Daz interview with Formula..

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ThaFormula.com - When you left Death Row Daz, do you feel that going independent was the best thing you could have done?
Daz Dillinger - Yeah that was the best thing I could have done because I have more leverage on what I wanna do. I had leverage on what I wanted to do when I was on Death Row, but it's just like more of me has seen all of it and you know you gotta have a team 'cause I got a team with me and it's all about treating them right you know what I mean? But I'm doing the independent thing and I'ma try this movie thang too.

ThaFormula.com - When you decided to go independent and head out to the Bay did you have much money at all to get started?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah I had money. I had sold about 6 Tupac verses (Laughs) But it's like I got money but I play broke so I can get some more.

ThaFormula.com - Looking back at interviews back in the early Death Row days and even videos and performances, you always seemed like you were the realest one in the clique, you never seemed to have been trippin' on no Hollywood type shit...

Daz Dillinger - Who's an asshole? Kurupt? I think Kurupt was mostly an asshole. He acted stupid and shit.

ThaFormula.com - Did you ever get a chance to read the book that Ronin Ro wrote, "Have Gun Will Travel," and how much of that book was true?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, and none of that shit was true. That muthafucka made that shit up…or at least some of that shit.

ThaFormula.com - Cause it seemed like that book made everybody except for Suge look like a bitch.

Daz Dillinger - Suge, he's a bitch though nah mean, but shit I got the real book comin' out. The real shit muthafuckas really wanna know about. But his bitch azz is in jail (Laughs). He's a stupid muthafucka! Fighting with a parking attendant!

ThaFormula.com - Lets talk about the R.A.W. album, did you do that album before or after you went to the Bay area?

Daz Dillinger - Nah, I had that album before I went to the bay. I was pressing my shit up before I went to the bay. I sold 20,000 in Tower Records with no bar code.

ThaFormula.com - How has the independent thing been for you. Has it been good?

Daz Dillinger - It's been beautiful! I'm lovin' the rap game! I'm the happiest rapper and I'm fittin' to sign with So-So Def!

ThaFormula.com - What's the deal with that?

Daz Dillinger - Gangsta, "So-So Gangsta," that's the relationship. That's gonna let me do my thing and get me all the way in the game. How Snoop went to No Limit and did his thang, I'm comin' over here to So-So Def and do my thang and still have Gangsta Advisory and all the shit that I'm still doing. 'Cause I plan on opening my own distribution company and distributing people's records. Everybody that I know cause I'm getting the money from the Suge Knight case. I'm takin' all that money and pressing up everybody's records. 'Cause ain't nobody can do it better than I can.

ThaFormula.com - So Daz honestly what is your situation right now with Kurupt?

Daz Dillinger - I'ma beat his ass when I catch him and then Soopafly gonna beat him up, then Snoop gonna beat him up, then I'ma beat him up again and then I'ma kick him in his ass. He a sucka man! If he do all that shit for money man, I can't trust no shit like that. Muthafuckas is dying out here man. Ain't no comin' back!

ThaFormula.com - So you're really serious about this?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah I'm serious as fuck man. My family shit is fucked up man, shit won't ever be the same.

ThaFormula.com - But I mean damn, you guys were together for so many years man...

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, but I was doing all the fucking work. He fighting muthafuckas, getting beat up and callin' me. Shit, when he was fucking Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Andre Rison come over to whoop the shit out of him! You know him and Suge was fucking that bitch. I mean R.I.P. to her but they was getting down and that's what's gonna be in my book. They didn't know all that huh!

ThaFormula.com - Getting' back to the music now Daz 'cause will get deeper into that later, what happened to the Daz from the Dogg Food days man? What happened to that producer?

Daz Dillinger - I'm still the same producer I just been laid back. I'm roarin' up the engine right now and its just like you grow with time. You just can't go back and do something all over again. Something is gonna be different about it. Like if you fuck a bitch and you move to the left, you're not gonna get that same position you were just in, but your gonna fuck it a little bit different and a little bit better. I mean that stuff was when I was young, I was 17 years old, I'm 30 years old right now, but that's why I'm workin' with Jermaine because that's the next album I'm doing. It's called "I Am The Dogg Pound." That's the name of my new album, I mean I'm back producin' now. I'm fittin' to be doing shit for Mystical, I'ma do shit for Jay-Z's new album, I'm just on the road right now. I done moved out of California.

