@@Mr.Majestic77if eazy was all that stuff you talking about, why did he let Jerry heller run over him? eazy wasn't smart enough to figure out what them folks was doing to him?? eazy should stayed friends with Dre and Cube!! that's exactly what he said before he passed away!!
@@mikedavis3393 I stg, sometimes you mfs just be running ya mouths with no thought behind it, I see why they call this sh*t the "peanut gallery", that's literally what you mfs have for brains smh
Everywhere bro Everywhere .... if your input ait matching your bank account You is a hoe and the pimp is keep you broke.. it is on you to keep track of your numbers and if they look funny Chances are somebody Is holding yours and laughing All the way to the bank While you just holding funny Numbers trying to make ends meet
Everywhere bro Everywhere .... if your input ait matching your bank account You is a hoe and the pimp is keep you broke.. it is on you to keep track of your numbers and if they look funny Chances are somebody Is holding yours and laughing All the way to the bank While you just holding funny Numbers trying to make ends meet
I can dig everything he sayin. He right to a point. But he wrote lyrics and he should at least be paid correctly for his work! Just cause somebody gave you an opportunity DOESNT mean they can take what you worked for 🤷🏽♂️
@@MrDre18 It’s was THEIR money. Suge was buying himself houses and cars with their OWN money and telling them it was theirs. I can’t believe the ignorance I’m seeing. From Kurupt to these comments co-signing him.
That is a fact but one thing about Suge he always tried to give his ppl the information and tried to teach them the game even tho he did some shady business shit like every label does he taught a lot of black entertainers the importance of publishing and masters he wanted death row to be a distribution label that what the ultimate goal not making excuses for him
The label is called death ☠️ row for a reason and it lived up to its name, be careful who you link up with, everyone on that label is either dead in jail, or strung out! Sad
@@firebug1892 true. How many artists actually have a good life and/or career that came from death row? Either in music or something else? Dre and snoop definitely succeeded and seem to be doing good personally, but who else? I don’t want to clown kurupt and daz but honestly, both their careers and their private lives seems to be so and so imo. Who else? I can’t think of any. Maybe lady of rage. Haven’t heard anything about her in a loooong time.
I don’t think suge was financially incompetent he never had money problems until he started actually going to prison. Suge biggest downfall was his own arrogance. He didn’t show up to that court date for that lawsuit with harry o wife and lost the label and had to fork over millions of dollars. He was accustomed to a lifestyle he couldn’t afford anymore which sent him on a downward spiral🤷🏾♂️I personally believe he had the money and resources to beat his most recent case but took the time to avoid other charges unrelated to the case that would’ve gotten him his 3rd strike with a life sentence.
The fact most of these artists did not listen nor care to be schooled. A condo or a house bought back in the 90s anywhere decent in LA would be worth millions today. The monies used for the down payment, and the monthly monies received could have been used to pay the mortgage and maintenance, but keep in mind { it's an advance on future royalties }. But again most don't know or didn't know, and that's why their finances were never correct, some still to this day, thirty-plus years later.
The reality is these dudes were never making as much money as they claimed to be making. Dudes was going gold and platinum and getting 200 maybe 300k before taxes and before the label recouped their money. They was lucky to walk away with 120k off the album. The rest of their money had to come from tours and shows and that money was getting spent on the road
Nope, many who have struggled know that you set yourself up so that you don't have to go back to that particular struggle. They st least buy themselves a house and sit something to the side bc you know nobody can provide for you except you.
@@beinformed3607 He could have, but the if the stacks were less than the actual stacks should have been, do you settle for little stacks? If you do - then you volunteered to get got!
When Daz & Kurupt got on the Ruthless Radio in the mid 1990s, when Eazy E schooled them, they should have reached out to Eric after that conversation and signed to Ruthless Records.
Yeah real smart and then maybe you never get Dogg Food and their appearances on All Eyez On Me which are legendary and people still talking about to this day and will never stop talking about
All record labels operate like that. All that money is like a per diem. Like Kurupt said, they put you in a spot, give you transportation and spending money until your records start selling. And of course you have to keep up an image so they giving you luxury stuff. So, when it's time to recoup on that the record label will tax your album sales. Once you make it big, you renegotiate and then start operating in your best interests.
He pretty much saying that Suge did what other record companies did with artiest who did not know any better. Q-Tip said back in the 91, Industry rule #4080 Record company people are shady. And when they see you peep the Game and make adjustments in your Favor with the " Business" they replace you with a new sucka / Novice
He’s trying to convince himself that what happened to him was “ OK “. “ I got robbed as a young man, but that’s OK because everyone gets robbed and I knew the robber was robbing me as a young man… but it’s ok”
Lol do you understand the money that had to get put into them? Snoop had a $4 million murder case before he even dropped a solo album for example. It's business bro. They were getting nice monthly allowances whether they had a record out or not on top of that. They shoulda put the money to better use instead of spending like there was no tomorrow. He's taking accountability, not being the disgruntled artist that blames everyone except for themselves. That's the whole point he's making
Your right, after hearing him talk he sounds just like your average rapper, IGNORANT AS FUCK!!! Why would you want another man to buy you something??? WTF??? If I work for you that's exactly what it is, WORK!!! I want to get paid!!! SMMFH ☹️👎🏿
Lol I hate poor people logic...with ur logic groceries should be given to u for free who the fxxk is Ralph or vonna who's dumb and continually...boy clearly u dunno how business worx...
