Suge Knight revealed his surprising reaction to the allegations of sexual assault and violent behavior that are facing hip-hop icon Diddy in a new bombshell documentary.
Knight, 59, was the CEO of Death Row Records while Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, 54, was the CEO of rival company Bad Boy Entertainment.
Their beef began in the mid 90s as East Coast and West Coast rappers became entangled in a heated battle that shook up the whole hip-hop scene.
The tension between Knight and Combs escalated when two of their star rappers, Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., were killed in separate drive-by shootings; Knight was in the same car and shot at during Sharkur’s assassination, and allegations that Diddy had ordered a $1 million hit on Shakur have surfaced in the last year.
Despite their tense history, Knight revealed in the new TMZ documentary that his first reaction to news of Combs’s scandals and controversies – which ultimately lead to a raid at his home – was not to cheer for his rival’s downfall.
Suge Knight (pictured) revealed his shock reaction to allegations of sexual assault and violent behavior against hip-hop icon Diddy in a new bombshell documentary
Knight, 59, was the CEO of Death Row Records while Diddy was the CEO of rival company Bad Boy Entertainment
‘The first thing that came to my mind was he had a son… he had his daughters. My first reaction was about the kids,’ Knight told TMZ.
‘I feel it’s a bad day for hip hop. It’s a bad day for the culture… because it makes us all look bad.
‘I’m not the type of guy to cheer for people’s downfall,’ he said – adding that he’s not going to ‘pop champagne bottles’ if someone gets killed.
‘If I have a problem with Puffy, that’s for him and I to sit down in a room and resolve it.’
Knight went onto say it was a tragedy for both side – the victims and Diddy, and said again that it was nothing to cheer about.
The pair’s deep history further intertwined when Duane ‘Keefe D’ Davis was arrested for the murder of Tupac in September 2023.
DailyMail.com exclusively revealed in March that federal raids on Combs’s mansions could be linked to the recent arrest of a gangster over rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder, according to a former FBI agent who investigated the killing.
The pair’s deep history further intertwined when Duane ‘Keefe D’ Davis was arrested for the murder of Tupac (pictured) in September, 2023
Federal raids on Sean ‘ Diddy ‘ Combs’s mansions could be linked to the recent arrest of a gangster over rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder
Phil Carson, a retired head of the Los Angeles FBI office, said that information backing search warrants for Combs’s LA and Florida properties may have come from the alleged murder accomplice, Duane ‘Keefe D’ Davis, who was charged last year.
Carson is an expert on hip-hop criminals and kingmakers of the 1990s, after spending years probing police corruption around the shootings of Shakur and his East Coast rap rival Biggie Smalls, aka, Christopher Wallace.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, he pointed to Davis’s arrest on September 29 last year over his admitted involvement in Shakur’s murder – which he claimed was a $1 million hit ordered by Combs, though the music producer denies it.
Carson described how a looming life sentence could now be forcing former gangster Davis, 60, to spill new secrets about Combs, 54, to investigators.
A law enforcement officer leads out a canine as federal agents stand at the entrance to a property belonging to rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Monday, March 25, 2024, on Star Island in Miami Beach
‘It’s not like the olden days of the Italian mafia where everybody kept their mouth shut,’ the ex-Bureau agent said.
‘As soon as somebody has handcuffs on them, they’ll sell out their own mom now.
‘Keefe’s arrested, and that’s a game-changer, because they have something over him. And that’s when he may start spilling his guts.
‘He’s an OG from out here,’ added Carson, referring to the shorthand term for ‘original gangster’.
‘He’s rubbed shoulders with a lot of the big shots. Every one of those guys has a story to tell about how the streets were run back then.
‘So who’s to say Keefe didn’t start throwing stuff out there that he hasn’t talked about before, to potentially save his a**?
‘That’s not to say it’s the reason federal law enforcement executed these warrants on Diddy’s house,’ he cautioned.
