ThaFormula.com - When you left Death Row Daz, do you feel that going independent was the best thing you could have done?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah that was the best thing I could have done because I have more leverage on what I wanna do. I had leverage on what I wanted to do when I was on Death Row, but it's just like more of me has seen all of it and you know you gotta have a team 'cause I got a team with me and it's all about treating them right you know what I mean? But I'm doing the independent thing and I'ma try this movie thang too.

ThaFormula.com - When you decided to go independent and head out to the Bay did you have much money at all to get started?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah I had money. I had sold about 6 Tupac verses (Laughs) But it's like I got money but I play broke so I can get some more.

ThaFormula.com - Looking back at interviews back in the early Death Row days and even videos and performances, you always seemed like you were the realest one in the clique, you never seemed to have been trippin' on no Hollywood type shit...

Daz Dillinger - Who's an asshole? Kurupt? I think Kurupt was mostly an asshole. He acted stupid and shit.

ThaFormula.com - Did you ever get a chance to read the book that Ronin Ro wrote, "Have Gun Will Travel," and how much of that book was true?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, and none of that shit was true. That muthafucka made that shit up…or at least some of that shit.

ThaFormula.com - Cause it seemed like that book made everybody except for Suge look like a bitch.

Daz Dillinger - Suge, he's a bitch though nah mean, but shit I got the real book comin' out. The real shit muthafuckas really wanna know about. But his bitch azz is in jail (Laughs). He's a stupid muthafucka! Fighting with a parking attendant!

ThaFormula.com - Lets talk about the R.A.W. album, did you do that album before or after you went to the Bay area?

Daz Dillinger - Nah, I had that album before I went to the bay. I was pressing my shit up before I went to the bay. I sold 20,000 in Tower Records with no bar code.

ThaFormula.com - How has the independent thing been for you. Has it been good?

Daz Dillinger - It's been beautiful! I'm lovin' the rap game! I'm the happiest rapper and I'm fittin' to sign with So-So Def!

ThaFormula.com - What's the deal with that?

Daz Dillinger - Gangsta, "So-So Gangsta," that's the relationship. That's gonna let me do my thing and get me all the way in the game. How Snoop went to No Limit and did his thang, I'm comin' over here to So-So Def and do my thang and still have Gangsta Advisory and all the shit that I'm still doing. 'Cause I plan on opening my own distribution company and distributing people's records. Everybody that I know cause I'm getting the money from the Suge Knight case. I'm takin' all that money and pressing up everybody's records. 'Cause ain't nobody can do it better than I can.

ThaFormula.com - So Daz honestly what is your situation right now with Kurupt?

Daz Dillinger - I'ma beat his ass when I catch him and then Soopafly gonna beat him up, then Snoop gonna beat him up, then I'ma beat him up again and then I'ma kick him in his ass. He a sucka man! If he do all that shit for money man, I can't trust no shit like that. Muthafuckas is dying out here man. Ain't no comin' back!

ThaFormula.com - So you're really serious about this?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah I'm serious as fuck man. My family shit is fucked up man, shit won't ever be the same.

ThaFormula.com - But I mean damn, you guys were together for so many years man...

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, but I was doing all the fucking work. He fighting muthafuckas, getting beat up and callin' me. Shit, when he was fucking Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Andre Rison come over to whoop the shit out of him! You know him and Suge was fucking that bitch. I mean R.I.P. to her but they was getting down and that's what's gonna be in my book. They didn't know all that huh!

ThaFormula.com - Getting' back to the music now Daz 'cause will get deeper into that later, what happened to the Daz from the Dogg Food days man? What happened to that producer?

Daz Dillinger - I'm still the same producer I just been laid back. I'm roarin' up the engine right now and its just like you grow with time. You just can't go back and do something all over again. Something is gonna be different about it. Like if you fuck a bitch and you move to the left, you're not gonna get that same position you were just in, but your gonna fuck it a little bit different and a little bit better. I mean that stuff was when I was young, I was 17 years old, I'm 30 years old right now, but that's why I'm workin' with Jermaine because that's the next album I'm doing. It's called "I Am The Dogg Pound." That's the name of my new album, I mean I'm back producin' now. I'm fittin' to be doing shit for Mystical, I'ma do shit for Jay-Z's new album, I'm just on the road right now. I done moved out of California.

ThaFormula.com - So do you think there will ever be another Dogg Pound album again with everyone?

Daz Dillinger - Nah, ain't no more Dogg Pound, that shit is over with. Only thing Kurupt can do for me is kill Suge Knight and he in jail.

