Dr Dre launches royalties lawsuit against WIDEawake Death Row

[Dre-Day]

Lol. Good luck even getting $75,000 out of Wideawake.  They've never made any money with any of their releases.  You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip.  If they didn't pay Dre his royalties, that is shady on their part.  But having said that, let me just say that Dre is such a cry-baby.  Why does an artist of his stature even care if some little operation which tried to do something positive with Death Row, re-released his first album with bonus material.  They actually honored his "cry-baby clause" and didn't put any new Dre material on there.  It's actually his fault that that cd ended up being released as an inferior product.  Maybe if he'd allowed them to include his unreleased tracks on there the album would have sold, and consequently, Wideawake might actually have some money for which Dre could try to sue them.  As it stands, $75,000 is just a drop in the bucket, compared to what Dre is actually worth.  And all he's doing now is kicking a company while they're down.

i'm sure you wouldn't say that if it was about your work

 I'm not saying that Dre is wrong.  Technically, Dre is in the right.  But the whole thing seems very petty to me.  This is a company that Dre helped build. He could take some interest in helping it succeed. It's not as though Suge is still at the helm, over there.  There's no point in further perpetuating the animosity.
 Now, I agree that when they used his material, Dre should have been compensated.  All I'm saying is, I don't feel sorry for Dre.  Not only did he block them from putting his unreleased tracks on the album as the bonus material (as was originally announced), he did nothing to help promote this release.  I'm not saying he needed to go on an elaborate tour or anything too over-the-top.  But he probably could have released a statement endorsing the release.  By doing nothing, he passively contributed to the project's failure.  
 Even if he wins this lawsuit, I'm not sure he'll get much out of them.  I don't think they have much.  They certainly didn't make much money off "The Chronic: Re-Lit."  The company is obviously failing.

perhaps Wideawake should have negotiated with Dre, in stead of just talking about it.

sure Dre can do more for his fans, i won't deny that

[kuruptDPG]

this is not necessary at all from dre

it would be good to hear from dre about this but he wont say nada

[Fatdodger]

Damn that nigga is greedy another sign that detox wont be dropping soon.

[GangstaBoogy]

What a bitch. This nigga has his fans waiting 10 years for another album and has the nerve to sue another label for doing something he can't seem to do? Faggot.

[OG Hack Wilson]

Lol. Good luck even getting $75,000 out of Wideawake.  They've never made any money with any of their releases.  You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip.  If they didn't pay Dre his royalties, that is shady on their part.  But having said that, let me just say that Dre is such a cry-baby.  Why does an artist of his stature even care if some little operation which tried to do something positive with Death Row, re-released his first album with bonus material.  They actually honored his "cry-baby clause" and didn't put any new Dre material on there.  It's actually his fault that that cd ended up being released as an inferior product.  Maybe if he'd allowed them to include his unreleased tracks on there the album would have sold, and consequently, Wideawake might actually have some money for which Dre could try to sue them.  As it stands, $75,000 is just a drop in the bucket, compared to what Dre is actually worth.  And all he's doing now is kicking a company while they're down.

hahahaha


they make 10 + 10 + 33 bucks from me on thier 3 releases

but it looks like that's all we're getting


THANK GOD real thugs came out and same with do it again

[OG Hack Wilson]

yeah but to be fair, dre has been doing a good job of damaging his reputation all by himself

[cyence]

Lol at waiting til Suge is long gone to sue for 14 years of royalties, what a fucking coward.

that's what i'm thinking. Suge probably owed this nigga millions and now that a Canadian socker mom is in charge he's asking for 75g's? Hilarious

[OG Hack Wilson]

Lol at waiting til Suge is long gone to sue for 14 years of royalties, what a fucking coward.

that's what i'm thinking. Suge probably owed this nigga millions and now that a Canadian socker mom is in charge he's asking for 75g's? Hilarious

i never even THOUGHT about this side of the story


ur right

[JohnnyL]

