,417
But then,
when I went to prison,
I got exposed.

1269
01:12:03,500 --> 01:12:06,250
So, that made people
want to steal more.

1270
01:12:06,333 --> 01:12:07,542
That made people want to
get you more.

1271
01:12:10,875 --> 01:12:13,041
Death Row Records founder,
Marion Suge Knight,

1272
01:12:13,125 --> 01:12:15,625
has been ordered
by a Los Angeles County
Superior Court judge

1273
01:12:15,709 --> 01:12:18,583
to pay $107 million
in damages

1274
01:12:18,667 --> 01:12:22,041
to a woman who says
she helped create Death Row.

1275
01:12:22,125 --> 01:12:23,625
According to
the  Los Angeles Times,

1276
01:12:23,709 --> 01:12:26,667
Lydia Harris filed a lawsuit
against Suge three years ago,

1277
01:12:26,750 --> 01:12:29,041
seeking record sale profits
and royalties

1278
01:12:29,125 --> 01:12:32,125
she claims she was
entitled to,
but was never paid.

1279
01:12:32,208 --> 01:12:33,333
According to the suit,

1280
01:12:33,417 --> 01:12:35,250
Knight refused to honor
a partnership deal

1281
01:12:35,333 --> 01:12:37,291
he had signed with Harris's
husband, Michael,

1282
01:12:37,375 --> 01:12:39,083
who was in prison
on attempted murder

1283
01:12:39,166 --> 01:12:40,625
and drug-related convictions

1284
01:12:40,709 --> 01:12:42,417
during the Row's early days.

1285
01:12:42,500 --> 01:12:44,625
Once Death Row
started turning a profit,

1286
01:12:44,709 --> 01:12:47,208
Lydia Harris says Suge
forced her out of the label.

1287
01:12:47,291 --> 01:12:49,500
And later signed a lucrative
deal with Interscope

1288
01:12:49,583 --> 01:12:51,667
giving that label marketing
and distribution rights

1289
01:12:51,750 --> 01:12:53,750
to all Death Row releases.

1290
01:12:53,834 --> 01:12:56,250
The suit also accuses Knight
of pressuring Michael Harris

1291
01:12:56,333 --> 01:12:59,000
into signing away
his legal claims to Death Row

1292
01:12:59,083 --> 01:13:00,500
in an arrangement
the lawsuit says

1293
01:13:00,583 --> 01:13:03,583
cost Knight and Interscope
just $300,000.

1294
01:13:22,959 --> 01:13:25,583
Jimmy Iovine, Interscope,
Universal,

1295
01:13:39,792 --> 01:13:41,750
I'm the only
black motherfucker

1296
01:13:41,834 --> 01:13:44,750
that owns his masters,
that's why they attack me.

1297
01:13:44,834 --> 01:13:48,041
Only reason why I'm
the only one in this business

1298
01:13:48,125 --> 01:13:49,959
that never said I sold dope.

1299
01:13:50,041 --> 01:13:51,500
And they put
the dope thing on me

1300
01:13:51,583 --> 01:13:52,750
and tried to take
my company down

1301
01:13:52,834 --> 01:13:55,792
because they said
I come from bad money.

1302
01:13:55,875 --> 01:13:58,041
But the motherfuckers
who came from bad money,

1303
01:13:58,125 --> 01:14:00,083
they didn't do nothing about it,

1304
01:14:00,166 --> 01:14:01,458
because they don't own it.

1305
01:14:05,583 --> 01:14:07,792
MALE SPOKESPERSON:
At approximately 5:00 a.m.,

1306
01:14:07,875 --> 01:14:10,709
one hundred and seventy-five
Los Angeles County
Sheriff's deputies,

1307
01:14:10,792 --> 01:14:13,291
served a total
of 15 search warrants

1308
01:14:13,375 --> 01:14:15,917
in this location here
in Los Angeles,

1309
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:16,709
-two in North Hollywood...
-[CELL PHONE RINGING]

1310
01:14:17,542 --> 01:14:18,500
...and one in Lakewood.

