Suge Knight Blames Snoop Dogg For Tupac's Death, Also Blasts Drake For Using The Rapper's Voice On A.I.-Generated Diss
Suge Knight seemingly reignited his beef with Snoop Dogg, this time accusing the West Coast rap star of being responsible for Tupac Shakur's "downfall."
During an episode of his podcast, 'Collect Call,' Knight commented on Drake's use of A.I. generated vocals that sound like Tupac and Snoop Dogg in his diss track towards Kendrick Lamar called "Taylor Made Freestyle."
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Knight, 59, said "young people do what young people do."
The music executive — who is serving a 28 year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter — continued: "It's y'all turn, but regarding the homie 'Pac, he wasn't no chump. Putting him on a song and dissing Kendrick [Lamar] for everybody entertainment — that ain't how it go."
Knight, real name Marion Hugh Knight Jr., appeared especially irritated by Drake's decision to include A.I.-generated vocals resembling Snoop's voice alongside the late-rapper's vocals. He suggested that Snoop, 52, harbored jealousy towards Tupac and may have contributed to his tragic demise.
"Then putting him on a song with Snoop, who was a part of his downfall and exit, ain't ever a good look," Knight said. "Pac was a king on that chessboard. He never was a pawn, so he can't make him be a pawn now."
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Tupac Shakur, considered one of music's most influential and successful rappers of all time, was gunned down on September 7, 1996 in Las Vegas. After being shot multiple times, while in the passenger seat of a car with Knight, died a week later.
He was 25.
On another episode of 'Collect Call,' Knight also brought up Snoop's alleged affiliation with Sean "Diddy" Combs, Knight's longtime adversary during the 1990s Death Row Records and Combs' Bad Boy Records back-and-forth.
Knight highlighted the purported contradiction between Snoop's allegiance to the founder of The Notorious B.I.G.'s label, who was Tupac's rival before his death, and his professed admiration for Shakur.
The Compton, California, native expressed his desire for a candid conversation with Snoop about the situation involving Puffy, who is battling a lawsuit from a former music producer who accused him of sex trafficking.
