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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Rud on June 04, 2013, 12:11:38 AM
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READ > http://www.dubcnn.com/2013/06/03/cpo-boss-hogg%E2%80%8F-interview-part-1-june-2013/
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Since 1990 West Coast legend CPO Boss Hogg has been captivating fans of west coast hip-hop once he stepped on the scene with his crew, the Capital Punishment Organization.
Discovered and introduced by MC Ren, CPO Boss Hogg, aka Lil’ Nation, made his extraordinary debut when the video to “Ballad Of A Menace” was released, and featured all the members of N.W.A. — Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, and MC Ren.
On the heels of C.P.O.’s To Hell And Black debut album, Boss Hogg landed a guest appearance as “Mr. Big Draws” on N.W.A.’s “Findum, Fuck’em, and Flee” off the Efil4zaggin album.
From there, CPO Boss Hogg would continue to make appearances on a host of classic west coast albums in the 90’s including the Above The Rim (“Just So Ya No”) and Murder Was The Case (“The Eulogy”) soundtracks, as well popping up to steal the show on 2Pac’s 9-times platinum I (“Picture Me Rollin”). In the early 2000’s Boss Hogg continued to link up with some of the west’s finest when he showed up alongside Tha Eastsidaz, Xzibit and Kurupt for “The Big Bang Theory”, he popped in for 2 cuts for Warren G’s Return Of The Regulator (“They Lovin’ Me Now”, “It Ain’t Nothing Wrong With You”), and put one down for Snoop Dogg’s Bones soundtrack with “This Is My Life”.
Having remained a topic of conversation over the years, many fans wondered what became of him; until news surfaced in 2010 that CPO Boss Hogg had suffered an apparent heart attack. After 3 years of little to no news of the tragic event, CPO Boss Hogg fell into relative obscurity, until now.
Dubcnn recently caught up with the seldom seen CPO Boss Hogg for an exclusive, in-depth interview. In part 1 of our conversation with the Boss Hogg, we discuss what happened during that scare in 2010 and what he’s been doing since, get the details on his upcoming album “I Boss”, talk about his early career and being discovered by MC Ren, and more!
READ > http://www.dubcnn.com/2013/06/03/cpo-boss-hogg%E2%80%8F-interview-part-1-june-2013/
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Thanks for posting, always been a big fan
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gonna read.
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Thanks for posting, always been a big fan
Yeah, same goes with me. It's such a shame CPO hasen't been very active in the past 20 years - he's got an unique voice and his delivery is off the chain. I always wanted to hear him on a track with RBX and Mc Ren, that would've been a great record 8)
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Hope his album will come out...always loved his flow and delivery
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I'm glad he's better. Which songs did it is with death row???
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dope read cpo always had some dope shit. 8)
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great interview 8)
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Thanks for the feedback! stay tuned for Part 2...
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An album of new material could be sick 8)
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8)
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I'm glad he's better. Which songs did it is with death row???
'Just So Ya Know' (From Above The Rim)
'The Eulogy' (Murder Was The Case)
'Picture Me Rollin' (All Eyez On Me)
'Slippin' In The West' and 'Foo Nay Mic' (The Chronic: Re-Lit)
Great read by the way. Good to know that he's doing well after his health scare. I've always liked his ridiculously deep voice and smooth delivery, at times almost sounding comedic. He would have sounded great with Nate Dogg.
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well done chad! CPO doesn't really do interviews 8)
good to know that he's feeling better.
Dubcnn.com: When you did “To Hell and Black”, what do you remember about the making of that album? I mean, you were working with MC Ren of NWA that had to be incredible at that time.
For me, I was super nervous! [laughs] Like I said, I grew up with Ren, but getting into rap was an entirely different thing to me. That was his area of expertise, and I was brand-new to it. When I signed to Ren, I had been rapping a total of two weeks, that’s it. Growing up, it was always my brother, Ren, and this cat named Chip who was always rapping together. I would always tell them to get a real job, but it turned out the shit they were doing was making the most money [laughs]. But Ren had heard a song I did called “Something Like Dis”, which I did to D.O.C.’s “Funky Enough” song. He listened to maybe 10-15 seconds of it, immediately took me to Young D’s house and him to do a different beat for it. Ren told me to rap my song to that beat, but I thought the track was too fast, but he just told me to try it. I did, and that’s actually the recording you hear on that CPO album.
:laugh: funny story. didnt know he couldn't rap at first.
that explains the rapping style on his album, as ren coached him