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Posted by Dave
Rap News Network
8/24/2005 2:31:51 PM
Tags and topics realted to this article include Daz Dillinger. Rap, Hip Hop, Exclusive, Interviews and New Releases.
- What do you miss most about producing for 2Pac?
Getting my money. (laughs) nah, just all the good and fun times.
- Recently in the Source, you stated that Kurupt, Snoop and your self have started working together like nothing happened in the past. Can you give us more details?
Coming out with the DPGC album. Its an album that Snoop put together. I am coming out with my own album called Dillinger and Young Gotti with me and Kurupt.
- Is Nate Dogg or any Dogg Pound members gonna be featured on any of your new albums?
Yeah, that’s on Snoop’s album. The DPGC album.
- Do you and Kurupt still have a working relationship?
Yeah. It will never stop. We could be mad at each other for 50 years. Once we get back in the studio it the same flavor.
- When 2Pac was shot in Las Vegas, what went through you mind?
Shit. Bullshit. Like who did it.
- Did you think that he was gonna come out of the shooting alive? Or did you have a feeling that he wasn’t gonna make it?
After hearing everything about it, I didn’t think so. They said he was in critical condition.
- Where were you when you found out that 2Pac was shot in Vegas?
Me and Snoop and everybody were are Echo Sounds recording studio.
- How did you and Suge Knight first meet? Who hooked you up with him?
Snoop hooked me up. I was producing for a girl named Paradise which was Suge’s girlfriend. I started producing more stuff and I got on (Dr. Dre’s) The Chronic, and its history from there.
- What is your current relationship with Suge Knight?
Fuck em. He’ll do his thing, I’ll do my thing.
- How did you get on Dr. Dre’s The Chronic?
Just being around. We made (inaudible). Snoop asked me to write a verse for it and I did and that’s where we started.
- You produced a lot of songs on 2Pac’s All Eyez On Me. If you had to narrow it down, what are the top 3 songs you produced on the album?
Ambitionz As A Ridah, Ain’t Nothing But A Gangsta Party, I Ain’t Mad A Cha
- Do you still receive royalties from current sales of All Eyez On Me?
Yeah, I sure do.
- Does Suge Knight still own the Dogg Pound name?
Nope, not at all.
- What was the result of the case Afeni Shakur brought against you regarding the release of the album Makaveli & Dillinger?
I gave her the lyrics to all the songs I had. I gave her all the masters. I sold them to her.
- Has producing been something that you knew you were interested in since a young age, or did it fall into place later on in your rapping career?
I was a DJ first. I went under the name DJ Young Jedi. Star Wars type shit. I’d be cutting it up. I started DJ’ing in the park with 2 turntables from VIP records.
- What advice would you give a DJ who wants to follow your footsteps?
Shit, to get in the game you gotta travel first. Its all about traveling and meeting people. Just traveling and getting lost to find yourself out of all of it. Going to all the functions, staying in the mix.
- Who got you interested in producing? Who has inspired you over the years?
First of all Dr. Dre, Warren G, then myself. You have to be a person who wants to do it.
- What did you think about the Snoop Dogg TV show on MTV?
It was cool. It was breaking barriers. It was something fresh, new. It was like an era in time, something that you can always look back and say “I did that.”
- If you saw any of Snoop Dogg’s recent movies like Training Day, Soul Plane, or Starsky & Hutch, what was your opinion of them?
I was there when they were making them. It was cool, he got the part. They must have wanted him.
- Do you see yourself getting into movies in the future?
I can’t really play no “poofy” parts and shit. I like action. I also like making movies really. I’m a director. I learned how to direct movies so I can film my own movies. That’s what I have been going to school for. All my home movies, I have been shooting them myself, like all my DVDs.
- Is there any possibility of the Dogg Pound adding any members to the official group, or will it remain only as Daz & Kurupt?
It’s Just Daz & Kurupt. It’s a gang, you got the Dogg Pound as the rap group. DPG is the rappers and you got DPGC which is a gang. That includes everybody like Snoop, Warren G, Goldie Loc, all of em.
- Is Nate Dogg planning on making an appearance on a future Dogg Pound release?
Yeah, on Snoop’s label. The album we are doing with Snoop Dogg its called ”Snoop Dogg Presents DPGC”
- Tell us about your latest project, “Samplin’ To The Beat Of The Drum.” How would you describe the album as a whole? What date is it dropping?
August 30th. Everyone thought it was gonna be some beats that I made up and put on there, but really its not like that, its just drum rhythm and drum beats. You know how you buy a drummer album and you sample off of it. Its something you are supposed to use your imagination. Its not something to take and put your rap on it. Its to take and use as a loop, then put music around the loop. That’s what this album is about.
- Is this album meant for producers to use or modify as their own?
Yeah, this is for their own use. Not for rappers to get the beat to rap on it. Its strictly for producers.
- What kind of music producing hardware do you use to produce your music?
I use an MP-3000 as well as Reason Software. Anything to chop it up.
