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THA DOGG POUND - "DOGG FOOD" (OCTOBER 1995)

Daz: The mindstate while recording "Dogg Food" was real special. We was just young and energetic, smoking weed, and we wanted to come out with a record. I was producing for everybody else, but I was doing the Dogg Pound on the side. Me and Kurupt was getting hot, but Dre wasn't producing for us, so I had to do it myself. We were putting it together, and Suge started backing it. We were recording the shit at my house, and then bringing it back to the studio. ADAT's was in effect back then, so I was working them motherfuckers. We was happy with it so we just put it out and it became a great hit with the help of Deloris Tucker. But that's how we wanted it to come out, I wouldn't change shit about it cause I wouln't be where I'm at right now. What I did, I did. I have no regrets about it. But people can't fuck with that album, it's a straight up classic. Everywhere I go, it's still in the stores right now. It's got songs for days, I love banging "One By One", "Dogg Pound Gangstaz", "Some Bomb Azz Pussy", "If We All Gon Fuck", "Respect", "Let's Play House". You know man, all of them. It's so many good memories on them songs, with all these good times we had.

As the Dogg Pound, we do a lot of thangs, so we make hella songs. I was talking to Young Jeezy, and he was like 'I need to get with y'all, cause y'all make albums of songs.' As far as every song has to have a concept, from the beginning to the middle to the end. And that's what "Dogg Food" was all about. Something people can relate to, not just motherfuckers rhyming. Anybody can rhyme, but can you make a song? I mean I put out a lot of albums, but that's the album people can relate to the most. "Dogg Food" is what I'm known for. But as far as albums in general with Daz on it, they gonna relate to "The Chronic" the most.


Kurupt: "Dogg Food", man, we was starving puppies dying to get our chance to get out there and drop the most classic record me and Daz ever made in our lives. It changed our lives. We worked very hard on that, and it was a life altering experience. And that experience was based off our own experiences, cause the records came from our daily lives, and other records came from tales the homies told me. Different experiences I've seen people go through, things I knew about in the game. It was a mixture of everything combined in one, cause each record was about something of that sort. It was me, Daz, Joe Cool, Snoop, Nate Dogg, we all put it together.

   




DAZ DILLINGER - "RETALIATION, REVENGE, AND GET BACK" (MARCH 1998)


Daz: I had a lot of anger recording that album. Motherfuckers was leaving, everybody was by themself. Before that we was all family, and when I did the album everything just switched up. It was a bunch of shit going on, I was just trying to keep it together, and put my plot together to get where I'm at right now. But I did it, and today when I listen to it, it's like a movie and it just never dies. It never slows up, because when one song goes off, the next song got you back riding. And I make the music to how I'm feeling, who's around. On that album I was expanding, as far as the music goes and the guest features. I tried to show some love and branch out to other people and get with them, cause a lot of cats on there didn't have no deals.

   




KURUPT - "KURUPTION!" (OCTOBER 1998)

Kurupt: I think I was trying to give something to my people from the East Coast, something to my people from the West Coast. It was my first solo record about myself, and I was thining of having it to drop with a little piece of class to it, that's why I kept it g'd up with that old school g'd up look to it. It's a dope record, I mean it's my first solo album. I'd rate that a 3 1/2 or a 4, but I gotta give it a 4 cause one of my biggest records of all time came from that album, "We Can Freak It".

Dr. Dre told me I should just combine the 2 disks to a good 14 records, and then it would have been a different result. And he was right! So I think if anything, if I could do it all again I would just use Dr. Dre's advice, make it 1 CD and bang it out with that mixture of the East and West cuts on it. We also shot 3 dope videos, "We Can Freak It", "Ask Yoself A Question", and the one on the East Coast side "Gimmewhutchagot".






KURUPT - "THA STREETZ IZ A MUTHA" (NOVEMBER 1999)

Kurupt: Now that's a classic, easily. That's my best solo album that I've done. It was me and Daz, we was something else on that album. A lot of people still talk to me about that, how they love me for that album. I think so as well. The production was flawless, I had Organized Noize, Soopafly gave me some classics, Fredwreck gave me some classics, and I had Daz oversee the whole thing. This is what made it. I wouldn't change shit about it, I love the way it is.

I was real angry at that time, I went back home and got back on the streets. So the concepts on the album are mostly street based. I was angry at the world, I was hot to death! It was just life reasons, different things that I was going through personally. So it effected everything else, you can hear it in the music. But that's all part of being human.

