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Snoop Dogg didn't want Death Row. He wanted one album back. The price, he says: 12 years of work and $250,000. So he bought the whole label. "Come work for us for 12 years. You get your masters back in 15." That was the offer, in Snoop's words, for the album he made at 22: Doggystyle. For almost two years, he says, all he wanted was that one album. In 2021, Hasbro sold its eOne music division, Death Row included, to Blackstone for $385 million. In February 2022, Snoop announced he now owned the Death Row brand. Terms were not disclosed. His answer to the people who said he still didn't own his songs: "I want all of them, not just mine." The case for Snoop: his voice built that label, and no one should wait 15 years to own his own album. The case for the label: it paid for the catalog, the masters were part of what it bought, and $250,000 is still an offer. In the video below, Snoop walks through the calls that ended with him owning Death Row. If a company paid for your work, should you still get to own it?