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In August 1991, Eazy-E filed a state court complaint against Dr. Dre, Death Row Records executive Suge Knight, and The D.O.C. alleging that the defendants used "duress" and "menace" to get Eazy-E to void his exclusive contracts with Dre and The D.O.C.[citation needed]. In October of the next year Ruthless Records sued Dr. Dre's Death Row Records and accused Dre's label of racketeering. The suit was dismissed on August 9, 1993, and is currently under appeal. During the feud, Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg blasted Eazy-E on Dre's famous solo debut The Chronic, most notably in the hit single "F*ck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" (commonly called "Dre Day"). Also, the words "HIV p**sy having Mot**rf***er" and "Eazy come, Eazy go" appeared on Doggystyle, an album produced by Dr. Dre that was released 16 months before Eazy revealed he had AIDS.
In response, Eazy-E released a second solo album, It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa which eventually sold over 2,000,000 copies and was certified double platinum. One of Eazy-E's videos shows Dre during his days as a member of The World Class Wreckin' Cru, dressed in drag and wearing eyeshadow, lipstick and sequins. Eazy-E slammed him and Snoop Dogg in songs such as It's On, Real Muthaphukkin G's [one of the hottest diss tracks ever released in hip-hop], and Down 2 Tha Last Roach.
This rivalry with Death Row Records and Dr. Dre carried well into 1995, when on their debut album Dogg Food Tha Dogg Pound dissed Ruthless act Bone Thugs-N-Harmony with the line "Ain't got no love for no hoes in harmony," though Bone never responded and later collaborated with Kurupt and Snoop. Tha Dogg Pound also dissed B.G. Knocc Out on What Would You Do on one line saying "Oh yeah, fuck B.G. Knocckout and every nigga down with him". Also with the line "For instance let's take these Ruthless fools, these Ruthless fools and the Pound in one room".
On their debut album entitled "Real Brothas", duo B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta recorded the vicious diss entitled D.P.G./K. Also on Eazy's next album, he dissed Dr. Dre, Snoop, and the Dogg Pound on "Ole School Shit" and his own version of "What Would U Do".
In 1996, prominent Death Row artist 2Pac was featured on Bone Thugs' second album Art of War, signaling to many the end of the feud.
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