1311
01:14:20,208 --> 01:14:21,291
SUGE:
They used to raid my office,

1312
01:14:21,375 --> 01:14:23,250
where I'm not a suspect.

1313
01:14:23,333 --> 01:14:25,250
They say I did nothing wrong,

1314
01:14:25,333 --> 01:14:27,667
but there would be 165 police.

1315
01:14:29,250 --> 01:14:31,125
Helicopters, motherfuckers
jumping off the...

1316
01:14:31,208 --> 01:14:33,125
Coming off the helicopters
like SWAT.

1317
01:14:33,208 --> 01:14:34,667
Broke every
motherfucking window.

1318
01:14:35,583 --> 01:14:37,166
Broke every motherfucking door.

1319
01:14:39,417 --> 01:14:40,792
Mr. Knight is in no way

1320
01:14:40,875 --> 01:14:43,166
wanted by the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department.

1321
01:14:43,250 --> 01:14:46,417
He's not currently a suspect
for our department.

1322
01:14:46,500 --> 01:14:48,959
We are simply serving
some of these warrants

1323
01:14:49,041 --> 01:14:51,542
seeking evidence to crimes
that have been committed

1324
01:14:51,625 --> 01:14:52,834
in Los Angeles County.

1325
01:14:52,917 --> 01:14:54,750
I wasn't even living
in my Vegas house.

1326
01:14:54,834 --> 01:14:56,500
And they were out there
talking about,

1327
01:14:56,583 --> 01:14:58,500
"Fuck him. Look at this shit.

1328
01:14:59,208 --> 01:15:00,542
"All this is blood-money.

1329
01:15:00,625 --> 01:15:01,667
"Nothing but fucking
blood money."

1330
01:15:04,041 --> 01:15:05,625
Like I said, you know,

1331
01:15:06,750 --> 01:15:08,583
if they can't take
the money from you,

1332
01:15:08,667 --> 01:15:10,041
they take you from the money.

1333
01:15:17,500 --> 01:15:19,458
MAXINE: Be happy.

1334
01:15:19,542 --> 01:15:22,750
I'd rather him to be happy,
if he can't buy me nothing.

1335
01:15:24,250 --> 01:15:25,542
As long as he's happy.

1336
01:15:27,417 --> 01:15:30,250
I love him to death, man.
I'm really proud of him,
you know.

1337
01:15:30,333 --> 01:15:31,583
The success he's made.

1338
01:15:33,333 --> 01:15:35,542
And if I had to do it
all over again,

1339
01:15:36,875 --> 01:15:39,875
I'd just have him,
you know, just like that.

1340
01:15:39,959 --> 01:15:41,625
FEMALE REPORTER: We are
following developing news

1341
01:15:41,709 --> 01:15:43,542
closer to home
in West Hollywood,

1342
01:15:43,625 --> 01:15:45,917
where a night of fun
turned violent.

1343
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:47,500
Several people have been shot

1344
01:15:47,583 --> 01:15:50,250
at a party hosted
by singer Chris Brown.

1345
01:15:50,333 --> 01:15:52,500
FEMALE REPORTER 2:
Rap mogul, Suge Knight,
was inside the club.

1346
01:15:52,583 --> 01:15:56,208
Witnesses say they saw him
stumbling out
after he was shot

1347
01:15:56,291 --> 01:16:00,041
early this morning
at around 1:30, this morning.

1348
01:16:00,125 --> 01:16:02,083
MAN: Sure does
look like Suge, bro.

1349
01:16:02,166 --> 01:16:03,458
[POLICE OFFICER OVER SPEAKERS]
You'll possibly be arrested

1350
01:16:03,542 --> 01:16:04,875
for entering this crime scene.

1351
01:16:04,959 --> 01:16:06,458
SUGE: I'll tell you the truth,

1352
01:16:06,542 --> 01:16:08,125
I ain't never
thought about death.

