Episode 6 - Jimmy LIE-Vine

On this episode of Collect Call With Suge Knight, Suge gets down to the truth about Jimmy Iovine's manipulative ways, how pinning crews against each other has become the industry's oldest trick. Some interesting information is revealed about Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur. Suge also addresses the recent call Dave Mays received from Snoop Dogg for being part of the groundbreaking podcast Collect Call.

1:37 Suge explains why owning your publishing and masters was so important to him

2:23 Suge gets an offer from Michael Fuchs to leave Interscope but he stays loyal to Jimmy Iovine and Ted Field

4:09 Suge describes a lawsuit related to Kurupt that Interscope settled for $50,000 but it ended up costing Suge $10 million

4:58 While Suge is in prison, Interscope sends Suge a letter saying they will no longer distribute Death Row

5:40 Dr. Dre does an interview saying gangster rap is over and he will no longer put out music with profanity

6:35 After some of Suge’s master reels allegedly get stolen by Daz and MC Hammer, Jimmy Iovine makes a call to take over storage Suge’s archive of masters

9:33 Suge comes home from prison and goes to see Jimmy Iovine, who tells him that he took all of the drum beats off of the Death Row master recordings and gave them to Dr. Dre

10:57 Jimmy Iovine and David Cohen tell Suge that Afeni Shakur brought guys with guns and took all of Tupac’s masters from them

11:43 Suge talks about the creation of the "One Nation" project that Death Row and Tupac were doing to unite all the regions of hip-hop

12:38 Suge recalls Afeni visiting him in prison and Afeni tells him that Interscope told her that Suge had her son killed

14:46 Jimmy visits Suge and wants to use the name “The Chronic” for the next Dr. Dre album; he tells Suge that he will pay him $1 per record sold, but they end up putting just The Chronic leaf logo on the album and not the words

17:19 Interscope, Sony and Death Row get sued by the Harris’s

18:39 Jimmy curries favor with Snoop by paying $800,000 for a music video for the song “Midnight Love” without Suge’s approval

20:01 Jimmy meets with Dr. Dre to try to get him to come over to Interscope; Jimmy pays for a $1 million studio in Dre’s house that Suge didn’t approve and then recoups it from Suge and Death Row

21:35 Suge reveals he paid Dr. Dre just $2 million when he left Death Row but kept a 30% management fee that should have applied to the sale of Beats and the release of the Straight Outta Compton movie

21:48 Dave gets a phone call from Snoop Dogg who tells Dave that Suge wasn’t the one who paid for his legal fees during his murder trial that they were paid by Jimmy Iovine

23:55 Suge speaks on producing evidence that he paid for Snoop’s legal fees during his murder trial

24:19 Suge says he is going after Jimmy Iovine and David Kenner for money owed and fraud

26:45 Suge says he’s been hearing about plans for Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua to do a Death Row documentary without him

29:25 Suge compares what it was like fighting with Jerry Heller and Ruthless Records versus fighting with Jimmy Iovine and Interscope Records

33:10 Suge says he has retained the Death Row merchandising rights and will be suing Jack In The Box for allowing Snoop to wear a Death Row chain in their new commercial

Special shout out to D Dog!

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