Suge Knight's Death Row Earnings & 2Pac's Property Dilemma - Shocking Details!
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- Reggie Wright Jr speaks on Suge Knight's monthly check from the company, why 2Pac didn't and couldn't have a house in his name, and how The Score by The Fugees outsold "All Eyez On Me".
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75K a month back then was still 900K a year
They're making good money. Just didn't know how to save and invest.
That's great money for the 90s!!
If i was getting 75 thousands dollars a every month i would let that money grow, plus Tupac went from getting 10 thousands dollars to 20 thousands dollars every week by Suge Knight, Suge wasn't cheating Pac nor any of his Death Row artists.
A decent middle class salary was about $500 a week around that time after taxes
I remember making $12 an hour back in 1997, and I was set with my own apartment. Made about $480 a week before taxes.
That part for my ninjas that know
@@TheQuincyEdwards back in the early to mid 90s, a nice apartment in Texas was around $450 a month.
The point being 2Pac didn't live long enough to get most of his money. He he had lived he would have seen the big money.
@@robert5235 of course but I'm just saying if 2k was what average working class was getting a month imagine $70k.
People need to keep in mind the inflation factor, it's easy to sit here now and say it was insulting for Suge to only give Pac $50/$75k but $50/$75k was a lot back in 95/96 compared to 2024.
It's not even twice as much in 2024
Exactly💯...... 75,000 in 1996 is worth 147,426 today.
Facts that’s equivalent to about 200,000 right now
wtf would pac have an allowance smh he was the cash cow
He didn’t need advances
@@lukelucky1311you understand that the music game they have to wait till the money is recouped first. So all the money they get before hand is before the music even made any money.
Also hip hop albums are sample heavy that’s a lot of money that has to be paid out. That’s why hip artists diversified into clothing/drinks companies/movies….
Great point and truthful
That's why hip hop today is sample free. Might not sound as good to my ears or others from the old skool era but they get ALL the money.
@@TonyMontana33452 it sounds awful. Nothing released these days sounds as good as 93 till infinity. And though they were sampling they did interesting things with those samples. I’m not sure how many are actually in it for the love of the art.
I will take 5k a month with my bills paid
And live where?That's no money.
What you mean they had places to live deathrow paid for everything and that monthly check was spending money
@@Kali_Bleuuyou're tripping. People can survive on that, some even less.
When you are generating multi millions?
@Kymillion07 that's over 30 dollars and hr. Wth you talking bout
Reggie'd said 'Pac and Snoop were on $50k, but 'Pac had renegotiated with Suge for $75k in view of the Killuminati release and setting up Makaveli Records. I've noticed some revisionist stuff since Suge started his podcast.
No matter how much you explain it to them, it's always going to be the "internet owners of Record Companies" that know more than you..
Technically Pac was sending money to the Panthers. NoT to mention the political prisoners being held
I learned this at a classic car dealership.. the guy Told me.. ( on a car I wanted for $21k)
He said u could be a known rich celebrity with millions in your bank account , if u don't have the credit score they're looking for then u aint getting the car.. even if u put down $20k And left $1k credit.. if u don't have the credit u can't get it..
Houses are same Way but even worse cuz they go by more than your Credit.. no death row artists had the credit to put those houses in their names.. Suge didn't have the credit either.. they used the company name cuz it's a company and companies get credit..
Not true dude lied to you. I was 25 FKD up credit score 515 challenger was 38k the madee put down 15k and financed it for 45k. If your credit bad you just pay more that's all. If you have money why the hell would you have bad credit when you could just buy stuff and report it crazy
You are absolutely right
You are right bcuz i tried the same thing and he told me he would still have to run my credit and im like are you serious i wanna purchase it straight out and he was like yup...back in the days you could do that with str8 cash but not nowadays
@@KylieRyan-hb9mz some people will have money and bad credit and not try to clean their credit.. personally if I was rich the first thing I'd do is go fix it all including medical bills.. I don't wanna owe anything..
