Suge Knight involved in night club shake down

Nightclub owner Sam Nazarian gives up control of Las Vegas hotel




Sam Nazarian





Nightclub owner Sam Nazarian has relinquished control of his 1,600-room SLS Las Vegas hotel and casino, which opened in August. (Mark Boster, Los Angeles Times)

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December 16, 2014, 10:18 PM




Sam Nazarian made his name and his billion-dollar fortune creating L.A. clubs and restaurants that attracted the hippest young celebrities..

He parlayed that fame into hotels in Beverly Hills and Miami's South Beach. This year, he looked to Las Vegas as the next step in a bold global expansion, opening the 1,600-room SLS Las Vegas hotel and casino in August.

Then he ran into the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

The board's routine vetting of Nazarian, who applied for a gaming license, has now thrown his Vegas plans into disarray. Investigators unearthed recent cocaine use — along with about $3 million in payments to a felon with convictions for drug possession and money laundering. Some of the money was paid to a convicted racketeer and Death Row Records founder Suge Knight.



“It is one of the worst things you can ever go through. Your soul is bared to the world.”
- Gaming commission member Joseph W. Brown

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Nazarian characterized the payments as extortion. On Tuesday, he relinquished all control of his Las Vegas hotel to his principal investor, Stockbridge Capital.

"We have made a collective decision to change the operating structure for the property," Stockbridge Executive Managing Director Terry Fancher said in a written statement.

Fancher now oversees all hotel operations; Nazarian is out as chief executive.

Nazarian is the premier night-life entrepreneur in Los Angeles. He presides over 51 restaurants, including the Umami and Katsuya chains, 17 nightclubs and six boutique hotels across the U.S. An additional eight SLS hotels are slated to open by 2016, including locations in New York, the Bahamas and Beijing.

The boyish billionaire had gone all-in on Vegas, even relocating there about three years ago as he planned his casino. He moved into an $8.5-million, 14,000-square-foot mansion overlooking the Strip.



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"One of the main reasons I moved here … was to get out of a certain lifestyle I was around," he told the gaming board, as members grilled him about his cocaine use.

He plans to keep his 10% stake in the Vegas hotel and to continue pursuing a gaming license. The matter comes before the Nevada Gaming Commission, which oversees the board, on Thursday.

State law requires anyone with more than a 5% stake in a casino to hold a license. Nazarian declined to be interviewed by The Times.

The night-life entrepreneur has struggled for eight years to turn the former Sahara Hotel into a desert hot spot, an anchor for the redevelopment of the Strip's northern end.

Nazarian's troubles provide vivid insights into gaming board investigations of prospective casino owners in Las Vegas, a city that has struggled to clean up its image ever since its founding by mobsters. Nevada regulators dig into applicants' backgrounds as if they were nominees for high public office.

French designer Philippe Starck created "Saam," a caricature of Sam Nazarian that adorns the main porte-cochere of the SLS Las Vegas.


Los Angeles nightclub operator Sam Nazarian bought the former Sahara Hotel and Casino, closed it, then renovated and reopened it as the SLS Las Vegas.


The licenses are rarely granted, and only after months of scrutiny by gaming control agents — conducted at the applicant's expense, sometimes costing millions of dollars. In the last year, only one non-restricted license has been granted in the state.

"It is one of the worst things you can ever go through," said commission member Joseph W. Brown. "Your soul is bared to the world."

The details of Nazarian's drug use and payments to felons were picked apart in a three-hour hearing two weeks ago in Carson City, Nev., before the board's three members and the state's deputy attorney general.

Nazarian initially told investigators that he had used drugs only in the distant past. But then he failed a drug test administered by the board.

At the hearing, he admitted that he had used cocaine recently.

Flanked by attorneys, Nazarian told the board that his recent drug use was "a bad indiscretion" and "a mistake" but insisted the episode was isolated to a single instance when he was attending a golf tournament in Mexico.

The initial denial irritated board members.

"We have the one issue of whether there was drug use, but then we had an additional issue of the degree to which you are speaking candidly and truthfully about it," board member Terry Johnson said.

The investigation also turned up long-standing ties to twice-convicted felon Derrick "Smokey" Armstrong, the man he accuses of blackmail.

Armstrong, a 43-year-old former West Los Angeles exotic car customizer, denied any wrongdoing in an interview with The Times. He called himself Nazarian's business partner and "fixer."

