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- IS EAZY-E GAY
- SUGE KNIGHT’S CRAZY CONFSNAL AND THE EAZY-E CONSPIRACY THAT WON’T DIEUNCENSOREDBEFORE—AND AFTER—HIS PRISON STT, SUGE KNIGHT GAVE A PAIR OF SANE TERVIEWS FILLED WH NUENDO AND WILD ALLEGATNS ABOUT EAZY-E, DR. DRE, AND SNOOP DOGG. MARLOW STERNUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 9:50AM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 27, 2015 5:15AM EDT JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGICTHEY LLED HIM “SUGAR BEAR.” WH HIS ROUND FACE, GENTLE GIANT MEANOR, AND LYRIL, HIGH-PCHED VOICE, MARN HUGH KNIGHT JR. WAS A WELL-LIKED KID NAVIGATG THE MEAN STREETS OF COMPTON, CALIFORNIA, WHERE HE WAS BORN AND RAISED. KNIGHT GREW TO A 6-FOOT-4 FOOTBALL STAR, EVENTUALLY EARNG AN ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP TO UNLV. “HE WASN’T A PROBLEM GUY AT ALL,” SAID WAYNE NUNNELY, KNIGHT’S UNLV HEAD ACH. “YOU DIDN’T REALLY SEE THAT STREET ROUGHNS ABOUT HIM.”NOWADAYS, THE NAME SUGE KNIGHT IS LACED WH IRONY, NJURG UP THE IMAGE OF A BALD, BEARD, AND TIMIDATG 315-POUND LOSS WIELDG AN UNL CIGAR, SEVEN-RAT DIAMOND HIS EAR, AND A DIAMOND-ENCSTED PKIE RG BEARG THE LETTERS MOB—ALLEGEDLY STANDG FOR “MEMBER OF THE BLOODS.” IT’S ALSO SYNONYMO WH A LONG HISTORY OF VLENCE, STARTG WH A 1987 ASSLT CHARGE ON HIS THEN-GIRLIEND—AFTER GRABBG HER AND SAWG OFF HER PONYTAIL—TO SEVERAL SHOOTGS, ORCHTRATED HS, AND GUN CHARG, TO THE NOTOR MOR THAT KNIGHT PLAYED A ROLE THE MURR OF TUPAC SHAKUR. KNIGHT IS CURRENTLY BEHD BARS ON MURR CHARG STEMMG OM A FATAL H-AND-N—ALL UGHT ON VIO—AT A COMPTON BURGER JOT DURG A PROMO SHOOT FOR THE N.W.A BPIC STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON.KNIGHT LOOMS LARGE UNIVERSAL’S COMPTON, WHICH CLUS A SCENE WHERE DR. DRE AND THE D.O.C. ARE ANX TO BE RELEASED OM N.W.A AND THEIR LABEL, RUTHLS RERDS, N BY N.W.A FOUNR EAZY-E. SO KNIGHT AND HIS CREW FIRST TIMIDATE EAZY WH BATS AND A P BULL BEFORE BEATG HIM TO A PULP. DRE WAS EED OM HIS NTRACT AND STARTED THE GANGSTA RAP LABEL DEATH ROW RERDS WH KNIGHT 1991. IN EARLY 2003, SHORTLY AFTER BEG RELEASED OM PRISON, KNIGHT MA AN APPEARANCE ON JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! WHERE THE HIP-HOP MOGUL MA AN OFF-LOR REMARK ABOUT THE PASSG OF EAZY-E, WHO DIED OM AIDS PLITNS 1995. “SEE, TECHNOLOGY IS SO HIGH, RIGHT? SO IF YOU SHOOT SOMEBODY, YOU’RE GOG TO JAIL FOREVER,” HE SAID. “SO THEY GOT STUFF WHERE THEY GET BLOOD OM SOMEBODY WH AIDS, AND THEY SHOOT YOU WH . SO THAT’S A SLOW ATH—THAT EAZY-E THG.” AND JT THIS WEEK, YUNG EAZY, EAZY-E’S THIRD SON, POSTED THE KIMMEL CLIP TO INSTAGRAM ACPANIED BY A MSAGE SUATG THAT KNIGHT KILLED HIS FATHER THIS VERY FASHN. THE YUNG EAZY CLAIM