How many kids does Suge Knight have?

May 2024 · 3 minute read

SUGE Knight is an American music executive and former associate of murdered rapper Tupac Shakur.

Knight co-founded Death Row Records with Dr. Dre and helped popularize the funky beats and profane rhymes of 1990s rap.

How many kids does Suge Knight have?

Knight has five children.

Taj, his oldest child, was born in 1991 to Knight and his former partner Davina Barnes.

Jacob, Knight’s second son, has adopted his father’s nickname and is a content creator, music producer, and real estate agent.

Jacob has over 200k followers on Instagram.

Singer Michel’le posts updates of Bailei, the daughter she shares with Knight to her Instagram page, but Bailei and her half-sister Posh are highly private in comparison to Jacob. 

Prior to her marriage to Knight, Michel’le had a child with Dr. Dre; a rift eventually grew between the two men and helped fracture the leadership of Death Row Records. 

Knight’s youngest child, Legend, was just eight years old when his father was sentenced to 28 years in prison.

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Who is Suge Knight?

Suge Knight, real name Marion Knight Jr, is a 56-year-old incarcerated music executive. 

He produced Dr. Dre’s iconic album The Chronic in 1992. 

His partnerships with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, MC Hammer, and other rap stars of the 1990s assisted in raising Death Row Records into one of the most recognizable labels in rap music. 

Knight served as the CEO of Death Row and was ultimately forced to oversee the record label descend into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 

On February 10, 2022, it was announced that Snoop Dogg would take over as the owner of the Death Row Records brand, according to AP News.

Snoop Dogg was originally a signee to the label and his first studio album, Doggystyle, was executively produced by Knight.

Why is Suge Knight in prison?

Knight has a history of arrests and convictions.

His first prison stint started in 1997 when he violated his parole stemming from a previous assault Knight had pleaded no contest to. 

Knight is rumored to have been involved in the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls but was never arrested or charged in connection with their deaths

In 2015, Knight struck two men with his car while in his hometown of Compton, California

One man was killed and the other was injured.

Subsequently, Knight pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the slaying.

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Six years were added to his sentence as he was in violation of California’s three-strike law. 

Knight is eligible for parole in 2037.

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