The label's co-founder and former CEO says the transfer of ownership was "illegal."Photo: Getty Images
TeeRoy's 2 Cents:
- All I know is I wouldn't want to be on Suge's short list.
- Suge has bigger issues to worry about these days.
Suge Knight has raised questions around the legitimacy of Snoop Dogg’s ownership of Death Row Records.
In a new interview with TMZ, Suge, the label’s former CEO and co-founder, suggested that an ex-business partner committed bankruptcy fraud in order to wrestle control away from the rightful owner. Knight spelled out his issues point blank, saying, “Snoop has a partner, which is Michael Harris. They committed fraud, bankruptcy fraud. I didn’t lose my company by doing anything wrong; they went in and the lawyer didn’t show up, and they got a default judgment… I settled the judgment. They turned around and said I didn’t settle the judgment. But they committed bankruptcy fraud, which we just found out for sure last week. When they filed for bankruptcy in ’95, they said it didn’t have anything to do with Death Row.”
He goes on to say, “You can’t commit bankruptcy fraud and settle and do those type of things … It’s called illegal, it’s a crime. You can’t take the person who committed the worst crime of the century, taking Death Row from Black people and try to give it to white people, and think he gonna grab Snoop and they gonna get it back. It doesn’t work like that.”
The bottom line, according to Suge, is that he “is Death Row” so when “it’s all said and done, All Eyes on Me and Makaveli will definitely come back to me.”