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Wideawake tried, but the fans didn't support, ain't no.company gonna waste resources on that again.
Quote from: dubsmith_nz on July 19, 2013, 03:19:59 PM Wideawake tried, but the fans didn't support, ain't no.company gonna waste resources on that again. I wouldn't say they tried. There were quality control issues that were noticeable from that first Snoop Dogg release. I don't think they could have gotten by, just on unreleased music alone anyway and it seemed silly to try when they own the rights to a very profitable catalog of already-established music.
I'd imagine it will just result in a re-distribution of catalog titles.
How did they not try? Released a lot of unreleased material including albums from Crooked, Danny Boy, OFTB, Jewell, Sam Sneed. Unreleased songs from Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound, reissued Chronic with a bonus DVD and disc. Quality aside (we don't know what they were working with or how much capital they had to invest) the demand simply wasn't their.Apart from releasing bullshit compilations of previously released material (which Suge had already done multiple times) there is really nothing they could have done. The damand was never higher enough to make their investment profitable, and using web forums as a barometer for demand is never going to work.
Quote from: Jimmy H. on July 18, 2013, 10:19:24 AMI'd imagine it will just result in a re-distribution of catalog titles. Exactly what I'm thinking. Another retelease of The Chronic or a Death Row's greatest hits.
They released far too many and solidified their position as a professional bootlegging company rather than the holders of a valuable catalog
Chronic - Re-lit - Reissue this with bonus songs that can play in the car stereoDoggystyle - Reissue with bonus songs - "G'z up, Hoes down" & "The Next Episode"Above the Rim SDT - Reissue with bonus songs: "Pain" & "Loyal to the Game" Murder Was the Case - Reissue with bonus songsDogg Food - Reissue with bonus song: "U Can't C Me"So on, and so on. That's the better way to do it. Make the re-issue of the existing catalog worthwhile to pick up again. At least it keeps money coming in, and gives them the time they need to plan and work out deals with disgruntled artists and former employee's that could help with their "unreleased" content, and actually label the work correctly so that when the unreleased albums were to come out, they'd be labelled correctly, and they'd have some money to make them sound like proper albums.