‘But it would be interesting to know what the evidence is, and where that evidence came from, that they put in these affidavits to get both these search warrants. It’s got to be something of substance.’
Rap mogul Marion ‘Suge’ Knight knocks on the window of a waiting taxi, as he leaves the Los Angeles County jail, Wednesday, February 26, 2003, in Los Angeles
Authorities walk on a street near a property belonging to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ after federal law enforcement executed a raid, Monday, March 25, 2024, in Los Angeles
Combs faces multiple civil lawsuits accusing him of sex trafficking, sexual abuse and rape – all of which he has denied
As part of a 2008 temporary immunity deal, Davis told LAPD detectives that Combs offered him $1million to murder Death Row Records boss Suge Knight.
‘He took me downstairs and he’s like, ‘Man, I wanna get rid of them dudes, man.’
‘I was like, ‘We’ll wipe their a** out quick, man. It’s nothing’,’ Davis told police in a recorded confession reported by LA Weekly in 2011.
Davis said that on September 7, 1996, his crew pulled up alongside Knight and Shakur on Las Vegas Boulevard and he handed a Glock pistol to his nephew Orlando Anderson, who unloaded it into Shakur’s BMW, killing the West Coast rapper and wounding Knight.
Davis repeated his story outside of the immunity deal, including in a memoir, allowing Vegas police to arrest him for the murder on September 29, 2023.
However, there has been no explicit connection of Shakur’s murder investigation with the raids on Monday by Homeland Security (HSI) agents of Combs’s Holmby Hills and Miami mansions.
Instead, they were reportedly in connection with a sex trafficking investigation.
The Bad Boy Records founder’s lawyer Aaron Dyer released a statement on Tuesday calling the probe ‘a witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits’ – referring to claims of sex abuse by Combs.
Combs was sued by an anonymous woman last year who claimed he and two friends took turns violently raping her when she was 17, after plying her with drugs and alcohol.
The Jane Doe claimed in a shocking lawsuit that the 54-year-old rapper flew her to his New York studio in 2003 and plied her with ‘copious amounts of drugs and alcohol.’
The anonymous accuser, now in her late 30s, backed her bombshell claims with a photo of herself sitting on the I’ll Be Missing You singer’s lap and goofing around in his Manhattan studio.
She is the fourth woman to accuse him in a lawsuit of sexual assault.
Her suit followed a legal complaint by R&B singer Cassie Ventura, 37, who said Combs subjected her to savage beatings, drug-addled hotel orgies, and rape.
Pictured: a black BMW, riddled with bullet holes, is seen in a Las Vegas police impound lot in 1996. Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot while riding in the car driven by Death Row Records chairman Suge Knight
Tupac, Diddy and the Notorious B.I.G. are pictured here together
Cassie settled with him the day after her lawsuit became public in November.
Combs was hit with more legal troubles just days after the settlement, when two women, identified as Liza Gardner and Joi Dickerson-Neal, filed separate lawsuits claiming they were sexually assaulted by the music mogul in the early 1990s.
Another alleged victim of Combs came forward in December 2023 to accuse the hip hop mogul and his entourage of brutally gang raping her when she was 17 years old.
Then in late February, Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, a music producer who worked with Combs, filed a lawsuit that he was made to ‘solicit sex workers and perform sex acts to the pleasure of Mr. Combs’ in 2022 and 2023.
He said underage girls were present at these sex parties at Combs’ LA, Miami and New York homes, as well as on a rented yacht in the US Virgin Islands.
Combs ‘threatened to eat Mr. Jones’ face,’ according to his lawsuit, and even drugged him before sexual encounters.
Combs’ attorney Shawn Holley said ‘We have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies.’
Douglas Wigdor, an attorney for Cassie and another one of the Jane Does accusing Combs, responded to the HSI raid in a statement to DailyMail.com.
‘We will always support law enforcement when it seeks to prosecute those that have violated the law. Hopefully, this is the beginning of a process that will hold Mr. Combs responsible for his depraved conduct.’
