Did Snoop Ghostwrite for Da Brat?

[C-clamp]

I was just listenin to the B-side and funkdafied, and Da Brat verses sound just like a snoop verse would go, same flow, same type of lyrics, they seem pretty much identical.

Does any one know or is it all one big-ass coincidence?

[Juronimo]

Da Brat and Kriss Kross were biting Snoop heavily around '94 or so. It was probably JD's idea. As far as I know, Snoop was not involved.

[smoke1ne]

KRISS KROSS WAS DA SHIT!!!!!!! I ACTUALLY SEEN DEM 2 FUKSS WHEN THEY CAME OUT 2 BLOCKS FROM MY PAD

[The Watcher]

JD has said in the past that when Da Brat came out, she was meant to be the female version of Snoop Dogg, and they tried promoting her that way

[Darksider]

yeah funkdefied sounded like doggystyle

[R-Tistic]

Da Brat and Kriss Kross were biting Snoop heavily around '94 or so. It was probably JD's idea. As far as I know, Snoop was not involved.

Yeah that's what it is. She definitely does soudn EXACTLY like Snoop on Give it to you and Funkdafied. I never heard the rest of her album though, was it any good? Kriss Kross had that same Snoop flow, and they were actually tite, but the fact that they were promoted as a gimmick killed them. Lil Bow Wow has a Snoop-influenced flow as well, but Snoop supposedly coached him back in the day so maybe that's why.

[Quadruple OG]

Da Brat and Kriss Kross were biting Snoop heavily around '94 or so. It was probably JD's idea. As far as I know, Snoop was not involved.

Yeah that's what it is. She definitely does soudn EXACTLY like Snoop on Give it to you and Funkdafied. I never heard the rest of her album though, was it any good? Kriss Kross had that same Snoop flow, and they were actually tite, but the fact that they were promoted as a gimmick killed them. Lil Bow Wow has a Snoop-influenced flow as well, but Snoop supposedly coached him back in the day so maybe that's why.

Kriss Kross's third album "Young, Rich, and Dangerous" was pretty hot, especially "Tonite's tha nite" and "to live and die for hip hop".  JD actually was pretty tight when it came to ripping off G-Funk.  Wouldn't mind him producin more like that nowadays.  Though it was funny when he was dissed in the "what would u do?" video off death Row Uncut

[Juronimo]

Da Brat and Kriss Kross were biting Snoop heavily around '94 or so. It was probably JD's idea. As far as I know, Snoop was not involved.

Yeah that's what it is. She definitely does soudn EXACTLY like Snoop on Give it to you and Funkdafied. I never heard the rest of her album though, was it any good? Kriss Kross had that same Snoop flow, and they were actually tite, but the fact that they were promoted as a gimmick killed them. Lil Bow Wow has a Snoop-influenced flow as well, but Snoop supposedly coached him back in the day so maybe that's why.

I heard her first album when it came out, one of my boys bought the tape and I heard it. She sounds exactly like Snoop on the whole album. I remember when I first heard heard Funkdafied, I thought it was 2 females, since JD's high pitched voice sounds like a bitch on that song, and that they were down with Snoop and the Dogg Pound.

[soopa-man]

^^^at that time they were not down with JD and Da Brat at all, there is an alternate version of Tha Dogg Pound's "What Would U Do?" vdeo where JD is begging for money while Snoop is about to get his shoes shined, and he says "Here Get You A Ticket To Atlanta" and while Kurupt, Daz and Snoop are performing in the video in a bar or saloon, a "Fake Da Brat" is behind them looking at them kind of studying them, as they rap thy're verses, i think Da Brat and JD and alot of other, i mean alot, who were biting Dre and Snoop's shyt were the reason for that song, "What Would U Do If You Could/ Get With Me Or My Crew/ you Cant So Dont Even Think About It!" Pretty Self explanitory....

[soopa-man]

Da Brat was the first female rapper to go platinum, but there was more hate then celebration, because she and JD staight BIT OFF Snoop's whole image, style, production, i mean there were alot of cats with the sound, after "The Chronic", but West Coast artist didnt sound like Snoop at all, Cube, Cypress, she straight bit, and barely started getting recognition after she switched her flow, Even Tha Dogg Pound didnt sound like Snoop, and she wasnt apart of them so naw Snoop never wrote for her...

[We Fly High]

haha yeah i was always wondering about Da Brat look alike in that what would you do video on the death row uncut.

[··: O.G Kody™ :··]

Funkdafied was a dope track.

[nibs]

treach claimed he ghostwrote for kriss kross.

i believe someone (jd or maybe treach) was ghostwriting for da brat originally, then she started writing her own shit.

did she bite snoop's shit?  hell yeah.  but death row never released another pure g-funk album after snoop.  just a couple soundtracks.  maybe pac's "all eyez on me" had a bunch of g-funk tracks.  after snoop's shit, lil 1/2 dead - steel on a mission was probably the best thing going for pure g-funk.  dazzie dee & yo yo too.  b.g. knocc out & dre had a heavy west coast funk sound too, but death row strayed away from the g-funk. 

so why hate on da brat for biting the g-funk.  death row wasn't doing it.  one album a year ass label until '95.  when they dropped 2.

[R-Tistic]

Kriss Kross's third album "Young, Rich, and Dangerous" was pretty hot, especially "Tonite's tha nite" and "to live and die for hip hop".  JD actually was pretty tight when it came to ripping off G-Funk.  Wouldn't mind him producin more like that nowadays.  Though it was funny when he was dissed in the "what would u do?" video off death Row Uncut

Hell yeah it was, I thought it was shady that people knocked it just because they used to be a gimmick. That first song "Some cut up" was hard as hell, I still play it sometimes.

Damn, I guess I was too young to realize that Da Brat was bitin Snoop and them when it came out, I just know it was hot. I am not mad at them for "bitin" their style because it still came off good. I thought Snoop was cool with JD back then though, I remember Snoop was mad at Dre when he dissed JD and he said he had been down with JD for a long time, and I know that Suge hated JD because Snoop supposedly had passed Bow Wow to JD because he said he didn't need to be around Death Row back then. Remember Bow Wow was in the video for Gin n Juice, and on the skit "I wanna be a mothafuckin hustla"? I guess Suge was gonna sign him then.

[Quadruple OG]

Damn, I guess I was too young to realize that Da Brat was bitin Snoop and them when it came out, I just know it was hot. I am not mad at them for "bitin" their style because it still came off good. I thought Snoop was cool with JD back then though, I remember Snoop was mad at Dre when he dissed JD and he said he had been down with JD for a long time, and I know that Suge hated JD because Snoop supposedly had passed Bow Wow to JD because he said he didn't need to be around Death Row back then. Remember Bow Wow was in the video for Gin n Juice, and on the skit "I wanna be a mothafuckin hustla"? I guess Suge was gonna sign him then.

Lil' Bow Wow was supposed to be on the Murder was the Case soundtrack as well but did not make the cut.  As for JD, many people hate on him, but I give him props for Kriss Kross, considering he was the first producer to produce platinum hits before he turned 18