Creditors of Death Row Records and Marion “Suge” Knight may soon see their first payment in nearly eight years, although one obstacle could come from rapper Dr. Dre, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Lawyers representing the rapper, whose given name is Andre Young, recently notified a bankruptcy judge that they’d file a $3 million claim on the rapper’s behalf in the bankruptcy cases of the record label and its founder, Mr. Knight. The claim seeks payment for records sold during the bankruptcy case, according to court papers. Dr. Dre’s lawyers said that they’d ask that the claim be paid ahead of those of other creditors, which they acknowledged could “significantly impact” an ongoing effort to get a payment out to those creditors soon. R. Todd Neilson, the bankruptcy trustee overseeing the liquidations of Death Row and Mr. Knight, is slated to ask a Los Angeles bankruptcy judge next week for permission to distribute more than $4 million to creditors, among them the mother of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur.