Nazarian acknowledged that he had made payments to Armstrong, who was convicted of drug possession in 1992 and pleaded guilty to money laundering in 2010. Nazarian, now 39, said he met Armstrong in 1999 and began paying him to customize his exotic cars.

The relationship soured after Armstrong borrowed money to open a car shop, Nazarian said at the hearing, and then threatened to harm or embarrass Nazarian unless he paid Armstrong another $1 million.

Nazarian, who is 6 feet 4, said he was "scared and embarrassed" and reported the threats to the Los Angeles Police Department starting in 2005.

But he kept making payments through 2013, Nazarian told the board.

One member of Nazarian's legal team dismissed Armstrong as a "parasite" common in the entertainment world.

"My city … is a city of barnacles for people who are achievers and high profile," attorney Joseph Taylor told the board. "The hangers-on, the clingers, the parasites — they are everywhere."

Nazarian told the board that Armstrong threatened repeatedly to embarrass him, disrupt pending business deals or physically harm him or members of his family.

One threat occurred the day of the grand opening of the SLS South Beach hotel, Nazarian said at the hearing: "[Armstrong] understood the mere fact that I had known him or associated with him was enough to garner bad press."

Armstrong, in an interview with The Times, said he received as much as $800,000 for work he did on behalf of Nazarian, including negotiating a deal to partner Nazarian with an energy drink producer. He denied threatening Nazarian.

"These allegations of extortion and being fearful are a bunch of lies," Armstrong said.

Dana Cole, a Los Angeles attorney who has represented Armstrong, said he helped Armstrong negotiate a settlement of a business dispute with Nazarian regarding a car business. It was not an extortion attempt, he said.

The payments included $90,000 to Knight and $83,000 to Hai Waknine, the convicted racketeer — both of whom, Nazarian told the board, were working with Armstrong.

Waknine served five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of racketeering in connection with a money-laundering scheme linked to Israeli organized crime. Waknine could not be reached for comment

"So roughly $3 million in monies … were paid either to Mr. Armstrong or to others, I guess it would be fair to say, in connection with Mr. Armstrong?" board member Johnson asked Nazarian during the hearing.

"It would be fair to say," Nazarian answered.

Knight declined to comment. But a business associate, entertainment producer Mark Blankenship, called the charges of extortion "a form of profiling and racism."

The gaming board has serious concerns about prospective casino owners using drugs or consorting with felons, said Brown, a commission member since 2008 and a director of the law firm Fennemore Craig Jones Vargas. "It's big," he said. "It's major."

Veteran Las Vegas attorney Dominic Gentile said the gaming control board is rigorous in its investigations and insisted Nazarian is "not being singled out. This goes on no matter who it is."

In 1963, Frank Sinatra, then owner of Lake Tahoe's Cal Neva Casino, lost his license over his acquaintance with mobster Sam Giancana. Sinatra was approved for a new license 17 years later, only after friends Gregory Peck and Kirk Douglas spoke on his behalf.

Gentile added that many upstanding Nevada citizens — including himself — might have difficulty passing gaming commission muster.

"If you've lived any kind of life, and you've enjoyed it, there's a damn good chance you're not eligible," he said. "Let's just say that if you have a lot of money, but you've chosen to associate with people that have reputations and perhaps are notorious, it's going to be tough."

What it looks like is Suge Knight was just a silent partner probably helping to bankroll this guy with drug money, and now the guy is claiming that Suge was shaking him down.

Suge Knight is a classic example of why African Americans as a whole get a bad name. He's a disgrace and either needs gunned down in broad daylight on Crenshaw or locked up in a cage with the other animals. This guy is human garbage

This guy Derrick "Smokey" Armstrong seems like he was the main driver behind this extortion god knows how suge and that israeli dude got involved. Second time suges been brought up in a separate investigation first he was linked to that shrimp boy chow case through the black bikers and now this.

Suge seems like he likes the joint. Why didn't they ever hit this guy with a rico case? He was clearly running a criminal enterprise at death row.

They actually were running a federal investigation into death row records at one point but then i think 9/11 happened and all the resources got diverted else where.

A lot or criminal organizations benefited there, none more than the American Mafia. The last nail was being lifted to put in their coffin, then 9/11 allowed them to regroup a little bit.

Off topic, Scorsese. Are you Hollander? Call me crazy, but I really don't know.

