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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.
I didn't bring anything up related to their latest music, lol. I brought up the fact that you were defending everything Pound related then, and now you even act like their quintessential songs ain't all that, this has nothing to do with the quality of their music decreasing over the last three years since I remember you defending albums like Ego Trippin' and today you're acting hard to please over classic DPG songs like I Don't Hang or I Got Tha Fire, I call it like I see it sorry.
no worries Will it's a forum it's ok to have different opinions, I was just surprised to see you having high standards on such a song while having not so high standards on other songs from the same type of artists so I expressed what i felt
It's dope but its not an A-grade track from the era8/10 for me
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.
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