Makaveli & Dillinger Don't Go 2 Sleep

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Don't Go 2 Sleep

EP by Makaveli & Daz Dillinger
Released	December 24, 2001
Recorded	1995-96
Genre	Rap
Length	48:33
Label	D.P.G. Recordz
Producer(s)	Daz Dillinger
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Makaveli chronology
Until the End of Time (2001)	Don't Go 2 Sleep (2001)	Better Dayz (2002)

Makaveli & Daz Dillinger Don't Go 2 Sleep - Tha EP is an album by Makaveli and Daz Dillinger. This album has eight tracks. There are two other versions of the EP, but the real EP has eight tracks. It was released December 24, 2001 on D.P.G. Recordz. The tracks were recorded at the Death Row Records between 1995-96 when both artists were labelmates.

1 Track listing
2 Controversy
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Track listing

"Wake Up My People [Intro]"
"Don't go to Sleep" (featuring Young Gotti)
"First to Bomb" (featuring Tanya Herron)
"They Don't Give a Fucc About Us" (featuring Outlawz)
"187 UM"
"Let's Get it, Let's Fight"
"I'm Dumpin 'Fucc tha POLICE'" (featuring Young Assassins)
"Heaven or Hell [Tha Outro]"

[edit] Controversy

On August 27 2001, mother of Tupac, Afeni Shakur filed a lawsuit against Delmar Arnaud better known as Daz Dillinger seeking unspecified damages caused by his unauthorized pre-release online order for this album on the official website of D.P.G. Recordz. As the only legal successor of the copyright of anything connected with the brand names "2Pac" and "Makaveli" and executor and estate administrator of Tupac's musical compositions, Afeni Shakur has the right only to grant permission to release the recordings or to use her son's name, that - according to her - she was never earlier asked to do so by any of the management of D.P.G. Recordz.

The lawsuit contains 13 causes of action, including :

trademark infringement,
unfair competition,
trademark dilution,
copyright infringement,
trademark infringement under common law,
conversion,
unjust enrichment,
declaratory relief,
and accountings.

The original photoshoot used for the cover artwork

Shakur also maintains that Dillinger were still promoting the release of the album and accepting Paypal orders through his website all unauthorized.

Daz stopped the selling of the Makaveli & Dillinger EP and days after the September 11 attacks the main page of the whole site changed into a tribute design. Later deathrowrecords.com adopted the material claiming the rights of the license for "Tha Dogg Pound" and "Dat Nigga Daz" and all material recorded under these pseudonyms. It is still purchaseable there with some slight modifications in the number of tracks and their order.

Daz claims in the April, 2005 issue of XXL that he still owns several recordings of 2Pac never heard before. While living in Los Angeles he was insulted in several warranted house searches by Suge Knight and by the police that were attempts to confiscate the reels.^[1] Though the legal status of those copies have still remained uncleared.