Gridlocked or Gang Related? And who Daz diss in "Don't Play Me Homie"?

[TraceOneInfinite]

Death Row was in a tailspin after 2pac died.  Even though Dre had left and had kind of came up short with his first couple Aftermath projects, Snoop went into a sophmore slump with tha Doggfather, Kurupt fell in love with Foxxy and was losing his hunger, of course Suge was in jail, a lot of shit being mishandled...

...but that said, Daz was the one person at Death Row who was still left standing after all the chips fell.  The Gridlocked project was dope and he really brought some heat with a solo cut "Don't Try To Play Me Homie".  The beat was actually pretty simple and not as stellar as all of Daz other production at the time, but he comes hard as fuck on that track.  He's dissin somebody on that cut, not really sure who, maybe SwoopG or somebody of that status...

Gridlocked wasn't that bad on the whole.  I thought Gang Related was kind of a sloppy project, but Gridlocked was much better.  Here's some highlights from Gridlocked...

-Nate had a banger on there with "Why", some say it was a Pac dedication.

-Danny Boy had a nice little love song with "I Can't Get Enough".  

-One of Rage's better tracks is on there.  

-They fucked up and put the wack version of "Lady Heroin" on there, there is a different version out there that is a real quality track.  

-"Never Had A Friend Like Me" is a dope 2pac joint.  When the album dropped I was 14 and thought the song was a metaphor for cigarettes, lol.. some say the track is about Suge.  Suge went to Pac when he was in jail and basically said the words Pac spits in the chorus.  

-The Snoop and Pac joint was a little bit subpar but it was still Snoop and Pac, nough said.  

-"Out The Moon" is an excellent posse cut, Tray Dee really shines, and interesting to see Pac get down with Snoop's crew.  

[adi760]

2 Dope soundtracks, Gang Related is more dark, melancholic. Way Too Major was a fuckin bomb, Daz did agreat job. But for me Gridlock'd is much better - Wanted Dead or Alive and Rages songs killed everything.

[TraceOneInfinite]

2 Dope soundtracks, Gang Related is more dark, melancholic. Way Too Major was a fuckin bomb, Daz did agreat job. But for me Gridlock'd is much better - Wanted Dead or Alive and Rages songs killed everything.

Exactly, "Way Too Major" was the fuckin bomb.. Daz was on fire at the time and him and Tray Dee make a great team.   Also 2pac and the Outlawz joint on Gang Related is one of the hardest and best 2pac/Outlawz songs, nice video as well.   But after that I really thought the Gridlocked album had a lot of filler.  I mean why the double album?  It wasn't really appropriate and it was like the first Death Row album to not go platinum.

[V2DHeart]

Some songs that were supposed to appear on there ended up on Gang Related anyway. Never Had a friend like me was incomplete and 2Pac had too much creative control on that one. It could have been better

[o g s u e s o n e]

Imagine Gang Related would be a one-disc release and this would be the tracklist:

01. Way Too Major - Daz Dillinger, Tray Deee
02. These Days - Nate Dogg, Daz Dillinger
03. Made Niggaz - 2Pac, Outlawz
04. What's Ya Fantasy - Daz Dillinger, Outlawz
05. Life's So Hard - 2Pac
06. A Change To Come - J-Flexx, Tenkamenin a.o.
07. Gang Related - Daz Dillinger, WC, CJ Mac, Tray Deee
08. Lost Souls - 2Pac, Outlawz
09. Mash For Our Dreams - Daz Dillinger, Storm, Young Noble
10. Loc'd Out Hood - Kurupt
11. Staring Through My Rear View - 2Pac, Outlawz
12. Free'em All - J. Flexx, Tenkamenin
13. Hollywood Bank Robbery - The Gang

 

[Okka]

Daz was talkin' about Swoop G on "Don't Try To Play Me Homey".

[Shango]

I like Gang Related more

[donfathaimmortal]

According to DR producer Kurt Kobane, 2Pac wrote "Never Had A Friend Like" after Suge save his life when 2Pac was parasailling. 2Pac didn't know how to swim and Suge jumped out the boat for save him (2Pac ws unconscious).

[HighEyeCue]

Exactly, "Way Too Major" was the fuckin bomb.. Daz was on fire at the time and him and Tray Dee make a great team.   Also 2pac and the Outlawz joint on Gang Related is one of the hardest and best 2pac/Outlawz songs, nice video as well.   But after that I really thought the Gridlocked album had a lot of filler.  I mean why the double album?  It wasn't really appropriate and it was like the first Death Row album to not go platinum.

it went 2x platinun..1 million copies since it was a double album

[doggfather]

I like Gang Related more

[JeremyM]

Gridlock'd only went gold, Gang Related went platinum. I think the poster got them mixed up a bit.

[V2DHeart]

Imagine Gang Related would be a one-disc release and this would be the tracklist:

01. Way Too Major - Daz Dillinger, Tray Deee
02. These Days - Nate Dogg, Daz Dillinger
03. Made Niggaz - 2Pac, Outlawz
04. What's Ya Fantasy - Daz Dillinger, Outlawz
05. Life's So Hard - 2Pac
06. A Change To Come - J-Flexx, Tenkamenin a.o.
07. Gang Related - Daz Dillinger, WC, CJ Mac, Tray Deee
08. Lost Souls - 2Pac, Outlawz
09. Mash For Our Dreams - Daz Dillinger, Storm, Young Noble
10. Loc'd Out Hood - Kurupt
11. Staring Through My Rear View - 2Pac, Outlawz
12. Free'em All - J. Flexx, Tenkamenin
13. Hollywood Bank Robbery - The Gang

 

If Tenkamenin never done an outro to that song, you would have never seen "Tha Realest". I can remember back then everyone thinking it was 2Pac on the outro

[o g s u e s o n e]

True, everybody was confused about Tenkamenin back then. But you also had "FreeŽem all" where you can hear the difference.
And donŽt forget Y.G.D on the bonus cut.

[kuruptDPG]

Daz was talkin' about Swoop G on "Don't Try To Play Me Homey".

i thought it was bad azz...thats why bad azz nevr had daz on word on the streets

-The Snoop and Pac joint was a little bit subpar but it was still Snoop and Pac, nough said. 

-"Out The Moon" is an excellent posse cut, Tray Dee really shines, and interesting to see Pac get down with Snoop's crew. 

did snoop and pac record the song togethr or was snoop added on it later?

out the moon - wasnt pacs verse added from anothr song?

[Okka]

Daz was talkin' about Swoop G on "Don't Try To Play Me Homey".

i thought it was bad azz...thats why bad azz nevr had daz on word on the streets

No. Bad Azz talked about their little beef in his interview with DubCNN though.

out the moon - wasnt pacs verse added from anothr song?

He wasn't on the original version. Not sure if his verse was from another song though.