Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight haven’t seen eye-to-eye for years, and the Long Beach legend took his beef with his former boss to his new Iz It a Crime? album.
Snoop fired away at Knight on the explosive “ShutYoBitchAssUp,” on which he boasted about taking ownership of Death Row from Knight, and then went on to label the incarcerated former music executive a snitch.
“I can see why you mad/ I bought everything you own/ Now you in PC snitching on the phone/ But I can slap the taste out your muthaf–kin’ mouth/ Pull up on your n—a, make you wanna reroute/ And if he hit the main line, he gon’ see what we bout/ Oh b—h-ass n—a, I’m a rich-ass n—a,” he raps.
Snoop Dogg’s abrasive bars come months after Suge Knight claimed Snoop was “destroying” hip-hop’s credibility along with Death Row during an interview from prison with The Art of Dialogue.
“You trying to create something that Suge Knight created, but instead of making something big, you disappointed the world by making everything flops,” Knight said in March. “When I put out Tha Dogg Pound, they sold records. You put out Tha Dogg Pound, they sold nothing — it flopped.”
He continued: “You don’t got to talk tough. We don’t got to talk about each other that gets [us] nowhere. One person or three or four people is not bigger than hip-hop. We should be trying to figure out how to make hip-hop better. Everybody destroying hip-hop — you guys are making it worse. If you have Death Row, you destroyed it. You messed up the name.”
While Snoop acquired the Death Row Records brand from the Blackstone-controlled MNRK Music Group (formerly eOne Music) in a February 2022 deal, Suge Knight still isn’t buying it.
Knight demanded that Snoop show some paperwork before Suge gives him his respect on that endeavor. “Snoop, you said I’m mad because you bought Death Row,” Knight said, also on The Art of Dialogue. “What you buy? Shut me up. Show me where y’all paid the money to buy it. Show me the paperwork — show me what you own.”
Suge Knight, 59, is currently serving a 28-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter charges that are tied to the death of businessman Terry Carter and injuries to his rival Cle “Bone” Sloan. The former rap mogul is eligible for parole in October 2034.
Iz It a Crime? arrived on Thursday (May 15) and features assists from Wiz Khalifa, Pharrell Williams and Sexyy Red.
Listen to “ShutYoBitchAssUp” below.