People need to understand that Kurupt and artistes like Kurupt who come from the gutter, who come from the hood are just happy to be up out of there. Like he said in another interview "We was in the streets, now we in the suites". Touring, travelling, hella groupies, best champagne, finest food, five star hotels, nicest cars...those are the things hustlers, drug dealers wish for and he's getring it all by just writing music and spitting bars. No cooking crack, no cutting rocks and putting them in bags to sell, no police beating you up and dropping you in enemy hoods. None of that stuff. They was living the life, at that age they couldn't give a shit about how much they were getring paid or if their contracts were benefitting them none of that.
As you get older you see this is often the blueprint for the world. You see folks who work at mcdonalds on their 30 min break standing in line buying a value meal (maybe) at discount rate. only the nicest companies offer extra perks like free food , products, loans, etc. Cold world
I worked at Burger King when I was 15 and they gave us free food for breaks. You could only get one of each and no take homes. I can't imagine that McDonal's would not let someone get free food, as much as they toss.
I understand his point about recording artists buying their own but I do not agree with that is the way the music business goes when it comes to recording artists writing & producing an album that sell millions of records & they end up with a small payout. That part of the music industry has always been incomprehensible.
Actually, it is just a simple business. The words are complicated. Let's use Death Row as an example for majority of these record deals and distribution. Interscope distributed DR, they cut was 50%, every arstist sign with DR would get 10 to 12% of DR earnings which is just half. So if a tape after the costs of manufacturing gave a profit of 10 dollars, 5 goes to interscope, 5 to DR and the artists at a 10% rate get 50 cents. He sold 1 million copies, that's 500 thousand to him. They probably spend that just in marketing. Add everything else, like samples, recording costs and etc. the artist doesn't get much at the end because he pays for everything, which is called "recouping." It is legal, though. And its fair, you gotta make them money, they invested in you, then you renegociate down the line. Artists complain a lot cause they don't understand. First, it's all fun. Then they make millions and get greedy, thinking they should keep 90% of it. It is a business!
@@RapFatosyou left some key things out: key things like the singer Prince was fighting for when he wrote Slave on his face. I understand recoupment & I do understand that the record company put up the investment money wise & there is a chance that they won't recoup but at the same time, they own the Masters forever or until they decide to sell the Masters, which kind of put them in the position to always have Rights to music, 100% rights. I have a friend whose dad used to play with one of the biggest selling & most influential recording artists ever (I won't name them) & luckily when her dad (who played an instrument) cut his own studio album, he learned enough from this mainstream musician whereas, his family still get money from off of that album today & we are talking 20th Century music. As Prince stated, it is unconscionable that a record company or label own the Masters 100%. Yes, there are 100 points on an album, mathematically it is possible that everyone who worked on an album to make future royalties.
kagiso He said he was 20 years old and wanted to drink smoke and rap, he said his big Homie tried to Hip him to the game, but he didn't listen, he said nobody tried to get their own.
I agree with Kurupt on what he said in the video here you can get a place to stay at for a short time in a period of your life and stack up your money and then when you have enough money to go and buy a house and then you make the move onto your new house that you are buying and just go from there on what you wanna do next it's as simple as that 100% facts about life.😎✌
That's how the traditional music business works across the board... it wasn't until the internet became prevalent and artist could start learning how the game is played... That'a why even Prince use to put the word "Slave" on his face in the 90's, because it took years for him to learn the game and he did not own his IP or even his name... Warner Brothers did. (aka Warn-a-Brotha)
@@MrCalverinoand they’ll try to manipulate whatever they can as well to keep you from getting your royalties even when you earned them according to the contract you signed they’ll still try to play you even more if they can, however they possibly can.
Kurupt is basically saying Suge took advantage of us, but it's ok, it wasn't so bad. I think he kind of liked things being simple for him and not having to worry about much but having fun and making music.
@Crazea How was Suge knight taking advantage of Kurupt & all of his other Death Row artists ,when they were getting paid a monthly of 25,000-30,000 , 2Pac was getting 75,000 a month, Snoop was getting 50,000 a month, 2Pac & Snoop was living in mini mansions, all the other Death Row artists were living in pen houses & all of them were driving in fancies cars.
The label is called death ☠️ row for a reason and it lived up to its name, be careful who you link up with, everyone on that label is either dead in jail, or strung out! Sad
im glad Kurupt kept it real . they accepted the cars and money from Suge instead of they royalties that's on them. Reggie always said Suge didn't handle the money the right way they didn't have a royalties department at the label.
He’s not lying. They want to always talk about the Black record label bosses taking advantage of these artists. But they don’t never ever want to talk about all of these White record label bosses who take advantage of artists too
Lol. Everyone always talk about those "white" record label exploiting artists. Only time they talk about black label taking advantage of rappers is death row under suge.
