so whats the deal with the deathrow purchase?

[V2DHeart]

They only put out Nate to encourage him to stay on the label otherwise he would have been gone a lot earlier. Never leave me alone was another song that was meant to be on Gridlock'd, along with Staring thru the rearview. He wasn't really meant to have a full album release as the focus in 97 was to set up Death Row East & Makaveli.

[Kashif mirza]

I wonder if the artists know whats going on with the deathrow catalogue.

[adi760]

Even if they do i think cannot talk about this.

[Free Suge Knight, Gucci Mane, & BShmurda Welcome Home Tray D]

Hendrix, like Lennon, like Bob Marley are not just legendary and iconic of specific genre's of music, or even music in general, but rather entire "era's". Dr Dre is, and probably never will be anywhere near that level. But again, it's opinion.

Just look at Quincy Jones. The man is a living legend, has produced entire albums. Off the Wall & Thriller, even producing some of the biggest names in music ever, Sinatra, Fitzgerald etc. and by rights has more musical talent than Dre because he can play more instruments as well as produce in the studio, but even he won't have the iconic popularity of the figures previously mentioned. Dr Dre will always be known and respected, just not that timeless iconic status that will be of any symbolic use (like on T-Shirts 30 years after he's gone)

Yeah that's DEFINITELY YOUR Opinion.  You're definitely wrong as shit and I'm not even saying that becuz I'm a dedicated member of this Forum. 


If you don't think Dr. Dre is as popular as Jimmy Hendrix or even more popular than my main man Jimmy H then you need to get your head up outta your ass and stop living in 1993.  Dr. Dre is world renound. 


You're fantasizing BIG TIME!

[Free Suge Knight, Gucci Mane, & BShmurda Welcome Home Tray D]

On some SmartPhones [and I can't say all becuz I've only owned 3].  You can't even bootleg Dr. Dre's music. 




It goes to show you that Dre is something The Government considers when considering Mass Public Entertainment. 




And you can say what you want but that's a pretty big fuckin' deal. 





And so what there are Artist that the same Ban applies to.  It still doesn't change the fact that Dr. Dre is among the list.  I can download "Magna Carta Holy Grail" with no problem and always could.... I can't say the same thing for "The Chronic" or "2001"

[JeremyM]

Nate Dogg G.Funk Classics Vol.1 was release by Interscope, only a few copies before Nate Dogg got the full rights for his material. He re-released G.Funk Classics Vol.1 (and Vol.2) then with his Dogg Foundation imprint which was ditributed by Breakaway (19th Street Records, unreleased Death Row's Inside Out Compilation)

Yeah, I heard some copies of the CD made it's way around but, the album wasn't officially released here in the U.S. I had a Best Buy ad for the album. I think it was gonna be released close to the release of the Gridloc'd soundtrack. I think it was gonna be released back-to-back with soundtrack like how Death Row did in November of 1996 with The 7 Day Theory and Tha Doggfather release.

I'm still bitter that I showed up at Best Buy to buy the album only to find a sign saying it had been delayed.

[dnjp4life]

Nate Dogg G.Funk Classics Vol.1 was release by Interscope, only a few copies before Nate Dogg got the full rights for his material. He re-released G.Funk Classics Vol.1 (and Vol.2) then with his Dogg Foundation imprint which was ditributed by Breakaway (19th Street Records, unreleased Death Row's Inside Out Compilation)

Yeah, I heard some copies of the CD made it's way around but, the album wasn't officially released here in the U.S. I had a Best Buy ad for the album. I think it was gonna be released close to the release of the Gridloc'd soundtrack. I think it was gonna be released back-to-back with soundtrack like how Death Row did in November of 1996 with The 7 Day Theory and Tha Doggfather release.

I'm still bitter that I showed up at Best Buy to buy the album only to find a sign saying it had been delayed.

I think the album was sold in Canada only as my copy states that it was distributed by Interscope Canada or something like that.  I don't know what the time period between it going on sale and getting pulled from shelves was, but it can't have been long.

Going back to my earlier point, according to Wikipedia, Daz' lawyers recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Rockstar Games stating that they have used 2 of his songs/productions ('C-Walk' and 'Nothin' But The Cavi Hit') without prior permission.  Apparently they offered him around $4,000 for the rights to use the songs in the game but he rejected the money, but they went and used the songs anyway.  This suggests that Daz does not have the rights to any of his material recorded on Death Row Records.

[Kashif mirza]

Maybe daz is working  with e one deathrow so he let them use the tracks.