   




DAZ DILLINGER - "R.A.W." (SEPTEMBER 2000)

Daz: I put out R.A.W. independently, that was when I said fuck everybody. But it paid off cause I was hungry, and ready to make it happen again! Man, I was on the corner selling that motherfucker! Like straight dope and newspapers! All the homies was coming over buying boxes of 50 for $500 and selling them to One-Stops, because the One-Stops wanted the record! They didn't know how to get it, so motherfuckers in the streets was buying it from me cause I was in the streets. So I pressed up 10,000, sold all 10,000, and that got me a deal with this dude named Robert Gillem out of Houston, Texas. He was making a gang of money down there. That's where I know Lil' Flip, Slim Thug, and all them from. I know everybody from Houston cause I lived in Houston for 2 years. I lived everywhere man! When you hustle you gotta live everywhere.

But I like that record, it meant a lot to me. And the reception from outside was real good. I mean the music on R.A.W. was a little bit different, it changed a little bit because I got older. When I was young I was doing it from the experience from everybody who was around. I started with it on Dr. Dre's album and I was inspired through that. Now I'm just doing it by myself.

So we shot a video for the single "R.A.W." with Kurupt. That was basically me learning how to work the camera. From then on it was always me shooting my videos. Like "Do U Think About Me", all that shit, I shot all that. Instead of paying a motherfucker to do it for me, I'ma do it myself.





THA DOGG POUND - "DILLINGER & YOUNG GOTTI" (JUNE 2001)


Daz: That was a classic album too, cause see, that was a moment in time, everything is a moment in time. When we did "Dillinger & Young Gotti", we haven't done an album since '95. So that was definitely a classic moment for us to drop another album together after so long. But recording that album wasn't nothing like we did "Dogg Food". I wasn't being so hyper, I was just being laid back and made them songs. But the way it came out, I would rate it 5 out of 5, cause that album was knocking. Like I said, all my albums are like movies. This one's the same.

I hooked up with Mike Dean, he was the engineer and musician, he was making the shit sound good. He did "Behind The Walls", that shit is hot! Instead of paying a lot of money for big ass studios, I'ma go to Mike Dean's. So I'd rather work with him cause he's my friend. He did some great records, and on "Dillinger & Young Gotti" I trained Mike Dean to my style. You can see his style changed, and it's about that attitude that you have behind that board. But "Dipp Wit Me" was definitely my favorite song on there.


Kurupt: That was a classic! We was smashin on that album. We was on bust mode like BAM! We also had different MC's like Beanie Sigel on the album, that was some pure gangsta shit.






KURUPT - "SPACE BOOGIE: SMOKE ODDESSEY" (JULY 2001)

Kurupt: I was getting more mature on "Space Boogie". I wanted to make more music with outside people, so I've done a lot of collaborations with some pretty big folks. You know, Fred Durst, Jon B, Dj Quik, Nate Dogg. That album was more for the entire game, cause "Streetz Iz A Mutha" was for the streets. And "Space Boogie" is for the game. I can't say it was better or worse than my previous albums, because it depends at what you're looking at. You looking at the rhymes, or you looking at the type of album it was. I just think it was more upgraded, because it had an all-star cast. And it was put out to open certain doors, and that's what it did. So judging from my standpoint, "Space Boogie" is a 4, cause it actually done its thing. It wasn't a "Streetz Iz A Mutha" type of album, but it never intended to be one. See that's the thing, a lot of people, once they get used to you a certain way, they stay that certain way forever. And me, I just can't do that. I gotta change it up, cause when I make records I'm feeling different ways. I make whole albums in a certain kinda mood, so if that's not your mood, it ain't something that's better or worse. That's just not what you bang now, but sooner or later.

The flow was still Kurupt, it was just different formulas of Gotti. My rhymes is just so special to me, it all bangs out. The music takes you everywhere, so the production is important, and that was different on that album so it was a whole different ball game. But overall the production was cool, with a lot of bangers on there. DJ Lethal gave me something so super, it was sick. So I think it was top grade production.

We had "It's Over" on there. The reception was cool, even for the different songs. Everywhere we were at they was loving it, and it opened new doors for me. Older class of people was liking this record, they knew about Kurupt. It was actually a shock! Or maybe I wasn't in the zone where people didn't like that song, but me personally, I really can't pay them no mind. It doesn't help me creatively, it doesn't help me in any way, shape or form. It's nothing I can even look or think about. I can't pay them attention, you know?

