Judge Orders Takeover of Death Row Records

 •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  55 Comments

sugemug.jpgOn Friday (July 7), federal judge Ellen Carol ordered the takeover of Suge Knight’s Death Row Records by a bankruptcy trustee, citing “gross mismanagement” of the once powerful record label, according to a report by the Associated Press. Knight filed for bankruptcy protection in April of this year in an effort to protect his assets from a $107 million dollar judgment leveled against him in a lawsuit brought by Lydia Harris, wife of imprisoned drug dealer Michael “Harry-O” Harris. Harris claims to have helped launch Death Row in the early ’90s and accused Knight of holding out on her rightful share of the label’s profits. Knight has since counter-sued the couple for $106 million, accusing them of racketeering and extortion.

  • BLAZE

    SUGE GETTIN EXTORTED?????

  • screw music nigga

    Hey Suge, IT AIN’T NO FUN WHEN THE RABBIT GOT THE GUN!!!!!

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  • http://www.rejectedhiphop.cjb.net RCV tha MC

    This is all about karma, Suge is getting what was coming to him all along.

  • jojochicago

    That shit was taken over a long time ago! Boo Hoo!!! Whaaa!!!!!!

  • Notorious Big

    PHUCK SUGE KNIGHT!

  • Yung Davito

    Payback’s a muthafucka!

  • mr. undisputed the mogul

    BELIEVE IT OR NOT,I TOLD PEOPLE YEARS AGO THIS WOULD HAPPEN. AFTER DR.DRE LEFT & SUGE’S EGO WAS COMPLETELY OUTTA CONTROL, I SAID DEATH ROW WOULD BE DEAD WITHIN 3-5 YEARS & BASICALLY THEY HAVE BEEN THIS JUST SEALED THE DEAL!!! SUGE’S BEEN BRAGGING ABOUT THOSE MASTERS HE’S OWNED FOR 14 YEARS & NOW THAT HE’S MILKED THEM TO DEATH BY CONSTANTLY RELEASING & RERELEASING THOSE ALBUMS THE PUBLISHING IS’NT WORTH SHIT!!! ALL THAT MONEY HE BASICALLY STOLE FROM 2PAC,SNOOP & WHAT DRE LET HIM KEEP INSTEAD OF GETTING HIS LEGITAMETLY OWED 50% OF THE COMPANY. AS A BELIEVER OF WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND I SERIOUSLY HOPE HE REALLY IS BROKE!!! I KNOW HE’S GOT MONEY STASHED SOMEWHERE. I’LL NEVER FORGET THAT HE ALSO HAD 2PAC & B.I.G. KILLED & IF YOU THINK I’M WRONG, IF YOUR A FAN OF EITHER MC, AS FAST AS YOU CAN, FIND SOMEBODY WITH ROLLING STONE ISSUE#989,DEC 15,2005 JAY-Z’S ON THE COVER. ANYTHING YOU DID’NT KNOW ABOUT SUGE IS TOLD INCLUDING ALL HIS SHIT TALKING ABOUT NOT BEING FUCKED WITH IN JAIL. THE GUY WHO PROTECTED HIM IS INTERVIEWED & TELLS ALL!!! SORRY THIS WAS TOO LONG BUT I HAD TO KEEP IT REAL!!!! PEACE

  • GOOD

    Hope dat nigga is dead broke..yea he did set up da deaths of the greats(big n pac)..so basically he is da 1 who killed hip hop..sum1 shud kill him

  • http://comptonrecords.com E11523

    IF YOUR A FAN OF EITHER MC, AS FAST AS YOU CAN, FIND SOMEBODY WITH ROLLING STONE ISSUE#989,DEC 15,2005 JAY-Z’S ON THE COVER. ANYTHING YOU DID’NT KNOW ABOUT SUGE IS TOLD INCLUDING ALL HIS SHIT TALKING ABOUT NOT BEING FUCKED WITH IN JAIL. THE GUY WHO PROTECTED HIM IS INTERVIEWED & TELLS ALL!!! SORRY THIS WAS TOO LONG BUT I HAD TO KEEP IT REAL!!!! PEACE

    Don’t forget suge is also the one that injected Eazy-E with an AIDS needle, find the tv interview on youtube and you wish you had a gun to kill suge.
    that fatbitchassnigga needs to gets smoked.

  • http://www.sleepsmental.blogspot.com Sleep

    Hey anyone else notice that behind Suge in the picture it says for his height “69″. I could have swore Suge was like 6’3″ making his 75 inches. Weird..

  • New York Nigga

    mr. undisputed the mogul Says:

    July 10th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
    BELIEVE IT OR NOT,I TOLD PEOPLE YEARS AGO THIS WOULD HAPPEN.

    yea rite bitch

  • New York Nigga

    its a fake thats why this all a publicity stunt

  • Shortylightskin

    NO ONE deserves this shit more! RIP 2pac!

