Before Kurupt got with Death Row he was rolling with Hoodsta 4 Life and had his own Crew the way Snoop had DPG, from 94-96 Kurupt was actively helping to put together projects with NME, Grench The mean 1 & Slip Capone. He produced a single from the Tales from the Hood Soundtrack for them & brought Slip in for the MWTC soundtrack.
Heres some excerpts from an article about the settlement from the lawsuit that Kurupts first crew filed against Death Row
Jury Grants $10 Million Verdict Against Death Row, Suge Knight
An additional $10 million awarded in punitive damages in Kurupt case
Pamela Koslyn, co-counsel for Kurupt’s former managers, said she had hoped for a substantial judgment to be handed down against Death Row and its co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight, and on Tuesday, she got it — to the tune of $10 million. A Los Angeles Superior Court, during the punitive phase of the case against the label and the gangsta rap mogul (in which they were found to have defrauded Kurupt’s former managers Lamont and Ken Brumfield) awarded the $10 million sum as an addition to the $4.3 million awarded last week in compensatory damages.
Lamont Brumfield’s management company Rapp Central Productions and Ken Brumfield’s Hoodsta-4-Life Publishing originally filed a lawsuit in 1995 against Interscope for conspiring with Death Row to induce Kurupt to breach his exclusive contract with the Brumfields. Kurupt had signed with the Brumfields in 1990, then signed with Death Row in 1993, despite his existing contracts. The complaint also named Death Row principals Knight, Andre Young (a.k.a. Dr. Dre) and Calvin Broadus (a.k.a. Snoop Doggy Dogg). When Kurupt went bankrupt in 1996, he voided all of his contracts and was dropped from the lawsuit. Dre was dismissed from the case before it went to jury, while Snoop was released from the case earlier. As for Interscope, which had been named in the suit due to its distribution of Death Row, the label settled with the plaintiffs before the initial verdict.