Lol. Good luck even getting $75,000 out of Wideawake.  They've never made any money with any of their releases.  You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip.  If they didn't pay Dre his royalties, that is shady on their part.  But having said that, let me just say that Dre is such a cry-baby.  Why does an artist of his stature even care if some little operation which tried to do something positive with Death Row, re-released his first album with bonus material.  They actually honored his "cry-baby clause" and didn't put any new Dre material on there.  It's actually his fault that that cd ended up being released as an inferior product.  Maybe if he'd allowed them to include his unreleased tracks on there the album would have sold, and consequently, Wideawake might actually have some money for which Dre could try to sue them.  As it stands, $75,000 is just a drop in the bucket, compared to what Dre is actually worth.  And all he's doing now is kicking a company while they're down.

i'm sure you wouldn't say that if it was about your work

 I'm not saying that Dre is wrong.  Technically, Dre is in the right.  But the whole thing seems very petty to me.  This is a company that Dre helped build. He could take some interest in helping it succeed. It's not as though Suge is still at the helm, over there.  There's no point in further perpetuating the animosity.
 Now, I agree that when they used his material, Dre should have been compensated.  All I'm saying is, I don't feel sorry for Dre.  Not only did he block them from putting his unreleased tracks on the album as the bonus material (as was originally announced), he did nothing to help promote this release.  I'm not saying he needed to go on an elaborate tour or anything too over-the-top.  But he probably could have released a statement endorsing the release.  By doing nothing, he passively contributed to the project's failure.  
 Even if he wins this lawsuit, I'm not sure he'll get much out of them.  I don't think they have much.  They certainly didn't make much money off "The Chronic: Re-Lit."  The company is obviously failing.

perhaps Wideawake should have negotiated with Dre, in stead of just talking about it.

sure Dre can do more for his fans, i won't deny that

 Wideawake clearly could have handled this situation better.  They promised that the former artists would get payed, and evidently that didn't happen.  So they obviously dropped the ball.  I just feel like this situation was handled poorly by everyone, and now everyone loses.  When Wideawake/Death Row started, it had the potential of being a positive for both the fans and the artists.  I think Wideawake had good intentions in the beginning. But it seems like no matter what they did, it never turned out like they had planned.  And they should take responsibility for that.  But I think it's a shame that some of the former artists that were in a position to help them out, didn't.

[LodiDodi]

I'm a little confused by the timing of the lawsuit filing.  Why do it now?  Does anyone know how many copies Re-Lit sold physically and digitally? Obviously, if he's suing for $75,000 minimum he probably knows it made less than that. I would also think that The Chronic generates royalties anytime a song from it gets played on free radio and satellite radio.  Something tells me there wouldn't be a lawsuit if Lara Lavi was still involved with WideAwake/Death Row because her main priority was getting the artists paid.  John Payne or whoever is running (into the ground) the label must not be sending out those checks.

Could be that Dre is just using this as yet another way to keep his name in the media.  Let's face it, we have no Detox but over the past year we have probably heard Dre's name mentioned more often than usual, from Dr. Pepper to Beats by Dre to the partnership with HP, and now this.  This lawsuit is free advertising of Dre's name, it's all over the internet mainstream at places like TMZ.  Maybe we will se Detox by the end of the year, because Dre sure is doing a lot to make himself visible again.  Back to the lawsuit, what are the chances he can put a number on the lost royalties, like in the multi-millions, and say "hey just give me the vault and we'll call it even"?

One last thought on Dre: seeing as how he gets his name out there more and more, I predict the 1st single from Detox dropping by August/September as long as there are now leaks between now and then.

[machete]

what if dre is suing W/A for the 75,000 plus for whatever other legalities in order to put the company in a financial bind (more than they are already) so that he can purchase his catalogue and maybe so can other artists

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

how long has w/e been doin this for?
why it take dre side so long? lol

[OG Hack Wilson]

wideawake just started dopping CDs in september

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

they started droppin cd's in september....aite i guess a 5 month window
thats bout right...IMO hes doin this outta respect and he feels they disrespected him

wideawake just started dopping CDs in september

[Muhfukka]

dre's been around iovine so long the jewness is rubbing off on him