Just listened to 213:The Hard Way for the first time...

[platinumk777]

lmmfao!  The album was made for the true fans, and not the lil teeny boppers? hahahahahahahahahahah, pull your head out of your ass and get at me when you know something about music.  when did you start listening to music?  lemme guess, when eminem came out?

people were dancing to it at a keg party?  big fucking deal.  Keg parties I go to people dance to fuckin Nelly and Britney spears if its playing.  they are drunk.  they will dance to anything.

and most of all, everyone in this thread, I guarantee hasn't listened a majority of westcoast albums that dropped this year.  best westcoast album of the summer? ha.  Nutzo's album blows this away.  UGOA2 blows this away.  KF Klik Blows this away.  Pioneers Blows this away.  Yall love this album cuz your a bunch of dpg groupies, who don't listen to any other westcoast rap unless its dpg affiliated.  doesn't matter how the album turned out, yall woulda loved it due to the name alone.

Ain't this some kind of bitch? Listen up faggot, I've been listening to rap since 1993, my 1st album being Onyx - Bacdafucup. I think with 11 years under my belt, I've listened to quite a number of rappers, and I know what I like and what I don't, and I don't need your bitch ass to tell me otherwise. I never claimed this album to be underground, so throw your comparisons to KF Klik, Nutzo, etc. out the window. If those are better westcoast albums to you, I told you: I respect opinions as much as the next man, get that in your head, so respect mine, mothafucka. But don't trash this album because it ain't what you expected, cuz they don't owe you shit.

DPG Groupie? Ha. I copped the album expecting the worst, cuz I hated PTCTBDB, Last Meal, and any "DPG" labelled album since Dogg Food. But I still have an open mind, and I do acknowledge good music, and putting those two together lead me to conclude that the 213 album is really good.

So one more time bitch, to make it politically correct for you, I consider this the best westcoast album of the summer, don't hate on my opinion. And don't change subject bitch, my main argument was that narrow-minded listeners have no right to diss this album. Now fuck off

[hector]

LMFAO!  don't take it to heart, I'm talking about music here, and you take it personal.  too funny.  let me get you a tissue.  this forum is wack. 

[JEMISON]

I think its without a doubt it's easily the best albumn this year(maybe even 2 years).  I didnt listen to any previous of the album before it came out and with no Warren Production I thought it was going suck but it didnt to my surprise.  I cant stop playing Gangsta Music, Mlk and Apprection. Some people hate no matter how good an albumn is.

[eS El Duque]

I think its without a doubt it's easily the best albumn this year(maybe even 2 years). 

HA!

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

good album, stop hating. stop hating. thats all i have to say. stop hating. people are so bitter. damnit!

[187Proof]

good album, stop hating. stop hating. thats all i have to say. stop hating. people are so bitter. damnit!

Nima said it best...

[white Boy]

damn, i gotta download this...

[[sepehr]]

i agree as well, i've had nothing but good things to say about this album, peace.

[Ras Kass' Toothpick]

I think a lot of people are just happy that they didn't fuck up bad.  What I mean is they didn't have any wack, poppy Neptune's beat, no Fabalous or Nelly guest spot or anything like that.  But to me it's seems like they really didn't give a shit about making this album great.  This seems like a really average album, there are like 2 great songs, 2 wack songs and the rest is average.  It seems like they just went thru the motions to get this done.

Overall I'd give it a 5/10

[Sikotic™]

Gotta completely disagree. Twist Yo Body, Another Summer, MLK, Absolutely, and Mary Jane are good. The rest of the album is garbage.

[Montana00]

this album isnt comepletly bad, but its not going to win any awards in my book.