ThaFormula.com - How much production did Soopafly do on the Dogg Food album?

Daz Dillinger - Me and him did the whole album but we made the sound for everybody. I was doing the beats and Dre mixed it down or we had somebody else mix it down, but we had to fight and pull a gun on Dre to mix my shit. He was on some other shit.

ThaFormula.com - How much of the Doggystyle album did you really produce?

Daz Dillinger - On the Snoop album I did "Niggaz and Bitches," "Ain't No Fun," "Serial Killer", and I wrote "Murder Was the Case" for Snoop. He and I co-wrote a lot of stuff.

ThaFormula.com - Daz, throughout the whole time the Death Row drama was going on, I noticed that you and Suge never seemed to have any problems...

Daz Dillinger - Well, I was young you know, and shit I learned a lot from that fat muthafucka. I learned the best things and not doing the wrong things. Also, he knew I wasn't no bitch and no punk. I pulled a big ass screwdriver on his ass and came out of there with $145,000 dollars while Kurupt is crying like a bitch off of mushrooms. Because muthafuckas didn't give me my money I went in there and hit everybody up in the office. I mean everybody with a screwdriver and then Suge comes in there and then when I looked at his eyes, it looked like he was gonna try and do somethin' to me, so I'm like "fuck it I'ma do something to you!" It ain't nothin' but muthafuckin' self defense. When I was fittin' to stab him in his neck, he said "Hold on! HOLD ON!!! (Laughs). And I walked up out of there with $145,000 cash. I gave Kurupt 5 g's and I did all the god damn work and he was still cryin' off mushrooms. (Laughs)

ThaFormula.com - Now when you say you did all the work, what exactly do you mean?

Daz Dillinger - I did all the work as far as producin', beatin' niggaz asses, takin' care of muthafuckas, makin' sure muthafuckas don't jump Kurupt. I did all that shit 'cause the 60's was fittin' to kill Kurupt but we was from Long Beach so we stood up for Kurupt 'cause he was from the Dogg Pound, but now it's just all East Side muthafuckas in the Dogg Pound now. Ain't nobody from the West Side and I think they fittin' to kick Kurupt off the West Side 'cause he a bitch. Everybody is looking at his true colors right now. You see he ain't out in the streets doin' shit.

ThaFormula.com - Now what's the situation with Knoc'turnal? What is the problem you had with him?

Daz Dillinger - Uh, he was in a magazine talkin' about me and Snoop. Talkin' about some people scared of Suge. I was like, he's supposed to be from Long Beach! Muthafuckas know I get around. I'm everywhere in the street and hood, everywhere! That's why I get so much respect in the hood because I'm there puttin' in work. Muthafucka wanna come test…we can shoot it out or we can fight. Or you can come over here smoke some weed and get some of this money and quit the bullshit. But I can't fuck with nobody, like Jayo Felony, he's talkin' all that shit all on the Internet but then he will call somebody from www.Dubcnn.com and tell them he wanna be my friend now. I know when I didn't have no money, I know he was broke. 'Cause like right now if I didn't go to the bank and get no money out, I know I ain't gonna have none but I know Jayo Felony ain't makin' no money. If he comes suck my dick I'll put his record out.

ThaFormula.com - So basically Daz you were feedin' everyone in the Pound during the early days?

Daz Dillinger - Hell Yeah, everybody was comin' over my house. I had the biggest house in the Pound. I'm the only one that had a house too.

ThaFormula.com - So when did you really come out with the decision to leave Death Row? 'Cause when everybody was dissin' The Row, you were sayin' how you had no problems with Suge and it seemed like you were there to stay?

Daz Dillinger - Everybody decided to leave and I'm like man there is too much shit here to be left behind. Well let me act like I'm Suge's best friend 'cause at that time shit there was a million dollars worth of shit over there. Everything was over there. He was in jail, punk ass Reggie was runnin' the company. I was doin' the beats and I was like "alright, cool let me set this up where I can scoop everything and look over to the left, look over to the right, everything is clear, load that shit in my truck!" (Laughs). You know I just got everything everybody left. It's just like leavin' a gold mine. So I'm gonna pick everything up and leave. You see ain't shit over there and that's what Kurupt tried to do. He thought there was something over there so he tried to go over there, but he got punked 'cause he was at power 106 and a muthafucka punked him and told him "Simon wanna see you, you can come nicely or you can go rough." You know Kurupt, he a bitch he ain't doing nothing. I want to say what's up to his sister to cause I love her.

