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This FBI file concerns Death Row Records as a sub-file in the Los Angeles Bloods and Crips Street Racketeering Enterprise Investigation. The records span 1994 and 1995 and include opening and administrative memoranda, requests for business information, and open-source articles about gangsta rap and the label. An August 1994 memorandum describes the proposed racketeering enterprise inquiry, citing allegations from cooperating witnesses that the label's startup funds came from drug-trafficking proceeds and allegations of coercive tactics in artist contracts. Later documents show agents collecting business records on Death Row Records and related music companies, while several pages were withheld for privacy and law-enforcement exemptions.

FBI file number: 92D-LA-162073 | Documents span: 1994-1995 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Tupac Shakur, Suge Knight, Eric Wright, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Mike Tyson
Subjects: Death Row Records, racketeering investigation, Los Angeles gangs, music industry, alleged drug trafficking, business records