  • OH KING

    Why don’t one of you get your gun and take care of SUGE. Or shut the fuck up. SUGE a G don’t hate

  • Tyson

    SUGE WILL JUST START ANOTHER LABEL WITH THE MONEY THEY COULD’NT TAKE AWAY & AFENI HAS ALL OF HER SON’S MASTER RECORDINGS, SO FUCK THE JUDGE… TOO LATE CRACKERS! LOL BAD BOY KILLA/G-UNOT & FUCK CURTIS JACKO FOR HIS WAY LATE MIXTAPE… SINCE STOP SNITCHIN’ MIX CAME OUT IT TOOK RATT BOY 6 MONTHS TO RESPOND! & THAT ONE SONG HE DID DON’T COUNT; HE KNOWS LLOYD STANKS IS GONNA FLOP & THE GAME WILL SOON BE ON TOP W/ THE DOCTOR’S ADVOCATE!!!

  • Tyson

    4 ALL HATERS- PAC WAS WORTH MORE TO SUGE ALIVE THAN DEAD DUMMIES, IMAGINE IF PAC LIVED ANOTHER 20-25 YEARS THEN PASSED AWAY, SUGE WOULD HAVE MADE MORE… SUGE WACKED BIG BECAUSE HE CROSSED THE DON TWICE; I LOVE BIG AS AN ARTIST, BUT HE HAD MORE DEMONS AROUND HIM THAN MAKAVELI DID… DO YOUR RESEARCH DUMMIES INSTEAD OF HEARSAY… WIZE UP

  • ReDiCuLouS

    Basically the only artist to come outta tha Row still standing on his own two is Dre. Snoop had a helluva run back in the day…all the way up to “The Last Supper” on No Limit. But his shit anymore ain’t up to “classic” par. Pac was cut short, but he was the illest emcee to ever touch the mic in the West, even though he was born in the East. But I guess that’s how a lot of the Westcoast shit was started…look at Kurupt, Xzibit, NateDogg…just a couple of the names that traveled westward to make it big. Shout out to RBX…where u b?

  • P

    Suge Knight has been washed up for years. Death Row is a NO TALENT lable……..

  • Floyd

    Evil must be punished and the devil (Suge Knight) is finally getting what is due. I don’t feel sorry for Suge because he is evil incarnate.

  • http://UG-RS.com Tyler

    Yo, I think U people got Suge all wrong dawgs. . I kick’d it wit’ him 4 a minute and he was nothing but a respectful business man and yea’ if U fuck’d with his paper or his people then he would fuck wit’ U but ‘dats about it yo. He the 1st Black Man putting it down in the rap game ‘dat everyone else follow’d and now ‘dats real. Peep the heat at
    http://www.myspace.com/marcusorealiusmusic
    http://www.myspace.com/marcmaysrockandrollthug

  • oh king

    im sorry i said that, i was wrong suge is a fucking jack off

  • tyler

    yeah, im sorry too he was an ass to me, im glad that happened to him

  • mr. undisputed the mogul

    IT’S RIDICULOUS FOR ME TO HAVE TO RESPOND TO A “FAGG ASS IDIOT” BUT NEW YORK LOSER I MEAN NIGGA,THERE ARE GHOSTWRITERS(PEOPLE THE WORLD NEVER SEES) OF “HOT”MUSIC ALL OVER DEALING WITH RECORD LABELS, MY CREW HAD A DEAL ON THE TABLE AS ARTISTS’ TO SIGN WITH INTERSCOPE IN EARLY 1992 BACK WHEN THE ORIGINAL FOUNDER OF THE LABEL TED FIELDS WAS RUNNING IT,SO I NOW 70% MORE THAN THE AVERAGE JOE. 2ND IF YOU DON’T KNOW ME PERSONALLY WHICH YOU DON’T, HOW IN THE HELL CAN YOU SAY WHAT I OR ANYBODY ELSE HAS SAID ELSEWHERE!!! JUST BECAUSE YOUR 10 YRS BEHIND EVERYBODY ELSE DO’NT BE A HATER!!!!OR A LIL BITCH!!!! AS FOR THE BLIND/LOST PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO OPEN THEIR EYES & EARS. FRIENDS CLOSE TO 2PAC & OTHER DEATH ROW ARTISTS HAVE STATED PUBLICLY THAT HE WAS PUTTING OUT CD’S QUICKLY AS TO FULFILL HIS CONTRACT, WITH THE HOPES OF STARTING HIS OWN COMPANY “EUTHANASIA ENTERTAINMENT”. I WAS’NT A FAN OF 2PAC’S LIKE SOME BUT I KNOW HE WAS A REAL SMART DUDE, ASK YOURSELF THIS WHEN HE DIED THE ONLY THING “BIG” THAT HE OWNED WAS A JAGUAR & AN SUV. ALL THE MILLION$ OF DOLLARS HE GENERATED & HE DID’NT EVEN ON A TRAILER HOUSE IN HIS NAME!! WHAT THE HELL MAKES YOU THINK HE WAS HAPPY & WANTED TO STAY THERE. THE ONLY PERSON TO THIS DAY WHO SAYS 2PAC WAS HAPPY WHEN HE DIED WAS SUGE, YOUR GONNA TAKE HIS WORD IF YOU DO I GOT SOME BEACHFRONT PROPERTY WITH A BURIED TREASURE IN THE FRONTYARD FOR SALE!!!!

