would this raise my "street cred"?

would it make me "dope"?

Screw rap and everyone involved with it. DIAG (die in a gunfight)

submitter: Dr Dre's masters

I'll start passing the hat around.

I got five on it!

I'm pretty good

But I'm no craigdamage

How much just to get the rights to "Regulate"?

/Mount up!

SRSLy, Fark should by that.

Hmm, some extremely rich celebrity who spouts on about how awful gang violence is, etc, etc should put their money where their mouth is, buy the masters, release the albums and divert all profits to efforts promoting anti-gang lifestyles.

/WHY YES P DIDDY (if that's your name this week) IM LOOKING AT YOU
//Or any other 'artist' who has 'taken a stand to make a difference'

Kunta KinDre?

Growing up a middle class white boy in Suburbia, I have to say Death Row Records helped fuel my street cred when I turned gangsta.

Did anyone notice the comments section on that article. Those guys give rap/hip-hop a bad name. I love both genres, but I don't know why they have to spell everthang phonetically/and or incorrectly. Their needz ta bee sumthin dun about that.

He probably hung the wrong guy out the window.

Also, I intended to say that anyone who is naive enough to purchase this should be prepared to be on Suge's shiatlist.

Wait...what? You can buy the masters now? I thought it was still just the slaves were for sale.

bigpeeler: Screw rap and everyone involved with it. DIAG (die in a gunfight)

These guys would like a word with you, son.
Winter Warz
Big L freestyle

/hip-hop and rap aren't even the same thing at this point. hip-hop actually takes talent and lyrical skills.
//yeah, I made that first video

I thought some chick bought that label?

DantheApe: would this raise my "street cred"?

would it make me "dope"?

Yes.
Yes.

DeathByGeekSquad: Hmm, some extremely rich celebrity who spouts on about how awful gang violence is, etc, etc should put their money where their mouth is, buy the masters, release the albums and divert all profits to efforts promoting anti-gang lifestyles.

/WHY YES P DIDDY (if that's your name this week) IM LOOKING AT YOU
//Or any other 'artist' who has 'taken a stand to make a difference'

what? Since when is Puff Daddy a champion of anti-gang violence? Ever listened to 'What's Beef'?

Two more for good measure...
MF DOOM
Andre Nickatina

Hip-hop's not dead if you know where to look for it!

/any rap on MTV or the radio is garbage. Pop music for the masses. It's almost morphing into some weird RnB/techno/pop/hip-hop fusion, it's all starting to sound the same. The industry doesn't have the balls to put on someone that actually has talent and a message.

"Suge" Knight. That's pronounced "sewage," right?

If I had the money I'd buy it, then give each person control of their masters. As in full outright, here you go, do whatever the hell you want with it, ownership.

StormDawg: That's pronounced "sewage," right?

It should be.

Back in the heyday of Death Row records, I was a receptionist at an SF TV station that had just become part of UPN or whatever the h&ll it was called. Anyway, Suge Knight and two or three cronies stopped by the station to propose going into business with the family that owned it to produce original programming oriented to African Americans as Fox was doing at the time.

Suge is enormous. His wingmen dwarfed in comparison. While Suge was in his meeting, one of his cronies tried to impress me, the cute Latina, by modeling his custom-made, leather-sleeved, letterman-styled jacket. On the back, where you'd normally see your school mascot or sport emblem was this huge chenille applique of a black guy sitting in an electric chair, strapped down, hooded and ready to be fried. Much to my surprise, that was their company logo and this dude was so proud to be wearing this jacket as only those high up in the organization were given them.

Never tried to hide a reaction of shock and disgust so much in my life. I was astounded by the enormous amount of bad taste the applique represented. It was horrible. He had no way of knowing I had gone to Berkeley, was educated in US history and race relations. He also assumed I liked rap music due to my looks. Um...no...so utterly wrong. All I could say was "that's some logo on the back of that jacket. Can't say I've seen one like that before. I have jacket like that, but with an applique of me on that back from when I was a cheerleader." Just as we started to chat, where I was going to ask how he came to work for Death Row Records, Suge popped out from the executive offices and promptly ended that discussion as it was time to go. Apparently, there was no programming deal made.

Suge is scary, with a really dark aura to boot. Best description is Vaderesque. But then again, someone had just told him "No" so that would explain a lot. The guy who said "No" stands about 5'4" so that took balls.

/wouldn't buy anything of Death Row Records back catalogue or rights or anything. What if Suge wanted them back?