ThaFormula.com - When Suge went into jail, was there a lot of things that he didn't see happening within his own label?

Daz Dillinger - He couldn't see shit with fat ass Reggie in the way and Reggie was trying to be Death Row. He was trying to be Suge Knight dressing in big red suits and puffin' on cigars and shit. (Laughs) Muthafucka you ain't shit! Your daddy is the police and you're the police! That shit pissed me of man. (laughs)

ThaFormula.com - In your opinion Daz, how do you look at the movie "Biggie and Tupac?"

Daz Dillinger - Suge did it. Fuck, who else is gonna do it?

ThaFormula.com - Did you watch the movie?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, I seen the little fat white boy. He was up there snitching his fuckin' heart out. He's locked up in jail scared then a muthafucka! Tell me what you think?

ThaFormula.com - I was definitely trippin' out when I saw that. That was some crazy shit. Did you know who that fat white dude was at all? Had you ever seen him before?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah I seen his ass. He used to play a fake ass lawyer. He used to try to be a lawyer. I didn't know he was no criminal.

ThaFormula.com - So you do feel that Suge ended up doing that?

Daz Dillinger - Hell yeah, they used to go to the strip club all the time. What you think man? I don't like the muthafucka anyway. Hell yeah he did it. Shit his fat ass is in jail snitchin' right now. See this what they do to Suge Knight, they violate his parole so he they can get information from him. "Alright Suge, we gonna violate your parole cause we need some information on the streets, there is a lot of shit going and and we ain't gonna like come pick you up and all that shit, we just gonna say that you violated so you can give us some information." That's what they do to Suge Knight.

ThaFormula.com - I got to tell you Daz, I've have interviewed a lot of artists and when I ask them certain questions they always seem scared to speak the truth or call someone out...

Daz Dillinger - What about me?

ThaFormula.com - You're definitely keepin' it real Daz and speakin' what's on your mind...

Daz Dillinger - Just tell them that Daz said whoever don't answer those questions is a bitch and you must be scared of them. What you scared of a muthafucka for?

ThaFormula.com - How did you and Snoop finally get back to working together after beefin' for a while?

Daz Dillinger - We was just feuding for a minute because me and Snoop we family, shit we first cousins. When we don't wanna see each other, we still see each other and we got family reunions, and shit like that. We gonna see each other but that's just something that the public didn't know but we never did music together 'cause of the Death Row thing and I was doing my thang and showin' them that I can do my own thang 'cause they were still thinkin' I was from Death Row, but didn't know I had every fuckin' master in the world. When they look at shit I done did like "damn how you sue them for that much money?" Now they wanna go sue!

ThaFormula.com - So when you were at Death Row you were just basically taking everything you could find?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, loading up everything and just going through the files undercover. Undercover Dogg Pound Agent! (Laughs)

ThaFormula.com - Now why didn't Sam Sneed ever drop an album on Death Row?

Daz Dillinger - East Coast /West Coast shit man, and he had a tumor 'cause Tupac and them beat the fuck out of him! That's why he got a tumor and damn near died. He quit. We had a meeting one day right after we got shot at and so Tupac said to Sneed, "you just shot a video right?" So he said "yeah." Pac said "well we're gonna sit down and see if any West Coast muthafuckas is in there, and each time we see a East Coast muthafucka we gonna knock you in your muthafuckin' head." So every time they would see a East Coast dude they would kick him in the ass and Budda, you know the producer, he a bitch too 'cause he sat there and watched Sam Sneed get beat up. Didn't say shit!

ThaFormula.com - What would you have done in that situation Daz?

Daz Dillinger - I would have got up and whooped somebody's ass. I had guns so I wasn't worried about what they were doing. Me and Nate Dogg were the only ones that would be strapped up in that muthafucka. 'Cause when we would have a meeting it would be Bloods and Crips in there so it's like shit, if we get to fighting up in this muthafucka just start shooting and run towards the door. And then you know Kurupt and Tupac got into it once. Tupac was gonna whoop the shit out of Kurupt in Cancun. Tell somebody to ask Kurupt was Tupac gonna beat your ass, and Daz and Nate Dogg saved you from getting your ass whooped from Tupac and them?

ThaFormula.com - What exactly went down with that?

