New daz interview talks bout mak & dil kurupt suge shady bad boy records + more

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from www.allhiphop.com
Daz Dillinger 'It Might Sound Crazy':
By Paine
If Rap really is a game, then Daz Dillinger got hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place. From boosting the careers of Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound, to playing a pivotal production role in Tupacs most illustrious work, to staying relevant by way of Camron and Beanie Sigel, Daz puts in work.When everybody left Death Row, Daz stayed. When Tha Row wasnt reciprocating, Daz slapped them with a lawsuit that may crumble a dynasty. Hes made independence look like winning the lottery. By way of the web, and his newfound freedom, Daz never sleeps. In a rare, and most candid interview, Daz puts it all on the table: Kurupt, Suge, the secrets to the hustle, everything. It might sound crazy, but Daz Dilli speaks it Raw.

AllHipHop.com: The new Whoo-Kid tape dropped last week. You have a cut on there with Nas that has the people buzzing, tell me about it?

DD: It was [recorded] back in the day at Larabee Studios. We was cool with Nas back then. [He] came through, I did some beats for him, and he jumped on one of the tracks. Then Tupac came in, heard it, and was like, f*ck Nas; or some sh*t like that, took his part off, and put his part on there. It never came out. So, I got my music. Death Row, they came out with it, so I decided Ill come out with Nas, with two versions.

AHH: For a while you were up on everybody;s CD, you and JT had stuff built up. Now it seems like you;re trying to get your name back on the East why the change?

DD: Cuz you know, everybody in the West aint giving me what I deserve. I done put in so much work out here. I;m gonna have to go to it like and do an Ice Cube move. An ;Amerikkka;s Most." My next move, my next album me and Whoo Kid and KP and them going out there and doing an album by all East Coast producers.

AHH: There;s been a ton of talk about you getting on the Shady Entertainment projects whats already been done, what can you tell us?

DD: Nothing;s really been done yet. We just talking and doing moves, street moves, and putting it together, and showing our unity as far as we together. We;re gonna make it happen as far as the music and going into the lab and I;m just getting my stuff together as far as when I come in permanently. Comin in with beats, bangers, ideas and albums.

AHH: I know you got the indie releases, but I hear that you want a release on a major, correct?

DD: Yeah, as far as who gonna put up the funds to put this hella album together, with all the favors that people owe me. You know like Jay-Z, I;m fittin to produce some Bleek. I just talked to him today. So he wanna use the Do What I Feel; track, and right now I got all my publishing back from Death Row.

AHH: Because of the lawsuit?

DD: Yeah, my main thing right now is licensing. You
wanna use some old sh*t? Come on. [Like] the Camron record, just keeping it goin;. I got a lil; venture out here, hooked up with KP, and we making this thing happen.

AHH: Last year, there was some talk of you hooking up with Bad Boy, what ever came of that?

DD: [I was] high as a motherf*cker in New Orleans, and I was like, ;sh*t, [there] wasn;t nobody trying to make it happen. Kurupt had just went to Death Row, so I was like, f*ck it. I;ll go to Bad Boy or somethin;. But you know, it just seemed like they was scared of the whole twist. I was just seein; what was goin; down with Puffy, you know, big up to him, we friends. I was just trying to make a hella gangsta move.

AHH: You drop more records than most people. How do you manage to stay hungry, as well as keep fans appreciating each piece as carefully as your early work?

DD: Well the early work, it was just under one roof, and it had structure and wouldnt let a motherf*cka be bigger than you. And now, its just  I;m droppin; whatever I feel. [As] long as I take the picture, shoot it, hook up with KP, get it on the [web]site, we get orders, we work as a team. And now I got two labels, you know what I mean? So I got Select-O-Hits now, theyre taking over my old catalog. Im changing the covers of all them so I think Im gonna sell the same amount of units that I did when I first sold it. Plus, I;m gonna add three new songs to each project, so the ;R.A.W; cover gonna be the same picture, do the album cover over, it&s gonna have an embedded DVD. I;m coming out with Dillinger and Young Gotti; again with two new songs on there, with a DVD, with a brand new cover. So everything gonna have a new cover. I;m gonna put it out again. I can do that. Its my sh*t! After every tenth album or project I do, I start a new company. I got Gangsta Advisory Recordings now.

AHH: Ok, I want to talk about Death Row for a few questions and then Ill kill it. You filed a lawsuit;a lawsuit that might knock out the first Rap Dynasty. Aren;t you scared? I mean.damn, I respect your courage.

DD: F*ck nah because I know him [Suge Knight]. Plus, I got something that he want, that he cant have. f*ck it, I know every move he make. This is the art of war, and how we do it. Plus, dont nobody know where I;m at unless I call em. Daz Dilli moves. I move throughout the world real quick. I might be in Africa. I was just in Sacramento last night. I might be in New Orleans tomorrow, New York today or something.

AHH: And you know where he is right now.

DD: Yeah, I know where his punkass is, getting d*ck up his poopshoot.

