how do you rate Soopafly's I Don't Hang ?

[bouli77]

Just wondering....

I always thought this was an underrated and perfectly executed song... the production is classic hip-hop, sounds like some boom bap rap with a g-funk twist, and Soopafly kills it on the lyrical tip. by the way did Kurupt was credited ? cause it's obvious he at least helped write the song. another unheralded gem, that song had the potential to do better IMO.

[Soopafly DPGC]

It was probably one of the most influential songs of the modern era.  There probably would be no westcoast rap without that song.  It laid down the rules of the rap game for how a gangster rapper should behave.  Don't hang with no bustas, no snitches, no bitches, no fags, and only be out to make money.  Now it's unfortunate that the 'fag' part got edited by the record company because some rappers didn't catch that part and started hanging with fags (cough *snoop* cough) and it ruined their careers.  But that wasn't Soopafly's fault, it was Warner Bros. who did the editing.  

That song pretty much launched the careers of Daz and Kurupt.  Sure, they had a few minor guest spots on The Chronic and Doggystyle, and were pushing the Dogg Food album, but no one really paid much attention to these guys until "I Don't Hang" dropped and Fly mentioned Daz's name in the song.  People were like "who's this daz guy THE MAN Soopafly mentioned?" and then they looked up his other songs and saw Fly produced and coproduced and played keys on a lot of them and they started becoming Daz fans as a result, even though they all knew he wasn't nearly as good as Soopafly, it was mainly to hear Fly's beats and lyrics on Daz's songs.  And of course, then people started following kurupt, then bad azz, then C-Style, Snoop, Tray Deee, etc, etc.  Pretty much the entire DPGC's careers were launched because of this song.  They owe everything to Soopafly.

I had always heard the reason why Kurupt got credit on this songs was for this:  See, they were in the studio and one of Soopafly's hoes was being real mouthy that day.  So he slapped her of course, what any good pimp will do.  Well he slapped her a little harder than normal and i guess she was gonna go to the cops or whatever.  But Fly didn't want that because he was going to record "I Don't Hang" that day.  So Fly, knowing how big of a trick Kurupt is, told him to go smooth things over with the bitch while Fly was in the booth recording the song.  So i guess Kurupt went over there and rubbed her feet, painted her nails, kissed her on the neck, massaged her back, cuddled with her, asked about her feelings, wanted to know her thoughts and opinions on things; you know, things a typical whipped man would do.  So because of that Soopafly was able to record the song without issue, so Kurupt begged Fly to let him have a small amount of credit for the song, so Fly just said "sure, whatever".  And that's how it went down.  At least from what i heard.  I guess the hoe got kicked out of Soopafly's stable the next day....after he stole all her money out of her purse.

The song was such a big success, Warner Bros. begged him to come in and do a remix for it since it was getting so many spins on the airwaves, so Fly came back in the studio and dropped the Soopafly G-Mix of the song.  Which as you can see even to this day, Tha Dogg Pound calls all their remixes "G-Mixxes" and that's because of Soopafly and this song right here.  And this song led to Soopafly dropping his multiplatinum album Dat Woopty Woop and he went on to release many many more platinum albums in the future, Bangin Westcoast, Best Kept Secret, Westurn Union (with 2 other guys no one's ever heard of since).  Snoop begs him to be on his songs and produce for him.  Daz is always wanting Fly to produce for him again to bring back that classic DPG sound, since Daz admits he's lost his touch, he can't produce anything decent anymore, which is why he wanted Fly on that 100 Wayz album and everyone said it was the best DPG album since Dogg Food.  

All because of this song right here.  So yeah, it's a pretty big song in the history of Westcoast rap.

[bouli77]

lmao Soopafly DPGC back in full effect  ... i wish it could have happened like that. a bit disappointed though, i guess your act gets a little old

really though I always thought that song represented the better side of DPG during their heyday. polished production and excellent raps, this belongs with classics such as New York New York, Reality, or Don't Stop. they didn't do too many songs like that unfortunately lol.

[gio™fugahoo]

Hahaha

[Papa Geezy]

LOL

[HighEyeCue]

dope record but would have benefited from coming out a few years earlier instead...The east-west war had begun and it rarely got airplay on the east coast

[Okka]

Classic. One of my favorite songs from Fly. I love the remix too.

[1133]

one of the best fly songs i;ve heard, classic, along with his verse in G;s come out at night

[Will_B]

It's dope but its not an A-grade track from the era

7/10 for me

[bouli77]

lyrically it's easily among the best stuff tha dogg pound had to offer.

which isn't saying much lol.

funny Will how nowadays you seem hard to please but three years ago you were defending tooth and nail even the wackest shit labeled DPGC

[Soopafly DPGC]

lmao Soopafly DPGC back in full effect  ... i wish it could have happened like that. a bit disappointed though, i guess your act gets a little old

really though I always thought that song represented the better side of DPG during their heyday. polished production and excellent raps, this belongs with classics such as New York New York, Reality, or Don't Stop. they didn't do too many songs like that unfortunately lol.

Not an act man, that's how i feel.  If people think it's funny, great, if not, doesn't matter to me.  None of it is intended to be funny, it's my true feelings on the song.

[doggfather]

good ish.

[Will_B]

lyrically it's easily among the best stuff tha dogg pound had to offer.

which isn't saying much lol.

funny Will how nowadays you seem hard to please but three years ago you were defending tooth and nail even the wackest shit labeled DPGC

Couple years back their output was more respectable and I was just enjoying the music, and I'd only just started to dig into their back catalogue of 'underground' stuff. My ears changed, the more you educate yourself the more you can discriminate on what's good and what's not.


And don't believe everything the trolls write, I never defended 'the wackest shit' fool

[bouli77]

lol i don't believe trolls, i saw that shit first hand, you were defending the wackest Kurupt verse, you were even transcribing his verse with a lot of mistakes and some dude, can't remember who had to correct you... and not long ago you were praising a lacklustre kurupt freestyle.

whether their output was more respectable three years ago is besides the point since we're talking about a seventeen year old song, not their latest shit.

[Will_B]

lol i don't believe trolls, i saw that shit first hand, you were defending the wackest Kurupt verse, you were even transcribing his verse with a lot of mistakes and some dude, can't remember who had to correct you... and not long ago you were praising a lacklustre kurupt freestyle.

whether their output was more respectable three years ago is besides the point since we're talking about a seventeen year old song, not their latest shit.

U brought it up fool


Actually I was transcribing the Kurupt lyric because others were quoting something a non English speaker had obviously written. My argument still stands - how can you criticise if you don't even understand what an artist is actually saying