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To this day, I still have no idea why Kurupt and Dre never did an album together. I think this is what Kurupt needed. He needed some structure. Kurupt needed someone to tell him "say it like this", "write it like this", "change your delivery like this" etc etc. A Kurupt album, produced by Dre would have been classic.
Quote from: LAC/EASTSIDE on November 15, 2014, 10:44:42 PMTo this day, I still have no idea why Kurupt and Dre never did an album together. I think this is what Kurupt needed. He needed some structure. Kurupt needed someone to tell him "say it like this", "write it like this", "change your delivery like this" etc etc. A Kurupt album, produced by Dre would have been classic. Well.. if your looking for that then just listen to the Dogg Food album. Dre was around for that album, I think he mixed damn near every track, so we know it was up to Dre's standard of approval. Because I totally agree. Kurupt is far from a perfectionist. He was even on Rap City back in the 90's saying that he would argue with Daz because Daz would keep wanting to go back in and change stuff and Kurupt would be like "man, just drop that shit it's dope". Kurupt gets sloppy much too easy. He got to be the CEO when he made the Kuruption album, and he had the attention of the music world at the time and yet he just rushed out some shit. It made it look cheap that later he had to go back and add the Warren G track and "Questions" without it being written on the album. Like someone else said, the album had its highlights but it definitely had its lowlights and with a little bit of tweaking some of the average tracks could've been bangers.On Streetz Is A Mutha he made a bit of a comeback and came with a more polished album.
Kurupt got in the habit of freestyling a lot of his verses...and thinking they were dopeeven on "Streetz" you could tell that it wasn't the old Kurupt on most tracks...the album is carried by the production and guest spots like Crooked I, Roscoe, Xzibit etc.he did murder "Trylogy" though
Quote from: LAC/EASTSIDE on November 15, 2014, 10:44:42 PMTo this day, I still have no idea why Kurupt and Dre never did an album together. I think this is what Kurupt needed. He needed some structure. Kurupt needed someone to tell him "say it like this", "write it like this", "change your delivery like this" etc etc. A Kurupt album, produced by Dre would have been classic. real spit
Quote from: Infinite African Westcoastin 2014 on November 17, 2014, 06:01:08 PMQuote from: LAC/EASTSIDE on November 15, 2014, 10:44:42 PMTo this day, I still have no idea why Kurupt and Dre never did an album together. I think this is what Kurupt needed. He needed some structure. Kurupt needed someone to tell him "say it like this", "write it like this", "change your delivery like this" etc etc. A Kurupt album, produced by Dre would have been classic. Well.. if your looking for that then just listen to the Dogg Food album. Dre was around for that album, I think he mixed damn near every track, so we know it was up to Dre's standard of approval. Because I totally agree. Kurupt is far from a perfectionist. He was even on Rap City back in the 90's saying that he would argue with Daz because Daz would keep wanting to go back in and change stuff and Kurupt would be like "man, just drop that shit it's dope". Kurupt gets sloppy much too easy. He got to be the CEO when he made the Kuruption album, and he had the attention of the music world at the time and yet he just rushed out some shit. It made it look cheap that later he had to go back and add the Warren G track and "Questions" without it being written on the album. Like someone else said, the album had its highlights but it definitely had its lowlights and with a little bit of tweaking some of the average tracks could've been bangers.On Streetz Is A Mutha he made a bit of a comeback and came with a more polished album. Kurupt got in the habit of freestyling a lot of his verses...and thinking they were dopeeven on "Streetz" you could tell that it wasn't the old Kurupt on most tracks...the album is carried by the production and guest spots like Crooked I, Roscoe, Xzibit etc.he did murder "Trylogy" though
To be fair you're probably expecting too much for a battle rapper to make an album that's *that* much better than Kuruption and Streetz turned out.
