Death Row Records

Death Row Records
Parent company	Death Row entertainment LLC ( WIDEawake / Warner / EMI )
Active years	1991 to 2006
founder	Suge Knight , Dr. Dre
Seat	los Angeles
Website	www.deathrowmusic.com
distribution	Koch Records
Genre (s)	Hip-hop , west coast hip-hop , G-funk

Death Row Records (also known as Tha Row Records ) is a music label founded by Suge Knight and Dr. Dre was founded. It was once the home of rappers Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg , Left-Eye and Tupac Shakur and is considered to be the dominant label of the G-Funk era, which significantly shaped hip-hop in the 1990s . Death Row has sold over 50 million records worldwide and posted revenue of over $ 750 million.

history

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Death Row Records (also known as Tha Row Records since 2001) was founded by former football player Marion "Suge" Knight and Dr. Dre (André Young) founded in 1991. The first Death Row release was the album The Chronic by former NWA member Dr. Dre. On the album, which sold over four million times, today's hip-hop greats such as Daz Dillinger , Kurupt and Snoop Dogg made their debut . With this album, Death Row immediately made a name for itself as an innovative and successful hip hop label. This was followed by the commercially even more successful debut album by Snoop Dogg with the title Doggystyle , which sold around 10 million times and thus received a diamond record, making it the best-selling album by Death Row Records.

Death Row built a roster of many big names on the scene these days. Kurupt and Daz Dillinger released the album Dogg Food as Tha Dogg Pound . Compared to the Death Row predecessors it turned out to be rather bad commercially, although it was musically of the highest quality.

In 1995 Tupac Shakur , who was in prison for (alleged) sexual harassment at the time, signed a contract with Death Row for a "normal" and a double album. In return, Death Row paid the $ 1.4 million bail. In 1996 he released All Eyez on Me, the first double album in hip-hop history. With around 10 million sales, it is Tupac's best-selling album and, after "Doggystyle", the second most successful album by "Death Row Records".

In 1996, Dr. Dre Death Row to start his own label, Aftermath Entertainment . After Tupac's death on September 13, 1996, other artists left the label. Snoop Dogg released another album called Tha Doggfather , which he dedicated to the recently deceased rapper Tupac Shakur. The album turned out to be rather disappointing; Snoop Dogg also left the label and signed with the label No Limit Records of Master P .

The artists who stayed with Death Row accused the others of cowardice and infidelity, which they clearly expressed in songs like Easy to be a Soldier, When There Ain't No War or Fuck Dre . In the meantime, Daz became Death Row Vice President. But even he didn't want to stay with Death Row any longer. After he released his solo debut Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back in 1998, he left the label in late 1999 and founded the independent label DPG Recordz, which was initially intended as a sub-label of Death Row. In 2000 he released the album RAW , which largely comes from material from Death Row times. Kurupt, who had already left the label in 1998, but still maintained good contacts with his partner Daz and Suge Knight, returned to Death Row in 2002 to take over the position of vice-president, which Daz and Kurupt become bitter enemies let. In the meantime, however, the differences have been put aside after the two accidentally ran into each other in 2005 and talked to each other.

After Suge Knight's release, the label was renamed Tha Row Record in 2001. With new artists ( Crooked I , Tha Realest , Eastwood, Kurupt ) Tha Row tries to rise again. Crooked I, who made a name for himself on various mixtapes and the in-house Death Row compilations, was never able to release his announced album until the end. Only Kurupt released his album Against Tha Grain in 2005 , but left the label again shortly afterwards.

In total, Death Row sold over 50 million albums. 2Pac alone sold over 36 million albums (not all through Death Row). 20 million of them sold after his death. This makes him the rap artist with the most sales.

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In March 2005, Suge Knight was asked to pay Lydia Harris $ 106 million. She claims that her husband, the imprisoned drug king, Michael "Harry-O" Harris, contributed $ 1.5 million to found the label and in return received a 50 percent share of the label.

On April 4, 2006, the head of the Death Row label in Los Angeles initiated bankruptcy proceedings for himself and his music label.

In an interview with the New York Post on March 9, 2007, Suge Knight announced that he would close the label. Disney World showed interest in the label and bought it up. After seeking advice from Pastors Noel Jones and TD Jakes of Compton, he decided to close Death Row for good.

According to an interview with Death Row Records' PR manager on March 12, 2007, the label may not be closed after all.