- If your beats get used or twisted do they pay you royalties?
Nah, you really can’t tell if the beat gets twisted, its hip-hop. I’m gonna take a bunch of peoples beats and twist em up.
- Have you taught any of your kids how to produce?
Yeah, my daughter. Her name is Dazmin Arnaud. She’s 7 years old and she has her own studio. She knows how to play the organ, shes a top student in her class, she writes music, learning notes, reading music, all that. I’m really proud of my daughter and shes only 7 years old. She knows how to play Beethoven and all that.
- What is your current outlook for West Coast rap?
West coast rap, we gotta stop the killin.
- Have you worked with anyone that you liked more than 2Pac?
I like all of em. I like everyone that I come across to because its about being friends. Working with JD (Jermain Dupri) is the dream of my life. He is cool. I learn a lot from him. When I’m with him, you never know who’s gonna show up in the studio.
- How has the rap game changed in your opinion after 2Pac left us?
It seemed like all the rappers went bankrupt. Everyone going bankrupt was grabbing and selling the little that they had.
- A book has just been published regarding the issue stating that 2Pac is alive. Do you think there is any truth to the book or is it a hopeful attempt to bring back the memory of the legendary rapper?
Just to bring back the memory. If 2Pac was here, everyone would still be on Death Row. I wouldn’t be on So So Def.
- How can you explain the work ethic of 2Pac when you worked with him?
Its just like my work ethic. Constantly in the studio. I got like 8000 songs that I made in the last year. I learned to be a business man.
- Loyal to that game, why didn’t you get a role in the creation/production of this album?
I don’t know they thought. They didn’t like us no more. We were the people who built what he had. He had Me Against The World, but when he came with All Eyez On Me it made him huge.
- Did you know All Eyez On Me was gonna blow up?
Nope, because we were doing the Dogg Pound and we stopped (our project), promoting and everything and started doing 2Pac so I knew it was gonna do something but I didn’t know it was gonna be a huge as it was.
- Eminem produced the Loyal to the Game album? What do you think was going through Afeni’s mind when she confirmed the production lineup?
She was thinking about making his album go big, but in realism, it is the worst sales 2Pac ever did. It’s the worst 2Pac album ever. Sales wise and production wise. Not taking anything away from Eminem but as far as the music, shit, it all sounds alike. It had a lot to do with Jimmy Ivine, Interscope and shit like that. The album All Eyez On Me was the most controversial ever. “Don’t Goto Sleep,” the album I put out for $500 was something I put together real quick, it was because I didn’t put it together like that then they were gonna try to steal my songs and I wouldn’t have no way to say that I put these songs together. I’m the creator of this song. I’m gonna go ahead and throw the bootleg out. I’m not gonna make no money, but I wanna get forever in life props. Eternal props.
- Daz produced the following songs off All Eyez On Me, “Ambitionz Az Arida,” “Scandalous,” and “I Aint Mad at Cha.” Were did your inspirations come from?
Just gansta shit. All them beats, people getting beat up, just being a gangsta was the inspiration to making my own beats. I made Ambitionz Az A Ridah out of Pee Wee Herman. Yeah, the drum pattern (that snare) is the same snare as Pee Wee Herman.
- Have you worked with E-40, B-Legit, or any bay area cats. Who would you like to work with?
Yeah, they were the people I first worked with. Once I got in the rap game, I got a couple songs with forty-water. I got an unreleased song with E-40, not yet titled.
- Is there anyone you would like to work with?
Alicia Keys, I just wanna do music and eat that pussy (laughs)!
- What do you think it will take to get the West Coast back on the map like it was in the 90’s?
Its about stopping the killin. Theres a lot of killin goin on. Gangbangin and shit. Just like Kuwait, motha fuckas killin (inaudible).
- Do you think major labels are polluting radio with soo much east coast music with their now exposed payola scam and are scared to rep the hardcore west, the ones who started the craze?
They want to shoot videos on the west coast though. Its all about Sirus radio right now. Fuck a radio station. I’m tryin to get my own show called “The Gangsta Show.” We play all hardcore hip hop and independent. I would do something independent before I do something major.
- Do you think exposing this payola scam is gonna give indie artists and labels more opportunity to get their music played?
Oh yeah, you gotta hit the radio. You can’t even sell your record without being on the radio. I just have a hell of a street buz. Its all about being constant. Constantly putting records out. Every time you turn around, I’m putting another record out, and another. I put out more records than anyone in the rap game.
- What’s your opinion on clubs in areas like Portland Oregon banning certain music and artists because the police claim “gangsta rap” is not productive and too violent?
That’s some bullshit. People don’t need to goto them motha fuckas. I got my own clubs in Magnolia, Mississippi with a 50 acre resort called Dogg Pound County and I’m gonna hold it down and rent it out to Jay-Z, the whole 50 acres. Its got its own store, movie theaters, clubs, all that. That’s where all my money been goin. All my lawsuit money. I’m rich as a motha fucka, but I just choose to live like I do.
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