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Snoop Dogg acquires Death Row Records from MNRK Music Group

Snoop Dogg announces he has purchased Death Row Records from MNRK Music Group (formerly eOne Music). Terms are not disclosed publicly. The acquisition includes the catalog rights to Death Row's 1991-2002 output, including *The Chronic*, *Doggystyle*, *All Eyez on Me*, and the rest of the back catalog that had moved through Interscope, Koch, WIDE, eOne, and MNRK ownership in the two decades after the label's effective collapse.

Why it matters

Snoop's purchase is the closing-of-a-circle moment for one of the most consequential ownership stories in hip-hop. The Death Row catalog — which Snoop himself debuted on with *Doggystyle* (1993) — had spent twenty-plus years under a series of non-hip-hop ownership groups whose business judgments (chronic underpromotion, opaque royalty practices, periodic Interscope litigation) had become a kind of case-study warning. Snoop's first move with the catalog: pull all of Death Row's music from Spotify (later reversed), as a deliberate provocation about how streaming-platform compensation works.

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Tags: snoop-doggdeath-rowcatalog-ownership2022

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    BBC — Snoop Dogg buys Death Row Records Retrieved 2026-05-24.
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    The New York Times — Snoop Dogg Buys Death Row Records From MNRK Music Retrieved 2026-05-24.

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