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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Mo Z. Dizzle on January 18, 2007, 06:00:36 AM
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Superstar R&B crooner Nathaniel "Nate Dogg" Hale is seeking a legal judgment preventing bankrupt Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight from discharging an alleged $10 million dollars in back royalties.
In documents released by Court TV's website TheSmokinggun.com, Nate Dogg, born Nathaniel Hale, claims that Knight was the owner and president of Death Row Records.
The complaint claims Knight's other companies, including Suge Music and Suge Publishing are not "separate legal entities from Suge, the individual, or Death Row and are not legal entities at all, and Suge and Death Row are the true identity behind these empty shell identities."
Using these companies, Knight is fraudulently using Death Row Records to acquire and "exploit valuable intellectual property rights" of Nate Dogg through making false statements as to the rapper's contractual status with Death Row.
Additionally, the complaint claims that Nate Dogg was not listed or named on the schedule filed by Knight in bankruptcy court and that Nate Dogg had no knowledge of the deadline a judge set in September of 2006, to file a claim against Knight'.
Nate Dogg claims that his recorded association with Knight began around 1993 (his debut was on Dr. Dre's The Chronic) until the present and that Knight has never accounted to, or paid Nate Dogg the amounts he was entitled for various hit records he released during his association with Death Row Records.
When Nate Dogg inquired about his royalties, he alleges that Knight responded with threats of physical violence, claimed that no profits were generated by Death Row and falsely stated that Nate Dogg would eventually be paid.
As a result Nate Dogg, who has contributed to over 60 chart singles, is seeking no less than $10 million dollars from Knight personally.
In the complaint, attorney's for the singer stated that Nate Dogg can't remember if he ever signed a contract with Knight, but if he did, Knight would have been solely responsible to for receiving, collecting and administering royalties. .
The filing also states that Death Row continuously refuses to provide an accounting of the amount of records sold that featured Nate Dogg.
http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=6609
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I personally don't think Nate Dogg ever sold enough records to be worth 10 million dollars, but he likely knows more about it than I do. If Suge promised him 10 million dollars, he's an idiot.
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10 mill :o
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They kick you while you're down I guess...
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Fuck Suge
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Suge aint ever coming back.
but 10 mill :o dang
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Get ya money mayn
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no way in hell nates ever going to see any of that money, suges brok aza joke.
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I personally don't think Nate Dogg ever sold enough records to be worth 10 million dollars, but he likely knows more about it than I do. If Suge promised him 10 million dollars, he's an idiot.
If this is regarding the publishing-rights i'm sure it's 10 mill... cause that includes money for radio-spins too, and Nate's been on A LOT of radio-hits..
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no way in hell nates ever going to see any of that money, suges brok aza joke.
has daz ever got the money off suge that the court said he was owed ? wasnt it something stupid like 50 mil ?
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no way in hell nates ever going to see any of that money, suges brok aza joke.
has daz ever got the money off suge that the court said he was owed ? wasnt it something stupid like 50 mil ?
Yeah Daz got his money. Half of it went to his lawyer though.
I doubt Nate Dogg is gonna get anything at all. He waited too long and now Suge can hardly buy a cheese sandwich at the deli.
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Well if you think about it, nate did grace a TOn of deathrow songs in its prime, and after all these years, they probably owe him a ton of royalty money. maybe not 10 mill, but millions. i could see it...Shit keeps making money as the years pass, so it could add up to close to that.
JL
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Why the fuck did he wait all this time...?
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I personally don't think Nate Dogg ever sold enough records to be worth 10 million dollars, but he likely knows more about it than I do. If Suge promised him 10 million dollars, he's an idiot.
Death Row made over 10 Million off of Regulate ALONE!!
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I personally don't think Nate Dogg ever sold enough records to be worth 10 million dollars, but he likely knows more about it than I do. If Suge promised him 10 million dollars, he's an idiot.
Death Row made over 10 Million off of Regulate ALONE!!
true...didnt the single sell like 2 million copies? and then figure in the radio spins....
