G-Unit member Young Buck has been formally charged with assault with a deadly weapon relating to that stabbing at last month's Vibe Awards. As previously reported, rapper Young Buck, real name David Darnell Brown, allegedly confronted one Jimmy James Johnson at the awards event in response to Brown allegedly lashing out at label boss Dr Dre. In the altercation that followed Johnson was stabbed and it is claimed Brown held the knife.
The rapper, currently on $500,000 bail, will now go to court to face the charges on 14 Jan. He could face up to eight years in jail if convicted. Johnson, meanwhile, is already in jail because his attack on Dre was a violation of previous parole conditions. He also faces new charges for allegedly hitting Dre.
There's been no further comment on those rumours - that circulated at the time of the stabbing and again a few weeks later - that one of Dre's rivals in the hip hop world, Suge Knight, had asked Johnson to punch the Aftermath boss. Nor any more info on reports that Knight himself faces questioning because he sat so close to Dre at the awards event - a violation of his previous parole conditions.