But i guess it depends on the credit too.. yes if u got bad credit u end up paying more in the end especially for down payment but some places are really tight on it.. it was a auto dealership in Palm springs.. they only sell Old classic cars and everything they have are damn near show room quality cars.. looks like perfectly restored cars. The car I was trying to get was a 1963 ss Chevy Impala convertible.. it was white.. s beautiful white color too.. that car was so clean including the chrome. Maybe the dealer I talked to That day wanted that car for himself and was saving up for it 😂
In America Cash is King Period I have gotten any car I wanted with Average Credit and Money You Good facts
To keep your credibility Reg u can’t keep painting Suge as an Angel. Cmon bro
I clearly understand what u saying. Reg. And I do not understand why these people don’t understand that giving somebody 75k a lmtj is a lot of money. 10k a month is a lot of money. It’s 2025 and 10k a month now is a lot of money.
Right my lives comfortable making 10K a month right now.
$75K a month is still hella good now! Most don't make that in a year.
Same with Diddy, Suge, Baby, etc when it US they don’t look at it like business, they think they’re friends. Mark Curry said after his career failed Puffy could’ve at least gave him money to start rehabbing houses. No company just gives you shit
Thank you.
The Fugees sold over 20 million they still eating off that album
@@reggiewright there is a difference between not being able to pay and not paying
how you know😂
@@reggiewright Wesley could have and didn't
Fugees didn’t sell 20M records
Suge said all eyez on me sold for $19.95
Being it was double disk
The album sold 7 million while he was alive
That's 140m
You said death row had A 50/50
That's 70 million reg
He had to pay at least 9 million in videos, cars, rent, etc etc and $5000 a week
Pac wasn't getting 75k monthly
Suge said pac was paid $5000 weekly
Then it went to 10k
Averaging artist deal was
18%
That's 10 million total
That means pac owed money to death row because that 9 million plus more in expenses would come out the artist pay
Moral of the story
Pac was spending too much money
Way too much for an artist who's on bail and got bailed out for 1.4 million
ps/
My numbers are off I see
PAC sold 7 million
But really it was 3.5 million albums counted as double disk
So really that's 69-70 million
In half is 35 million
18% goes to PAC which is 6.3 million
That means PAC owed death row
Videos, Producer cuts, studio time, security, monthly allowance, bills, loans etc
He probably owed death row at that time before his death over 2 million
PAC as brand was worth way more to death row and PAC knew it. The record sales was a small percentage of why death row wanted him. PAC had movies lined up, book deals and his own record company which I’m sure death row would’ve had a stake in. They kept him in debt so they could be apart of the brand. Oldest game in the book.
Well over $2 million, his bond was almost $3 million, that's why people kill me saying he was leaving death row he couldn't
@@kerry2921
His bond was 1.5 million
@@NinodaBlogger different articles say different numbers but it definitely wasn't that low I know, I've never seen that number before,
Love the truth Regg. Thank God for Bomb1st, cuz I really don't see any other podcasts speaking on behind the scenes Death Row business.
Great content Bomb 1st family
People not around when he was alive shouldn’t really comment on how Tupac was that guy was in the news all the time. They had Tupac news on every news channel he had so many lawsuits.
What law sue he had they tried to destroy this man the ELITE kno his background that rape case was bullshit and u kno what I ain't never heard nobody talk about someone who supposed to b dead over 25 years they still talking about pac
Mr thug life was not very smart
@@themack74 Mr thug life was a kid an adult for about 5years and accomplished way more than you and your whole family at that age ,. You commented but yet got no money probably
@@gopatriotsknox9259 so, you call getting an A.A.S., a B.S., and a J.D. accomplishing nothing? lol. Ok. I am not rich, but I am not struggling. By the way, I also am self-taught at songwriting and recording. It is not hard. lol. Everything is in my name. I NEVER went to prison, and I still am alive. However, you are right. PAC beat me. To death. He died before me. lol. Stop. We are not in the same league. Now, say some more ish.
@@themack74you ain't got all that cause you wouldn't be on here commenting if you did
Still remember what you said when I asked you a question..I can’t wait to meet you in person bro 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
Love the Podcast Reggie & John. Keep up the good work
The realest!!!!! loved the graph breakdown!!!!!
I think the Fugees went double diamond 💎
Even if it did they have to split it up with the group.they were getting less then a dollar a album.
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When is the next live stream? Can you do a Q & A livestream?
I'm surprised at how many woman Tupac has that he never got one pregnant
🤣You still haven't worked him out.
@@user-ce1nf1fx2z 😂😂😂
Jimmy hats, friend...
@@IceManLikeGervina lot were lies
@@themack74 I don't think so... Pac was knocking down females left and right. He was a superstar rapper as well as a movie star... plus he was very charismatic.
