Eve Reveals She Dated Suge Knight To Spite Dr. Dre

In her new memoir, Eve shares some surprising particulars about her previous, together with a brief relationship with Suge Knight.

She admits that she obtained concerned with Suge again in 2001 primarily to get again at Dr. Dre after their enterprise relationship fell aside. Though she and Dre by no means dated, Eve says she was upset about how issues ended between them professionally, and that performed an enormous position in her determination.

“I used to be nonetheless in my little temper about Dre although we made a stable hit collectively,” she writes. “So having Suge, his former boss at Dying Row, stomping round Interscope felt like some candy revenge. I’m not actually positive how I concocted this concept, but right here we had been.”

Eve explains that Suge began exhibiting curiosity in her enterprise and commenced getting concerned in issues behind the scenes. That triggered rigidity between her and her label, Interscope Information, particularly with the pinnacle of the label, Jimmy Iovine. “I really feel like he [Jimmy] took his anger out on my third album,” she says, suggesting the state of affairs might have harm her profession.

After speaking to a couple of her Ruff Ryder label mates, Eve determined it was finest to finish issues with Suge. When she lastly advised him it was over, Suge really took it nicely. She remembers him saying, “If I used to be your little sis, I might inform you an identical factor.”

Though her time with Suge was brief, Eve now admits it was extra about getting even with Dre than the rest. Her story offers an actual look into how feelings, energy, and enterprise had been all tangled collectively within the music world at the moment. Wanting again, she’s open about how the state of affairs unfolded and the teachings she discovered from it.