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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: yourdead on July 25, 2010, 01:52:15 AM
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Though Dr. Dre may have moved on to recording sessions with Justin Bieber, there are still some overdue bills the producer has failed to pay.
According to RadarOnline.com, the legendary producer is being sued by Paramount Recording Studios for $1,220,500 for breach of contract.
The lawsuit names the rapper/producer, born Andre Young, and his label, Aftermath Entertainment, in the suit, claiming that they rented "recording studios and services" but never paid for them.
Court documents show that Dre promised to pay the money owed by July 13, but never did.
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.11780/title.dr-dre-sued-12-million-for-unpaid-studio-session
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I dunno, but with every single year that passes by, this guy becomes stranger and stranger... steroids don't keep your brain healthy Andre
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Wow, im surprised there's only 1 reply. Lot of ppl in here take every chance to fade Dre.. but well no reasons here actually.
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Broke ass sucka.
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shit like this is utter non-sense...
and why didn't he just pay it? also why in FUCK doesn't Dre own his OWN state-of-the-art Studio w/ all his money & success why bother w/ a middle man company for recording your music???? WTF!!
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he probably has a studio in his house,but it's a different atmosphere working somewhere else,plus he don't want all them equals at his spot haha yell
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he probably has a studio in his house,but it's a different atmosphere working somewhere else,plus he don't want all them equals at his spot haha yell
having a home studio is one thing... but b4 he sold his share of AE to Jimmy Iovine i.e. Interscope Records you would think the joint effort between the two men/entities would have worked a deal to have a studio that they own themselves to oversee? idk it seem like a lot of money to keep spending year after year when you can like rent-to-own or just straight up buy a recording studio/facility. WTF is going on the corporate world of music??? although it might be cheaper to just keep renting out studio time? but knowing someone like Dre you'd think he have the right connections to not have to worry about payments on studio time...
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The funny thing is that the music recorded at that studio will never see the light of day. Therefore Dr.Dre could have just set $1.2 million dollars on fire, or flushed it down the toilet.
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The funny thing is that the music recorded at that studio will never see the light of day. Therefore Dr.Dre could have just set $1.2 million dollars on fire, or flushed it down the toilet.
Sho nuff, +1, that's the ironic part of this whole thing....
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1 mil? No prob.
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There's more to this that just Dr.Dre. I doubt he even handles finances. It's probably a disagreement between Interscope and Paramount. Dre's name is just attached due to him using the space and him being sensational enough to sell.
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AREA 51 Mah azz
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dre knows too many jews to sue
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There's more to this that just Dr.Dre. I doubt he even handles finances. It's probably a disagreement between Interscope and Paramount. Dre's name is just attached due to him using the space and him being sensational enough to sell.
good point and likely what happen, but i’ll add they know that it was Dre who actually used the studio though
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This isn't news. A million dollars is chump change for Dre.
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Even so, you have to be financial retarded to squander $1.2 million dollars just like that.
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(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/8126/jimmyiovine.jpg)
DON'T WORRY BOUT THAT DETOX ALBUM WE GON' MAKE DRE DO IT
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Even so, you have to be financial retarded to squander $1.2 million dollars just like that.
Where does it say this money was squandered? I assume its what they owe for renting the studios.
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detox pushed up 8)
haha lmao, next interview will be like 'i had this sue for 1.2mil, so i stopped working on detox for a year'
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(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/8126/jimmyiovine.jpg)
DON'T WORRY BOUT THAT DETOX ALBUM WE GON' MAKE DRE DO IT
LMFAO!!!! :laugh:
this is prolly another smoke screen to push DETOX back... AGAIN!!!! :-\
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Even so, you have to be financial retarded to squander $1.2 million dollars just like that.
Where does it say this money was squandered? I assume its what they owe for renting the studios.
Try to use your brain. No music published from the sessions= no profit, therefore the money is squandered.
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Even so, you have to be financial retarded to squander $1.2 million dollars just like that.
Where does it say this money was squandered? I assume its what they owe for renting the studios.
Try to use your brain. No music published from the sessions= no profit, therefore the money is squandered.
You don't know what music was produced from those session. How is this news? Dr. Dre has been a producer since the late 80s, we already know he has a large vault of unpublished music. Clearly he makes a lot more money than he spends working on music. For all you know he was working on Detox or Em's next album or any number of things that will hopefully see release in the future. If not, then all he has to do is sell a few beats and bam, all that studio time is paid for.
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Dre aint rich til detox drops
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I thought Aftermath had their own studio? What's the point of renting one out?
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I thought Aftermath had their own studio? What's the point of renting one out?
possibly due to the fact that other company's out there have more STATE-OF-THE-ART recording studios/equipment.
I'd assume that Aftermath or even Interscope for that matter doesn't necessarily have the means to actually own a TOP-OF-THE-LINE recording studio.
otherwise you'd think it would make sense to invest in one for their own private use w/o the middle-man costs of paying for endless studio time. especially considering someone like Dre who takes forever to LITTERALY finally RELEASE a FINISHED product.... such a waste of MONEY, TIME & possibly good MUSIC.
maybe somebody on this board who actually knows might be able to explain how these systems, circumstances & situations actually work-out in the music biz?
but to me if you think about it, wouldn't a super-giant like Interscope already own a high-scale recording studio as a subsidiary company or at the very least be a stock-shareholder?
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I thought Aftermath had their own studio? What's the point of renting one out?
if you think about it, wouldn't a super-giant like Interscope already own a high-scale recording studio as a subsidiary company or at the very least be a stock-shareholder?
Yea someone should. The thing is making rap music is super easy. You need a mic, computer, vocal booth, and an instrumental... that's it. I'm sure Dre has studio musicians but even still it's not that complicated. These days equipment has come down in cost and you can record a professional sounding album on a Mac laptop. You don't need a super-computer to run Pro Tools or Logic.