That’s because black labels trick black artists by saying they will treat blacks better than the white man, only to take advantage the same way if not worse.
This guy really didn't think his talent was worth money. Once the Chronic dropped and sold 3 million he should have been paid for his work. No loans. He doesn't realize suge had money because of his talent. Once suge couldn't exploit them for their talent he went broke.
What he did for the chronic wouldn't generate even a 100 thousand in publishing and royalties and thats before recoupments! Interscope cut, Death Row Cut, Samples cut, Dre cut, Snoop cut, D.O.C cut, Daz cut, Nate cut, RBX cut, etc etc. Thats a lotta people to break bread with it. You wanted him to be a millionare after 3 sixteens?
Who’s gonna tell Kurupt that Suge never “gave” them anything. It came out their budget. Which they recouped. Meaning you did buy it. Twice. Just wasn’t in your name. Slime ball
He made it pretty clear he was young and didn't have anything better going at the time slime ball..would like to hear how u would have handled it at 19
@@tkrs5461 you was too thirsty to defend your favorite artist you missed the point… it’s not that he didn’t understand at 19 that’s the problem. It’s that at now. At damn near 50 he still doesn’t get it… you wasn’t the pimp you was the hoe. Suge never did ANYTHING simply to look out. Anything he gave them they recouped twice over. Y’all act like Suge knight was this big CEO before death row. He wasn’t, he was a bodyguard. Who literally attached himself to talent to get ahead
I don't.. Keith Murray is annoying. Y'all are different. I can't even watch dude. Yeah he's funny but you get nothing out of it. He be lying too much for me.
Berry Gordy did the same and countless others. The sad part is, blaks did it to blaks, thus keeping us in the same positions. You know these uppity blaks are in secret societies.
Just because things are the way they are don't make it right. Sounds like pimps and hoes to me, jus like rbx said. Now if u good with that fine but for me I would have made sure my contract said just pay me x amount of percent of my own sales and that's it. So there's no discrepancies like this.
Bingo! As a grown man, I don't need "gifts" and "allowances" for my work. Just pay me what I'm owed. I'll do the rest from there. Some of these ppl in this comment section sound dumb asf. Majority of whom I'm sure work regular jobs. Evidently they'd be cool with receiving "gifts" as opposed to a paycheck for their 40-50 hour work weeks 😂😂😂
Hindsight is 20 20. They were kids they didn’t know the business. Death row was on top too. For all we know if they tried to leave they go nowhere u know the rep suge had back then. Everyone was being treated the same. Like he said if u didn’t like the way business was being done then beat it and good luck. I’m not saying it was right but coming from nothing to even having what suge gave them was a come up at the time. I doubt most 18 to 20 year olds walk away from that at that time.
Every business does this to a degree. Apple , Google, puts you in hotels , pay expenses, budgets for projects, loans, company cars, gifts, things they buy in bulk at discount they "share" with employees. or stuff you can maybe get reimbursed for. They pay you per week or month. Then they want something in return. Now being your financial manager or setting you up to be your own boss...Sadly Most companies dont do that.
@@jackkennedy1963jfk he didn't give them anything. They were the one's making the money. Millions were coming in because of them. He kept everything in his name, so the minute they pissed him off, he can just take everything back. Nate Dogg said in an interview that he gave the car back because if he got pulled over, he had no proof to show that the car was his
The record business was created by lawyers and bankers. Only a few have navigated successfully through the music industry but majority of the time, the lawyers always win.
I just wish that the DR era went different. They could have been the new Motown of the rap era. All that damn talent they had. They had in house producers. Lyrical talents and new talent that would have taken the music to a new level. We can always say Suge could have done this and that but look at the end result. They had to change the game again because of DRR. We will never see this again. Can you imagine DRR with Em, 50 and the heights they could have reached with where those talents are now? Movies, sponsors, sports teams etc. Daz, Kururpt, the pound... ' Fly .. 1/2 dead. Maaan.... Dre. Beats under the DR umbrella. PAC still going. Snoop and Martha show. I don't think the mainstream would have allowed it, especially when they start talking about a Black distribution company as well. Everything would have been in house.
Man look he was young he didn’t know the business side of things dog pound only put out one classic album besides suge treated him pretty nicely for a rapper who didn’t have to do much
@@viceversa95 he said so on multiple interviews. The only gift Deathrow gave him on that property was a custom Lakers bench for his Basketball court. That Claremont property was the only thing he owned from the Death row days, every other thing belonged to Death row and Death row repossessed everything.
@@almightytre3730 Reggies showed you the deed from 1994. It was on Bomb1st. Go check it again. Snoop maintains he never got paid royalties or publishing. But he was given Bonus advances and a $50,000 monthly stipend. He bought that property for over half a million and expanded the property years later by doubling the square feet. There is also a story of Interscope wanting to give Snoop a backend bonus of $1.5m for doggystyle’s success but Suge took the money and gave Snoop only $500k.
That's why Snoop said "And I think I gotta Black Beamer"
😂😂😂
LMAO
The house in the hills next to Chino was in his name.
He couldn’t say for certain 🤣
😂😂😂
Everything Eazy E said about death row and Dre and dawgpound we find out decades later he wasn’t lying
Yea but Eazy wasn't so innocent himself.
