Daz Dillinger: Stealing from Suge Knight, Fighting with Snoop Dogg, Tupac Stories & Current Rap Beef

All The Smoke

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Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Daz Dillinger joins All The Smoke to break down his legendary career from working on The Chronic at 16 to reclaiming his music rights and defining West Coast hip-hop. He shares untold stories about stealing studio reels back from Suge Knight, watching Snoop buy Death Row, and his behind-the-scenes work on Doggystyle and Murder Was The Case.

Daz opens up about why the West Coast still fights for respect in rap, his relationship with Ice-T, and stepping away from music before his powerful comeback.

He also gives his take on Kendrick Lamar, the current state of beef, and how he's making smart business moves in real estate while sharing the secret to studio success.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.3	Welcome back, all the smoke.
0:06.1	Jack, we got a legend in the building.
0:07.5	Man, we appreciate just your time and willingness to come and chop it up and tell some
0:12.5	stories.
0:13.0	A lot of good things going on in your life right now.
0:15.3	Congratulations.
0:15.6	You just got your copyright, reverse.
0:18.4	All your copyback.
0:19.6	So talk to us, because we talked to DOC a couple of months, man, about three or four months ago about this process.
0:24.6	So it's a 35 year process and then after that everything reverses.
0:27.6	Especially it was a 65 year process.
0:30.6	Set up to lose.
0:31.6	Even 35 is a monster though, especially in the game you were playing there.
0:35.6	Most definitely, rest of the piece of Tupac and all in, man, they didn't get to see
0:38.3	all that, you know what they had somebody else do it for them.
0:40.3	Explain what that is though for the people that don't understand.
0:43.3	Well, in 1976 it was a copyright ad card, copyright reversion where they lowered it down
0:49.3	to 35 years.
0:50.3	And if you signed a bad deal when you was young, you get the second bite at the
0:57.6	Apple 35 years later, which the company have to come back and negotiate with you to keep
1:03.4	their deal in place. If you don't want to do it or if you want to do it, it's up to you.
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