Crooked I interview with Yellow Tape Magazine

[@yellaboi6257]

This is one of the realest and intellectual interviews I've ever seen Suge do.

[@willlopes7010]

He's done a lot of wrong but he's done so much more positive. 60% if the folks don't even realize

[@tonysnow9688]

real message from suge regardless of his reputation I respect him and I still wish him well

[@stanmitchell80]

Free suge knight

[@shahnawazsooba7904]

Let that asshole rot in jail.

[@dmack143]

@@shahnawazsooba7904 Free Suge Knight all Day, white boy

[@shahnawazsooba7904]

@@dmack143 I'm neither white nor black.

[@nomadicstorage1865]

Gotta respect this mans hustle, grind and the impact he made within Hip Hop culture. This interview really showed me his business savvy and how smart he really is. Before even watching this I just though he was a crazy reckless bully. That's what the media painted him out to be. But You always find out there's to sides to every coin. Not that he's perfect. But you can't deny the many opportunities he provided for artist to get heard.

[@midnightrider4066]

But he ripped them all off & went bankrupt himself after only a small time really,so not that good

[@ytee8965]

@@midnightrider4066 he didnt rip them off

[@capitalg5460]

You don't think he may be painting himself a certain way in this interview? You are correct that there is 2 sides to a coin, but there is 3 sides to this story. The media's side, Suge's side, and then there is the truth.

[@dmack143]

@@capitalg5460 no nigga the midea trying to distroy Suge image and trying to make him the bad guy, he is the realest CEO ever

[@capitalg5460]

@@dmack143 he negotiated contracts by using baseball bats and dangling people from rooftops... I'm sure he was real and loyal to some people, but I don't think he was that great of a guy. He sure did help to bring a lot of good hip-hop to this world though

[@MGMNETWORK]

I was actually the director for this interview like 12 years ago!

[@nbados2206]

What else you direct?

[@blatbryan5214]

What year

[@julia2k8]

❤

[@AJ-fz8xm]

Damn it sucks these dudes Eastwood & Crooked Eye got blackballed for being associated with Suge. They both had hella potential #FREESUGE

[@8grove]

A J Eastwood was a fake Snoop.

[@8grove]

Suge will get life. Hunted by Biggie ghost.

[@willparks513]

Detroit Red

[@MrSkiloV]

Detroit Red don’t speak on what you don’t know about. The system is tryna make an example of Suge and tryna eat another black man, why do you think he still hasn’t had a trial and there is a video. Free Suge....and crook ain’t blackballed...

[@8grove]

MrSkiloV what? Fuck Suge. He's getting life sentence this summer. Real B.I.G

[@realone7405]

suge knight is a genius

[@capitalg5460]

A genius locked away in a cage.

[@thongtran6647]

@@capitalg5460 what did you do? you have ball to do ? stfu bro

[@rednirabkriv5376]

Honesty mixed with power end up in cage or coffin

[@jakehope6811]

“You can make more money with a conversation a peice of paper 📄 and a pencil ✏️ than you can with a gun and a knife 🔪 “🔥🔥

[@A.P.E.X_Muzik]

Always dope to see crook's history with death row. Then he got signed to shady. He's always been an independent artist moving and grinding hard.

[@carloluciano7041]

"Just because you free a slave doesn't mean he'll run back to his master" real shit suge saved everyone and they all turned their backs on him.

[@hendoggoneeightyseven9896]

This is one of my favorite interviews of Suge it’s ashamed they blackball him in he stuck in jail free suge

[@makpayne6111]

he 's the best point blank

[@ryanminor7364]

Crook ended up being one of the best to ever do it

[@Vinladen82]

Crooks always been a Beast! 💯💯🔥

[@milfscraps]

I honestly don’t understand why so many people(who personally don’t even know him) hate Suge. I get that he’s done many bad things thruout his life/career. But none of it affects any of the fans, only affects the person he’s directly doing the shit to! Yeah he did hang Vanilla Ice off of a balcony, forced Eazy-E to sign away Dre’s music rights, ran over and killed a guy with his truck,?and has done a lot of crazy/bad shit over the years. But then again, so has 95% of rappers nowadays! Gunplay pisol whipped his manager and nobody hates him for it. Suge has done ALOT for hip hop and he deserves respect for it, regardless of some of his actions. I honestly just think everybody’s dislikes Suge, becuz they think he’s the reason Pac got killed, but we all know by now that it was obviously not Suge. Dude lost over $100 million, is broke, & is prison for the rest of his life. Give him his props for everything good he’s done for hip hop, and then leave him be.

