The worlds biggest rap star was getting an allowance of 5-10k a month. Let that sink in

That wasn’t “generosity”, that was a way to control the money and get the most for himself.

“It ain't easy, to hold it in When everybody around me is gettin' rich Wonderin' where I been” - Napoleon (Where U Been lyrics)

All the allowances, leased apartments and cars were recoupable and tax deductible business expense.

If you remember Cadillac Records Wolf didnt take no money. He said pay me what you owe me. You know why? SO HE WOULD KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WAS DUE TO HIM.

Can someone explain why didnt 2pac get his royalties from Me Against The World? He was alive almost 2 years after the album dropped and the album + singles sold over 4 million copies

Every time you hear "Know what I mean?" Take a sip! 🍺

He was asking for his "Me Against The World" royalties..that album dropped a year prior in '95. The checks Interscope sent to Death Rows took missing 👀

Guy like Tupac, Lil Wayne and DMX are what you call a true artist. The downside of being a true artist is that many of them are not good businessman and often get screw on that business end. Because they only care about the art.

Mr 👑MAKAVELI is the Most talked about Celebrity on KZfaq ever 💯💯 truly a real Legend.. We love you Pac & Mr Frank White (🎩B.I.G ).. Rest on kings🙏🏾🕊

ART back to his bread and butter SAME STORIES OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER .... ALMOST 30 years ago.

It’s funny how the artists are all complaining now but accepted it at the time. The bottom line is Death Row was a period in history that can never be matched regardless of the politics and foolery behind it and I feel very privileged to have been alive to witness it.

Frank Alexander broke down the math. And the math didn't add up on the money. Because Pac was trying to figure out why he was sending Frank Alexander every Friday to pick up 5k for him. So Suge was giving Pac at least 20k a month. But the money still didn't add up to what he should've been getting for selling millions. And that is one problem that Pac had with Suge. Even to the point of calling an audit. As Frank Alexander said. And that audit was told to Frank Alexander and Kevin Hackey. But the only reason why Hackey is still alive, is because he was undercover for the feds. And LAPD don't want to be playing with the feds.

Also people need to remember that as soon as Dr Dre Chronic album released in 1992 and it sold multiple millions of copies there was still legal cases against Andrew Young aka Dr Dre for how he assaulted and kicked female hip-hop show hostess Dee Barnes and had other legal cases including breach of contract with Eazy E and Ruthless Records. Then Snoop Doggy Dogg got into that shooting case turned to murder case where the State of California gonna put him in prison for either first or second degree murder and Suge made sure to pay all those legal fees. So Deathrow Records was successful but there was dumb actions and legal cases at them.

That’s FACTS. I was there. Saw it live. Suge was super generous.

A little correction tho, Mike Tyson, Run - DMC and Eric B & Rakim was all the first in Hip - Hop culture. To Drive around the hood in Rolls Royces, Bentley's and Mercedes Benzs. They was the one's that glamorized Doonky Gold Chain Ropes with huge gold pendants, huge gold bracelets, Gold Rolexs , and huge gold Rings. I mean RUN - DMC was probably the first rappers with their own helicopter. I can't remember anyone within the Hip - Hop culture before them doing it like that. Maybe LLCOOL J. Napoleon was most likely still in diapers during that era. 2pac just personified what he saw growing up as a kid. Coming up in the Hip- Hop culture.... Na middy mean. 🎙❤❤🔥🎤❤🔥🎙❤🔥🎤🔥❤🎙🔥❤🎤🔥❤🎙💪🏾😤

ANYMORE KRAYZIE BONE INTERVIEW UPLOADS?

Shug was not generous. He gave Tupac monies that would be recouped from sales. The money Shug put up was not his money but the advance monies Interscope paid per Death Row released.

Suge got his 700,000 from the Gridlock movie...Pac was pissed

Tupac was NEVER signed to Deathrow. He was ALWAYS signed to Interscope Records. He was managed by Suge. His association with Deathrow is no different than DJ Quik's association with that label.

With all due respect to Napoleon, what he's describing is a pimp taking the money & giving back spending money

All Eyez On Me released Feb 13 & 6 months later for royalties would be Aug 13 which is around when the feces hit the fan, I would bet that’s not a coincidence - he also had singles released before Feb 13 perhaps those were hitting 6 months even sooner not sure if that rule applies to singles too

Suge is a real gangster, he has no heart for anyone. Napoleon is on good terms with suge thats why he dosent have anything against him

Thanks!

Suge would give him that money, but he didn't pay them the exact amount of money they should have been paid. I'm tired of people saying Suge Took Care of his artists and always gave them their money and gave them a good deal. All those houses and cars were in Suge's name.