   




DAZ DILLINGER - "THA DOGG POUND GANGSTA LP" (JANUARY 2005)

Daz: That was one of them albums that I really enjoyed doing, cause I was at So So Def and we was with Jive and they was bullshitting so we was going through that. So I put a paper in, waited a little bit and I just came out with that record. So I'm independent again, doing it again. I laid a new deal with Virgin, and I'm finna drop 5 more albums independently. But the album itself was real positive, I didn't diss nobody or nothing. I was just being myself, I was just calm. That was the other side of the gemini, you know I'm a gemini, so that was just the other side.

And then I did "Gangsta Crunk", that was something different too. That was for my people down there. I make so many different songs, cause I got a gang of songs. I got like 4 or 5 million songs at home laying around, about 15 million hard drives and shit. I make Rock songs, Jazz songs, everything. And there I broke away and I started feeling myself, cause I already did the hard shit. So that's just a chapter in my life, I can move on. Everybody changes in life.

   




KURUPT - "AGAINST THE GRAIN" (AUGUST 2005)

Kurupt: Cut that record out! That's just a gang of old Kurupt shit they pieced off and put together. The company that released the album put together anything just to put that motherfucker out, because I stopped doing the record. I said 'Hey we gotta switch up the record', so they just put it out. It wasn't Death Row that was trippin, it was the distributor that put it out. They didn't handle they business right, they never did. So I told them that I ain't concentrating on that record no more. Then when I got back with the homies, suddenly they put it out with a gang of old ass shit. So it was a wrap.



THA DOGG POUND - "DILLINGER & YOUNG GOTTI 2: THE SAGA CONTINUEZ" (NOVEMBER 2005)

Kurupt: "The Saga Continuez" is me and Daz' first new album back together. So it's a total different kind of record than the first "Dillinger & Young Gotti". I like monster records more than anything. "Dogg Food" was a classic and monster record, "Streetz Iz A Mutha" was a classic and monster record. I love those records more than I love any type of records. But I also like my cool ones, I got my cool records where you can just cool out too. But I love it for how it came out, it's so super, so I give it that good 4. It's cool for when Im rolling, when I'm mad nigga I listen to that, I come down. It's some real shit on there! But recording it we was laid back, kicking it, chilling and relaxing. We wanted to make some grown folks music. We're older now, and we just got back together, that had a lot to do with it. It was a monumental moment to us cuz, so we made that record right there.

But it all depends on what you're getting an album for. Something that you're looking for, if you're not fiening it then it's not an album that's for you. But I give you one of those sooner or later don't trip!


Daz: "The Saga Continuez", I like that one from the top to the bottom. Because it's like I said, an album is always between this time period and that time period. And then it was just some feel good, laid back, smoking some weed and rollin through the streets type of record. "DPGC Muzik" is my cut! But "Dillinger & Young Gotti" is better to me. Right now we having fun with what we doing, but the first one was more harder. Just different flavor, you know?






KURUPT - "SAME DAY, DIFFERENT SHIT" (MARCH 2006)

Kurupt: That's my next album coming, it's already done, and next is when you gonna hear it. That album, that's all monsters. That's like "Streetz Iz A Mutha". It's just that monster shit again, it's a whole different feel. When I say like "Streetz Iz A Mutha", I'm talking about that street orientated shit. It's all emceeing and rhyming, but g'd up. It's all g'd up, Young Gotti is way g'd up! It's so sick, it's retarded. The production is all Daz monster shit, like "R.A.W". So it's just me and Daz on a smash mission. We started the album in our minds, like 'Kurupt you gotta bust, you gotta tell them some bomb stories and bust on!' And that's what I gave them, each record is just so outrageous, the beats is banging!


Daz: And y'all heard the new single we just put out, "Yes I'm Quiccer". That's on some straight Killa MC shit. We getting back to the basics on that album, and I'm on the turntables!





DAZ DILLINGER - "SO SO GANGSTA" (2006)

Daz: That's the other side of the gemini now. It's really going down on there. The sound on there you never heard before, because it's gonna be a new sound. We got that new sound with me and Jermaine. It's gonna be that "All That I Need" sound, taking people back to the Eazy E shit, it reminds me of "Boyz N Tha Hood". It's a reflection of what I'm going through right now. It's like, I'm not really thinking about what rappers got to say about me. Fuck them. I only worry about the motherfuckers that I grew up with, the motherfuckers that I do business with, and the motherfuckers that's out here in the streets gangbangin' and killing. I'm not worrying about them rappers right there, they not living with me everyday. So it's really easy, cause if I'm gon' pop them motherfuckers I'm already gonna have problems. It ain't shit to clap you, but you working with security. I ain't doing that shit, I'm by myself everytime you see me. I don't have security, I'm my own security. I beat the shit out of somebody, I'm big enough! As I said, that's the other side of the gemini.