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he probaly owed 10 mil, i believe it... shit he on every DR record from 92-98, and they sold alot fo recordz in that time
and daz got 25 mil i think
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suge owes me $20 mill
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I wonder how much Nate is making off those blunt wraps? I know he sells more of those than he sold records, thats for sure. He went platinum off the blunts in my city alone!
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suge owe money? no way...... 8)
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I wonder how much Nate is making off those blunt wraps? I know he sells more of those than he sold records, thats for sure. He went platinum off the blunts in my city alone!
I still gotta try those, juss alotta weed to fill those mofo's
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I wonder how much Nate is making off those blunt wraps? I know he sells more of those than he sold records, thats for sure. He went platinum off the blunts in my city alone!
I bought a few the other day. They are pretty good. The only reason I got them was because he was on the wrapper.
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The fact that Nate is tryn to sue Suge shows who the real broke mufucka is LOL :laugh:
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suge is gonna kill nate dogg
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fuck suge & anyone supporting that murdering bully bastard
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"In the complaint, attorney's for the singer stated that Nate Dogg can't remember if he ever signed a contract with Knight"
LMAO, i guess Daz wasn´t the only crackhead over at Death Row.
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*bumpin': N8te Dawg-(i'm gonna get) my money
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They kick you while you're down I guess...
i guess...Suge Knight fucked over alot of people out of money.. He is just getting karma returned to him.
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you mean 'i'm gonna make' my money from g funk classics? song is the shit. i haven't bumped g funk classics in a long time.
which song did warren g produce, no matter where i go or just another day? damn dre should have done a beat on that shit. dre is such a bitch ass when it comes to droppin' a beat for the people that graced his classics.
those nate dogg blunts are great, you'll have a nice fat ass blunt with those bleezes.
i don't think nate will win because
a) he wasn't aware of the deadline to sue suge since suge/dr's bankruptcy
b)he can't even remember if he signed a contract
-T
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tough for Nate Dogg, the jackpot isn't going to be given away any more.
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They kick you while you're down I guess...
i guess...Suge Knight fucked over alot of people out of money.. He is just getting karma returned to him.
I'm sure the same kind of things have been/are happening at other labels as well so there are alotta other people who "deserve" getting karma returned to them.
"In the complaint, attorney's for the singer stated that Nate Dogg can't remember if he ever signed a contract with Knight"
Pretty much sums up Nate's credibility, he's just trying to get some money...
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lol if he could remember where is contract was (if there is 1) maybe he could show it and get some cash...
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If you can't remember whether or not you signed a record contract you deserve to get stuck for your dough. Your bad nigga....
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If you can't remember whether or not you signed a record contract you deserve to get stuck for your dough. Your bad nigga....
hate to say it, but truth.
-T
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maybe suge will let nate drive his bentley one or 2 times 8)
thats because they are not a family and the dpg wasnt build in the streets...it was build around deathrow...you could say that suge started tha dogg pound..lol..snoop had nothing he could claim....he never banged..nobody ever called him a crip or loc or atleast had some respect for him
so the whole DOGG pound thing was a joke from the start
and while snoop was claimin dogg pound gangsters... real gang members...bloods and crips slapped him around and robbed him daily
and these days its even more funny....daz is hidin in atlanta( dude tried to kill himself with a overdose in 02 because his wife bascially fucked everybody in the deathrow studios at the time he was suing and dissing them)...snoop got an army of bodyguards and police protection...bad azz got fucked up in 03.and.nate dogg is hidin in texas
and i think kurupt lives in arizona most of the time thinkin about how a street legend from ROLLIN 60s hood send him to the hospital last year (people say it was only one punch...lol) and prayin that they not gonna kill him
dpg gangstaz aka the DEAD MEN WALKIN
wow its so easy to write some essay..lol.,..about them.....
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They kick you while you're down I guess...
i guess...Suge Knight fucked over alot of people out of money.. He is just getting karma returned to him.
I'm sure the same kind of things have been/are happening at other labels as well so there are alotta other people who "deserve" getting karma returned to them.
there's a difference being screwed over on a business move and being screwed over by suge. Suge aint like Enron.. He treats his rappers like boot camp..