ThaFormula.com - So do you think there will ever be another Dogg Pound album again with everyone?

Daz Dillinger - Nah, ain't no more Dogg Pound, that shit is over with. Only thing Kurupt can do for me is kill Suge Knight and he in jail.

ThaFormula.com - How much production did Soopafly do on the Dogg Food album?

Daz Dillinger - Me and him did the whole album but we made the sound for everybody. I was doing the beats and Dre mixed it down or we had somebody else mix it down, but we had to fight and pull a gun on Dre to mix my shit. He was on some other shit.

ThaFormula.com - How much of the Doggystyle album did you really produce?

Daz Dillinger - On the Snoop album I did "Niggaz and Bitches," "Ain't No Fun," "Serial Killer", and I wrote "Murder Was the Case" for Snoop. He and I co-wrote a lot of stuff.

 

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ThaFormula.com - Daz, throughout the whole time the Death Row drama was going on, I noticed that you and Suge never seemed to have any problems...

Daz Dillinger - Well, I was young you know, and shit I learned a lot from that fat muthafucka. I learned the best things and not doing the wrong things. Also, he knew I wasn't no bitch and no punk. I pulled a big ass screwdriver on his ass and came out of there with $145,000 dollars while Kurupt is crying like a bitch off of mushrooms. Because muthafuckas didn't give me my money I went in there and hit everybody up in the office. I mean everybody with a screwdriver and then Suge comes in there and then when I looked at his eyes, it looked like he was gonna try and do somethin' to me, so I'm like "fuck it I'ma do something to you!" It ain't nothin' but muthafuckin' self defense. When I was fittin' to stab him in his neck, he said "Hold on! HOLD ON!!! (Laughs). And I walked up out of there with $145,000 cash. I gave Kurupt 5 g's and I did all the god damn work and he was still cryin' off mushrooms. (Laughs)

ThaFormula.com - Now when you say you did all the work, what exactly do you mean?

Daz Dillinger - I did all the work as far as producin', beatin' niggaz asses, takin' care of muthafuckas, makin' sure muthafuckas don't jump Kurupt. I did all that shit 'cause the 60's was fittin' to kill Kurupt but we was from Long Beach so we stood up for Kurupt 'cause he was from the Dogg Pound, but now it's just all East Side muthafuckas in the Dogg Pound now. Ain't nobody from the West Side and I think they fittin' to kick Kurupt off the West Side 'cause he a bitch. Everybody is looking at his true colors right now. You see he ain't out in the streets doin' shit.

ThaFormula.com - Now what's the situation with Knoc'turnal? What is the problem you had with him?

Daz Dillinger - Uh, he was in a magazine talkin' about me and Snoop. Talkin' about some people scared of Suge. I was like, he's supposed to be from Long Beach! Muthafuckas know I get around. I'm everywhere in the street and hood, everywhere! That's why I get so much respect in the hood because I'm there puttin' in work. Muthafucka wanna come test…we can shoot it out or we can fight. Or you can come over here smoke some weed and get some of this money and quit the bullshit. But I can't fuck with nobody, like Jayo Felony, he's talkin' all that shit all on the Internet but then he will call somebody from www.Dubcnn.com and tell them he wanna be my friend now. I know when I didn't have no money, I know he was broke. 'Cause like right now if I didn't go to the bank and get no money out, I know I ain't gonna have none but I know Jayo Felony ain't makin' no money. If he comes suck my dick I'll put his record out.

ThaFormula.com - So basically Daz you were feedin' everyone in the Pound during the early days?

Daz Dillinger - Hell Yeah, everybody was comin' over my house. I had the biggest house in the Pound. I'm the only one that had a house too.

ThaFormula.com - So when did you really come out with the decision to leave Death Row? 'Cause when everybody was dissin' The Row, you were sayin' how you had no problems with Suge and it seemed like you were there to stay?

