Key Takeaways:

• Eve’s memoir ‘Who’s That Girl?’ reveals her transient relationship with Suge Knight throughout the early 2000s.
• The romance reportedly strained her ties with Interscope Records and affected her third album, Eve-Olution.
• The relationship created friction with label executives and led to strategic profession setbacks.

Eve is talking her fact and spilling tea, on paper. In her latest memoir, the previous Ruff Ryders rapper detailed her previous relationship with notorious music exec Suge Knight and the drama it brought on in her musical profession.

HipHopDx first reported that in her e-book, “Who’s That Girl?,” Eve defined how her tryst with the Death Row Records co-founder strained her relationship together with her document label, Interscope. Interestingly, Eve and Knight getting collectively was partially as a result of latter having points with Dr. Dre. “I was still in my little mood about Dre even though we made a solid hit together, so having Suge, his former boss at Death Row, stomping around Interscope felt like some sweet revenge. I am not really sure how I concocted this idea, yet here we were,” wrote Eve.

Although Dre and Knight co-founded Death Row Records collectively, the famend producer and rapper ended up departing about 5 years later in 1996. Dre was so disenchanted that he didn’t combat to take artists he nurtured, like Snoop Dogg, with him when he based his personal Aftermath Records label. So, to say that Dre and Knight weren’t on the very best of phrases is an understatement. And for the reason that former N.W.A rapper was good associates with Interscope founder Jimmy Iovine, the label that distributed Ruff Ryders’ and Dr. Dre’s music, Eve’s plan primarily backfired.

“I feel like he (Jimmy) took his anger out on my third album,” wrote Eve when discussing her predicament and its impact on her 2002 Eve-Olution LP, which did characteristic a few Dr. Dre-produced tracks. While profitable, none of these songs reached the heights of the duo’s hit single from a 12 months prior, “Let Me Blow Ya Mind,” that includes Gwen Stefani.

At the behest of Ruff Ryders co-founders Dee and Waah Deen, Eve ended her romance with Knight. “They didn’t like the idea of me hanging out with Suge at all. When my guys said it was time to cut the cord, I didn’t think twice,” Eve continued.

Count Eve, who additionally acquired complimented by Nicki Minaj for a distinct memoir confession, as one other rapper who left Suge Knight’s neighborhood with a narrative to inform.