Dr. Dre is reported to be suing Death Row Records for somewhere around $3 million in unpaid royalties, according to Radar Online.
The Beats By Dre executive claims he is owed $1,200,386.57 in unpaid artist-producer royalties, $1,179,913 from digital sales and $676,444.44 for unpaid mechanical royalties. The digital sales amount is based on a judge’s suggestion after Dr. Dre lost a 2010 trademark infringement suit, the story reads.
The California producer also said that Death Row did not own up to a bonus that would bump his royalty rate to 20 percent from 18 percent.
Dr. Dre released his solo album, 1992's The Chronic, while on Death Row Records. He also worked in various ways on Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle, Tha Dogg Pound’s Dogg Food and Tupac’s All Eyez On Me while with the imprint.
Headed by Marion “Suge” Knight after Dr. Dre left the label in the mid-1990s, Death Row Records was taken over in 2006 by WIDEawake, which considers itself as WIDEawake Death Row Entertainment, according to its website.
The legal documents from the lawsuit are available for review here.
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