Suge was a hardcore blood from Compton. Not sure what hood/set but he was no joke, he was extorting Vanilla Ice too.

I think it's Mob Pirus.

but he took a giant hit in the blood world, when he did his 9 years on a sny yard.

Not a priority as long as Eric Holder is AG.....Suge Knight is as Holder would say ''one of his people''

Wow..

didn't see thread about Suge running over those 2 guys so just updating this thread

details of latest incident with video is here

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/styl...ip-is-not-news/

NOW Suge is claiming to be legally blind.

http://radio.com/2015/03/11/suge-knight-blind-left-eye/


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Suge Knight Claims to Be Blind in One Eye
March 11, 2015 6:25 PM


By Philip Cosores
Suge Knight‘s legal problems took a perplexing turn today regarding a direction that Knight, like Zoolander, can’t turn: left.
Let us explain: Suge Knight’s lawyer is now claiming that Knight is legally blind in his left eye, and in an interview with the NY Daily News (via Complex), said it “wasn’t an option for Knight to veer left down the side street” instead of plowing straight into the path of Cle “Bone” Sloan and [Terry] Carter.
“How can he go left if he can’t see?” Fletcher asked. “This was a literal presentation of being blindsided. He was attacked on his blind side. To me it seems obvious. He’s being punched in the face, he can’t see.”

What this line of thinking doesn’t really explain is why Knight was driving a car to begin with if he is blind in one eye. Doing such in any situation would seem to endanger everyone’s lives on the road. Surely, this will come up in court.

That video of him running those guys down is brutal. Don't see him getting out of this one.

Also the guy he killed was a well respected compton OG and he's apparently been getting taunted and threatened by fellow inmates.

@Scorcese,

yeah,I haven't watched the clip but in watching feature on the story..I recognized the other guy who was run over as a sometime actor. He was the gangster in Training Day who

SPOILER

switched sides on Alonzo in the standoff scene between Hawke and Washington

When I saw the footage of Suge knocked out cold on the ground a few years ago...I realized his days as alpha dog bully were over.

I heard excerpts of an Ice T audiobook and he mentions that neither he nor Suge are official gang members..they are affiliated. Outsiders, like us don't know the difference but in jail there would definitely be a clear distinction.

Your talking about Cle bone sloan was one of the guys that got run over but not the one that died. He's a hollywood consultant/actor now and also a member of the athens park bloods.

Heres a clip from training day he's in when alonzo showing jake a heavy gang neighbourhood.
[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiNjypUQWpg[/video]

That particular scene is what this movie authentic , something that Hollywood is to afraid to try, and that's the Black P. Stone Jungle set. Those are the ones started by a fellow from Chicago T Rodgers. Jungles & Bity (City) are the only 2 sets and their reputation is cemented there.

Suge's claims of self-defense are ridiculous. He could've easily turned the other way. Sloan and Carter probably were packed but judging from the clip it really didn't seem like they were going to attempt a hit on Suge. Running the guy over was completely unnecessary. But when you're dealing with a self-obsessed dirtbag whose power has waned, you can expect things like this to happen.

I read an article in GQ years ago about T. Rodgers and his story.Gonna look for it and post.

It's a bogus defense but from what I've read....Suge is claiming that others were lined up and strapped,down one escape route..and yadda yadda yadda

if you watch the video everyone else was standing back from the initial fight including carter and he reversed out into the road too.

It wouldnt surprise me if suge walks.He has been involved in so much shit its like he has a guardian angel looking out for him.Suge wasnt an actual gang member he was affiliated with a bloods set BUT he went into buisness with Harry O a bigtime blood gang member drug kingpin and ripped him off a million dollers to start death row and then not only never paid him back but also stole his lawyer from him.So suge has some pretty powerful friends for him to be able to fuck over a guy like that and get away with it

I forgot to thank you for the name of the actor...

I KNEW that guy was the real deal and not an actor when I saw him in Training Day.I got same feeling watching him as when I first noticed Danny Trejo in a film.....Con Air..I said..nah....this dude is no actor....he looks like he's shot people before.

Cle Bone Sloan refuses to testify against Suge Knight in court

http://abc7.com/entertainment/cle-bone-sloan-says-he-wont-snitch-on-suge-knight/656104/


When asked why he wouldn't testify, he told the prosecutor



"You got it twisted homie, around here you've got to put in your own work"

article about him in this issue, read it on a flight...well written piece....will find it eventuallly online and post it

GQ september 1992 "LA's Original Gangster"

I wonder why suge knight got rid of his lawyer david kenner.

