Here’s a pairing I really had never considered: WaPo and Suge. A transcript of a live chat from this last Monday between the founder of Death Row Records and randoms off the internet. My favorite snip:
Rockville, Md.: Suge,
From many of your employees, it sounds like you are a great and generous guy to work for (provided, you know, they don’t sue you or get shot mysteriously). Got any openings?
Suge Knight: Ha — we’ve got some openings in things we’re doing. I was really stepping away from the music side of things because of the change of it — it’s brought me back to doing some other things in the business. I’m doing some things for Barry Hankerson, who was a liason with Blackground Records, which was the home of Aliyah, the guy who represented R. Kelly until the tapes came out, they parted separte ways — I have a lot of respect for him to represent R.Kelly and then leave him. I’m looking forward to working with him and doing some more refreshing things. I always feel like I’m defending my friends and we’re defending the ghetto — because no matter what my state in life, those are my peers. I grew up in Compton, and that’s the ghetto. If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it’s always people dying of violence or stray bullets.
The thing is, there are people who know me, but I don’t know them, but they get shot or whatever, and they still put them in the article as one of my employees or whatever.