It's August 22, 2025, 03:58:52 AM
the 1 on light speed was added later
Yup it sure was, cause it originally said Chronic 2000 before all that stuff with Suge popped off, so they added the ONE in there.
That line I caught, but I didn't take it as a Will Smith diss. I suppose it depends on the intent behind it, and the relationship between Will Smith and the Dogg Pound. I've never heard either side speak on anything, but my guess is they probably hung out at some parties together and they are at the awards shows together so they are probably cool with each other. But could be. Remember, Will Smith blew up that summer with all those shitty pop songs like "Miama" (which I think Nas wrote for him) and of course "Gettin Jiggy With It" a painful song they never stopped playing. But I did like the summer 98' hit video "Just the Two of Us". The line:One day some girl's gonna break your heart son/Ain't no pain like the opposite sex/but don't take it out on the next one" Too bad I didn't heed that advice, because I started acting like a dickhead to all girls after my first heartbreak and couldn't even get laid in my physical prime of age 19—I still marvel at the fact I went the entire age 19 without getting laid once. But Will Smith's son ended up even worse than me... that dude fantasizing about Tyler the Creator these days, smh
yeah I think Nas was in the studio for several sessions of "Big Willie Style" and wound up contributing to multiple songs....it could be that Will was just guilty by association when it came to Kurupts diss as he was going hard at Nas during that period...it also could be just the "jiggy" era that Will helped usher in, which also Bad Boy was a part of
gave the East disc another shot yesterday...unfortunately nothing has changedLight Shit Up - nice beat by Easy Mo Bee and Buckshot has always been a favorite of mineWe Can Freak It Out - dope track with Nore probably my favorite track on this side Game - dope beat by D-Moet and Kurupt flows over it wellThe Life - another D-Moet production nice mellow track with Kurupt and Drex trading rhymes about their days in Phillythe rest range from ehh to pretty trash the thing that gets me though is how an artist the artist the caliber of Kurupt could not get a beat from a Pete Rock or Premier
east disc is his worst shit to date
I never cared much for the Death Row version of ATG either but its better than this
Against the Grain isn't even listenable. You can listen to the East Coast disc, because he got offered beats but all the top producers on the East Coast around that rhyme. It's just hubris that he didn't put in effort to master the lyrics and songs, and clearly the magic was gone from Dogg Food where he was coming up with lyrics on every track that were both harder than any shit on the market and also more lyrical than anything on the market. Suge, Dre, and Snoop had a fucking battery in his back that made him a genius in those days.East Coast Disc > Against the Grain
i gota revisit the death row version of against the grain .. the dpg records version was definitely > east coast disc
it had some bangers...the production by Mark Sparks was solidthe OG version with the diss tracks that Death Row later leaked was doper than the actual retail thoughbut the DPG version was the best one..."I Keep Tryin" was my joint, first heard on a D-Shot comp album in '98
yeah this joint is kind of dope, but I'm not really aware of different versions of Against the Grain, I just know whatever the shit was that I heard, I quickly just said Kurupt don't have it anymore, and didn't really investigate more deeply than that.
It was an EP after Kurupt and Daz squashed their beef…it contained mostly diss tracks that were left off the retail and another slower R&B flavored song featuring Danny Boyhttps://www.discogs.com/release/7253388-Kurupt-Against-Tha-Grain-Tha-EP
In Europa Tha Streetz Iz A Mutha.. Was Censored Clean Version.Thats No. 1 Big Ass L TakenOtherwise Better Than Kuruption.
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