In 1995 when Suge Knight bailed Tupac Shakur out of Clinton Correctional Facility while he appealed his rape conviction, he also signed him to a deal with Death Row Records.
At the time the label was co-owned by Dr. Dre and Suge.
There were rumors of tension (although never confirmed) among some artists at the label because 'Pac instantly became it's biggest star.
50 Cent recently weighed in on the situation. Because Dre was unhappy at the time and Suge was desperate to make sure he held onto 2Pac, 50 believes Suge was plotting against his business partner.
"Suge was gonna kill Dre," the G-Unit mogul said via HipHopDX.
"How do I keep [2Pac]?" 50 said of Suge's possible thought process at the time.. "Maybe I'll give him Dre's half. I don't know. Something might have to happen to Dre."
Luckily, we'll never know what Suge had planned because Dre walked away to start his own label, Aftermath.
The "My Life' rapper went on to say that he and Dre are not as close as they once were.
"I don't call to talk to him for no reason," 50 continued. "I think that relationship was business. For a long time, I was a New York Knick player in the middle of the LA locker room. Interscope was the West Coast when it was East Coast-West Coast going on, and I never really saw them respond properly to Game's disrespect when it happened 'cause they had some sort of allegiance to the West or something. I was like, ' You know I wrote the records?' Overall, I think the disconnect between me and Jimmy created the distance between me and Dre."
Tony Yayo chimed in on the Dre situation. In his opinion the producer wasn't loyal to G-Unit, even after they fought off his attacker at the 2004 Vibe Awards.
"We beat somebody up for Dr. Dre," Yayo said. "I could say it now. No disrespect to LA, but it was a whole bunch of New York dudes beating somebody up for Dre. He's cool. I like his music and everything. I just feel when you beat somebody up I feel like they owe you a little bit."
What's your take on G-Unit's relationship with Dr. Dre? And the idea that Suge was plotting Dre's demise?
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