Suge Knight and Irv Gotti planned to form musicians' union

Hip-hop impresarios wanted artists' rights scheme modelled on Major League Baseball Players AssociationTwo of hip-hop's most notorious impresarios almost became union bosses. Death Row's Suge Knight and Murder Inc's Irv Gotti reportedly worked together in the early noughties, planning to create a musicians' union. "In the music business, the artists, we have no union," Gotti explained. "It should be done."Kings of bling, Knight and Gotti make for unlikely champions of the labour movement. Gotti...

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