A prison snitch told cops that Marion "Suge" Knight allegedly confessed to him about arranging The Notorious B.I.G.'s murder from his prison cell and mocked the way the Brooklyn rapper slumped over after getting shot.

Taking the stand in the Wallace family's wrongful death lawsuit yesterday, Detective Fred Miller revealed the "shocking" tale he heard from informant Mario Ha'mmond, who allegedly heard it directly from Knight's mouth. According to Ha'mmond, Knight heartlessly boasted on Big's death.

"That fat beeyatch took it like a beeyatch . . . he rolled over on his ass," Knight allegedly told Ha'mmond while both were incarcerated in a state prison several months after the rapper's March 9, 1997, slaying.

The informant claims that Knight told him he "orchestrated the murder while incarcerated at the L.A. County Jail" using two reliable henchmen and a cellphone network on the outside. According to Ha'mmond, Knight revealed that Death Row security leaders Big Sikes aka Devon Sikes and Reg aka Reggie Wright Jr. put the squad together. Knight couldn't be reached for comment yesterday.

However, establishing a link between Big's killing and the Death Row mogul won't help the Wallace family win the federal lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles. In order to win, the family must also tie the slaying to crooked LAPD cop David A. Mack, who was kicked off the force after a bank robbery in November of 1997. Mack is presently serving a 14-year prison sentence.

Sources say the case fared well yesterday when Miller testified that Big's close friend, Damian Butler saw Mack outside the music industry party the rapper attended before his murder.
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Author Ronin Ro has penned “Raising Hell: The Reign, Ruin and Redemption of Run-DMC and Jam Master Jay,” a new book that chronicles the personal and professional evolution of the Hollis Queens-reared rap group.

The book, which is published through Amistad/HarperCollins, will be available for purchase in November 2005.

In 1999, Ronin Ro caused a tremendous uproar with his controversial book “Have Gun Will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records." However, he said this outing is better than his previous works.

“There have been many rap-themed books and ‘as told to’ works since ‘Have Gun Will Travel’ --and perhaps just as many imitations or clones--but ‘Raising Hell’ is unlike any of them,” Ro told AllHipHop.com. “It's better than ‘Have Gun Will Travel’ It's a new way to approach a story. It finds Run, DMC, and a number of other individuals you wouldn't think were involved in this tale candidly discussing their career for readers tired of paying good money for formulaic magazines, advocacy journalism, or the rash of books, magazine articles, or documentaries inspired by ‘Have Gun Will Travel.’

There is one topic that “Raising Hell” will not attempt to encapsulate and that’s the tragic murder of Run-DMC’s DJ, Jam Master Jay.

“The book touches briefly on Jay's murder; because much really doesn't have to be said. Murder, in my opinion, is usually simple. Means, motive, opportunity,” Ro explained. “The book mainly focuses on their lives, their art, and their friendships evolving as much as the industry they were in. And of course the indelible imprint they made on popular culture as a whole.”

Although the Run-DMC & Jam Master Jay story has been documented in countless forms and formats, Ronin Ro’s said his will attempt to fully humanize their lives and times.

“I saw [the group] not as mere ‘popular culture’ or the image, but as human beings. Fathers. Children. Friends. Taxpayers. Intellectual beings. Brutalizers. Victims. Not just guys with hats and chains and sneakers. Also, ‘Raising Hell’ finally puts their story in context,” he said.

Ro also said that the book will be converted into a motion picture to be released after the novel. At press time, the deal, producer and screenwriter were being finalized.

Before writing books, Ronin Ro was a heavily sought after journalist who once wrote for Vanity Fair, The Source, SPIN, Rolling Stone, USA Today, VIBE and other publications.

He’s also written books like “Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs On the Music Industry,” “Tales To Astonish : Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution” and the aforementioned ‘Have Gun Will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records.”

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