Y’all don’t understand finances and record deal monies if y’all don’t know the business and questioning where all the monies went. Between taxes and recoupment and the legal mumbo jumbo ….your head will blow off. Y’all don’t understand….EVEN IN THE MID 90’s RAP MUSIC WASN’T THE BIG MONEY MAKER. R&B was still the bigger genre. There were radio station still only playing an hour of hip hop while R&B got all of the airplay! Who made hip hop come to the forefront was Def Jam, Deathrow and Bad Boy. Even Uptown Records was primarily an R&B record label
Good Video 👍🏾💯
@@reggiewright You're welcome Brotha
man I had it all wrong suge looked out for pac and loved him! Im looking at all the money given and spent. And thats just what we are told suge wasnt bad to tupac.
Death Row Had That Credit Line
Great history on music and sports Reggie. People getting paid from years ago is much different.
Bench warmers getting 25M a year is crazy 😂
Mann deathrow was making serious $$ back then
The Magic Johnson comment was valid from Reggie!
This is a great interview. Reggie is bringing the truth. I remember this gangster back in the day. He didn't play.
Tupac was human at the end of every day
people always act like pac was the only platinum artist back then, its just like reg said the fugees had a banger i think they went diamond if i recall. there was alot of groups over platinum back then. pac really didnt turn into the goat until years after his death, most people just saw him as part of the bunch but his music outlived everyone else because he made so much of it that he has more hits even unreleased hits
PAC's music lives because of the quality of lyrical content
he had two number one albums that year (same year that the fugees dropped their album) one being a double album… he definitely stood out that year. not to mention dropping hit em up summer of that year (96)… made him even bigger
he was the biggest rapper in america at the time of his death, so it wasn’t like he was some d list rapper that only got recognized for his greatness after death… he died with 6 million records sold so obviously he was the hype
@@bossplayavon im not going to deny all eyez on me blew up huge, but bro he wasnt on death row for even a year. i have actual mini vhs tapes being 15 yrs old with all my friends smoking weed and you can hear all eyez on me on rotation in the background but its not the only thing people played. it was a banger of a cd everyone had but its not the only cd people played back in the day. so i totally understand he was big and famous, out of jail platinum album and then death. but people fail to recall them big ass cd cases we had that almost made us wreck while driving. that was a thing. having a entire cd case of other peoples music besides pac who were just as popular. and death row fell off quick and no limit took over then cash money. wu tang had their double album so did bone.
@@MrJamesradcliffe agreed, thats what i meant by hits basically. his lyrics hit home
Well stated
“REGGIE AINT EVER LIE”
Keyboard gangsters 😂😂😂 Reggie a fool
im a keyboard Gangster 👌🤙🤞🤏✌🤘👐 i am a crip
I'm glad Reg spoke about credit, because most people tend to forget about that
Suge was over paying alot of those artists on deathrow
Fact but everyone will say he was robbing them just to follow the crowd for clout without researching
Exactly think about the ones who didn’t put music out produce hits or anything. They were basically getting free $$$$
@@krazyaproductions2352even Danny Boy admitted he was living like a superstar but did the bare minimum at Death Row, this might sound good but the messed up part is that he was actually taking from artists who were putting out good work to maintain these bench artists, the money wasn’t coming from nowhere
@@thabomboneni2994exactly
Facts and there’s so much proof for that. First if you even go back to then times, death rows everything was on a different level, from the wardrobe, vehicles, jewellery, the videos etc.. and then compare it to the second biggest label and you would see the difference straight away. You could see and tell that death row was actually spending money. Secondly you can go and see everyone that got overpaid coz none of them made anything similar to when they was on death row exception being Dre. Coz his just as big if not bigger than he was back then. But anyone and everyone else didn’t do even close to the death row $$$. Thirdly, when you than calculate everything that’s public knowledge you will see that suge was overpaying them overall by at least a couple of millions. Back then a music video will cost a million dollars, then you have to remember studio time, licences, lawyers, accountants, security, cars, food, clothing, smoking, houses, bail, flights, holidays, setups, then workers that run maintain or are in charge of those roles, samples, advertising, marketing, merchandise etc.. and this is all before your music album has even made any money, everything you’ve been paid is based off of speculation. By the time your album has even recouped substantial amount of money, they’ve already been paid more than they would have made. Now if the music labels decided not to pay for anything before hand, and pay the artists at the end when the albums made substantial amount of money, most of these rappers by the end of it would end up being even more broke. They’ll be spending all their time paying for everything after they got paid they wouldn’t even be living as they did. We would see a more gradual grow in wealth by most of these music artist producers etc.. instead of a big mansion in the first year, we would probably see it in their 5year etc..
