Daz Dillinger has denied Suge Knight’s allegation that Dr. Dre wasn’t the mastermind producer behind Snoop Dogg‘s seminal Doggystyle project.
Dillinger made his denial in an Instagram post re-shared by TMZ Hip Hop, where he said that Dre was the “best producer in the world” and that Knight was just salty over Snoop’s recent purchase of his former label Death Row Records. Suge Knight had previously said Dillinger was behind the boards on the iconic project and not Dre.
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“Whats up y’all it’s Das Dillinger giving y’all the news and info that I’m looking at,” the producer began, adding, “Hey, Dr. Dre is the best producer in the motherfucking world. I did not have nothing to do with that, Dr. Dre did that on his own. Suge Knight is lying, I ain’t sign a motherfucking thing.”
He continued, “He’s just covering shit up because of everything that Snoop has uncovered in the Death Row unveiling of all the business and shady shit that Alan Grunblatt, little fat fucker, and what they was doing and how they was still in cahoots with Suge Knight. So he’s just making up shit right now.”
Dillinger’s retort comes after Suge Knight doubled down on this claim in an interview from prison with TMZ Hip Hop.
“What’s so great about Daz is, this guy, I went to him and said, ‘We gotta finish the album,’” Suge told the outlet. “He did the whole — he did everything on Doggystyle. By himself. The whole album was done. He did everything. He produced it.”
He continued, “So when it was time to come out, the streets said, well, they want Andre [Dr. Dre] to be on it. And Andre said, ‘I want to be on there.’ So Andre went to Daz and said, ‘Look man, let me say it was produced by me, and put my name on it. You’ll get paid, but let me be the one who produced it.
“So I told Daz, ‘That’s something he wanted to do. I don’t recommend it, because you’re the one who produced it, and you’re giving up your publishing.’ So, Daz signed paperwork, and said it was produced by Dre.”
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Doggystyle was one of the most defining albums of 1990s Hip Hop. The project sold more than 800,000 copies in its first week and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. At the time, Doggystyle set the record for the fastest-selling Hip Hop album.
By 2015, the album had sold more than seven million copies in the United States, and 11 million copies worldwide, thus turning Snoop Dogg into a bona fide superstar, and establishing Dr. Dre as a Hip Hop super-producer.
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The imprisoned Death Row mogul had previously spoken about Dillinger’s input on Doggystyle back in 2013 on the album’s 20th anniversary.
“Everybody thought [Dr. Dre] would be doing the records, but Daz pretty much did the whole album,” he said to Rolling Stoneat the time. “And at the end of the day, once Daz finished it, everybody wanted Andre to get the credit. Next thing I know Daz is having a meeting with Andre and them and came back and said, “It’s okay, give me a few bucks and I’ll sign anything over that says produced by Andre instead of me.”