Daz Dillinger - We go into the room and Kurupt had a Hennessey bottle, he was drunk and then the bottle hit the muthafuckin' table and all the other shit. So Tupac was like, "we doin' business here!" So Kurupt was like, "blah, blah, blah," and you know being hard 'cause we was there. And then Tupac was like "you know what Kurupt, I'll rent a room right now and ill beat your ass in there right now." Then he said "you know what, I'm gonna get my homies the outlaws…" and that's when we stepped in like, nigga you ain't gonna get nothin nigga! So then I told him that and then me and Tupac got into it just for that second and I told him you know cause I'm helpin' Kurupt out, I tell Tupac "why don't me and you go in the room, nah mean?" Then Suge and them jump in and then that's when it was on right after that, and then Tupac and them was only in the studio and at home. We in the studio, streets, doin' every muthafuckin thang.

ThaFormula.com - What did you think when Hammer came to Death Row Daz?

Daz Dillinger - They were trying to call him "The General." Fuck that shit! Then we had a meeting one night, we was gonna whoop the fuck out of Hammer, but Hammer cool, I talk to Hammer all the time. That's what was going on back then though.

ThaFormula.com - But I mean what were your thoughts when you found out Suge wanted to get Hammer? Were you trippin' on that?

Daz Dillinger - I asked Suge about that and he was like, "Hammer is for political reasons as far as getting us into doing benefits and shit like that." So that's what Hammer was there for, to get that charity and back-taxes off of muthafuckas and shit like that. But as far as puttin' an album out, no record ever came out. (Laughs)

ThaFormula.com - So there never was gonna be a Hammer album?

Daz Dillinger - Hell nah, he made one though. I did something on it but Hammer ran off with the reel. I think Suge and them was looking for them.

Daz Dillinger - It was real cool. It's just like how me and Kurupt was. He's a Gemini, I'm a Gemini. I made beats and we lived right next door to each other so every mornin' that I go to the studio he's right there with me. First pick of the litter nah mean.

ThaFormula.com - It seemed like in the beginning there was a lot of Johnny J and Tupac, but towards the end it seemed like you and 'Pac were doing a lot of shit together?

Daz Dillinger - Johnny J was in the picture before he came to Death Row, but when he came to Death Row I was in charge and I was puttin' shit together and he was listening to how our shit was comin' out and he wanted and he wanted that shit so I gave him the "Ambitionz of a Ridah," "I Ain't Mad Atcha," and you know all that shit. I did a whole bunch of more shit, I just stole everything!

ThaFormula.com - Who out of all the artists you worked with was you're favorite to work with?

Daz Dillinger - I ain't got no favorites. Snoop, Tupac, that's the shit right there.

ThaFormula.com - Did Tupac really have hate for Biggie man?

Daz Dillinger - Shit, afterwards nah I mean. I remember when I was cool with Biggie and all. Back then Biggie came down and you know we used to kick it. I would do beats for Biggie. I got songs with Biggie. So you know when he used to come to the 92.3 The Beat (local Los Angeles radio station), uh when they would have their little location spots and shit, I would hear on the radio that he's right there, so I would go over there, we would talk. I'm like man what's up with That? He would just tell me "man that's bullshit." When Tupac got killed about a week later I was in the studio with Biggie after Pac got killed. I was with him and Mase when they was doing that song with Too $hort from "Life After Death."

ThaFormula.com - "The World is Filled?"

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, so me and Mase was cool too. I was sellin' weed back then so when I sell the weed to Mase, Biggie walks in the door. I give him a free ounce and all that shit.

ThaFormula.com - So you actually got tracks with Biggie?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah and I'm sellin them. I need a million dollars a track.

ThaFormula.com - You're a smart man Daz, you seem to know what you're doing...

Daz Dillinger - I'm trying to keep it going man. But you know money don't last forever man. You spend one dollar you ain't a millionaire no more.

ThaFormula.com - Do you ever laugh when you see all these major label artists frontin' in their videos but no really making any money while you are doing a lot better doing it the independent way?

Daz Dillinger - And I still wear Kmart clothes! But yeah I be trippin' off of them 'cause they spendin' more money on videos and shit so I'm like shit, when they go platinum I go 100,000 and I'm rich. I'm only trying to sell 15,000 to 30,000 if you really wanna know. So if I put ten projects out and sell 35,000, I'm cool (Laughs).

ThaFormula.com - So what's your relationship with Dre like now?

Daz Dillinger - Everything is cool. I let bygones be bygones. You do your thang I do my thang. He ain't reached out to me though.

ThaFormula.com - I remember you were on The Beat once and you were sayin' how you wanted to be down with the "Up In Smoke" Tour?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, I wanted to get on there but they was rejecting me because uh, probably Kurupt was playa hatin' and stuff, you never know who was playa hatin'.

