{"id":10657,"date":"2026-05-12T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/tupac-shakur-estate-faces-lawsuit-over-all-eyez-on-me-song-royalties\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:04:07","slug":"tupac-shakur-estate-faces-lawsuit-over-all-eyez-on-me-song-royalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/tupac-shakur-estate-faces-lawsuit-over-all-eyez-on-me-song-royalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Tupac Shakur Estate Faces Lawsuit Over \u2018All Eyez On Me\u2019 Song Royalties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tDaz Dillinger, a Death Row Records producer who collaborated on much of Tupac Shakur\u2019s seminal final album All Eyez on Me<\/em>, claims in a new lawsuit that the rap icon\u2019s estate has stiffed him on royalties.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Friday (May 8) complaint, obtained by Billboard<\/em>, focuses on royalties from more than a dozen songs co-authored and produced by Dillinger. The list includes five tracks off All Eyez On Me<\/em>, which topped the Billboard 200 in 1996 and has spent a collective 122 weeks on the chart: \u201cAmbitionz az a Ridah,\u201d \u201cSkandalouz,\u201d \u201cGot My Mind Made Up,\u201d \u201c2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted\u201d and \u201cI Ain\u2019t Mad at Cha.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tDillinger (born Delmar Arnaud) alleges in the lawsuit that he last demanded royalties in 2024 and was paid $91,000 by Amaru Entertainment, the arm of Shakur\u2019s estate that manages the late rapper\u2019s music assets. But Dillinger says the estate did not provide any royalty statements to back up this amount \u2014 and that he believes there\u2019s additional money still being kept from him.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt a minimum, Amaru has failed to render statements and\/or pay sums due within the applicable limitations periods and continuing to the present,\u201d writes Dillinger\u2019s attorney, Bret Lewis<\/strong>. \u201cThe precise amount owed will be shown according to proof after an accounting and discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit asks a judge to force the Shakur estate to provide Dillinger with a full audit of profits and licenses from all the songs he helped create. Dillinger then wants to be paid his allegedly past-due royalties, plus financial damages for breach of contract.<\/p>\n

\n\tReached for comment on Monday (May 11), Lewis told Billboard<\/em>, \u201cIt is my expectation that this matter will be amicably resolved.\u201d A rep for Shakur\u2019s estate declined to comment on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis is far from the first time Dillinger has been involved in legal action over his time at Death Row, where he produced for other artists and was half of the hip-hop duo Tha Dogg Pound with fellow rapper Kurupt. Dillinger has brought various lawsuits over contractual payments through the years against Death Row and its former chief, Suge Knight<\/strong>, plus Sony\/ATV Music Publishing and BMG Rights Management.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2001, Shakur\u2019s mother, Afeni Shakur<\/strong>, sued Dillinger for allegedly holding onto and threatening to disseminate unreleased Tupac music without the estate\u2019s consent. That case was settled out of court in 2002.<\/p>\n

\n\tMore recently, Dillinger threatened to sue<\/a> Snoop Dogg, his cousin, over song ownership and royalties from their years of work together, writing on social media last year, \u201cI sued Suge back in the day. Should I do the same to cuz?\u201d Snoop responded with a warning of his own: \u201cIn a minute I\u2019ma f\u2014 you up, cuz, not physically, but business-wise.\u201d<\/p>\n


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