ON THE HEELS OF VLADTV’S TERVIEW WH THE MEMBERS OF BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY, WHO WERE CLOSE IENDS OF EAZY’S AND SIGNED TO HIS RUTHLS RERDS JT ONE YEAR PRR TO HIS ATH, WHERE THE GROUP SAID THEY AGREED WH EAZY’S SONS’ THEORY THAT THEIR FATHER WAS JECTED WH AIDS. “I MEAN, ME PERSONALLY, I [AGREE WH THAT THEORY] AS WELL. EVEN TO THIS DAY, NONE OF HIS KIDS, NONE OF HIS BABY MAMAS, HIS MISTRS, NOBODY HAS E UP WH HIV OR NOTHG LIKE THAT. SO JT RATNALLY THKG, SOMETHG HAD TO GO ON.”“WHEN YOU’RE ABOUT TO DIE OM FULL-BLOWN AIDS, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU’RE GONNA DIE OM AIDS,” THEY NTUED. “I’VE SEEN PEOPLE THAT HAVE DIED OM AIDS AND THEY LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE AIDS. EAZY DIDN’T LOOK LIKE THAT AT ALL WHEN HE PASSED AWAY. AT ALL.”BUT THE ODD KIMMEL APPEARANCE ASI, THE CRAZIT KNIGHT TERVIEW EVER OCCURRED ONE YEAR PRR WHEN KNIGHT, AGA H OUT OF JAIL, SAT DOWN ON THE UCH WH HOWARD STERN FOR A ROLLERASTER RI OF A 45-MUTE TERVIEW RIFE WH WILD ACCATNS. AND ’S HERE WE SHOULD NOTE THAT KNIGHT IS AN UNSTABLE CHARACTER PRONE TO EMBELLISHMENT, SO THE REMEMBRANC SHOULD ALL BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT.MUCH OF KNIGHT’S IRE WAS AIMED AT DR. DRE, WHO, AS PICTED STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, LEFT DEATH ROW RERDS TO START HIS OWN LABEL, AFTERMATH ENTERTAMENT, AFTER BEG FED UP WH KNIGHT’S OFT-VLENT BS TACTICS. DURG THE TERVIEW, KNIGHT EVEN ALLUD TO DRE’S DOMTIC VLENCE NVICTN AFTER HE ASSLTED VEEJAY DEE BARN.“WHEN DRE—ANDRE—WENT TO JAIL, HE NEVER EVEN WENT TO UNTY JAIL. HE HAD A SUATN WHERE HE BEAT UP A GIRL, AND THEY WERE TIRED OF HIM BEATG UP GIRLS, SO HE WAS GOG TO UNTY JAIL, HE BROKE DOWN AND FOLD UP LIKE A LAWN CHAIR,” KNIGHT TOLD STERN. KNIGHT, WHO SEEMED TO BE FIRED UP ABOUT DRE ALLEGEDLY “SNCHG” ON HIM TO HIS PO, RULTG A RTRAG ORR BEG ADD TO HIS PAROLE NDNS, THEN OPENED UP ABOUT THE LARGE NUMBER OF “CLOSET S” ON THE DEATH ROW LABEL, AND ALLEGED THAT DRE WAS ONE OF THEM—EVEN CLAIMG THAT DRE PAL AND FELLOW DEATH ROW ARTIST TUPAC NONTED DRE ABOUT HIS SEXUALY DURG A LABEL MEETG:“I’M SAYG HE’S GAY BEE THERE’S A GUY NAMED BCE AND THEY’VE BEEN SLEEPG TOGETHER FOR YEARS,” KNIGHT SAID. “WE HAD THE MEETGS THE RED ROOM, AND ONCE WE HAD THE MEETGS, YOU HAD TO PUT EVERYTHG ON THE TABLE. EVERYBODY HAS SOME DRKS, AND WOULDN’T NOBODY LIE, BEE IF ANYBODY GOT UGHT LY’, THERE WAS ALWAYS A NSEQUENCE. SO TUPAC STOOD UP AND SAID, ‘I’M TIRED OF THIS! I’M TIRED OF THIS! DRE, YOU’S A FAGGOT.’ DRE SAID, ‘FIRST OF ALL, I’M NOT A FAGGOT.’ THEN [TUPAC] SAID, ‘OK, THEN YOU’RE A HOMOSEXUAL.’ [DRE] SAID, ‘I’M NOT A HOMOSEXUAL. I’M BISEXUAL.’ SO [TUPAC] SAID, ‘YOU’RE BISEXUAL? SEE, THAT’S ANOTHER THG I DON’T WANNA DO, I DON’T WANNA BE THE STUD DOG NO SONGS WH A GUY WHO’S POUNDG OTHER GUYS THE BUTT.’ THEN DRE SAID, ‘PAC, I THOUGHT YOU WERE SMART. YOU STILL DUMB. IF I WANT TO POUND SOME BUTT, I ULD DO A WOMAN. I’M A BISEXUAL BEE I LIKE TO GET MY CHEEKBON BLOWN OUT. I LIKE TO GET POUND THE BUTT.’”THE GENIS OF N.W.A SURROUND THE SONG “BOYZ-N-THE-HOOD,” WHICH WAS WRTEN BY ICE CUBE AND PRODUCED BY DRE AS A SGLE FOR THE RUTHLS RERDS GROUP HBO, BUT WHEN THEY REJECTED , BEME THE SOLO BUT FOR EAZY AND N.W.A, AND WAS CLUD ON THE 1987 PILATN MIXTAPE N.W.A AND THE POSSE. KNIGHT SHARED A STORY WH STERN ALLEGG THAT HBO ASSLTED DRE YEARS LATER OVER THE SONG, WHICH LED TO ONE OF KNIGHT’S NUMERO PRISON STTS.“TWO GUYS ME AND ANDRE HAD DONE THIS SONG ‘BOYZ-N-THE-HOOD,’ BUT THEY DIDN’T WANT THE SONG ‘BOYZ-N-THE-HOOD’ BEE THEY THOUGHT WAS TOO WT COAST, SO [DRE] GAVE TO EAZY,” CLAIMED KNIGHT. “NOW THE SONG BLEW UP AND YEARS LATER, THE GUYS FELT [DRE] OWED THEM A SONG. SO THEY SHOW UP TO THE STUD AND PIMP-SLAP ONE OF MY PRODUCERS, WHICH IS ANDRE—BCH-SLAPPED HIM—AND SAID THEY WERE GOG TO TAKE ONE OF HIS SONGS.” KNIGHT CLAIMS HE SHOWED UP AND SAVED THE DAY. KNIGHT ALSO LAID TO SNOOP DOGG, WHO LEFT DEATH ROW NOT LONG AFTER DRE. HE SAID SNOOP, WHO OFTEN SPORTED THE LOR RED—WHICH IS THE LOR OF THE BLOODS—HAD TO PAY HIS WAY TO VAR LONG BEACH CRIPS (LBC) GANGS, AND WAS REALLY A “NICE KID” WHO WASN’T MUCH OF A GANGSTER.“THERE’S ONLY ONE PERSON THAT PAID MONEY TO BE VOLVED THE GANG, AND THAT’S SNOOP. HE PAID TO BE THE GANG. HE’S STILL NOT THE GANG,” SAID KNIGHT. “THIS GUY WAS A REALLY, REALLY NICE KID. WE GAVE HIM AN IMAGE, TE ENOUGH… IF YOU LOOK BACK THE EARLY DAYS, [SNOOP] WAS WEARG THE RED SHIRTS AND THE BURGUNDY SHIRTS, AND ONE TIME AT THE SOUL TRA AWARDS HE HAD THE WHOLE RED FLAG ON AUNT JEMIMA-STYLE.”HE NTUED: “I TALKED TO SNOOP AND I SAID, ‘LISTEN, YOU N’T KEEP GO’ AROUND AND BEG SOMETHG THAT’S TOTALLY DIFFERENT OM THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOU OM. YOU OM LONG BEACH, RIGHT? SO WHAT DO THEY HAVE LONG BEACH? THEY’VE GOT 20S, INSAN, THEY GOT 19TH STREETS, THEY DON’T HAVE NO BLOODS, SO YOU N’T BE A BLOOD, SO PICK ONE. I DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS GOG TO PICK ALL THREE! HE WENT OM INSAN TO 20S TO 19TH STREET BACK TO 20S.”“IF SNOOP WOULD’VE BEEN ON A DIFFERENT RERD PANY, HE WOULD’VE BEEN DOG A DIFFERENT KD OF MIC,” ADD KNIGHT, “BUT GANGSTER RAP IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT THG.” MARLOW STERN
IS EAZY-E GAY
Did NWA know Eazy-E was gay? Listeng to no Vasele I n't help but notice that Ice cube mak 2 referenc about Eazy-E beg gay. So maybe Cube was lettg know Easy was secretly gay?
