Some questions/thoughts about Dogg Food???

[teecee]

Toothpick, did you listen to Warren's debut when it came out?  Just wondering, cuz lots of people that didnt actually check out cds when they first dropped just dont have the same perspective.  I think Warren's album is flawless;   As for Ras Kass, when it dropped it was considered a major disappointment by the few who anticpated it, but it grew on many and i would call it an underground classic

[Denial! Is Actively Joinin The Revolution]

Warren G's album was a classic still is i recon it woz on par wit dogg food but as for doggystyle and the chronic its jus under them not by much

[Ras Kass' Toothpick]

Toothpick, did you listen to Warren's debut when it came out?  Just wondering, cuz lots of people that didnt actually check out cds when they first dropped just dont have the same perspective.  I think Warren's album is flawless;   As for Ras Kass, when it dropped it was considered a major disappointment by the few who anticpated it, but it grew on many and i would call it an underground classic

I got into hip-hop with this music (G-Funk), the early Death Row days around '93 so I must have bought Warren's album in '94 or '95.  It's a short album so I would expect to be very tight but there were some dumb skits and some guest spots I wasn't too impressed with.  Warren is an average MC too.  It's a good album with some very tight songs but I don't feel it like Dogg Food.

Soul On Ice had some weak production and I don't think that Ras Kass sounded that good on the album.  I enjoy the album but I think it's getting a lot for credit for just being the ignored debut of a great lyricist.

[teecee]

Toothpick, its all good man, just wanted to make sure you weren like 14 claiming you know whats up man.  Of course warren is an average mc, but what made him good on his debut was his melodic flow, and his laid back style (as opposed to his current flow).  As for guest spots, what was not to like?  Dove Shack were dope, Twinz ripped every song, and the 5 Footas?  They are very tight for female rappers.....As for skits, each to his own, but i would take a short "94 Ho Draft" over a "Big Pimpin 2" anyday.......

As for Ras kass, he never SOUNDS amazing, dude is cursed with a very average voice, thats just the way it is.  What he did on that album was make straight hip hop, and it came out very subtle yet extremely dope.  He did his own thing, and peeps never really caught on until it became fashionable to do so.  I thought that production was incredible btw, i would much rather hear Ras over that kind of stuff than the stuff he rapped on on Van Gogh and his re-up compilation.  Ras had some dope inhouse producers, and Battlecat truly laced him, before BC became monotonous.  I think the cd wasnt received well because the beats werent commercial, and werent similar to g-funk, which dominated that era