   




Kurupt: Also get ready for that Roscoe album that we putting out, Daz is producing the album. Also get ready for that Y.A. album that Y.A. is putting out independently on they own, and check out the Y.A. album that Daz is gonna do, that me and Daz is putting out. So look out for these things. Penagon is pushing full skills, Dogg Pound Gangsta'd up, Gangsta Advisory.

[TraceOneInfinite]

nice to hear them talk about some of those older albums.  Would of liked to have heard Daz go more in depth about Revenge Retaliation and Get Back because I think that's a really special record for him to pull off at such a turbulent time.   

[HighEyeCue]

Kurupt should've taken Dre's advice on "Kuruption!" and I think we would look back at it differently, many dope tracks on it but too much filler, especially on the East Coast Disc

[D-Nice]

Kurupt should've taken Dre's advice on "Kuruption!" and I think we would look back at it differently, many dope tracks on it but too much filler, especially on the East Coast Disc

I liked the concept, but the east disc sounded rushed, although at the same time some of his most dynamic and lyrical tracks were off the east disc. I think if he would have got maybe Pete Rock or Premo to do a couple tracks, that would have made it alot different too. Some Yessir type shit on there.

[HighEyeCue]

Kurupt should've taken Dre's advice on "Kuruption!" and I think we would look back at it differently, many dope tracks on it but too much filler, especially on the East Coast Disc

I liked the concept, but the east disc sounded rushed, although at the same time some of his most dynamic and lyrical tracks were off the east disc. I think if he would have got maybe Pete Rock or Premo to do a couple tracks, that would have made it alot different too. Some Yessir type shit on there.

yeah Game is still one of my all time favorite Kurupt tracks period. It's a Set Up was dope as well.

[kuruptDPG]

i kno its not offcial release but was hopin they would talk about 2002 album but theyv wouldv said it wasnt there etc etc

[UCC]

THA DOGG POUND - "DOGG FOOD" (OCTOBER 1995)

We were putting it together, and Suge started backing it. We was happy with it so we just put it out...

His description of the time Dogg Food came out makes me think that we're kinda lucky to even have Dogg Food... there were only a handful of those true Death Row classic albums put out before it all started to fall apart and imploded, and it sounds like it only just casually happened that they came together to make that record and have everyone on it in their prime, mixed by Dre, big studio, musicians, Snoop near his peak, etc.

I just wish it had not imploded so soon, and the magic they had for Chronic, Doggystyle, and Dogg Food had lasted a bit longer, so all the pieces had been in place for Doggfather, Rage, Heltah Skeltah, an RBX album, a Nate Dogg album... some of them put out cool albums anyway, but they just missed the magic combo those first albums had, IMO

[GangstaBoogy]

Yeah kurupt def shouldve taken dre's advice

And boy is kurupt full of shit with his review of sdds

[KoldThug]

very informative thanx

[kuruptDPG]

His description of the time Dogg Food came out makes me think that we're kinda lucky to even have Dogg Food...

lol can u imagine if it was shelved and then bootleggers would sell it lol

[2euce 7even]

Yeah kurupt def shouldve taken dre's advice
 

what was his advice?

[UCC]

His description of the time Dogg Food came out makes me think that we're kinda lucky to even have Dogg Food...

lol can u imagine if it was shelved and then bootleggers would sell it lol

Yeah, that would be crazy, or WideAwake was finally going to release it, but with crap mixes

If they'd spent too long on Dogg Food, and 2Pac had arrived before it was finished, Suge would have probably had all the vocals from Dogg Food erased and had 2Pac rap on them, to be disc 3 of All Eyez On Me

[Soopahigh]

Yeah kurupt def shouldve taken dre's advice
 

what was his advice?

can't you read

[D-Nice]

Yeah kurupt def shouldve taken dre's advice

And boy is kurupt full of shit with his review of sdds

So I take it you did not like SDDS?

[Will_B]

Yeah kurupt def shouldve taken dre's advice

And boy is kurupt full of shit with his review of sdds

So I take it you did not like SDDS?

SDDS bangs hard.

I always champion it, but obviously on dubcc people will dismiss it as trash

'I Get High 2' for example is amazing. Classic West sound, hook taken from Gap Band 'Oops Upside Your Head', clean as fuck production from Daz & IV.. BANGING ON BUSTAS!!!!!!