Your Pain Is My Joy will be released in August<\/p>\n
\n\tSuge Knight,<\/a> one of the most formidable names in hip-hop as the co-founder and CEO of Death Row Records<\/a>, will be sharing an \u201cunflinching\u201d look at his life in his upcoming memoir, Your Pain Is My Joy.<\/p>\n \n\tThe 352-page memoir offers a \u201ccandid and unapologetic look inside the mind of the original rap kingpin,\u201d according to the book\u2019s description.<\/a> It will be published on Aug. 4 by the Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tKnight is a central and polarizing figure in hip-hop\u2019s 50-year history. Alongside Dr. Dre, he co-founded Death Row Records in 1991 and helped bring West Coast rap to the global stage with superstars Tupac Shakur<\/a> and Snoop Dogg.\u00a0Once described as \u201cthe most feared man in hip-hop,<\/a>\u201d Knight was known to be an intimidating character with his towering build, affiliation with Compton street gang the Bloods, and having a well-documented history of violent encounters.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe book promises that Knight won\u2019t \u201cshy away from the controversy that has followed him his entire life,\u201d including addressing the infamous rumor that he once dangled Vanilla Ice over a balcony in an effort to get him to sign over publishing rights to \u201cIce Ice Baby,\u201d and his \u201cblow-out brawls\u201d with longtime rival, Bad Boy Records founder Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tHe\u2019ll also revisit the events surrounding the East Coast\u2013West Coast hip-hop beef and give his version of events of the night that Shakur was gunned down on the streets of Las Vegas in September 1996, which led to the rapper\u2019s death. <\/p>\n