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Title: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: smp4life on October 05, 2014, 12:09:49 AM
Could Dre get Crooked I to pop/ drop a classic album?
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: on October 05, 2014, 01:02:44 AM
Then Crook would have sat on the shelf even longer than he did.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: bouli77 on October 05, 2014, 01:46:57 AM
that was in the talks in 99, now it's way too late for that and I don't see why Dre would do that
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: dnjp4life on October 05, 2014, 02:31:33 AM
Assuming you're referring to the talk that Dr. Dre was going to sign Crooked I to Aftermath back in the late 90s/early 2000s, then I think so. 
If a solo project by Crooked I was given backing by Dre and green-lighted by the record labels overseeing it, then I think he would have been in the same lane as 50 Cent was back when 'Get Rich' came out.  Although I think that Crooked would have appealed, as he does now, to die-hard rap fans as opposed to casual fans, and I'm not sure if he would have had as much commercial success.
Interesting to think what could have been though.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: OG The Cricket Loc on October 05, 2014, 03:24:05 AM
Dre a bitch ... crooked needs to return to his roots nigga drop west coast album over gfunk beats.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: Black Excellence on October 05, 2014, 06:21:42 AM
if dre wanted to sign crooked he'd done it by now. not gonna happen.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: Mietek23 on October 05, 2014, 08:00:15 AM
Dre wanted to sign Crooked back when he was working on "2001" but he told him then it will take some time before they could start making his record so he decided to go with Suge & Tha Row. At the end of the day, it was a right decision for Crook to make under those circumstances cause he would end up like Hittman or Bishop Lamont had he signed with Aftermath.

Now, he's on Shady so Dre's under a reach so jumping to Aftermath won't make a difference for him - let's just hope they will work together on some tracks in the near future.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: Hack Wilson - real on October 05, 2014, 09:19:50 AM
if dre wanted to sign crooked he'd done it by now. not gonna happen.

do some research before sounding like a homo, homo
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: Black Excellence on October 05, 2014, 09:36:50 AM
if dre wanted to sign crooked he'd done it by now. not gonna happen.

do some research before sounding like a homo, homo
research done. has dr. dre signed crooked I ? no (in my red's pops from Friday voice) ! will he sign crooked I ? hell no ! there ya go have a nice day fag bait.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: Hack Wilson - real on October 05, 2014, 09:57:10 AM
he offered to sign him and crook turned it down, this is a fact.



jesus you TI stans are as dumb as they come.  must be because TI is also stupid.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: Black Excellence on October 05, 2014, 10:05:56 AM
he offered to sign him and crook turned it down, this is a fact.



jesus you TI stans are as dumb as they come.  must be because TI is also stupid.
I'm aware that dre may have offered him a deal. but what's dumb is that he went to death row to do what he would've been doin' at aftermath anyway: playin' the shelf. don't be mad crooked been in the game for 20 years and nothin' to show for it faggot as wigger.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: Jimmy H. on October 05, 2014, 10:18:34 AM
If a solo project by Crooked I was given backing by Dre and green-lighted by the record labels overseeing it, then I think he would have been in the same lane as 50 Cent was back when 'Get Rich' came out.  
I don't think he would have been in the same lane.  People like to act like all Dre has to do is co-sign artists and they will be as big as 50 Cent but Fifty had already manufactured a huge buzz for himself and had all the right pieces in place to be a huge star in 2003.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: Hack Wilson - real on October 05, 2014, 10:49:47 AM
If a solo project by Crooked I was given backing by Dre and green-lighted by the record labels overseeing it, then I think he would have been in the same lane as 50 Cent was back when 'Get Rich' came out.  
I don't think he would have been in the same lane.  People like to act like all Dre has to do is co-sign artists and they will be as big as 50 Cent but Fifty had already manufactured a huge buzz for himself and had all the right pieces in place to be a huge star in 2003.

yep

i.e. being considered real in the streets for the ghetto quran and then getting shot 9 x
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: BIGTIMELA on October 05, 2014, 07:56:14 PM
If you want to be technical, since Crooked I is signed to Shady with Slaughterhouse, he is basically signed to dre too.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: aerroc on October 05, 2014, 10:19:29 PM
If a solo project by Crooked I was given backing by Dre and green-lighted by the record labels overseeing it, then I think he would have been in the same lane as 50 Cent was back when 'Get Rich' came out.  
I don't think he would have been in the same lane.  People like to act like all Dre has to do is co-sign artists and they will be as big as 50 Cent but Fifty had already manufactured a huge buzz for himself and had all the right pieces in place to be a huge star in 2003.

bullshit dre and snoop cosigned jay rock and his album didnt sell shit

https://www.youtube.com/v/Xi8LZmJuh-w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi8LZmJuh-w)
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: doggfather on October 06, 2014, 02:27:28 AM
Then Crook would have sat on the shelf even longer than he did.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: LostAngel on October 06, 2014, 03:26:24 AM
Then he would write for Dre, wouldn't get credits for it, and when it's all over, he would left by himself. Simple. That's Aftermath's tradition.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: Jimmy H. on October 06, 2014, 06:43:29 AM
If you want to be technical, since Crooked I is signed to Shady with Slaughterhouse, he is basically signed to dre too.
Nope.  Shady Records is its own entity, just as G-Unit was.  Also, Slaughterhouse is signed to Shady as a group, not Crooked as a solo act.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: papa-smurf on October 06, 2014, 06:52:47 AM
crooked i would of popped if dre wouldof signed him around 2003 when 50 cent & g unit was popping & got 50 cent to push him like he did game then crooked would of been in a mainstream posistion like game. Game signed at the right time.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: Okka on October 06, 2014, 08:02:31 AM
If a solo project by Crooked I was given backing by Dre and green-lighted by the record labels overseeing it, then I think he would have been in the same lane as 50 Cent was back when 'Get Rich' came out.  
I don't think he would have been in the same lane.  People like to act like all Dre has to do is co-sign artists and they will be as big as 50 Cent but Fifty had already manufactured a huge buzz for himself and had all the right pieces in place to be a huge star in 2003.

bullshit dre and snoop cosigned jay rock and his album didnt sell shit

https://www.youtube.com/v/Xi8LZmJuh-w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi8LZmJuh-w)

Did you actually even read what Jimmy H said?
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: sofdark on October 08, 2014, 06:47:33 AM
He probably would have learned to construct a good song.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: doggfather on October 08, 2014, 06:53:46 AM
He probably would have learned to construct a good song.
;D ;D
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: BIGWORM on October 08, 2014, 01:31:59 PM
If Dr. Dre signed Crooked-I, he would never release an album..... Oh wait LMFAO Crooked-I hasn't realesed an album. So I guess it would be the same.
Title: Re: What if Dre signed Crooked?
Post by: aerroc on October 08, 2014, 03:55:41 PM
crooked is a dope rapper but has no charisma