ThaFormula.com - It's too bad to 'cause a lot of people were hoping to see the Dogg Pound on stage together?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, but it didn't so it was like damn, I took it hard you know what I mean? But that made me grind harder with "R.A.W." That's about the time "R.AW." came out.

ThaFormula.com - When you first decided to break from Death Row, how were you feelin' at that time Daz?

Daz Dillinger - When I left Death Row I was feuding with Snoop and I was feuding with Death Row. I was feuding with my own and Death Row so I couldn't really trust nobody. I had to go get my own crew. Some muthafuckas from out of town who they don't, know that was loony.

ThaFormula.com - So is that when you made you're trip to the Bay?

Daz Dillinger - Yep, cause wasn't no money in L.A., ain't no money in L.A., everybody wants shit on credit, it's corporate dollars so you waitin' a couple of weeks to get checks and it's just bullshit up there. So I go where they're payin' for verses at. In the Bay and the South.

ThaFormula.com - But what made you decide to just get up in leave. Who put you on to the Bay?

Daz Dillinger - My homie L Dog who used to be in the Dogg Pound. He died and he's restin' in peace right now, but he used to do our clothes and shit. He used to tell me about E-40 and them. We used to hear E-40's music but then he took us out there. I really learned the game from D-Shot 'cause he was trying to get us on some shit and then we did that song with me, 40, and the Dogg Pound. That was the first song and then I was learnin' the independent shit and I'm like, "damn these muthafuckas out here are rollin' Benzes, got houses and we sellin' all these muthafuckin' copies and ain't got shit!" We got houses but we just ain't spendin' like that. So then that's when I said "Fuck it ," and I made "RA.W." I Went in the studio took me my money and made me a whole album and then I learned some more shit from JT and I just started pressing up everything. Once I got hooked up with the man that pressed the records up, that's all I needed.

ThaFormula.com - So compared to what you would make on a major, what are you makin' independently off of a CD?

Daz Dillinger - Well, every hundred thousand is a million so add that up. So if I go platinum that's 10 million. I quit!! So it's like bam and you get all of it, ain't no recoup. So if I make a million, I don't owe nobody shit. That's why I produce and do all that shit. They handin' the check to one man and that's me.

ThaFormula.com - How did the last Dogg Pound album that you dropped do?

Daz Dillinger - It sold 200,000.

ThaFormula.com - Did Kurupt get any money off of that?

Daz Dillinger - Fuck nah!! See I had a deal with Stan and them OCS and that's who owns Antra. So when we told Kurupt we was gonna get him 25 percent, he wanna be like "nah you can keep that," Uncle Stan and muthafuckas took it like that and now he's sayin', "I didn't get no money off of it." 'Cause you a stupid ass and you gave the money back to Stan! Joe and them fucked all the money off so Antra went down the drain.

ThaFormula.com - What was the situation with Kurupt's album deal with Antra, 'cause I remember him sayin' on the Kuruption album that it was his new record label?

Daz Dillinger - Hell nah, he just lied. This is how it happened. He got off of Death Row right, when he left Death Row he went out there to Philly and the Outlaws was out there. Kurupt went to Jersey to fuck with them and got in to trouble and went to jail and one of his friends hooked him up with Joe Maroon. He was a criminal lawyer, but Joe is tied in nah mean, to the mafia. So he get him out of trouble and finds out who he is. And he like, "you sold all these records, been on all these records, and you ain't got no money? Oh we fittin' to sue these muthafuckas." Then he got off of Death Row. Then Joe and them signed him to his label and then Joe went to Stan and Stan fronted all the money, the big man, the Kingpin!! So you know then Joe started buyin' houses and fuckin' off the money.

ThaFormula.com - So Kurupt never saw a penny?

Daz Dillinger - Muthafucka kept rentin' Limos and shit like that. He would be havin' a Limo out side for two days waiting for him to wake up 'cause he's drunk. "I need to go to the store, call a limo!" I'm like man! When you say that Hollywood star shit, that's Kurupt 'cause he Hollywood. And I wanna say one thing else too, all these movies Kurupt is playin' in is wack! You know why? 'Cause every fuckin' movie he plays in, he's a fuckin' informant for the police. Don't you see that in every fuckin movie? In "Dark Blue" he's workin' for the cops killin' muthafuckas and at the end he's snitchin' to the police in front of the whole committee (Laughs). Then on "Hollywood Homicide," he doing the same thing. You know he's probably an informant for the police or workin' or the feds. You never know what the fuck. 'Cause everything Kurupt rapped in the past is bullshit. He never done none of that shit he talkin' about. In all the Dogg Pound albums all the guns he's bustin', and all that shit, Kurupt ain't never bust a gun in his muthafuckin life! Probably on Dark Blue though (Laughs)

ThaFormula.com - During the early days in Death Row it seemed like you and Kurupt had a lot of love for the music?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, we had a lot of love for the music 'cause we was listening to Dr. Dre while they was doing the Chronic and that shit inspired me and I started makin' music and Kurupt never used to come around. He used to be hangin' with some wack muthafuckas.