Daz Dillinger - Everybody decided to leave and I'm like man there is too much shit here to be left behind. Well let me act like I'm Suge's best friend 'cause at that time shit there was a million dollars worth of shit over there. Everything was over there. He was in jail, punk ass Reggie was runnin' the company. I was doin' the beats and I was like "alright, cool let me set this up where I can scoop everything and look over to the left, look over to the right, everything is clear, load that shit in my truck!" (Laughs). You know I just got everything everybody left. It's just like leavin' a gold mine. So I'm gonna pick everything up and leave. You see ain't shit over there and that's what Kurupt tried to do. He thought there was something over there so he tried to go over there, but he got punked 'cause he was at power 106 and a muthafucka punked him and told him "Simon wanna see you, you can come nicely or you can go rough." You know Kurupt, he a bitch he ain't doing nothing. I want to say what's up to his sister to cause I love her.

ThaFormula.com - When Suge went into jail, was there a lot of things that he didn't see happening within his own label?

Daz Dillinger - He couldn't see shit with fat ass Reggie in the way and Reggie was trying to be Death Row. He was trying to be Suge Knight dressing in big red suits and puffin' on cigars and shit. (Laughs) Muthafucka you ain't shit! Your daddy is the police and you're the police! That shit pissed me of man. (laughs)

ThaFormula.com - In your opinion Daz, how do you look at the movie "Biggie and Tupac?"

Daz Dillinger - Suge did it. Fuck, who else is gonna do it?

ThaFormula.com - Did you watch the movie?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, I seen the little fat white boy. He was up there snitching his fuckin' heart out. He's locked up in jail scared then a muthafucka! Tell me what you think?

ThaFormula.com - I was definitely trippin' out when I saw that. That was some crazy shit. Did you know who that fat white dude was at all? Had you ever seen him before?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah I seen his ass. He used to play a fake ass lawyer. He used to try to be a lawyer. I didn't know he was no criminal.

ThaFormula.com - So you do feel that Suge ended up doing that?

Daz Dillinger - Hell yeah, they used to go to the strip club all the time. What you think man? I don't like the muthafucka anyway. Hell yeah he did it. Shit his fat ass is in jail snitchin' right now. See this what they do to Suge Knight, they violate his parole so he they can get information from him. "Alright Suge, we gonna violate your parole cause we need some information on the streets, there is a lot of shit going and and we ain't gonna like come pick you up and all that shit, we just gonna say that you violated so you can give us some information." That's what they do to Suge Knight.

ThaFormula.com - I got to tell you Daz, I've have interviewed a lot of artists and when I ask them certain questions they always seem scared to speak the truth or call someone out...

Daz Dillinger - What about me?

ThaFormula.com - You're definitely keepin' it real Daz and speakin' what's on your mind...

Daz Dillinger - Just tell them that Daz said whoever don't answer those questions is a bitch and you must be scared of them. What you scared of a muthafucka for?

ThaFormula.com - How did you and Snoop finally get back to working together after beefin' for a while?

Daz Dillinger - We was just feuding for a minute because me and Snoop we family, shit we first cousins. When we don't wanna see each other, we still see each other and we got family reunions, and shit like that. We gonna see each other but that's just something that the public didn't know but we never did music together 'cause of the Death Row thing and I was doing my thang and showin' them that I can do my own thang 'cause they were still thinkin' I was from Death Row, but didn't know I had every fuckin' master in the world. When they look at shit I done did like "damn how you sue them for that much money?" Now they wanna go sue!

ThaFormula.com - So when you were at Death Row you were just basically taking everything you could find?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, loading up everything and just going through the files undercover. Undercover Dogg Pound Agent! (Laughs)

ThaFormula.com - Now why didn't Sam Sneed ever drop an album on Death Row?

Daz Dillinger - East Coast /West Coast shit man, and he had a tumor 'cause Tupac and them beat the fuck out of him! That's why he got a tumor and damn near died. He quit. We had a meeting one day right after we got shot at and so Tupac said to Sneed, "you just shot a video right?" So he said "yeah." Pac said "well we're gonna sit down and see if any West Coast muthafuckas is in there, and each time we see a East Coast muthafucka we gonna knock you in your muthafuckin' head." So every time they would see a East Coast dude they would kick him in the ass and Budda, you know the producer, he a bitch too 'cause he sat there and watched Sam Sneed get beat up. Didn't say shit!