  • stoneyisland

    It’s disheartening to see how happy you uncle tom ass negros are at the failure of a black man. Regardless to what Mr. Marion did he was a business man and helped feed a lot of black families. Yeah Suge is a piece of shit but at the end of the night he is a black man in trouble. We as black folk have to stop this crab barrel mentality bullshit.

  • Devante

    the demise of deathrow is another sad story for the leagacy of black owned music Entities but truth be told Suge has himself to blame, he became omnipotent and short sighted with his rough tactics and then was blackballed by the industry i reckon if he still had gr8 distribution the row would have had a chance but the past will always haunt u if u did some pple wrong – Karma i guess!CROOKED I where’s the album u promised ?Rage where u at ? RBX ? OFTB ?

  • Dee Reezo

    Damn Suge Gettin Extorted And Runnin 2 Da Courts!!!!!!! Whut Da Fuck

  • Floyd

    A black man should fail if he exploits and rips off his own people. Fuck Suge Knight. Suge is a black devil. He is also an idiot and is responsible for his fate. If he would have kept his ass out of prison maybe his company would not have failed. He loved prison over taking care of business. Typically nigga mentality which leads to failure.

  • ..

    i heard suge is Gay

    g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-unot

  • http://www.sug.com Sugar

    Well,well,well. Like the say all the time, what you do in the dark will come to light. I’m glad shortie is getting his money. Suge fuck him, and now his wife is fucking Big Suge.

  • http://www.sug.com Sugar

    that’s what happen when you either kill all your rappers or fuck em up. I can’t fucking believie somebody finally pucked Suge.

  • The Don

    First off, im a real mutha fuckin death row/2pac fan. I have read it all and heard it all with all the rumours and shit and i respect suge cause he is and always was a G. Pac may not have been happy but it was businness at the row, suge bailed him out of jail and pac knew he made a deal with the devil, look at his interviews he says so even afeni is quoted as saying that.Regardless of that pac and suge had a fuckin tight relationship. Pac never kicked it with snoop as much and never with dre or that cocksuker daz, he ROLLED with suge,all the pics all the interviews, when he got shot he was with Suge, he voluntarily went with suge that night when his bodyguard was driving behind, bottom line my niggaz, is that motha fuckas can say what they want about suge but he kept shit real ,he gave us REAL g’z and real shit to listen to and muthafuckas in the rap game fear him to the point where pple like u all can write shit here and get away,but that fat muthafucka was tha last G after pac. I for one will be sad that knowing that although pac wanted to get off the row and whatever he would never disrespect tha row and he died screaming “Death Row”. I just hope no fagget ass mutha fuckas get pac’s unreleased material and auction that shit off for gay z and other muthafuckas to put their beats and voices with him. So yea, fuck suge knight u might say but in the end it will always be boring from now on. RIP PAC , RIP Death Row, thanks for everything !

  • http://yahoo.com tha throwback kid

    y is dis news ? dis niggahz bin doin diz since the early 90′s im mean beat ez 4 dre’s contract ! i just got caught . westttttttttttsiddddddddddddddde

  • IZZY

    suge had nuttin 2 do wit pacs death, y da fuk would suge want pac 2 b shot wen hes in da same fukin car, wtf is wrong wit u ignorant homos, da crips killed pac.
    but anywayz, dis fat nigga deserves to go broke, he cant run a fukin buisness

  • http://www.innovataz.com Dat Fresh Dude

    To mr. undisputed the mogul …..SALUTES from Denmark.

    To Tyson: first and foremost FUCK G-unit, im down with that…but homie what are sayin, get ur facts straight man..u should KNOW that Pac died with nothing more than $200.000 in the Bank and Death Row(that bitch Suge) OWED ‘Pac 4million..pac wanted to start is own shit Amaru records, thats why the Big guy took him out..

