He Thinks He's Unstoppable — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, I talked about Tupac getting shot
2. 0:02and you wanted me to talk about what
3. 0:04Suge Knight did. So, let's talk about
4. 0:07what Suge Knight did. Now, the story of
5. 0:09course starts with this guy, Suge. And I
6. 0:12talked about him in the Tupac video I
7. 0:15did about a week or so ago. So, Suge was
8. 0:17the guy driving the car when Tupac got
9. 0:20shot. Now, as you already know, during
10. 0:22this time, Suge is the CEO of his own
11. 0:25record label, Death Row Records, and he
12. 0:28has a reputation for being a very
13. 0:30aggressive guy. He and his goons are
14. 0:32known to use gangster tactics to, you
15. 0:35know, get what they want. Like, you
16. 0:36probably heard the rumor of him hanging
17. 0:38Vanilla Ice off a balcony to get him to
18. 0:41sign over royalties for the song Ice Ice
19. 0:44Baby. Now, whether that's true or not, I
20. 0:46I don't know, but that's the kind of guy
21. 0:48he's known to be. Now, after Tupac's
22. 0:51death, Suge gets arrested for violating
23. 0:54his probation over that fight where he
24. 0:56and Tupac and others attacked a guy in a
25. 0:58hotel lobby. You probably remember that.
26. 1:01Now, eventually in 1997, Suge has a
27. 1:04probation hearing and he tries to argue
28. 1:06that he was merely trying to break up
29. 1:09the fight in the hotel lobby, not get
30. 1:11involved. But security footage shows him
31. 1:15kicking a guy who was on the ground, so
32. 1:17clearly he was involved. And so the
33. 1:19judge rules that he violated his
34. 1:21probation and he gets sentenced to nine
35. 1:24years in prison. Now, like I said, Suge
36. 1:27owns Death Row Records. And sort of
37. 1:30around the time that he's in prison,
38. 1:32some of the biggest artists on Death Row
39. 1:35start leaving, including guys you may
40. 1:37have heard of like Dr. Dre and Snoop
41. 1:40Dogg. and they each leave under
42. 1:42different circumstances, but part of the
43. 1:45reason is because Death Row Records was
44. 1:47a really apparently violent and toxic
45. 1:50environment and they wanted to get out.
46. 1:52Anyway, after only 4 years, 10 months in
47. 1:55prison, Suge gets released and it's now
48. 1:592001. And by this point, he's gone from
49. 2:03being one of the biggest music execs in
50. 2:05hip hop to a much much less successful
51. 2:09music exec. And with all of his big
52. 2:11artists now out of the label, eventually
53. 2:14Death Row Records goes bankrupt and
54. 2:17later gets sold off. And so now he ain't
55. 2:20getting all that money or power or
56. 2:22attention that he used to get. And it
57. 2:25seems like Suge really really wants all
58. 2:28that back. I mean, who wouldn't? And so
59. 2:31years pass and it's now 2014 and Suge is
60. 2:3549 at this point. And so one night he's
61. 2:38at One Oak nightclub in West Hollywood
62. 2:41and there's a MTV Music Video Awards
63. 2:44pre-party there hosted by Chris Brown.
64. 2:47And so Suge is there and he's just, you
65. 2:49know, hanging out, having a good time, I
66. 2:51guess. And then suddenly, boom, a man
67. 2:54pulls a gun on him and blam blam, he
68. 2:57shoots Suge multiple times. Then the
69. 3:00shooter takes off and flees the scene
70. 3:03and police are never able to charge this
71. 3:06guy and he never gets caught. Like to
72. 3:08this day that guy has never been caught.
73. 3:11Anyway, pretty quickly an ambulance
74. 3:13takes Suge to the hospital and lucky for
75. 3:16him he survives. A few days later he's
76. 3:19recovered well enough that he's allowed
77. 3:21to leave the hospital. So he ends up
78. 3:24being fine. But here's the thing. Suge
79. 3:27believes that Dr. Dre was the one behind
80. 3:30the shooting. Like that maybe Dre had
81. 3:33hired a guy to come into the club and
82. 3:35try and kill him. And why does Suge
83. 3:38think Dr. Dre tried to have him killed?
84. 3:40Well, after Dre left Death Row Records,
85. 3:43he went on to do his own thing. And
86. 3:45eventually he created and sold his audio
87. 3:48company, Beats Electronics. You know,
88. 3:50they make those overpriced headphones.
89. 3:52But he sells this company to Apple for
90. 3:54about $3 billion. And Suge, he believes
91. 3:58he's owed some of that money. He claims
92. 4:01that Dre signed some sort of lifetime
93. 4:04management deal with him and that now
94. 4:06Suge is owed $300 million of that sale
95. 4:10to Apple. And that also Dre tried to
96. 4:13have him killed so that he wouldn't have
97. 4:15to pay him. Now, there's no evidence
98. 4:18that we know of to support this claim
99. 4:20that Dre actually tried to have him
100. 4:22killed, but whatever. This is what Suge
101. 4:25believes. And so one day in 2015, he
102. 4:28decides it's time to go and talk to Dr.
