It's May 09, 2024, 03:23:36 PM
Dope news.Hopefully this inspires Dre/Jimmy. We need them unreleased Aftermath LPs in Dre mastered quality. Especially a Dre/Ra (Dre prod, Ra Gangsta Lyrics) LP, as well as a Ra/Dre (Ra conscious lyrics/Dre prod) LP. From whats been published this was when we're both at their heights and with it not getting released the beginning of Dre falling off. Just my Bigfooted opinion.
We can all keep wishing this, but it's never going to happen. That's just not how Dr. Dre works.
JP is joined by RBX. N'Matez project to be released on DR. Talking this Monday (I assume to finalize details). According to RBX, all 4 members are eager and excited and Rage is the driving force. He, Kurupt, and Daz are following her lead. According to JP, it was Rage that reached out to him to co-release the project with Death Row. NOTE: Per Daz's instagram, the album will be released this year jointly on Deathrow/N'Matez Records.
Where does Suge stand in all of this?
Pretty sure he has a stake in publishing. I read somewhere he owns the master's to the chronic as well as other albums.
I really don't think so. Dr. Dre won a lawsuit against Wide Awake/Death Row back in 2015 over the rights to the Chronic. The judge declared that Wide Awake/Death Row had the rights to sell the album in cassette, vinyl, and CD formats without Dre's permission and without paying him royalties, BUT if Wide Awake/Death Row released it in digital formats, then Dre was entitled to 100% of the profits. So from that, it sounds like the master rights are divided between Death Row in physical media and Dr. Dre in digital downloads. Suge Knight had no ownership interest in Wide Awake and had no involvement in the lawsuit, because the 2006 Death Row bankruptcy and 2009 bankruptcy auction wiped out all of Suge Knight's ownership interest of Death Row. Source; me. I'm a bankruptcy attorney and have read up on the case. Furthermore, now that E1/Deathrow released the Chronic on streaming services on 4/20/20, I'm assuming they've come to some sort of agreement with Dre.
So you're telling me that out of all of the DR music Suge isn't tied into any publishing at all? I can understand losing the rights to the master recordings but you're telling me bankruptcy trump's copyright law? A little off topic but...Do you know anything about a lifetime management agreement Suge is suppose to have with Dre?