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.
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.
@@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….
@@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 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 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 😂
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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
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.
@@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.
@@brianking4225 here comes the pink power ranger. lol. Did you just admit that you have not done ish? lol. Reggie wright, man, this know-it-all with no answers just did exactly what you talked about. He knows nothing about how an educated man behaves, yet he is trying to speak on one. Lol
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
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.
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
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.
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
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!
@@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
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..
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....
@@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
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.
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To say the Fugees was big as Pac is Straight Cap…besides Killing me Softly that album was trash. I remember they put out that goofy as cowboy song as a follow up
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.
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.
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.
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.
A dollar a record 🤔… hella nawl Michael Jackson don’t even get a dollar a record😂.. Reg still being generous like Death Row was with the cash.. Only label you could live like you sold platinum records but never released a album
@@almightytre3730 you are right should’ve known better Mike was top food chain and he got the highest percentage ever at the time, while the average artist gets cents not dollars
@@Incredible_Geez yep. If you weren’t around in 96 than you shouldn’t even speak. The stans act like 2Pac came out and moved everyone out of the way, he did not. He sold a lot of records but he still had to jockey for position. Also, him putting out a double album was a cheat code. Had it only been one disc he probably would have topped out at maybe 2.5m at most. Meanwhile the Fugees were blowing him out of the water.
@@tonecorleone7592 they fucked off their money. Lauren didn’t pay her taxes and Pras had bread but got involved with people that he shouldn’t have. Wyclef doesn’t seem to have any financial issues so….🤷🏽♂️Also, 2Pac was caught up in string of legal issues and pretty much died broke. Had he lived and got everything squared away and paid off he wouldn’t have been balling out of control. Suge made him look like a star but behind the scenes his bread was fucked up.
all 2pac cars and penthouses and videos with his ideas being taken seriously was paid for . And he still getting a mill a year ?? In 1996? Death row did shady shit but they def took care of 2pac atleast give them that credit
@@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
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.
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!!!
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
People fail to realize Tupac had a lot of cases before going to prison & after he got out of prison, those problems don’t go away, the situation in Marin city that he went through from when the kid got killed, his parents sued him for that and a plenty of other people
Interscope settled that case in late 95. It was believed to have been between $300k - $500k. They settled cuz it was indeed Pac's gun that fatal bullet came from
@@MrJamesradcliffe the gun charge case, not the one shooting at po-po but the one he got caught with guns while on death row. that is partly why they put security on him so he would stop getting in trouble for having guns. (the other part being hit em up someone said they gave him a vest). theres a court clip of it its very short but really hard to find because all the other court clips pop up. basically pac said better to be caught with it instead of without it. and i think his plea to the judge was he had been shot before. i do believe they judge went light on him if i recall. there may of been one or 2 others. being 43 my memory on this stuff is going downhill so take it as paraphrasing i guess
And I understand if death row gave him crumbs compared to what he actually brought in but at the end of the day it’s a business , closed mouths don’t get fed
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
I'm surprised at how many woman Tupac has that he never got one pregnant
🤣You still haven't worked him out.
@@KevinJamesHannant 😂😂😂
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.
$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.
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
@@KaliWayyyou'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
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
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
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,
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.
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
@@brianking4225 here comes the pink power ranger. lol. Did you just admit that you have not done ish? lol. Reggie wright, man, this know-it-all with no answers just did exactly what you talked about. He knows nothing about how an educated man behaves, yet he is trying to speak on one. Lol
The realest!!!!! loved the graph breakdown!!!!!
Still remember what you said when I asked you a question..I can’t wait to meet you in person bro 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
@bomb1st
When is the next live stream? Can you do a Q & A livestream?
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
To keep your credibility Reg u can’t keep painting Suge as an Angel. Cmon bro
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.
If you can't survive off of $75,000 a month or $50,000 something is seriously wrong.
Love the Podcast Reggie & John. Keep up the good work
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
Great content Bomb 1st family
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.
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.
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
Bench warmers getting 25M a year is crazy 😂
Great history on music and sports Reggie. People getting paid from years ago is much different.
This is a great interview. Reggie is bringing the truth. I remember this gangster back in the day. He didn't play.
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!
Keyboard gangsters 😂😂😂 Reggie a fool
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Well stated
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..
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
The Magic Johnson comment was valid from Reggie!
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.
I'm glad Reg spoke about credit, because most people tend to forget about that
#"KEYBOARD GANGSTAZ" LOL REGG U COLD 4 THAT ONE
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"ADVANCE"! THAT SAYS IT ALL.
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
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That boy said keyboard gang😅😅😅😅
That's big facts Reggie
The Score my all time
Death Row Had That Credit Line
To say the Fugees was big as Pac is Straight Cap…besides Killing me Softly that album was trash. I remember they put out that goofy as cowboy song as a follow up
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
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 AINT EVER LIE”
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.