@@Darius_Icewood Eazy E was wayyyyy better business man, business owner and supervisor than Suge Knight.
@@Mr.Majestic77if eazy was all that stuff you talking about, why did he let Jerry heller run over him? eazy wasn't smart enough to figure out what them folks was doing to him?? eazy should stayed friends with Dre and Cube!! that's exactly what he said before he passed away!!
@@Mr.Majestic77 Deathrow in 95 was worth more than Ruthless
@@mikedavis3393 I stg, sometimes you mfs just be running ya mouths with no thought behind it, I see why they call this sh*t the "peanut gallery", that's literally what you mfs have for brains smh
Kurupt kept it buck, he understand the game and he understood what he signed up for 💯
"I was into other things like smoking weed, drinking beers" me too back in the day 😂
Music business motto is "It isn't my Business to teach you Business"
😂… but 📠💯🙌
Not just music business, just business in general.
Ch1kmagnet I agree on your comment that's 100% facts about the music business. It is very true.😎✌
Everywhere bro Everywhere .... if your input ait matching your bank account
You is a hoe and the pimp is keep you broke.. it is on you to keep track of your numbers and if they look funny
Chances are somebody
Is holding yours and laughing
All the way to the bank
While you just holding funny
Numbers trying to make ends meet
Everywhere bro Everywhere .... if your input ait matching your bank account
You is a hoe and the pimp is keep you broke.. it is on you to keep track of your numbers and if they look funny
Chances are somebody
Is holding yours and laughing
All the way to the bank
While you just holding funny
Numbers trying to make ends meet
I can dig everything he sayin. He right to a point. But he wrote lyrics and he should at least be paid correctly for his work! Just cause somebody gave you an opportunity DOESNT mean they can take what you worked for 🤷🏽♂️
Jae Ski your right about your comment that's 100% facts my man.😎✌
@@ronaldcombs5657 No doubt bro! I understand what Kurupt is sayin tho.
@@jaeskithepumpshotty1946 word on that bro. Peace bro and take care😎✌
@@ronaldcombs5657 🤘🏽
Lol he was just covering his ass for being dumb … he effectively put a wig on a pig
cadillac records .. I’m crying😂
Chess records. If you not hip look it up. Those artists were getting robbed blind
@@jackjill8129 Those fake #ews ripping people off.. 😒
I remember that Lexus he had on an MTV interview with him and Daz.. Daz had the old school Impala.. Classic times!
Yeah he was in that lex with a baby on one of those interviews 🤔
WTF….guess he took his L and kept it movin 🤷🏽♂️😂😂.
Like Kurupt said stac yo money and buy yo own shit but nawwwww niccas kept receiving n receiving. Shit been like that for YEARZZZ
lol
@@MrDre18 It’s was THEIR money. Suge was buying himself houses and cars with their OWN money and telling them it was theirs. I can’t believe the ignorance I’m seeing. From Kurupt to these comments co-signing him.
Picture me rollin in my(Suge’s) 500 Benz😂
😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's why PAC had to go. He audited David Kenner and Suge
Suge wasn't Pac friend at all know that i think about it🤔🤔
@@Tru-Feel you sound like a groupie cuh!!! Did you watch the video 😂🤣😭😭😭😭
Everyone at the label suffered under suges financial disfunction. Its no wonder why suge could not bail himself out of that 2015 jam
That is a fact but one thing about Suge he always tried to give his ppl the information and tried to teach them the game even tho he did some shady business shit like every label does he taught a lot of black entertainers the importance of publishing and masters he wanted death row to be a distribution label that what the ultimate goal not making excuses for him
The label is called death ☠️ row for a reason and it lived up to its name, be careful who you link up with, everyone on that label is either dead in jail, or strung out! Sad
@@firebug1892 true. How many artists actually have a good life and/or career that came from death row? Either in music or something else? Dre and snoop definitely succeeded and seem to be doing good personally, but who else? I don’t want to clown kurupt and daz but honestly, both their careers and their private lives seems to be so and so imo. Who else? I can’t think of any. Maybe lady of rage. Haven’t heard anything about her in a loooong time.
I don’t think suge was financially incompetent he never had money problems until he started actually going to prison. Suge biggest downfall was his own arrogance. He didn’t show up to that court date for that lawsuit with harry o wife and lost the label and had to fork over millions of dollars. He was accustomed to a lifestyle he couldn’t afford anymore which sent him on a downward spiral🤷🏾♂️I personally believe he had the money and resources to beat his most recent case but took the time to avoid other charges unrelated to the case that would’ve gotten him his 3rd strike with a life sentence.
@@donaldb93 ✊🏾💯 He was Black Power 💪🏾👊🏽 in its rawest form
The fact most of these artists did not listen nor care to be schooled. A condo or a house bought back in the 90s anywhere decent in LA would be worth millions today. The monies used for the down payment, and the monthly monies received could have been used to pay the mortgage and maintenance, but keep in mind { it's an advance on future royalties }. But again most don't know or didn't know, and that's why their finances were never correct, some still to this day, thirty-plus years later.
