West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: HighEyeCue on December 25, 2010, 06:59:30 AM
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I was just bumping this the other day and I think it gets too much hate. The West Coast disc has classics like We Can Freak it, C-Walk and other dope songs like Ask Yourself a Quesition, Fresh, Thats Gangsta. It's A Set Up, Game, We Can Freak it remix, The Life, No Feelings are all dope of the east coast disc. Just take off a few cuts here and there and you got a solid album.
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In 2011 there will be no more threads just started out of nowhere off of an old ass album. C'mon son, Kuruption! tho, we all know that was a super decent album and definitely a bomb ass album for the west coast (california). let's get a little real here.
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12 years later and i still only like 3 or 4 tracks..
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12 years later and i still only like 3 or 4 tracks..
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shoulda just made the west coast side..... and i'm from the east.
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Just take off a few cuts here and there and you got a solid album.
really this can be said of most albums
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wack album b y a wack rapper
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^Better the half the shit out today
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12 years later and i still only like 3 or 4 tracks..
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Good album, but i think it should've been just one disc with like 15 songs.
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I really enjoyed this album. However, it was still a dissapointment to me considering that I was expecting a classic seeing as how his last album was Dogg Food. Kuruption! was just all over the place. Tha Streetz Iz A Mutha was a classic album though.
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12 years later and i still only like 3 or 4 tracks..
thats quite shockin lol
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Man that eastcoastdisc was raw as fuck
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Good album, but i think it should've been just one disc with like 15 songs.
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I quite like the album but yeah half is really really good and half average.
I think at the time i was dissapointed that there wasnt many DPG features and even on eastcoast disc there wernt many big name rappers. Kinda like the source said"what could have been"
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Fuck no. This album was a huge disappointment . I took it back to the store the next day .
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Im not sure I would call this album slept on. It was Kurupt's biggest selling album. I forget how many units it pushed but it did well and at the time He was very popular. This album wasnt slept on, Im guessing you might be a bit younger and werent around when it first came out to really notice it. But I happen to think it was a solid album. I agree with everyone else about it being better if he just took the best tracks from both discs and put them together but its cool. Still a solid album. Definately not slept on, just dated.
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It was a disappointment in its day, because Kurupt's raps seemingly out of nowhere took a hit. On many of the songs, he did what's now what most people think of as Kurupt's rapping style -- "Eat a dicc bitch. Go and slit your wrists bitch" -- you know, that kind of thing. It all started on Kuruption. It was not anywhere close to being as consistently amazing as Dogg Pound from a lyrical perspective. To add insult to injury, a lot of the songs lacked any kind of substance whatsoever -- it was basically a substance-less album, which is shocking for an album with so many tracks. Plus, at the time, the industry was heavy into trying to dead the East Coast/West Coast division that had resulted in the killings of two of hip hop's most prominent artists. Yet, in spit of this, Kurupt segregated each coast onto separate discs. Plus, just on a surface level, the lack of high-profile guest appearance impaired the East Coast disc's marketability. Kurupt couldn't carry it on his own on the East since he was affiliated with Death Row, and at that time, Death Row was basically persona non grata on the East due to B.I.G.'s killing.
There was just a lot of sloppiness. Kurupt meant well, but it was a high risk/high reward type of album, and it just didn't work out for Kurupt.
Looking back, it's an ok album -- enjoyable to an extent, if undistinguished. It's sort of like The Doggfather in that respect, because both albums are solid but unspectacular and totally were not the right albums for that time period based on what audiences were expecting Snoop and Kurupt to drop back then. It's only when you remove both those albums from the time period in which each dropped that one can disassociate failed expectations and appreciate the album for what it is. In sum, it's mediocre, but circa 2010/2011, that means good.
