Eazy E: 'The same records that you're makin' is payin' me'

[papa-smurf]

yea dre was getting fucked but dre came out 2 be in a better situation then everybody that was fucking him.

[MUHFUKKA]

eazy-s sweater game was never near dre's level though

[Raphael]

Good heavens this is interesting but whatever happened to that rapper that was on deathrow for a short while, wouldnt it be cool if we had a time machine?

[Fraxxx]

eazy-s sweater game was never near dre's level though

qft

[Jimmy H.]

yea dre was getting fucked but dre came out 2 be in a better situation then everybody that was fucking him.

That's why as much as people want to dog the relationship with Jimmy, dude was smart. He didn't try to play the friend or homeboy card too much. He gave him enough money and creative control to keep him happy. With Suge and Eazy, in addition to the money disputes, it seemed like they were looking to bring in their influences as executive producers to the table toward the end of their respective business relationships. With Jimmy, I figure as long as he has a single he can market and an album he can sell, it's probably all good.

[Jcnn13]

eazy-s sweater game was never near dre's level though

I beg to differ sir

[Jimmy H.]

Cosby started this sweater shit... and this the mother-fuckin' thanks he gets?

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

yea dre was getting fucked but dre came out 2 be in a better situation then everybody that was fucking him.

That's why as much as people want to dog the relationship with Jimmy, dude was smart. He didn't try to play the friend or homeboy card too much. He gave him enough money and creative control to keep him happy. With Suge and Eazy, in addition to the money disputes, it seemed like they were looking to bring in their influences as executive producers to the table toward the end of their respective business relationships. With Jimmy, I figure as long as he has a single he can market and an album he can sell, it's probably all good.

Well obviously he can't be too bad if he's let Dre delay Detox for this long. You just know Jimmy's been wanting to cash in on that for just as long as we've been waiting for it.

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

Do I have to describe to you how business and contracts work?  You are one dense motherfucker.

You're the dense one since you're suggesting he should have stayed as Eazy's lackey instead of trying to get out of it.

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

nigga he got hella skrilla from death row and ruthless probably still gets royalties from that shit. so if you call that being soft(which is really what your implying) then so be it.

I didn't say he was soft. I'm saying why is it such a crime that the supposed baddest, meanest dude on the street got played?

How'd he get played when dre wuz leaving anyways amd STILL gets money from him lol.

Played i think not.

He was in a situation where he was threatened and he bowed under pressure. Call it what you want.

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

he set him up: told eazy to meet up, but didn't show up. goons came instead.

also, i fail to see how dre got screwed when he was working for ruthless: he was living in a big house. the only way he deserved more(imo) if he was a co owner of the company.
maybe eazy should have done more to keep dre satisfied, but it was too late when suge came into the picture (1989/1990).

im just saying both were wrong

Oh so he's has a big house....I'm sure that somehow means he was getting paid his dues

well i'd say he made enough money to make the whining look silly, he didn't own ruthless.
no one knows how much his name was worth at the time. you could even wonder if he's getting paid for what his name is worth now

What do you mean "he made enough money to make the whining look silly"? Do you know how much Dre was making for the work he did? Your argument is silly since you're the one saying he can't have been getting screwed because he had a house. That's stupidity at its finest. Him having a big house says nothing about whether he was being screwed or not.

[k-dogg]

Bottom line, Eazy has been dead for how long?? Suge is a washed-up, used to be gangsta music executive walkin, sometimes driving around LA while Dre is living beyond large...Dude used Suge to get away from Ruthless, even though he had to still pay some royalties and used Jimmy to get away from DeathRow even though he left millions on the table...I would say that he has more than made up whatever royalties he paid Ruthless and the millions he left at Deathrow so tell me who the smart man is?? As Dre once said, peace of mind means more anyway. Alot of people forget how disrespected Eazy had become before Bone Thugs slightly ressurected his image. Dying young always seems to lift certain artists to a new level. Life is about choices and Eazy chose jerry heller and Suge chose "the streets" while Dre has always chosen to be his own man no matter how much money was left on the table. 

[Dre-Day]

he set him up: told eazy to meet up, but didn't show up. goons came instead.

also, i fail to see how dre got screwed when he was working for ruthless: he was living in a big house. the only way he deserved more(imo) if he was a co owner of the company.
maybe eazy should have done more to keep dre satisfied, but it was too late when suge came into the picture (1989/1990).

im just saying both were wrong

Oh so he's has a big house....I'm sure that somehow means he was getting paid his dues

well i'd say he made enough money to make the whining look silly, he didn't own ruthless.
no one knows how much his name was worth at the time. you could even wonder if he's getting paid for what his name is worth now

What do you mean "he made enough money to make the whining look silly"? Do you know how much Dre was making for the work he did? Your argument is silly since you're the one saying he can't have been getting screwed because he had a house. That's stupidity at its finest. Him having a big house says nothing about whether he was being screwed or not.

i used the house as an example, maybe i should have made that clear. im sure he owned more than that.

well i'll quote jerry heller:

ruthless took twenty five cents out of each dollar of publishing royalties

the other publishing companies involved also took twenty five cents

Of the fifty cents left, the lyric writer took twenty five cents, and the beat writer took twenty-five cents.
Dre composed the beats for every song NWA ever put out, so he always got that quarter out of every dollar coming in, less deductions for all his sampling

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no one knows how much his name was worth at the time. you could even wonder if he's getting paid for what his name is worth now

[Dre-Day]

What was the deal with Eazy's claim here?  Was it true, and if so, how much was he getting off of Dre during this time, how long did the contract last, and did it also concern albums such as MWTC and Dogg Food that didn't explicitly have Dr. Dre's name on them?

Someone drop knowledge.

according to jerry's book, eazy received 15% of the sales from the chronic + 10% of the money gained by dre's productions

[Jimmy H.]

So if someone had a big bully run in your office with dudes carrying pipes you're telling me you wouldn't get them back if you could?

The west coast is a big circle that keeps going and going

Ex: eazy didn't pay his artist, cube leaves and ends up not paying his artist

Dre leaves to start death row but eazy got a portion of all his sales. Snoop leaves death row but suge kept a percentage of his sales

Bad business breeds bad business

That's why I can't knock Aftermath too much as a label. As much as everyone clowns them for dropping artists, the ones who make it to "superstar" level tend to all be paid well. For all of the superstars that Death Row or Ruthless had, how many of them were millionaires when all was said and done? Granted, I'm sure the lessons learned from those labels might have played a part too.