Kenner was also his lawyer during death rows heyday.

only folks who deal in stereotyping would paint any group of folks with one brush

don't feed trolls....just put them on your ignore list

hey gets you check those vids I sent you?

Cheech,

yeah, thanks

great vids........dude talks a bit too slowly though, so when I play the vids back i speed them up

Agreed. Real slow. I listen at night when family goes to bed.

Not really. He's still widely respected by most MOB Piru's.

Whether you hate him or not, there's no dancing around the fact that he is a well-connected criminal. The joint venture Blood-Crip extortion of hip-hop artists he masterminded was a multi-million dollar racket. He shaked several nightclubs down together with some Israeli mobsters. Those are no low-level petty theft crooks.

His reputation definatley precedes him. Which is why he is still effective and people would want to work with him in those sort of schemes. I found this article alleging his involvement in some sports contract dispute.

Here is a vid I just watched.....one of the wildest stories I've ever heard.

Gotta be over a certain age to know or care to know who's involved in the story

Thats a crazy story. Mike Concepcion is an elusive character. Is he still involved in the music Business?

Scorcese,

I think he's still connected and working in the entertainment industry. If he had that kind of pull back then, he's super shot caller now.He seems like he's a smarter version of Suge. Where Suge is going to muscle somebody, MC will use his power for leverage. When they asked him to call off the wolves off 3rd Bass, a less intelligent man would have asked for money.....he asked for connections to distribute a record he owned.

The new school rapper Kendrick Lamar is his nephew.

interview with mike conception

part1
[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0a1TwOBhvs[/video]

part2
[video:youtube]https://youtu.be/leYCluHWCW4[/video]

He's mentioned here in nwa manager jerry hellers book ruthless.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jsn3...ler&f=false

Theres also a story in there of eazys eventful meeting with alleged gambino associate joe isgro.

go to page 167 for beginning of story.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jsn3...gro&f=false

Thanks Scorsese

interesting read

Mayweather to post suges $10 mill bail if he wins.

Has he posted it yet?

BF

I couldn't find the article but did you know that Rodgers appeared in Colors with Penn and Duvall.







I don't remember whether I read the article or saw the film first.A few things didn't add up. A Triple OG taking THIS kind of role(this scene is his entire role).

And... Rogers was active back before the streets had access high powered automatic guns and such, so seeing his old pictures and seeing what he looked like at the time..was shocked that the is such a small, unimposing guy. I figured that part of what made, say ,Tookie, so feared...besides his willingness to commit violent acts was his physical stature.
Rodgers looks like a mortician.

Gets,

I seen Colors a few time and didn't realized it. Tookie was into the bodybuilder culture and that impressed those around him to do the same. Look at the pics of Raymond Washington and you'll see that he's much like T Rodgers size but well known as a lethal street boxer. Tookie reputation was more or less appearance per say.

Here's an article from an interview on T Rodgers back in 2005:

http://www.streetgangs.com/features/t-rodgers-new-book-02260

I doubt very much he's gonna post it.
Eugene Big U Henley,One of the guys thats alleged to be involved in the artist shakedown racket with suge has commented on the events in baltimore.

@BF,

thanks for article, interesting
yeah, Rodgers and Raymond Jackson come from the hand skills era where guys used to put their hands up and everybody didn't hide behind guns.

These were neighborhood guys in charge of neighborhood gangs. In a million years, I don't think any of them thought that the violence would become what it's become or that the sets would expand across the country like that. I've read that before crack....gangs were actually starting to die down out in L.A.


@Scorsese,

Either Mayweather is more connected then we know or Suge is really finished as a bully. By talking about posting bail and then reneging, FM just clowned Suge on a big scale.


also thanks for article about the L.A. guy's perspective on current riots, when LA gang member is telling you to pump your brakes, you know you're going to far.

I heard they asked a young woman in Baltimore what she thought of the article and she said

"F them West Coast dudes, cause in B-more we aim to hit people, you heard?"

Suge AND Puffy locked up in L.A. at the same time




Puffy or Diddy was arrested for assaulting an assistant coach on UCLA staff .Combs' son is on the team and Puffy took offense to the way the coach was treating his son during a practice...altercation involving a kettlebell went down and Combs was arrested .

take that take that.