ThaFormula.com - So you and Kurupt weren't really that tight from the get go?

Daz Dillinger - We would just see each other know what I mean? He would come by and kick it. He was Kurupt "The Kingpin" and I was "Dat Nigga Daz." I was solo and he was solo. Then when I found out Dr. Dre was only fuckin' with RBX and Snoop, I made the group the Dogg Pound up and told him let's put some shit together and I'ma produce it. I would sneak in the studio and Hot wire the muthafucka and go up to the third floor and tape over all the old whispers shit and put my shit on there.

ThaFormula.com - Now a lot of people have said this and I'm sure you have heard this before. How come Daz can't make the quality music that he made when he was workin with Dre and with Death Row?

Daz Dillinger - 'Cause they got all the big studios and shit. I can still make the music. See when everybody left, I didn't have no more people to give the music to. Everybody was gone so you know now I'm back producing and everything from then on I got right now and I'm fittin' to dish out to everybody. I just wasn't producing for nobody you know what I mean? All I knew was the people I produced for and that was Snoop, Dre and all them. So when they left I decided well hell I ain't got nobody else to produce for. Fuck it! I'm just gonna start rappin'. So I stopped producin' and started rappin'.

ThaFormula.com - So that's when you did the "Retaliation" LP, did that album do what you hoped it would have done?

Daz Dillinger - Nah, because we was feudin'. Me and Snoop was feudin'. Lots of shit had to do with Death Row trying to use me to discs Snoop and I wasn't going for it. Then you know we would get into it, so it's like fuck you Daz and you know, "oh, you don't wanna ride with death row! Then fuck you Daz." So I was like fuck you then, I'd rather have nothin'!

ThaFormula.com - So basically when you did the Retaliation LP you really were alone?

Daz Dillinger - It was just me and Soopafly. Then Soopafly left with Snoop and I was just by myself and then we was feudin', then just everybody started feudin'. I was by myself and I just started pressing my own records up with "R.A.W.," did the "DPG," and then I did "Streets is a Mutha." That's the hardest record Kurupt's gonna ever come with.

ThaFormula.com - I don't think anyone will argue that that was some of your best work if not your best. That was probably the best gangsta album of that year?

Daz Dillinger - Yeah because I was back producin' for the people who I love nah what I mean? And when I do this thing with Jermaine, me and him gonna sit down and make a whole Dogg Pound album the way it's supposed to be. 'Cause he a producer and he know how it's supposed to sound. We gonna get Snoop and all that and then me and Soopafly is gonna be the new group.

ThaFormula.com - So by getting with So So Def it also gives you a chance to get back into the big studios.

Daz Dillinger - Yeah, the big studios doing the corporate shit, ownin' my own shit with me and Jermaine and me doin' what I wanna do and they let me be me.

ThaFormula.com - Does it make a big difference being in those big multi-million dollar studios compared to what you're doing now?

Daz Dillinger - It's the same shit, it's shit that it's just a little bit tweeker. You got the big ass woofers and the speakers and shit and it's just a real studio. But hell yeah it does make a big difference. See the big studios is $3500 a day. I'd rather just go buy me some equipment for 10g's and call t a day.

ThaFormula.com - It seemed like something was missin' from your "R.A.W." album and I thought maybe it was that?

Daz Dillinger - I mixed that album in a big studio. The problem was that it didn't have Snoop on there. We was feudin' and it was underground. The crew wasn't together man. I'm dissin' Snoop on there, he makin' songs dissin' me. Him and Mack 10 did a song dissin' me but that muthafucka never will never come out.

ThaFormula.com - Why did everybody decide that they wanted to be solo artists instead of a dope ass group?

Daz Dillinger - Shit, everybody gots to get paper. We grown, we havin' kids and bills and shit man.

ThaFormula.com - But don't you think you guys could have made more money together?

Daz Dillinger - Not with Suge in the picture. 'Cause Suge is the devil man!

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