103. 4:31Dre in person, meet him face to face.
104. 4:35Why? Because around this time, Dr. Dre
105. 4:38is currently on set filming. Uh he's
106. 4:40working on a commercial for the movie
107. 4:42about the rap group NWA. The movie's
108. 4:45called Straight Out of Compton. You
109. 4:47probably remember it. Now, Suge is going
110. 4:49to be portrayed in this movie, you know,
111. 4:52since it's a true story. And Suge knows
112. 4:54that and he doesn't like it. I mean, he
113. 4:56knows they're likely gonna make him look
114. 4:58like a piece of [ __ ] And at the very
115. 5:00least, he wants to get paid for his
116. 5:03likeness. And so Suge rolls up to the
117. 5:06set. And he gets there and this guy sees
118. 5:09him, Bone. Bone is a consultant on the
119. 5:12movie, and he's working as a security
120. 5:14guard for this promotional shoot. And
121. 5:17Bone is not about to let Suge get on set
122. 5:20because everyone knows Suge. Everyone
123. 5:22knows about his beef with Dre and Chu
124. 5:25is, you know, well known for
125. 5:26intimidating and threatening people. Not
126. 5:29to mention, Dr. Dre has a restraining
127. 5:31order against him. And so Bone is like,
128. 5:34"Get the [ __ ] out of here, man." And
129. 5:36pretty quickly, Bone and Suge get into
130. 5:38an argument and they're yelling at each
131. 5:41other. And this draws the attention of
132. 5:43some sheriff's deputies who are on the
133. 5:45set. So these deputies, they come over
134. 5:48and they tell Suge that he has to leave.
135. 5:50And so he does leave and while he's
136. 5:53driving away he gets a call from this
137. 5:55guy Terry Carter. Terry Carter is a
138. 5:58music exec himself and a businessman and
139. 6:01he's cool with Suge and also with some
140. 6:04of the people involved in this
141. 6:06production. He's sort of a peacemaker in
142. 6:08the community. And so Suge tells him
143. 6:11something like, "I'm tired of being
144. 6:12disrespected. I'm just trying to meet
145. 6:14with Dre." And so Terry Carter tells
146. 6:17Suge, you know, to calm down and to meet
147. 6:19him at a friend's house, which is near
148. 6:21this burger joint a few blocks away. And
149. 6:24there, you know, they can talk and sort
150. 6:26this whole thing out. And so Suge drives
151. 6:29over to this friend's house near the
152. 6:30burger joint. And at some point, Terry
153. 6:33Carter gets there and he's waiting and
154. 6:35Suge pulls up in his truck just outside
155. 6:38the parking lot. And the two, they start
156. 6:41talking through their car windows. But
157. 6:43then suddenly Bone shows up there. I
158. 6:46don't know. He must have followed them
159. 6:48there or something. But he shows up
160. 6:50there and he walks over to Shook's truck
161. 6:53and pow pow, he starts punching him
162. 6:55through the window and Terry Carter gets
163. 6:57out of his car to probably, I don't
164. 6:59know, mediate or stop the fight because,
165. 7:01you know, he's that kind of guy. Now,
166. 7:04normally Suge would likely get out and
167. 7:06fight him, but he's still recovering
168. 7:09from being shot at the Chris Brown party
169. 7:11a few months before, so he's not exactly
170. 7:14in a position to punch anyone. So,
171. 7:16instead of fighting, he drives a few
172. 7:18feet away from Bone into the parking lot
173. 7:20of the burger joint, and he stays in his
174. 7:23truck, probably hoping that Bone will
175. 7:25leave him alone. But Bone doesn't leave.
176. 7:28He runs up to Suge's truck again and he
177. 7:31keeps punching him through the window.
178. 7:33Now, at this point, Suge has had enough
179. 7:36and he's super pissed off. And you know,
180. 7:39this guy already has a temper. I mean,
181. 7:41he can't just sit there and take punches
182. 7:43from Bone. He's not going to let that
183. 7:45slide. So, he puts his truck in reverse
184. 7:48and bam, he hits Bone with it, knocking
185. 7:50him down. Then, he puts the truck in
186. 7:53drive and skirt, he speeds off. And when
187. 7:56he does, boom, he kind of runs over Bone
188. 7:58again, catching his leg under the truck.
189. 8:01But also, boom, he hits Terry Carter and
190. 8:04accidentally runs him over. And
191. 8:07unfortunately, Terry Carter doesn't
192. 8:10survive. Then Suge flees the scene. And
193. 8:14eventually the police arrive and they
194. 8:17start investigating. And immediately
195. 8:19they find out that Suge is the one
196. 8:21responsible. And ultimately, Suge knows
197. 8:24he's screwed. And so he goes to the
198. 8:26local police station and he surrenders
199. 8:28himself. Here's his mug shot. And at the
200. 8:31end of it all, Suge gets charged with
201. 8:33murder, attempted murder, and a hit and
202. 8:35run. And he eventually takes a plea deal
203. 8:38and he gets sentenced to 28 years in
204. 8:41prison.