Bounce Energy Drink so true on your comment it's not a lie at all nothing but facts my man. 😎✌
Man no 19 20 21 year Ole back then would be thinking about ownership...they wasn't dumb they was young and inexperienced
@@curtisj2002 Disagree, I'm from NYC bought my first house at 23. All of my crew were grinding in the 80's to buy property.
The reality is these dudes were never making as much money as they claimed to be making. Dudes was going gold and platinum and getting 200 maybe 300k before taxes and before the label recouped their money. They was lucky to walk away with 120k off the album. The rest of their money had to come from tours and shows and that money was getting spent on the road
At that young age anyone of us would have done the same thing
no...niggas would...white people got lawyers
Not true. Not everyone is ignorant.
Nope, many who have struggled know that you set yourself up so that you don't have to go back to that particular struggle. They st least buy themselves a house and sit something to the side bc you know nobody can provide for you except you.
@Mimi ok cool the street n don't think like Dat that's all deathrow had people from the streets
Kurupt still ain't figured it out. Suge was taking it out yo check foo. You was buying it.
Right. He’s slowwww
he just defending Suge cause he locked up now so he ain't got no real beef with him
@@imperialstats kurupt never spoke dwn on suge
He ain’t had to sign with Suge. He did tho. He got monthly paychecks coulda stacked it ball none of em chose that
@@beinformed3607 He could have, but the if the stacks were less than the actual stacks should have been, do you settle for little stacks? If you do - then you volunteered to get got!
Suge had his Barbie girls in a Barbie world 😂😂😂😂😂 💰
So your boss gives you a company Car AND a company House👀 Man some people are so lucky. My Boss won't even give me money for a taxi.
Some
Everybody must remember Suge and kurupt were the last ones on deathrow.
You mean Suge and Daz?
When Daz & Kurupt got on the Ruthless Radio in the mid 1990s, when Eazy E schooled them, they should have reached out to Eric after that conversation and signed to Ruthless Records.
Yeah they should’ve but he just explained why they weren’t savvy, they were kids at the time. We’re idiots at 19, most of us at least
Why do you think Dre and ice cube left Ruthless Records? I'll wait
Yeah real smart and then maybe you never get Dogg Food and their appearances on All Eyez On Me which are legendary and people still talking about to this day and will never stop talking about
And Suge would have lawsuits on them for breaking their contracts??
Yeah that may be true but people said Eazy E was stealing money too from his artists.
First time in a long time seen someone give suge his flowers did a lot they can’t take away but want recognized
Now you see why kurrupt was the last to leave death row 😅suge knew he was just happy to come for the ride with no pay😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Daz was the last to leave.
All record labels operate like that. All that money is like a per diem. Like Kurupt said, they put you in a spot, give you transportation and spending money until your records start selling. And of course you have to keep up an image so they giving you luxury stuff. So, when it's time to recoup on that the record label will tax your album sales. Once you make it big, you renegotiate and then start operating in your best interests.
My dad used to be a bodyguard for Death Row 93 to 95 He used to date Jewel. She had a house in Lakewood and a BMW and all of it was in Suges name
🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢
@@Batman-uf7my get lost you can’t tell me nothing about life foh
@@wejuggernautentertainmentl3156 fake ass mf your dad was a buster.
Suge Million 89 lost, auction of house, storage lockers etc over the years true fall from grace
What have you accomplished compared to Suge?
@@kevintaylor9590 well he’s not doing a 28 year prison sentence, if I have to guess. That’s at least something.
@@kevintaylor9590 well not 28 Years if you call that an accomplishment 😂😂Facts
@@corysmith4293 exactly for murder (lol) when he was clear and free
Love how he always keep it real
Real man not blaming suge for his decisions
Valid points made
He pretty much saying that Suge did what other record companies did with artiest who did not know any better. Q-Tip said back in the 91, Industry rule #4080 Record company people are shady. And when they see you peep the Game and make adjustments in your Favor with the " Business" they replace you with a new sucka / Novice
OG Kurupt drop gems on this! Salute 🫡
He’s trying to convince himself that what happened to him was “ OK “. “ I got robbed as a young man, but that’s OK because everyone gets robbed and I knew the robber was robbing me as a young man… but it’s ok”
I got robbed by the person I walked to the store with 1 time...But everybody gets robbed right 🤷♂️💯🤯😁 lol
Lol do you understand the money that had to get put into them? Snoop had a $4 million murder case before he even dropped a solo album for example. It's business bro. They were getting nice monthly allowances whether they had a record out or not on top of that. They shoulda put the money to better use instead of spending like there was no tomorrow. He's taking accountability, not being the disgruntled artist that blames everyone except for themselves. That's the whole point he's making
no he don't do the blame game
😂😂😂😂😂
He got rental cars and a place to live for free the money he made should of been used to invest in himself his own company.
1:34 mark. you know kurupt is serious when he gotta burp lol
He talking from the inside out ✔️
Suge use them and he just accepted it.
