Suge Knight Claims Dr. Dre Hired Hitman To Kill Him In $300 Million Lawsuit

Suge Knight and Dr. Dre have had a longstanding feud, one outlined in N.W.A’s biopic Straight Outta Compton. Now, that dispute is intensifying with a new lawsuit. 

Knight believes Dre hired a hitman to kill him on two separate occasions in order to avoid paying him as part of their alleged lifetime management deal, according to TMZ

The first of these incidents took place at 1OAK nightclub in Los Angeles in 2014. Knight was shot 7 times at the club that night, but eventually recovered from the wounds. According to the lawsuit, a man nicknamed T-Money told the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department that Dre paid him to kill Knight. No arrests have been made in that case.

In January 2015, Knight says the second incident took place at Tam’s Burgers in Compton. The mogul says he believes Dre and Universal — the company behind Straight Outta Compton — paid Cle “Bone” Sloan $300,000. TMZ reports that Knight is insinuating Bone was sent to “take care of the Suge problem.”

Suge hit Sloan with his vehicle during their run-in at Tam’s that day. There, Knight also ran over and killed his friend Terry Carter. The former Death Row boss says that was an accident due to the fact that he feared for his life at the time. 

Knight is now suing Dre, Apple, Universal, and Tam’s Burgers for unspecified damages that include 30 percent of Dre’s reported $1 billion from his Apple-Beats deal.

Dr. Dre’s New Album Streamed 25 Million Times On Apple Music In Its First Week

Compton, the new album from hip-hop mogul and Apple employee Dr. Dre, was streamed 25 million times in its first week on Apple Music. In addition to the streams, Apple says the album also sold half a million downloads through iTunes — a solid performance that was not quite enough to push it to number one in the US charts. Apple executives reported the figures in a statement to The New York Times, but the publication did not specify whether the figure was made up from complete listens to the whole album, or includes people who listened to individual songs.

The album, which came at the same time as, and loosely ties into NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, was an all-Apple affair. Dre announced the album on his own Beats 1 radio show, The Pharmacy, and it premiered a day early on Apple’s streaming service, before full release on iTunes on July 7th. For now at least, it remains an Apple exclusive, only available for stream on Apple Music and digitally through iTunes. Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine was positive about the results, saying that it constituted a good start for Apple Music. “We’re beginning to show what we can do in terms of communicating music to a worldwide audience and helping artists at the same time,” he told The New York Times.

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Dr Dre To Donate All Money From New Album To Charity In Compton

Hip Hop mogul and music producer Dr. Dre has announced that he will be donating all of the proceeds from his new album to a Compton charity.

The album, which was the 50 year old’s first in 16 years, was released on August 7th .  Dre used his partnership with Apple Music and Beats 1 to announce details about his work prior to its release, and “Compton: A Soundtrack” was premiered exclusively on Beats 1 Radio.

“Compton” is Dre’s third studio work and will be the official soundtrack for the upcoming movie, “Straight Outta Compton” – a biopic about the famous gangsta’ rap group N.W.A. Featured in the 16-tracked LP are big names such as Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Jill Scott, Eminem, The Game, Ice Cube and Xzibit.

Talking on Beats 1 radio with DJ Zane Lowe, Dre broke the news that all his artist royalties for the work on the album would be donated to help fund a new performing arts and entertainment center in Compton.

“I feel it’s the right thing to do,” Dre said. “And I hope everybody appreciates the work I put into this album.”

Dre will be hands-on with overseeing the project along with Compton mayor Aja Brown.

Dre explained, “I reached out to the Compton mayor’s office, got in touch with the mayor, Aja Brown, and I’ve decided to donate all of my artist royalties from the sale of this album to help fund a new performing arts and entertainment facility for the kids in Compton.  I’ve been really trying to do something special for Compton and just couldn’t quite figure out what it was. [Brown] actually had this idea, and she was already in the process of working on it.”

Earlier, Dre had said that his album was inspired by the movie itself. “During principal photography, I felt myself going to the studio and being so inspired by the movie that I started recording an album.”

“Straight Outta Compton” is expected to be released on August 14th.

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