ThaFormula.com - What would you have done in that situation Daz?

Daz Dillinger - I would have got up and whooped somebody's ass. I had guns so I wasn't worried about what they were doing. Me and Nate Dogg were the only ones that would be strapped up in that muthafucka. 'Cause when we would have a meeting it would be Bloods and Crips in there so it's like shit, if we get to fighting up in this muthafucka just start shooting and run towards the door. And then you know Kurupt and Tupac got into it once. Tupac was gonna whoop the shit out of Kurupt in Cancun. Tell somebody to ask Kurupt was Tupac gonna beat your ass, and Daz and Nate Dogg saved you from getting your ass whooped from Tupac and them?

 

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ThaFormula.com - What exactly went down with that?

Daz Dillinger - We go into the room and Kurupt had a Hennessey bottle, he was drunk and then the bottle hit the muthafuckin' table and all the other shit. So Tupac was like, "we doin' business here!" So Kurupt was like, "blah, blah, blah," and you know being hard 'cause we was there. And then Tupac was like "you know what Kurupt, I'll rent a room right now and ill beat your ass in there right now." Then he said "you know what, I'm gonna get my homies the outlaws…" and that's when we stepped in like, nigga you ain't gonna get nothin nigga! So then I told him that and then me and Tupac got into it just for that second and I told him you know cause I'm helpin' Kurupt out, I tell Tupac "why don't me and you go in the room, nah mean?" Then Suge and them jump in and then that's when it was on right after that, and then Tupac and them was only in the studio and at home. We in the studio, streets, doin' every muthafuckin thang.

ThaFormula.com - What did you think when Hammer came to Death Row Daz?

Daz Dillinger - They were trying to call him "The General." Fuck that shit! Then we had a meeting one night, we was gonna whoop the fuck out of Hammer, but Hammer cool, I talk to Hammer all the time. That's what was going on back then though.

ThaFormula.com - But I mean what were your thoughts when you found out Suge wanted to get Hammer? Were you trippin' on that?

Daz Dillinger - I asked Suge about that and he was like, "Hammer is for political reasons as far as getting us into doing benefits and shit like that." So that's what Hammer was there for, to get that charity and back-taxes off of muthafuckas and shit like that. But as far as puttin' an album out, no record ever came out. (Laughs)

ThaFormula.com - So there never was gonna be a Hammer album?

Daz Dillinger - Hell nah, he made one though. I did something on it but Hammer ran off with the reel. I think Suge and them was looking for them.

 

[pimpsmooth420]

i was wonderin when this will be up daz as aloud mouth gonna get him in some shit lol

hahahha daz is a fool u need 2 post that up at bart cuz daz all he does he talkin about lisa lopez and pac but how is it daz so locc out but when some 1 like jt tha bigga figga wants 2 fight him 1 on 1 he scared 2 fight nigga 2 me is all bark no bite but daz kept it real fo sho did not hide anything good shit

 

[Da-LAzoo]

yeah. he talked about shit that other ppl wouldnt have spoke on.
and he didnt diss 2pac or 'left eye' , coz some faggots from hitemup.com got their pants wet when they heard their god 2pac being spoken on.

plus i been hearin that it was jt , who was the one that didnt want to fight.
at first jt said he would, but then later on he wanted to work things out. so jt was the coward.
coz we all know that jt would of got his ass whooped by daz, coz jt is a skinny dude

 

[pimpsmooth420]

good shit tho

i neva seen jt tho so i cant speak on it but y daz move out of cali if he connected he runin from suge or what lol but he was clownin kurupt hella hard i want 2 see if kurupt will say anything lol i doubt it

 

[Da-LAzoo]

yeh, but alotta ppl are after suge n they wanna kill his ass. so suge should be worryin about watchin his own back

 

[Ry]

^^^folks like you are the #1 reason I dont post over at DPG. Whats it like being a DPG groupie???

 

[Da-LAzoo]

quit the bullshit

 

[-TiM C-]

"Daz Dillinger - East Coast /West Coast shit man, and he had a tumor 'cause Tupac and them beat the fuck out of him! That's why he got a tumor and damn near died. "


haha, is it possible to be beaten up so bad you get a tumor?

 

[Gabe505]

^^LMAO!

What a way to go out!