What were you getting BIG Reggie....
MOGUL....ohhhhh ok you answered?
Hey Big Reg. Is it true that you and Big Suge ran a train on Aretha Franklin back in ‘95?
Lol. Huh
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
'95 was a great year
Reggie what was Dre's position at Deathrow was he a Co owner or just head producer?
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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.
Tupac was human at the end of every day
Tupac the goat 🐐
Of what
Rap fool
Mann deathrow was making serious $$ back then
bone thugs sold 30 million records and they were broke lol bizzy was homeless at one point
Looking a lot healthier reg 😊
Reggie. Did you keep a journal from back then ? Or is everything just coming from memory ?
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.
I don’t care what anyone thinks or say Suge love PAC frfr Brothers….
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
Man Pac and those guys got did dirty, that paperwork is important
A dollar a record 🤔… hella nawl Michael Jackson don’t even get a dollar a record😂.. Reg still being generous like Death Row was with the cash.. Only label you could live like you sold platinum records but never released a album
Michael got 2 dollars record. He had 22% royalty rate. Pac had 18.
@@almightytre3730 you are right should’ve known better Mike was top food chain and he got the highest percentage ever at the time, while the average artist gets cents not dollars
8:08 the Fugees was bigger. Way bigger!
ALOTTA people were bigger back then....that's what we keep trying to tell the Stan's and Bots in the comment section...
@@Incredible_Geez yep. If you weren’t around in 96 than you shouldn’t even speak. The stans act like 2Pac came out and moved everyone out of the way, he did not. He sold a lot of records but he still had to jockey for position. Also, him putting out a double album was a cheat code. Had it only been one disc he probably would have topped out at maybe 2.5m at most. Meanwhile the Fugees were blowing him out of the water.
Tell Lauren that. She was broke n Pras had to scam. Where was that money at?
@@tonecorleone7592 they fucked off their money. Lauren didn’t pay her taxes and Pras had bread but got involved with people that he shouldn’t have. Wyclef doesn’t seem to have any financial issues so….🤷🏽♂️Also, 2Pac was caught up in string of legal issues and pretty much died broke. Had he lived and got everything squared away and paid off he wouldn’t have been balling out of control. Suge made him look like a star but behind the scenes his bread was fucked up.
I was living back then and NO they weren’t. Y’all gotta stop this stuff. They may have been on the same level but they were NOT bigger.
Reg, do you think DDR would have promoted Danny Boy if he stayed around , Or was his music to sweet n soft for DRR?.
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
all 2pac cars and penthouses and videos with his ideas being taken seriously was paid for . And he still getting a mill a year ?? In 1996? Death row did shady shit but they def took care of 2pac atleast give them that credit
He didn't own anything it was all on loan, everything is in suge's name
It was diff times back then
Very true
Times are different.
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
How do Reggie know all this information ?
What's Hannin Reggie Ru 🩸
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.
man these video directors were robbing the artist ... they never have money problems you hear about!!!
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!!!
Daz monthly sound low.. producers make the sound should be higher I assume..
People Tupac was only 25 years old
And this guy talk about him like it was yesterday 1996 🆚 2024
The advancement along can make you broke. Because that’s what is it an “advancement “
900k a year back then is rar okay tbh 🎉🎉
75k a month back in the day, that’s living comfortable
Pac was bigger than all of them combined 8:53
Besides California love what music video did he do that cost 300K... Make it make sense 🤷🏾♂️
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
Suge's house in Vegas was NOT in his name!
300,000$ to do a video vs 0$ possibly to do a video today . Lol crazyv
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 , you stay shaving right before you shoot the videos , take ur shirt off , you do that before u get dressed
People fail to realize Tupac had a lot of cases before going to prison & after he got out of prison, those problems don’t go away, the situation in Marin city that he went through from when the kid got killed, his parents sued him for that and a plenty of other people
Interscope settled that case in late 95. It was believed to have been between $300k - $500k.
They settled cuz it was indeed Pac's gun that fatal bullet came from
plus he still had to go back to court for the sexual assault case which he could of lost and went back to prison
That's two cases. Any more?
@@MrJamesradcliffe the gun charge case, not the one shooting at po-po but the one he got caught with guns while on death row. that is partly why they put security on him so he would stop getting in trouble for having guns. (the other part being hit em up someone said they gave him a vest). theres a court clip of it its very short but really hard to find because all the other court clips pop up. basically pac said better to be caught with it instead of without it. and i think his plea to the judge was he had been shot before. i do believe they judge went light on him if i recall. there may of been one or 2 others. being 43 my memory on this stuff is going downhill so take it as paraphrasing i guess
He didn't have anything going on besides his appeal being revoked, he paid Ayana off ,marin had been settled,
And I understand if death row gave him crumbs compared to what he actually brought in but at the end of the day it’s a business , closed mouths don’t get fed
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