Napoleon was a kid back then. He didn't know nothing bout Pac business affairs. Frank explained everything years ago, and it's known.

Frank Alexander said Pac was getting 5K a week…

This guy! Sits in the fence when it comes to suge and pacs money, also sits on the fence when it comes to pacs feelings towards anything other than bad boy and biggie. You can read his body language, twitching non stop trying not to offend suge

He right Suge did better by them than any white label would have. Because your album doesn’t make money right out the door. Especially back when you had to pay to print physical copies and put in physical stores. Record labels don’t pay the studios they use to make the albums for 90-120 days after you’ve sent them the bill. Same thing when the store sells their albums they don’t send that money immediately. I’m not positive but it’s probably also 90-120 later depending on the distribution contract I would assume. Definitely more than 30 days before a store is sending money back to the distribution house. Then the distribution house has a month or 3 before they kick back to the label. He learned after he got more time in the industry it’s about a year before you getting paid that’s why labels advance artist money to keep them afloat and hopefully out of the street.

I wish I was driving a Mansion 🥴@2:29

He’s not honest y’all

If you don’t answer these questions correctly these interviewers will get you caught up…………………….

Eric B and Rakim had them Bentleys.

Once he gives you that monthly allowance. You owe him more.

I don’t every month but I’ve made 6k already this month n I’m broke as hell.

Please talk about wack 100 said that Suge was using 2pac as a shield plus I heard that before

I feel that if Tupac ever mentioned anything about "where's my money?" That is really has to do with his second album "Strictly 4 My N_____z" (1993) reaching either one million or two million sold in early to mid 1995 way before he was released from prison. Then "Me Against the World" (1995) had reached one million but had sold an additional million in 1995 alone. Plus Thuglife Volume 1 (1994) was said to have sold 500,000 aka Gold but note that the album did not have 2Pac's name on it so people who weren't into Pac may have slept on the album during 1995. I feel Tupac was saying that about Interscope Records cause that money was supposed to go directly to Tupac once he got out of prison but there is where the shady stuff was happening cause All Eyez On Me released in February 1996 so it would take until February 1997 for that money to come in unless there's something else given how it quickly sold quadruple platinum aka 4 million copies in 1996 alone.

Death Row was inside interscope...

They said pac was getting 75k a month Snoop was getting 50k and Dre when he was there was getting about 200k per month .. these were advanced thy were recouped not out of Suge pocket of course you keep your star happy by letting them dip in the pot Pac sold 60mill in albums the last year of his life and had a about 15mill on the way upon recuperation

Lets be honest Suge was robbing them like the music industry does 5-10k a month is BS. People made more money during that time off album sales then now. Albums was 12-20 bucks during that time and Pac was guaranteed platinum plus every time out. Suge was using the money he made from Dre, Snoop and Pac to pay people who had nothing to do with nothing. Paying off the Pirus. Putting people on allowances that bring no money to the table. Don't get me wrong it was admirable at times but it was at the detriment to those who earned it

Giving Tupac 5-10K a year, a car, and a house a not a mansion, and paying their bills is nothing.Tupac should’ve probably been worth at least $100,000,000 or more dollars.

He was on interscope the whole time

2:57 it way easier to get them type of cars when you put them under ya business name and it’s a tax write off …so if he paying for them out his pocket I can see why he kept them in his name …it’s business

Don't forget the Ish

When you see “welcome to death row” and you see jewell speak on the humble beginnings of them. It makes it feel special ! But that is why there will not be another death row again. They were a family of sorts.

The thing is if artist from different genres under the same label would audit the label at the same time things would be a lot more square. Labels dont want audits. Nobody wants strangers looking at their bank account. Here take this check and these bank statement, i ain't giving you my kogin info, gon on somewhere now 😂

Cuz Pac fulfilled his obligation did 3 albums faster than expected supposed be 3 album deal

Rest easy Pac 🙏🏾, 803

He was being generous? Sounds like he was buying them “gifts” with their money he was in control of but put everything in his name for control purposes…. Just my opinion… I’ve just heard a lot of artists from that time period saying they thought the label was hooking them up with all this stuff but really it was out of the money from their deal and was being charged to them. Wouldn’t be surprised if the major label paid Suge out and it was his job to pay the artists but instead he held the money and gave them an allowance and bought them “gifts” trying to look like the good guy until the artists got hip to it.

