I thought Dre was really a hardcore gangsta in 93'

[TraceOneInfinite]

I thought the songs "Rat-tat-tat-tat" and "Nicca Wit A Gun" were real back in 1993.  So, I thought Dre was an even bigger gangsta than Snoop Dogg.  You all add to my list, but I'm going to title this:

FUNNY THINGS YOU THOUGHT BACK WHEN YOU FIRST HEARD RAP:

--  I thought Snoop and Dre were a rap group like EPMD. When "Let Me Ride" came out I was confused why Snoop only had one line.  And when "Who Am I" came out I was confused why Dre only had one line.

-- That when Dre rapped on Chronic "I sit back relax/ do a job / then jet" I took it literally that he was really a killer and came out of the alley, shot people, and then went back into hiding.  I didn't know he was 50/50 owner of a record label and just a producer that didn't write his lyrics.

-- That Snoop was actually a good guy and didn't smoke weed, and just lied and said he did for publicity (cause we thought drugs were bad D.A.R.E. program told us smoking weed causes brain damage

--  I thought the "Today Was a Good Day" video was a documentary.  I really thought Cube lived that life everyday in 93' just like the music video.

--  I thought that Daz and Kurupt were just like gangstaz who Snoop hung out with in the alleys in the hood like the "Who Am I" video.  I didn't even think of them as rappers, just like as if Snoop was letting his homiez rap on tracks as a way of "giving back to the hood". 

--  I thought the Dogg Pound was Snoop's group and the reason Snoop's sound had changed on "Big Pimpin" was because he was rich now from Doggystyle so he wasn't making any angry/aggressive music anymore he was just Pimpin Hoes.  And I didn't even know what a Pimp actually did I thought a Pimp was just a guy who slept with a lot of girls, and in school if you had been lucky enough to kiss multiple girls (going to first base) your classmates would call you a pimp' in 93

-- I thought Snoop was actually rapping on "Recognize".  I told my friend when G Funk Era first came out--"The best song is the Snoop song Recognize".  I didn't know it was just a sample.  I knew it was the same line from "Doggy Dogg World" but I thought he was actually rapping it in the studio with Warren G and helped Warren with the beat and the song.

-- I thought the Chronic had less liner notes than Doggystyle because Dre wasn't as creative as Snoop because he was just more into killing people, and Snoop was more of a humanitarian

-- I thought Snoop was really shy in the "Dre Day" video because he was just like some dude from the streets and didn't really care that much about rapping, that he would rather just be out hanging in back alleys and digging out of trash cans like Heithcliff the cartoon cat

-- I thought that the "Doggy Dogg World" video was like some old video from like before Snoop was famous, but I was really confused cause the song was also on Doggystyle. 

-- I was scared to listen to NWA on the back of the bus in 5th grade because it had the N-word in their name so I didn't listen.  I also didn't buy 2pac's album in 6th grade because it said it was Strictly for blacks, lol

[Sccit]

i thought dr dre concrete roots was a real album when i saw it at tower records and bought it

[TraceOneInfinite]

i thought dr dre concrete roots was a real album when i saw it at tower records and bought it

Dude, I was even more dumb than that...

...I loved the Chronic and Doggystyle so much that the obvious next step was to go the store and see if they were on any other albums.  This was before Above the Rim had came out so there were no other Death Row releases.  The obvious move would've been to buy Efil4zaggin and then I would have hit the jackpot.  It would have had the Dr. Dre and Death Row sound I was looking for and it was his most recent album before Chronic. 

...but instead, like a retard I didn't put it together about NWA and Dre even though I'm sure I had to have heard that Dre was in NWA before Death Row, but it didn't click.  All those years I was desperate for more Death Row music and didn't even get around to Efil4Zaggin until like 8 years later in 2001, smh

...so I bought Concrete Roots back in 94', SMH.   Though "Brenda" by DOC was a hidden gem on there, friends used to come over just to listen to that track

[Sccit]

Dude, I was even more dumb than that...

...I loved the Chronic and Doggystyle so much that the obvious next step was to go the store and see if they were on any other albums.  This was before Above the Rim had came out so there were no other Death Row releases.  The obvious move would've been to buy Efil4zaggin and then I would have hit the jackpot.  It would have had the Dr. Dre and Death Row sound I was looking for and it was his most recent album before Chronic. 

...but instead, like a retard I didn't put it together about NWA and Dre even though I'm sure I had to have heard that Dre was in NWA before Death Row, but it didn't click.  All those years I was desperate for more Death Row music and didn't even get around to Efil4Zaggin until like 8 years later in 2001, smh

...so I bought Concrete Roots back in 94', SMH.   Though "Brenda" by DOC was a hidden gem on there, friends used to come over just to listen to that track

you're talkin about "bridgette" on first round knockout


classic track

[The Predator]

When i heard N.W.A., i did not know what Dre looked like.

So watching Yo MTV Raps for the first time, the DJ on it was Doctor Dre and i was like this guy dont look, act or sound anything like on the records 


Dr Dre legendary West-Coast producer and N.W.A member

When the G-Thang video came out, then it made sense 

Yew, i think a lot of people got duped into buying Concrete Roots and ended up listening to Wreckin Crew in 94 when they were expecting Chronic G-Funk shit.

Alonso and Triple XXX Records was on some slick shit, got payed of Dre's name and fucked with his rep.

