Complex sentence: Tension started to exist between Uptown and its key acts Mary J. Blige and Jodeci as Death Row Records label head Suge Knight signed them to management deals with his "West Coast Management" firm.
Split into simpler sentences: Tension started to exist between Uptown and its key acts Mary J. Blige and Jodeci. The two singed to Death Row Records label head Suge Knight's "West Coast Management" firm.