‘Smack You’ was leaked online in January, with Eminem claiming it was recorded in the mid-2000s

The son of Suge Knight has responded to an Eminem diss track, saying “an honourable man doesn’t kick the defenceless”.

In January, the track ‘Smack You’ was leaked online, having been recorded by Eminem in the mid-2000s and remaining unreleased ever since. It opens with a sample of 2Pac’s ‘Bomb First (My Second Reply)’ and includes verses in which he hints at Death Row co-founder Knight’s alleged involvement in 2Pac and Biggie Smalls’ murders.

Knight is currently serving a 28-year sentence in California after he pleaded no contest in 2018 to a voluntary manslaughter charge after a 2015 hit-and-run incident.

Now, Knight’s son Suge J. Knight has come out fighting against Eminem on a diss track of his own, ‘Ocean Krwi’, which he has recorded with the Polish group Elita Kaliska, as well as Gorzki and WWRD. He also alleges that Diddy knows something about 2Pac’s killing.

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Knight has said: “Eminem claims that the song was created in the mid-2000s. It’s strange that it’s being released now, when my father has no chance to defend himself. It’s also strange that he had many opportunities to tell him all this to his face, but didn’t have the courage.”

“An honorable man doesn’t kick the defenseless, so I decided to defend my father’s honor and record my response as part of a song that happened to be about this topic. If Em claims that this song is from two decades ago and declared in it that he will reveal the alleged truth about my father’s connection to the attack on Pac, then where is his truth? Maybe he will finally have the courage to confess it?”

“However, in the song, I mainly discuss the topic of online hate from anonymous people and the rumors that my father killed 2Pac. They were best friends, and although many bad things can be said about my father, he cannot be blamed for Pac’s death. The world will soon learn a lot about this attack – I’m sure Diddy knows a lot about it, and I could even present evidence in this case, but I’ve already talked about Pac once I said it and that’s where I’ll end it. I want to live.”

The younger Knight and Eminem have been going back and forth for several years, with Knight saying in 2019 that he refused to release a diss track because it would be “too disrespectful”.

Suge Senior, meanwhile, claimed last month that 2Pac was interested in signing Aaliyah to Death Row Records, and last year he called out Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and others for being silent and not “stepping up” after Diddy’s arrest.