Your right, after hearing him talk he sounds just like your average rapper, IGNORANT AS FUCK!!! Why would you want another man to buy you something??? WTF??? If I work for you that's exactly what it is, WORK!!! I want to get paid!!! SMMFH ☹️👎🏿
u clearly not listening
Lol I hate poor people logic...with ur logic groceries should be given to u for free who the fxxk is Ralph or vonna who's dumb and continually...boy clearly u dunno how business worx...
No he's saying he understood the game. That was their fault for being complacent thinking the checks were never going to stop coming in.
@@leodjoneluv NOT AT ALL!!!
People need to understand that Kurupt and artistes like Kurupt who come from the gutter, who come from the hood are just happy to be up out of there. Like he said in another interview "We was in the streets, now we in the suites". Touring, travelling, hella groupies, best champagne, finest food, five star hotels, nicest cars...those are the things hustlers, drug dealers wish for and he's getring it all by just writing music and spitting bars. No cooking crack, no cutting rocks and putting them in bags to sell, no police beating you up and dropping you in enemy hoods. None of that stuff. They was living the life, at that age they couldn't give a shit about how much they were getring paid or if their contracts were benefitting them none of that.
Dude giving me the “Ray Ray got your son stealing car stereos” vibe 😂
As you get older you see this is often the blueprint for the world. You see folks who work at mcdonalds on their 30 min break standing in line buying a value meal (maybe) at discount rate. only the nicest companies offer extra perks like free food , products, loans, etc. Cold world
I worked at Burger King when I was 15 and they gave us free food for breaks. You could only get one of each and no take homes. I can't imagine that McDonal's would not let someone get free food, as much as they toss.
It's a COLD WORLD and this is ICE😮.
Mmmmmm… sounds like he couldn’t leave if he wanted too
Remember when snoop said " i think i got a black bimmah but my dream is to own a fly casino"
I understand his point about recording artists buying their own but I do not agree with that is the way the music business goes when it comes to recording artists writing & producing an album that sell millions of records & they end up with a small payout. That part of the music industry has always been incomprehensible.
Actually, it is just a simple business. The words are complicated. Let's use Death Row as an example for majority of these record deals and distribution. Interscope distributed DR, they cut was 50%, every arstist sign with DR would get 10 to 12% of DR earnings which is just half. So if a tape after the costs of manufacturing gave a profit of 10 dollars, 5 goes to interscope, 5 to DR and the artists at a 10% rate get 50 cents. He sold 1 million copies, that's 500 thousand to him. They probably spend that just in marketing. Add everything else, like samples, recording costs and etc. the artist doesn't get much at the end because he pays for everything, which is called "recouping." It is legal, though. And its fair, you gotta make them money, they invested in you, then you renegociate down the line. Artists complain a lot cause they don't understand. First, it's all fun. Then they make millions and get greedy, thinking they should keep 90% of it. It is a business!
@@RapFatosyou left some key things out: key things like the singer Prince was fighting for when he wrote Slave on his face.
I understand recoupment & I do understand that the record company put up the investment money wise & there is a chance that they won't recoup but at the same time, they own the Masters forever or until they decide to sell the Masters, which kind of put them in the position to always have Rights to music, 100% rights.
I have a friend whose dad used to play with one of the biggest selling & most influential recording artists ever (I won't name them) & luckily when her dad (who played an instrument) cut his own studio album, he learned enough from this mainstream musician whereas, his family still get money from off of that album today & we are talking 20th Century music.
As Prince stated, it is unconscionable that a record company or label own the Masters 100%.
Yes, there are 100 points on an album, mathematically it is possible that everyone who worked on an album to make future royalties.
You’ll never really hear Kurupt bad mouth Suge. He’s always had respect for him.
He probably is one of the few people at death row who didn’t get beat up
@@alamaeyob-austin1801 😂😂😂 right that’s exactly what it is, says alot
Conda not condo. Man Kurupt I'm dying hahaha 🤣💀
He lying , now he knows the game. Back then , hell no
kagiso He said he was 20 years old and wanted to drink smoke and rap, he said his big Homie tried to Hip him to the game, but he didn't listen, he said nobody tried to get their own.
I agree with Kurupt on what he said in the video here you can get a place to stay at for a short time in a period of your life and stack up your money and then when you have enough money to go and buy a house and then you make the move onto your new house that you are buying and just go from there on what you wanna do next it's as simple as that 100% facts about life.😎✌
Damn Kurupt is speaking facts
No he's not! He's a customer getting pimped. 😆
realest...ish I ever heard 💯💯💯
Sad suge did y’all dirty
That's how the traditional music business works across the board... it wasn't until the internet became prevalent and artist could start learning how the game is played... That'a why even Prince use to put the word "Slave" on his face in the 90's, because it took years for him to learn the game and he did not own his IP or even his name... Warner Brothers did. (aka Warn-a-Brotha)
The record industry is really the loan industry that does music!
Damn......you're right 😮
@@bigdog533 I learned that very early, U get a big advance but you get no royalties until u pay back the advance 😄😐
@@MrCalverinoand they’ll try to manipulate whatever they can as well to keep you from getting your royalties even when you earned them according to the contract you signed they’ll still try to play you even more if they can, however they possibly can.
