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  Death Row Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Death Row Records is a record company that was founded in 1991 by Suge Knight and Dr.
Death Row's saving grace was and remains the fact that they maintain ownership of the original master copies of music by former artists recorded when they were still under contract.
Death Row is currently being operated by Neilson during the bankruptcy proceedings, while Knight oversees his bankruptcy estate as a debtor in possession.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_Row_Records   (3276 words)

  
 Death Row - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Death Row is a term which refers to the section of a prison that houses individuals awaiting execution.
Traditionally, inmates on death row are allowed to choose almost anything they would like for their last meal, are permitted to say some last words, and may be counselled by a priest or other religious figure.
Opponents of the death penalty claim that a prisoner's isolation and uncertainty over their fate constitute a form of mental cruelty and that death row inmates are liable to become mentally ill, if they are not already.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_Row   (446 words)

  
 The 'Untouchable' Death Row Records Web Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Death Row Records is an independently owned, African-American record company founded five years ago by Suge Knight chief executive officer and former president Andre "Dr. Dre" Young.
Death Row Records' principal artists, most notably Snoop Doggy Dogg, 2Pac, and M.C. Hammer have "crossed over" from appearing regularly on the rap charts to noticeable appearances on the rhythm and blues charts as well.
Death Row Records is more than simply a label, it is a family and a way of life.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/5597/drowcomp.htm   (361 words)

  
 PBS - frontline: l.a.p.d. blues: race & policing: live from death row
According to former Death Row employees, the atmosphere at the label became toxic with dread of gangster-administered pistol-whippings, ass-kickings and beat-downs which often resulted in ambulances being called.
Death Row itself came into being under cloudy circumstances that may have included $1.5 million in seed money from the flamboyant drug-dealer, Michael (Harry-O) Harris, currently serving a 28-year term for conspiracy to murder.
Then, during the Christmas holidays, a New York record promoter, Mark Anthony Bell, was allegedly beaten with champagne bottles by Death Row artists and hangers-on and forced by Knight to drink urine from a glass--all in an attempt to get Bell to reveal the addresses of Puffy Combs and his mother.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/race/deathrow.html   (1739 words)

  
 Morrow Orders Death Row Records to Pay Reduced Fine, Back Taxes
Death Row Records, formerly the record label for rappers Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur, was fined $100,000 and placed on five years probation yesterday for failure to pay 1996 federal taxes.
Death Row Records was renamed Tha Row Records in 2001 when “Suge” Knight was released from prison after serving five years on charges stemming from a 1992 offense.
Knight is the CEO of Tha Row Records.
www.metnews.com /articles/suge092402.htm   (383 words)

  
 THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF SUGE KNIGHT AND DEATH ROW RECORDS
Tha Row Records (formerly known as Death Row Records) is considered by many to be the most notorious record label, in the history of music.
Possibly: The departure of co-founder Dr. Dre, the death of Tupac Shakur, the departure of Snoop Dogg, and the incarceration of Suge Knight.
He changed the name of his company from Death Row Records to the Tha Row Records, and their fist CD release after Knight's return was mainly devoted to insulting and disrespecting his former artists Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Xzibit, and others.
www.streetgangs.com /newsletter/122002row.html   (1158 words)

  
 Death Row Records
uge Knight, CEO of Death Row Records, is the brains and the braun behind Death Row Records.
Death Row revolutionized rap by ridding it of its old school flavor in 1992 with Dr. Dre's "The Chronic".
Michel'le had a lusty relationship with Dr. Dre in those tumultuous early nineties, had a child with him, and was brought on board with the young Death Row Records as the company's most talented and prominent singer.
rap-universe.8m.com /deathrow.html   (1439 words)

  
 Death Row - Latest news
Death Row Records are releasing some of the catalogue on DJ friendly 160 gram double vinyl - for the first time ever!
is a Dr. Dre retrospective covering his career at Death Row Records as a solo artist as well as a producer for a number of other artists including 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, The Lady Of Rage and Tha Dogg Pound amongst others.
2002 is Tha Dogg Pound's second Death Row release and follow-up to Dogg Food, the band's first album which debuted at the top of the Billboard charts and eventually went triple platinum.
www.deathrowrecords-uk.com /latest.html   (248 words)

  
 Independent Online Edition > Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A fledgling West Coast record label founded by Suge Knight and the producer Dr Dre, it had been in business only a year when, in December 1992, The Chronic exploded on to the stereos of America and the world.
Knight and Dre formed Future Shock Records in early 1992 - they soon changed it to Death Row Records - in a collaboration that, the courts recently concluded, was at least partially funded by the known drug mogul Michael "Harry-O" Harris.
Proof that being bad was good for Death Row came with Tupac Shakur's 1996 offering, All Eyez on Me, the first double album in rap and the fastest-selling rap album in history.
enjoyment.independent.co.uk /music/features/article359014.ece   (1050 words)