Suge Knight ran his label like a real corporate company 🤷🏿‍♂️😂😂😂 Keep everything in Death Row name fi Tax deductible purposes

The Outlawz had some stars come outta that group, let's give them their due 🙏

Looking back he wasn't robbing Pac..Young artists just didn't understand how the business works..He would've recouped for sure down the line.

you gotta start bringing up the info about pac auditing them , you gotta bring that up cus pac was noticing things weren’t adding up

I would like to hear more from Edi !! He's older. knows more and he's related to the family. Napolean was a young boy back then.

Suge was leasing his artists cars, apartments, homes and ect to keep them working....he was literally robbing most of them. His karma is happening now, jail 4 life.

Giving an artist an allowance is no justification or should never deflect from the fact Suge was robbing his artists blind. When Afeni came to collect what Pac was owed Suge resisted paying her, even saying Pac actually OWED Death Row money, despite the fat All Eyez On Me was well on its way to becoming Diamond and the Makaveli album had dropped and was on its way to being 5x Platinum. So even if he did give Pac the higher end, $10k per month and paid rent on his house and lease on his car, that’s around $120k. We don’t know what PAC’s contract was, but he generated $100m+ for Death Row on solo projects alone never mind the movie soundtracks he brought to the label on top of that, so regardless of what his deal was % wise, I’m sure he was due a helluva lot more than the couple of hundreds of thousands Suge was giving him in “allowances”

The audit is after 180 days not 1 year.

Puff daddy was fukn up the game

I know this. That Euphanasia medallion and chain he wore at the end of his life had to of cost a pretty penny plus all the other jewelry he was wearing. He was getting robbed on legal fees by death row attorney whatever his name is

As a former drug dealer from the 90's I can honestly say I never put not 1 of my 50 cars in my name who cares who name something is in what's yours is yours don't matter who name on the paper

An allowance? Omg that's embarrassing. No longer a fan

Renting the studio back then was 25k per hour so if he made over 100 songs it adds up

What about the guy who got beaten up for parking in the wrong spot!?

Yeah ima need to see that book playboy 15k a month aint nada especially when you bring in mills shows Tupac did at least 20 shows a month

I probably got more money than Napoleon

5k a month is just a regular job

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Pac should’ve been getting a million a month, back then Suge was making 20 million a month

There were plenty of rappers driving Bentley's or living in mansions way before Pac & Suge. For instance Run Dmc, LL Cool J, Big Daddy Kane, Mc Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Ice-T.

Mutah Betrayed Pac & Yak

Tupac said “I’m a self made millionaire” on Hit Em Up. But he didn’t live long enough to see a million dollars in his account at one time. He was just about to get his biggest pay day

how could ANYTHING be in tupacs name when he was out on bail.. What loan place would ever allow that. We are also assuming it would not of been put in his name after he beat or came home from jail.

“I think I got a black Beamer” - Snoop Dogg

A 300+ milion company, and a few K allowance a month.... :P right

What about the money from the movie's

Eazy was right the whole time just listen to his songs

Why don’t you put Johnny j wife on here

Nah I don't like to receive my money like that

Suge was clever giving them peanut butter money compare to what artist made tha is greedy

10k is small money 🤑 fuk that I'm a platinum artist

Allowances is for kids

1000$ just to be a outlaw

Pac wasn’t being paid how he was suppose to

2Pac sold over 10 mill records & the money he gave was to keep them at ease!

Then wtf ppl complaining about hell i finna write suge myself to help pay my bills 😂😂😂

LETS KEEP IT REAL SUGE TO AVOID PAYING THE ARTIST THEIR WORTH PAID THEM MONTHLY ADVANCE AND PERKS TO DECEIVE THEM FROM KNOWING THE BOTTOM LINE WHICH HE WOULD WORK TO HIS ADVANTAGE

Welcome to deathrow (2001) snoop etc are telling there that suge paid them out of his own pocket

Napoleon is always straight up and calls like it is... But I've noticed now when it comes to Suge Knight he cosigns a lot of stuff that he did that was straight scandalous and wrong. I'm surprised for him to talk so casually about the way suge was robbing people and it was cool

rip the outlawz. 🤲🏽

Salute Mutah !!

Thats Not Money

Cap 🧢

The only time Snoop was right was when he said Suge Knight wasn't paying the artists right

Must be nice to get paid to talk about another man

Napoleon trying to talk nice on suge name now can’t wait til he speak on the outlaws

Death Row. A business right? LLC tax vehicle write off. Under the business name. That is Death Row.

They just making shit up at this point

Sound like pac was getting pimped out

Suge done the same shit they doing right now given these brothers money cars an jewelry ant read 1 contract stop it Suge played all they assess 😮just like Puffy own every dam body masters smmfh

The jewish and Caucasians wouldn't be geniuses like Suge Knight.