Twitter users respond to 'Suge' Knight arrest

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Suge Knight’s storied career has been inextricably entwined with legal trouble. A look at the Compton native’s life, so far, in pictures. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

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Knight’s first big foray into music was with his own publishing company. One client wrote material for Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” but had not been paid. Various accounts said Knight dangled the rapper off a balcony, or threatened to, but Ice now says Knight was nice in asking for his cut. (Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times)

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When Knight started the record label Funky Enough, rapper DJ Quik, shown performing in Anaheim in 2002, was one of his first artists. (Al Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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After the success of Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic,” Knight and the Death Row Records crew ushered in the solo debut of Snoop Dogg, right, with “Doggystyle.” The record reached quadruple platinum in sales. (Handout; Patrick Downs / Los Angeles Times)

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Knight convinces rap star Tupac Shakur, left, to sign with Death Row by agreeing to post his $1.4 million bail when Shakur was in prison for a sexual assault conviction. Dr. Dre left Death Row in 1996 after internal disputes and being concerned with Knight’s behavior. (Frank Wiese / Associated Press)

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In 1997, Knight was sentenced to nine years in prison for a probation violation stemming from a 1992 assault on two aspiring rappers. He was released in 2001. Pictured: Knight, wearing handcuffs, during a bail hearing in 1996. (Rick Meyer / Los Angeles Times)

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Knight, shown walking out of the Los Angeles County jail in 2003, goes to prison again after hitting a parking lot attendant, a violation of his parole. Death Row records suffers while Knight is behind bars. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press)

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Knight files a lawsuit against rapper Kanye West, right, seeking over $1 million in damages regarding a 2005 party hosted by West where Knight got shot in the leg. The case remains unresolved. (Tammie Arroyo / Associated Press; Jim Cooper / Associated Press)

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Knight sustains six gunshot wounds during a party ahead of the MTV Video Music Awards hosted by R&B singer Chris Brown. Despite requiring surgery for his wounds, he is able to leave the club and seek help. Pictured: The scene at 1Oak nightclub in West Hollywood, August 2014. (Christina House / For The Times)

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Knight and comedian Katt Williams are charged with second-degree robbery for allegedly stealing a camera in Beverly Hills. Knight, shown in court after his October arrest, pleads not guilty. (John Locher / Associated Press)

By Tre’vell Anderson

Jan. 30, 2015 12:46 PM PT

Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight has had his share of trouble with the law, with Thursday’s fatal driving incident and his subsequent arrest on suspicion of murder being just one in a long line of allegations and convictions associated with the Death Row Records co-founder.

Though the mogul’s name is trending in Los Angeles on Twitter, few celebrities have taken to social media to talk about the incident in which, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says, he ran over two men in a parking lot in Compton, killing one of them.

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“The Breakfast Club” radio host and TV personality Charlamagne Tha God took to Twitter on Thursday night alluding to some of Knight’s past legal trouble.

“Suge Knight definitely got Roots on him… It’s a chicken foot buried somewhere with his name on it,” the “Guy Code” star tweeted, drawing on the age-old idea about people who practice folk magic casting vexing spells on their enemies.

Knight’s run-ins with the law include the 1996 fatal shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur by unknown gunmen when he was a passenger in Knight’s BMW while Knight was driving in Las Vegas, and a 1997 nine-year sentence for violating the terms of his probation from an earlier assault case. In 2008, he was also arrested in Las Vegas on suspicion of drug possession and aggravated assault. The next year, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery.

Most recently, Knight and two others were shot in August inside a crowded West Hollywood nightclub at a Chris Brown-hosted party.

Charlamagne’s “Guy Code” co-star Desus Nice showed how he felt about the news, imagining a conversation between Satan and Knight.

“‘Fam u gonna chill or nah?’ - Satan talking to Suge Knight,” the comedian tweeted.

Hip-hop producer Just Blaze sent his condolences via the social media site to one of the victims who had been killed: “RIP to the hit and run victim,” he tweeted.

But for as many celebrities who have elected not to say anything, countless other Twitter users aren’t letting up.

Another tweet riffed on by Twitter users included one by comedian Faith Choyce.

“If you say ‘Death Row’ three times into the bathroom mirror, Suge Knight will appear & run you over while eating leftovers from your fridge,” she tweeted.

Knight is being held in Los Angeles’ Men’s Central Jail on $2-million bail. According to his lawyer, he did not know he had run over and killed someone.

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FOR THE RECORD
4:47 p.m..: An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to Suge Knight as a rapper.
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