It’s the music business
It’s always the same thing
Kurupt out here looking like a extra from water boy movie
Kurupt is basically saying Suge took advantage of us, but it's ok, it wasn't so bad. I think he kind of liked things being simple for him and not having to worry about much but having fun and making music.
I get what he's saying about being 19 and carefree. But he's defending that perspective now as a grown man when its obvious he got ripped of..
@Crazea How was Suge knight taking advantage of Kurupt & all of his other Death Row artists ,when they were getting paid a monthly of 25,000-30,000 , 2Pac was getting 75,000 a month, Snoop was getting 50,000 a month, 2Pac & Snoop was living in mini mansions, all the other Death Row artists were living in pen houses & all of them were driving in fancies cars.
Snoop~ I Had to get scooped up by the lil homie in his regal 😂
The label is called death ☠️ row for a reason and it lived up to its name, be careful who you link up with, everyone on that label is either dead in jail, or strung out! Sad
im glad Kurupt kept it real . they accepted the cars and money from Suge instead of they royalties that's on them. Reggie always said Suge didn't handle the money the right way they didn't have a royalties department at the label.
He Sayin CUZ Like It's 1990.... U Tryin Too Hard Guy 😅😅😅
He understood this when you were a kid, when you were getting older, you are getting wiser, I'm glad he said about this.
He kept it soooooo real.
nah!!! kept it Sooooooooooo foolish!!!!
@@drewali7 yea
Correct and why it's not being talked about is because folks know what it is I loved your interview
Not that this is anything new but Suge doing that tells you all you need to know.
Whoop, whap, bam... That hits hard! Kurupt legend!
Suge was smart , he probably didn’t want the cars in there name or houses because they Wild out and he don’t want people to trace it back .
Kurupt gave the most Realest answer to this situation!… 💯
I See Kurupt, I Click. Simple! 💯
He’s not lying. They want to always talk about the Black record label bosses taking advantage of these artists. But they don’t never ever want to talk about all of these White record label bosses who take advantage of artists too
Lol. Everyone always talk about those "white" record label exploiting artists. Only time they talk about black label taking advantage of rappers is death row under suge.
That’s because black labels trick black artists by saying they will treat blacks better than the white man, only to take advantage the same way if not worse.
He keeps it real
4:20 you can only learn from the losses that you take in the game‼️💯💯
Kurupt a Real one ❤️🫡
Eazy called this on Wut Would U Do outro 💯
Rent-a-friend
lol right
Suge rented pac to use him as a weakshield then 😂
@@lmiko shutup by@tc#
Not really Suge saved him from prison time
Man i respect you honesty.
This guy really didn't think his talent was worth money. Once the Chronic dropped and sold 3 million he should have been paid for his work. No loans. He doesn't realize suge had money because of his talent. Once suge couldn't exploit them for their talent he went broke.
What he did for the chronic wouldn't generate even a 100 thousand in publishing and royalties and thats before recoupments! Interscope cut, Death Row Cut, Samples cut, Dre cut, Snoop cut, D.O.C cut, Daz cut, Nate cut, RBX cut, etc etc. Thats a lotta people to break bread with it. You wanted him to be a millionare after 3 sixteens?
you mean when Dog Pound dropped their album
You're really dumb.
Everybody gets taken advantage of until they learn not to in the music industry. If you're not concerned about you're paper, somebody else is.
That's real talk tho..They Talent was making more then what they was getting
Ever since they started questioning kurupt being from 60s he been cuzzing every other word now lolol
Salute kurupt 👊🏽
facts. it happened with MJ at Sony and also with Prince.
Who’s gonna tell Kurupt that Suge never “gave” them anything. It came out their budget. Which they recouped. Meaning you did buy it. Twice. Just wasn’t in your name. Slime ball
Damn
He made it pretty clear he was young and didn't have anything better going at the time slime ball..would like to hear how u would have handled it at 19
@@tkrs5461 you was too thirsty to defend your favorite artist you missed the point… it’s not that he didn’t understand at 19 that’s the problem. It’s that at now. At damn near 50 he still doesn’t get it… you wasn’t the pimp you was the hoe. Suge never did ANYTHING simply to look out. Anything he gave them they recouped twice over. Y’all act like Suge knight was this big CEO before death row. He wasn’t, he was a bodyguard. Who literally attached himself to talent to get ahead
Great work art of dialogue
F*** these death row stories I wanna hear him react to that Keith Murray foxy brown interview 🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆
😂
I don't.. Keith Murray is annoying. Y'all are different. I can't even watch dude. Yeah he's funny but you get nothing out of it. He be lying too much for me.
@@Darius_Icewood what he lie about
Thats not business thats not your houses kurupt delivery be funny asf😂😂😂😂
That seem to be the typical schemes that people who own or run labels do. I wonder where he and others learned it from...
Berry Gordy did the same and countless others. The sad part is, blaks did it to blaks, thus keeping us in the same positions. You know these uppity blaks are in secret societies.
President of Solar records..Dick griffey.
White executives
@@donaldb93 SMALL HAT owners.
