suge helped executive produce biggies ready to die ?

[Sccit]

yea, biggie really was jockin the west hardcore...duno if he woulda been as big witout the g-funk influence in his early music

that was against his will though, he really didn't like the g-funk sound, he hated the mtume sample for juicy and the isley brothers sample for big poppa. it was Puffy's direction to make him spit over g-funkish beats. and apart from those cuts ready to die doesn't really sound g-funk. as far as spitting his style was east coast lyricism at its finest.

g-funk was the sound of the day, just like crunk was in the mid 00's and had everybody copyin' it. it was fresh & innovative and everybody was dabbling in it, from Cash Money to Bad Boy.. you had the mainstream labels like Bad Boy & so So Def who didn't do it very industriously but still put out solid singles. Da B Side is a masterpiece. and you had other legendary labels who were serious about it and put out countless underground g-funk classic albums and developed their own styles : Rap-a-Lot, Suave House, etc.

yea, it was obvious that cats like puffy, jd, etc. were behind it