Death Row records was sold yesterday to Global Music Group's president, Susan Berg. What does this mean? Well, it means that Berg now owns ALL recordings by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac, that were made while the label was still active. The label was purchased for $24 million. Global Music Group beat out Warner Bros. as well as Koch Records in this auction. After former owner Suge Knight filed for federal bankruptcy in 2006, he was forced by a bankruptcy court judge to auction all assets to the highest bidder.
Also (you Pac fans will love this) , as an added bonus, she was given 20 unreleased tracks by the late Tupac Shakur, who was killed while in Las Vegas in 1996. Maybe yet ANOTHER posthumously-released album from him?
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i hope none of that money goes to suge bitch ass.
$24 million?? That's it? Are you serious? The mega-conglomerate that it was???? Wow... The headline KILLS me, "Death Row FINALLY sells for a COOL $24 million".... HA... WHO COMES UP WITH THIS STUFF?????
It's a DAMN DISGRACE that Death Row sold for a PALTRY 24. Pathetic.
I mean damn, even Berry Gordy sold Motown for $61 milli.
He wouldn't get any money because he has way too much debt that goes beyond the $24 mil. In addition, he still has to pay attorney fees/cost that are going up the wazuu, so I would say his ass will still be broke. Karma is a mutha!!
24 mil...smfh...(raaaaaaped.....like a muthafucka)...time for yet another record company to fuckup Pacs legacy, and water down his material...soo much to say about this, but ima leave it alone,..cant do shit about it...
=Cam=
I havnt listened to a Posthumous Pac record since Makaveli.
They always get the weakest producers and low budget beat makers to make those albums and it does his rhymes no justice.
If they gave all 20 of those tracks to Dre, Kanye, Just Blaze, Rza, Swizz, Timbo, Pete Rock, Polow, Nottz and Diddy - We might get another classic Tupac album.
The CDs that have been made after his death have all been watered down garbage.
^^^^^Naa brahh, I agree that the shit that he made alive is incomparable to his posthumous shit, but Still I Rise and Until the End of Time are both still classics in my book. Even Better Days was decent.
This recycled Pac's Life shit with like 20 guest appearances like fucking TI and Ashanti is sum bullshit though. If your gonna feature people on his albums, at least feature people he worked with.
what i meant to say was i aint hatin but im glad he aint gettin shit, nada, zilch. pac in heaven still laughin
damn, shes probably gonna make that right back off of those pac tracks themselves...thats crazy
DAMN THE NIGGA THAT KNOCKED SUGE OUT IS KILLING HIS WHOLE LIFE..LMAO
HAS ANYONE SEEN SUGE SINCE THAT HAPPEND!?! I CANT WAIT TO SEE HOW PISSED HE GETS WHEN A PAPPARAZZI(spell check) DUDE ASKS HIM HOW DID IT FEEL
give snoop his shit, dre his shit, n pac mom his shit. everyone happy.
suge is havin a bad year
why ye callin suge a bitch ass he's 1 of the toughest g's around
I AGREE WIT DAT, WAT DAT BITCH BOY GON DO NOW??
GET HIS ASS KNOCKED OUT AGAIN
True, I hope she don't start selling samples and other stuff to fuck up all that classic material.
is it jus me or suge look like will smith daddy off fresh prince!
damn that shits true^
Hell yeh
yet more 2pac??? it's really hard to believe he still has unreleased material...
pac lived in da studio. he was da hardest workin man in hip hop. hands down.
man i hoped they released another pac album i bet it's gona go platnium da 1st week
with this new generation of hip-hop heads i dont think they respect a legend enough 2 buy his cd cause wayne sold his mill mostly thru females who loved lollipop i jus dont think a whole lotta females will rush 2 buy it unless it has something 2 appeal 2 the ladies.better believe id buy 2 copies 4 mrs.shakur...........and i only mentoined weezy cuz he the only one 2 sell a million records theze dayz(besides kanye)so dont get emotional haters.
WOW. Talk about a profit and a half. She bought all that classic music and some unreleased Pac joints for only 24 mill?? She could sell that for double if she wanted. I guess Suge was desperate for some money.
hope he go buy some dignity wit dat cake
Death Row revival mayb??? Sign some artists, make some hits, bring back tha row....
da row will probably be a good place without the glass jaw bully around.
At one time Death Row was worth a cool $100 million, now it is being auction for crack head money. $$$$
Listen this is straight robbery B, 24 mil for these catalogues : All eyes on Me, DoggyStyle, Dog Food, The Chronic, Murder was the case, The 7th day Therory ….I can go on & on. All eyes on me went Diamond (10 times Plat).
I wish Koch got won this bid, cuz It would assure me that they would respect these catalogues a lil bit, But what some of you are failing to understand is, Global Music Group (the winers) sell rights to use songs in movies, commercial etc. So don’t be surprised when you see a Burger king commercial with 2pac on the hook,…lol Or some cereal commercial with Dre beats,…lol shit is crazy.
