Daz Dillinger has put Dr. Dre on blast over alleged unpaid royalties for his work on The Chronic.
Tha Dogg Pound rapper, who contributed rapping and production to the blockbuster 1992 album, called out his former mentor on Instagram for not coughing up payments for his work.
“HAPPY 31st C DAY TO THE CHRONIC @drdre BUT WHEN CAN WE RECEIVE OUR ROYALITIES,” he wrote.” ARE YOU OR @interscope GONE ROBB US LIKE @deathrowrecords 2024 & THE N-GGAS FROM THE PAST WHO RAN IT. Str8 Bitchez FUCEM.”
Daz also claimed that the rights to his work revert back to him in 2027 and that he won’t be clearing anything to do with the tracks he contributed to unless he is paid what he believes is owed.
“REMEMBER DAZ COPYRIGHT REVERSIONS LAW IZ FILED I WANT % not points SO YALL ON A TIME LIMIT 4MORE YRS TIL IT REVERTS BAC THEN ITS REALLY LIKE FUCCEM I AINT CLEARING SHIT up IM COMIN,” he added.
The Long Beach native contributed to The Chronic cuts “Bitches Ain’t Shit” and “The Day the N-ggaz Took Over,” as well as handful of the album’s skits.
Daz isn’t the first artist who worked on The Chronic to take issue with a lack of royalties. RBX, who was signed to Death Row and later Aftermath, has previously claimed he was not paid his due, but now considers the matter settled.
Speaking to AllHipHop earlier this year, he said: “I don’t cry over spilled milk though ’cause I believe in a higher power and everything that was done was done for a reason. That’s why we still here.
“And at the end of the day, they might have run out and did this and that, but they can’t take my name and they can’t take my voice. And I still got these pens and pads to write these rhymes, and they didn’t write shit for me — I wrote for them.”
He continued: “It feels good ’cause we did work hard on it. It wasn’t like it was a cakewalk. Even though Dre didn’t make us walk to Harlem to get him no cheesecake or some balloons, we were out there because we had that Death Row on our back.
“At that time we was pushing the line, it wasn’t a nice thing. It was real Death Row. It got a lot of respect from some people and got a lot of hate from others.”
Daz Dillinger also previously claimed that he is owed royalties from JAY-Z, who he alleges used one of his songs as inspiration when writing Dr. Dre’s “Still D.R.E.”
“So in my mind, JAY-Z was listening to ‘Serial Killa’ while he was writing that muthafuckin’ rhyme, and I wanna get my money for that,” Daz said in an interview earlier this year, before claiming that he tried to contact Hov and Dre about the dispute, but was threatened with legal action.
Daz also indicated he was going to go after the Roc Nation mogul for “some percentages” from the 1999 hit.
Daz was instrumental in The Chronic. Hopefully he gets paid what he should.
They stole a whole industry of independent music away from black folks. All our efforts are fruitless because the math means you need thousands of titles streaming every day to make money from the system. If Daz was to write and produce and release a Chronic level album today and get a billion streams he would still need a day job to get by. So mfs is going to bleed out in the streets over it. Dudes will be naming their kids Adolph
No clue where you’re getting your numbers from but each Spotify stream earns the artists between .003 and .005 (so fractions of a penny). 1 billion streams would equal 3 to 5 million dollars… and that’s just spotify. So you’re numbers about “if he released the chronic today….” is far off because most people can live off of several millions of dollars without a regulars 9 to 5. Also, if I have to pay 4-5 dollars for listening to an album I’ll probably listen to a lot less new shit, as most will, so this will actually hurt the artists for lack of exposure on streaming platforms. Seems like you’re trying to take a private dispute from Daz and Dre (or artist and label) and forcing the consumer to float the cost of their argument. Also, Sadat X still makes albums, but he’s not as popular as he was in the early 90’s. He’s a school teacher now, but still does shows… guessing his lack of exposure doesn’t pay the bills and Brand Nubian likely got jerked on their late 80’s / early 90’s deal when his marketability was at it’s high point.
so what? naming my kid heinrich. I got plenty of money in the bank from my day job and I make records. If it’s a big joke to steal from the black man we will see changes going forward. You can pay one way or another. You can pay a little more for streaming or you can pay another way on the street. But you gon pay.
actually, I won’t. I’m old and already own a lot of music. I’ve uploaded it all to iTunes and pay 25 per year for the convenience of streaming it. I only use Spotify for the convenience of creating playlist and for a few newer artists who’s catalog I don’t already own. If the steaming services (Spotify) and the artist decide to drag up the cost, I’ll just bail and listen to the 1000’s of albums I already own. What you’re proposing won’t expand the artists popularity, thus won’t help their concert revenue, which is where most of them make their money. It’s not a black or white thing, it’s a business thing that affects every artist. Name your kid whatever the fuck you want. That’s not my business.