AHH: Im in Philly, where Kurupt is from. A lot of people say this;and Id like you to comment. When Kurupt left Tha Row to do Antra, and you stayed;yall were cool. So when the tables turned, why is it different? Or are there parts of the story were missing?

DD: He was the first to leave and the first dummy to go back. Everybody was still on Death Row. Then he left because he wasnt getting no money. But I was already on Death Row. I was getting money. I was helping him out. But I had all the money, but I didnt have no representation. So hes the first to leave, then everybody got off Death Row. And I was still on there [because] I had some paperwork [issues]. I been wanted off. I made records. I put them together. Every album on Death Row that come to Daz, I put them together. I put them out. When all that sh*t was going on with Snoop and them, I was never hanging around Death Row. I used to just be to myself, just trying to get off. But Kurupt used to come by, bam bam bam, and wed do songs for Dillinger and Young Gotti. And then you know, we put a plot together to get me off Death Row by giving Suge and Death Row a funky ass Dogg Pound record, the one they came out with. Some sh*t they made up. I was already on there. I didn;t get off and go back on. I was already down with Death Row before, but I wasnt down, you feel me? It was just the picture that they painted. I aint even know what the f*ck a website was at first, you know? When 2000 came, I was rebelling. We wasnt meeting our points when Reggie Wright and Michelle and all them other motherf*ckas was runnin; that sh*t. They didnt know what the f*ck they was doing. Everybody was just trying to get money. So you know, me and Suge was in the pen and that was right around the time of the [Up in Smoke] tour. I had wanted to go on that [tour]. Suge was getting mad at me or some sh*t, talkin; bout my cousin [Snoop], and I was like, Hold on whoa, you talkin; bout my cousin. You talkin; bout him, youalkin bout me. So I slapped all the dominoes off the table. That;s the first beef, and the war sh*t started from then on. This is a f*cked up year for me in 2002. Im back for 2003. I didnt have to commit no murders ;cuz God is gonna handle everything, nahmean? I aint have to do no drive-by;s or none of that sh*t. You see what Suges b*tch ass did, now all his homeboys are snitchin; on him bout all these murders. So bam! And what Kurupt doing? Now he gotta rely on being an actor. He done f*cked up his street credibility out here in these streets of California. I;m just like, ;Motherf*cka, you from Philly where mothaf*cka's go to New York and diss you. Nahmean?; Snoop and them was talkin; bout taking him back. I was like,;f*ck that sh*t! I aint taking nothing back!" f*ck Kurupt forever, nahmean. He do his thing, I;ma do my thing. I don;t have to deal with a lot of relationships and that. I ain;t gotta deal with Suge Knight and all this other bullsh*t. He a part of that sh*t, f*ck him, f*ck everybody. I;m worse than 50 right now, im ready to go kill somethin (laughs). This sh*t aint for play. I stay to myself so I stay humble. I don;t need to be out here doin; all this bullsh*t trying to get famous, I just keep my name, and keep myself, and keep in these streets, and put these records out ; something that most of these motherf*ckers cant do. Know why? Cuz they dont know the people we know in putting records out, putting records together, getting motherf*ckin; records in your living room. And you looking at twenty thousand units, and what you gonna do with ;em then? Serve em like dope! Just keeping it goin; man, thats what this new album is about, DPGC: You Know What Im Throwing Up. Attack mode.

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AHH: You got a track on there called aint Nuthin But a Gangsta Party 2 whats this all about?

DD: I made the [original]. If it wasnt for me, there wouldve never been no ;2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted. No ;Ambitionz az a Ridah. No I Aint Mad AtCha. First, I originally made [Amerikaz] for Dru Down.

AHH: You produced Pac, you were a big part of Doggystyle, you still at it with Camron and Sigel. Looking at the last decade, what is the biggest achievement of your career?

DD: The biggest highlight of my career is breaking up with Kurupt and doin; my own thing. Lettin me know whos my friend in this business, you know what I mean? I think all of the above, you know? I just gotta give it up for everybody I got to work with on the West and South. Too Short, Eightball and MJG. I got a lot of albums on the underground. I just rap rap rap, you know what I mean? Im just goin around, trying to find a home, you know what I mean?

AHH: You were gonna drop a 2pac EP. Whats the status of that, and tell me something special about whats on the EP that makes it crazy.

DD: Songs nobody ever heard before. That&s the main thing. Everything has been recycled and did over, but these songs are special because me and him did em, and people say I stole them. How can I steal some sh*t that I own and I made? A motherf*cka aint fitting to give you what you deserve, so why would I give it to them? I stole my sh*t? f*ck anybody out there who said I took the sh*t. Ill take they sh*t. I got a call from the Tupac's people today, ;cuz Im gonna do a publishing deal with Universal with the new songs. They need three more songs that I got, and Im gonna give it to them, cuz Im gonna get paid for the rest of my life off of that sh*t. Its something Death Row aint getting a piece of. And I just won the publishing back off of every f*cking song I ever made. Because the judge voided every contract that I ever signed with Death Row. They null and voided. So if its all void, I own all my publishing, right? None of them contracts even matter, cuz the judge threw em out. I own all mine. Thats what Im going to make deals for now. I just wanna thank b*tch-ass Suge Knight for coppin up what he copped up, and well continue to do business in the future.