Maybe real estate is too expensive in LA or maybe there is none left ??? :-X
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From my very limited understanding,
Dre switched over to live instrumentals since he's started working with khalil = paid studio musicians
duke is a known perfectionists so a lot of time is eaten up by "nailing" that perfect delivery
creative juices vary from location to location, why do you think they go to hawaii to record?
From the minor footage of how he works, it seems to be rather isolated events where each person is in a studio room working things out. In one room so one is laying vocals and in other he might be working on a beat, etc.
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From my very limited understanding,
Dre switched over to live instrumentals since he's started working with khalil = paid studio musicians
duke is a known perfectionists so a lot of time is eaten up by "nailing" that perfect delivery
creative juices vary from location to location, why do you think they go to hawaii to record?
From the minor footage of how he works, it seems to be rather isolated events where each person is in a studio room working things out. In one room so one is laying vocals and in other he might be working on a beat, etc.
Dre has always used live instrumentation
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has he? i can recall reading that he started recording differently upon meeting khalil.
someone was talking about sampling and how dre switched up his style of sampling to live re-recordings after her worked with khalil
i honestly don't follow too much info on dre. khalil/new royales is my shit
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dre shits in the studio, fuck, eat, sleeps, etc. and now cant pay the rent.
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like long as time ago, wasn't there some comment about Dre taking chronic to labels and them telling him shit sucks cause live performers played it?
i also remember it mentioned how Dre used to play it at his house saying shit is good so he doesn't understand why labels wouldn't like it.
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has he? i can recall reading that he started recording differently upon meeting khalil.
someone was talking about sampling and how dre switched up his style of sampling to live re-recordings after her worked with khalil
i honestly don't follow too much info on dre. khalil/new royales is my shit
Dre was doing that back in the N.W.A days. In fact he might be the one who started that trend in hip hop.
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has he? i can recall reading that he started recording differently upon meeting khalil.
someone was talking about sampling and how dre switched up his style of sampling to live re-recordings after her worked with khalil
i honestly don't follow too much info on dre. khalil/new royales is my shit
Dre was doing that back in the N.W.A days. In fact he might be the one who started that trend in hip hop.
correct.
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Even so, you have to be financial retarded to squander $1.2 million dollars just like that.
Where does it say this money was squandered? I assume its what they owe for renting the studios.
Try to use your brain. No music published from the sessions= no profit, therefore the money is squandered.
You don't know what music was produced from those session. How is this news? Dr. Dre has been a producer since the late 80s, we already know he has a large vault of unpublished music. Clearly he makes a lot more money than he spends working on music. For all you know he was working on Detox or Em's next album or any number of things that will hopefully see release in the future. If not, then all he has to do is sell a few beats and bam, all that studio time is paid for.
You want value for your money, atleast if your name isn't Dr.Dre. I don't dissagree that the man probably makes more money than he can spend (from headphones alone), but for me or any reasnoble person: Spending 1.2 million dollars for studio sessions just to throw the music in some vault at the end equals no profit and is just plane stupid.
And another thing, I know quite a few things about music/ hardware/ software/ building a studio, and to think Interscope records (one of the biggest record companies in the world) can't afford to build Aftermath the most state of the art studio EVER, is ridicoulus. In this day and age, building a great studio don't have to cost you millions of dollars.
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has he? i can recall reading that he started recording differently upon meeting khalil.
someone was talking about sampling and how dre switched up his style of sampling to live re-recordings after her worked with khalil
i honestly don't follow too much info on dre. khalil/new royales is my shit
Dre was doing that back in the N.W.A days. In fact he might be the one who started that trend in hip hop.
yeah the good doctor started that with useing live instruments to play some samples he used.
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Even so, you have to be financial retarded to squander $1.2 million dollars just like that.
"Financially Retarded" meaning "Stupid" or "Financially Retarded" meaning "Stupidly Rich"... I'm gonna go with the latter...
1.2 Mil. = some money from his; Dr. Pepper commercial, Monster's Beat's headphones, and 1/16 of profit from Em's sales from the Relapse for the first week...
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Even so, you have to be financial retarded to squander $1.2 million dollars just like that.
Where does it say this money was squandered? I assume its what they owe for renting the studios.
Try to use your brain. No music published from the sessions= no profit, therefore the money is squandered.
You don't know what music was produced from those session. How is this news? Dr. Dre has been a producer since the late 80s, we already know he has a large vault of unpublished music. Clearly he makes a lot more money than he spends working on music. For all you know he was working on Detox or Em's next album or any number of things that will hopefully see release in the future. If not, then all he has to do is sell a few beats and bam, all that studio time is paid for.
You want value for your money, atleast if your name isn't Dr.Dre. I don't dissagree that the man probably makes more money than he can spend (from headphones alone), but for me or any reasnoble person: Spending 1.2 million dollars for studio sessions just to throw the music in some vault at the end equals no profit and is just plane stupid.
And another thing, I know quite a few things about music/ hardware/ software/ building a studio, and to think Interscope records (one of the biggest record companies in the world) can't afford to build Aftermath the most state of the art studio EVER, is ridicoulus. In this day and age, building a great studio don't have to cost you millions of dollars.
Well I agree that most of us wouldn't spend money like that, but its something Dre has been doing his whole career. How is this any different from what 2Pac did? The only reason we have so many posthumous Pac albums is because he recorded so many vocals and never used them.
As far as Aftermath not having his own studio, we don't even know that. I would be surprised if they didn't. Like someone else mentioned, its not like Dre only records in one place. He could've easily been traveling somewhere and rented out a studio to record there.