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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96' on March 15, 2014, 10:48:22 PM
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I bought it when it came out. I gave it like one spin and I don't know what happened to it after that.
I was just thinking about it because I listened to Darren Vegas interview with JMix. He was naming all the cats on tha Row roster like Eastwood, Crooked I, Kurupt, Nina, and so on and sayin they had talent and that the problem was lack of promotion, and that most the shit didn't get released, except Dysfunctional Family and that that album suffered from lack of promotion...
lack of promotion? I don't know.. I remember that shit being madd weak, was it not? I mean, sure they didn't do shit to market the album, but even with a billion dollar marketing budget I doubt it would've caught on.
Just lookin back on this because it's really the only product we have from Tha Row days after Suge got released. Other than what, the NuMixx? I was surprised how well the NuMixx Classiks actually sold, Darren Vegas was saying it sold Gold?
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NuMixx sold because it was Tupac. Dysfunktional Family had some good tracks on it but there wasn't a whole lot to be promoted there. It's greatest strength was being connected to an Eddie Griffin movie but even that was only going to take them so far.
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NuMixx sold because it was Tupac. Dysfunktional Family had some good tracks on it but there wasn't a whole lot to be promoted there. It's greatest strength was being connected to an Eddie Griffin movie but even that was only going to take them so far.
How was the NuMixx album anyway? I never really paid attention to it.
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I used to really like it when it dropped. I broke it out about a year ago for the first time in ages and ehh. It has some really dope songs but majority of it was blan. Crooked pretty much saved it from being a frisbee.
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I have to admit i was a bit anti deathrow at the time and even a tad anti crooked i, wasn't interested in the release at all. But i do remember checking it out and hearing some pretty dope shit on there. I cant really remember it all that well though. i think there was weak shit too n lots of rnb too?
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it fuckin sucked, but Darren Vegas was right, there was so much talent on Tha Row but they never pushed or promoted their artists,
which in fact makes you look more like a dumbass Infinite, because if Suge was such a great rap mogul like you say he is he would of known how to push those artists and put money into them to make money and Tha Row would of been relevant again.. but everyone knows Suge never really did shit but be a bully back in the Death Row era and it was really guys like Dre and Pac running the show behind the scenes that made all that money
but your too much of a dumb fuck to realize that
anyways Darren Vegas is a respected man in hip hop in my opinion because he produced the classic Bizzy Bone "The Gift" album which is still one of my favorite hip hop albums of all time... i'd be surprised if your narrow minded ass even heard it though..
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it fuckin sucked, but Darren Vegas was right, there was so much talent on Tha Row but they never pushed or promoted their artists,
which in fact makes you look more like a dumbass Infinite, because if Suge was such a great rap mogul like you say he is he would of known how to push those artists and put money into them to make money and Tha Row would of been relevant again.. but everyone knows Suge never really did shit but be a bully back in the Death Row era and it was really guys like Dre and Pac running the show behind the scenes that made all that money
but your too much of a dumb fuck to realize that
anyways Darren Vegas is a respected man in hip hop in my opinion because he produced the classic Bizzy Bone "The Gift" album which is still one of my favorite hip hop albums of all time... i'd be surprised if your narrow minded ass even heard it though..
-The Gift was weak. Bizzy Bone was spectacular in all his work for Bone in the 90's, but when he went solo I wasn't feeling it when that album came out. Haven't given it a spin since then.
-As for Suge's handling of the company after returning from prison, I admit you have a point. You know ya'll forget that I consider Dre the most important person in making Death Row what it was. Yet I still love Suge, not because I think he was the worlds greatest record mogul or businessman but because I love Suge because he kept shit real at the end of the day.
-all that other stuff, you can beef with me over in the Anything Goes section of the forum if you got it that bad for me
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The Gift was the best solo album out of all the bone thugs solo albums dropped
im not knocking any of Krayzie's stuff or Layzies Thug by Nature cus it was average and Krayzies were above average but The Gift is a classic solid album front to back
i feel that you think it was weak because Bizzy took the christian route that album and dropped songs like Jesus but if you look past that it was really a great album
i know how biased you are Infinite and if Bizzy would of made a song called Mohammed instead of Jesus you would think it was a better album, but I on the other hand wouldnt matter because it was still a solid classic album, go back and listen to it, maybe you will have a change of mind
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I love that soundtrack, still don't get why people don't like CD and sold shitty.
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Any1 Have A Download For It?
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How was the NuMixx album anyway? I never really paid attention to it.
There was one good remix. "Life Goes On". The rest were pretty much disposable and yes, I include the Crooked remix in that conversation. I think Crooked I had some great songs when he worked over there but that one was weak and shouldn't have happened. "2 of Amerikka's Most Wanted" is a Pac/Snoop track. It's not like Snoop just came on and did a 16-bar and they could remove it and put someone else on there. Pac made that song to be with Snoop, they trade verses back and forth, and Pac mentions him in the lyrics. If they were going to add Crooked to a Pac track, that was a bad choice for one.
The problem with "NuMixx Klassics" is it feels like they just added new generic instrumentals to the equation, outside of "Life Goes On", which sounds like a new take on an old favorite. That's the only track that can I enjoy in the sense where I can listen to it and not want to just hear the original.
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Never heard the whole album but We Ballin with Eastwood & Crooked is the shit.
