Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder triggered an exodus of artists from Death Row Records.

The duo's debut album, Dogg Food, produced by Daz and mixed by Dre, drew favorable reviews and good sales. Tha Dogg Pound released the single ' New York, New York,' featuring Snoop Dogg, slighting the city. Kurupt and Daz soon teamed as a rap duo, Tha Dogg Pound, featured on Snoop Dogg's debut solo album, Doggystyle, in the song 'For All My Niggaz & Bitchez'.īy 1996, the rap genre's East Coast–West Coast rivalry was escalating, spurred on by Death Row's CEO Suge and by rapper 2Pac, new to the label, who believed that a Bad Boy Records circle, in their hometown New York City, had fostered his November 1994 shooting there. At Death Row, Kurupt joined a roster of artists-including Daz Dillinger, Lady of Rage, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, and RBX-who entered the public eye by their features on Dr. Dre, the rapper and music producer who had just left the rap group N.W.A and its Ruthless Records. In 1992, at age 19, Kurupt signed to Death Row Records, newly formed by music manager Suge Knight and Dr. Kurupt debuted as a recording artist via three songs on the S.O.S. The couple appeared on Marriage Boot Camp's 17th season in 2020. That same year, he began dating Toni Calvert. In 2007, Brown married Jovan Brown, who filed for divorce in 2017. In the early 2000s, he was engaged to Natina Reed the couple separated in 2002, following the birth of their son Tren Brown. He was engaged to rapper Foxy Brown from 1997 to 1999.

He moved to Los Angeles, California at age 16, first to Hawthorne, then to South Los Angeles, Crenshaw District at age 18. Ricardo Emmanuel Brown was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He is one half of the rap duo Tha Dogg Pound, along with Daz Dillinger. Ricardo Emmanuel Brown (born November 23, 1972), better known by his stage name Kurupt, is an American rapper and record producer who aided gangsta rap's rise via 1990s verses helping set lasting trends.

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