Collect Call With Suge Knight, Episode 20: Dre Day (HE SMOKES ON HIM GOOD!)

[Soopafly DPGC]

drake is not a gangsta rapper and he’s the biggest thing in rap

kendrick lamar made a critically acclaimed poetry style album about his real life relationships and he’s on top of the game

this idea that people only wana hear gangsta rap and hyper masculine shit is a cop out .. especially in this soft ass era that we in

My point exactly, so it has zero to do with race or not being 'pushed', as these guys are obviously supported.  This example proved my point, thank you.  Now when they are 60, we'll see if they are still making content that the majority of people care about to keep them invested in their music. 

[Sccit]

My point exactly, so it has zero to do with race or not being 'pushed', as these guys are obviously supported.  This example proved my point, thank you.  Now when they are 60, we'll see if they are still making content that the majority of people care about to keep them invested in their music.

 

[shmosh]

old school r&b does not get support lol

if SWV dropped an album today it wouldn’t even chart

what old school soul artist still droppin hits??

any OG reggae artists still doin numbers? The Wailers just played the same venue as RBX 🤦‍♂️

Oh I meant they're still popular, doesn't mean they're charting to be fair, but I take your point

[TraceOneInfinite]

It’s a good discussion—I don’t think anyone will win because both are right.

Sccit is right that it doesn’t make sense that older rap artists can’t get the same support as white artists.  Soopafly has a point that maybe the hood music doesn’t play out quite so well at older ages. 

But Sccit mentioned the RBX album—my brother is like your average American guy, sells insurance, watches TV, has a couple dogs and cats and a wife, supports the local team.  When everyone was into NWA and the Chronic he even had an Eazy E album in his tape deck and him and his friends would recite some of the more comical parts of the album and whatnot—-but dude doesn’t know who the fuck RBX is.  He knows “G Thang” and he was even the one that told me it was Ice Cube coming out the bathroom with the hoes on “Let Me Ride”.  But again, doesn’t know who the fucc RBX is.  I ordered the new album to his house since I don’t live in america anymore — and told him how it’s a big deal cause my homies did an album with RBX he’s like “who’s that?” 

But I guarantee you he knows all those middle of the road white artists that are 60 years old and come around to tour and him and his wife went out to the shows.  They even went to an Orchestra performance of Dre’s Chronic album—but yet again, don’t know who RBX is.

So yeah Sccit has a point it’s up to the black community to support, but white population is larger in US.  Sometimes those artists can get more love in Europe, I went to a Jeru the Damaja show in Netherlands back in 2017.  He got love over there from all white fans, ironic when you consider most his lyrics are black empowerment and borderline racist to whites.

[soopa-man]

I went to the Dre 2001 Orchestra in LA, the crowd was relatively my age and a bit of 20 something’s surprisingly but it was more focused on the 2001 album and truly nothing from the original Chronics album.  The other thing that was really interesting is the MC of the night was a Asian or Pacific Islander kid so he couldn’t use the N word what so ever out if respect and it was smart not to as well… He was also in his mid 20s also and did his thing … crowd was older and was not hype in the least bit .very small venue and they asked some not to smoke so much weed which was odd too

The Chronic Iced Tea drink was coo too and I bought I shirt to support but truly different the leading Maestro was a black dude with a heavy accent out of London/Uk not sure so they were influenced from outside the US he said…


But compared to the Dre Day show in echo park very quiet crowd … I mean shit for me and my lady to be the louder ones is wild to me cuz we chill and enjoy our drinks and smoke our weed and go home it was the same crowd at Scarface show in Garden Grove very dope performance crowd was lazy except when Face ran in the floor and started pushing and moving us which was dope of him to do he was amazing that night best small venue show until DJ Quik same venue the following weekend dude had that shit packed ….