stealing from black folks isn’t “business” it’s war. We invented pop music today. Some people have made out like bandits from streaming others are destitute. It’s easy to present a silly non-argument acting as though we all can’t be billionaires. No one said they wanted billions or felt they never had to work again off one song. There are large scale government hearings going on in every major industrialized country over these issues. You can act like I’m just a random dude as much as you like.
you are a random dude. This is an anonymous internet comment section.
no you’re a random online bozo trying to say artists don’t deserve a cent. we’re going to literally beat that attitude out of you.
I never said they didn’t deserve a cent. I explained how steaming works since you don’t seem to understand. I also said if they raise rates, I’m not paying as I have other options. That’s the consumer market. If the cost of something I don’t really need raises, I no longer will seek out the product. Who is we? And how are they going to “literally beat” anything out of me on an anonymous internet comment section? You seem unwell. You may want to seek out therapy…. or at least a hug. Maybe relax yourself with a meditation session while listening to the soothing sounds of an ambient jazz flute album. I hear there is a new one streaming….
when the time comes you’ll get all the explanation you need. dudes naming their kid adolph working out 2 hours a day full time city job while you think it’s about day drinking. fuck yall
it’s just bad for society in general. You have bad actors putting up 1000’s of streams of random noise or even silence in order to game the system. Also we’ve seen people use the worst sort of scandals even murder trials to encourage streams. paying 2-4 dollars a record would discourage that. Finally all these random bad faith albums take up space on the cloud and waste real energy. Look it up. So we are paying a high price for this model. If Daz could make a little change from a new LP streaming he wouldn’t be airing out Dre in public.
Did he not get paid for his features ? I dont see Snoop complaining complaining. Only the rappers who didnt expand their portfolios beyond rap are complaining. Its like if the rest of the Jackson 5 came after Michael’s assets, its just stupid.
who like Kanye West? stfu
If you’re all blase about dudes getting paid from their work – you were a clown from the jump. What you don’t realize is how many folks got responsible jobs because of the nonsense. Also built studios out of love for the culture. Millions of black dudes have done this over the last decade. Now the revolution is beginning.
these clowns come on here with a straight face saying some billionaire has the absolute right to build whatever they want underground because they have money but the minute a black man talks about royalties – he’s a felonious buffoon on PCP (but I looovee rap though) . Trying to tell us how to deal with racism how to talk to the other man. So we have called bs on the whole thing. Naming my kid Himmler
I think a legendary guy like Sadat X should be making records full time unless he has made the choice to go in another direction as many successful recording artists have done. Nothing wrong with deciding you had enough of touring and you’d rather work a federal job or in a hospital. It’s good pay and helps the community. But we shouldn’t be happy about our creative legends being forced to find day jobs when the other man eats off our labor – then laughs about it on pitchfork.
There’s simple solutions. Every time you stream a new album on a service it should cost 4-5 dollars that goes to the label artist and producer. There could be a water mark on the record so that if you switch services you don’t have to purchase it again. Artists and labels won’t be able to undercut the price on new LPs but they can offer discounts on older catalog. What the labels have done to indie music is obscene. That’s why you are seeing the crazy talk now. No one likes it.
just to be clear – you only pay the $4-5 the first time. Maybe if you listen to more than 5-10 new albums a month you get a discount. But after you press play the first time it’s yours as long as you have the service and if you switch services you can take your paid collection with you. I don’t think you should pay $5 dollars every time you listen. I can accept the negotiated rates after the initial purchase.
See how they want to ‘splain nonsense to you? It’s better for “exposure” that no one can make a cent off music except the usual last name crew. Same crew that is putting the color purple movie out dec 25 acting like it’s some kind of holiday feel-good classic. They are the enemy – ye already knows.
People out here day drinking in the comment section….
As soon as you start checking the books these guys are quick to call you a drug addict who doesn’t know his father. Yes the very righteous “fans of rap” who never saw a black man they couldn’t insult and further downgrade while claiming to be fans. That’s what sucks about today. Artists hate the fans now too. Fights at shows.
it’s sad to see guys turning on each other and suing each other over music and royalties. The fact is everyone didn’t get paid big time in the indie CD days. Not even close lol. But we all saw folks who did get paid.
Sounds like Daz dilly is broke silly and salty as a mutha fucka