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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Woodrow on October 28, 2003, 09:59:23 AM
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Hmmmm....
Eastsidaz Claim Snoop Owes $1 Million
By Nolan Strong
Date: 10/28/2003 11:30 AM
A rift has opened between Snoop Dogg and his one time protege's, Tha Eastsidaz. According to the group, Snoop never paid the group royalties on two platinum selling records.
The group alleges that after they hired accounting firm Moss Adams LLP, the same accounting firm that Snoop uses, they discovered that they were owed in excess of $1 million dollars.
"I won't allow nobody to take my hard earned money," Big Tray Dee said. "If you want to take something, let's go head up and winner take all."
The group said that they were given a royalty rate of 2 percent and when they confronted Snoop about the unpaid money, he allegedly claimed that no money was made on their self titled debut and the follow up, Duces 'N' Trayz...The Old Fashioned Way.
After the audit, The Eastsidaz allege they found that Snoop had charged them $142,000 for two gold chains worn during the "G'd Up" music video.
The group claims the chains were gifts and that ten other people were given chains as well.
On August 6, 2001, Tray Deee wrote a letter asking for the unpaid royalties. He said that he received a response from the law firm of Leibowitz, Roberts & Ritholz, stating that all of the royalties were given to Snoop Dogg.
In November of 2001, The Eastsidaz and their manager Terry Carter met with Snoop at his Dogg House Studio.
During the meeting the group alleges that they explained to Snoop how they trusted him and that Snoop himself had been cheated out of royalties while working for Death Row Records.
Tray Dee maintains that Snoop agreed to give Tha Eastsidaz their own record label to release their third album through TVT Records and that Snoop would contribute three songs to the album at no cost.
The Eastsidaz say that they are still waiting for Snoop and claim that his silence is "an attempt to sabotage Tha Eastsidaz project."
Earlier this month the group says Tray Dee went to Snoop's house to return the gold chains and to again ask for the back royalties.
According to the group, security was alerted and Snoop "ran out the back door, hopped the fence, fell, busted his lip and ran into the mountains. The security guards opened fire on Tray Deee and left the premises before police could arrive, leaving Snoop alone on the mountain."
"Let's show the fans who you really are," Tray Dee continued. "Quit running like a coward behind your
security."
http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=2494
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Snoop Iz A Bitch 8)
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According to the group, security was alerted and Snoop "ran" out the back door, hopped the fence, fell, busted his lip and ran into the mountains. The security guards opened fire on Tray Deee and left the premises before police could arrive, leaving Snoop alone on the mountain."
"Let's show the fans who you really are," Tray Dee continued. "Quit running like a coward behind your
security."
:o
Snoop fizzle..
jumped over the fencizzle..
into mountizzle..
away from Tray Deeezzle..
If this is fo' Shizzle...lol
Snoop need's to watch out for the fizzle..
or the Moutain Lionizzle's... ;D
Funny if true..(trouble in paradise)
DPG is falling apart at the seem's...cause of $
sound's kinda familiar.
Hatesrats 2oooTre
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I'm still trying to understand HOW Kurupt has fucked up the DPG.. ::) ???
IMO it was already everything dead. Too bad. This news is really fucked up if it's true.
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Snoop ran out the back door, hopped the fence, fell, busted his lip and ran into the mountains. The security guards opened fire on Tray Deee and left the premises before police could arrive, leaving Snoop alone on the mountain.
LMAO Picture that!!!!!
"Let's show the fans who you really are," Tray Dee continued. "Quit running like a coward behind your security."
Woah damn...Tray callin Snoop a coward...one more beef on the West >:( BUt if this is really true then I lost alot of respect for SNoop..He dissed Suge for years becaus he didnt pay him for Deep Cover and now he's doin the same
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;D ;D ;D
Homie just wait 2-3 days, then go to www.deathrowrecords.net
I bet they'll have an intro making fun of Snoop and saying "Tray Deee to Death Row?"
LOL, just like they did with Jay-O.
TRAY DEEE TO DEATH ROW, c'mon! ;D ;D ;D
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Snoop Knight?
Suge Dogg?
