Producer/rapper Dr. Dre has just filed a lawsuit against Death Row Records/WIDEawake Entertainment since he has yet to receive money from his album The Chronic in over 14 years.
Upon leaving Death Row Records in the mid-nineties Dr. Dre was no longer cut in on any of The Chronic’s profits. Even when the album was re-released last year as The Chronic Re-Lit he did not receive any kind of payment from the label.
“When it came to paying artist royalties and honoring limits on Dr. Dre recordings that could be released, the ‘new’ Death Row Records, to quote our client, ‘forgot about Dre,'” Howard King, Dr. Dre’s attorney, said in a statement. “This lawsuit will make sure they remember.”
Dr. Dre also claims that WIDEawake Entertainment, the company that bought Death Row Records, released The Chronic Re-Lit without his consent and that the company profited greatly from the re-release. Dr. Dre is suing for at least $75,000.
Death Row Records/WIDEawake Entertainment have yet to comment on the lawsuit.
lol 14 years. you think a dre would’ve acted on this sooner, not sayin anything against the man just damn, 14 years is a long time to be gettin’ stiffed outta royalties
exactly what you said cloudy..the courts may look at this and basically say how are you going to bring this complaint all these years later and expect to recover damages
Lol, r u 2 stupid or somethin’ it’z about The Chronic Re-Lit, it was released in da end of 2009!
durrrr, are you stupid?? it says “14 years” up their. idiot.
Producer/rapper Dr. Dre has just filed a lawsuit against Death Row Records/WIDEawake Entertainment since he has yet to receive money from his album The Chronic in over 14 years
read its about both albums, 14 yeaRS it states clearly right there
Dr. Dre’s brake pedal costs $75,000 THIS IS WEIRD.
LOL. Right? When I got to the end and saw 75K, twilight zone music started playing!
Huh don’t get it?
I was thinkin X-Files theme
Did he not read his fuckin contract or somethin, like he needs any of that money!?
Aftermath has the last laugh.
maybe he knew suge broke ass couldn’t pay for it, hence he (suge knight) filed for bankruptcy, so he decided to stick it to the fools tho decided to buy suge out. i on the contrary hardly think it’s about the money and see it as a matter of principle and putting the FINAL nail in the coffin that is deathrow records…why won’t this company die already? I think deathrow/bad boy/ no limit records equally should all die and never come back and sugarhill records should provide the eulogy
After the attorney fees kick in, Dre will probably only see roughly $50,000. I guess that is better than nothing.
Settle and let Wide Awake release all your unreleased material
agreed.
dre shoulda done this in 1997…. that would have killed Death Row Records then…. don’t really know how much he’ll get out of this…. not like he really needs it either
THIS DRE NIGGA CRAZY! WATS THE FUCKIN POINT WASTING SO MUCH TIME AN MONEY ON TRYIN TO SQUEEZE OUT MONEY FROM THIS BROKE ASS COMPANY? 75,000 IS FUCK ALL! NIGGA COULD MAKE 10 TIMES MORE THAN THAT IF HE DELIVERED HIS DETOX ON TIME!
NIGGA SATISFY OUR DESIRES AND RELEASE YO FUCKIN ALBUM ALREADY! BORED OF WAITIN ON THIS SHIT! STOP WASTING TIME TRYNER GET MONEY OFF OF OTHER NIGGAS U CHEAPSKATE FAGGOT!
ALBUM WILL SUCK ANYWAY.. NIGGA LIKE 50 YEARS OLD! CAN’T RAP FOR SHIT..!
other niggas??? aint it dr. dre royalties?
U sound foolish nigga….cut all the fuUuckery
HE WAS SCARED OF SUGE, SO HE WAITED UNTIL SOME OTHER CATS GOT CONTROL AND DECIDED TO SUE…WHAT A PUNK!
My first thought exactly.
I’ll co-sign that!
Suge a big motherfucker with a bad temper.
