Fox 4 Dallas recently ran a segment on The D.O.C. receiving five of his missing platinum albums.
Taylor Peckwood, who works at Top Cash Pawn in Plano, TX, says five years ago a man sold the pawn shop the albums bearing D.O.C.’s initials, claiming they were legitimate platinum records.
Top Cash Pawn reportedly never intended on selling the records and until last month. They were kept in a closet. Once the pawn shop remodeled, the records were hung on a wall for display.
Weeks later, an N.W.A fan visited the store and posted a photo of the plaques on the Internet. He also reached out via Twitter to The D.O.C., who worked with N.W.A, to express how disappointed he was that the records were on display at a pawn shop instead of with their rightful owner.
Top Cash Pawn’s owner says he later received a phone message from The D.O.C. asking for his plaques back. The West Dallas-born rapper explained that the plaques really mean a lot to him.
Top Cash Pawn has returned the albums. The D.O.C. thanked those involved via Twitter for helping him reunite with his albums.
Watch the full Fox 4 video below:
Man, I would have loved to have one of those plaques. No One Can Do It Better is one of my all time favorite albums.
Misleading Headline… Seems more like Hip Hop FANS who actually care Gave Back something meaningful to a pioneer vs. Plaques end up at a Pawn Shop… Why is Hip Hop DX in such support of the downfall of the culture or is it the writers who are a bunch of nobodies who sat at the corny part of the lunch table writing this stuff
They gotta buncha young thug fans writing this crap….HHDX been fell off hard.They’ll write anything for views.Might as well change the name to WorldStar
That’s cool and all that but how did they end up at a pawn shop to begin with?
Even if the D.O.C. ever needed money that bad pawning is one of the worst options.
This dude is one of the most tragic figures in the history of rap. Not only did he have the voice box injury when he was the man, but he wrote most of the Chronic for Dre, not to mention all the ghost producing he did for him during those Ruthless and Deth Row days and all the ghost writing and ghost producing along with legitimate producing he did over the years. I remember somebody said dude gave up his masters for like $1500 or something stupid like that.
sad, s.m.f.h.
The D.O.C. should get more credit for all those N.W.A. Albums!