LOL, J/K
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Fucked up if this is true... Imagine: 1 million dollaz!!! (That part about running and hiding in the mountains sounds so far fetched and dumb that it can't be true though...)
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I wonder if this is really true......if it is......wouldn't Snoop have enough money to pay them the million?
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1. Kurupt left the DPG by saying he wasnt getting paid enouf during concerts, ecc..
2. Daz refused to sign to Snoop by saying Snoop offered him an horrible contract.
3. Kokane left the label.
4. Big Tray Deee is now dissing Snoop Dogg, saying he owes him $1 Million.
Who's next? Soopa? Damn man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I heard some other stuff too, and dunno if I believe all that. either way snoops a bitch and eastsidaz needa drop him.
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1. Kurupt left the DPG by saying he wasnt getting paid enouf during concerts, ecc..
2. Daz refused to sign to Snoop by saying Snoop offered him an horrible contract.
3. Kokane left the label.
4. Big Tray Deee is now dissing Snoop Dogg, saying he owes him $1 Million.
Who's next? Soopa? Damn man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wasnt there some kind of Money Issue with Bad Ass too?
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Add fuel to the fire. ;D
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This is bad news. Looks like Snoop is either putting money over his homies, or else he's just a terrible businessman.
"I won't allow nobody to take my hard earned money," Big Tray Dee said. "If you want to take something, let's go head up and winner take all."
:o
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Fucked up if this is true... Imagine: 1 million dollaz!!! (That part about running and hiding in the mountains sounds so far fetched and dumb that it can't be true though...)
lol yeah sounds a bit stupid "fell busted his lip" sounds like people just addin to the story....nxt it'l say snoop mum came n knocked tray out
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C'Mon Yall......Read the fucking story...
BULLSHIT!!! I dont believe a story like that for a second.
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C'Mon Yall......Read the fucking story...
BULLSHIT!!! I dont believe a story like that for a second.
Seeing your sig it was obvious you woudnt believe that story. ;D
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"Tray Deee told me that you'se a bitch snoop dogg
and on the streets, you don't even fuck wit Goldie"
Spider Loc "Tha Row (Y'all Hoes)"
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i believe that tha eastsidaz didnt get as much money as they should of, but i dont believe that ran out the back door, fell, busted his lip bullshit. i also doubt snoops body guards dumped on tray deee, unless tray pulled a strap, but i dont think he did cause hes got no reason to. its not like you start shooting at your homies every time some business gets between you.
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"every time some business.."
Some business means $1 million? Cause that's not business! That's $1 million!
I'm sure Tray Deee will kill his mother to get $1 million, lol!
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i believe that tha eastsidaz didnt get as much money as they should of, but i dont believe that ran out the back door, fell, busted his lip bullshit. i also doubt snoops body guards dumped on tray deee, unless tray pulled a strap, but i dont think he did cause hes got no reason to. its not like you start shooting at your homies every time some business gets between you.
Real homies don't let "business get between them". They share in the profits.
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Tray Dee maintains that Snoop agreed to give Tha Eastsidaz their own record label to release their third album through TVT Records and that Snoop would contribute three songs to the album at no cost.
True.
The Eastsidaz say that they are still waiting for Snoop and claim that his silence is "an attempt to sabotage Tha Eastsidaz project."
Snoop has already laid down tracks for the album, Bacc on the Blocc, and wasnt there a couple other from the advance?
Earlier this month the group says Tray Dee went to Snoop's house to return the gold chains and to again ask for the back royalties.
Those chains werent gold, they were platinum...
According to the group, security was alerted and Snoop "ran out the back door, hopped the fence, fell, busted his lip and ran into the mountains. The security guards opened fire on Tray Deee and left the premises before police could arrive, leaving Snoop alone on the mountain."
"Let's show the fans who you really are," Tray Dee continued. "Quit running like a coward behind your
security."
This is bullshit....
Some of this could be true indeed, but theres alotta bullshit in the story.
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"every time some business.."
Some business means $1 million? Cause that's not business! That's $1 million!
I'm sure Tray Deee will kill his mother to get $1 million, lol!
im just saying if money needs to be sorted out between the 2 they should handel that shit in person, not have your body guards shoot em.
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Oh i agree.