Dre suing people for $75k is weak as piss. He’s washed up and irrelevant these days. Detox won’t do shit, if it’s ever released.
haha thats funny i thought the same thing. but 75k? dre going broke or sumthin? maybe he shouldnt sleep on detox anymore…
I don’t blame him considering Suge killed Pac and BIG
I know its about the principle….but 75,000 ? Come on Dre, this makes you look stupid…your dam laywer fees will be more than that…LOL…makes you wonder if this is some sort of publicity stunt….Death Row and Dre? Probably both in on it to get more exposure…it really does make Dre look stupid…
Get ’em, Dre! Wait, what? $75,000? Get a better lawyer and step your game up; you’re owed at least that in interest. Am I high right now or am I right? Both, I’d say
I was thinking the same thing…but I’m also high so maybe were both wrong?
i was thinkin the same thing… wtf is $75,000??? That shouldn’t even be enough to pay the lawer!!! He said…. in14 years he hadn’t received shit. 0 royalties from all sales. And a Re-Release completely UNAUTHORIZED by dr. dre!! Like dude below I must be high… cause $75,000 must be a typo.
NAW!!! I know the industry and DRE will get over a million on this one! Hope my boy gets his due!
but didn’t daz receive 25 million dollars when he sued suge and death row, for his production and music royalties owed?? A mill don’t seem fair either.
damn DAZ got 25m and DRE goes for 75k? this is crazy!
WTF? Shouldn’t this nigga have 75k in change in his couch?!? This time and energy could be used for bringing out Detox or what I like to call it-Phantom of the Album!
maybe he knows how much money death row have, if they have about 80k, how the hell they gonna pay 2 mills if dre sued them for that money, huh?
+ i dont think that detox will be some hard stuff either, what the fuck the album is so fuckin late, how late, 6 years or what? i dont really give a fuck about detox
“i dont really give a fuck about detox ”
You’re lying.
Also why did Dre not sue Death Row years ago? Was he scared or something?
Him going at the new owners shows how pussy he really is.
Can’t wait for the album though
Dre should be suing them for the rights to the catolouge……..As much as I Dis-like Suge Knight for letting his ego tear down the greatest label in the history of rap, I’d rather he was still in control of death row………These people who are in control now werent even there helping to make the magic
Dre need to go for the ownership, fuck some $75K chump change
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75.000? Hm seems a little low for one of hiphops most classic albums worldwide and over 14 years of sales. I thought he could sell one beat for more then that but hell if i know. PZ.
it says UPON LEAVING DEATH ROW RECORDS IN THE MID NINETIES DRE WAS NO LONGER CUT IN ON ANY OF THE CHRONICS PROFITS, yes he did receive profits after the release of the album, a bulk of the profit he did make probably came immediately after the release of it and shortly after because thats when you make the majority of the sales… so he’s probly suing for 75k cuz he was with Death Row a few years after The Chronic, which means he collected profits from the album… 75k is understandable considering that’s money he didnt receive 5 or 6 years after he left the lable AND the re-release of the Chronic combined with that……. if he didnt receive any profits at all then you god damn right he would be getting well over a mill, but that’s not the case
Death Row doesn’t have that money…I do! Dre Day was Eazy’s payday, bitch!
OMG ARE YOU STILL ALIVE ERIC ??
This nigga got time 2file lawsuits but ain’t got that… where the fuck is my detox dre???? lol this is bullshit 2011 well maybe it’ll be a graduation gift lol
Man Suge Knight is shady motherlover, He milked artists and made them pay erroneous fees, yea he bailed out dre from nwa and pac out from jail, but he put them in his financial chains.
For those who made the comment Dre is scarred of Suge Knight. Lets keep it 100
Suge is no studio gangsta he really be hurting niggas. You ass probably would have played it the same way Dre did. Aint’ nobody trying to keep watching there back over
no $75,000. The soldier usually gets shot up , The coward normally is alive to tell the story.
dre would have got killed if he did anything back in the 90s by suge ,suge is all street with suge you just got to make money of the music and outher shit not the masters he strong armed the hole label every artist dre should get paid deff from this new company and way more than 75,000
gotta do wat ever u gotta do to get money these days even if it comes down to this and for all my fans waitin for detox just wait a lil bit more…its gone be worth it