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Snoop, EMI in legal standoff
Following the Doggfather's lawsuit to get out of his four-album contract, UK label giant countersues to force him to make two more albums.
Snoop Dogg wants to roll out the Blue Carpet on a new label, but EMI-Blackwood is having none of it.
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The Long Beach rapper and the UK label giant are in the midst of a legal standoff over Snoop's four-album contract, and his desire to get out of it for his upcoming album, dubbed Blue Carpet Treatment.
Snoop--real name Calvin Broadus--filed a lawsuit against EMI-Blackwood last month, citing a California labor law that allows him to end the agreement after seven years. A hearing is set for September 20 in that case.
But EMI countersued last week in New York, saying that since Snoop was in New York when he signed the deal, the laws of that state apply, any labor law in the Golden State is irrelevant, and that Snoop still owes them two albums.
Snoop has released two albums under EMI-Blackwood, 1998's Da Game is to Be Sold Not to Be Told and 1999's Top Dogg, both of which were released during Snoop's post-Death Row, No Limit Records stint with Master P.
Snoop recently said that he has been working on an eye-popping list of guests for Blue Carpet Treatment, including Pharrell, Timbaland, will.i.am, Stevie Wonder, James Ingram, Warren G, R. Kelly, Ne-Yo, Akon, Jermaine Dupri, and Janet Jackson.
"It's coming together so good," Snoop told Billboard. "I've been working on it for nine months. I have so much good material--it's about [figuring out] what I'm going to use on my record."
Asked how he's evolved artistically in the past decade, Snoop said, "Musically, now I'm more coming from the heart. Back then, when I started, I was more coming from the mind. Now it's a little bit more in-depth, there's a little bit more going on with myself as far as the role I play now, the wisdom that I have, the direction that I take and the direction that I give. You can hear that in the music I'm making."
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