Crooked I

Crooked I Still Owed Money From Death Row

''They Are Trying To Put Out Old Sh*t'' 6:00AM ET July 17th, 2012 Contributor : Stephen Willis A Rocky Williform Company Crooked I was once signed to Death Row Records, and despite the fact that the rhymer is now with Shady Records supergroup Slaughterhouse, he still has unresolved business with the former powerhouse gangsta rap label. "I know that the people that bought Death Row Records put out some sh*t called Hoodstar, and they used a few [of my] songs off of that album," Crooked I explained. "I’ve seen a few songs pop up on pirate websites...I was watching [Eddie Griffin's] Dysfunktional Family the other day, and I had nine songs on that soundtrack." "[Death Row] called me and they wanted me to support it. I told them, ‘If you want me to do some sh*t, cut me a check for $1 million, and I’ll come over there for some solo sh*t,'" he continued. "I told them if they weren’t going to do anything like that, then I wasn’t going to support anything. It’s reminding people of a past that no longer exists. There is no real Death Row Records anymore. Once Suge was removed from the picture, there was no Death Row. You can’t be Death Row without Suge. My terms were to have me do a brand new album for a $1 million. They gave me the run around, and I told them I was cool." "They are trying to put out old sh*t, and they don’t know how to market it," he went on. "They just think that the catalog is going to sit around and sell itself – and it will – but not the part of the catalog that people haven’t heard. You have to market that. You can sell All Eyes On Me forever and a day. What about the unheard music, though? That has to be marketed to the people. They don’t know how to do that in my opinion. So when they read this, all I have to say is $1 million [laughter]. As a matter of fact, it was $1 million back then. I want $1.5 now."