Hittman: The TRAGIC Story Of Dr. Dre’s Former Protégé

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Dr. Dre is often regarded to be one of the greatest producers of all time. Throughout his career, he’s had many different proteges. Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Eminem, The Game, and Kendrick Lamar are the more notable ones. Though these people are the most known and went on to achieve massive success others didn’t reach those heights under the tutelage of Dr. Dre.

Bishop Lamont, Jon Connor, Knocturnal, Truth Hurts, and Stat Quo are just some names that never really broke through while they were signed to Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Records. They each have their own stories on the behind-the-scenes situations that affected their career but the most intriguing story in my opinion is what happened to Hitmann.

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[TraceOneInfinite]

Yeah I listened to this and it said he has a 9-5 at Guitar World.  That would be dope to walk into guitar world and have Hittman ring you up.

But it was contradictory because it also said something like he's been eating and collecting millions off of Royalties from Dre's second album all these years especially his writing credits on the Next Episode.

So I'd be curious if he blew his money, because it ain't Dre's fault if artists don't know how to save their money.

Ben Baller had some interesting stuff on the VLAD interview.  He was really tight with Hittman.  He was like Hittman's DJ or something which I don't think Hittman was doing any shows, so I don't know what that means.  But anyway Ben Baller was definitely a part of Aftermath from the very earliest days when they were still under the name Black Market Records (before Brother Lynch Hung denied them access to that name).

Ben was upset at Dre for not paying Hittman more.   I think Dre did more for Hittman than anybody in Hittman's life how can you be mad at Dre?  Hittman had 9 songs on 2001 and yet failed to make an impression with music buyers.  I think the average fan probably doesn't even remember him but they definitely remember Xzibit on "What's The Difference".  Hittman was originally on that song but failed to make a strong impact.

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Yeah I listened to this and it said he has a 9-5 at Guitar World.  That would be dope to walk into guitar world and have Hittman ring you up.

But it was contradictory because it also said something like he's been eating and collecting millions off of Royalties from Dre's second album all these years especially his writing credits on the Next Episode.

So I'd be curious if he blew his money, because it ain't Dre's fault if artists don't know how to save their money.

Ben Baller had some interesting stuff on the VLAD interview.  He was really tight with Hittman.  He was like Hittman's DJ or something which I don't think Hittman was doing any shows, so I don't know what that means.  But anyway Ben Baller was definitely a part of Aftermath from the very earliest days when they were still under the name Black Market Records (before Brother Lynch Hung denied them access to that name).

Ben was upset at Dre for not paying Hittman more.   I think Dre did more for Hittman than anybody in Hittman's life how can you be mad at Dre?  Hittman had 9 songs on 2001 and yet failed to make an impression with music buyers.  I think the average fan probably doesn't even remember him but they definitely remember Xzibit on "What's The Difference".  Hittman was originally on that song but failed to make a strong impact.

The D.O.C. had the same complaint.

The sources for the video are on the YT page.

[www.ClintDogg.com]

That Freestyle Hittman did (link was in the video discerption) is one of the best I've heard!!!! I know its old, but I must of missed that one.

[TraceOneInfinite]

The D.O.C. had the same complaint.

The sources for the video are on the YT page.

You mean the DOC complained about Hittman?  or the DOC complained about Dre.   

(I didn't find a link source for the DOC video talking about Hittman on the Youtube page)

...I feel more sympathy for cats like King Tee.  Because they might have spent a couple years working on a project and recorded a lot of bangers and then Dre just puts their shit on the shelf and it may never came out.  By the way, how were those Raekwon Dre produced joints?  Cause Dre like gave away Raekwon's work back to him for like free and gave him money and more than most labels would when they let an artist go.

...Also some of these cats got advances.  So it might be Dre that actually took the loss and they could've been advanced a couple hundred thousand which is more money than I've ever seen in my life.

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You mean the DOC complained about Hittman?  or the DOC complained about Dre.   

(I didn't find a link source for the DOC video talking about Hittman on the Youtube page)

...I feel more sympathy for cats like King Tee.  Because they might have spent a couple years working on a project and recorded a lot of bangers and then Dre just puts their shit on the shelf and it may never came out.  By the way, how were those Raekwon Dre produced joints?  Cause Dre like gave away Raekwon's work back to him for like free and gave him money and more than most labels would when they let an artist go.

...Also some of these cats got advances.  So it might be Dre that actually took the loss and they could've been advanced a couple hundred thousand which is more money than I've ever seen in my life.

The DOC complained about money from Dre.

[Rubinho]

I liked Hittman so much on 2001. Still can't believe how they didn't manage to make him the next big thing.

[Hittman2001]

I liked Hittman so much on 2001. Still can't believe how they didn't manage to make him the next big thing.

I was a big fan...hence the user name.  He had some good stuff leak, but looking back he just didn't have the "It" factor. 

[Dwax-187]

I was a big fan...hence the user name.  He had some good stuff leak, but looking back he just didn't have the "It" factor.

I remember the Last Dayz track after the forgot about dre video.  That was dope.

But yea, he didnt have that memorable IT factor…

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The Murder Weapon was a classic

Hittman had that King T vocal tone and overall style

probably not super marketable in that era .. and that’s probably why it didn’t come out on Aftermath

but can’t deny the music

[WCThang]

Not all the info accurate because Knoc-turn'al was never signed to Aftermath. I'm surprised Hittman didn't blow. Not sure if true, but I remember reading Dre wanted to make his solo album sound like "2001" and Hittman wanted to go in a totally different direction.

Not sure if true.

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Not all the info accurate because Knoc-turn'al was never signed to Aftermath. I'm surprised Hittman didn't blow. Not sure if true, but I remember reading Dre wanted to make his solo album sound like "2001" and Hittman wanted to go in a totally different direction.

Not sure if true.

doubt that’s true

murder weapon was complete and did have the 2001 sound

just never ended up dropping on aftermath

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doubt that’s true

murder weapon was complete and did have the 2001 sound

just never ended up dropping on aftermath

Did we have a confirmed tracklist for Murder Weapon? I'd love to see what that looked like.

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Did we have a confirmed tracklist for Murder Weapon? I'd love to see what that looked like.

yea .. it ended up dropping with a different title


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