2pac,Dr Dre,Snoop masters? What a dummy Suge is for getting involved with Harry O. Leads to the downfall of his company. BYE BYE ROW> And you just signed Petey Pablo




Death Row Close To Court Takeover
April 03, 2006, 11:00 AM ET
Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight skipped a court-ordered appearance at a hearing about his assets Saturday, setting the stage for courts to take control of his Death Row Records label.

Knight has missed several hearings in a legal battle since he lost a $107 million judgment last year to Lydia Harris, a former associate who claimed she helped start the rap record empire with her former husband, Michael Harris.

Michael Harris, an imprisoned drug dealer, says he put up $1.5 million to help start the record label -- an assertion Knight has repeatedly denied. A judge last month ordered the record company into receivership, which hinged on Knight's appearance at Saturday's hearing.

A court-appointed "receiver" would take control of all assets of Death Row Records, including a music library containing the records of such artists as Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dog and Dr. Dre, said Steve Goldberg, attorney for Michael Harris.

Lawyers for the Harris' said they would ask that Knight be held in contempt and jailed until he participates in the hearing to disclose his assets. "He's had his last chance as far as we're concerned," Goldberg said.

A hearing was set for tomorrow to finalize the receivership and address the contempt request. "We are going to ask the receiver to take ownership of the music library and auction it off," Goldberg said. He predicted this could be "a death sentence for Death Row Records."

Knight's attorney, Dermot Givens, would say only, "We try our cases in the court and not in the press." Givens also did not appear at the hearing. Givens had said Friday that he told opposing lawyers Knight would not appear at the hearing. He gave no reason.

Last December, a judge froze Knight's assets, saying he and his lawyers had failed to answer questions and provide information in the case.

dumbass.

Trickology said:

This cat wrote the book on STUPID.

I guess it goes to prove that there is a whole lot of phony " Gangstas " and " Real Niggas " in the BUSINESS of RAP/Hip Hop. Was there ever anyone on Suge's side, this fall from the top is going to be huge?

UncleGrandpa said:

I could tell you some stories man.....these cats are FOOLS.

nooooo ya think?????

stupid ass n$&%$^ I cant stand em !!!

Couldn't have happened 2 a nicer guy.

So, since the music library's being auctioned, could Dre and Snoop buy back their stuff if they wanted?

I hate to celebrate somebody's downfall but fuck him.

fuck him...stupid bastid..

sinisterpentatonic said:

The Org has had me laughin' my ass off today.

he's made his bed now he's lying in it.

Why doesn't Afeni buy the remaining rights of 2pac?

Who is gonna buy Left Eye aka N.I.N.A.'s lp?


Ohhh man..... I still think Tha Row was a planned drug laundering company. Am I the Only one? Everything about that company.....Maybe thats what Suge meant when he smoked on those cigars "We got product coming out"

You mean to tell me...that 2pac catalog paid the bills for everything of Tha Row? I don't know. Something doesn't add up.




Did anyone hear about his Dj Promotion for Row in the early days? They would go see a D.J. and if he couldn't be bought he could be beaten.
Lock the doors and commence the beatdown.


Yes, it's a Suge Knight Thread,marda farkas

just another example of "reaping what you sow..."

Afeni Shakur does legally own the rights to ALL of 'Pac's material....but I'm fairly connected in the underground Tupac collecting scene, and it's well known theres a lot of stuff Death Row didn't hand over - as well as a great deal of masters that were stolen and later sold (I know a few guys that have some of them - the only known copies of some of it to exist)

npgmaverick said:

Mmmmm hmmmm!

He reminds me of Marsales in Pulp Fiction..lol

You mean to tell me...that 2pac catalog paid the bills for everything of Tha Row? I don't know. Something doesn't add up.


Could be... Don't forget to think about the worldwide sales from the Tupac catalog as well: I live in Europe now and post-humos Tupac releases are aggressively marketed here to the point of him being an Elvis-like phenomenon in the pop and R&B world...as an American I always feel a little turned off by it, 'cause for me it amounts to not much more than creative pillaging on the part of WHOEVER owns the rights to this stuff and is making Euros hand over fist every time they release something (without an artist to pay, without usual artist expenses), and on top of that, given the current excahnge rate between the euro and dollar, they've been making about 20%-22% on top of every dollar for the past year (& anything they would have released here in 2004-early 2005 would have given them 25%-30% on top)....every time I've heard a "new" Tupac song reach no.#1 or seen a "new" animation Tupac video here, all I could think is "where is all this money going"?...

missfee said:

Exactly! Like so many others, he's a thug living a rich mans' life. I hope he fades into oblivion.

Militant said:

why cant people just be right?

If this is true, this may be the perfect time for Snoop Dogg, Daz and Tha Dogg Pound, Nate Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Afeni Shakur (for 2Pac) to buy back their masters. This can be something real big in hip hop right now. From what I learned years ago, Afeni Shakur only owns the 2Pac recordings from 1991-1995, the recordings from 1997-Present. The recordings released through Interscope Records is co-owned by Interscope Records. The recordings that was released through Death Row Records is owned and co-owned by Death Row Records. I'll break the Death Row Records and 2Pac catalog later.

sms130 said:

Hopefully...

sinisterpentatonic said:

For real!

Ottensen said:

Other than 2pac's pre-DeathRow material, 2pac's mother Afeni also gained rights to all of 2pac's unreleased DeathRow material, so anytime theres an posthumanous album of songs Pac recorded when he was on DeathRow, its released as a joint venture between Amaru Records (owned by Afeni) and DeathRow Records, so profits are split between his mother (who really deserves it) and Suge. Afeni was expressed her displeasure with Deathrow cause their sneaky - DeathRow tries to look for loop holes to get out of agreements with her.

Militant said:

Damn you, Dante. Damn you....
[Edited 4/13/06 8:11am]

Romera said:

Thats my favourite quote for today!