Crooked I on Choosing Death Row Over Aftermath

[Iron_Man]

[bouli77]

yeah Crooked I had already shed light on this in a long interview, props for the link.

with hindsight he made a bad decision but at the time it seemed right, death row still had hopes of resurging, and then again, he knew he would have to wait on aftermath, so maybe his career would have stalled just like it did when he was on tha row. i bet crooked I gets stuck in the past though between having recorded full length albums for tha row with guests and some buzz and the possibility of having signed on aftermath and blowing up and that's why he can't get himself to release a lower-budget album

[Hack Wilson - real]

Crooked woulda killed it as a guest on 2001

[Mietek23]

Interesting that he was featured on King T's Aftermath LP - that means there are still some unleaked tracks left off those sessions

[Enigma]

From what I understand he didn't choose - he signed with Daz, and when Daz left Death Row, Daz sold the rights to Crooked I, Mac Shawn, and Lil C-Style to Death Row.

[Sami]

Crooked I is an idiot. I used to be a massive fan of his, but he could very easily revive his career if he would just start releasing albums on cdbaby or somewhere and just start dropping albums once a year. If he was consistent, he could rebuild his fan-base and start to assemble a real catalog...maybe even get noticed by majors again.

COB needs to follow the example of TDE. The reason they're doing so well was because they consistently released stuff and built a fanbase. And not only that, TDE didn't follow trends they let the trend come to them.

[Dre-Day]

interesting interview. there's a picture of Dre and Crooked I from that time period, right?

yeah Crooked I had already shed light on this in a long interview, props for the link.

with hindsight he made a bad decision but at the time it seemed right, death row still had hopes of resurging, and then again, he knew he would have to wait on aftermath, so maybe his career would have stalled just like it did when he was on tha row. i bet crooked I gets stuck in the past though between having recorded full length albums for tha row with guests and some buzz and the possibility of having signed on aftermath and blowing up and that's why he can't get himself to release a lower-budget album

i doubt he would have released an album on aftermath, who knows. though im sure being around dre would have opened some doors for him

Interesting that he was featured on King T's Aftermath LP - that means there are still some unleaked tracks left off those sessions

first time i hear this too. well i'm sure dre still has some songs left. apparently King T recorded vocals to the beat of Hello

[DeeezNuuuts83]

COB needs to follow the example of TDE. The reason they're doing so well was because they consistently released stuff and built a fanbase. And not only that, TDE didn't follow trends they let the trend come to them.

Yeah, there's some money coming in for them.  Speaking of which, who is the guy with the Staples Center floor seats rocking all the red TDE shit?  He sits on the left side of the tables.

[Hack Wilson - real]

Crooked I is an idiot. I used to be a massive fan of his, but he could very easily revive his career if he would just start releasing albums on cdbaby or somewhere and just start dropping albums once a year. If he was consistent, he could rebuild his fan-base and start to assemble a real catalog...maybe even get noticed by majors again.

COB needs to follow the example of TDE. The reason they're doing so well was because they consistently released stuff and built a fanbase. And not only that, TDE didn't follow trends they let the trend come to them.

doing songs with Eminem isn't enough to get him noticed by majors?? 


anyways Crooked dropped his hottest project to date last year (pslam) which was 100% original music...basically an album.  People need to stop acting like he only drops freestyles cuz he has quite a bit of retail music on itunes now.

[Sami]

I'll be honest with you, Hack. I used to be a bigger Crook stan than you, but when I lost my whole collection of songs because my hard drive died, I got really pissed off. How the hell am I supposed to find all the songs of his I had and lost?

If he had any sense he'd go back in his catalog and drop the loose tracks in album form and quality and start continuously dropping albums so he can do something real, but he keeps wasting time thinking someone like Eminem will take him by the hand and walk him to the top. Pfft. Not happening.

[FUCK-YOU-BItch]

I'll be honest with you, Hack. I used to be a bigger Crook stan than you, but when I lost my whole collection of songs because my hard drive died, I got really pissed off. How the hell am I supposed to find all the songs of his I had and lost?

If he had any sense he'd go back in his catalog and drop the loose tracks in album form and quality and start continuously dropping albums so he can do something real, but he keeps wasting time thinking someone like Eminem will take him by the hand and walk him to the top. Pfft. Not happening.

you can say what you want about crooked, i know when itīs about release dates heīs a clown but every slaughterhouse song he ripped his verses and eminem is not dumb he saw what he did, he did a great job for his verses but those beasts and song ideas are garbage...we all knows that.

[Spoonie Luv]

COB needs to follow the example of TDE. The reason they're doing so well was because they consistently released stuff and built a fanbase. And not only that, TDE didn't follow trends they let the trend come to them.

Yeah, there's some money coming in for them.  Speaking of which, who is the guy with the Staples Center floor seats rocking all the red TDE shit?  He sits on the left side of the tables.

I wondered the same thing too. I think thats Punch, CEO of TDE. Thats someone you rarely see or hear about which is a good thing as he just stays low key and behind the scenes. If you want a CEO whos not all over the records.... All in the videos.... Come to Top Dawg Entertainment!

[KURUPTION-81]

COB needs to follow the example of TDE. The reason they're doing so well was because they consistently released stuff and built a fanbase. And not only that, TDE didn't follow trends they let the trend come to them.

Yeah, there's some money coming in for them.  Speaking of which, who is the guy with the Staples Center floor seats rocking all the red TDE shit?  He sits on the left side of the tables.

I wondered the same thing too. I think thats Punch, CEO of TDE. Thats someone you rarely see or hear about which is a good thing as he just stays low key and behind the scenes. If you want a CEO whos not all over the records.... All in the videos.... Come to Top Dawg Entertainment!

  props

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

I've been saying for years Crooked I is not an album artist. He will kill verses, kill freestyles, but don't expect anything beyond that.

[sofdark]

I've been saying for years Crooked I is not an album artist. He will kill verses, kill freestyles, but don't expect anything beyond that.

Lol, sad shit is I don't have any rebuttals for that haha