Marion “Suge” Knight, a former rap entrepreneur, has been sentenced to 28 years in jail for running over a man outside a Compton burger business nearly four years ago.

During the hearing, Knight, 53, sat silently while members of the deceased man’s family spoke to the court, describing Terry Carter, 55, as a genuinely loving husband, father, grandfather, and friend.

Knight was described by Carter’s daughter Crystal as “a filthy, selfish disgrace to the human nature.”

During the sentence on Thursday, Knight donned a huge cross and orange jail garb, bringing an end to a nearly four-year legal battle over the fatal 2015 confrontation. He had been fighting a longstanding adversary outside the burger stand through the window of his pickup truck and had struck that man with his truck before plowing down Carter.

Knight’s defense counsel claimed he was acting in self-defense, but the Death Row Records co-founder pled no guilty to voluntary manslaughter last month, avoiding a murder and attempted murder trial.

Knight, one of hip-most hop’s influential figures, has been on a protracted downward spiral, and his prison sentence signals the lowest point in his career. He was at his peak in the mid-1990s, releasing phenomenally popular tracks by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur that are now considered classics.

Knight was in the core of the decade’s middle-of-the-decade dispute between east and west coast rappers. When Shakur was slain in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996, he was in Knight’s automobile.

Knight was convicted of armed robbery and assault as felons. After Death Row was forced into bankruptcy, he lost ownership of the company. Judge Ronald Coen of the Los Angeles Superior Court decided on Thursday that he is ineligible for probation due to his prior convictions.

He got into an altercation with a longstanding competitor, Cle “Bone” Sloan, a consultant on the NWA movie Straight Outta Compton, in January 2015.

Knight backed his truck into Sloan, who was hurt, then drove it forward into businessman Terry Carter, who died as a result of his injuries, as shown on security video. Knight’s lawyers claim it was a self-defense situation.

Knight’s conviction, together with his other offenses, triggers California’s three strikes rule, which carries an 11-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter. This effectively doubles the manslaughter punishment and adds six years to it.

Knight is also exonerated in two more cases, both from 2014. He was accused of taking a camera from a woman and sending threatening text messages to F Gary Gray, the director of Straight Outta Compton.

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