[nibs]

MK loves Sofia Vergara:
No guests, no producers that would remotely make it a "sellout" album.

kayne west and missy.  those are both very generic, "hottest thing going" type of producers. 
although, kayne's song was alright, even though he recycled a beat from "above the rim".    i don't have a problem with people recycling beats, but do you really want people thinking of the above the rim era aka the good ol' days???

because some of you narrow-minded idiots don't hear the g-funk whistle, the "George Clinton" voice or DJ EZ Dick

there's alot of funk on this album.  keep it gangsta is worth the price of the album alone imho.  "run on up" also has a classic funk sound, something reminiscent of "one more day" or some bay funk.  "absolutely", "lonely girl", "ups & downs". "mary jane", "mlk", "appreciation"...there's some good stuff on there.  funky stuff. 

the fans who stuck with them all this time

fans staying loyal is overrated as artists change, their sounds change...etc

 THEY DIDN'T OWE US THIS ALBUM, THEY DIDN'T NEED TO DO SHIT!!

nate dogg has never put out a hit record with his name on it.  he certainly needed to do it.  warren g certainly needed to get his name back out there as well.

snoop didn't need to do it, so we should all thank snoop.  i'll thank warren too.

look, you can't critize the fans for wanting a pure g-funk album from the so called g-funk architects.  this is the same reason that  old cats still prefer old school funk and soul to modern r&b.  the mainstream moves away from what you like.  my only advice to these cats is to stock up on that classic shit they may not have bought back in the day.  classic shit you never heard sounds like new shit.  but there's alot of funk on this album.

UDollar A.K.A Nino:
This album is 10 times better then Music and me + Paid the cost to be the boss..

that's 100% true, but you're lowering the bar very far to make that comparison.  but this is a very good album.  it's better than "return of the regulator" or "the last meal"...

l i l j a y :
I agree. Some of you are trapped in that 95 era..

this is an extraordinary misconception.  95 was really the last year that death row/warren g had a lock on g-funk; but '96 was a stronger year for pure g-funk than '95.  pac set the year off with "all eyez on me"; the summer of '96 was completely off the chain.  lil half dead, celly cel, conscious daughters, dazzie dee, thin line soundtrack, me & my cousin, ren...lots of heat that summer.  yo yo and west side connection dropped that fall.  big snoop dogg closed out the year with doggfather, and while he moved away from that g-funk sound and many were not ready for the funk that pooh and l.t. were bringing...everyone felt blueberry god damn it.  makaveli isn't g-funk so don't think i'm hating on pac.

97 and 98 were also very strong years for that clean west coast funk sound.  very strong.  g-dub dropped an album, swoop g, the first 19th st compilation, ride soundtrack & caught up soundtrack had some heaters, tha luniz dropped a heater, gridlock'd soundtrack, the lady of rage and daz dropped (both had that dogg food era funk sound) tha comrads & mack 10's second album, suga free, ras kass, mc ren, and close out '98 you had kurupt & cat collaboratin' on some classics plus a new quik album.
and snoop, tha eastsidaz, doggy's angels & bad azz would do some good work advancing the funk in the years to come.  220, mausberg and tha relatives would do some good work advancing the funk in the years to come.  cats talking about g-funk like it's dead, like i can't point to releases within the past year that were either completely g-funk or had g-funk elements.

just because dr. dre has made some mistakes in his life and moved away from the funk doesn't mean that the funk died.  g-funk lives on.

and let's be honest, the only reason cats would point to '95 like "g-funk died around then" is that they are thinking of dr. dre, fearful for his life, jumping ship and leaving death row.  but the funk lives on.

[.:Hercy Buggz:.]

THIS album is fucking tight  there ARE SOME GOOD TRacks on there here is my top 10 songs


1.appreciATION THAts g funk AT HIS BEST
2.lonely Girl (wAIT a minute) this song is fuking tight its smooth aND FUNKY
3.jOYSTICC OH HELL YEah
4.kEEP IT gAngsta battlecAT IS Back in the mix
5.gangSTA Clicc pARTY anhtem
six.Twist YA BODY
7.another summer
8.Groupy Luv
9.aBSOLUTLY
10.iNTRO

[pappy]

another reason why people dont like this album is b/c snoop is a joke now. 

[UKnowWhatItIs: welcome to my traps....game over]

I think its without a doubt it's easily the best albumn this year(maybe even 2 years).

LMAO!