    To stoneyisland: common man, dont be ignorant, i aint black..but if u take another human’s life or fuck it up..u know whats comin’..he took the greatest soul in Hiphop…trust me he he got it easy, this aint shit compared to what he did. lets hope Karma strikes harder next time.

    oh yeah does anybody know why there was a Black Haze?!….u guys better get this right!..PaZe

  • http://www.ananzi.co.za PHONY YAYO

    SHAME,I LIKED SUGE..HOPE 50 IZ LEARNIN..G-UNIT IZ THRU EXACTLY WAT DEATH ROW WENT THRU..ONE PLATINUM RECORD AFTA DA ATHA(sori yayo en mobb deep..lol fuckas)

    GGGGGGGGGGGG-UNOT

  • D

    how dis guy allow sahm like dis to happen?

    Rags to riches den bck ageeeen lol

  • Gutta

    from one blk man to another its sad to see his empire crumbling after all these years but i dont see how ppl can have sympathy for a person who played a part in killing B.I.G….in my opinion,he single handedly ruined hip hop by incorporating violence into the rap game. ok, so he was gangsta and if you from that environment than thats wsup if thats important to you but at the end of the day its about providing for your family and being a decent person and suge is not that,hence he getting what he deserves.

  • Henessy Swigger Swagger

    SUGE IS A CLOSET FAG IF I EVER RUN INTO THAT BITCH I’LL CLOBBER HIM WITH MY HENESSY BOTTLE

  • http://xxlmag.com E-man (South c)

    PAYBACK IS A BITCH,I HOPE YOU ARE LOVING HOW SHE’S FUCKING YOU NOW,TRICK.

  • Galil ( Never forget 2pac)

    Deathrow is not coming back only if somebody is gonna b the new CEO of Deathrow cause Suge is 2 dangerous & nobody can fuck with man cause U will get killed or something would happen 2 u. Just look at Dre, he left or got kicked out like somebody said. Pac the best rapper of all times shot & killed. Snoop left & signed with Master P. Deathrow is the wrong ROW!

  • meesa davis

    karma’s a b, isn’t it?!

  • Knowledge Speaks

    Karma’s a bitch, huh?

  • 184th Boy

    They shudda did this shit LONG time ago!

  • bitchevil

    word up to The Don, what you said is some real shit. Suge is a real G.

  • http://www.myspace.com/mostwanted_aka_mw Junior

    when he was in XXL last time shit was all good???? yea right!! fuck this clown!! sucks for Petey Pablo 2!!! lmao

  • Osirus

    Im sayin, this is the official end to Death Row Records, commin up on the eastside, u know D.R.R. was always on the other side and damn it took a while but the shit fanally droped. But you know all good things must come to an end, or at least all things must.Shit ive been waitin on this to fall 4ever its seems……….FUCK Suge Knight

  • Bump

    ‘Bout time.He had to go-he fucked the industry up.I seen him fuck over alot of good artists-Snoop, Dj Quik, especially Dre.Not to mention Dick Griffey & Harry O.Good riddance.

  • Aya

    STOP HATIN ON SUGE BITCHES!!!!!!!

    HOPE HE MAKES A COMEBACK WITH DEATHROW AGAIN.

    PI/BL/CK

  • djamin

    now al we got left is the bitches like : 50 cent, game , g-unit and all the other fake ass trenty thugz.
    not to mention that racist bitch eminem who,s destroying pac`s music!
    these are all the people who destroying the rap scene with there fake shit!

  • It’s pac over here man

    You “fat mothaf*cker suge fake punk ass knight” First you wanted pacs money, after he dies you did get. Now the devil is take it all back. Looks who’s richer now you or puuffy fake ass negro, he’s is making you band now, the apocalypse of pac is getting you now biach

  • The duch wigga

    Vieze vuile dikke suge eindelijk al je geld weg kut hoerejong pac vermoord nu komen ze voor jouw

  • Femi Peters

    First off, none of ya’ll can say, with honesty, Suge had a hand in Pacs and BIG demise.
    Yeah the guy is a snake but i love the way he went about his shit.
    As a black man, i feel sorry for him and i hope he bounces back.

  • DPS

    Basically the only artist to come outta tha Row still standing on his own two is Dre. Snoop had a helluva run back in the day…all the way up to “The Last Supper” on No Limit. But his shit anymore ain’t up to “classic” par. Pac was cut short, but he was the illest emcee to ever touch the mic in the West, even though he was born in the East. But I guess that’s how a lot of the Westcoast shit was started…look at Kurupt, Xzibit, NateDogg…just a couple of the names that traveled westward to make it big. Shout out to RBX…where u b?

    Fuck you for hatin’ on the Top Dogg…another thing , the album was called “The Last Meal” you moron.

    Snoop is still the bomb and makin’ way more chedder then you will ever see.

    Peace

  • http://www.xxlmag.com/?p=405 Scholes

    Die Bitch. I hate ur for making pac an enemy of the east. Legends leave forever… B.I.G. Pac and Easy…and you had somn 2 do with there passing. Rot in hell.
    The money got to your head and now it’s gotten out. Ha Bitch