Hollywood Marion "Suge" Knight has now had his say on the explosive allegations surrounding Sean "Diddy" Combs. The Death Row Records co-founder, Suge, who is serving a 28-year sentence, spoke by phone from behind bars to discuss accusations that surfaced during recent court testimony from Cassie Ventura. Cassie says one day, he even went on a mission to confront Suge Knight outside Mel's Diner in 2008, armed with the whole squad.
Knight, now in the second and final year of a 28-year sentence, did not blink when questioned about the purported standoff.
"If he'd have came over there and confronted me, and he had a gun, he was gonna have to use it, you best believe that," Suge said, matter-of-factly, in a steady voice. "Or something was going to happen."
It is a chilling reminder that the stakes were so high for two of hip-hop's most notoriously influential figures. That was the tension-filled, terrifying picture painted by Cassie in the emotional testimony. She said that Diddy and his entourage, guns at the ready and their faces covered, had jumped into vehicles and driven off to face Suge after being informed that he was at a nearby restaurant. "I was crying. I was saying, 'Please don't do anything stupid,'" she remembered, her fear as clear now as it was back then.
David James, a former assistant to Diddy, also took the stand, fanning the flames. The night was a turning point for him, as he started to process that his own life may be at stake by sharing a ride back with three guns in his lap, he recalled.
"Shit always can go wrong when you are dealing with drugs and alcohol and even fear," Suge said. "Some people, if they scared enough … feel they got to do something. They can't do it with their hands, so they got to make sure they take guns."
That last bit felt like something else, a mysterious hat tip to fear as the ultimate driver. Knight even suggested that shady business was afoot, noting that the fact that some of the weapons had scratched-off serial numbers was a red flag.
When he was asked if he, himself, was carrying a gun the night of the shooting, Suge laughed it off, refusing to answer in his typical blend of bravado and mystery: "You know I ain't gone answer that question.
Knight's remarks come as Diddy is under increased legal fire, including a federal sex trafficking case. In a separate call-in to NewsNation's CUOMO, Suge now mused that Diddy might be headed toward a Trump pardon for murder if such a conviction turns out to be the case. "Bold" is an understatement in a story that appears to become nothing more than drama piled on top of more drama.
One way or another, Suge Knight is behind bars, but he is apparently not forgotten by anyone revisiting some of hip-hop's darker chapters.
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