11-04-2019, 06:03 PM
@LZA Excerpt from Born To The Mob by former Mob Associate Frank Saggio:
"There was a meeting down in Marilou's. Sonny Franzese went down there to see them [music executives] over some business. Sonny's had a very strong hold on the music business for many years. Always did. I went down with him, his son Johnny, and other people. Johnny was getting involved with the rap groups. And Sonny meets with these music guys."
"Everybody thinks these rappers were running things. They weren't. Every one of them [the music executives] is kicking upstairs to some wiseguy someplace along the line."
"This is the way it's gonna be, Sonny tells them."
Among the music executives at the meeting that night was Marion "Suge" Knight. Knight is the president of the premier hip-hop label, Death Row Records. Knight, who has a reputation as a two-fisted businessman, would later serve five years of a nine year sentence on assault related charges.
"My kid wants to do anything, you don't interfere," Sonny told them. "My kid gets everything." Looking straight at Knight, Sonny said, "You interfere and you're going to have a serious headache a couple of Tylenol ain't gonna clear up."
Frankie found Knight a wannabe.
"He was a fat, well-dressed jerk-off who thought he was a gangster until he got put in his place by a guy who would have buried him right there if he had said the wrong thing - and Sonny would have."
@LZA I found this on FB. Glad this was posted! There were plenty of these people in the industry like Suge knight and those who looked at him like he was a super gangster. I saw him nothing more than just an oversized bully that kept sticking his hand in the cookie jar.
"There was a meeting down in Marilou's. Sonny Franzese went down there to see them [music executives] over some business. Sonny's had a very strong hold on the music business for many years. Always did. I went down with him, his son Johnny, and other people. Johnny was getting involved with the rap groups. And Sonny meets with these music guys."
"Everybody thinks these rappers were running things. They weren't. Every one of them [the music executives] is kicking upstairs to some wiseguy someplace along the line."
"This is the way it's gonna be, Sonny tells them."
Among the music executives at the meeting that night was Marion "Suge" Knight. Knight is the president of the premier hip-hop label, Death Row Records. Knight, who has a reputation as a two-fisted businessman, would later serve five years of a nine year sentence on assault related charges.
"My kid wants to do anything, you don't interfere," Sonny told them. "My kid gets everything." Looking straight at Knight, Sonny said, "You interfere and you're going to have a serious headache a couple of Tylenol ain't gonna clear up."
Frankie found Knight a wannabe.
"He was a fat, well-dressed jerk-off who thought he was a gangster until he got put in his place by a guy who would have buried him right there if he had said the wrong thing - and Sonny would have."
@LZA I found this on FB. Glad this was posted! There were plenty of these people in the industry like Suge knight and those who looked at him like he was a super gangster. I saw him nothing more than just an oversized bully that kept sticking his hand in the cookie jar.
(This post was last modified: 11-04-2019, 06:19 PM by Stella 1977.)
