How did Nate's first album not even reach top 50 on Billboard?

[BiggBoogaBiff]

True dat but I remember the climate in Hip Hop in 1998 becuz just at the end of the year before I really started to take a steep and everlasting nose dive into the culture of hip hop, I started to put the Nintendo 64 down and started to pick up a Walkman a lot more. 


The California sound and movement wasn't necessarily played out by the summer of 98', there was just a new hardcore coming out of New York (aka Def Jam) and it was becoming more and more popular with the masses.  You also had the beginning of the Virginia shockwave and takeover in 97'/98' with Timbaland n Crew and The Neptunes.  I remember those times in the Summer and Fall so vividly, I still remember the day my Dad brought "Da Game Is To Be Sold Not To Be Told" before anybody I knew had it. 


Then Juvenile had the "Ha" record and Ca$h Money was gettin big and then Master P was doing massive things with No Limit.  Nobody forgot about G Funk, the Corporation was just playing the New shit.  And as we all know the Radio and the Public have never really seen eye to eye for quite some time now, contrary to the excuses the Corporations try to feed us.

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[MarshColin]

Reasons I think this album didn't do so hot:

1 - The album was released on Breakaway Entertainment. That label only put out releases in 1998 because their CEO got some charges on the federal level thrown at him. The label basically folded the same year it began. If that's true about Nate Dogg paying a ton of money to get the rights to release that album, I'm guessing that the CEO is the one who put up all that money to get the album. Once he got locked up he probably sold the rights to somebody else and that's how the album got released in so many different forms under so many different titles.

2 - The album was overall great, but they only drew the singles from vol. 2 and with the exception of Nobody Does It Better there wasn't really much single material on that disc. Plus the other songs I'm referring to as singles were released only on limited promo pressings for the most part so they don't really count as singles. Me & My Homies would have been a decent single, they could've made the video into some sort of 2pac tribute. Remember how huge Changes was? They could've dropped Me & Homies right after that and capitalized off the success of Changes/2Pac's Greatest Hits album.

3 - The whole "Disc 1 Death Row material/Disc 2 newer stuff that disses Death Row in parts" was an awkward arrangement. Disc 1 by itself is a great R&B album but combined with Disc 2 the cohesiveness of the album was lost. It's not like an All Eyez On Me where you can go from Disc 1 to Disc 2 all the way through and it keeps your interest. Once you get to disc 2 that shit starts draaaaaggging on lol.

[Sccit]

^i disagree...i thought both discs were great and had their share of classics