The 1990s saw a well-known conflict between Bad Boy creator Diddy and Death Row founder Suge Knight.
During the 1990s hip-hop scene, Marion “Suge” Knight, the founder of Death Row Records and a major player in the famed East Coast-West Coast rivalry, forewarned his former rival Sean “Diddy” Combs in a phone call last week from prison.
Knight,58, called his team at Breakbeat Media, the production company behind his “Collect Call” podcast, which he records over the phone from inside California’s Ronald Donovan Correctional Facility. “I tell you what, Puffy, your life is in danger because you know the secrets, who’s involved in that little secret room you guys [are] participating in,” Knight said.
“You know they’re going to get you if they can,” he continued.
Before taking on the name “Diddy,” Combs went by the names “Puff,” “Puff Daddy,” and “Puffy.” People who had contact with him during his journey to popularity usually refer to him as “Puff.”
The 54-year-old Combs’ two homes were raided by police and officials from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in March, according to law enforcement sources, as part of an investigation into human trafficking.
Even though Knight made several slights to Combs, criticizing his sexiness and urging him to give up his “Love” name if he were to go to jail, he added that there was nothing to “cheer about” about the whole event and expressed his prayers for his rival’s numerous offspring.
“It’s a bad day for hip-hop, for the culture, for Black people, because when one looks bad, we all look bad,” he said. “That’s not nothing to cheer about.”
In October, Knight launched his podcast in collaboration with Breakbeat, the pioneer hip-hop podcast network founded by David Mays, the publisher of The Source magazine.
Soon before the conflict between Death Row and Bad Boy intensified, in 1995, Knight publicly made fun of Combs while on stage at The Source Awards.
Before the decade was out, two industry titans perished in drive-by shootings: Notorious B.I.G., a Bad Boy artist, and Tupac Shakur, who was on Death Row.
Shakur and Knight were attacked in Las Vegas while they were in the automobile. Christopher Wallace, often known as Biggie, passed away in one of Combs’ bodyguards’ arms.
For over a decade, the cases sparked conjecture and conspiracy theories. Finally, last year, Las Vegas police announced that Shakur had been indicted.
Now, Knight is serving a 28-year prison sentence for the death of Terry Carter after taking a plea deal on manslaughter charges in 2018 to avoid a murder trial.
In January 2015, Knight got into an argument with another rival, Cle “Bone” Sloan, in Compton, California. He hit and injured Sloan with his truck and fatally struck Carter while driving away.
