It's May 24, 2024, 02:09:42 AM
TSS: Your Death Row record, Say Hi To The Bad Guy, began to leak. How do you feel about that?Crooked I: Man, I’m really upset about that because here’s the thing: When they took control of Death Row Records from Suge—in my opinion, I haven’t even talked to Suge about it—it seems like they didn’t even let the man go in his office and clean up and move all his stuff. It’s like he can’t even walk in there. That’s how it seems because when they had the auction, there was stuff in that auction that I know he wanted, that he would’ve never let go. So, he must not have had the power to go in his own office because they were selling 2Pac plaques, 2Pac’s jeans, Suge’s underwear, etc. because he had a penthouse at the top of Death Row so he had a lot of personal items up there. They were selling all that in the auction. Some dude, I’m hearing, bought one of Suge’s briefcases with a CD of mine inside with like seven songs. Some other dude bought something that had a CD of mine in there with 8,9 more songs so these dudes are like, “We have the whole album. We gonna start leaking it.”Now, keep in mind that a lady named Lara Lavi from Wideawake Entertainment just spent $18 million on a catalog. So, she wants me to be involved with putting out Say Hi To The Bad Guy sorta like Nas did The Lost Tapes. She called me about my involvement and she wanted to sit down with me. I told her, “Yo, do you know some of that product has been leaking?” She ain’t even know. That’s a double whammy. It don’t only just hurt me, it’s hurting her because she just spent $18 million on some of this music. There’s another dude who got some music. He said he’s gonna sell each song on eBay for $1500 because here’s the thing man—the more underground something is, the more that these Internet collector junkies will pay for it. “Yo, if I can get that and nobody else got it, it’s something.”So, I heard one dude got like 500 pre-orders right now and he’s supposed to be selling an album for $250. And that’s just in this short time. He’s gonna get more orders and more orders. It’s like, “Yo, how much money dude think he’s gonna make without us getting none and blocking our money?” That’s something that’s being dealt with on the highest level of the law from her company. And that shit is wack man. You know we spent a lot of time making that music. Plus, the music means something to us. To just leak it out…like I had to ask the sites to remove it. It comes with the territory. We can no longer go to the corner and threaten the bootlegger no more. That’s over. The bootlegger is online, in his room, and we have no idea where he lives. What can we do? Can’t do shit.TSS: Was the stuff that leaked even gonna be on the album?Crooked: Yeah and they weren’t even mixed, though. These were unfinished joints. I would just do joint, joint, joint, joint, joint and then I’d go in, listen to everything, ride around in the car to it and say, “Ok, I need to put this here. I need a DJ over here.” That stuff was mad unfinished. Now, I ain’t even listen to the shit. I know the one with Ja Rule and Ray J leaked, and I know a record with Juvenile leaked, too. I couldn’t do nothing about it. Those joints were going on the record. So, I don’t know what we gonna do now.
dominique whitfield or wickliffe?
At one point he has. He's saying he doesn't have the time to sit around and contribute to a project that won't really help him at all.