Rap mogul Suge Knight accused Dr. Dre of paying people in order to kill him. Suge Knight is now with the Los Angeles County jail for allegedly running over two men in Compton.
The latest claims of Suge Knight is the latest news about the former rap mogul as he has been awaiting trial for the allegations that he ran over two men. Suge Knight is alleged of killing one of the two men, identified as Terry Carter, in January of 2015 at a parking lot in Los Angeles.
In Suge Knight's latest lawsuit, he claimed that Dr. Dre tried to have him killed twice, BBC reported. The hip-hop star and Apple Executive's lawyers dismissed the claims of Suge Knight saying that the two have not been in contact for the last two decades. The legal team of Dr. Dre added that their client never had any kind of interaction with Suge Knight since he left Death Row Records in 1996. Suge Knight and Dr. Dre were both co-founders of the Death Row Records.
Also in the lawsuit, Suge Knight said that Dr. Dre agreed to pay him 30 percent of his earnings for the entirety of his life. This includes the share of Dr. Dre of Apple's 2014 $3 billion purchase of the Dr. Dre's Beats products as well as the money he got from producing the well-acclaimed flick "Straight Outta Compton." Suge Knight said that Dr. Dre wants him dead because he does not want to fulfill his promise regarding the supposed 30 percent deal.
New York Daily News also reported that Suge Knight claimed Dr. Dre first hired a gunman during the 1Oak night club shooting in August 2014. The second time was reported during an armed assault at Tam's burgers in Compton last year. Serious attempts on the life of Suge Knight reportedly started when Dr. Dre was paid by Apple on May 28, 2014.
The lawsuit against Dr. Dre is a cross-complaint in a wrongful death lawsuit by the wide of Terry Carter. The supposed second time that Dr. Dre tried to have Suge Knight killed was the same time as he ran over two men. Suge Knight claimed that he ran over the two men because they threatened his life.
