West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: EFFeX on April 10, 2009, 12:24:58 PM
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http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2009/04/tss-presents-smoking-sessions-with-crooked-i
Don't sleep on this one Crooked covers a lot of ground... even touches on the recent leaks of his Death Row material.
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^Thanks. Gon' Check This Out Right Now!
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thanks for this E, real good read ya'll should def check it out
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you know whats funny hes talking about the albums that dude was sellin here lol betta watcha ya ass lmao
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crook and wideawake are watching
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TSS: Your Death Row record, Say Hi To The Bad Guy, began to leak. How do you feel about that?
Crooked I: Man, I’m really upset about that because here’s the thing: When they took control of Death Row Records from Suge—in my opinion, I haven’t even talked to Suge about it—it seems like they didn’t even let the man go in his office and clean up and move all his stuff. It’s like he can’t even walk in there. That’s how it seems because when they had the auction, there was stuff in that auction that I know he wanted, that he would’ve never let go. So, he must not have had the power to go in his own office because they were selling 2Pac plaques, 2Pac’s jeans, Suge’s underwear, etc. because he had a penthouse at the top of Death Row so he had a lot of personal items up there. They were selling all that in the auction. Some dude, I’m hearing, bought one of Suge’s briefcases with a CD of mine inside with like seven songs. Some other dude bought something that had a CD of mine in there with 8,9 more songs so these dudes are like, “We have the whole album. We gonna start leaking it.”
Now, keep in mind that a lady named Lara Lavi from Wideawake Entertainment just spent $18 million on a catalog. So, she wants me to be involved with putting out Say Hi To The Bad Guy sorta like Nas did The Lost Tapes. She called me about my involvement and she wanted to sit down with me. I told her, “Yo, do you know some of that product has been leaking?” She ain’t even know. That’s a double whammy. It don’t only just hurt me, it’s hurting her because she just spent $18 million on some of this music. There’s another dude who got some music. He said he’s gonna sell each song on eBay for $1500 because here’s the thing man—the more underground something is, the more that these Internet collector junkies will pay for it. “Yo, if I can get that and nobody else got it, it’s something.”
So, I heard one dude got like 500 pre-orders right now and he’s supposed to be selling an album for $250. And that’s just in this short time. He’s gonna get more orders and more orders. It’s like, “Yo, how much money dude think he’s gonna make without us getting none and blocking our money?” That’s something that’s being dealt with on the highest level of the law from her company. And that shit is wack man. You know we spent a lot of time making that music. Plus, the music means something to us. To just leak it out…like I had to ask the sites to remove it. It comes with the territory. We can no longer go to the corner and threaten the bootlegger no more. That’s over. The bootlegger is online, in his room, and we have no idea where he lives. What can we do? Can’t do shit.
TSS: Was the stuff that leaked even gonna be on the album?
Crooked: Yeah and they weren’t even mixed, though. These were unfinished joints. I would just do joint, joint, joint, joint, joint and then I’d go in, listen to everything, ride around in the car to it and say, “Ok, I need to put this here. I need a DJ over here.” That stuff was mad unfinished. Now, I ain’t even listen to the shit. I know the one with Ja Rule and Ray J leaked, and I know a record with Juvenile leaked, too. I couldn’t do nothing about it. Those joints were going on the record. So, I don’t know what we gonna do now.
they are watching!!!!
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Of course, they are watching! This is a major network for the West. That Death Row album is something that Crooked stands to cut a deal on and make some money off of so you have to figure if he ain't directly reading about it, some of his people are letting him know.
In regards to the interview, another great read from Crooked but I'm still wishing we could at least get a limited print on some CD's for that "Boss" album. I just can't get excited about a free download. I know I might be in the minority but I don't like the whole computer downloading thing when it comes to an "album". I wouldn't wanna hear a project I was waiting for by downloading it a track at a time and listening to it through my computer. I want to open the fucker up, pop it into the CD player in my truck, and listen to it while I cruise to wherever I'm going that day.
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dominique whitfield or wickliffe?
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is he insinuating that he ghost-wrote on Detox?
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At one point he has. He's saying he doesn't have the time to sit around and contribute to a project that won't really help him at all.
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dominique whitfield or wickliffe?
There was a typo in the interview...
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At one point he has. He's saying he doesn't have the time to sit around and contribute to a project that won't really help him at all.
"Shit, I can’t just be sitting in niggas’ studios, I gotta be grinding. That album…I heard some joints that’s retarded, I will say that. That’s just one of them albums that you gotta buy physically, crack it open, and read the credits. You see Dominick Whitcliffe on something, you know what it is (Laughs)."
is that just a play on his last name? (which Wikipedia says is Wickliffe, and the interviewer says is Whitfield....wtf
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Good read. I'm glad someone finally asked him about the recent happenings regarding the Death Row-Era tracks. It seems that for the most part, Crooked I has been aware of what has been going on. I have to say though, to me it seems that a lot of the negligence was on the people holding the Death Row auction for not going through the studio's inventory more thoroughly. Did it not occur to them that perhaps there would be cds of unreleased tracks at the offices of a record company?
Regardless of what happens with that material, I hope Wideawake still decides to put out the album officially. Besides, Wideawake releasing the album, may be the only way anyone gets to hear the official finished version. Like Crooked was saying in the interview, the tracks that have leaked have elements missing from the songs. Plus there are some songs that we've all heard about, that haven't even been advertised on any of these different bootleg projects.
Also, it seems that Crooked I still plans on releasing the B.O.S.S. album, a track at a time. I have mixed feelings about this, but it is kind of a cool idea to put out a commentary with each track. That will be interesting to see. Hopefully the next track from that drops soon.
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Thatz Dope...8)
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THAT WAS A VERY GOOD INTERVIEW, FUK YEA
PROPS MAN,
DOPE READ
DPGC23
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Propz for the interview. So, Crook is watching dudes like DeathRowFinest, LosSkanless and FTP huh 8)?
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Not surprising, DubCNN is a huge website.
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Propz for the interview. So, Crook is watching dudes like DeathRowFinest, LosSkanless and FTP huh 8)?
Don't forget his "friend", Shonuff. Though he seems to have disappeared from the boards since the guy who had the rights to "One Nation" found out about his digital bootleg he was selling on Amazon.
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come on crooked, he cant bring up darfur and his album not droppin haha
its been over a decade