I love how the beach bum hippie types refer to L.A. as being so "laid-back." Now, I like L.A., and there is some truth to that statement. But it's not nearly as "laid-back" as places like Honolulu or Key West.

@ Gets: You JUST missed your favorite episode of "My Wife and Kids" on MTV2. Clarence Clemons battling ClubFoot Kyle with Franklin under his coat .

@ Get - Was this recently? Puffy is not an imposing figure.

I tap ya jaw, you probably heard it before..With force you can't withstand, Puff the motherfuckin man??

Pizza,

Thanks, FUNNIEST scene ever from that show.I've seen that gag used hundreds of times but the scene always cracks me up.

@NickW,

story broke yesterday...

http://www.tmz.com/2015/06/23/diddy-told-ucla-coach-im-gonna-f-k-you-up/?adid=hero5

Get these

Did a b more resident actually say that or were you just joking around with wire lingo

Snoop was the best , even went out like a man

I was hoping people would catch the joke.

Yup, that "routine" literally goes back to Vaudeville, maybe even longer. But they made it look fresh. The little boy who played Franklin (who must be twenty by now), has to be one of the funniest and intelligent child actors that I've ever seen. I can't even look at him on that show without laughing.

apparently floyd may weather is paying for suges attorney. the same guy that represented michael jackson.

BF,

this is from before your time but 21 Jump Street was a show that used to air when Fox was just starting out. They did a few films based on the the tv show .

This is an episode of gangs infiltrating high schools. T Rodgers guest stars as gang expert cop....first seen about 8 minute into the show.

Gets,

Thanks for that video and it's definitely before my time. It's surreal in that they used real handsigns ( Vatos Loco 13/ somewhere that's a real gang) and terminology.

Does anyone have any info on a cocaine trafficking case in 93 in which suge knight was named as a codefendant? It involved drug distribution in las vegas.

I found repetitive information mentioning the Feds investigation but it was later drop.

found it. I ve heard the name ricardo crocket before within this subject, i think he was head of security for another record label.

Rap manager arrested on weapons charges
April 19, 1994


LOS ANGELES, April 19 -- The manager for rapper Dr. Dre was arrested Tuesday on weapons charges stemming from an investigation into a major cocaine distribution operation stretching from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Nev.

Dr. Dre's manager, Marion Knight, is charged in the federal indictment with criminal conspiracy and weapons charges. Knight also is president of Death Row Records.

Knight and three others were arrested Tuesday morning in the Los Angeles by local and federal authorities. The arrests were based on a federal grand jury indictment handed up in Las Vegas, where 11 others were arrested in May 1993, including the alleged leader of the drug network.

Knight, 29, is charged with criminal conspiracy, making a false statement to acquire a firearm, illegal insterstate transfer of a firearm and aiding and abetting. Officials said Knight's firearms violations were discovered in their investigation of the cocaine operation.

According to the indictment, Ricardo Lorenzo Crockett of Las Vegas ran a drug network that distributed cocaine supplied by people in Los Angeles.

The indictment also charges Crockett and several others with using guns to protect the operation or to rob other drug dealers.

Andre Divinity, 34, of Chino Hills, Calif., is charged with supplying cocaine to Crockett. His girlfriend, Dianne Epps, 26, is charged with assisting Divinity.

Sterling Blue, 29, of Los Angeles, is charged with brokering drug deals between Crockett and Divinity.

Dr. Dre and other rappers who record for Knight's Death Row Records have been criticized for raps whose lyrics encourage or glorify crime and violence.

Knight's attorney, David Kenner, had no comment when asked about his client's connection to the rapper and the record label.

'He categorically denies any guilt on any of the charges,' Kenner said. The attorney said the allegations involve the purchase of two handguns in January, 1992. Kenner said other people made false statements to obtain the guns.

'Numer one, he didn't do it. And number two, he is not charged with and had nothing to do with any narcotics,' Kenner said.

Knight was being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. The amount of bail was not immediately disclosed. A hearing on the case is set for May 3 in Los Angeles.

Just listened to this interview with detective greg kading. In it he said that it was actually a compton PCP dealer named patrick johnson who financed death row records and that harry o actually brokered the deal.

Suge Knight claims Dr. Dre tried to have him whacked http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/suge-knight-claims-dr-dre-tried-to-have-him-whacked

Judge denies witness list to suge knights attorneys

Mob James(Mob Piru) speaks about Death Row records and Suge.

