Eve met Suge Knight backstage on the 2001 Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards in Santa Monica and what adopted was an sudden dinner, a brush with label politics and a short-lived romance that she now particulars in her memoir, Who’s That Girl?

The Grammy Award-winning rapper writes that she was cohosting the awards present with Luther Vandross, Leeza Gibbons and Shemar Moore when she heard Knight was within the constructing.

“I knew what I had to do,” she writes. She requested her safety guard to carry Knight to her, a request met with hesitation. When she noticed Knight backstage, she approached him herself. “Hi, I have been wanting to meet you,” she informed him.

That introduction led to dinner at Crustacean in Beverly Hills, the place Knight supplied to assist her navigate her strained relationship with Interscope Records. At the time, Eve had launched two albums by way of the label and was annoyed with what she calls a “hostile working relationship” 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,” she writes. “I am not really sure how I concocted this idea yet here we were…”

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Knight later visited Interscope’s places of work on her behalf, which Eve believes led to fallout with then-label head Jimmy Iovine.

“I feel like he (Jimmy) took his anger out on my third album,” she writes.

Despite Knight’s fame, Eve insists their connection wasn’t transactional. “Red plants, red furs… he’s a Blood. Maybe my red hair was a green flag for him too,” she writes, describing the courtship.

But the connection didn’t final. Ruff Ryders founders Dee and Waah Dean, who mentored Eve, weren’t on board.

“They didn’t like the idea of me hanging out with Suge at all,” she writes. “When my guys said it was time to cut the cord, I didn’t think twice.”

When she referred to as Knight to finish issues, his response stunned her: “If I was your little sis, I would tell you the same thing.”

Knight, as soon as a dominant drive in West Coast Hip-Hop because the co-founder of Death Row Records, is presently serving a 28-year jail sentence after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter in 2018. He was convicted for the 2015 hit-and-run loss of life of Terry Carter exterior a Compton burger stand.

Who’s That Girl? was launched through Hanover Square Press.

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