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the 6 songs with Crooked I were dope
the song with Jay Z was nice and Kurupt "i'm back" was dope
the rest? garbage
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The Gift was the best solo album out of all the bone thugs solo albums dropped
im not knocking any of Krayzie's stuff or Layzies Thug by Nature cus it was average and Krayzies were above average but The Gift is a classic solid album front to back
i feel that you think it was weak because Bizzy took the christian route that album and dropped songs like Jesus but if you look past that it was really a great album
i know how biased you are Infinite and if Bizzy would of made a song called Mohammed instead of Jesus you would think it was a better album, but I on the other hand wouldnt matter because it was still a solid classic album, go back and listen to it, maybe you will have a change of mind
Well Bizzy is actually a Muslim and recorded something about Allah at one point... Flesh is a Muslim and they even talk to him about it over the phone while he's in prison on the Bone album that came out around 02'.
All the Bone solo albums have too much filler and came out after their prime had ended. The only Bone solo that came out during their prime was Flesh's album on Def Jam and that featured one of the most soulful hip-hop tracks of all time, "World So Cruel", makes it the second best Bone solo... the best Bone solo album of all time is Krayzie Bone Thug On The Line because it has that timeless cut with Tiffany on there "Talk To Myself". It also has a nice joint with Sade and the L.T. Hutton joint "Ya'll Don't Know Me". Still, too much filler after that and a little outside of Bone's prime.
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How was the NuMixx album anyway? I never really paid attention to it.
There was one good remix. "Life Goes On". The rest were pretty much disposable and yes, I include the Crooked remix in that conversation. I think Crooked I had some great songs when he worked over there but that one was weak and shouldn't have happened. "2 of Amerikka's Most Wanted" is a Pac/Snoop track. It's not like Snoop just came on and did a 16-bar and they could remove it and put someone else on there. Pac made that song to be with Snoop, they trade verses back and forth, and Pac mentions him in the lyrics. If they were going to add Crooked to a Pac track, that was a bad choice for one.
The problem with "NuMixx Klassics" is it feels like they just added new generic instrumentals to the equation, outside of "Life Goes On", which sounds like a new take on an old favorite. That's the only track that can I enjoy in the sense where I can listen to it and not want to just hear the original.
nice review
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Yeah, pretty forgettable project overall, although I loved "We Ballin" from Eastwood and Crooked.
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nope
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"Tha Row (Y'all Hoes") was a thumper
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Yeah, pretty forgettable project overall, although I loved "We Ballin" from Eastwood and Crooked.
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The Gift was the best solo album out of all the bone thugs solo albums dropped
im not knocking any of Krayzie's stuff or Layzies Thug by Nature cus it was average and Krayzies were above average but The Gift is a classic solid album front to back
i feel that you think it was weak because Bizzy took the christian route that album and dropped songs like Jesus but if you look past that it was really a great album
I disagree. Strongly. I still rank Heaven'z Movie over The Gift (though I liked the opening track and that other one that had the electric guitar in the background -- can't remember their names and I don't really feel like looking them up), but I still think Krayzie's Thug on Da Line was a more complete album. And if he'd have been able to consolidate Thug Mentality 1999 into just one disc instead of two, I might have picked that one.
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On almost every song there was Crooked or Eastwood, so for me this fact made CD + great remix Jay'z song (better than original) and nice song from Ashanti.
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Did they release any videos from it aside from Still Tha Row?
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Did they release any videos from it aside from Still Tha Row?
nothing i know about
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It was all Suges fault...... ::)
People obviously don't know what being blackballed means. People assume Suge just wore a blindfold and purposely flushed his company down the toilet. The album was average with some good tracks but certainly not garbage
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Wasn't Still Tha Row released after soundtrack came to stores? I'ts obviously stupid.
This was big dissapoinment - even Snoop's old material sold better (220k+)
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Wasn't Still Tha Row released after soundtrack came to stores? I'ts obviously stupid.
This was big dissapoinment - even Snoop's old material sold better (220k+)
But it wasn't on that caliber anyway that would yield a lot of sales. The actual Row artists themselves weren't really all that well known anyway, except for maybe Kurupt, and it didn't help that LeftEye was going by N.I.N.A., which no one really knew unless you happened to have either read that issue of XXL with Tha Row on the cover (all wearing black and white) or watched that episode of 106 and Park where they showed up (and the mood was all somber). And the artists who weren't part of Tha Row but did have names (i.e. Jay-Z, Young Buck, Juvenile, Ja Rule, Ashanti) weren't promoting the album either. I think I was about done with college when this came out, and I really only remember We Ballin being the main track that I could bang in my car.
Despite being blackballed, Suge did try though... remember when he was on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Crooked I got to rap and plugged the album ("Dysfunktional Family, the turf is back/ On March [?], please purchase that" or something like that) while Suge talked about Crooked I, Kurupt, Eastwood, etc. But it didn't help that he was belligerent.
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listened to it once when it came out, you can imagine how much i remember of it lol. i remember it being decent though.
i remember this video though
http://www.youtube.com/v/eLDVBnZfP3I
the hook stuck with me for all these years, caught it being played on the radio the other day i was flabbergasted lol. the song has aged well imo.
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Let's not act like "who wants to fuck tonight" and "thought you knew" weren't dope ass songs
same with "i'm back"
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I remember I'm Back damn near always being the song playing in the background of the Death Row website around the time that came out.
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Tha Row Yall Hoes
ON Tha Radio
I Know Where I Am Going
We Ballin´
call me crazy but "i know where i am going" was almost doper than the rap-tracks.