In return, he required 2Pac release three albums on his Death Row label- he even offered to take a larger than usual stake in the rights. ![]() Knight, co-founder of the soon-to-be hip-hop empire Death Row Records, used his unique powers of persuasion to lobby for Shakur’s release, raising the $1.4 million bail himself. Shakur was, in late 1995, serving the first of four years in prison for an alleged sexual assault when Knight offered to engineer his release in September of that year, Shakur was essentially prepared to submit to any agreement. Indeed, this was less a thuggish alliance than the rash submission of a desperate man, and the exact details of the deal the two struck (or rather the deal Suge dictated) are still unclear. ![]() It was an association that was fated to end in tears: ‘Sugar Bear’ Knight (commonly known by the more sexually-innocuous moniker ‘Suge’), the label head who once dangled Vanilla Ice from a twentieth-story balcony in order to secure the rights to 'Ice Ice Baby,' and international badass rapper Tupac Shakur.
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