Thats a good interview. I believe most of what he says. However the popular thing for these guys to do in interviews now especially since hes been in jail is basically make suge out to be some sort of punk, which I think comes down to personal grudges. Also as far as them being broke, they werent partners in death row they were just bodyguards and muscle. There were probably alot of perks being around that scene anyway.

Yea Suge has a TON of enemies with the way he acted so some things have to be taken with a grain of salt.

agree with you guys....lot of people out there badmouthing suge now that he's no longer a threat.

Something about this guy's demeanor makes me believe him though. Also the Piru were Suge's muscle..guys probably all have 10 bodies, so to them...Suge is no tough guy.

You see the muscle, underlings, and hangers on of Jay Z,Puffy, and Suge making these kinds of videos...and part of it is self directed anger. Guys were in the inner circles of multi millionaires and are back to square one..

Once Suge's muscle was no longer protecting him..he used different tricks to get guys to be goons for him.

I've heard this story before but from another crew....Suge is a great manipulator .

Video from the raids in Compton after Tupacs murder and the mini gang war between the Mob Piru and South Side Crips. It features Suge Knights Compton home and a brief clip of Orlando Anderson along with a table full of guns and drugs and death row paraphernalia.

thanks,Scorsese.

Not directly related to Suge(or maybe it is).It's about one of the guys that Suge tried to run over....Cle "Bone" Sloan and the film "Boyz N The Hood"

SPOILER ALERT if you've never seen the film.





Heard this story for years, but just read confirmed version of it from a producer of the film.

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016...t-matters-today

Nicolaides was aware of the potential for real violence. One night, after a long day of shooting, he got a phone call from a friend. He’d heard from “a guy named Bone, who runs the Bloods in an area they call ‘the Jungle’—which was right across the street from where we were going to do the scene where Ice Cube shoots the [gang members] who killed Ricky,” recalled Nicolaides. So Nicolaides met with Bone, who had a huge guy sitting next to him. Over dinner, Bone said, “ ‘Word on the street is that this little movie is dissing the Bloods.’ And I said, ‘No, nobody is affiliated to anyone.’ ”

“But Ice Cube’s wearing a blue Detroit Tigers hat, and the bad guy’s got a red [and black] Chicago Bulls hat on. They drive a red Hyundai—that’s dissing to me,” Bone said. “I don’t care about your little movie. I run a business here, and the profits that I make, I take the kids in my world to the ocean, I take them out fishing, but I can’t prevent some 14-year-old walking up with a 9-mm. and shooting Ice Cube in the back of the head if you’re going to shoot right across the street from me.”

So the next day Nicolaides went to the set and said, “John, you told me that colors didn’t matter, and now the hood thinks that Boyz N the Hood is dissing the Bloods, and we’re scheduled in three days to have Ice Cube kill the murderers at a burger stand right across the street from the Jungle.” But Singleton didn’t want to make any changes; it fell to Nicolaides and Ice Cube to persuade him to change the location to Eat a Burger in the Crenshaw mall. “We shot there, had no problem,” said Nicolaides.

OK,So who is going to see the Tupac film.

It looks MAD BOOTLEG to me judging by the trailer.Looks like an After School Special.

In the press run for the film, the producers have gotten into a war of words with John Singleton, who was directing the project before there was some kind of disagreement.

Allegedly Singleton wanted to throw in unfounded story about Pac getting raped on Rikers and showing Afeni Shakur performing sexual acts and all types of wild shit.



There was some other tomfoolery a few weeks ago with Treach of Naughty By Nature flying out to L.A. to confront a guy that used to be affiliated with Suge and who is also a Piru. It was funny and then sad...and then funny.

I might watch it when it hits Blu-Ray but I'm not excited about it.

All Eyez On Me: 23% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yikes. I think the trailer actually looks good, but I never liked that they'd filmed it in Georgia to save money.

Snoop defended the movie, he knew 2Pac pretty good.

“I saw this movie a while back and it told the truth about pac,” He wrote on Twitter. “Gotta respect it.”

wow

Prodigy of Mobb Deep dead at the age of 42.

Rest in Peace.

His book,My Infamous Life is worth the money....audibook version is up on yt in parts and he covers the Mobb Deep/Tupac beef in detail.

Jada Smith wasn't too happy about it.