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Daz Dillinger: So So Daz
(Audio Feature/April, 2005)
INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY: Big Will Z & Daz Dillinger

ISSUE # 7 FEATURES

Daz Dillinger

Delmar Arnaud, also known as “Daz Dillinger,” escaped his enclosed oasis at an early age only to emerge as one of a kind. Playing cards of life dealt to him on a daily basis, Daz has been in the game for over a decade enduring hard-work and nerve-jangling tussles. He’s a rap artist who has made it to the lime light, and has been featured on numerous heavy-hitting records. Daz has collaborated lucratively with E-40, Too Short, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and several other major artists.

Since an early age, Daz has been trying to forge ahead of the game. He spits his skills with others to create music and write lyrics of esoteric bounds. With a plethora of talent surging through his alluring genes, it was no fluke how his cousin Snoop Dogg spotted the talent and contacted him while he was in Oklahoma. Suge Knight of Death Row Records had employed Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre to his record label at the time and called Daz to fly to California to hook up with the label. Avoiding failure, Daz sought to fatally separate himself from any chances of stall time. He then linked up with his former partner Kurupt.

Soon after, the talented Daz Dillinger along with Snoop and Dre fell into platinum-selling albums. Daz and Kurupt’s album “Dogg Food” debuted at the top position soon after release. The release sold over 3 million units. Daz also got to work with 2Pac when he arrived to California. They came out with “Ambitionz Az A Ridah,” a dedication for street folks and children of affluent parents alike. They blew up that weekend, and flipped five other smash songs. Daz Dillinger then attained management over production alongside with Dr. Dre. After spending around seven years with Death Row Records, he separated himself from the label and pursued his second album “RAW” under his own label: DPG Recordz. Eventually, Daz collaborated with platinum artists from Jay-Z to Master P. He also has undertaken the development of DVD’s with biographies and plots. He is currently working with So So Def Records in Atlanta and is planning his 2005 album release with the company. His latest independent release “The Dogg Pound Gangsta LP” is bound to cross boundaries. Catch Daz Dillinger hitting new heights in time to come because Dat N**ga Daz is loose and barking!

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Interview includes the song "Come Close" by Daz Dillinger fea. Nate Dogg

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	WWS MAG: Daz, let me in on your new Dogg Pound Gangsta LP. Who produced the tracks on this project?
	Yours truly man, along with my co-host Ivan Johnson. There’s some production from Fredwreck and Soopafly. So you know, keeping it banging man.
	*Are you going to release any other 2Pac collaborations on any future projects?*
	Yeah when it comes with a bigger piece of money.
	*What’s the deal with you and Snoop Dogg at this point? Are you still on the same grind?*
	Yeah we’re still on the same grind man. We got a new project coming out called Cousins. It will be me and Snoop as a group putting it together. We’re first cousins so we’re always going to be mashing our things. When we have little problems, it’s just family problems. It doesn’t have anything to do with music or anything like that.

	*Are you still with So So Def records with Jermaine Dupri?*
	Yeah I’m with So So Def to the fullest. He just gave me an opportunity to get out here and make more of this money. I got my own distribution. I don’t know who else has an album deal with a major label and can still put independent records out and get that money.
	*Where do you plan to drop the Dogg Pound Gangsta LP?*
	It’s going to be worldwide. It’s hitting in all stores man. I got worldwide distribution man.
	*Are you going to work with Dr. Dre ever again?*
	If God permits it, I’ll do it. If not, I just have to keep the mash on. But much love to Dr. Dre: I’m his first student of production. Hey, I look up to him. He keeps doing his thing and I’m going to keep doing mine.