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:o
Snoop fizzle..
jumped over the fencizzle..
into mountizzle..
away from Tray Deeezzle..
If this is fo' Shizzle...lol
LOL :D
I thought Snoop was dissing Xzibit for hiding from Suge, and dissing Suge and claiming "let's head up"...
Now he's running from his homie.. lol
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Snoop ran out the back door, hopped the fence, fell, busted his lip and ran into the mountains. The security guards opened fire on Tray Deee and left the premises before police could arrive, leaving Snoop alone on the mountain.
LMAO Picture that!!!!!
"Let's show the fans who you really are," Tray Dee continued. "Quit running like a coward behind your security."
Woah damn...Tray callin Snoop a coward...one more beef on the West >:( BUt if this is really true then I lost alot of respect for SNoop..He dissed Suge for years becaus he didnt pay him for Deep Cover and now he's doin the same
Yea, Nima told me about this issue a few days ago, and I was shock!!! I cant believe Snoop would do this to himself basically. Him cheating the Eastsidaz is like cheating himself.
Its the same ole shit though.. I guess I aint really that shocked, cuz when I think about it.. we were all trippin when Dre left DR and ever since then, its just been one shock after the next. Im to the point now to where as, Im just numb to this shit.
Axle
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this shit looks fake as fuck. Snoop hiding in a mountain by himself? thats funny as hell. snoop has a big as house, how did trey dee see him run out if he was getting shot at?
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LMFAO i can imgaine snoop runnin out his house bustin his lip LMFAO
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Actually this did go down and it happened just a day before p3 at Snoops crib,the only thing I have heard different is about who was doin the shootin lol
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i think what tray means is that snoop was actin like a bitch, not that he actually ran into a mountain etc..
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Snoop "ran out the back door, hopped the fence, fell, busted his lip and ran into the mountains. The security guards opened fire on Tray Deee and left the premises before police could arrive, leaving Snoop alone on the mountain."
"Let's show the fans who you really are," Tray Dee continued. "Quit running like a coward behind your
security."
lol :D
peace
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Unless there's a mountain in Snoops backyard, he might be taking it a little too far.
lol
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Mo' money, mo' problems...it's a cliché but it's true obviously.
Damn, if this is true, I lost a LOT of respect for Snoop. You would think they were so tight that there would never be any beef between them and now...look at it.
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yeah its true what the article says.. but it wasnt the bodyguards shootin
plus goldies not invovled
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All one account, we don't know what happened. Maybe Tray Dee & Goldie thought they were owed royalties but weren't. The ran out the house bullshit sounds completely made up, all he'd have to do is lock the fucking door if he wanted to be a coward.
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And this is the reason why Kurupt went back to Deathrow, no-one was helpin him out, he had money problems and Suge offered him the help he needed,
Wasnt Suge the man who helped get Snoop outta prison, isnt Suge the man who helped Dre getta outta his Ruthless contract cos he wasnt gettin paid, isnt Suge the main that gave Pac another chance at this whole music industry and become the legend he is today by helping him outta prison.
Isnt Snoop the one who is a big sell out, next album produced by Puffy, 213 having soooo many guest producers, FUCK HIM!!!!!
Im for keeping it real!!!
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yeah its true what the article says.. but it wasnt the bodyguards shootin
plus goldies not invovled
so the whole busting his lip running like homo thing is correct?!?
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Tray Dee maintains that Snoop agreed to give Tha Eastsidaz their own record label to release their third album through TVT Records and that Snoop would contribute three songs to the album at no cost.
True.
The Eastsidaz say that they are still waiting for Snoop and claim that his silence is "an attempt to sabotage Tha Eastsidaz project."
Snoop has already laid down tracks for the album, Bacc on the Blocc, and wasnt there a couple other from the advance?
Earlier this month the group says Tray Dee went to Snoop's house to return the gold chains and to again ask for the back royalties.
Those chains werent gold, they were platinum...
According to the group, security was alerted and Snoop "ran out the back door, hopped the fence, fell, busted his lip and ran into the mountains. The security guards opened fire on Tray Deee and left the premises before police could arrive, leaving Snoop alone on the mountain."
"Let's show the fans who you really are," Tray Dee continued. "Quit running like a coward behind your
security."