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it's a shame Kurupt never made Dogg Food a solo LP :D
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It was a disappointment in its day, because Kurupt's raps seemingly out of nowhere took a hit. On many of the songs, he did what's now what most people think of as Kurupt's rapping style -- "Eat a dicc bitch. Go and slit your wrists bitch" -- you know, that kind of thing. It all started on Kuruption. It was not anywhere close to being as consistently amazing as Dogg Pound from a lyrical perspective. To add insult to injury, a lot of the songs lacked any kind of substance whatsoever -- it was basically a substance-less album, which is shocking for an album with so many tracks. Plus, at the time, the industry was heavy into trying to dead the East Coast/West Coast division that had resulted in the killings of two of hip hop's most prominent artists. Yet, in spit of this, Kurupt segregated each coast onto separate discs. Plus, just on a surface level, the lack of high-profile guest appearance impaired the East Coast disc's marketability. Kurupt couldn't carry it on his own on the East since he was affiliated with Death Row, and at that time, Death Row was basically persona non grata on the East due to B.I.G.'s killing.
There was just a lot of sloppiness. Kurupt meant well, but it was a high risk/high reward type of album, and it just didn't work out for Kurupt.
Looking back, it's an ok album -- enjoyable to an extent, if undistinguished. It's sort of like The Doggfather in that respect, because both albums are solid but unspectacular and totally were not the right albums for that time period based on what audiences were expecting Snoop and Kurupt to drop back then. It's only when you remove both those albums from the time period in which each dropped that one can disassociate failed expectations and appreciate the album for what it is. In sum, it's mediocre, but circa 2010/2011, that means good.
This is the best I have heard someone explain it. +1
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Good album, but i think it should've been just one disc with like 15 songs.
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It was a disappointment in its day, because Kurupt's raps seemingly out of nowhere took a hit. On many of the songs, he did what's now what most people think of as Kurupt's rapping style -- "Eat a dicc bitch. Go and slit your wrists bitch" -- you know, that kind of thing. It all started on Kuruption. It was not anywhere close to being as consistently amazing as Dogg Pound from a lyrical perspective. To add insult to injury, a lot of the songs lacked any kind of substance whatsoever -- it was basically a substance-less album, which is shocking for an album with so many tracks. Plus, at the time, the industry was heavy into trying to dead the East Coast/West Coast division that had resulted in the killings of two of hip hop's most prominent artists. Yet, in spit of this, Kurupt segregated each coast onto separate discs. Plus, just on a surface level, the lack of high-profile guest appearance impaired the East Coast disc's marketability. Kurupt couldn't carry it on his own on the East since he was affiliated with Death Row, and at that time, Death Row was basically persona non grata on the East due to B.I.G.'s killing.
There was just a lot of sloppiness. Kurupt meant well, but it was a high risk/high reward type of album, and it just didn't work out for Kurupt.
Looking back, it's an ok album -- enjoyable to an extent, if undistinguished. It's sort of like The Doggfather in that respect, because both albums are solid but unspectacular and totally were not the right albums for that time period based on what audiences were expecting Snoop and Kurupt to drop back then. It's only when you remove both those albums from the time period in which each dropped that one can disassociate failed expectations and appreciate the album for what it is. In sum, it's mediocre, but circa 2010/2011, that means good.
Real talk...it took me 6 years to love that album
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I really enjoyed this album. However, it was still a dissapointment to me considering that I was expecting a classic seeing as how his last album was Dogg Food. Kuruption! was just all over the place. Tha Streetz Iz A Mutha was a classic album though.
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west disc was dope as fuck, east disc was ok, never got into it that much, but i stilllove that west cd
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the east disc is mostly wack and Kurupt appeared to be either high or drunk while recording most of these tracks just my 2 cents
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Had some good songs on it but I'd put Streets Iz A Mutha way above it in quality...and to be honest, even Space Boogie: Smoke Odyssey was better imo.
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dre was right about how this album shouldv been 1 disc but i tink it should stayed as 2
lyrically it wasn all that but this is my fave kurupt album
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Had some good songs on it but I'd put Streets Iz A Mutha way above it in quality...and to be honest, even Space Boogie: Smoke Odyssey was better imo.
nah Streetz definitely but Space Boogie was too poppy for me