Antron Singleton, a rapper who goes by the stage name "Big Lurch," faces murder and torture charges after police found him staggering naked and covered in blood on a southeast Los Angeles street April 10, 2002.

In a nearby apartment, police said they found the mutilated body of Tynisha Ysais, 21, with teeth marks on her face and on pieces of her lung, which had been torn from her chest.

A subsequent medical examination showed Singleton had human blood and flesh in his stomach, police said when they charged the rapper. Singleton, who would be eligible for the death penalty if convicted, is still awaiting trial.

In a wrongful death lawsuit filed just before the close of business on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Ysais's mother, Carolyn Stinson, claimed that Singleton's record label had provided him with drugs "to encourage (him) to act out in an extreme violent manner so as to make him more marketable as a 'Gansta Rap' artist."

The lawsuit named Singleton, Death Row Records, headed by rap mogul Suge Knight, and Stress Free records, and two employees as defendants.