[@amandas273]

On another note Suge did pave the way for a lot of the artists. They were on his label and they blew up such as: Snoop Doggs little cousin, Snoop Dogg, DRE, Tupac, Danny boy, he had the line up. They all worked well together and that’s why it worked so well.

[@jakehope6811]

Dre blew up well before Suge though with NWA although he was being screwed by heller and eazy contract wise Suge took Dre because he was a world class producer one of the best producers around at that time

[@quentincarter8021]

Seems like Suge bullshit leadership got a lot of people killed

[@MrPapouchka]

​@@jakehope6811 c'est faux c'est Suge qui en a fait une Super Star Il ne faut pas réécrire l'histoire

[@peterstannard]

Hey Shawn. Thanks for the comment and for the video! Any unreleased material lying around your place? or is that asking too much lol.

[@peterstannard]

The YTM edition dropped Jan. '03 (see desc.) so interview will have been late '02, possibly first few weeks of Jan '03.

[@Your_Role_Model]

I like Suge, but he's had so much time and space to get Death Row back on track from 2002 (when he was released) until now, alas he failed. It seems to me like the the streets and thuggery got a little too much in the way. And DON'T tell me times have changed - back then there was still a lot of space for gangsta rap, unlike now. He could have made it happen. A damn shame.

[@BigEgoz]

Olechka Just to mention a few things; the Amount of time suge was incarcerated before and after this interview and amount of times death row and all it's artists homes was raided and look up the mob piru gang members who were the inner death row circle who were taken out over the years following Tupac's death. Its pretty amazing if not a miracle how long the ship still managed to stay afloat

[@Your_Role_Model]

Also probably got blackballed out of the industry by Jimmy and his corporate subordinates.

[@BigEgoz]

Olechka no doubt lol

[@thabomboneni2994]

he definitely got blackballed

[@wethabusiness7234]

💯 it’s a shame

[@lucysmith5139]

His smart and real

[@WeThaBusiness]

Great interview

[@MalphasMikaelson]

Wonder how old this video is. 'Cause Crooked I looks really young.

[@951oct]

2002

[@milfscraps]

@4:12 “HypiTETily speaking” 😂

[@JoseMartinez-op6ji]

some true shit what he said at 10:00-10:08

[@bdr113080]

Anyone else see the irony in Suge Talking about the old heads that want to come home but the doors closed and it’s time for the new young faces but all the music that is played is stuff from the early 90s from the old heads he was talking about?

[@georgecannon2197]

Say what you say about death row/the row. Everyone left because the money wasn't right

[@Hadradaa]

Name of the song in the backround in the beginning?

[@kencabinson9720]

Suge: smart....Too street....not wise....necessary evil in this world....

[@geraldbrizznichiii109]

He is drunk or on cocaine here..He is never this charged up or full on..Anyone that knows him knows this..

[@lukey1210]

Gerald Brizznich III lol that pac Deathrow East interview that nigga was fuuuuucked up lol

[@ytee8965]

@@Jonlarm stfu

[@ytee8965]

Stfu

[@MrPapouchka]

Tu ne le connais vraiment pas

[@twoforfive9228]

I love his chain

[@dmack143]

Why you looks very sad ?

[@twoforfive9228]

@@dmack143 I'm not, don't worry

[@SPGRAMPA1]

And it was all a dream!!

[@bobfield6493]

For those who don't know and there seems to be a lot of you. The main reason deathrow collapsed is because suge knight was so envious of dre, he convinced himself he could do what dre did, have an eye for talent and make great music. He convinced himself all dre did was get musicians and producers together to make songs. Suge knight ultimately showed himself to be a buffoon by signing artists to prove himself, breaching the agreement he had with dre. There is no artist he signed to deathrow that made it apart from 2pac ;no innovation there . THIS is the real reason deathrow fell

[@CaliCool91]

Sitting next to him is one of the best lyricist in hip-hop history. No matter what anyone thinks of Crooks career, his talent is undeniable, and Suge found and signed him. If he had the resources and wasn't blackballed we have no clue what Suge could've done with Crooked I.

[@bobfield6493]

@@CaliCool91 he can rap but he doesn't have the x factor

[@CaliCool91]

@@bobfield6493 that's fair but you said he didn't have an eye for talent lol that's just false. Tha Realest was trash all around, Crook is going down in hip-hop history for his bars. Respected across every state by every lyrical rapper. Just the facts.

