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He can't even sell his own stuff, how is he going to have a label?It's probably not a good idea to sign to someone who can't sell their own records, and expect them to make you successfulThis is exactly what happened the first time around with Doggystyle, all the other artists were pissed because they sat behind the curtain
Quote from: love33 on April 08, 2017, 08:39:26 PMHe can't even sell his own stuff, how is he going to have a label?It's probably not a good idea to sign to someone who can't sell their own records, and expect them to make you successfulThis is exactly what happened the first time around with Doggystyle, all the other artists were pissed because they sat behind the curtainFunny how you overhype all these old Death Row artists who never even put out albums because they might have had a one-sentence mention in an old Souce magazine article from 15+ years ago and a video that might have got played once or twice on BET at 2 am in the morning yet now, you're gonna shit on the biggest home grown artist that Death Row ever had who is still a major household name.
I know you do realize Death Row sold over 100 million records worldwide?
You're comparing the Great historical Death Row empire to Snoop's little science experiment.
Having a video on Death Row is like playing for the Lakers, even if you sit the bench, you still have claim that you were on the industry's biggest label of the 90's.
I'm all cool with Snoop making great music, and I hope his artists can eat -- but he's failed over and over with the CEO hat (it's like Michael Jordan and the Charlotte Bobcats, just can't get the job done).
A ton of his artists said he only cared about marketing his own stuff and looked at them as bread crumbs and never got the push.
This is where you need to stop sipping the cool-aid and pay attention to the context. During the time period where Snoop’s “little science experiment” was active, it was outselling the “Great historical Death Row empire”. You’re so full of hyperbolic bullshit statements when you talk about Death Row yet you don’t acknowledge the real when it comes to how well the opposition was doing. You’ll talk about one gold album that Death Row put out and try to spin any time one of their artists working with an actual mainstream artist as some MAJOR move yet you’ll downplay what Snoop was actually doing. Granted, the label [Doggystyle Records] wasn’t the biggest one in the game at the time but their sales figures, radio plays, media appearances, and so forth were crushing Death Row.
This is where you're BADLY MISTAKEN -- 2Pac alone with "Until The End of Time" and "Better Dayz" were #1 Best Sellers and DESTROYED anything on Snoop's little label
Snoop's best Doggystyle non-Snoop album by Far without Master P doing all the work and overseeing production, was Tha Eastsidaz album -- "G'd Up" was a great song and "Got Beef" was okay.
Death Row's "House of Blues" album and "Nu Mixx" album were better than ANYTHING and outsold past Eastsidaz.
Soopafly's BEST WORK was done on Death Row "Dat Whoopty Whoop" album
You have to be kidding me if you can say with a straight face that Snoop, who was a great artist but terrible CEO, had anything on Suge Knight's EMPIRE that ran the whole entire West Coast.
Look at today's game, nobody even comes close to Death Row's success except for Cash Money Records, who has been the top label in recent years
Kxng Crooked talks about it over and over again...at his shows, in interviews, etc. that being on Death Row is something of a whole nother level, he even did an ALBUM about it ("Life After Death Row")
Death Row ran MTV in the 90s, Snoop was a part of that success. Snoop on his own had one good album "Eastsidaz".
Death Row had a superstar cabinet of talent -- 2Pac and N.I.N.A. alone are better than ANYTHING on Snoop's label.
-- what you're saying with Snoop is like saying ANTRA Records was better than Death Row -- that's laughable
-- then you throw in Kurupt, Crooked I, Eastwood, Danny Boy, and Ray J and it's game over.
Ray J was never signed to Death Row.
2Pac wasn’t an active artist on the new Row label. He was an artist who died so they used his music whenever they could.
N.I.N.A. was a talented artist as Left Eye in TLC but as a solo artist on Death Row, she released maybe two songs.
None of those artists even put out an album on Death Row, besides Kurupt, who was already off the label by the time that it ended up in stores.