Kurupt was originally on "Area Codes" with Nate and Luda

[TraceOneInfinite]

Too bad... I've never liked Ludacris much for some reason.  He's not the worst guy or artist and he's always showed love to Dre/Snoop/DPG affiliates...

...but that could've been a HUGE song for Kurupt.  Imagine Space Boogie, as many Fred Wreck bangers as that album had, and coming out pre-G Unit era when record sales were still popping and Nate Dogg was on that unbelievable run of features, at the height of the dubcc, and still within the West Coast resurgence era.

Kurupt could have led off Space Boogie with "Area Codes" that could've broken Kurupt mainstream for the first and only time.  I feel like Dogg Pound (Daz and Kurupt) was never really mainstream anymore than you could say D12 was mainstream because I believe Dogg Food and D12 went double platinum because fans looked at it as "Snoops Group" and "Eminem's Group"

Not die hard fans like us but regular people still don't know who Kurupt is

[Sccit]

[HighEyeCue]

it might have something to do with his beef with DMX at that time period and Def Jam removing him from the track...whatever the case I agree it would have been a great look for Kurupt...I don't mind Luda but in small doses, I never could get through a whole album of his

[.:Hercy Buggz:.]

Compared to the interviews from last year, this is night and day! He got his energy back!

[WCThang]

Crazy story I did not see coming lol

[Sccit]

it might have something to do with his beef with DMX at that time period and Def Jam removing him from the track...whatever the case I agree it would have been a great look for Kurupt...I don't mind Luda but in small doses, I never could get through a whole album of his

either that or he just rhymed bitch with bitch 30 times and while rapping about pterodactyls and mussolini