Daz Dillinger says the DPG 4 Life film has been delayed due to financial demands from record companies.
“We got a cast and we have the full project in motion it’s just that right now I’m fighting a war with eOne and Sony BMG,” Dillinger tells TMZ on Friday (October 9).
Dillinger, who worked with Suge Knight’s Death Row before forming Tha Dogg Pound, told reporters that a publishing dispute is threatening the film.
“Because you know I own my publishing, I’ve been getting paid all this time and then they trying to come with some phony letter talking ‘bout I sold my rights,” Dillinger says. They tryna push me out because I got the rights to my music, you know what I’m saying. Now all of a sudden eOne get it and say stop my payments and say this and this…I’ma see y’all in court .”
Death Row’s catalog was sold to eOne in 2013. Straightening out the rights to the music in the film is a crucial step in the development of the project. Dillinger believes that the record companies are being deceitful.
“You’re a mutherfucker lying with my money and I’m taking control of the publishing,” Dillinger says. “That’s what I’m fighting for and then the movie will be complete.”
The film, which is not a sequel to the box office hit Straight Outta Compton, released a cast list in September. The movie is slated to feature Azad Arnaud as Daz Dillinger, Reggie Noble (not the rapper also known as Redman) as Suge Knight, Melvin Jackson Jr. as Kurupt, DaDa as Tupac and Curtis Young will portray his father, Dr. Dre.
In a July interview, Dillinger explains where the Dogg Pound film fits into the current saga of Rap history.
“I was talking to Ice Cube and he was telling me about the N.W.A movie,” Daz Dillinger says to VladTV. “He was like, ‘When Eazy [E] dies, that leaves it open up for part two.’ And that’s where we come in. Because when Eazy dies, it was us. We gon’ make our own [film] called ‘DPG For Life.’ Because when Eazy died, Suge Knight and them still around, Dr. Dre, and the story from there, what happens after that? We up next in there, we just putting it together.”
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DAZ signed those rights away over 25 years ago & NOW ‘can’t remember’……RULE 1: Learn the BUSINESS! If you sign it, you can’t claim the other side is ‘Shady’ years later; they’re living UP to THEIR end of the agreement, YOU need to too! The artist ‘whining’ later, old poor me the ‘artist’ is a tired story………………
that’s not true Daz won his publishing years ago
Why the hell should the film be called “DPG 4 Life”? If anything, it should be called “Life on Death Row” or “Live from Death Row” or something along those lines. Calling it “DPG 4 Life” is a shameful plug on Daz’s part, seeing as The Dogpound was just an second-teir act on that label. Yeah, let’s call it “DPG” when the film will pick up with Suge and Dre creating the label, followed by ‘The Chronic’ album, Snoop then introduce the main star, Tupac. . . . yeah, calling it “DPG 4 LIfe” makes so much sense, fuck outta here.
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Isnt this the same gay man who sued RockStar for using his shitty music in Grand Theft Auto game? Why does he think he’s irrelevant to pollute the bandwidth of hiphopdx users with his bullshit?
Daz sued death row got millions and won his publishing. He owns it all. I remember when that happened. Daz did all the production for most of the albums. All eyez on me was most of Daz’s beats with Dr Dre only doing couple of the songs. Tha Dogg Pound was one of the main groups that helped death row blow up. They was there before PAC.
get ya facts right daz produced 5 tracks on all eyes on me
people don’t respect Daz Dillinger, this guy was the guy behind The Chronic album alongside Dr. Dres half brother Warren G. They produced a lot of those beats and dre merely refined them, but they gave him the rights to own them. Daz was also awarded a multi million dollar lawsuit against Deathrow and Rockstar. Fucking Loser! Fuck you anyways coz if you yhink Daz aint shit, why didnt Rockstar use other peoples music???put yourself in his shoes,would you take that shit??? I don’t think so you bitch ass punk. Bucc is right Daz blew up Death Row