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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96' on March 20, 2021, 06:10:53 PM
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Every few years I have to make an appreciation thread for this album so fools recognize—because I’m still pissed this album didn’t make more noise at the time of its release—the shit didn’t even go platinum!! How does an album this solid with a perfect lead single to launch “In California” on the monster label of the mid-90’s—fail to even go gold?
I will tell you how... rap fans had been poisoned by 3rd rate talent proliferating the game—No Limit, Ja Rule, and all that bullshit had taken up PAC’s lane and filled the vacuum and it’s a damn shame Daz didn’t get the props he deserved cause it was really a heroic effort for him to come wit this post Dre, post Pac, post Suge, post-Snoop—all the A-team had left him but Soopafly, Tray-Dee, Bad-Azz, LBC Crew still had his back and he had enough in the canon—I used to bump the shit out of this album I had just got my DL and must’ve kept it in rotation for an entire year until Eminem came around and changed the game.
Last album of the greatest era in rap the death row era...props is due
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Raw was better
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Raw was better
Raw had some bangers, no doubt... but it's sloppy... I mean look at the artwork on the album, and the way it was put together... look at the sequencing... there's filler tracks also
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I consider it a classic. I like "R.A.W." better though. You really do make this thread once in a few years. I thought this was an old thread that somebody upped.
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yea raw is prolly his best solo tbh
but this ones right there
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a lot of Death Row material on "R.A.W." as well, I go back and forth between these 2 albums as far as being Daz's best
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Every few years I have to make an appreciation thread for this album
no. just no.
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This album was trash. Sounded totally different to what I was expecting (classic G-Funk).
I dunno about his best solo, but I liked Dazamataz. And looking forward to NY, LA or whatever it's gonna be called with Capone.
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i always have baby mama drama on repeat till this day. anyone know how much this album sold at the time? i think it was 250k?
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i always have baby mama drama on repeat till this day. anyone know how much this album sold at the time? i think it was 250k?
Yes, 250K and shipped 300K.
"Baby Mama Drama" I liked but thought it was one of the weakest songs on the album. Surprised that's the one you got on repeat.
...And I'm willing to guess the cats on this thread saying it ain't Daz best solo got the album way late, and weren't in record stores the Tuesday it dropped Spring 98' to buy the album. A lot of the members of this forum weren't really up on shit until Dre's 2001 album came out then they came around. But who was honestly in that record store on that Tuesday? If you were there at the time and bought the album day 1 and still say RAW or one of his other albums is a better album then I would be very surprised.
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I consider it a classic. I like "R.A.W." better though. You really do make this thread once in a few years. I thought this was an old thread that somebody upped.
It's really like an annual thing round this time of year I dust it off.. because it dropped in March 98'. Now I've been out of the country and riding taxi's for the last 7 years, but thanks to Bill Gates trying to turn this into prison planet I'm stuck back in America again--but on the good side I get to ride around in my 90's Camri bumping Daz again
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Got it the day it dropped. Raw is better, got that one before retail.
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Classic album in my books, as a DPG head....It was more polished than 'RAW'...which I guess, lived up to its name (and was a great album).
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Classic album in my books, as a DPG head....It was more polished than 'RAW'...which I guess, lived up to its name (and was a great album).
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Yes, 250K and shipped 300K.
"Baby Mama Drama" I liked but thought it was one of the weakest songs on the album. Surprised that's the one you got on repeat.
...And I'm willing to guess the cats on this thread saying it ain't Daz best solo got the album way late, and weren't in record stores the Tuesday it dropped Spring 98' to buy the album. A lot of the members of this forum weren't really up on shit until Dre's 2001 album came out then they came around. But who was honestly in that record store on that Tuesday? If you were there at the time and bought the album day 1 and still say RAW or one of his other albums is a better album then I would be very surprised.
I remember buying it the day it came out as well. This was before I had the internet in '99. I would buy the Source every month and check for what was coming out, this was around the time that No Limit was dominating the charts. But I was still riding with Death Row and even purchased Chronic 2000 which came out the following year. But RR&GB was the last great Death Row studio album like you stated.
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I remember buying it the day it came out as well. This was before I had the internet in '99. I would buy the Source every month and check for what was coming out, this was around the time that No Limit was dominating the charts. But I was still riding with Death Row and even purchased Chronic 2000 which came out the following year. But RR&GB was the last great Death Row studio album like you stated.