Quote from: Infinite African Westcoastin 2014 on November 17, 2014, 06:01:08 PMQuote from: LAC/EASTSIDE on November 15, 2014, 10:44:42 PMTo this day, I still have no idea why Kurupt and Dre never did an album together. I think this is what Kurupt needed. He needed some structure. Kurupt needed someone to tell him "say it like this", "write it like this", "change your delivery like this" etc etc. A Kurupt album, produced by Dre would have been classic. Well.. if your looking for that then just listen to the Dogg Food album. Dre was around for that album, I think he mixed damn near every track, so we know it was up to Dre's standard of approval. Because I totally agree. Kurupt is far from a perfectionist. He was even on Rap City back in the 90's saying that he would argue with Daz because Daz would keep wanting to go back in and change stuff and Kurupt would be like "man, just drop that shit it's dope". Kurupt gets sloppy much too easy. He got to be the CEO when he made the Kuruption album, and he had the attention of the music world at the time and yet he just rushed out some shit. It made it look cheap that later he had to go back and add the Warren G track and "Questions" without it being written on the album. Like someone else said, the album had its highlights but it definitely had its lowlights and with a little bit of tweaking some of the average tracks could've been bangers.On Streetz Is A Mutha he made a bit of a comeback and came with a more polished album. Dre did mix it but he didn't dedicate his whole time to it. Even though Dogg Food is a classic, you can tell the difference when you hear the Chronic and Doggystyle, compared to DF. There was still time for Dre and Kurupt to get in together though. Kurupt's Solo debut should have been produced entirely by Dre.
Quote from: LAC/EASTSIDE on November 17, 2014, 11:47:43 PMQuote from: Do Buy Albums on November 17, 2014, 11:28:09 PMTo be fair you're probably expecting too much for a battle rapper to make an album that's *that* much better than Kuruption and Streetz turned out.If Dre were to be involved, there would be no such thing as expecting too much. If Dre were involved, and Kurupt had a solo round 98/99 we'd have probably never had 2001
Quote from: Do Buy Albums on November 17, 2014, 11:28:09 PMTo be fair you're probably expecting too much for a battle rapper to make an album that's *that* much better than Kuruption and Streetz turned out.If Dre were to be involved, there would be no such thing as expecting too much.
I think those 2 albums are generally underrated, but still. Kurupt is limited in content in a way I really don't think he could ever have released a 'great' solo album unless it was like Doggystyle. Amazing production and loaded with features
Yeah end of the day Snoop had a shot and the crown and is still eating off it today. He even trickles some $$ down to his camp in thanks for making him what he became
Quote from: LAC/EASTSIDE on November 17, 2014, 11:10:16 PMQuote from: Infinite African Westcoastin 2014 on November 17, 2014, 06:01:08 PMQuote from: LAC/EASTSIDE on November 15, 2014, 10:44:42 PMTo this day, I still have no idea why Kurupt and Dre never did an album together. I think this is what Kurupt needed. He needed some structure. Kurupt needed someone to tell him "say it like this", "write it like this", "change your delivery like this" etc etc. A Kurupt album, produced by Dre would have been classic. Well.. if your looking for that then just listen to the Dogg Food album. Dre was around for that album, I think he mixed damn near every track, so we know it was up to Dre's standard of approval. Because I totally agree. Kurupt is far from a perfectionist. He was even on Rap City back in the 90's saying that he would argue with Daz because Daz would keep wanting to go back in and change stuff and Kurupt would be like "man, just drop that shit it's dope". Kurupt gets sloppy much too easy. He got to be the CEO when he made the Kuruption album, and he had the attention of the music world at the time and yet he just rushed out some shit. It made it look cheap that later he had to go back and add the Warren G track and "Questions" without it being written on the album. Like someone else said, the album had its highlights but it definitely had its lowlights and with a little bit of tweaking some of the average tracks could've been bangers.On Streetz Is A Mutha he made a bit of a comeback and came with a more polished album. Dre did mix it but he didn't dedicate his whole time to it. Even though Dogg Food is a classic, you can tell the difference when you hear the Chronic and Doggystyle, compared to DF. There was still time for Dre and Kurupt to get in together though. Kurupt's Solo debut should have been produced entirely by Dre. dre ghost-produced a good portion of "dogg food", thats indisputable.