Suge Knight has doubled down on his controversial claims that Dr. Dre wasn’t the mastermind producer behind Snoop Dogg‘s groundbreaking Doggystyle.
In an interview from prison with TMZ posted on Saturday (April 29), the former Death Row CEO said it was Daz Dillinger — the Dogg Pound rapper and producer who is also Snoop’s cousin — behind the boards instead.
“What’s so great about Daz is, this guy, I went to and said, ‘We gotta finish the album,'” Suge told the publication. “He did the whole — he did everything on Doggystyle. By himself. The whole album was done. He did everything. He produced it.
He then explained how, from his perspective, Dre ended up with the credit.
“So when it was time to come out, the streets said, well, they want Andre [Dr. Dre] to be on it. And Andre said, ‘I want to be on there.’ So Andre went to Daz and said, ‘Look man, let me say it was produced by me, and put my name on it. You’ll get paid, but let me be the one who produced it.
“So I told Daz, ‘That’s something he wanted to do. I don’t recommend it, because you’re the one who produced it, and you’re giving up your publishing.’ So, Daz signed paperwork, and said it was produced by Dre.”
HipHopDX has reached out to Daz for comment.
Doggystyle was one of the most groundbreaking albums of the 1990s Hip Hop era. In its first week of release alone, it sold more than 800,000 copies and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. At the time, Doggystyle set the record for the fastest-selling Hip Hop album.
By 2015, the album had sold more than seven million copies in the United States, and 11 million copies worldwide, thus turning Snoop Dogg into a bona fide superstar, and establishing Dr. Dre as a Hip Hop super-producer.
This isn’t the first time that Suge Knight has spoken about Daz’s involvement in Doggystyle. Back in 2013, when the album celebrated its 20th anniversary, Knight made similar claims to Rolling Stone.
“Everybody thought [Dr. Dre] would be doing the records, but Daz pretty much did the whole album,” he said at the time. “And at the end of the day, once Daz finished it, everybody wanted Andre to get the credit. Next thing I know Daz is having a meeting with Andre and them and came back and said, “It’s okay, give me a few bucks and I’ll sign anything over that says produced by Andre instead of me.”
Elsewhere in his new interview with TMZ, Suge Knight also claimed Dr. Dre and 2Pac never worked together directly on “California Love.”
“‘Pac and Dre was never in the studio together,” he said. “They wasn’t in the studio doing ‘California Love.’ They hated each other. That simple.”
Nah, that album was clearly produced by Dre. It’s obvious.
Damn. It’s almost sad to see what Suge’s life has become. Karma I suppose
If Daz did the whole thing, what happened after Doggystyle, he did a few joints for Kurupt and Pac but didn’t have another classic.
What The Fuck Are You Typing About?! “Dogg Food” Is A Fucking CLASSIC! I Swear Some People Claim To Be Rap Fans And Hip Hop Heads But Are Just Oblivious Bandwagoners….
Dogg Food is a classic. However, the beats don’t hit NEARLY as hard as Chronic or Doggystyle and they were released 2 and 3 years earlier. Let’s not even get started on the mixes. As good as Daz is, the gap between his and Dre’s production is huge.
That’s a lie. People just were kind of worn out on the sound by then. Dogg Food had great beats, just didn’t have Snoop on it hardly, which is who everybody wanted to hear whenever anything came out on Death Row back then. But that album and Doggystyle could have been a double CD with the continuity of the style. All that year though and the back end of 94, that was the thing though, people were looking for something new, and that’s where Pac came in when he hit the label.
Dre produced Doggystyle no question. His hands all over it. Can’t believe Suge still hating on Dre.
Dre doesn’t even write his own lyrics let alone do production
So where are all the classic hits by Daz after Chronic or grammys hiphop awards that Daz produced since then . BULLSHIT and a fucking hater
Dame Grease hit his highs 25 years ago with DMX, and he hasn’t produced shit even close since. Does that change that he produced a legendary album that launched one of the greatest stars in history? Have no idea why people do this. Fact is that Daz hasn’t evolved with the times, but what he did in the mid-90s was dope. Your sound gets dated, and you have to evolve. That’s where Dre laps all of his understudies in that he always changes the people he works with and gets the best out of them as he moves on and puts out different music. Like Daz couldn’t have produced Eminem. Someone like Dre recognizes that.
Real shit
Anybody who knows anything about music and has heard Dre’s entire catalouge knows that thoe drums and that bass were all dre. I dont doubt that daz played some keyboards and picked out a few samples but its clear dre was leading the charge. Suge just hates Dre because Dre became an Icon who is aging into his golden years with grace while Suge has been a loser since 1996 and is probably going to die in prison.