1353
01:16:09,125 --> 01:16:12,458
I felt like, "Shit, God got me."

1354
01:16:12,542 --> 01:16:14,625
I'll be feeling like,
"Shit, what's that?"

1355
01:16:14,709 --> 01:16:16,041
You know what I mean?

1356
01:16:16,125 --> 01:16:19,834
I've been getting shot at
since high school.

1357
01:16:19,917 --> 01:16:24,041
I've been
in situations where, shit...

1358
01:16:24,125 --> 01:16:25,959
I wasn't supposed to make it,
or so they say.

1359
01:16:27,166 --> 01:16:28,375
But I'm still here.

1360
01:16:29,417 --> 01:16:30,875
I don't wear no vest.

1361
01:16:31,667 --> 01:16:34,000
You don't see me paranoid.

1362
01:16:34,083 --> 01:16:36,792
I still run around
eating off the land,
you know what I mean?

1363
01:16:36,875 --> 01:16:38,291
I still get up and go hunt.

1364
01:16:39,542 --> 01:16:42,041
So I ain't thought about death.

1365
01:16:50,834 --> 01:16:54,458
You know, if I could go
all the way back
and I rewrite it,

1366
01:16:54,542 --> 01:16:55,750
the way things should be,

1367
01:16:56,500 --> 01:16:58,291
and how it should have ended up,

1368
01:16:59,291 --> 01:17:00,792
I think, uh...

1369
01:17:07,500 --> 01:17:10,834
As men coming from the ghetto,
we all failed.

1370
01:17:12,542 --> 01:17:13,917
The reason
why I say we all failed

1371
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:15,834
is because
of the simple fact that...

1372
01:17:18,959 --> 01:17:22,333
We got a black president.
President Obama.

1373
01:17:22,417 --> 01:17:24,375
President of the whole
United States.

1374
01:17:25,917 --> 01:17:28,375
And we have black presidents

1375
01:17:28,458 --> 01:17:30,875
of production companies
and record labels

1376
01:17:30,959 --> 01:17:33,542
that can't figure out how to
get along with each other.

1377
01:17:33,625 --> 01:17:35,792
So we constantly
destroy each other.

1378
01:17:35,875 --> 01:17:39,208
I think we all could have had,
like, a situation

1379
01:17:43,458 --> 01:17:44,959
where we were friends

1380
01:17:45,041 --> 01:17:46,792
to the point where you had

1381
01:17:46,875 --> 01:17:49,542
enough knowledge
to make things grow.

1382
01:17:49,625 --> 01:17:51,542
Instead of people worrying about

1383
01:17:51,625 --> 01:17:54,000
who killed Biggie
or who killed Pac,

1384
01:17:54,083 --> 01:17:56,125
it would be more like,

1385
01:17:56,208 --> 01:17:57,750
"Look at Biggie,"
and, "Look at Pac."

1386
01:17:58,583 --> 01:18:01,083
I got shot in Miami. Pssh.

1387
01:18:01,875 --> 01:18:03,375
But I'm still in Miami.

1388
01:18:04,834 --> 01:18:06,750
You see me happy
as a motherfucker,

1389
01:18:06,834 --> 01:18:08,583
enjoying this shit.

1390
01:18:08,667 --> 01:18:10,959
You know,
I take out time to say,

1391
01:18:11,041 --> 01:18:14,583
"Damn, look at the view.
Look at the water." You know?

1392
01:18:14,667 --> 01:18:16,208
It's not about
putting nobody down.

1393
01:18:18,250 --> 01:18:19,750
I know one thing.

1394
01:18:21,333 --> 01:18:22,834
The amount of records I sold

1395
01:18:22,917 --> 01:18:24,750
and the amount
of money I made...
[SCOFFS]

1396
01:18:27,125 --> 01:18:28,709
Ain't never happening again.

1397
01:18:29,458 --> 01:18:31,709
But, I wish it would

1398
01:18:33,083 --> 01:18:34,250
at the same time.

