- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 19, 1965
- Place of Birth
- Compton, California, USA
Suge Knight
An American record producer, music executive, and a former replacement player as an American football defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He is the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Death Row Records rose to dominate the rap charts after Dr. Dre's breakthrough album The Chronic in 1992. After several years of chart successes for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Outlawz and Tha Dogg Pound, Death Row Records stagnated after Knight's incarceration on probation violation charges in September 1996 and went bankrupt in 2006. In February 2015, Knight was charged with murder and attempted murder following a fatal hit-and-run in Compton, California. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. Known gang banger of at least two Blood gangs. Was driving the car that Tupac Shakur was shot in on September 7, 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevad…
Filmography
tvSean Combs: The Reckoning
2025 · Self - Founder of Death Row Records (archive footage), Self - CEO, Death Row Records (archive footage)
movieTMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
2024 · Self (voice)
movieWho Killed Biggie and Tupac?
2022 · Self (archive footage)
BODR (Bacc On Death Row)
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieLast Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie and Tupac
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieBiggie: I Got a Story to Tell
2021 · Self - Co-Founder, Death Row Records (archive footage)
movieAmerican Dream/American Knightmare
2018 · Self
movieWho Killed Tupac?
2017 · Self (archive footage)
tvThe Defiant Ones
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Vanilla Ice Archive
2012 · Self (archive footage)
movieOne Night in Vegas
2010 · Self
Married to the Game: The Real Inside Story of Death Row
2009 · Self
movieTupac Assassination Conspiracy Or Revenge
2009 · Self
movieTupac: Live at the House of Blues
2005 · Self
movieTupac: Resurrection
2003 · Self (archival)
tvLast Call with Carson Daly
2002 · Self
movieWelcome to Death Row
2001 · Self - CEO, Death Row Records (archive footage)
movieSuge Knight: On The Real Death Row Story
2001 · Himself
movieDeath Row Uncut
2000 · Self (archive footage)
movieMurder Was the Case
1995 · Executive Producer
Horrifying Hollywood Murders
— · Self
movieHopelessly in Love: Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Andre Rison
— · Self (archive footage)