In a recent interview with TMZ from a California state penitentiary, Suge Knight once again claimed that Dr. Dre wasn't responsible for producing Snoop Dogg's acclaimed 1993 debut Doggystyle or 2Pac's hit, "California Love" featured on 1995's All Eyez On Me. He says Daz Dillinger was actually the producer behind the work.
“What’s so great about Daz is, this guy, I went to and said, ‘We gotta finish the album,’” Suge told TMZ during the call. “He did the whole — he did everything on Doggystyle. By himself. The whole album was done. He did everything. He produced it.”
Of course, this is not a new claim. Knight has been crediting Daz as the production talent behind the Doggystyle for at least 10 years, including in a 2013 interview with MTV. He says at the time, Dre had the bigger name, and thought it made more sense to get credit for the music.
“So when it was time to come out, the streets said, well, they want Andre [Dr. Dre] to be on it,” Knight said. “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.”
Knight also claimed Pac and Dre weren't even in the studio together for "California Love."
“‘Pac and Dre was never in the studio together,” he said. “They wasn’t in the studio doing ‘California Love.’ They hated each other. That simple.”
Snoop has chimed in about who produced Doggystyle, saying Dr. Dre was the man behind the boards because production is more than about making beats.
"They didn't deserve the credit back then because they didn't do the work," he said of Daz in a 2006 interview with DubCNN.com. "They made beats, Dre produced that record. I can make a beat, but I can't produce! I can make a beat, but I can't tell a n---a what to rap about, can I tell him when to come with the hook? Can you break the beat down? That's what producing is."
Daz recently chimed in on the matter, saying Dr. Dre is the "best producer in the world" and Suge is just mad that Snoop recently bought Death Row.