  
 Death Row Records - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Death Row Records (also known as Tha Row Records) is a record company founded by Suge Knight.
Despite the infamous feud between the East Coast and West Coast, Suge Knight had planned to open in New York a subsidiary of Death Row called Death Row East.
At 2:30 am on May 27, 2003 several bullets were fired by unknown person or persons at the Beverly Hills offices of Death Row Records, they damaged the front door, windows and wall of the offices.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /d/de/death_row_records.html   (117 words)

  
 Death Row Records - AskTheBrain.com
Death Row Records employee was shot to death as he sat in his parked vehicle at an intersection in what police are calling a gang-related shooting.
Death Row Records, which gave us Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg and which was in business with Time Warner and then Seagram, is now the subject of an extensive Federal investigation involving the FBI, the DEA and the IRS.
Death Row still owns the rights to Tha Dogg Pound name, so the duo now records under the DPG moniker.
www.askthebrain.com /death_record_row-.html   (238 words)

  
 Daz Files Suit Against Death Row Records published by SOHH.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
While Death Row Records dropped the new Dogg Pound album last week, it seems that Daz is fed up.
The producer/rapper filed a lawsuit against Death Row Records last week claiming breach of contract, intentional misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, conversion, unjust enrichment, declaratory relief, demand for accounting, and constructive trust.
Death Row Records had no comment on the suit.
www.sohh.com /article_print.php?content_ID=2834   (203 words)

  
 ThugLifeArmy.com A true news source for hip hop culture
Death Row Records CEO Marion “Suge” Knight is receiving a bad deal from all the haterz.
Death row is on a come back now it seems.
Death Row is the last of the U.S.-only labels.
www.thuglifearmy.com /news?id=7   (4304 words)

  
 Asians, Inc. - View Single Post - [Music] Battle for Death Row Records
The battle for Death Row Records continues as Lydia and Michael "Harry-O" Harris have filed a new lawsuit against Marion "Suge" Knight pertaining to his April 2006 bankruptcy filing.
Lydia Harris was awarded the default judgement after the Superior Court found Knight and Death Row allegedly thwarted Lydia's efforts to enforce her rights and Knight's alleged willful refusal to cooperate in discovery efforts.
A bankruptcy hearing is scheduled for today (July 7) for the court to decide whether a bankruptcy trustee in both the Knight individual case and the Death Row bankruptcy cases should be appointed.
www.asiansinc.com /forums/showpost.php?p=481106&postcount=1   (499 words)

  
 Oxygen's Death Row Records Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This shows that people are fearing the return of Death Row, and Tha Row is still gang related.
The first picture is from the August Source Awards in which Daz, Kurupt, and Soopafly went to the podium and Daz talked about representin Death Row and Suge Knight.
Death Row has to release an album with out delaying it.
www.o2deathrow.com /oct99.html   (719 words)

  
 Death Row Records
Death Row Records, all the latest news, voting polls, media, and links.
In keeping with its iconic logo of a hooded figure strapped to an electric chair, Death Row Records, apart from being the prime purveyor of gangsta rap, has also allegedly been the shadowy, hooded...
Knight, 35, whose Death Row Records label was one of rap's leading imprints, has been serving a nine-year term since October 1996 for a probation violation.
www.infoserve.com.tw /9624-deathrowrecords.html   (223 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Very Best of Death Row: Music: Various Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Very Best of Death Row (Death Row) is a collection of (mostly) classics that is sure to bring back memories of when these songs from Dre, Snoop, Pac and company had the airwaves on lock.
If you don't know what death row is about then just look at their back catalogue and you will see classic albums, too many to truly make a greatest hits album that would have every classic track on it.
Death Row was the Standard with Dr.Dre,Snoop Dogg,Dogg POund,Lady of Rage,2Pac,Danny Boy on the Hooks.
www.amazon.com /Very-Best-Death-Row/dp/B00074C7DC   (1503 words)