#"KEYBOARD GANGSTAZ" LOL REGG U COLD 4 THAT ONE
Tupac was solid at least he wasn't on no funny stuff like puff
Didn't he take a pic in a tub. With jewelry on..... ayo pause
@@jcc3333and it was hard af. Was recreated by few artists after pac demise
I remember some dude from Germany was selling an order of buying property in 2pac's name around 1993. That paper costed around 10k$ 10+ years ago on ebay. That seller also had some 2pac's hand written demo with 3 unreleased tracks for around 2500$, known as selling some crazy rare private local gangsta cassettes still on watch lists.
"ADVANCE"! THAT SAYS IT ALL.
'95 was a great year
Back in them days the average rap artist got paid between 5 to 25 cents per cd that was being sold from $15 to $20
"Tryna make a dollar outta 15 cents"
Reggie just said they're getting $1 per album. Things were different back then.
@@LoveIsAllWeneed666 everybody didn't get $1 per album. Do your reservations if you don't believe me.
Mr. Weigh dropping DIAMONDS 💪😤💯GOTTA LOVE HIM🙏🙏🙏
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The Score my all time
bone thugs sold 30 million records and they were broke lol bizzy was homeless at one point
Tupac the goat 🐐
Of what
Rap fool
That's big facts Reggie
Suge sounds like he was paying the bulk of the expenses but spreading the wealth as much as possible. If Tupac were alive today the bulk of his income would come from touring, sneakers, a clothing line and acting . Probably not royalties from record sales. Just like Kanye West....
lol. Pac would not have a clothing line, sneakers, etc. . Who would invest millions in the name of a convicted offender? lol. You all are delusional
@@themack74
These same people who watch TH-cam clips about him . People are investigating right now in a pathological liar, a rapist and a soon to be convicted felon named Donald Trump
@@themack74
People invest in a rapist and a soon to be convicted felon named Donald Trump every day
I don’t care what anyone thinks or say Suge love PAC frfr Brothers….
Riggie let's do this movie man! Call David Kenner to help us
Speaking of David Kenner it would be very interesting to see him do some interviews about the old Death Row days.
@@coreyrowe4119 I agree
Basically Pac hadn't recouped
that's it i don't think Suge stole from him but he just didn't live longer to get paid his royalties
@mexia23 that might be right. I heard it take a minute to get your money. Pac just did not live long enough
The sad fact was Tupac was not good at the business side of the industry he was in and it seemed like he finally was putting things together with trying to start his own record company or production company with the euthanasia company he had recently started but he didn’t live to see what his next move was going to be!
Tupac already had his own record company- Out Da Gutta Records, with Interscope. He released Thug Life, Me Against The World on his label... and he directed music videos as well as acted in movies. Tupac was supporting his entire family plus a bunch of extended family and friends as well. The more you know.
It’s sad with 2pac he was so talented and loyal but most of everyone around him friends and family weren’t loyal or took advantage of his kind heart they took his kindness for a weakness. Years after his death he still has family members selling stuff he owned that they inherited to put money in their pocket
He was good at business he simply had issues and trouble clearly but he was making moves to get all in order …I think that’s Great business moves and also he’s loyal af and u know how loyalty works
@@reign3902if I said Tupac couldn’t play cricket you stans would say he was the best cricket player ever
Pac couldn't start his own company, he owed death row millions, Interscope was done with them and refused to give affeni a loan to bond him out, Jimmy lovine told Suge great you take him!
Man Pac and those guys got did dirty, that paperwork is important
We done wit da 80's 90's
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Hi, I've always wondered why with the millions Deathrow Records was making, they only had 2 recording studios for all their artists to fight over? You always hear stories of 2Pac taking up all the studio time, and other artists like Lady of Rage not getting studio time to work on her album. Why didn't Deathrow have one or two more extra studios after all the money made? This would have surely reduced some of the internal tensions. Plus, was anybody else apart from 2Pac able to make a hit from the wack room? and let us know the song/artist.