Especially e he don't make gay referenc about anyone else NWA. He had a suatn where he beat up a girl, and they were tired of him beatg up girls, so he was gog to unty jail, he broke down and fold up like a lawn chair, ” Knight told, who seemed to be fired up about Dre allegedly “snchg” on him to his PO, rultg a rtrag orr beg add to his parole ndns, then opened up about the large number of “closet s” on the Death Row label, and alleged that Dre was one of them—even claimg that Dre pal and fellow Death Row artist Tupac nonted Dre about his sexualy durg a label meetg:“I’m sayg he’s gay bee there’s a guy named Bce and they’ve been sleepg together for years, ” Knight said.
SUGE KNIGHT’S CRAZY CONFSNAL AND THE EAZY-E CONSPIRACY THAT WON’T DIEUNCENSOREDBEFORE—AND AFTER—HIS PRISON STT, SUGE KNIGHT GAVE A PAIR OF SANE TERVIEWS FILLED WH NUENDO AND WILD ALLEGATNS ABOUT EAZY-E, DR. DRE, AND SNOOP DOGG. MARLOW STERNUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 9:50AM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 27, 2015 5:15AM EDT JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGICTHEY LLED HIM “SUGAR BEAR.” WH HIS ROUND FACE, GENTLE GIANT MEANOR, AND LYRIL, HIGH-PCHED VOICE, MARN HUGH KNIGHT JR. WAS A WELL-LIKED KID NAVIGATG THE MEAN STREETS OF COMPTON, CALIFORNIA, WHERE HE WAS BORN AND RAISED. KNIGHT GREW TO A 6-FOOT-4 FOOTBALL STAR, EVENTUALLY EARNG AN ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP TO UNLV. “HE WASN’T A PROBLEM GUY AT ALL,” SAID WAYNE NUNNELY, KNIGHT’S UNLV HEAD ACH. “YOU DIDN’T REALLY SEE THAT STREET ROUGHNS ABOUT HIM.”NOWADAYS, THE NAME SUGE KNIGHT IS LACED WH IRONY, NJURG UP THE IMAGE OF A BALD, BEARD, AND TIMIDATG 315-POUND LOSS WIELDG AN UNL CIGAR, SEVEN-RAT DIAMOND HIS EAR, AND A DIAMOND-ENCSTED PKIE RG BEARG THE LETTERS MOB—ALLEGEDLY STANDG FOR “MEMBER OF THE BLOODS.” IT’S ALSO SYNONYMO WH A LONG HISTORY OF VLENCE, STARTG WH A 1987 ASSLT CHARGE ON HIS THEN-GIRLIEND—AFTER GRABBG HER AND SAWG OFF HER PONYTAIL—TO SEVERAL SHOOTGS, ORCHTRATED HS, AND GUN CHARG, TO THE NOTOR MOR THAT KNIGHT PLAYED A ROLE THE MURR OF TUPAC SHAKUR. KNIGHT IS CURRENTLY BEHD BARS ON MURR CHARG STEMMG OM A FATAL H-AND-N—ALL UGHT ON VIO—AT A COMPTON BURGER JOT DURG A PROMO SHOOT FOR THE N.W.A BPIC STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON.KNIGHT LOOMS LARGE UNIVERSAL’S COMPTON, WHICH CLUS A SCENE WHERE DR. DRE AND THE D.O.C. ARE ANX TO BE RELEASED OM N.W.A AND THEIR LABEL, RUTHLS RERDS, N BY N.W.A FOUNR EAZY-E. SO KNIGHT AND HIS CREW FIRST TIMIDATE EAZY WH BATS AND A P BULL BEFORE BEATG HIM TO A PULP. DRE WAS EED OM HIS NTRACT AND STARTED THE GANGSTA RAP LABEL DEATH ROW RERDS WH KNIGHT 1991. IN EARLY 2003, SHORTLY AFTER BEG RELEASED OM PRISON, KNIGHT MA AN APPEARANCE ON JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! WHERE THE HIP-HOP MOGUL MA AN OFF-LOR REMARK ABOUT THE PASSG OF