AHH: Has rap lost its fun to you?

D: Nah, its just hustle for me. I mean what else can I do to go out here and make money instead of robbin and shootin and killin; to make it quick? Some people dont know what to do to take thirty-five hundred, make five thousand units, make fifty gs, press twenty thousand more, spent seventeen, make two hundred g;s. In thirty to forty five days. (Daz looks at a tally sheet) Three hundred and seventy five people since like an hour ago that just ordered that sh*t. Thats three thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars generated in an hour. And this is one of my best albums, produced by Soopafly and Fred Wreck. I aint produce sh*t on here. Im just hustlin; it, keepin it goin;. My next album doin; Roc, and hooking up with anybody who listen to me. My man 50 Cent and Whoo Kid and KP and all them ; thats the next thing. We hookin; up with all of them and makin; it happen. He run the East coast underground. And Im the underground king of the West that aint been crowned yet.

AHH: Have you come face to face with Suge or Kurupt in the last year?

DD: Yeah, at the BET Awards. I;m the one who really just kicked all the sh*t off. I seen his whole little movement and where he was goin, and how he was comin; out. I was trying to tell Snoop, &The b*tch-ass n*gga comin; up, walkin; behind you," so you know he dont see it. Im like f*ck it, I go out there, and everybody raise up. Everybody started runnin, scared. Everybody, Missy Elliot, Will Smith, everybody get the f*ck out the way! Bam, I hop across a chair, you know what I mean? I;m fitting to sock him. ;Cuz he just holding on to his little cigar, just shakin;. I was in the front. I was fittin to hit him, but Snoop was like, Nah, because the people from BET gonna know. I gave respect to the man [Snoop]. But I felt in my heart, I felt real bad. Snoop, he called the card. Im gonna respect it, but usually, I dont. My feelings was hurt. I aint seen his b*tch-ass since [Suge]. And Kurupt, he be callin; Soopafly, trying to get with me. And I be seeing some of his little entourage, I aint gonna trip, they aint trippin; on me. Cuz they know me, they know I get down for mine. For him, I;m gonna beat his motherf*ckin ass, and you can put that down for everybody to know, Im gonna beat his mothef*ckin ass.

AHH: Is it true that Suge attacked Bad Azz?

DD: Yup, yup. And thats another reason. If they wouldve did that to him, what you think they wouldve did to me? I mean they was knockin Bad Azz out! But he was standing up, got him up out of there. But motherf*ckas was taking some hella hits though. So sh*t, f*ck that!

AHH: I really miss your solo productions. I love Mike and Soopafly. But I miss the Daz solo sh*t. Is that something you aim to get back to?

DD: Yeah, that;s what Im doing now. Rhyming and music, that sh*t;ll take a lot out of your brain. So I just concentrated on writing, cuz I write real quick. When a person is doing their rap and they come with the first bar, Im done with my whole sixteen bars. Im ready to go bang my sh*t down. I rhyme real quick and I rap real quick. I do these accordingly to how I do sh*t, nahmean. I put it down, and bam, I be having a whole album done in a day. I do albums in a day. I got twelve beats, I do twelve songs together, hot songs, bam, Im ready to get paid.

AHH: Everytime I see you on TV or in a video;you in a different car. Of the cars you own, whats your baby, your favorite ride?

DD: I had this 76 Monte Carlo. Its Desert blue with Dana Dane on it.

[STILLDRE IS THE GODFATHER]

thanks that 1 dope interview

[EM28]

yeah thankx thats a dope interview...it would be cool to see him work with shady records and about the dilinger and makaveli ep is that out or when will it drop in stores...I wanna get it...thankx a lot...props  

peace

[DonCorleone187]

DD: Yeah, at the BET Awards. I;m the one who really just kicked all the sh*t off. I seen his whole little movement and where he was goin, and how he was comin; out. I was trying to tell Snoop, &The b*tch-ass n*gga comin; up, walkin; behind you," so you know he dont see it. Im like f*ck it, I go out there, and everybody raise up. Everybody started runnin, scared. Everybody, Missy Elliot, Will Smith, everybody get the f*ck out the way! Bam, I hop across a chair, you know what I mean? I;m fitting to sock him. ;Cuz he just holding on to his little cigar, just shakin;. I was in the front. I was fittin to hit him, but Snoop was like, Nah, because the people from BET gonna know.

LMFAO

[Trauma-san]

The funniest part:

"f*ck anybody out there who said I took the sh*t. Ill take they sh*t. "

[kingpin_4eva]

I love each and every Daz interviews. He always tells us how feels and the truth about things. I was surprised at the BET awards, he should of definitely knocked Suge the f**k out. Anyways dope interview!