California Love is a hip hop song by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman. The song was released as 2Pacs comeback single after his release from prison in. Suge Knight claims his exwife and former Death Row Records security chief Reggie White Jr killed Tupac Shakur and insists HE was the real target of the driveby. California Love By Tupac Shakur Download Games' title='California Love By Tupac Shakur Download Games' />Print magazine covering hiphop music, culture and politics. Includes previews, reviews, interviews, fashion, music videos, webcasts and active message boards. Gain insight into breaking legal matters in the entertainment world. From celebrity lawsuits to imposing court decisions, stay uptodate with The Hollywood Reporter ESQ. And I mean fucking LOVE. When these songs come on, White People look at each other and say Awwww yeah or Hell yeah and are compelled to sing along. Suge Knight Wikipedia. Marion Hugh Suge Knight Jr. April 1. 9, 1. 96. American record producer, music executive, and a former replacement player as an American footballdefensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League NFL. He is the co founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Death Row Records rose to dominate the rap charts after Dr. Dres breakthrough album The Chronic in 1. After several years of chart successes for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Outlawz and Tha Dogg Pound, Death Row Records stagnated after Knights incarceration on probation violation charges in September 1. In February 2. 01. Knight was charged with murder and attempted murder following a fatal hit and run in Compton, California. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. Early lifeeditMarion Hugh Knight Jr. Compton, California, the son of Maxine Dikemen and Marion Knight Sr. His name, Suge, derives from Sugar Bear, a childhood nickname. He attended Lynwood High School in nearby Lynwood, where he was a football and track star. He graduated in 1. From 1. 98. 3 to 1. El Camino College5 In 1. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and played there for two years. After college, Knight was not drafted by a National Football League NFL team, but was invited to the Los Angeles Rams training camp. He was cut by the Rams, but he became a replacement player during the 1. NFL players strike, and played two games for the Rams. Career beginningseditAfter the NFL, Knight found work as a concert promoter and a bodyguard for celebrities including Bobby Brown. In 1. 98. 9, Knight formed his own music publishing company. His first big profit in the business came when Vanilla Ice Robert Van Winkle agreed to sign over royalties from Van Winkles smash hit Ice Ice Baby, because the song included material written by Knights client Mario Johnson. Knight and his bodyguards confronted Van Winkle several times. On one occasion, Knight entered Van Winkles hotel room and allegedly dangled him by his ankles off the balcony. Van Winkle said only that Knight threatened to throw him off the balcony the claim was resolved in court. Knight next formed an artist management company and signed prominent West Coast hip hop artists DJ Quik and The D. O. C. Through the former, he met several members of the seminal gangsta rap group N. W. A. Death Row RecordseditDr. Dre and The D. O. C. wanted to leave both N. W. A and their label, Ruthless Records, run by Eazy E, another member of N. W. A. According to N. W. As manager Jerry Heller, Knight and his henchmen threatened Heller and Eazy E with lead pipes and baseball bats to make them release Dre, The D. O. C., and Michelle from their contracts. Ultimately, Dre and D. O. C. co founded Death Row Records in 1. Knight, who vowed to make it the Motown of the 9. Initially, Knight fulfilled his ambitions he secured a distribution deal with Interscope, and Dres 1. The Chronic, went on to Triple Platinum status in the United States by the end of 1. It also made a career for Dres protg, Snoop Dogg, whose own debut album Doggystyle obtained a Quadruple Platinum certification in the United States in 1. Meanwhile, Death Row had begun a public feud with 2 Live Crews. Luther Campbell, and when Knight traveled to Miami for a hip hop convention in 1. The following year, he opened a private, by appointment only nightclub in Las Vegas called Club 6. MOB on telephone keypads, MOB standing for Member of Bloods. In 1. 99. 5, he ran afoul of activist C. Delores Tucker, whose criticism of Death Rows glamorization of the gangsta lifestyle may have helped scuttle a lucrative deal with Time Warner. Tupac Shakur, MC Hammer, Dr. Dre, and the Death Row LabeleditKnights feud with East Coast entrepreneur Sean Combs Puff Daddy progressed when Knight insulted the Bad Boy label founder on air at the Source Awards in August 1. Openly critical of Combss tendency of ad libbing on his artists songs and dancing in their videos, Knight announced to the audience, Anyone out there who wanna be a recording artist and wanna stay a star, but dont have to worry about the executive producer trying to be all in the videos, all on the records, dancing, come to Death Row. The same year, Knight offered to post bail US1. Tupac Shakur if the rapper agreed to sign with Death Row. Shakur agreed, setting the stage for his 1. All Eyez on Me and the songs California Love and How Do U Want It. M. C. Hammers relationship with Suge Knight dates back to 1. With the success of Hammers 1. The Funky Headhunter featuring Tha Dogg Pound, Hammer signed with Death Row Records by 1. Verizon Palm Treo 650 Downloads Free. Snoop Dogg and his close friend, Tupac. The label did not release the album of Hammers music titled Too Tight while he had a career with them, although he did release versions of some tracks on his next album. However, Hammer did record tracks with Shakur and others, most notably the song Too Late Playa along with Big Daddy Kane and Danny Boy. After the death of Shakur in 1. Hammer left the record company. He later explained his concern about this circumstance in an interview on Trinity Broadcasting Network TBN since he was in Las Vegas with Tupac the night of his death. Hammer released 2. Pacs Unconditional Love, on his Family Affair album, in 1. The friendships between Hammer played by Romany Malco, Tupac played by Lamont Bentley and Suge played by Anthony Norris were depicted in the television film, Too Legit The MC Hammer Story airing on VH1 in 2. The label shrank when Dr. Dre, frustrated with the companys increasingly thuggish reputation and Knights violent inclinations, decided to leave and form his own label, Aftermath Entertainment. A stream of Dre dissing records followed. Murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls Theories accusing KnighteditTupac Shakur was shot four times in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 7, 1. September 1. 3. When Shakurs East Coast rival, The Notorious B. I. G. AKA Biggie Smalls, was murdered in a similar drive by shooting in Los Angeles, California on March 9, 1. Knight was involved and that Biggies death was a revenge killing. Former Death Row artists, including Snoop Dogg, also later accused Knight of being involved in Tupacs murder. A theory accusing Suge Knight in the deaths of both Biggie and Tupac was that of ex detective Russell Poole, who conjectured that Knight had Tupac killed before he could part ways with Knights label and then conspired to kill Biggie to divert attention from himself in the Tupac case. The convoluted Biggie murder theory implicated Suge Knight, a rogue cop, a mortgage broker named Amir Muhammad who was never a police suspect along with the chief of police and the LAPD in a conspiracy to murder and cover up the murder of Biggie. The Biggie theory formed the basis of a US5. Wallaces, against the city of Los Angeles. A key source for Pooles theory was Kevin Hackie. Hackie had implicated Suge Knight and David Mack. Hackie, a former Death Row associate, said that he had knowledge of involvement between Suge Knight and David Mack and other LAPD officers. His information was used by the Wallace family in their suit against the city of L. A. for Biggies death. But Hackie later told a Los Angeles Times reporter Chuck Philips that the Wallace attorneys had altered his declarations. The suit brought by the Wallace family against the city of L.