With all the money Dre Has why didn’t he try & Bid to own his Chronic joints?....now he’s fuck the fuck up,…It’s a lose to us all,…well excluding Soulja Boy & Mims I doubt they ever listened to any death row record, b/c if they did ain’t no way in hell they’d put out Trash on wax.
Trade rip and chauncey to the pacers for danny granger!!!!!!!!
that would be a bad move for the pistons.
lol thts truley a joke right
DEEEE-TROIT
Drop tht new PAC already DAMN!!!!!
the raptors got jermaine oneal its a rap with bosh an oneal in the front court
billups for granger are u on crack u can't be from the d saying dumb stuff like that
it's sad they still making money off of a dead nigga's songs.. niggas still living off of that nigga pac... the nigga been gone for 12 years .. real niggas really don't die !
i hope a good 2pac album we need it
tupac album wil make a good year for hip hop
...............................WTF
so not kool
RIP 2pac
Fuck Suge Knight and Deathrow...Dre shouldnt have ever given that nigga the chance to run it he killed Pac, tryed to ruin snoops career, and forced dre to leave...but I hope Susan Berg does release those pac tracks on a cd and show that he is STILL the greatest of all time hands down. Just look at his drive and work ethic he got released from jail recorded hundrends of quality songs in about 9 months then was fatally shot in vegas...
SUGE GOT HIT WIT A ONE PIECE WIT SOME COLESLAWW LMAO
BIG SOFT ASS NIGGA NO HOMO
what does that shit stand 4 lmao
Surprised Dre didn't go after this considering how bad he wanted the Chronic masters.
^^^ cosign. If 50 Cent is worth triple digit millions, how come Shady/Aftermath couldn't put in a bid for $25 million? Hell, even A-Rod could have paid a year's salary and been Death Row's CEO hahahahahaha
"Double barrel 12 gauge bigger than chris wallace pissed off cause biggie and pac just missed all this watching all these cheap imitations get rich off em and get dollars that should,ve been thiers like the switched wallets in the midst of all this crys poppin and wrist watches i jus sit back and just watch and just get nautious" I just hope this bitch that purchased these jewels doesnt butcher these works from pac when pac made a track most of the tracks were previewed and then written too so basically almost every track pac wrote too were hand picked by himself and if u noticed all those stolen tracks that were put out instantly after his death(makaveli 2-7,one nation)were untouched but when they got remixed and made into albums they were truly robbed of thier essence.
damn a new pac cd thaz gona be sick when that shit comes out the best rapper dead or alive RIP 2pac
I got much love 4 my nigga pac rip. But fuck that bitchass nigga suge!
2Pac G.O.A.T.
give the 20 tracks to diddy and who who n who? dre maby... diddy deserves to die hje just fuckigs sucks.. but anytways it would be DOPE if there were another pac album mann Rip
Diddy & LV are some of the illest beatmakers in the game kid. Bad Boys production team has always been right.
GIVE EVERY UNRELEASED TRACKS TO DRE HE WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEM. HE WORKED WIT PAC B4 HE KNO HIS STYLE DRE MUST PICK UP WHERE PAC LEFT OFF. PAC WOULD WANT ALL HIS FANS TO KEEP HIM ALIVE THROUGH HIS MUSIC. SET IF OFF PAC LIVES FOREVER THROUGH MAKAVELI. RIP THE DON
i say give snoop his shit, dre his shit, n pac mom his shit. everyone happy.
Yo, to the guy who said Motown got sold for $61million, thats because that label was dope lol. Death Row hasn't been shit since the mid-90s...fuck Suge...they should just let the label cease to exist...it aint right having Pac's label still (sort of) active after ten years have passed since his murder.
Death Row has not been relevant since the 90's so i doubt it can be worth much seeing as they haven't been putting much out but unreleased tracks, but this amount does seem small
they better drop dat 20 unrelease tracks..i dont wanna hear no fukin rapperz tupac never knew on dat shit...unless it features da person he put on da track..n i kno derez more fukin unrelease tracks
main fuck suge he was a bitch ass nigga. wat he need to do is tell who kill 2pac? and stop being hard cause pac was the nigga that blow up deat row now look where pac gold end up at! cause of suge its like pac sed! suge is a bitch made nigga from first start u people didnt taught about that.
yah im not impressed death row is the pioneer of rap legends it shud have sold for a lot more than that what happened?
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN. HAHA $24 Million..... PWN3D
Thiz shit iz crazy! Mothafuckin DeathRow???
Ron Goldberg, Anthony Davi, Ron & Susan Berg you are all losers in a winners game.
The truth is they are fake and know nothing about music or running a music business. Global music Group the recent buyer is a one country label fake music company. They don't even have the funds and are scrambling to scrape up investors before the court deadline runs out.
Ask anyone involved or check out the clips on TMZ to see what a joke this is. We will likely see the real owner of Death Row emerge soon!
hopefully we get a new pac album