Similar discussions took place among eOne executives concerning the Dr. The estate had sought declarations stating it owned the 2Pac albums’ copyrights and that eOne did not own the 2Pac recordings and instead only held them and any unreleased masters as a trust - which they argued eOne was obligated to identify and turn over to the estate.Īside from that particular lawsuit, there has been a long trail of costly litigation around the 2Pac recordings, according to sources, and eOne Music executives more than once considered returning 2Pac’s music to the estate if the right deal could be struck. In that lawsuit, 2Pac’s estate, AMARU Entertainment, laid out eight causes of action and for some of them asked Judge Stephanie Bowick to make declarations - which the judge denied. Interestingly, even though MNRK appears to have given the 2Pac albums back to the late rapper’s estate, a June 11, 2018, ruling on a lawsuit between the label and the estate appears to favor eOne Music. In 2013, eOne Music - which had long distributed the label - acquired the catalog after WideAwake Entertainment also filed for bankruptcy. When Suge Knight, the label’s original owner, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2006, it was sold to WideAwake Entertainment. The Death Row catalog has changed ownership several times over the past two decades.

Blackstone and Snoop Dogg’s representatives did not respond to requests for comment. For its part, MNRK refused to disclose whether ownership over those albums changed and wouldn’t confirm what albums it still controls through the Death Row label. Now, both those albums appear to be on Interscope Records, based on metadata from various digital music services.

In total, 2Pac’s recordings accounted for 25% to 40% of Death Row’s total activity. Those two albums respectively generated 393,000 and 66,000 album consumption units in 2021, while All Eyez On Me was the label’s biggest mover last year - ahead of the 15 Years On Death Row compilation by some 9,000 units. 1, 2022, 2Pac‘s two 1996 Death Row albums, All Eyez On Me and The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory - the latter serving as the rapper’s first posthumous release and issued under the alias “Makavelli” - are no longer on the label. Snoop Dogg Is Confident He'll Get Tupac's Masters Back on Death Row RecordsĪs of Jan.

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