When the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network scheduled a consciousness-raising conference in Beverly Hills for Valentine's Day, skeptics wondered how a smoochfest could ensue with enemies Suge Knight and Dr. Dre both slated for opening remarks. It didn't. Dre didn't show; when Knight did -- well after Louis Farrakhan's keynote speech -- peacemaking wasn't on his agenda.
In a 40-minute soliloquy, Knight recounted crashing P. Diddy's Super Bowl party: ''If I gotta go to your function and you gotta run and your people hide you out, you ain't my people.'' He got a smattering of applause, then laughter upon musing ''Black people is the most forgiving race...and that's all bad!''
Ex–Death Row act Jewell began shouting ''I represent Jesus Christ...and I cannot sit here and continue to let the devil deter our purpose for being here,'' provoking more Knight-isms: ''Some men wanna be women, and some women wanna be men.... You want to talk about Jesus Christ? I ain't no gay-basher, but [fellatio] is the devil!'' Whatever happens with his label, Knight will always have a career as the Scary Guy Who Makes Everyone Laugh Nervously.
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