Small article about RBX saying DeathRow may be sold again

[GangstaBoogy]

RBX doesnt even have a completed album over there, but he is right. Obviously he's pissed off that Wide Awake havent paid him royalties yet and hes bigging up Lavi incase she gets Deathrow back so he can get paid.

Let's hope Lavi gets the label back though, its currently a sinking ship, but it started good with Dre and Snoop releases.

Shouldn't he be mad at Suge?

[acgrundy]

The label is still worth a lot of money because of the back catalogue.Ringtones,music rights in commercials,movies,video games etc.Plus add in the sales that their catalogue brings in.With the right business mind behind the label it is definitely worth the investment.Wide awake seemed like they had the right idea but the company imploded with innner squabling.

Worth what investment?  How much did WA pay?  Like $18M?  Ain't no way in hell that is an investment.  Even with all that shit you named, you are going to have to sell so many ringtones, commercial rights etc to make money back.  $2M tops, and even that is a risky investment.

[Jaydc]

its called an investment.You dont make your money back right away it takes time.The label makes between two to three million a year based solely on back catalogue.Two million to buy it?lol not a chance its worth way more then that.This is something you buy and make money on within ten years not the first year.This is timeless music here the chronic,doggystyle etc.These albums will still sell 30 years from now.

[acgrundy]

its called an investment.You dont make your money back right away it takes time.The label makes between two to three million a year based solely on back catalogue.Two million to buy it?lol not a chance its worth way more then that.This is something you buy and make money on within ten years not the first year.This is timeless music here the chronic,doggystyle etc.These albums will still sell 30 years from now.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I know what an investment is.  An investment means that you not only make your money back, but also have a return.  Plus, not only do you have to cover your costs of buying the company, but also all expenses of running the business.  Where is your facts to show this company makes between 2 and 3 million a year based solely on the back catalog?  Do you have any clue about how bankruptcy laws work?  If DR was making profits of 2 or 3 million a year they would not be allowed to file bankruptcy.  So according to your #'s, from 98 to 08 DR should have netted 20 to 30 million dollars on back catalog alone.  Right.

These albums will still sell 30 years from now?  Did you come up w/ that theory based on the spectacular sales of the chronic relit?

Anything is a possible investment.  There is a huge difference between possible and probable. 

[Jaydc]

its called an investment.You dont make your money back right away it takes time.The label makes between two to three million a year based solely on back catalogue.Two million to buy it?lol not a chance its worth way more then that.This is something you buy and make money on within ten years not the first year.This is timeless music here the chronic,doggystyle etc.These albums will still sell 30 years from now.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I know what an investment is.  An investment means that you not only make your money back, but also have a return.  Plus, not only do you have to cover your costs of buying the company, but also all expenses of running the business.  Where is your facts to show this company makes between 2 and 3 million a year based solely on the back catalog?  Do you have any clue about how bankruptcy laws work?  If DR was making profits of 2 or 3 million a year they would not be allowed to file bankruptcy.  So according to your #'s, from 98 to 08 DR should have netted 20 to 30 million dollars on back catalog alone.  Right.

These albums will still sell 30 years from now?  Did you come up w/ that theory based on the spectacular sales of the chronic relit?

Anything is a possible investment.  There is a huge difference between possible and probable. 

When a company gets tacked with a lwsuit of 107 million dollars and they only make a few million a year then yes they can claim bankruptcy.They could not afford to pay the lawsuit thus they had to claim bankruptcy to clear all the debts.And as far as proof of how much trhey make wideawake has stated it in interviews,they put the yearly numbers of what the company makes just doing nothing but living off the back catalogue.They wouldnt have invested their money in teh first place if the company was making zero money annually nor would Koch have invested the time and energy to keep distrubuting all their albums before the bankruptucy.You think a company would continue to distrubute albums just for the fun of it when their making no profits?Koch did it for one reason to make money.Koch was also one of the companies that wanted to buy death row when it was up for auction strictly because of the sales of previous releases.And for an album that came out 17 years ago to be re releases with ZERO promotion and still sell 50 000 copies is damn impressive.Most raps artists fail to sell that much with TONS of promotion.Look at releases by maino and slaughterhouse and think of how much time and energy weas put into the promotion of them and they sold less then a re release of an album that came out 17 years ago.