Snoop - Over The Counter - pre-Doggystyle album??

[TraceOneInfinite]

3 of the tracks 'leaked' on 2005 on this release:

http://www.discogs.com/Foesum-The-Lost-Tapez/release/1936839

187 'It's On' was left of the Deep Cover OST (The track name is actually printed on the side of the retail Cassette), so it's pre Chronic. It leaked in 98 or before on a site called the Foeground I believe.

Do U Remember is a radio rip that features Charlie Wilson so it's circa 1996.

'Let 'Em Understand Perfection' has been around for a long long time online. Then it got added to a reissue of Foesums first album as a bonus track in '02.

good work homie... especially that bit about 187 being printed on the retail cassette.  Does a high quality, mastered version exist anywhere?

[Will_B]

good work homie... especially that bit about 187 being printed on the retail cassette.  Does a high quality, mastered version exist anywhere?

I remember a story bout someone getting an engineer to play some stuff to them back in the day, and recording from the studio speakers with a mic to cassette

Dunno how true,  but a decent cassette recording should exist somewhere, and better will be in the vaults like everything else

[dnjp4life]

Supposedly contains:
1. 187
2. Country Blues
3. Do You Remember
4. Let Em' Understand
5. The Message
6. True To The Game

None of the other rumoured tracks ever leaked.

All the above songs can be found on youtube as well for anyone interested.  Take a listen and tell me those tracks don't sound like something Snoop recorded pre-Doggystyle.  By the way, "County Blues" ended up on the Dead Man Walking Album.  But on Dead Man Walking there is a reference to TLC "Creep", but the Over the Counter version didn't seem to have that reference....

'The Message', 'County Blues' and 'True To The Game' were all recorded before Doggystyle.  You can tell by Snoop's slightly higher voice and the fact that they are clealy demo tracks made with DJ Glaze who was I think a part of Foesum who Snoop was associated with before signing with Death Row Records. 

I would go so far as to say that 'County Blues' in particular might even date from the late '80s considering the beat is from Low Profile's (WC and DJ Aladdin) album that was released in 1988, and would have been a popular beat to freestyle over at the time.