You’d better listen again then. Even Daz confirmed that Dre didn’t do the drums on Gin and Juice. It’s another dude who has called this out in the past, and Daz was like yep, it was me, him, and another dude. Ain’t No Fun, some of the homies brought that track to the studio. You can go down the line for that album. I’m sure Dre mixed it, but he didn’t produce that album. Sonically, Doggystyle and Dogg Food sound the same.
People will ignore this because Suge is saying it, but people have said this over and over again over the years. You can tell the difference in the production from The Chronic to Doggystyle. Dre might have directed it, but that’s Daz. Another brother did Gin and Juice, and Daz co-signed what he said that Dre was nowhere in the studio on that album. I question people’s ears if they can’t see certain things without somebody telling them.
This one is debatable, even though miserable ass Suge is stating this maliciously, this rumor has been going around for a while. Based on Daz work on AEOM and Dogg Food, its possible that he may have coproduced, but DOGGYSTYLE had that perfectionist Dr. Dre touch.
When are so people going to stop crediting Dr Dre for Eminem’s success…….a simple look at the credits on Eminem’s first two albums show that the Bass brothers produced the majority of those albums…. The bass brothers are two white guys…..I am a black rap fan and I have known these facts since the mid 90’s….the info was right there in the credits for the albums.
Sorry but ur dumb. All of Eminems 3 singles were produced by Dre. My name is, guilty conscience and role model. Dre IS 100% responsible for Eminems success. If he didnt have Dre behind him, Em would just be a dope underground mc.
How could you know that? Nobody can know where Em would have ended up. It’s like saying 50 never would’ve had an album as big as GRODT without Dre and em. We don’t know, can only guess.
Shit I believe it.Dat Nigga Daz is that guy .Bro put in a lot of work in them studio’s . There’s ah bunch of shit people don’t know!
I like how Suge keep calling Dre by his government name after all these years
Remember Still D.R.E from 2001?Who’s credit on the production? Everybody knows who really produced that…. Just saying
Scott Storch did they keys. Not to discredit Storch but without Dre’s direction, its Candy Shop and Lean Back. Big records in their own right, but there is a clear lack of polish.
Damn you balls deep in love with this website. Make sure to wasp up afterwards.
Everyone hate Suge ,but don’t realize he’s helo our alot if people on the way also
Factz! Suge jus keepin it one hunnid.
I do biev 100percent Daz had a hand in the production on doggystyle. Is it as much as sug claims? Probably not would it change a single thing for me? No. Would that take away from Dre? Maybe but not enough to take away from his legacy.
I read an article a few years ago and Daz was quoted as saying he did a couple of joints on the album but never got credited.
I read an article a few years ago and Daz was quoted as saying he did a couple of joints on the album but never got credited.
It wasn’t Daz who didn’t get credited. It was the dude that they said extra shout-out to Pork Chop in the credits. He was the one who did a couple of songs and didn’t get any publishing. He did all of the music for Gin and Juice and What’s My Name. Unfortunately, the brother passed away, so he’ll never get his due now.
Why is that so hard to believe? Dre struggles with producing music. That is why he doesn’t produce or release much new music.
SALT AND VINEGAR ASS NIQQA!
how yall gon call the man who was there a lie and half yall wasnt even born lmao these nebies is funny asf
Hey, we weren’t there, so how do any of us know what happened?! But know this, it has been rumored that Dre doesn’t do all of that work in the studio before. Daz has mentioned this, so has QUIK as well as Pac. I’m not saying what is true or not, all I’m saying is that I wasn’t there so I don’t know WHAT did or didn’t take place
DAZ PRODUCED IT HANDS DOWN JUST..EVEN AFTER DRE LEFT DEATHROW HE HAD OTHER PRODUCER WHO BASICALLY DID THE WHOLE CHRONIC 2001..LOOK AT THE CREDIT.. DJ QUICK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALOT OF DEATHROW RECORDS AND IN DA CLUB BY 50 CENTA
Quik did the drums, Mike Elizondo did the keys, Dr. DRE PRODUCED the record and thats not to take away from Quiks production on other records,difference between beat maker and producer/mixer/engineer.
DAZ PRODUCED IT HANDS DOWN JUST..EVEN AFTER DRE LEFT DEATHROW HE HAD OTHER PRODUCER WHO BASICALLY DID THE WHOLE CHRONIC 2001..LOOK AT THE CREDIT.. DJ QUICK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALOT OF DEATHROW RECORDS AND IN DA CLUB BY 50 CENTs
Dam its crazy how Suge is still mad with Dre iver all this shit, when Dre left Death Row that was the end period. Daz, Supafly,DJ Quik, Snoop,Lt Hutton and who ever else couldn’t hold down the production Dre left everything for Suge now look at Suge, Daz and everybody else except Snoop.Dr. Dre aint winning he fuckin WON, stop all this hater shit
I don’t know who did what except I know suge didn’t do shit.