By Katherine Tinsley
11:04am PST, Feb 13, 2025
Shakur and Snoop, who were both artists on Knight's label,
Death Row Records, were friends during their time in the music industry.
"We back at the hotel […] and I hear banging at the door," Knight told
Vibe in a recent interview.
"I throw my boxers on, open the door and 'Pac just runs in my room. I'm like, 'What's up?' He's like, 'You got a radio?' He all pumped up, he put the radio on, and we listened to Snoop on the radio," he continued.
Before his death, Shakur was caught in a public battle with
Biggie Smalls and
Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records, after he was shot in 1994 while visiting a Manhattan recording studio.
"Snoop is saying that's 'Pac on the bulls—. He'd do a song with Biggie, he'd do a song with Puffy, he'd do all these songs," Knight recalled, but Snoop never released a song with the Brooklyn artist.
"Pac was so mad because 'Pac loved those dudes. He always would ride for them. And he brought it up," Knight continued, referring to how Shakur and Smalls were close prior to the former being brutally attacked.
The tension between Death Row and Bad Boy records became known as the East Coast-West Coast rivalry, with the feud reaching its peak when Shakur and Smalls were violently killed just six months apart.
"'Man, I just came to f— with you, but I f— with everybody on Death Row," Shakur allegedly said, according to Knight.
"I put everybody on my album […] I'll get on the frontline for them," the convicted felon stated. "For this fool to go up there and get on the radio and say f— me and he riding with them? It's on.'"
Knight alleged that the Poetic Justice star charged at the media personality.
"When we got downstairs, 'Pac took off on Snoop. 'Pac ran up on him, did what he did," Knight revealed. "Snoop ran this way, 'Pac running behind me. I stopped it. 'You ain't finna be doing all this s— in New York, making us all look like we some idiots.'"
The former NFL player made it clear that Snoop didn't want to partake in the drama.
"Snoop wasn't trying to run into 'Pac at all. He definitely didn't gang bang on him," Knight remarked.
Knight is currently serving a 28-year sentence for a hit-and-run incident and for violating the state of California's three-strikes rule.
According to reports, the businessman won't be eligible for parole until 2034.
