Suge Knight Slams Snoop Dogg For “Destroying” Death Row

Suge Knight is never going to let his beef with Snoop Dogg die. The former Death Row Records CEO called out the Long Beach, Calif. rapper for “destroying” the beloved label.

The Art Of Dialogue published a new interview with the incarcerated executive, and he held nothing back. “Snoop, you said I’m mad because you bought Death Row? What’d you buy? Show me the paperwork. Show me what you own,” he said. He recounted how Snoop’s Doggystyle label never took off and his other deficiencies while working for Def Jam.

“Did you do anything good for Def Jam? Absolutely not,” he added. “Now you wanna start something that has nothing to do with you. You going backwards. You tryna create something that Suge Knight created. But instead of going big, you disappointing the world by making everything flop.” Suge broadened his critiques to the entire music landscape as well, saying “everybody destroying Hip-Hop” before turning his attention back to Snoop. “If you have Death Row, you destroyed it. You messed up the name.”

This is the latest in the duo’s back-and-forth this year. Last month, Suge Knight accused Snoop Dogg of trying to free 2Pac’s killer Keefe D, claimed he lied about visiting Pac in the hospital before he died, and that he was involved in Diddy’s alleged sex trafficking. Snoop hit back at the accusations in an Instagram comment, saying that Suge’s real issue is his anger over no longer having ownership of Death Row Records.

Suge believes that Snoop’s Death Row ownership is fraudulent. He told TMZ in 2022 that his former business partner, Michael “Harry-O” Harris, committed bankruptcy fraud to purchase the label from him. Even further, he claimed that Snoop only gained possession to the label by forfeit when a lawyer from Knight’s team failed to appear. The result was a default judgment in 2013 transferring ownership of the label to MNRK Music Group.

“I settled the judgement,” Suge said. “They turned around and said I didn’t settle the judgement. 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. You can’t commit bankruptcy fraud and settle and do those type of things. It’s illegal, it’s a crime.”