1399
01:18:36,500 --> 01:18:38,208
I had like, every court hit me.

1400
01:18:38,291 --> 01:18:41,959
I had like,
every authority hit me.
I had everybody...

1401
01:18:42,041 --> 01:18:44,458
Anything negative to be
said about Suge Knight

1402
01:18:44,542 --> 01:18:45,917
has been said already.

1403
01:18:48,917 --> 01:18:52,792
Some of the most
incredible people
in the music business...

1404
01:18:52,875 --> 01:18:57,667
People that you had the blessing

1405
01:18:57,750 --> 01:18:59,959
to help their life
and help their career...

1406
01:19:00,041 --> 01:19:01,709
I feel like if I didn't give

1407
01:19:01,792 --> 01:19:04,834
a lot of motherfuckers
record deals,

1408
01:19:04,917 --> 01:19:07,041
they'd have been dead
a long time ago, or in prison.

1409
01:19:07,125 --> 01:19:08,834
I gave them jobs.

1410
01:19:08,917 --> 01:19:12,542
I turned their dreams
into reality.

1411
01:19:12,625 --> 01:19:14,583
I took from...

1412
01:19:14,667 --> 01:19:17,041
If it was Snoop,
supposed to be in prison
for the rest of his life,

1413
01:19:17,125 --> 01:19:19,500
I made sure he didn't go.

1414
01:19:19,583 --> 01:19:21,542
If it was Pac having
a bad time in prison,

1415
01:19:21,625 --> 01:19:24,166
when nobody else was there,
I made sure I stepped up.

1416
01:19:24,250 --> 01:19:25,959
You see a person doing
a Tupac documentary,

1417
01:19:26,041 --> 01:19:28,000
and they'll be like,

1418
01:19:28,083 --> 01:19:29,583
"When Pac got with
Suge Knight,

1419
01:19:29,667 --> 01:19:31,709
"we felt he sold his soul
to the devil, right?"

1420
01:19:33,667 --> 01:19:35,291
So I'll be saying to myself,
"Damn.

1421
01:19:37,250 --> 01:19:39,291
"They want motherfuckers to
really believe in God so much,

1422
01:19:39,375 --> 01:19:41,000
"they wanna paint me
to be the devil."

1423
01:19:41,083 --> 01:19:43,125
So before you judge,

1424
01:19:43,208 --> 01:19:46,500
before you say something
that you don't know about,

1425
01:19:46,583 --> 01:19:48,542
just take time to think.

1426
01:19:48,625 --> 01:19:50,709
Because I ain't
the average nigga.

1427
01:19:50,792 --> 01:19:53,667
When you're picking up your
favorite daughter from school,

1428
01:19:53,750 --> 01:19:56,125
I'm picking up my daughter
from school, too.

1429
01:19:56,208 --> 01:19:58,458
And they go to the same school.

1430
01:19:58,542 --> 01:20:00,834
Our sons might play
on the same football team.

1431
01:20:02,083 --> 01:20:05,834
So before you decide
to judge me, think.

1432
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:09,291
I might be your neighbor.

1433
01:20:09,375 --> 01:20:11,166
Some of you motherfuckers,
I might be your landlord,

1434
01:20:11,250 --> 01:20:12,500
you just don't know it.

1435
01:20:13,667 --> 01:20:16,000
So, I know your moves,

1436
01:20:16,667 --> 01:20:18,000
understand mine.

1437
01:20:22,166 --> 01:20:23,542
[MALE NEWS ANCHOR]
Breaking news out of LA.

1438
01:20:23,625 --> 01:20:25,875
A music industry mogul
under arrest

1439
01:20:25,959 --> 01:20:27,166
after a deadly hit-and-run.

1440
01:20:27,250 --> 01:20:29,208
Rap mogul, Suge Knight,
has been arrested.

1441
01:20:29,291 --> 01:20:32,250
Not just detained. Arrested.
Now accused of murder.

