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Eve’s Memoir Reveals 2001 Suge Knight Romance’s Fallout With Interscope

Her newly released memoir ties a 2001 liaison to strained label relations, highlighting how industry power dynamics shaped her third album.

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Overview

  • Eve’s book, Who’s That Girl?, is out now to mark 25 years since her debut and was co-authored with journalist Kathy Iandoli.
  • In the memoir, she says she pursued Suge Knight partly as revenge related to Dr. Dre, calling his presence at Interscope “some sweet revenge.”
  • She writes that Suge’s involvement in her dealings with Interscope and its head Jimmy Iovine soured the relationship, which she believes affected her third album.
  • Ruff Ryders co-founders Dee and Waah Dean advised her to end the relationship, and she recalls Suge responding, “If I was your little sis, I would tell you the same thing.”
  • Coverage also notes she sold her back catalog to Iconoclast last year for a reported $25–$50 million, including her 1999 debut, as reported by Music Business Worldwide.