On May 29, 2008, TMZ.com published the judgment of the US bankruptcy court stating that Death Row and all of its assets should be auctioned off to the public. As part of this judgment, the public auction took place on June 24, 2008. As the sole bidder, the Global Music Group was able to secure the rights to the songs for around $ 24 million. In February 2008, Warner Music Group had offered $ 25 million for the rights.

Former Death Row performers

• 2Pac
• Big Pimpin 'Delemond
• Crooked I
• Daz Dillinger
• Danny Boy
• DJ Quik
• Dr. Dre
• Eastwood
• Gina Longo
• GP The Beast
• J-Flexx
• Jewell Peyton
• Kurupt
• Lake
• Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
• Mark Morrison
• MC hammer
• Michel'le
• Nate Dogg
• OFTB
• Outlawz
• Petey Pablo
• Sam Sneed
• Snoop Dogg
• Swoop G
• Tha Dogg Pound
• Tha Realest
• The Lady of Rage
• Top Dogg
• Tray deee
• Young Soldierz

Publications

without box sets and DVDs

1. Dr. Dre - The Chronic (1992)
   
2. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (1993)
   
3. Soundtrack - Above the Rim (soundtrack). (1994)
   
4. Soundtrack - Murder Was The Case (1994)
   
5. Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Food (1995)
   
6. 2Pac - All Eyez On Me (1996)
   
7. Makaveli (2Pac) - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996)
   
8. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Tha Doggfather (1996)
   
9. Various - Death Row Greatest Hits (1996)
   
10. Death Row artists - Christmas on Death Row (1996)
    
11. Soundtrack - Gridlock'd (soundtrack) (1997)
    
12. Lady of Rage - Necessary Roughness (1997)
    
13. Soundtrack - Gang Related (soundtrack) (1997)
    
14. Nate Dogg - G-Funk Classics Vol. 1 (1997)
    
15. Daz Dillinger - Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back (1998)
    
16. Michel'le - Hung Jury (1998)
    
17. 2Pac - Greatest Hits (1998)
    
18. Death Row artists - Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000 (1999)
    
19. Death Row artists - Too Gangsta for Radio (2000)
    
20. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Dead Man Walkin '(2000)
    
21. Tha Dogg Pound - 2002 (2001)
    
22. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Death Row: Snoop Doggy Dogg at His Best (Greatest Hits) (2001)
    
23. 2Pac - Until the End of Time (2001)
    
24. Dr. Dre - Chronicle: Best of the Work (2002)
    
25. 2Pac - Better Dayz (2002)
    
26. Dysfunctional Family OST (2002)
    
27. 2Pac - Nu-Mixx Klazzics (2003)
    
28. 2Pac - The Prophet: The Best Of The Works (2003)
    
29. Snoop Dogg - Tha Dogg: Best of the Works (2003)
    
30. 2Pac - Life (2004)
    
31. The Very Best Of Death Row (2005)
    
32. 2Pac - Live At The House Of Blues (2005)
    
33. Death Row artists - 15 Years on Death Row (2006)
    
34. Death Row artists - 15 Years on Death Row Vol. 2 - The Singles Collection (2007)
    
35. Various Artists - Death Row: The Singles Collection (2007)
    
36. Dr. Dre - Chronicles: Death Row Classics (2007)
    
37. 15 Years on Death Row (2007)
    
38. Death Row Archives: The Soundtracks (2007)
    
39. Dr. Dre - The Chronic Re-Lit (2009)
    
40. Various - Death Row Greatest Hits 2 (2009)
    
41. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Death Row: The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009)
    
42. Kurupt - Down & Dirty (2010)
    
43. Danny Boy - It's About Time (2010)
    
44. Crooked I - Hood Star (2010)
    
45. Sam Sneed - Street Scholars (2011)
    
46. LBC Crew - Haven't You Heard ... (2011)
    
47. OFTB - Damn Near Dead (2011)
    
48. Jewell - My Blood, My Sweat, My (2011)
    
49. Jewell - Black Diamond (2011)
    
50. Various Artists - 20 To Life: Volume 1 (2012)
    
51. Tha Dogg Pound - Doggy Bag (2012)
    
52. Various Artists - 20 To Life: Volume 2 (2012)
    

literature

• Ronin Ro: Have Gun Will Travel . The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records. 1st edition. Doubleday, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-385-49134-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deathrow Records History Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ New York Post Article [1]
3. ↑ USPRwire [2]