Video of Suge Knight's shameful Eazy-E AIDS joke re-emerges due to 'Compton' release

Do you remember that awful AIDS joke that Suge Knight made about Eazy-E back in 2003? Well, since the release of the movie Straight Outta Compton, it looks like that tasteless joke is making the rounds of the Internet once again.

TheGrio Staff

Aug 18, 2015

Do you remember that awful AIDS joke that Suge Knight made about Eazy-E back in 2003?

Well, since the release of the movie Straight Outta Compton, it looks like that tasteless joke is making the rounds of the Internet once again.

The clip comes from an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, which took place shortly after Knight had been released from jail. Kimmel had decided to wear a bulletproof vest to the interview, and Knight decided to use that opportunity to make some downright strange remarks about how to kill someone.

“Technology is so high. If you shoot somebody, you go to jail forever. So the kids, you don’t want to go to jail forever right? They have a new thing out. They have this stuff they called — they get blood from somebody with AIDS and they shoot you with it. That’s [a] slow death. The Eazy-E thing, you know what I mean?” he said.

Eazy-E died in 1995 due to complications from AIDS, and his sudden death as well as his seemingly sudden diagnosis led many fans to believe that there was something more sinister behind his death. Knight’s “joke” was apparently meant to either fuel that fire or feed into that conspiracy, but either way, it’s still tasteless, and we can’t believe it’s making the rounds of the Internet again.