Ese from London.
They had no fights over studio time, they didn't have enough producers, Dre wasn't working, They had way more artists than producers
Reggie what was Dre's position at Deathrow was he a Co owner or just head producer?
Got to remember that was the 90s a new Mercedes was under 50k but if Death Row was keeping all the concert money thats a different story.
That boy said keyboard gang😅😅😅😅
People Tupac was only 25 years old
And this guy talk about him like it was yesterday 1996 🆚 2024
What's Hannin Reggie Ru 🩸
75k a month back in the day, that’s living comfortable
People got to remember, when Pac died that's when he started selling mega mega records, even the records that was made after he died was selling mega million records, not saying Pac wasn't selling when he was alive, but after he died he outsold what he did when he was alive.
Dude what county you grow up in? All eyes on me sold 10.6 million records and he was alive you tgoppi
Suge's house in Vegas was NOT in his name!
Looking a lot healthier reg 😊
If you can't survive off of $75,000 a month or $50,000 something is seriously wrong.
Reggie is 100% right. I’m a realestate guy (not in Cali) but in Cali they can take your house when you have judgements against you. If I’m not mistaken he bought afeni a house in Georgia. That would be a place judgements wouldn’t be as much of a problem. This is why OJ moved from Cali to Florida.
What's judgements mean in realestate talk I'm from Ireland
Oj put things in his daughters name and he was in Vegas and had to do parole there
Very true
man these video directors were robbing the artist ... they never have money problems you hear about!!!
Way to clear shit up Reg. In the 90s there was always a huge misconception where it was made to seem as if Deathrow financially took advantage of Pac. Suge was really taking care of his artist & helping them live prosperous. All Suge needed was a little bit more discipline, tone down the gang activity😎, leave Dre’s women alone.
It’s dope Right way was earning 6 figures a year in 95 96. Why did you stop running the security firm, seems like in LA that business is the gift the keeps on giving.
Reggie. Did you keep a journal from back then ? Or is everything just coming from memory ?
Pac was bigger than all of them combined 8:53
The advancement along can make you broke. Because that’s what is it an “advancement “
I thought Suge was making a guaranteed 1.5 million a month??
@@reggiewright Okay, thanks for clearing that up. I misunderstood what you said in a past video.
That was the budget to run label
You're not the sharpest tool in the shed, huh?!
@@NoneofYabiz-rx3zi Why did you delete your covid comment🤔
@@melanatedwarrior3530 I honestly don't know what you're talking about. Trust me though, I ain't the one deleting comments.
John and Redge, however, sometimes remove unwanted posts
If Suge #1 drove like Suge #2 we would be having a different conversation
Thats true, Jordan was the best player & most underpaid player along with pippen, Scottie basically robbed himself & jordan didnt give a fuck cuzz of the sneaker money, jerry kruse was a genius the way he put that bulls team together
Reg, do you think DDR would have promoted Danny Boy if he stayed around , Or was his music to sweet n soft for DRR?.
Times are different.
Daz monthly sound low.. producers make the sound should be higher I assume..
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Reality is it wasn't what people think I remember what my folks C bo said in the early 2000s he spend over a million but never had a million in the rap game all his 16 album he put out.
How do Reggie know all this information ?
Y’all gotta think too they didn’t even get a chance to do a tour . That’s why years later the up in smoke tour was so big . It was the one death row didn’t get a chance to do!!!
300,000$ to do a video vs 0$ possibly to do a video today . Lol crazyv
Hey Big Reg. Is it true that you and Big Suge ran a train on Aretha Franklin back in ‘95?
Lol. Huh
Tell em Regg!!
900k a year back then is rar okay tbh 🎉🎉
regarding recouping, I see Reggie recouping his old weight now.
Lol@ when you do the voice of the person arguing with you, this person has to still be at the parents house and never have a job
Reggie you got “ Selective memory “..
Reg , you stay shaving right before you shoot the videos , take ur shirt off , you do that before u get dressed
Yeah Reggie you're right. Interscope did pac way worse than what people claim Suge did
Reg I get what u saying, but mj a billionaire because he was an exceptional basketball player , thats why his shoes sold and are still selling
Besides California love what music video did he do that cost 300K... Make it make sense 🤷🏾♂️
Juice was a low budget movie. Like . Like the first Friday movie..
Nice shit Regg