Kurupt – Down & Dirty (Artwork x Tracklist)

[Will_B]

Damn. All they needed was to source the OG tracklist complete with disses, then include the other tracks as a bonus.

How hard can that be?

[DTG Entertainment]

The only reason we are getting this shitty release is because of her.

What you mean by that?

 The only thing I can figure is that some have said that Hyland selected the tracks for this.  And I know that Lara Lavi was a supporter of John Hyland's.  That may be what he means.  But I've also heard people say that E1 (Koch) is responsible for this. I don't know for sure what's true, but it does match Koch's old m.o. of "repackage and re-release."
I seriously doubt that Lara Lavi is directly responsible for this release, because she had already stated in interviews that she wanted to start at the beginning and release projects in order.  Also, those hacked pictures that leaked a while back seemed to indicate that she was planning on putting out the Danny Boy album next. 

KOCH is jeopardizing WIDEawake because they will get a percentage of the company if X% isn't recovered. The reason Lara is behind this is because she has essentially blocked access to the catalog for WIDEawake, apparently. So, now WIDEawake must be relying on Hyland for his stash. Hyland was brought in by Lara.

Is she legally allowed to block access to the catalog?  If this is true, I can see your point.  Still, I thought Hyland supposedly had 1000 tracks from the vault.  If that was true, I still don't see how this "Against the Grain" re-hash is the best they could come up with.

Not legally, but from what I have heard she's been on the run. Her and her husband got a divorce and with all her money - she's just basically running around the world. Lara actually made some decent moves for WIDEawake, but she complained too fucking much and on top of that, she was going to rip off the artists with bogus contracts. Remember when Daz was bitching about that 15 K deal for all services? It wasn't John Payne who offered that up even though she tried making it seem like that. Lol. Daz wasn't the only person who got offered that as well.

[KURUPTION-81]

So basically they're re-releasing ATG. Ummmm, what is the point of this album?

i dont think they even know !

[V2DHeart]

This is clearly a release to allow a higher percentage of proceeds to help go towards paying back Koch however much they (WIDEawake) have borrowed, by re-releasing an album with 4 potentially risk-free songs in the mix, 3 of which have leaked already. So one previously unheard song? Anyone remember 'The Very Best of Death Row'?