Why doesn't Daz go back up

[love33]

Howcome Daz used to be huge and talked about on mtv, the box, all the video interviews all the time....everyone cared about him and what he was doing....and now it's like he isn't even mentioned and nobody except a few care.... he used to be the biggest producer and one of the dopest rappers in the game....how do you fall that hard?

I mean...look at e-40 and too short they were huge back then but now they are huge too .... e-40 might even be bigger than he was....why have daz and kurupt fallen so hard off the map and e-40 has gotten bigger -- aren't you supposed to expand and become huger over the course of time??

Daz's songs like "Git Drunk" "My Thang" and "Gangsta Rap" will be forgotten if he doesn't push his career up a little bit to lift his legacy...
He's a talented artist and he needs to pick his game up -- "4 the hood" was a dope single

I hope that Dr. Dre produces that album for Tha Dogg Pound and it goes huge..get Kendrick Lamar, Tyga, E-40, Too Short, etc. on there

[Jimmy H.]

You make it sound like Daz was a fucking household name.  He had some hit records but he was down with a hot label.  There's artists that were hot in 2005 that nobody is talking about anymore.  You're making it seem like he gradually dropped off the map.  It's been like 18 years since "Dogg Food".  It's not a knock on the dude but kids who grabbed their high school diplomas, this month, were just crawling out of their mom's vagina when that album came out.  You're back on your love33 over-exaggerated view of the past shit again where Mack 10, Luniz, and all these West Coast guys were these huge household names that were constantly getting played on MTV non-stop. It actually didn't happen like that though.

[Shot Callin]

Daz is tight. I haven't heard much new stuff from him recently but I have a feeling we will soon. He's always been a bit more underground than other artists because he's an independant artist, except for when he was producing on death row for pac and all them

[Hack Wilson - real]

[run-of-the-millian]

Howcome Daz used to be huge and talked about on mtv, the box, all the video interviews all the time....everyone cared about him and what he was doing....and now it's like he isn't even mentioned and nobody except a few care.... he used to be the biggest producer and one of the dopest rappers in the game....how do you fall that hard?

It's tough at the top and only a very very select few can maintain that kind of success for decades. Snoop is the chosen one from the DPG camp... Daz is doing pretty well for a "has been" still making dope music and even trading features with artists that are currently popular.

I mean...look at e-40 and too short they were huge back then but now they are huge too .... e-40 might even be bigger than he was....why have daz and kurupt fallen so hard off the map and e-40 has gotten bigger -- aren't you supposed to expand and become huger over the course of time??

Well E-40 was never as popular as Daz at his peak. And his career has been pretty exceptional, not the norm. He has been able to get bigger by working hard to both keep his existing fans happy and expanding his sound and listener base.

You make it sound like Daz was a fucking household name.  He had some hit records but he was down with a hot label.  There's artists that were hot in 2005 that nobody is talking about anymore.  You're making it seem like he gradually dropped off the map.  It's been like 18 years since "Dogg Food".  It's not a knock on the dude but kids who grabbed their high school diplomas, this month, were just crawling out of their mom's vagina when that album came out.  You're back on your love33 over-exaggerated view of the past shit again where Mack 10, Luniz, and all these West Coast guys were these huge household names that were constantly getting played on MTV non-stop. It actually didn't happen like that though.

Nah you're not giving them enough credit. They were huge. All around the world, just look at the international nature of this forum.

[Sir Petey]

you are wrong about e40 and the daz thing.


e40 owned his label and made mad indepndant moves was all over pop charts and pop radio daz's pinnacle in the rap game was his verse on doggy dogg world and thats real talk.

[HighEyeCue]

Daz couldn't go gold back in '98...just sayin

[Hack Wilson - real]

Daz couldn't go gold back in '98...just sayin

and that's despite having Snoop and 2pac on his album

[KURUPTION-81]

Daz had his chance with so so def but it didn't work.

He needs better promotion though rather than just the internet.

[DeeezNuuuts83]

Plus E-40 had some big mainstream hits further into his career, well into the 2000s.  Plus when the Bay was really hitting with that hyphy shit, he was around.  And he never burned any bridges either or was being an internet gangster.

[Hack Wilson - real]

And he never burned any bridges either or was being an internet gangster.

DING DING DING DING DING


E-40 never went online to do interviews calling 2pac's mom a crackhead and he didn't rip off 2,000 fans by charging them 50 dollars for some CD and not mailing it out

[Morphine]

  And he never burned any bridges either or was being an internet gangster.

daz on the other hand burned a lot of bridges from bay to atlanta. word is they could see the smoke all the way from Nashville.

[UCC]

over-exaggerated view of the past shit again where Mack 10, Luniz, and all these West Coast guys were these huge household names that were constantly getting played on MTV non-stop. It actually didn't happen like that though.

Luniz's "I Got 5 On It" was on MTV all the time, like there was a period when you heard that song everywhere, very big hit all around the world...

Dogg Pound's "NY NY" was played a lot too, not quite as much as the Luniz song, but people knew who they were because of Snoop, Death Row, etc.
If not the singles, a lot of people knew the album, same with Luniz's debut as well...

Mack 10 I agree wasn't as widely known, but then again a LOT of people did know "Bow Down" as a song, which he was on, so...

[love33]

You make it sound like Daz was a fucking household name.  He had some hit records but he was down with a hot label.  There's artists that were hot in 2005 that nobody is talking about anymore.

I disagree -- Daz was a household name -- Everyone was talking about "Dogg Food" after "Doggystyle" and the soundtracks Death Row were releasing.  How could you forget about "What Would U Do?" didn't that get nominated for a Grammy if I remember? That was one of the sickest songs to ever come out.  There were HUGE tracks on that album like "NY NY" (dissing the East coast -- Daz wasn't on the song but on the video), "Lets Play House," "One By One," "Reality" & "Respect" which Dr. Dre mixed but Daz produced.  After Dr. Dre was out at Tha Row, Suge & Pac were touting Daz as the main producer.  I still remember the interviews were Suge was talking about how Dre wasn't producing the tracks.  Daz's pinnacle accomplishments of his career are the multi-platinum 'Dogg Food' and being credited alongside Johnny J as the main producers behind the "All Eyez On Me" album.  Daz was considered by many in the discussion for #1 producer at one point of his career.  Also, in 1998, to my knowledge of what Suge said "Retaliation, Revenge, and Get Back" is a Gold album.  The album had song solid tracks "In California," "It Might Sound Crazy," etc.  When he got booted off Tha Row in 1999 and took a lot of his tracks and released "R.A.W."...which was a nice underground album.  "Who Ride Wt Us" was a nice record in 1999.  He followed with a couple nice underground albums, and a couple flops.  And then they had the big hit with Jay-Z "Change The Game Remix" which appeared on the DJ Clue album and Tha Dogg Pound "2002" album (which debuted #36 on the Billboard Charts, and debuted #2 on the Billboard Top Independent ALbums.)

You look at his career and they released a half notable song and video "Forever And A Day" and it didn't generate any buzz.  Other than that, as many pointed out -- he's underachieved.

[Hack Wilson - real]

Daz was well known within the rap game


but let's not act like he was 1/3 as known as Snoop was (or is)