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If you’ve ever doubted Kanye West’s place in the music game consider this: The man is now scrapping with legendary Death Row Records founder Suge Knight. You know, Suge. The guy who broke up N.W.A, dangled Vanilla Ice off a hotel balcony and stole Dr. Dre’s long time lady.
Though seemingly separated by a generation, and without many obvious ties (Kanye is from Chicago and rolls with East Coast guys like Jay-Z — Knight would be shot dead on sight in a few areas of Brooklyn) they apparently have a legal beef. According o NME, Knight blames West for a 2005 shooting at a night club in Miami. West threw the party, Knight took a bullet to the leg.
Knight is claiming security at the party was inadequate – a charge West and the club’s owners have predictably denied. The suit will be heard in December, with Knight’s lawyer Marc Brumer,claiming his client’s medical bills totaled $200,000 and that he lost a $135,000 earring in the incident.
“How someone came with a gun into a very VIP party, that just doesn’t meet the smell test in life,” Brumer said.
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How Suge Knight is still alive also seems to defy logic. The man has, understandably, been beat down a lot lately. Check out this artistic version of events of another fight or this video claiming to show Knight “knocked the fuck out,” as Smokey would say.
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