[@bobfield6493]

@@CaliCool91 anyone who knows anything about show business knows signing a pac or biggie sound alike is nor going to work, and that's why suge Knight is not a music man. Being an anr is a skill. Dre put nwa together, added doc, Michelle, discovered jewell Eminem. Do you know how many people had the chance to sign slim shady before dre but couldn't see the vision; fat joe was one of them. Dude crooked I is not a solo artist he doesn't have the personality. He can't go platinum. Why do you think beanie siegel never went platinum but dmx went diamond. Who had more bars 🍸? This is show business, not a freestyling contest

[@CaliCool91]

@@bobfield6493 Lol "anyone who knows anything about show business..." yea you lost me when you decided to become condescending. Weirdos can't even have a music discussion like a grown man.

[@nkosisibiya9245]

He can articulate shit very well but still be part of it, he's smart but he doesn't follow his own teachings.

[@andyt4756]

Snoop wouldnt be shit without deathrow.wether he likes it or not

[@YoungTummy]

You sir, are THE Crooked I archivist!

[@brooklynq4624]

Suge knight is a smart man....

[@6eatrice_]

That microphone though...

[@GreggSaGGe]

Anyone know the song at 3:12?

[@milfscraps]

@1:50 “I don’t care how hot somebody is, if they cant get along with everybody, we ain’t fuckin with them.” I laughed when he said that because it’s complete bull$h*t. Suge had heat with Snoop and the Dpgc’s when Dre brought them in & that’s only one of the incidents that we know of. Imagine all the shit that never made it to the public lol

[@Vinladen82]

Crooked said on some of his songs and interviews! Death row never released any of his albums or material ? I wonder why that’s fuked up! Crook a beast he should of tried to get them cleared or something!

[@DJGary0910]

He put Prince under the bus 😭😭😭

[@lukey1210]

Death row ran shit

[@TheCloggingRepublican]

What year was this?

[@cedricburns910]

I LIKE BIG SUGE

[@antonkomarov9025]

Big Simon 😂😂

[@djkevanati5494]

Free Suge Knight

[@kevin084life]

4:35

[@tmoneybabyy]

Nah straight fact's I paused the video just to read the comments skipped to the time stamp & that was real 💯

[@mrGekothegreat]

Real Talk/Playboy

[@ljavery10]

West coast music was ova at that point...well outside the west coast🤷🏽‍♂️

[@bobfield6493]

You did it in 92? How come you couldn't do it 2002? Dre made death row just like nwa easy e, slim shady 50 the game Kendrick Lamar... liar

[@stillgotyourmom]

Yes but he didnt make Pac. Pac and Dre had also a very good successful harmonic but Pac did most without Dre so did he continue blewing when Dre left. Pac mainly stood out the whole G Funk sound. You can also say that Warren G did it without his half brother Dre with Regulator and Nate. But they also released via Interscope who finally had the better mastering engineers.

[@bobfield6493]

@@stillgotyourmom Warren G learned everything he knew from dre. Quick also consulted dre engineering all eyez on me. Question, was all eyez on me sonically on the same level as the chronic, no. Suge was never a music man. He tried to tap established artists . That's all he could do. Dre discovers and makes artists. Eazy e never rapped a day in his life. Pac wouldn't have lasted at death row

[@stillgotyourmom]

@@bobfield6493 Thats total BS. Even if the sound qual wasnt the same it had other qualities to go. Dre states his name like he also claims 100% of Scott Storchs Prod for a lot of his main hits. Why did he need them? A main influence in Dres and later Death Row beginning was Daz and also the unknown DJ who in fact did pioneer 808 work when it was over a decade before south. Jimmy Iovine loved Dres production and for the rest they give it to the best Universal studios to do the master. Its exactly what Suge says they own everything and have the best engineers too. Unversal did master on pop level when Death Row was doing it with most hood producers. Thats exactly my point and also what Suge says. Thats why also Warren G made sound already and presented Snoop when Dre didnt want none of it and dodged them so its mainly not Dres influence. Warren G was on G Funk like Daz and Doggpound Dre wasnt even making that sound so wasnt Pac a G Funk rapper.

[@bobfield6493]

@@stillgotyourmom go and check the sound of nwa and doc and jj fad. You don't know your history

[@bobfield6493]

@@stillgotyourmom eazy e too