Former hip-hop mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has been charged with murder and attempted murder after he ran two men over in his truck.
Prosecutors claim the Death Row Records founder deliberately struck a friend - who died - and another man after an argument on a movie set.
Defence attorney James Blatt says Knight, who handed himself in to police, ran the pair over by accident as he tried to escape a vicious attack.
The 49-year-old's initial bail of $2m (£1.3m) was revoked after a court commissioner agreed with authorities that he was a potential flight risk and could intimidate witnesses.
Knight, who was out on bail in a separate robbery case when the men were hit, is scheduled to appear in court in Compton to be arraigned on four felony counts.
They include the murder of 55-year-old Terry Carter, "attempted, willful, deliberate, and premeditated murder" involving victim 51-year-old Cle "Bone" Sloan, and two charges of hit-and-run.
Mr Carter was a founder and owner of Heavyweight Records and was viewed as a local father figure who tried to help mentor young men in the community, according to Doug Young, a friend and hip-hop music promoter.
Authorities say Knight had an argument with Mr Sloan, an actor and film consultant, who had been working earlier on a commercial for Straight Outta Compton, a movie about the rise of rap group NWA.
Knight was ordered off the film set - where former group members Dr Dre and Ice Cube had also been taking part - by sheriff's deputies who were providing security.
But authorities say the argument resumed in the car park of a nearby burger restaurant as he and Mr Sloan exchanged punches through a window of the pickup truck, before the two men were run down.
Mr Blatt has said Knight was attacked by four people, including Mr Sloan, and that he accelerated away as he fled in fear.
The charges come less than six months after Knight was shot six times at a West Hollywood nightclub - the second time he has survived a shooting.
Knight was at the centre of the most notorious rap conflict of the 1990s, pitting rappers Tupac Shakur against Biggie Smalls in an East Coast-West Coast rivalry. Both artists were shot dead within six months of each other in 1997.
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