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Dre left Death Row.
Quote from: horchatax3 on April 01, 2011, 01:27:09 AMDre left Death Row.i read somewhere that they were beefing because of snoops murder case
The 2 got on fine when Tupac went to Dre's house, and Dre had a lot of respect for his talents as an artist, but it wasn't personal that he didn't want Tupac on the label. Dre wasn't really working with anyone on Death Row at that point, even Snoop, or DPG. He had his own in-house team at that point. Suge never forced Dre to hand over anything, because Suge didn't even know about those spesific tracks that that point, or what they sounded like. I still don't think he's even heard them. Dre gave Pac the 2 tracks for his album, and arguably gave 2Pac his biggest ever hit
The Dre-Pac issues always seemed like an offshoot of the issues between Dre and Suge, which in themself are kind of a mystery. Suge seems to have more animosity toward Dre than just about any other person he's publicly had issues with but the reasons aren't quite clear. I saw Pac as riding for Suge at a time when Death Row was on some "With Us or Against Us" shit. From Pac's eyes, Dre was distancing himself from Death Row's beefs and was working at home instead of in the studio with everybody else. The explanations behind Dre's departure are somewhat conflicting though. Some have said Suge forced him out as a power move so he could maintain full control of the company. Others say Dre got tired of all the BS and moved on. It's pretty clear that around '94, Suge was becoming more active in the creative apsects of the company. "Murder Was The Case" went from being a project centering around Snoop and the DPG/LBC artists to incorporating more of the talent that Suge was scouting. 1995 seemed like the point where Dre was losing interest. He had been talking to Eazy about an N.W.A. reunion before his death and had started working out of a home studio. Snoop commented on saying that around the time they did Dogg Food, Dre's demeanor had kind of changed and that he was really sick of people being in the studio that had no reason to be there. Now, what doesn't quite add up is Suge's beef. The reasons given are all fishy. One was that Dre took credit from other producers. The timing on this one was suspect. Complaints of Death Row cutting everybody out of publishing credits were around since the first release but Suge had no idea that Dre was "stealing credit" until he was on the way out the door? Another reason was Dre not testifying on Snoop's behalf during the murder trial, which Pac went on record as citing as one of his main reasons for his disdain for Dre. What's weird is that nobody from Snoop's camp ever went on record to confirm this or hold Dre to task for it. And then there's of course, the homsexual rumor. This one has always felt like some high school rumor mill stuff. You had Eric Wright clowning Dre about being gay as more of a reference to his Wreckin' Cru past. There was never a serious accusation made that he actually liked to fuck guys. The only guy to go on record and make that claim to my knowledge was Suge. To me, there is still a big piece of this story missing as to why Suge hates Dre so much.