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92 Dre, 93 Snoop, 94 Murder was the case, and 95 Dogg Pound.
Quote from: R-Tistic on January 31, 2006, 08:53:30 AM92 Dre, 93 Snoop, 94 Murder was the case, and 95 Dogg Pound.What year was the Above The Rim Soundtrack, 94 or 95? Coz that was Death Row too, yeah?
Yeah...I remember it debuted at #1 on the overall Billboard charts. Delores Tucker said somethin about how Dogg Pound was the craziest or most outrageous gangsta rap group ever before their album came out, and they had a lotta hype from the post-Eazy beef, and for bein next in line as bein another great Death Row album, since one dropped every year....92 Dre, 93 Snoop, 94 Murder was the case, and 95 Dogg Pound.
Quote from: R-Tistic on January 31, 2006, 08:53:30 AMYeah...I remember it debuted at #1 on the overall Billboard charts. Delores Tucker said somethin about how Dogg Pound was the craziest or most outrageous gangsta rap group ever before their album came out, and they had a lotta hype from the post-Eazy beef, and for bein next in line as bein another great Death Row album, since one dropped every year....92 Dre, 93 Snoop, 94 Murder was the case, and 95 Dogg Pound.Yeah, I remember that quite well. "Dogg Food" is the reason why Warner Brothers sold off its entire stake in Interscope - C. Delores Tucker and a whole bunch of other conservative organizations didn't want them to release it, and Warner Bros folded under pressure and decided to just cut their loses and split with Interscope completely.However, I also remember that "Dogg Food"'s sales were considered dissapointing - Suge had been counting on the controversy to push major sales, and it actually didn't sell as well as expected initially. Part of the problem was that it took Interscope another 2 or 3 months to get a new distribution deal (with Priority), and once they got it, the hype had subsided. It didn't sell terribly, but none of its singles really crossed over. It was kinda like Eminem going from selling 8 million records to 4 million - it's still successful, but it's still a failure to live up to past standards. Since "Doggystyle" had just sold 4 million in the U.S., "Dogg Food" was a dissappointment by those standards.Personally, I remember not really feeling that record much when it came out - to me, Daz wasn't nearly as good a producer as Dre, and Kurupt wasn't that good a lyricist. It wasn't until many years later that I finally listened to "Dogg Food" again and appreciated it more. It's still overrated, IMO...it's not really what I'd call a "classic".
Does anyone else remember their review in the source? I think the source only gave them 2 mics and said the album suffered cause Dre was only the executive producer. Kurupt mentioned it on one of the songs on Doggfather.