Trouser Press wrote: "With the exception of Michel'le's smooth kiss-off 'No More Lies,' the mostly sub-B-side cuts are a weak mix of filler and watered-down, post-disco rap from Dre and Yella's pre-N.W.A outfit, the oft-ridiculed and ridiculously attired World Class Wreckin' Cru'."

Vibe gave the compilation a mixed review, writing that it puts Dre's early work in "proper context" and "historical perspective." It also praised the D.O.C.'s contributions.

There was another two tapes in 96, Dre and Jimmy sued -

In 1996, Dr. Dre and Interscope Records sued Triple X Records to remove an album of early Dre material titled First Round Knock Out from the marketplace.

[TraceOneInfinite]

you're talkin about "bridgette" on first round knockout


classic track

Yea you're right I got mixed up

[The Predator]

"Bridgette"

In an interview with DubCNN the DOC said that this was a leftover from No One Can Do It Better, and, sadly enough, the only leftover.

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didn't even get around to Efil4Zaggin until like 8 years later in 2001

That was well late, that album was a major event at it's time just like The Chronic and Doggystyle afterwads.

If it had been released in 2001 it would of been the best album of that year, the sonics on that album will never date.

[HighEyeCue]

I thought the same about NWA that they were real gangstas...me and my friends bought Raiders gear and wore it for a bit around Queens in ‘91 lol...I didn't really hear the album till the year after though...pretty much what got me into hip-hop

[TraceOneInfinite]

"Bridgette"

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That was well late, that album was a major event at it's time just like The Chronic and Doggystyle afterwads.

If it had been released in 2001 it would of been the best album of that year, the sonics on that album will never date.

Yeah, I can't believe it took me till 01' to get Efil4zaggin but you got to remember the 90's were the days when you actually had to go out and buy albums to hear them.  Also, in the 90's there was so much new shit coming out that was hott so we were always looking for the next thing.  By 99 I started going back and getting old albums I missed like Xzibit's first 2 albums I bought when "Bitch Please" came out, and I bought Illmatic in 99'.   

But yeah it's still insane to think I was that big of a Dre fanatic (I had the Aftermath Presents poster on my wall and was following his every move even in the down period of 97-98) and never actually bought or listened through Efil4Zaggin until 2001

All that time I was waiting for King Tee Thy Kingdom Come to never be released I could have just bought Efil4Zaggin to fill the void

[Sccit]

Yeah, I can't believe it took me till 01' to get Efil4zaggin but you got to remember the 90's were the days when you actually had to go out and buy albums to hear them.  Also, in the 90's there was so much new shit coming out that was hott so we were always looking for the next thing.  By 99 I started going back and getting old albums I missed like Xzibit's first 2 albums I bought when "Bitch Please" came out, and I bought Illmatic in 99'.   

But yeah it's still insane to think I was that big of a Dre fanatic (I had the Aftermath Presents poster on my wall and was following his every move even in the down period of 97-98) and never actually bought or listened through Efil4Zaggin until 2001

All that time I was waiting for King Tee Thy Kingdom Come to never be released I could have just bought Efil4Zaggin to fill the void

when did you get to nwa & the posse, straight outa compton, and 100 miles & runnin?

and did you ever get into mc ren eazy-e and ice cube solos? i rarely hear u talkin bout that 

[TraceOneInfinite]

when did you get to nwa & the posse, straight outa compton, and 100 miles & runnin?

and did you ever get into mc ren eazy-e and ice cube solos? i rarely hear u talkin bout that

Same time I bought Efil4Zaggin I was so hype after listening to it of course I went out and copped St8 outa Compton and 100 Miles and Runnin'. 

I tried to get into the Ren solos probably before that I think I gave them a chance, they were alright

Eazy man I'm an idiot man I still have never given them a proper listen I've skimmed through them and bumped joints here and there and all sounded dope

Cube.. definitely, I mean I've had most all of Cubes platinum albums and a big fan of all of his singles—I'd even get into some album cuts like "Ask About Me" and "Down 4 Whatever" I was a big fan of "Down 4 Whatever" in 7th grade it was the B Side of the "Bop Gun" single which blew my mind when that video dropped, I basically met my best friend for jr high on the strength of us both being fans of it

I guess I just never would play the cube albums thru I would just go to certain cuts on the album

[Sccit]

Same time I bought Efil4Zaggin I was so hype after listening to it of course I went out and copped St8 outa Compton and 100 Miles and Runnin'. 

I tried to get into the Ren solos probably before that I think I gave them a chance, they were alright

Eazy man I'm an idiot man I still have never given them a proper listen I've skimmed through them and bumped joints here and there and all sounded dope

Cube.. definitely, I mean I've had most all of Cubes platinum albums and a big fan of all of his singles—I'd even get into some album cuts like "Ask About Me" and "Down 4 Whatever" I was a big fan of "Down 4 Whatever" in 7th grade it was the B Side of the "Bop Gun" single which blew my mind when that video dropped, I basically met my best friend for jr high on the strength of us both being fans of it

I guess I just never would play the cube albums thru I would just go to certain cuts on the album

deezamn @ never peepin an eazy-e solo

 

[Bossplaya369]

Some peeps thought 2Pac & Makavelli were two different people 

[HighEyeCue]

I thought Shock Gs brother was Humpty Hump...then I found out it was his alter ego...and then I found out that he indeed had a brother...I'm still not sure who was playing Humpty in the Humpty Dance video

RIP Shock G

[BJV]

Some peeps thought 2Pac & Makavelli were two different people 

And then there's people who call him 2Pack when they pronounce his name