This is bullshit....
Some of this could be true indeed, but theres alotta bullshit in the story.
exactly i was reading this and somewhat beleiving it until snoop bin ladin runs to the mountains, and his security starts firing on tray deee.....PLEASE, that ain't true, and that was interesting where you pointed out the gold chain thing cause those were plat
btw this article looks very biased, i mean its says both tha eastsidaz have beef which isn't true, and basically the article is a diss to snoop
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LOL @ the excuses.
Gold or platinum chains, that's a minor detail.
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Unless there's a mountain in Snoops backyard, he might be taking it a little too far.
lol
LMAO
look at all the West Coast Crews breaking up and dying slowly, all those crews that claimed "to be down to the day we die"....and look what happens....and what is the reason for all the same old beefs? Money Money Money And MOney. Look at NWA, Lench Mob, DPG, Eastsidaz............etc
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Thats fucked Snoop doing that. Though I'm sure he didnt intentionally do it at first, after accountants added it up, Snoop should've did the right thing. Sure Snoop being part of the Eastsidaz probably helped them sell alot of records then if he wasnt, but still Snoop should view that as a favour to his homies & also tryin to get his record label running. I'm sure Dre & Eminem take less money to help there label artists & homies career get kick started, like Obie D-12 & 50 Cent.
Snoop knows what its like to be pimped by a record label, so why he do it to other people. This has made me lose alot of respect for Snoop as a person (& no, the running like a coward doesnt have much to do with it). If he does the right thing soon then maybe he will gain some of that respect back.
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And this is the reason why Kurupt went back to Deathrow, no-one was helpin him out, he had money problems and Suge offered him the help he needed,
Wasnt Suge the man who helped get Snoop outta prison, isnt Suge the man who helped Dre getta outta his Ruthless contract cos he wasnt gettin paid, isnt Suge the main that gave Pac another chance at this whole music industry and become the legend he is today by helping him outta prison.
Isnt Snoop the one who is a big sell out, next album produced by Puffy, 213 having soooo many guest producers, FUCK HIM!!!!!
Im for keeping it real!!!
Isnt Suge the person who bitches about every former label member every interview contradicting his previous claims & stories to the point you cant believe him anymore
Isnt Suge the person who kidnapped people & made them drink urine from a glass
Isnt Suge the person who set up Biggie's death
Isnt Suge the person who started the east-west beef that resulted in his friends (no not Pac) death & Biggies death
Isnt Suge the person who held down a female employee while someone else viciously beat her up
Isnt Suge the person who has beat down & humilated many innocent people for doing such things as "rewinding the tape to far"
Yes, your hero Suge is really a class act ::)
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Unless there's a mountain in Snoops backyard, he might be taking it a little too far.
lol
LMAO
look at all the West Coast Crews breaking up and dying slowly, all those crews that claimed "to be down to the day we die"....and look what happens....and what is the reason for all the same old beefs? Money Money Money And MOney. Look at NWA, Lench Mob, DPG, Eastsidaz............etc
Yea, I dug up this old article Murder Dogg did with the Eastsidaz and it goes into detail about how Snoop and Tray Dee met and started doin business together. Its a pretty detailed account of how their relationship evolved. It also outlines the "TRUST" factor that went into the contract signing between Snoop and Tray Dee. As he states in this interview,
"I just had to put my trust in Snoop. That’s why I showed him I would be loyal, so he would in turn be loyal to me and help me learn things through his experiences."
Damn, that sucks that all of this is happening cuz Tray Dee really did look to Snoop for knowledge and expected him to get his back. Business is a bitch yall.
Ax
(http://murderdog.com/archives/eastsidaz/EastsidazImage.jpg)
http://murderdog.com/archives/eastsidaz/Eastsidaz.html
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On the radio, they said "Well, we can solve this real quick"
Then they picked up the phone and was like
"Hello, did you buy the eastsidaz album?"
"No"
"Thank You. Hello, did you buy the eastsidaz album?"
"No"
"O.K., Thanks"
They did that for like 4 callers, one guy said he bought it and took it back, LOL. Then they concluded that Snoop didn't make no royalties to pay them, LOL.