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Quote from: JonnyTanna on February 05, 2016, 07:36:12 PMEven at the time of reading that interview I felt that was the beginning of the end of good music. 2pac died and puffy capitalised and ruined music. Dre had no idea how much this decision would affect the future of musicI can vividly remember reading this magazine when it came out summer of 96', and I felt the complete opposite. I felt really hopeful at the time of all the possibilities. And even Dre was expecting that Death Row would still be strong. I figured with Daz producing, with Pac, with Snoop, that Death Row would still be all right. That Dre would go on to be a huge success with all his new ideas and hip-hop would just keep getting better and better as it had up to that point...Of course I was wrong for being so naive. A couple months later Pac died, aside from "East/West Killa" Dre's album was lackluster, a month or so after that Snoop dropped a brick, and then finally Suge ended up behind a prison wall and this all happened before the end of 96! Then shit really got fucked up in 97' with Bad Boy and No Limit filling the void... Which basically destroyed what remained of the happiness I'd always experienced growing up... but I digress...
Even at the time of reading that interview I felt that was the beginning of the end of good music. 2pac died and puffy capitalised and ruined music. Dre had no idea how much this decision would affect the future of music
Yeah 96 was a terrible year for the West Coast Hip-Hop scene. The scary part it, had Dre just stuck around for a few more months, he would've had a Death Row records with no Pac or Suge and could've resumed business with Snoop, Tha Dogg Pound, Nate Dogg, and Rage.
Quote from: GangstaBoogy on February 06, 2016, 12:09:18 PMYeah 96 was a terrible year for the West Coast Hip-Hop scene. The scary part it, had Dre just stuck around for a few more months, he would've had a Death Row records with no Pac or Suge and could've resumed business with Snoop, Tha Dogg Pound, Nate Dogg, and Rage. What an interesting point, I'd never considered that aspect. I wonder what direction Dre would have taken DR in with him being solo at the helm? At the bare minimum Snoop wouldn't have dropped a brick and we might have seen some of those shelved projects. On the other hand Dre might have spent the next 10 years polishing one beat and leaving his artists on the shelf as well..