Snoop Dogg goes off on Suge Knight, his relationship with Tupac and Kurupt, as well as appearing in a live performance.
The song is considered to be a response to disses made by Death Row artists on Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000, a compilation released by Suge Knight which takes its title from Dre's 1992 album The Chronic.
Gina's father, Lawrence, was Deputy District Attorney and was prosecuting a case of Suge Knight, Death Row Records' CEO.
The character Bone Hamilton is based on real life Hip-Hop mogul Suge Knight, with references being made to the incident where he allegedly held Vanilla Ice over a balcony.
The message made fun of then Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, ex-producer of Snoop Dogg and in jail at the time for the MGM arena mayhem, supporting Snoop Dogg in the rivalry between him and Knight.
Recorded after the imprisonment of Suge Knight, it belongs to the second half of the album, which was fully produced by Snoop Doggy Dogg himself without supervision.
He represented Afeni Shakur, the mother of Tupac Shakur, and the Estate of Tupac Shakur in a racketeering (civil RICO) lawsuit against Marion "Suge" Knight, Death Row Records and their attorney, David Kenner, which resulted in the Estate's recovery of the unreleased master tapes recorded by Tupac prior to his murder in 1996.
Between 1993-1994, the group assisted Hammer on his The Funky Headhunter album (such as the song "Sleepin' on a Master Plan" and others), along with Suge Knight and the Whole 9.
While still making music with the Bloods and Crips for the second album titled Bangin' on Wax 2... The Saga Continues selling 400,000 copies on September 12, 1994 they met Death Row Records' co-founder Suge Knight and eventually signing to Death Row Records.
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2Pac, who had become a friend of Snoop during 1996, died weeks before the release of Tha Doggfather, and Dr. Dre had left Death Row to his partner Suge Knight, who was indicted on racketeering charges by the end of 1996.
The album was leaked on the internet on December 1, 2000 by Suge Knight who made all tracks downloadable in MP3 from the official site of his and Snoop Dogg's former company Death Row Records, which featured links to tracks from both Tha Last Meal and Dead Man Walkin' albums, asking visitors to "take The Snoop Dogg Challenge" and decide "song for song" which is the better album.
Writings from contributors include interviews with Shakur's music producer Suge Knight, rapper Snoop Dogg, actor Tim Roth, and Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur, with a chapter by crime writer Cathy Scott.
The single "A.W.O.L." was an attack on Death Row, Suge Knight, Dre and others, with X comparing the dubious business practices there to the days of Ruthless Records, Jerry Heller, and Eazy-E.