Former rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has collapsed in a Los Angeles courtroom shortly after a judge ordered him held on $US25 million ($A32.77 million) bail in a murder case.
The 49-year-old co-founder of Death Row Records has pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run charges.
Judge Ronald S. Coen set bail for Knight, who is accused of running down and killing a man with his truck.
Knight's lawyer Matthew Fletcher said in court on Friday his client, who is diabetic and has a blood clot, told him that he hadn't received any medication since Thursday.
Fletcher said Knight hit his head on a chair when he fell after the bail hearing.
Bailiffs cleared the courtroom after Knight's medical episode and paramedics were seen going into the courtroom a few minutes later.
Fletcher said Knight was unconscious when the lawyer left the courtroom and an update on his condition was not immediately available.
Knight fell while deputies were bringing him back into the courtroom after Fletcher asked for a reconvened hearing and the issue of an order that Knight be given his medication.
The lawyer said Knight is being kept in solitary confinement without proper access to medication.
"He's being treated worse than Charles Manson," Fletcher said.
Coen ordered the $US25 million bail level after Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Barnes noted that Knight was on bail in a robbery case when he struck two men in a parking lot in Compton.
Fletcher argued that Knight's bail should be set at $US2 million.
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