@@HardCold-Alquan for sure bro 💯
He always speak the truth about Suge he was always real with Suge
The moral of the story is.. Be grateful 🙏🏻
Real Talk 🙏🏿🙏🏿
This Is The Absolute Reason Why You Have To Keep Your Business Tight.
facts i learned this hard way
Rise in power my ninja slip capone,
Daily it enhances the penitentiary chances to survive in 1995 so I got 1995 ways to survive nowadays - Kurupt
reality.
Tray dee verse was better 😂
Time and time again I bust a rhyme again cuz imma be in deeper shit if I convert to crime again.
@@nobelhung out to mentally convert me the same Niggaz out to hurt me it erks me strenuous controversy
@@louiiviable Trey Deee & Kurupt both ripped it to shreds
i couldnt handle a house in my 20's but i wanted one. salute
Just because things are the way they are don't make it right. Sounds like pimps and hoes to me, jus like rbx said. Now if u good with that fine but for me I would have made sure my contract said just pay me x amount of percent of my own sales and that's it. So there's no discrepancies like this.
Bingo! As a grown man, I don't need "gifts" and "allowances" for my work. Just pay me what I'm owed. I'll do the rest from there. Some of these ppl in this comment section sound dumb asf. Majority of whom I'm sure work regular jobs. Evidently they'd be cool with receiving "gifts" as opposed to a paycheck for their 40-50 hour work weeks 😂😂😂
Hindsight is 20 20. They were kids they didn’t know the business. Death row was on top too. For all we know if they tried to leave they go nowhere u know the rep suge had back then. Everyone was being treated the same. Like he said if u didn’t like the way business was being done then beat it and good luck. I’m not saying it was right but coming from nothing to even having what suge gave them was a come up at the time. I doubt most 18 to 20 year olds walk away from that at that time.
Good guy Kurupt and tells the truth
Suge took care of his artist financially. Everything else was a problem though.
Every business does this to a degree. Apple , Google, puts you in hotels , pay expenses, budgets for projects, loans, company cars, gifts, things they buy in bulk at discount they "share" with employees. or stuff you can maybe get reimbursed for. They pay you per week or month. Then they want something in return. Now being your financial manager or setting you up to be your own boss...Sadly Most companies dont do that.
Maybe suge did it that way to keep control of his artist
@@l9ikjam Control? He gave them money. They should've saved up and got their own house.
@@l9ikjam They weren't slaves.
@@jackkennedy1963jfk you must not know who suge knight is fool lol
@@jackkennedy1963jfk he didn't give them anything. They were the one's making the money. Millions were coming in because of them. He kept everything in his name, so the minute they pissed him off, he can just take everything back. Nate Dogg said in an interview that he gave the car back because if he got pulled over, he had no proof to show that the car was his
This is the realest spit I ever heard from a rapper!! This is how a man think
Kurupt is a real one taking accountability instead of blaming another man
Kept on receiving
The record business was created by lawyers and bankers. Only a few have navigated successfully through the music industry but majority of the time, the lawyers always win.
and the mafia
The Jews
Every contract in the business has at least one name from a certain group on it.
I always believed that when a artist scores three big albums the record companies relinquish control and let the artist take the wheel.
@@minorsnow5306 no one cares what you believe. We care about facts not your emotions
Every aspiring artist needs to watch this video before signing. Be accountable for what u signed, don't play victim.
How dumb were these dudes not realizing they didn’t have titles for them houses and cars
You didn't listen huh, he told us exactly why he did it....
Kurupt and Keith Murray were the best interviews
Salute to Kurupt for always keeping it 💯
I just wish that the DR era went different. They could have been the new Motown of the rap era. All that damn talent they had. They had in house producers. Lyrical talents and new talent that would have taken the music to a new level. We can always say Suge could have done this and that but look at the end result. They had to change the game again because of DRR. We will never see this again. Can you imagine DRR with Em, 50 and the heights they could have reached with where those talents are now? Movies, sponsors, sports teams etc. Daz, Kururpt, the pound... ' Fly .. 1/2 dead. Maaan.... Dre. Beats under the DR umbrella. PAC still going. Snoop and Martha show. I don't think the mainstream would have allowed it, especially when they start talking about a Black distribution company as well. Everything would have been in house.
Man look he was young he didn’t know the business side of things dog pound only put out one classic album besides suge treated him pretty nicely for a rapper who didn’t have to do much
He right
They knew the job was dangerous when they took it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dawg funny asf 😂😂😂
😂"what do ya do with this guy??"
Snoops house was in his name Reggie showed the paper work on that....
Snoop bought that House with his money in 1994 after the success of Doggystyle, that is why it was in his name.
@@viceversa95 he said so on multiple interviews. The only gift Deathrow gave him on that property was a custom Lakers bench for his Basketball court. That Claremont property was the only thing he owned from the Death row days, every other thing belonged to Death row and Death row repossessed everything.
@@almightytre3730 Reggies showed you the deed from 1994. It was on Bomb1st. Go check it again. Snoop maintains he never got paid royalties or publishing. But he was given Bonus advances and a $50,000 monthly stipend. He bought that property for over half a million and expanded the property years later by doubling the square feet. There is also a story of Interscope wanting to give Snoop a backend bonus of $1.5m for doggystyle’s success but Suge took the money and gave Snoop only $500k.