The LA police have named former Death Row Records boss Suge Knight as a member of Compton based street gang Mob Piru, and as such have banned him, and his 'gang-mates', from congregating in the Compton area of LA after 10pm.
Knight has told the LA Times that the gang allegations are "crazy", and that he believes he has been included on the list simply to make the LAPD's latest gangs injunction more newsworthy. He told the paper: "I'm a 42-year-old businessman, not a gang member. I don't even live in Compton anymore. This injunction lists people who are already in jail -- and at least one guy who is long dead".
Knight has, of course, long been accused of associations with LA's crime community, and he has often been linked, though never conclusively it should be added, to the corrupt LAPD officers thought to have been involved in the fatal shooting of rapper the Notorious BIG, and the subsequent cover up of that murder.
That said, in more recent years Knight has been in the news more because of his business affairs, and in particular his and his label's bankruptcy that followed a legal dispute with the wife of one of the hip hop mogul's original business partners, who argued she was due a cut of Death Row's profits based on her husband's original investment.