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Fresh from the auction block in L.A., the assets of Death Row records, said to include masters of recordings by Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg and other rap pioneers, has sold for a measly $18 million.
 
That means that Lydia Harris, who started the label with Suge Knight and her incarcerated ex-husband Michael "Harry O" Harris in 1991, gets precisely squat. Once all the lawyers, the IRS and other administrators are paid (and balances are settled for deals that were never paid out), the money left over won’t be enough to divide among any of Death Row’s unsecured creditors.
 
"I'm extremely frustrated with the judicial system that has allowed all of the lawyers to be paid and none of the people who were instrumental in creating Death Row Records to receive a dime," Harris tells Blender.

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