Exactly what I thought 8)
And I have the same story. I would check the shelves every month for the Source and if it was somebody on the cover I was a fan of I would buy the issue. Interestingly enough, headz like you will remember that Snoop actually snagged the Source Cover the same month Daz was dropping and both Snoop had a feature in the magazine (for leaving Death row) and Daz had a feature for dropping RRGB. (I lost this classic issue some years back on a plane ride). So Daz actually dissed Snoop in that Source issue calling him "Hollywood". Snoop had dropped a banger with Kurupt for the Caught Up soundtrack "Ride On" and was in between Death Row and No Limit at the time--stranded. And Daz made a heroic effort to deliver the album he did at that time. I thought "In California", great single could be enough to bring back the West and bring back Death Row when he delivered with a great album. The album came in at #6 the first week and then didn't really make no noise commercially after that.
There was some excitement about a month or so later in April when Snoop signed with No Limit. Went to a midnight sale at blockbuster music (ya'll remember those?) when the album dropped in July 98'. That was a cool scene to see so many fans lined up (in Kansas City) to pick up Snoop's album at midnight. I put the album in and kept flipping through for a banger and got to the last track and realized it was dog shit.
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Exactly what I thought 8)
And I have the same story. I would check the shelves every month for the Source and if it was somebody on the cover I was a fan of I would buy the issue. Interestingly enough, headz like you will remember that Snoop actually snagged the Source Cover the same month Daz was dropping and both Snoop had a feature in the magazine (for leaving Death row) and Daz had a feature for dropping RRGB. (I lost this classic issue some years back on a plane ride). So Daz actually dissed Snoop in that Source issue calling him "Hollywood". Snoop had dropped a banger with Kurupt for the Caught Up soundtrack "Ride On" and was in between Death Row and No Limit at the time--stranded. And Daz made a heroic effort to deliver the album he did at that time. I thought "In California", great single could be enough to bring back the West and bring back Death Row when he delivered with a great album. The album came in at #6 the first week and then didn't really make no noise commercially after that.
There was some excitement about a month or so later in April when Snoop signed with No Limit. Went to a midnight sale at blockbuster music (ya'll remember those?) when the album dropped in July 98'. That was a cool scene to see so many fans lined up (in Kansas City) to pick up Snoop's album at midnight. I put the album in and kept flipping through for a banger and got to the last track and realized it was dog shit.
blockbuster music was the shit
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This album was trash. Sounded totally different to what I was expecting (classic G-Funk).
I dunno about his best solo, but I liked Dazamataz. And looking forward to NY, LA or whatever it's gonna be called with Capone.
Wasnt trash but it did sound different case in point compare; do what i feel vs our daily bread
I rest my case..
Now dazmataz is his best work post dogg food.
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Wasnt trash but it did sound different case in point compare; do what i feel vs our daily bread
I rest my case..
Now dazmataz is his best work post dogg food.
Dazamataz was very underrated
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^^ coulda been classic if narrowed down 2 one disc
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It was a solid album. Gold - Platinum is reasonable for it IMO. It just lacked that 'superstar' presence, and Daz wasn't somebody who was going to be the front runner of the label. I think Suge was right in making him head producer and having him as a feature rapper only. Kurupt's albums were the same. Combined, and with the right structure behind them, they could churn out another Dogg Food.
I enjoy the album, think it's solid, with a rarity that I can play it from start to finish, but it's not one of my top favourites, and I know it won't resonate with a larger commercial fan base
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It was a solid album. Gold - Platinum is reasonable for it IMO. It just lacked that 'superstar' presence, and Daz wasn't somebody who was going to be the front runner of the label. I think Suge was right in making him head producer and having him as a feature rapper only. Kurupt's albums were the same. Combined, and with the right structure behind them, they could churn out another Dogg Food.
I enjoy the album, think it's solid, with a rarity that I can play it from start to finish, but it's not one of my top favourites, and I know it won't resonate with a larger commercial fan base
Yeah he didn't have the star quality to make an impression on mainstream fans. In fact, the reason Dogg Food did what it did at 2 million was because they road the coattails of Snoop's star power to reach a larger audience.