Snoop Dogg seeks to dismiss a $100 million lawsuit regarding the dispute over death row records

Snoop Dogg is requesting that Lydia Harris’ $100 million lawsuit about an unpaid 2005 Death Row Records judgment be dismissed.

Due to claims of unpaid royalties and conspiracy involving the ownership of the legendary company, music legend Snoop Dogg is attempting to have a $100 million lawsuit against him and Death Row Records dismissed.

Death Row co-founder Michael “Harry-O” Harris’s ex-wife, Lydia Harris, filed the complaint, alleging she was defrauded of a $107 million judgment granted in 2005. In 2002, Harris filed a lawsuit against Death Row Records and Suge Knight, claiming that despite having paid $1.5 million to start the label in 1989, she was never given her just part of the earnings.

She is now accusing Knight, Interscope Records, Time Warner, Universal Music Group, and Snoop Dogg—who purchased Death Row Records in 2022—of plotting to keep her from getting the money she was awarded by the court.

In a court document, Snoop and his lawyers contend that Harris’ allegations are outside the statute of limitations and call her a “bad faith litigant” who has a track record of harassing the law. In Texas, where the newest complaint is filed, they say she has shifted her legal efforts after filing numerous claims in California.

Snoop’s petition to dismiss has not yet been decided by the court, and the other defendants have refrained from making any public remarks regarding the matter.

Harris is calling for a thorough financial examination of Death Row, the return of property she claims is hers, and punitive damages. Even though she won the case in 2005, her attempts to collect have been made more difficult by the label’s changing ownership over time.

Suge Knight, who is presently behind bars, has openly questioned Snoop Dogg’s label management. Knight disputed Snoop’s ownership claims in a recent interview, stating, “Show me the paperwork.” Show me your possessions. He labeled the resuscitation of Death Row under Snoop’s direction a letdown and accused Snoop of not having an impact while he was at Def Jam.

“You trying to create something that Suge Knight created,” Knight said, accusing Snoop of trying to replicate a legacy he did not create. However, you disappoint the world by having things fail rather than succeeding.

Harris’s quest for restitution and the survival of Death Row Records are both questionable as legal tensions and public conflicts intensify.