	You and Kurupt Young Gotti have made some bomb ass music together. What are the chances of squashing the beef with Death Row Records and coming back together as a duo?
	He has to kill Suge Knight. He ain’t got the balls to do that. That was just a point in time of making music. It was just a point in my career. I got to keep moving on. I’m the producer. I make this shit. They have to follow where I’m going. Just like Dr. Dre, he has the formula. I’ve got the formula for the Dogg Pound. You’ll hear it in the album that I’m dropping. It’s just like warming the engine back up.
	*You’ve produced numerous tracks for Death Row Records, does Suge still have a lot of unused material from you?*
	Naw, he ain’t got nothing. He probably got about one and a half beats that I have. I’m the producer, so I keep all the reels. He didn’t come out with no Daz shit, you know what I’m saying? I’m moving the game man. It’s my world.
	*Daz, would you ever work with JT Tha Bigga Figga again?*
	Naw. That was just a point in time in music too man. I just learned the game and I’m going to keep doing my thing. I don’t wish anything bad on him, but he can keep doing his thing and I’m going to keep doing mine. The business was fucked up. I own them two records now. So that is a part of my catalog. It was just bad business. He had all those records, but he ain’t doing anything with them. I put records out and I’m selling them. I’m doing what he was trying to do. I learned it from him. Pass the platoon!
	*Throughout your whole time with Death Row, how many songs have you witnessed were created out of 2Pac?*
	He did about twenty to fifty albums worth of shit, probably even more. I just have the shit that I got, and there is some more shit over there that I did and they’ve got. I’m just happy to be here man.
	*Are you ever going to release any of your songs that you did with Notorious BIG?*
	Naw. I’m just keeping that in the vault. As long as I keep that in the vault, I’ll always get attention. That is just for me to know that I’ve got that shit. I swooped up on him over there in Culver City. I sold him some weed and he busted a verse for me. It was just a sixteen, but I got that verse. So I need about a million dollars, two million, fifty million, break bread!
	*Is it true that you won a twenty five million dollar judgment against Suge Knight?*
	Yeah man, it’s a blessing as far as not getting the money directly from him, but getting the money from the existing companies that we’ve done business with. When you sue somebody and put the paperwork in, all the money stops. Everything is on hold until the judgment goes down. After the judgment, I got that. As you can see, I’m doing really well. I’m just chilling man right here in the ATL. Worldwide man: I’m over in Miami, St. Louis, I’m everywhere man.
	*Who have you produced hits for recently?*
	I just did something for TI. I just had Kujo Goodie over here fifteen minutes ago. We banged up something. I got Da Brat, Bone Crusher, my album, and new music for Snoop, me and Game, just a whole bunch of people. I’m just trying to keep busy man and play my part and my position.
	*Now you were on Benzino’s album, but now you have beef with him. Can you clear out this situation for me?*
	Yeah he didn’t pay me for my song. He tried to be slick and does some other shit. Little things can get you peeled. But you know man, hey, fuck him. He can keep doing his thing and I’ll keep doing mine. I really don’t need The Source magazine. But every time he puts me in there. Haha.
	*Whenever the track Ain’t No Fun gets played, people think it’s a Dre track. Can you please tell these people who really made it?*
	That is a D A Z track. We used to do WBALLZ and we were making tapes. I had my drum machine with that in there and Snoop grabbed the disc out of the drum machine and gave it to Dr. Dre. He put the spice to it. But hey, it’s all to the good man.
	*Daz, tell me about DPG Recordz right now man. You’ve got a lot of people on your roster. Can you tell me what status you’re at right now?*
	I’m just distributing records right now. Everybody wants to be a record company, but me I’d rather just be a distributor. I make money like that where I’m just putting the record in the store. It’s up to them to go out there to promote it. I’m showing them that you’ve got to do everything by footwork. What I’ve got right now, nobody just gave it to me. I had to press my own records up and I’m still pressing my own records up. I’m just keeping it going man.
	*What future releases do you have planned up for 2005? What’s coming out for you in 05? What can we expect?*
	I’ve got the Dogg Pound Gangsta LP that I put together. It’s a mature album. I’m not dissing on anybody in there. I’m making music. I also have a beat CD coming out for all the producers. It’s called Sampling To The Beat Of The Drum Vol. 1. It’s just my homie on there playing the drum; there are just a lot of drum rhythms that producers can sample. I also have my little nephew coming out from New Orleans. Then I have the North Richmond Project for my homies in the bay area, North Richmond, my homie Extra Large. I’m coming out with a gangsta crunk album too for the people down south. I’m coming out with around four albums before my So So Def album.
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