Tyrin Turner’s friendship with J. Prince kept him from possibly going toe to toe with Suge Knight once upon a time.
The Menace II Society star recalled the beef in a new interview with The Art of Dialogue published on Tuesday (May 2). While the issue started right around the time 2Pac died in 1996, Suge held the grudge for nearly a decade and revisited it at the first chance he had.
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“This was right after 2Pac had passed away and he called Dalvin from Jodeci phone and said, ‘I wanna talk to Tyrin,'” he began. “I’m at Dalvin house and Dalvin like, ‘It’s Suge!’ I get the phone and Suge was talking his Suge stuff or whatever. I think it was over a female or something. I said on the phone, ‘I thought this was money over bitches? Doesn’t MOB stand for money over bitches? That’s what I thought. I didn’t know.’ And Suge said, ‘Oh you a comedian? You think shit funny.’ And then I hung up the phone, he went to jail. He never forgot that conversation.”
He continued: “Nine years later he came back. We at the club. I’m in the club, he sees me, we catch eyes. He pushes Busta Rhymes out the way to get to me. It’s like he’s just in slow motion – cigar, shoulder moving like that. He said, ‘Why you looking hostile?’ And I’m just looking at him. He got like a gang of bloods around him. We just looking each other. He’s like, ‘If I wanted to, I could have something done to you.’
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“Dalvin over there looking like, ‘Tyrin, please don’t do this shit that you usually would do. But I’m not dumb. Like I told you, it’s defense right? So you got to know your surroundings, know the energy and know the world. I look at the situation and energy and I’m like, nah, this ain’t the right time to do nothing weird, but I just didn’t feel right after he left.
“I just felt weird, like did the n-gga just punk me or something? That was the first time in my life I felt like a buster. And I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t think, everything was just messed up.”
Tyrin ended up calling J. Prince to help him navigate the situation, and the Houston mogul flew into Los Angeles to get the job done by taking him directly to Suge Knight. While Ty let J know that he wanted to have a man-to-man convo with the Death Row Records founder, he was ultimately ready for anything.
“[We got to Suge’s compound] I was like, ‘Suge Let me talk to you.’ So we went to the side and I was like, ‘I don’t understand why we had that issue. I’ve always liked Death Row. I thought we was always cool or whatever, but I like to fight. I give n-ggas real life fades.’ And he said, ‘We can do that.'”
He went on: “I said, ‘That can happen, but that’s not what I’m here for. Man, I just feel like, why are we even in that situation? Like, what happened? Why are you mad? What’s the problem?’ And come to find out it was some girl was saying something that I was saying. And I’m like, ‘But Suge, the whole world talking. 2Pac dead, the whole world’s talking, everybody has an opinion about what’s going on. You can’t just single me out like that.’
“And so we ended up squashing it. And I remember after we left, me and J jumped in the car and J was like, ‘That’s how you talk. If you have a problem, that’s how you do it, man. A man is gonna talk and handle business. That’s how we do it. That’s real talk.”
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Suge Knight was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2018 for the hit-and-run death of Terry Carter three years prior. Despite that, the former mogul and his brother, Brian Brown, are collaborating on a series chronicling Knight’s journey to superstardom and eventual tragedy. The show will begin filming this summer and stream exclusively in the fall on BLK Prime.