  
 Suge Knight Brings Death Row East | Daily Hip-Hop News | SOHH.com /   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
After weeks of speculation, Queens, NY bred rapper Lake recently revealed to New York's Hot 97 that he has signed to Suge Knight's Death Row East, a subsidiary of Death Row Records and he will be the flagship artist for the label.
During Death Row's dominant run in early nineties, Knight expressed plans of launching Death Row East, but they were stalled after he was sentenced to nine years in prison when he violated his probation during a brawl that also involved Tupac Shakur in a Las Vegas hotel in September of 1996.
"Death of a Dynasty": Death Row Records To Be Seized By Courts
www.sohh.com /articles/article.php/8421   (473 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Eagle Rock Entertainment to Represent Death Row Records Outside North America and Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In a separate deal, Eagle Rock also announces that it has acquired worldwide rights from Death Row for "Tupac Shakur: Live at the House of Blues," which is now scheduled for September 2005 release in North America, Europe and other territories on DVD, CD and UMD.
Death Row Records was founded by Suge Knight in 1991 and fast became the biggest and most influential hip-hop label of the '90s with releases such as Dr. Dre's solo album "The Chronic," Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Doggystyle" and Tupac Shakur's "All Eyez On Me."
The first fruits of the relationship with Death Row Records will be the simultaneous DVD/CD/UMD release of the never-before-seen, uncensored "Tupac Shakur: Live at the House of Blues," scheduled for a September 2005 worldwide release on Eagle Vision.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=89275   (503 words)

  
 Death row records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Death Row were planning to form Death Row East and have the whole Rap Game.
Death Row Records, the cult rap and hip hop record label, has signed a mobile deal with digital.
Death Row Record’s founder Suge Knight has signed some sort of licensing agreement with the new company.
www.jugssite.com /death+row+records.html   (380 words)

  
 djmixed.com forum: Death Row Records Have Their Hands Full With Releases Soon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Death Row Records are currently looking for distribution for Crooked I's solo album.
Suge Knight and Death Row Records figure that Kurupt is an established artist and only needs distribution (koch Records) while Crooked I needs promotion from a larger distribution company.
Crooked I was recently recording with Battlecat for his album, but has been having problems hooking up with producers in L.A., and was recently in NYC looking for production and more.
www.djmixed.com /djmixed/forums/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=next_topic&f=18&t=006309&go=older   (433 words)

  
 Skipped hearing could spell death for Death Row Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Knight has missed several hearings in a legal battle since he lost a $107 million judgment last year to Lydia Harris, a former associate who claimed she helped start the rap record empire with her former husband, Michael Harris.
A court-appointed "receiver" would take control of all assets of Death Row Records, including a music library containing the records of such artists as Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, said Steve Goldberg, attorney for Michael Harris.
Lawyers for the Harris' said they would ask that Knight be held in contempt and jailed until he participates in the hearing to disclose his assets.
www.abcactionnews.com /entertainment/stories/0604/060403deathrow.shtml   (347 words)

  
 NME.COM - News - Suge Knight loses control of Death Row Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Find out more about Death Row in the pages of NME Magazine, delivered straight to your door every week.
A US judge has ordered trustees to take over Suge Knight's Death Row Records in the wake of the mogul filing for bankruptcy earlier this year.
Knight filed for bankruptcy in April after he was ordered to pay more than $100m (£57m) to a former associate who said she had helped start the record label in 1989.
www.nme.com /news/death-row/23548   (195 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Welcome to Death Row:Tupac: DVD: S. Leigh Savidge,Jeff Scheftel,Kevin Powell (III),John Payne (IX),Dan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The "Welcome To Death Row" documentary is great for both hardcore and casual fans of Death Row Records who have ever wanted to know more about the history of one of rap music's most successful labels ever.
While some Death Row fans might be upset that it doesn't say much of anything about popular artists like Kurupt, Daz, DJ Quik, or The Outlawz, it really isn't trying to be an artist profile.
Although not being the big rap fan I once was in high school, I have always been fascinated by Death Row Records and all of the controversy that surrounded the notorious record label since day one.
www.amazon.ca /Welcome-Death-Row-Leigh-Savidge/dp/B00005NBA5   (1675 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Knight Testifies on Death Row Records Decline - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And ...
LOS ANGELES — Rap music mogul Suge Knight testified Friday that his Death Row Records struggled after he was jailed several times and hit with a $107 million judgment in a case by a couple claiming they helped start the label.
Testifying in a near mumble, Knight told a bankruptcy trustee that his incarceration handicapped the label that had topped the charts in the 1990s with artists such as Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.
Knight said he decided to close the doors of Death Row after the judgment was issued against him and he lost a lease.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,194440,00.html   (614 words)

  
 Biggy Smalls death and Death Row Records
Notorious Biggy Smalls' death in the Mid-Wilshire district received, strangely, a short police investigation.
But Poole went so far as to suggest that there was enough evidence to make suspects of policemen in the death of Notorious Biggie Smalls, the investigation was called off.
The policemen - armed agents of Death Row Records, were apparently seeking justice for the death of Tupac Shakur.
www.notesfromtheroad.com /desertsouthwest/desertsouthwestla6.htm   (243 words)

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