1442
01:20:32,333 --> 01:20:36,750
The arrest follows
a deadly crash
yesterday in Compton.

1443
01:20:36,834 --> 01:20:39,375
-JUDGE: Is Marion Hugh Knight
your true name, sir?
-Yes, sir, Your Honor.

1444
01:20:39,458 --> 01:20:43,250
You're charged in
Information TAA 136401,

1445
01:20:43,333 --> 01:20:45,542
Count one, murder count.
Two, attempted murder count,

1446
01:20:45,625 --> 01:20:47,125
three, felony hit-and-run,

1447
01:20:47,208 --> 01:20:49,125
various enhancements
are alleged.

1448
01:20:49,208 --> 01:20:51,000
At this time, it's best
you await further reading

1449
01:20:51,083 --> 01:20:52,792
-regarding your rights.
-Yes, sir.

1450
01:20:52,875 --> 01:20:54,834
-To all charges, sir,
how do you plead?
-SUGE: Not guilty, Your Honor.

1451
01:20:54,917 --> 01:20:57,792
-You deny all the enhancements?
-Yes, sir, Your Honor.

1452
01:20:57,875 --> 01:21:01,166
The focus is definitely
the victim, which is my father.

1453
01:21:01,250 --> 01:21:03,208
And, uh,
we just want justice for him.

1454
01:21:03,291 --> 01:21:04,792
And we want peace
as the trial moves forward.

1455
01:21:06,667 --> 01:21:09,500
A multi-millionaire rap mogul
to inmate, Suge Knight,

1456
01:21:09,583 --> 01:21:12,959
got a surprise plea deal today
to avoid being tried for murder.

1457
01:21:13,041 --> 01:21:15,917
-Mr. Knight,
is this what you want to do?
-SUGE: Yes.

1458
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:18,959
A "no contest" plea is
the same as a guilty plea.

1459
01:21:19,041 --> 01:21:20,917
-There is no difference.
You understand that?
-Yes.

1460
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:22,500
Very well.

1461
01:21:22,583 --> 01:21:24,917
All right,
I'll hear from the people.

1462
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:29,000
NEKAYA CARTER:
Your actions after you callously
murdered my dad in cold blood

1463
01:21:29,083 --> 01:21:31,166
were calculating and deplorable

1464
01:21:31,250 --> 01:21:34,166
and reflective of a lack of
moral character

1465
01:21:34,250 --> 01:21:37,125
and no respect for human lives.

1466
01:21:37,208 --> 01:21:40,625
Those of a low-life thug,
career-minded criminal.

1467
01:21:40,709 --> 01:21:43,875
Three-striker was
the representation
of being a murderer.

1468
01:21:43,959 --> 01:21:46,458
A violation of penal code,
section 192.

1469
01:21:47,750 --> 01:21:49,959
Submission A,
voluntary manslaughter

1470
01:21:50,041 --> 01:21:53,375
with a strike prior of which
can be found true.

1471
01:21:53,458 --> 01:21:55,917
Defendant sentenced
to state prison
for the high term.

1472
01:21:56,000 --> 01:22:00,083
High term of 11 years
must be doubled
under the strike law.

1473
01:22:00,166 --> 01:22:03,458
Defendant'll serve a term
in state prison
of 22 years.

1474
01:22:03,542 --> 01:22:07,041
Pursuit of penal section 667,
section A, section 1,

1475
01:22:07,125 --> 01:22:09,291
a prior conviction
the felon has admitted,

1476
01:22:09,375 --> 01:22:11,417
is levied an additional
five years in state prison,

1477
01:22:11,500 --> 01:22:15,041
for a total
on State term of 28 years.

1478
01:22:15,875 --> 01:22:18,834
At this time, this case is done.

1479
01:22:18,917 --> 01:22:20,583
If there's nothing further,
that'll be it.

1480
01:22:20,667 --> 01:22:21,792
Thank you, Your Honor.

1481
01:23:18,166 --> 01:23:28,291
♪♪