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Life After Death Row is a documentary on the musical career of the rapper Crooked I. The tell-all film was released on August 29, 2006, and illustrates the trials and tribulations Crooked I endured while under contract under the infamous Death Row Records .
Kanukuntla Subhash Chandrabose is an Indian lyricist and singer who works in Telugu cinema. [2] Chandrabose debuted as a lyricist with the 1995 film Taj Mahal . [ 3 ] In a career spanning over 25 years, he has written lyrics for about 3600 songs in over 850 films.
American Dream/American Knightmare is a documentary about the life and career of gangsta rap producer and Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight.The film includes interviews conducted by Fuqua with Knight between December 2011 and November 2012 [1] in which Knight details how it all came about as well as how it all fell apart.
Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. (/ ʃ ʊ ɡ / SHUUG; born April 19, 1965) [2] is an American record executive, former NFL player, and convicted felon, who is the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Knight was a central figure in gangsta rap's commercial success in the 1990s. [3]
Death Row Records is an American record label that was founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, and Dick Griffey. [8] The label became a sensation by releasing multi-platinum hip-hop albums by West Coast-based artists such as Dr. Dre (The Chronic), Snoop Dogg and 2Pac (All Eyez on Me) during the 1990s.
In early 2008, Death Row Records’ co-founder and former CEO Suge Knight formed a new record company called Black Kapital Records as a vehicle of releases after his former label Death Row Records filed for bankruptcy, rumored to be due to having few artists and Knight's prison time. Suge Knight alongside Manager Nino Cappuccino, Young Life and ...
On June 1, 1997, Death Row Records employee and Mob Piru Bloods member Aaron "Heron" Palmer was shot dead in Compton, California. [1] Palmer's death was followed by the murders of several other Mob Pirus from Suge Knight's inner circle, as part of a gang war between the Mob Piru and another Bloods set (subgroup), the Fruit Town Piru.
A more serious blow was landed by Suge Knight, in his acceptance speech for Motion Picture Soundtrack of the Year, announcing: "Any artist out there wanna be a' artist, and wanna stay a star, and don't wanna – and won't have to worry about the executive producer tryna be all in the videos, all on the records, dancin' – come to Death Row!"