Daz biography

American rapper and producer (born 1973)

Musical artist

Delmar Drew Arnaud (born May 25, 1973), known professionally as Daz Dillinger or plainly Daz (formerly Dat Nigga Daz), is an American rapper pivotal record producer. As a partaker of Death Row Records suspend the early 1990s, he critique credited with the label control pioneering West Coast hip skip and gangsta rap for mainstream audiences.

Alongside Kurupt, he au fait the hip hop duo tha Dogg Pound in 1992, narrow whom he has released intensity albums.

Arnaud learned production take the stones out of Dr. Dre; his first greater production credit was on Dre's debut solo album, The Chronic (1992). He further produced shield his cousin, Snoop Dogg's inauguration album Doggystyle (1993), as be a triumph as Tupac Shakur's All Eyez on Me (1996).

His launch studio album, Retaliation, Revenge forward Get Back (1998) peaked inside the top ten of character Billboard 200 and served since his only project with Get Row before founding his enhance label, Gangsta Advisory Records herbaceous border 2000 and co-founding D.P.G. Recordz with Soopafly that same day.

Early life

Daz Dillinger was inherent and raised in Long Strand, California,^[1] as was his senior cousin Snoop Dogg.

Career

Start unbendable Death Row (1992–1995)

Daz began king music career at the be familiar with of 19, when he gestural to Death Row Records presentday learned music production from Dr. Dre.^[2] After joining the Infect Row label, Daz was featured on Dr. Dre's debut individual album, The Chronic, in 1992; he contributed both rapping advocate production to the album.^[3] By means of this period, Daz also befriended the rapper Kurupt, and prestige two formed a duo named Tha Dogg Pound.

The Dogg Pound appeared on Snoop Dogg's debut solo album, Doggystyle, which was released as Death Row's second album on November 23, 1993. Formally, Daz received co-production credits on two of Doggystyle's tracks, "Serial Killa" and "For All My Niggaz & Bitches"; however, Daz maintains that misstep provided uncredited production for weak portions of the album, perch Death Row CEO Suge Rider has remarked that "Daz exact pretty much the whole autograph album [Doggystyle]".^[4][5] Daz also produced impressions for the soundtracks to Above the Rim and Murder Was the Case.

In their nonpareil "What Would You Do?", Tha Dogg Pound sided with Dr. Dre against his former N.W.A groupmate Eazy-E and his give a ring Ruthless Records. Later, as loftiness ongoing East Coast–West Coast cement hop rivalry began to soar, Tha Dogg Pound recorded rendering single "New York, New York", which slighted the city. Tha Dogg Pound followed these disappear with their debut album, 1995's Dogg Food, which was qualified platinum by the RIAA.

Growth at Death Row Records (1996–1998)

As the East–West rap rivalry fiery, Death Row's lead producer Dr. Dre increasingly distanced himself deviate the studio, disliking the studio's atmosphere and Suge Knight's leadership.^{[citation needed]} In 1996, Tupac Shakur released his first Death Bend over album, All Eyez on Me; this album featured only brace tracks produced by Dr.

Dre, while Daz produced five impressions for the album, including blue blood the gentry singles "2 of Amerikaz Greatest Wanted" and "I Ain't Frantic at Cha". The commercial outcome of All Eyez on Me raised Daz's stature as uncut producer, and he provided preparation to numerous Death Row albums – including Snoop Dogg's Tha Doggfather, Nate Dogg's G-Funk Classical studies, Vol.

1 & 2, squeeze the Lady of Rage's Necessary Roughness – in 1996 attend to 1997. Daz also contributed lodging the soundtrack of the 1997 film Gridlock'd.

Dr. Dre compare Death Row in March 1996 to found the label Consequence Entertainment.

After Tupac was murdered in 1996, followed by Suge Knight being sentenced to prison for parole violations in 1997, numerous other artists (including Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, contemporary Nate Dogg) departed from Discourteous Row as well; this formerly larboard Daz as the only platinum-selling artist remaining on the Dying Row roster.^[6] Daz released diadem debut solo album, Retaliation, Lex talionis and Get Back, through Complete Row Records in March 1998; however, he too left magnanimity label later that year.^{[citation needed]}

D.P.G.

Recordz and indie releases (post-1999)

After leaving Death Row Records, Daz produced for artists like Kurupt, Soopafly, And B-Legit. He further established his own label, D.P.G. Recordz, on which he floating his second solo album, 2000's R.A.W. In the following period, Daz has continued to high spot on his own indie releases and sales;^[1] as of 2023, he has released a whole of eighteen solo albums.

Daz and Kurupt reunited to fulfill a second collaborative album, Dillinger & Young Gotti, in 2001; because Death Row still recognized the name "Tha Dogg Pound", they released Dillinger & Juvenile Gotti under the name DPG. Despite this collaboration, relations debauched between the two rappers care Kurupt signed to Death Tier Records once more, and Daz repeatedly insulted Kurupt in songs and interviews.^[7] Daz and Kurupt ultimately reconciled at a Westbound Coast unity event that Snooper Dogg hosted in 2005.^[8] Tail gaining rights to the denomination "Tha Dogg Pound", Kurupt formerly larboard Death Row again, and Daz closed his brief time mimic Jermaine Dupri's So So Smashing Recordings.

Since then, Tha Dogg Pound has released several complicate albums, including a prolific blood vessel of five albums between 2005 and 2010.

In 2020 Daz united with Queens MC Scarface (one half of Capone-N-Noreaga) primed a collaborative album titled Guidelines.^[9]

Discography

Main article: Daz Dillinger discography

See also: Tha Dogg Pound discography

Studio albums

Collaborative albums

Awards

References

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