The story told by Death Row Records is a cautionary tale about the grimy realities of the entertainment industry. It’s a story of drug gangs, and persistent harassment by the Police Department and the FBI . The records sold and made millions for the record labels generating more than $400 million in sales as well as making $100 million for annual revenue. But that didn’t mean the artists got paid. Compton didn't bring forth rap, however the music that fell off the streets of Los Angeles in the late 1980s took the lower class to another level, aesthetically and politically.
The artist of this newly refined “Rap” included rappers Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and Dr. Dre (most of N.W.A). The “G-Funk” inspired beats and explicit lyrics, about drugs, …show more content…
Dre being one of these artist sought out Dick Griffey, a black LA businessman and owner of SOLAR records, which had recorded numerous local R&B groups Griffey offered Dre and his fellow artists, including Snoop Dogg, office space and a studio in Hollywood. At this moment in time Suge Knight meets and befriends Dr. Dre in future partnership.Suge Knight met Dr. Dre while he was filling in as a bodyguard for Bobby Chestnut. Knight was a college graduate, with a proficient amount of intellect when it came to business management, doing whatever it took to extract owed money to the label and black rappers. Knight became part of Dre’s team and helped to found Death Row Records.
Dre and his label mates immediately went to work in Griffey’s studio creating what would become one of the most important Hip-Hop/Rap albums of the 1990s, The Chronic. But while they had their own label, they didn’t have much money or a way to distribute their records. That’s when two other key players arrive on the scene: Michael Harris and David Kenner. He’d been one of the first blacks to produce a Broadway show, Chocolate, starring Denzel Washington. But Harry-O had fallen on hard times. He’d been busted on conspiracy to commit murder, also on drug trafficking charges and was serving a long prison …show more content…
for $18 million. On January 25, 2009, a bartering was held for everything found in the Death Row Records office after the organization petitioned for insolvency. Of note was the Death Row Records hot seat which went for $2500.
Following the obtaining, the organization has kept on discharging material from its unfathomable chronicles of materials gained in the deal. Important discharges incorporate already unreleased material from such craftsmen as Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Danny Boy, Crooked I, Sam Sneed, LBC Crew and O.F.T.B. Subsequent to the securing of the material, Money Mafia-Death Row Entertainment, under the administration of WIDEawake Entertainment Group Inc., has made numerous positive steps towards making so as to enhance the picture of Death Row Records once
The artist of this newly refined “Rap” included rappers Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and Dr. Dre (most of N.W.A). The “G-Funk” inspired beats and explicit lyrics, about drugs, …show more content…
Dre being one of these artist sought out Dick Griffey, a black LA businessman and owner of SOLAR records, which had recorded numerous local R&B groups Griffey offered Dre and his fellow artists, including Snoop Dogg, office space and a studio in Hollywood. At this moment in time Suge Knight meets and befriends Dr. Dre in future partnership.Suge Knight met Dr. Dre while he was filling in as a bodyguard for Bobby Chestnut. Knight was a college graduate, with a proficient amount of intellect when it came to business management, doing whatever it took to extract owed money to the label and black rappers. Knight became part of Dre’s team and helped to found Death Row Records.
Dre and his label mates immediately went to work in Griffey’s studio creating what would become one of the most important Hip-Hop/Rap albums of the 1990s, The Chronic. But while they had their own label, they didn’t have much money or a way to distribute their records. That’s when two other key players arrive on the scene: Michael Harris and David Kenner. He’d been one of the first blacks to produce a Broadway show, Chocolate, starring Denzel Washington. But Harry-O had fallen on hard times. He’d been busted on conspiracy to commit murder, also on drug trafficking charges and was serving a long prison …show more content…
for $18 million. On January 25, 2009, a bartering was held for everything found in the Death Row Records office after the organization petitioned for insolvency. Of note was the Death Row Records hot seat which went for $2500.
Following the obtaining, the organization has kept on discharging material from its unfathomable chronicles of materials gained in the deal. Important discharges incorporate already unreleased material from such craftsmen as Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Danny Boy, Crooked I, Sam Sneed, LBC Crew and O.F.T.B. Subsequent to the securing of the material, Money Mafia-Death Row Entertainment, under the administration of WIDEawake Entertainment Group Inc., has made numerous positive steps towards making so as to enhance the picture of Death Row Records once