By affiliating with Death Row Records?
He did a very bold thing by teaming up with them. He got Dr. Dre who then introduced Snoop Dogg to him. All of a sudden we were known as this heavy rock and rap label. We were getting this bad boy reputation in the business as this independent label that was rising very fast in some opinions, too fast. Dolores Tucker with the Coalition of Black Women in Washington, D.C. decided to target us because of the controversial black lyrics and the way these rappers are influencing Black America in a very derogatory way being derogatory to women, society, street gangs and violence almost glamorizing the bad things. But Jimmy and Ted stuck by their guns and said, “We’re not going out there and signing every rap act under the sun. We decided what we think are the most credible vocal representatives of the society of where rap has come from the ghettos with Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur. We’re going to stick by our artists.” But Warner Brothers soon felt the heat from Washington and wanted to