EAZY-E, WHO DIED OM AIDS PLITNS 1995. “SEE, TECHNOLOGY IS SO HIGH, RIGHT? SO IF YOU SHOOT SOMEBODY, YOU’RE GOG TO JAIL FOREVER,” HE SAID. “SO THEY GOT STUFF WHERE THEY GET BLOOD OM SOMEBODY WH AIDS, AND THEY SHOOT YOU WH . SO THAT’S A SLOW ATH—THAT EAZY-E THG.” AND JT THIS WEEK, YUNG EAZY, EAZY-E’S THIRD SON, POSTED THE KIMMEL CLIP TO INSTAGRAM ACPANIED BY A MSAGE SUATG THAT KNIGHT KILLED HIS FATHER THIS VERY FASHN. THE YUNG EAZY CLAIM ON THE HEELS OF VLADTV’S TERVIEW WH THE MEMBERS OF BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY, WHO WERE CLOSE IENDS OF EAZY’S AND SIGNED TO HIS RUTHLS RERDS JT ONE YEAR PRR TO HIS ATH, WHERE THE GROUP SAID THEY AGREED WH EAZY’S SONS’ THEORY THAT THEIR FATHER WAS JECTED WH AIDS. “I MEAN, ME PERSONALLY, I [AGREE WH THAT THEORY] AS WELL. EVEN TO THIS DAY, NONE OF HIS KIDS, NONE OF HIS BABY MAMAS, HIS MISTRS, NOBODY HAS E UP WH HIV OR NOTHG LIKE THAT. SO JT RATNALLY THKG, SOMETHG HAD TO GO ON.”“WHEN YOU’RE ABOUT TO DIE OM FULL-BLOWN AIDS, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU’RE GONNA DIE OM AIDS,” THEY NTUED. “I’VE SEEN PEOPLE THAT HAVE DIED OM AIDS AND THEY LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE AIDS. EAZY DIDN’T LOOK LIKE THAT AT ALL WHEN HE PASSED AWAY. AT ALL.”BUT THE ODD KIMMEL APPEARANCE ASI, THE CRAZIT KNIGHT TERVIEW EVER OCCURRED ONE YEAR PRR WHEN KNIGHT, AGA H OUT OF JAIL, SAT DOWN ON THE UCH WH HOWARD STERN FOR A ROLLERASTER RI OF A 45-MUTE TERVIEW RIFE WH WILD ACCATNS. AND ’S HERE WE SHOULD NOTE THAT KNIGHT IS AN UNSTABLE CHARACTER PRONE TO EMBELLISHMENT, SO THE REMEMBRANC SHOULD ALL BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT.MUCH OF KNIGHT’S IRE WAS AIMED AT DR. DRE, WHO, AS PICTED STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, LEFT DEATH ROW RERDS TO START HIS OWN LABEL, AFTERMATH ENTERTAMENT, AFTER BEG FED UP WH KNIGHT’S OFT-VLENT BS TACTICS. DURG THE TERVIEW, KNIGHT EVEN ALLUD TO DRE’S DOMTIC VLENCE NVICTN AFTER HE ASSLTED VEEJAY DEE BARN.“WHEN DRE—ANDRE—WENT TO JAIL, HE NEVER EVEN WENT TO UNTY JAIL. HE HAD A SUATN WHERE HE BEAT UP A GIRL, AND THEY WERE TIRED OF HIM BEATG UP GIRLS, SO HE WAS GOG TO UNTY JAIL, HE BROKE DOWN AND FOLD UP LIKE A LAWN CHAIR,” KNIGHT TOLD STERN. KNIGHT, WHO SEEMED TO BE FIRED UP ABOUT DRE ALLEGEDLY “SNCHG” ON HIM TO HIS PO, RULTG A RTRAG ORR BEG ADD TO HIS PAROLE NDNS, THEN OPENED UP ABOUT THE LARGE NUMBER OF “CLOSET S” ON THE DEATH ROW LABEL, AND ALLEGED THAT DRE WAS ONE OF THEM—EVEN CLAIMG THAT DRE PAL AND FELLOW DEATH ROW ARTIST TUPAC NONTED DRE ABOUT HIS SEXUALY DURG A LABEL MEETG:“I’M SAYG HE’S GAY BEE THERE’S A GUY NAMED BCE AND THEY’VE BEEN SLEEPG TOGETHER FOR YEARS,” KNIGHT SAID. “WE HAD THE MEETGS THE RED ROOM, AND ONCE WE HAD THE MEETGS, YOU HAD TO PUT EVERYTHG ON THE TABLE. EVERYBODY HAS SOME DRKS, AND WOULDN’T NOBODY LIE, BEE IF ANYBODY GOT UGHT LY’, THERE WAS ALWAYS A NSEQUENCE. SO TUPAC STOOD UP AND SAID, ‘I’M TIRED OF THIS! I’M TIRED OF THIS! DRE, YOU’S A FAGGOT.’ DRE SAID, ‘FIRST OF ALL, I’M NOT A FAGGOT.’ THEN [TUPAC] SAID, ‘OK, THEN YOU’RE A HOMOSEXUAL.’ [DRE] SAID, ‘I’M NOT A HOMOSEXUAL. I’M BISEXUAL.’ SO [TUPAC] SAID, ‘YOU’RE BISEXUAL? SEE, THAT’S ANOTHER THG I DON’T WANNA DO, I DON’T WANNA BE THE STUD DOG NO SONGS WH A GUY WHO’S POUNDG OTHER GUYS THE BUTT.’ THEN DRE SAID, ‘PAC, I THOUGHT YOU WERE SMART. YOU STILL DUMB. IF I WANT TO POUND SOME BUTT, I ULD DO A WOMAN. I’M A BISEXUAL BEE I LIKE TO GET MY CHEEKBON BLOWN OUT. I LIKE TO GET POUND THE BUTT.’”THE GENIS OF N.W.A SURROUND THE SONG “BOYZ-N-THE-HOOD,” WHICH WAS WRTEN BY ICE CUBE AND PRODUCED BY DRE AS A SGLE FOR THE RUTHLS RERDS GROUP HBO, BUT WHEN THEY REJECTED , BEME THE SOLO BUT FOR EAZY AND N.W.A, AND WAS CLUD ON THE 1987 PILATN MIXTAPE N.W.A AND THE POSSE. KNIGHT SHARED A STORY WH STERN ALLEGG THAT HBO ASSLTED DRE YEARS LATER OVER THE SONG, WHICH LED TO ONE OF KNIGHT’S NUMERO PRISON STTS.“TWO GUYS ME AND ANDRE HAD DONE THIS SONG ‘BOYZ-N-THE-HOOD,’ BUT THEY DIDN’T WANT THE SONG ‘BOYZ-N-THE-HOOD’ BEE THEY THOUGHT WAS TOO WT COAST, SO [DRE] GAVE TO EAZY,” CLAIMED KNIGHT. “NOW THE SONG BLEW UP AND YEARS LATER, THE GUYS FELT [DRE] OWED THEM A SONG. SO THEY SHOW UP TO THE STUD AND PIMP-SLAP ONE OF MY PRODUCERS, WHICH IS ANDRE—BCH-SLAPPED HIM—AND SAID THEY WERE GOG TO TAKE ONE OF HIS SONGS.” KNIGHT CLAIMS HE SHOWED UP AND SAVED THE DAY. KNIGHT ALSO LAID TO SNOOP DOGG, WHO LEFT DEATH ROW NOT LONG AFTER DRE. HE SAID SNOOP, WHO OFTEN SPORTED THE LOR RED—WHICH IS THE LOR OF THE BLOODS—HAD TO PAY HIS WAY TO VAR LONG BEACH CRIPS (LBC) GANGS, AND WAS REALLY A “NICE KID” WHO WASN’T MUCH OF A GANGSTER.“THERE’S ONLY ONE PERSON THAT PAID MONEY TO BE VOLVED THE GANG, AND THAT’S SNOOP. HE PAID TO BE THE GANG. HE’S STILL NOT THE GANG,” SAID KNIGHT. “THIS GUY WAS A REALLY, REALLY NICE KID. WE GAVE HIM AN IMAGE, TE ENOUGH… IF YOU LOOK BACK THE EARLY DAYS, [SNOOP] WAS WEARG THE RED SHIRTS AND THE BURGUNDY SHIRTS, AND ONE TIME AT THE SOUL TRA AWARDS HE HAD THE WHOLE RED FLAG ON AUNT JEMIMA-STYLE.”HE NTUED: “I TALKED TO SNOOP AND I SAID, ‘LISTEN, YOU N’T KEEP GO’ AROUND AND BEG SOMETHG THAT’S TOTALLY DIFFERENT OM THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOU OM. YOU OM LONG BEACH, RIGHT? SO WHAT DO THEY HAVE LONG BEACH? THEY’VE GOT 20S, INSAN, THEY GOT 19TH STREETS, THEY DON’T HAVE NO BLOODS, SO YOU N’T BE A BLOOD, SO PICK ONE. I DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS GOG TO PICK ALL THREE! HE WENT OM INSAN TO 20S TO 19TH STREET BACK TO 20S.”“IF SNOOP WOULD’VE BEEN ON A DIFFERENT RERD PANY, HE WOULD’VE BEEN DOG A DIFFERENT KD OF MIC,” ADD KNIGHT, “BUT GANGSTER RAP IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT THG.” MARLOW STERN
’ Then [Tupac] said, ‘OK, then you’re a homosexual. ’ [Dre] said, ‘I’m not a homosexual.