Snoop Dogg buys Death Row Records from private equity ghouls
The rapper currently just owns the brand, but he will soon be reacquiring some of Death Row's music rights

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A few days before he and a bunch of his friends are set to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime show, Snoop Dogg has decided to buy the rights to the Death Row Records brand, the label that carried his early career and released the iconic Doggystyle album, among others for Tupac Shakur and label co-founder Dr. Dre. Snoop is buying Death Row from an organization called MNRK Music Group, which is owned by a not-at-all ominous-sounding private equity firm called Blackstone, and Variety says Snoop’s next move will likely be to reacquire some of Death Row’s music rights as well (both his and “unspecific other artists”).