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Doggy Style Records 
Parent company EMI Founded July 6, 1995 Founder Snoop Dogg Distributor(s) Priority Records Genre Various Country of origin United States Location Diamond Bar, California Doggy Style Records (sometimes identified as Doggystyle Records and formerly known as Dogghouse Records) is a record label founded by Snoop Dogg in 1995.
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History
On July 6, 1995, Doggy Style Records, Inc. was registered with the California Secretary of State as business entity number C1923139.[1] After Snoop Dogg was acquitted of murder charges on February 20, 1996, he and the mother of his son and their kennel of 20 pit bulls moved into a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) home in the hills of Claremont, California and by August 1996 Doggy Style Records, a subsidiary of Death Row Records, signed The Gap Band's Charlie Wilson as one of the record label's first artists.[2] The record label was founded by Snoop Dogg at the end of his self-described "servitude" at Master P's No Limit Records. The idea of an independent record label came up when Snoop left Death Row earlier than finishing his second album Tha Doggfather. Although completing it by himself and producing the tracks alone, the vision of his own label remained unrealised. Much advertising was done by Snoop in interviews, as well as wearing "Dogghouse-branded" leather jackets and jewelry made in the shape of the Doggy Style Records logo. Finally it was independently founded in late 1999/early 2000. It started as a place to house many artists that had ties with Snoop in the past but were not currently signed to a label, as well as some newcomers. However, Snoop only used the label for his own releases, and as a result many artists left. For a time, though, several former Death Row artists who collaborated with Snoop in the early '90s were signed to the label. Its main purpose is still to endorse all copyrights for the recorded song from then on.
Originally it was distributed through Universal Music Group, the main shareholder of Vivendi Universal SA that embraced MCA record label the one to release Doggy Style Records as its sub-agency with Snoop being the executive in August 2001. After this in October 2005 Snoop has formed a partnership with Koch Records in preparation for the release of Snoop Dogg Presents Welcome to tha Chuuch - Da Album, as well as other albums.
Creative Chairman of Priority Records: Snoop Dogg
DOGGY STYLE RECORDS Executive Producer: Snoop Dogg President: Ted Chung Vice President: Shante Broadus A&R: Justin Li Business Affairs: Derrick Lee Personal Assistant/Production Manager: Noah T.Justice
Management: Ted Chung for Stampede Management Booking Agent: Brent Smith for William Morris Endeavor
Artists
- Snoop Dogg
- 213 (Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Warren G)
- Dubb Union (Soopafly, Damani, Bad Lucc)
- Tha Eastsidaz (Snoop Dogg, Tray Deee, Goldie Loc)
- QDT (Snoop Dogg, DJ Quik, Teddy Riley)
- Tha Dogg Pound (Daz & Kurupt)
- The N' Matez (Daz, Kurupt, Lady of Rage, RBX)
- The Hustle Boyz
- Nine Inch Dix (Snoop Dogg, Soopafly, Lil' 1/2 Dead)
- The Warzone (Mc Eiht, Kam, Goldie Loc)
- The Snoopadelics
- Raw Dogggz
- The Twinz
- Terrace Martin
- Daz Dillinger
- Kurupt
- Soopafly
- Bad Azz
- Nate Dogg
- Warren G
- Lady of Rage
- Lil' 1/2 Dead
- RBX
- E-White
- Roscoe
- Goldie Loc
- Mac Shawn 100
- Problem
Frequent guest producers
- Dr. Dre
- Mr. Porter
- Teddy Riley
- DJ Pooh
- L. T. Hutton
- The D.O.C
- Soopafly
- Daz Dillinger
- Warren G
- Battlecat
- E-Swift
- DJ Quik
- Fredwreck
- Jelly Roll
- Meech Wells
- Larrance Dopson (1500 OR NOTHIN’ Productions)
- Lamar Edwards of T.I.'s new reality show "Life On Mars" ( 828 Entertainment /1500 OR NOTHIN')
- Terrace Martin
- Mel-Man
- Josef Leimberg
- Soundscannerz
- The Neptunes
Discography
See Doggystyle Records discography
References
- ^ "California Secretary of State Business Search - Business Entities - Business Programs". https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/frmDetail.asp?CorpID=01923139. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
- ^ Coker, Cheo Hodari (August 12, 1996). "Trying to Get His Bite Back. Snoop Doggy Dogg has a new lease on life after his acquittal on murder charges. Still, some things will never change.". Los Angeles Times: p. 1. http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-12/entertainment/ca-33515_1_death-row-records/5. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
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Categories:- American record labels
- Hip hop record labels
- Record labels established in 1995
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