Daz Dillinger has put Dr. Dre on blast over alleged unpaid royalties for his work on The Chronic.
Tha Dogg Pound rapper, who contributed rapping and production to the blockbuster 1992 album, called out his former mentor on Instagram for not coughing up payments for his work.
“HAPPY 31st C DAY TO THE CHRONIC @drdre BUT WHEN CAN WE RECEIVE OUR ROYALITIES,” he wrote.” ARE YOU OR @interscope GONE ROBB US LIKE @deathrowrecords 2024 & THE N-GGAS FROM THE PAST WHO RAN IT. Str8 Bitchez FUCEM.”
Daz also claimed that the rights to his work revert back to him in 2027 and that he won’t be clearing anything to do with the tracks he contributed to unless he is paid what he believes is owed.
“REMEMBER DAZ COPYRIGHT REVERSIONS LAW IZ FILED I WANT % not points SO YALL ON A TIME LIMIT 4MORE YRS TIL IT REVERTS BAC THEN ITS REALLY LIKE FUCCEM I AINT CLEARING SHIT up IM COMIN,” he added.
The Long Beach native contributed to The Chronic cuts “Bitches Ain’t Shit” and “The Day the N-ggaz Took Over,” as well as handful of the album’s skits.
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Daz isn’t the first artist who worked on The Chronic to take issue with a lack of royalties. RBX, who was signed to Death Row and later Aftermath, has previously claimed he was not paid his due, but now considers the matter settled.
Speaking to AllHipHop earlier this year, he said: “I don’t cry over spilled milk though ’cause I believe in a higher power and everything that was done was done for a reason. That’s why we still here.
“And at the end of the day, they might have run out and did this and that, but they can’t take my name and they can’t take my voice. And I still got these pens and pads to write these rhymes, and they didn’t write shit for me — I wrote for them.”
He continued: “It feels good ’cause we did work hard on it. It wasn’t like it was a cakewalk. Even though Dre didn’t make us walk to Harlem to get him no cheesecake or some balloons, we were out there because we had that Death Row on our back.
“At that time we was pushing the line, it wasn’t a nice thing. It was real Death Row. It got a lot of respect from some people and got a lot of hate from others.”
Daz Dillinger also previously claimed that he is owed royalties from JAY-Z, who he alleges used one of his songs as inspiration when writing Dr. Dre’s “Still D.R.E.”
“So in my mind, JAY-Z was listening to ‘Serial Killa’ while he was writing that muthafuckin’ rhyme, and I wanna get my money for that,” Daz said in an interview earlier this year, before claiming that he tried to contact Hov and Dre about the dispute, but was threatened with legal action.
Daz also indicated he was going to go after the Roc Nation mogul for “some percentages” from the 1999 hit.
