Editing Suge Knight (section)

==Early life==
Knight was born in [[Compton, California]], the son of Maxine (née Dikemen) and Marion Knight Sr.<ref name="Chosen by Fate">{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=McKinley |last2=Williams |first2=Frank |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gp-fAAAAMAAJ&q=Maxine+Chatman |title=Chosen by Fate: My Life Inside Death Row Records |location=West Hollywood, CA |publisher=Dove Books |year=1997 |isbn=9780787114329 |access-date=January 31, 2015 }}</ref> His name Suge (pronounced ''/ʃʊɡ/'') derives from "Sugar Bear", a childhood nickname.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E3D91039F937A25752C0A960958260 |title=Does a Sugar Bear Bite? |last=Hirschberg |first=Lynn |work=The New York Times |date=February 2, 1997 |access-date=January 15, 2008}}</ref> He attended [[Lynwood High School]] in nearby [[Lynwood, California|Lynwood]], where he was a [[American football|football]] and [[Track and field|track]] star. He graduated in 1983.

Knight is affiliated with the [[Mob Piru|Mob Piru Bloods]], a set of the [[Bloods]] gang.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2000-01-09 |title=Life and death in South Central LA |language=en-GB |work=The Observer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2000/jan/09/life1.lifemagazine4 |access-date=2023-03-30 |issn=0029-7712 |quote=Then came Marion 'Sugar Bear' Knight - a one-time gang banger with the North Side's MOB Piru Bloods.}}</ref>