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Crooked I Planning Documentary On Death Row
Rapper Crooked I is preparing to release a documentary chronicling his rocky relationship with his record label, Death Row. According to Crooked I, Death Row and Suge Knight have prevented him from releasing his album due to contractual obligations with the label.
In order to pacify eager fans, the rapper is working on a DVD documentary titled “Leaving Death Row.”
“He [Suge Knight] can’t prohibit me from doing that because its film,” Crooked I told AllHipHop.com. “It’s cool because I have people like Master P and Russell Simmons [in the documentary]. P is in there talking about when people leave him he don’t trip. I got the first person who ever left Death Row, which was RBX, all the way up to me the last person to leave.”
Crooked I said that the documentary focuses on various artists and their time spent with the legendary record label, which brought forth such titans as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, Tha Dogg Pound and others.
“The DVD is really more about leaving a state of mind and not just about leaving the label,” Crooked I continued. “A lot of artists want to be fake as thugs; I’m all about adopting a business state of mind.”
On the music end, Crooked I said that his fans getting his music was simply a matter of time.
“It was a four-year deal and really, after the 4 years I don’t want to extend this. I told him man in four years n***as get college degrees and I didn’t do nothing. I did about 4 albums worth of material over there and wrote for numerous people. Suge still got that music and he can put it out, I don’t care put that s**t out, especially if you feel like you invested money in me,” Crooked I said.
Shortly after deciding he would no longer record for Death Row, Crooked I’s label, Dynasty inked a deal with Treacherous, a label that has a distribution deal through Universal.
“They’re distributing my label through their distribution deal with Universal, so I have the greatest deal of a lifetime. I’m in here making what a person should make off their album with all the distribution in the world and legally they can’t do anything because of this [cease and desist] order [Knight sent].
Suge Knight was not available for a response as of press time.
Source: allhiphop.com
In order to pacify eager fans, the rapper is working on a DVD documentary titled “Leaving Death Row.”
“He [Suge Knight] can’t prohibit me from doing that because its film,” Crooked I told AllHipHop.com. “It’s cool because I have people like Master P and Russell Simmons [in the documentary]. P is in there talking about when people leave him he don’t trip. I got the first person who ever left Death Row, which was RBX, all the way up to me the last person to leave.”
Crooked I said that the documentary focuses on various artists and their time spent with the legendary record label, which brought forth such titans as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, Tha Dogg Pound and others.
“The DVD is really more about leaving a state of mind and not just about leaving the label,” Crooked I continued. “A lot of artists want to be fake as thugs; I’m all about adopting a business state of mind.”
On the music end, Crooked I said that his fans getting his music was simply a matter of time.
“It was a four-year deal and really, after the 4 years I don’t want to extend this. I told him man in four years n***as get college degrees and I didn’t do nothing. I did about 4 albums worth of material over there and wrote for numerous people. Suge still got that music and he can put it out, I don’t care put that s**t out, especially if you feel like you invested money in me,” Crooked I said.
Shortly after deciding he would no longer record for Death Row, Crooked I’s label, Dynasty inked a deal with Treacherous, a label that has a distribution deal through Universal.
“They’re distributing my label through their distribution deal with Universal, so I have the greatest deal of a lifetime. I’m in here making what a person should make off their album with all the distribution in the world and legally they can’t do anything because of this [cease and desist] order [Knight sent].
Suge Knight was not available for a response as of press time.
Source: allhiphop.com