‘Fuck Death Row’: Did Master P save Snoop Dogg’s life?

Master P and Snoop Dogg’s relationship is an fascinating one and a friendship that arguably made Snoop the legend he’s as we speak. As a 22-year-old, in 1993, Snoop discovered fame following the discharge of his iconic debut album, Doggystyle, which has change into a G-funk basic. Nevertheless, his Death Row expertise wasn’t all optimistic.

For a very long time, folks have recognized that the now-incarcerated gangster and former label govt Suge Knight was not paying his artists pretty and exploited them often. From 2Pac to Snoop Dogg, he put Death Row acts in harmful conditions and locked them into unfair contracts they knew little about. 

Nevertheless, following the dissipation of Death Row in 1998, all of its integral acts took totally different paths. Dr Dre teamed up with Interscope’s Jimmy Iovine to type Aftermath Leisure, and unexpectedly, Snoop Dogg moved to Louisiana to work with Master P (actual identify Percy Miller) at No Restrict Information. 

Snoop Dogg has beforehand stated that the Louisiana rapper and label govt gave his profession a “second chance” in the course of the dormancy that adopted his messy exit from Death Row and helped a musically misplaced child from Lengthy Seaside get again on his toes. 

In an interview with HipHopDX, the Lengthy Seaside artist sang P’s praises, stating, “[I credit] him for saving my life, giving me a second chance, teaching me the business, enabling me to be Snoop Dogg and have fun and live and not have beef and have controversy in my life and allowing me to find my way to happiness. That’s what Master P did for me.” Furthermore, Snoop (actual identify Calvin Broadus) has beforehand admitted that No Restrict was the primary report label that noticed him make a considerable amount of cash.

Regardless of his success whereas on Death Row, in a dialog with Noreaga and DJ EFN of the Drink Champs podcast, Snoop unveiled, “They was the only n*ggas getting money in the industry. This is important. Puffy and them [Bad Boy] was rocking, but they wasn’t getting no money like Master P was. I had been around they camp, I had been around Def Jam, I was on Death Row, I had seen all the n*ggas that supposedly had the money…Master P had the muthaf*ckin’ money.”

From shopping for Broadus a home to displaying him the significance of artistic management, possession and the mechanics of publishing, Miller confirmed the West Coast emcee lots. Nevertheless, he additionally saved the ‘Gin And Juice’ artist’s life by stopping him from releasing a scathing diss observe.

Throughout an look on The Pivot podcast, Broadus as soon as unveiled that Miller saved his life in regards to the observe, revealing, “It was called ‘F*ck Death Row.’ People were smart enough to know I wasn’t ready to go to war. I was just vigilant, and I was like ‘F*ck that I gotta defend my pride,’ but my pride would have got me killed! Sometimes you gotta be smarter than the average bear.”

He continued, “You gotta know and understand why you’re here, and I needed him [Master P] as a big brother and a mentor to pull me out of that bad environment, take me to the South and show me a different world. My family are from Mississippi see, sometimes you gotta get taken back to your roots, and I was able to go see my grandmother, and I was able to see certain family members.”

Master P successfully saved Snoop Dogg from creating his personal demise as, on the time, Suge Knight was nonetheless very a lot operating issues at Death Row and would have most undoubtedly harm Broadus. You may hear Snoop clarify the fortunate escape within the video beneath.