Marion "Suge" Knight, Jr. ( /ˈʃʊɡ/; born April 19, 1965) (a.k.a. Big Suge or Big Simon) is the founder and CEO of Black Kapital Records and co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Death Row Records rose to dominate the rap charts after Dr. Dre's breakthrough album The Chronic in 1992. After several years of chart successes for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Outlawz, and Tha Dogg Pound, Death Row Records stagnated after Knight's incarceration on parole violation charges in September 1996.
Marion Hugh Knight was born in Compton, California. His name, Suge, derives from "Sugar Bear", a childhood nickname. He attended Lynwood High School, then graduated and got a football scholarship to University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he went and played football for several years. After school, he played professionally for the Los Angeles Rams as a replacement player during the 1987 NFL strike. Later, he found work as a concert promoter and a bodyguard for celebrities including Bobby Brown.
Plot
NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of "The American Dream."
Keywords: 1980s, 1990s, awards-show, beating, blood, blow-job, blunt, boom-box, boy-with-glasses, breast-cancer
No dream is too big
The story of the man behind the legend.
Notorious B.I.G.: What's up, Big Mama?::Lil Kim: What did you just call me?::Notorious B.I.G.: Big Mama. You looking damn good. How was work today?::Lil Kim: Everyday you ask me how I'm doing. What's that about?::Notorious B.I.G.: [Smiling] It's cause I care. You know what I'm saying?::Lil Kim: Yeah, right. Whatever you say, Big Poppa.::Notorious B.I.G.: [laughing] You know, you got a smart-ass mouth!::Lil Kim: What, you gonna do something about it?::[pauses, and stares B.I.G down]::Lil Kim: Nah, I didn't think so.::[Smiles and walks away]
Sean Combs: Yo, he got sex appeal like LL?::Wayne Barrow: A little bigger than that.::Sean Combs: What, like Heavy D?::Wayne Barrow: He's a little darker than that.::Wayne Barrow: He look like Wesley Snipes?::Wayne Barrow: Oh, he ain't Wesley...
Voletta Wallace: What kind of grown-ass man calls himself "Puffy?"
Faith Evans: Are you a bad guy trying to be good, or a good guy trying to be bad?::Notorious B.I.G.: I'm just trying to make it big.
Sean Combs: We can't change the world unless we change ourselves.
Notorious B.I.G.: Yo, Puff... maybe in the right hands, I could be one of the greatest.
Voletta Wallace: Is this why you think I came to the States? So I can spend all my days, taking care of you, feeding you, cleaning up old plates of mash potatoes you leave under your bed?::Notorious B.I.G.: Huh? [runs to his bedroom to find the crack he left under his bed]
Sean Combs: Ah want you to hear sumpin... See what Ahm sayin'? Ahm trying to get niggaz outta their seats; dis goan be like Soul Music.::Notorious B.I.G.: If Ah spit dis, mos' niggaz goan be laughin' at me.::Sean Combs: If you spit this, niggaz goan be laughin' at you all the way to the bank, Big!::Notorious B.I.G.: What's next? You want me to dance like MC Hammer?::Sean Combs: Look, you gimme dat street shit fo' R 'n B. But if Ah doan have sumpin Ah kin play on da radio, nobody'll evuh hear or buy yo album. You'd just be a broke-ass mix-tape rapper. Trust me, Big.::Notorious B.I.G.: These niggaz look like Rick James. Ah need some time, meh... Yo, Cease! Ahm goan need some Pepsi and MO weed. And females! Tell'em we havin' a pahty... Lemme hear dat one mo tahm.
Notorious B.I.G.: Keep the suspenders; lose the shirt.
Sean Combs: Nigga, Ahm *hungry*!