Daz Dillinger has claimed that he once forced Suge Knight into paying him $2.5 million.
During an interview with Home Grown Media Group on Monday (April 3), Tha Dogg Pound rapper recalled an incident in 1997 where he allegedly forced the former Death Row Records CEO to cut him a seven-figure check after threatening him with a screwdriver.
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“Shit, I got a check for like $2.3 million from Suge Knight,” Daz said when asked about the biggest check he’s ever received. “Delmar Arnaud, Suge Knight, Death Row Records, $2.5 million. I had to give Kurupt some too.
“I had to go in and strong arm Suge to get the money. I had everybody in they office hemmed up against the wall, n-gga. We on mushrooms. We in that muthafucka lit! N-gga in the corner laughing. I felt a little something, n-gga, I ran, ahhh! Had a big ass muthafukin’ diesel screwdriver. You know them big long diesel screwdrivers?”
Daz Dillinger explained that he and Kurupt were trying to obtain payment for their 1996 song “Just Doggin'” with Nate Dogg, which was featured on the soundtrack to he 1996 film Sunset Park.
“[Kurupt, Lil Malik Hershey Loc and I] went up there to get the money, ’cause they was playing with the money,” he continued. “I had everybody hemmed up and Suge walked in the office, and the way his eyes looked, it seemed like he was gon’ do something to me.
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“So he put his arm around me, and I put my arm around him. Like, ‘N-gga, I’ma stick you.’ He was like, ‘Hold on Daz, hold on. Just go in the office.’ And I walked out of there with $2.5.”
The former protégé of Dr. Dre continued the story by detailing how the $2.5 million check helped him and his musical compadres avoid jail time.
“Me, Kurupt, and Lil Hershey Loc was driving from Death Row,” Daz said. “I ain’t got no license. I got an ounce of cat piss. It’s some weed called cat piss, it’s so smelly, this shit bomb! You can’t get it from nowhere.
“We get stopped by the police on Wilshire Boulevard, like Fairfax and Wilshire … ‘Got a license? Get out of the car. Got weed in the car?’ That’s when weed was illegal back then. Stand on the corner. Me, Kurupt, Hershey Loc, we sittin’ down.
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“Dude come and say, ‘Is this real?’ I said, ‘Yeah, it’s real.’ He said, ‘Well just stomp the weed out, cash that muthafucka and go get your license.'”
Daz Dillinger’s comments come shortly after he teamed up with Eazy-E’s son, Lil Eazy-E, for a new project paying tribute to the late N.W.A legend and celebrating West Cost Hip Hop as a whole.
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Released on March 22, The Legacy clocks in at 12 songs and boasts features from RBX, Kokane and Nate Dogg’s son, Nhale, as well as Kid Capri.
