ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: Dr.Dre sues over unpaid ‘Chronic’ royalties

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This past weekend, Dr.Dre sued Death Row Records claiming that the label failed to pay the rapper, and released a new version of his popular album “The Chronic” without his permission. Andre Young [Dr.Dre] filed suit in the federal court of Los Angeles against WIDEawake Death Row Records, along with its cooperating companies. Dre has not been paid on the original “The Chronic” album since he split with Death Row Records label in 1996. The label which includes many rap music artists eventually went bankrupt, but was brought by WIDEawake and re-formed. Dr.Dre claimed that the label issued “The Chronic Re=Lit” and a greatest hits collection without his permission or the proper rights, and still owe him royalties. Dr.Dre’s attorney Howard Kind stated, “When it came to paying artist royalties and honoring limits on Dr.Dre recordings that could be released, the “new” Death Row Records, to quote our client, ‘forgot about Dre.’ This lawsuit will make sure they will remember.”

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