Why didnt Dre or Snoop buy their own masters?

[KURUPTION-81]

dre and snoop probably believe they shouldnt have to pay for something they made.

[Black Gloves]

dre and snoop probably believe they shouldnt have to pay for something they made.

but they would probably win the money back if not more if they decided to release the material.

[Jimmy H.]

Given that, why would Dre bother buying it? I'm sure he's not interested in releasing the unheard music commercially and almost certainly has his own copies. Why bother spending money to stop someone buying it who 99% isn't interested either? As someone said, he's still paid off the publishing on the hit records, so he's not crying out for it financially. 

Very good point. I also think Dre made it so his unreleased stuff couldn't be put out. When Suge was putting out "Chronic 2000" to compete with Dre's album, I remember there being this little breakdown in one of the magazines saying how Suge owned the name "The Chronic" but couldn't release any unreleased songs featuring raps or production from Dre without his permission. If Dre still gets publishing off his Death Row stuff and has an agreement that no new material can come out without his permission, he really doesn't have a whole lot of reason to invest in buying the collection. I'm pretty sure that Snoop tried to buy his stuff but he's competiting with people whose pockets were a lot deeper.

[Booz]

Dre still gets paid off his old stuff.  Read the Chronic booklet, it says all songs published by Ain't Nuthin' Goin On But Fu_kin' (ASCAP).  He's publishing credit on Doggystyle too.  So he still makes money off these songs...

Snoop on the other hand....

Artists don't exactly make a killing off royalties anyway.  Snoop probably made more money off West Fest than he would off a year of publishing.

...Dr. Dre tried to get his money for royalties on court so you really think he got paid? 

[Sir Petey]

Dre and Snoop appear to have no interest in songs recorded in the past.  Every interview i've seen, when people ask about old songs, they get all uptight and say "i'm on this new shit now, bla bla".  If either of them bought their masters, we'd never see any unreleased songs.  The only advantage would be that they could use their DR songs on "greatest hits" compilations or could sample the songs more freely.  I doubt either would ever release "Chronic or Doggystyle Lost Recording Sessions".

what they need to do is take the chronic and doggy style mute all the OG vocals and let soopafly spit.

[Kilo4]

why would someone (snoop or dre) buy their OWN shit back when they ALREADY making money off of it?. And a shitload too?.
 It would be a waste of money, they rather give it 2 charity or something.