Is this what yall play in California? Honestly Im just askin`

[BiggBoogaBiff]

Daz Dillinger`s new single ``D.A.Z``, is it hot in tha streets?  Do tha gangstaz and tha bitches like it, wat about people in general?  Is Daz still ``big`` in Cali?  Is that tha sound yall are lookin 4 out there (im talkn about this style of west coast beats) and how do u know.  Like I said im just askin`.

[D-Nice]

No

[NoobCake]

Fuck no.  Daz is played out.  THIS is what what's big in the streets out here 

[Smackdog]

No

[ThaRealKapone]

Hahaha, lord no. Alot of people praise Cali and America think we caught in a time warp still pushin gangsta shit and drinkin 40s n shit like a Boyz-N-Tha Hood movie when in reality Alot of people in Cali B off mainstream shit. The ones of us still bumpin West Coast shit heavy are either listen to the first generation artists old shit like Chronic and Doggystyle or we listen to underground shit and cats like Jay Rock and Nip. Everybody out here mostly listen to weed head shit like Wiz Khalifa or some alternative super underground shit

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

Lol, fuck no. At least not in the bay.

[SGT x Tok3R]

honestly people out here listen to what the rest of the country listens to

Ross, Kanye, Weezy, Drake, Eminem, Jiggaman u know the usual suspects

[BANE]

@noobcake: funny shit ever. haha daz has moments where he can still make his speakers bump, but they dont play his music on radio much if at all. DAZ isnt getting a big push, its independent.

[BiggBoogaBiff]

Tru.  But 2 be fair to Daz, how much has he sold independently?  Does any1 know, like, u never get to see tha numbers.

[bouli77]

With the internet, the last albums must have sold very poorly, I don't know the numbers, all I know is that So So Gangsta sold approximately 150,000 and that was a major release with a single with Rick Ross... as far as his early independent releases... Daz said in various interviews that R.A.W. sold like 40,000 and Dillinger & Young Gotti 200,000. I also read somewhere that This Is THe Life I Lead had sold up to 90,000... I don't know about the rest (Cali Iz Active & Dogg Chit did 150k & 90k apparently but those were koch releases not DPG recordz)... but I don't think his last 5 independent albums have sold more than 150 combined.

The thing is Daz has a small but faithful fan base. He was never a popular solo act. So I don't think his music was ever heavily bumped throughout Cali even during his prime... except under The Dogg Pound when they were a mainstream platinum act. I spent a year in NOLA in 08-09 and I remember hearing people bumping Dogg Pound Gangstaz (the dogg food song) and i was very surprised. I also read that even on the east you could hear people bumpin dpg in their cars... so my conclusion is that maybe people still bump classic dpg songs but nobody listens to daz anymore. and that makes sense. dude's been rappin about the same stuff for 20 years, now he's more low-budget than ever, and his sound is not updated, so obviously very few people can relate to what he says and therefore he's irrelevant as a rapper, no matter how good his productions can sound.

[BiggBoogaBiff]

Is that how yall feel.  But I hearth both RAW and This Is The Life I Lead hit over 100k, which was ``big`` for Independent artists back in tha day.  I brought TITLIL on preorder so it had to, that must`ve been 1st week numbers but i aint a genie or a groupie so.  tha new album sound like it mite be ight tho.

[bouli77]

First month numbers for TITLIL were 9k. I bought it the week it came out and I remember specifically reading that shortly afterwards on some site. On Daz's old official site, his biography stated that R.A.W. had sold 40,000, which is a decent number for such an underground release (no big names on it, except Kurupt, no video except RAW and that wasnt even broadcast on music channels). 200,000 for Dilli & Gotti is a huge number, but Daz had greater promotion, launched a proper single with a rather high-budget video, and songs from the album were on Bully's soundtrack, so it makes sense it sold more than RAW. Plus DPG is much more marketable than Daz solo.

I don't expect anything from Daz's next album. I liked the production on Public Enemies because it had that melodic and kinda updated sound, while sticking to Daz's formula but most of the rhymes were garbage, basically saying "I'm the shit, Dogg Food was the shit, now a lot of rappers are emulating me, I keep doing me bla bla bla" except on a few songs like Tear Dropz or 2nd II None. I didn't really like Matter of Dayz, sounds more like 10 tracks put together than a real album. I do like some songs like Matter of Dayz, Xposed or the one with Snoop (very nice beat) but overall it was nothing new, especially the song like "I'm hard", this sounds sooo corny to me. And that's the type of songs Daz seems to be reproducing with songs like "D.A.Z.", banging beat but wack rhymes and used concepts... I respect Daz's hustle and I understand his need to keep grinding, that's why I don't knock him for his current lack of content, but I really tend to think he's better off as a producer with I.V. and Soopa. But he seems to have very faithful fans who like every of his releases, so it makes sense that he keeps making that type of albums.

[westcoastriders]

Fuck no.  Daz is played out.  THIS is what what's big in the streets out here 

now this is commical! lol 

[Sami]

Media consolidation has ravaged West Coast music. Only two companies own all the music stations in California and the stations are programmed from back East to play whatever hits the charts nationwide which leads to a feedback loop because they program what's hot but what's hot is whatever they choose to program. Many times now labels just openly buy radio time and allot it to their artists as they choose, because the FCC won't enforce the law against that practice anymore.

The different media conglomerates really have a free hand to put whatever they want on and not even remotely pay any respect to local areas, because even NYC stations are dominated by the corporate playlist.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is largely responsible for why radio sucks.

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is largely responsible for why radio sucks.

This. Fuck Clinton.