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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Elevz on February 09, 2005, 06:38:06 AM

Title: What's up with The D.O.C.'s voice?
Post by: Elevz on February 09, 2005, 06:38:06 AM
I've been listening to The D.O.C's "No one can do it better" album today - damn, that sure is a fucking hot album! But that's when I realised... What the hell happened to his voice in such a short period of time? "No one can do it better" was released in 1989 and his voice sounds allright there, nothing wrong with it. Only 3 years later, on "The Chronic" we all remember him doing the $20 Sack Pyramid with a voice which sounds more like The Madd Rapper.

It's probably just that I'm too young - I wasn't actively listening to hiphop back when NOCDIB and The Chronic hit the shelves, but I'm just wondering... What the hell happened to The D.O.C's voice? He really sounds like he's suffered from cancer in his throat, or got shot in it or something.
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Post by: broken_sword on February 09, 2005, 06:41:19 AM
he was involved in a serious car crash and lost his voice. :-\

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Post by: Traumatized on February 09, 2005, 06:41:54 AM
He had an car accident, as far as I know.  :(
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Post by: white Boy on February 09, 2005, 06:43:36 AM
he was involved in a serious car crash and lost his voice. :-\


yep, but its good that he still writes, hes dope as shit,
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Post by: Nima - Dubcnn.com on February 09, 2005, 07:06:44 AM
yeah he had a car accident shortly after his record dropped... (NOCDIB)
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Post by: SlickPants on February 09, 2005, 07:51:48 AM
Its really sad, he's probably my favorite rapper.
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Post by: -Euthanasia- on February 09, 2005, 10:06:23 AM
no he's not
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Post by: Trauma-san on February 09, 2005, 01:41:18 PM
Was driving home late, and fell asleep at the wheel, got thrown through the windshield, all of the glass shattered his voicebox.  He now uses it as an excuse for why he's wasted his whole life away.  Go get "Heltah Skeltah", it's a halfway decent album he made after he lost his voice, that remake of one of the songs he did on 'no one can do it better' is worth the price of the album in my opinion.  I like that one about him digging himself out of his grave or whatever, too.  Man, that could have been SUCH A killer gimmick.  When life throws you lemons, make lemonade. 
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Post by: Don Seer on February 09, 2005, 01:43:05 PM
lol... nice summar.. he doesnt use it as an excuse.. but he said something like it fucked him up and made him depressed n stuff for many years.. so he drank a lot and did a lot of drugs..
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Post by: Elevz on February 09, 2005, 02:16:51 PM
Damn, that's harsch right there. Thanks for informing me, everyone  ;D I wonder what his career would have been like say he hadn't had that car accident  ::)

Ah well, it's good to know he's still active in the music biz writing songs and all that... That's at least something, there's others who came out worse from a car accident...
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Post by: mellowmanisback on February 10, 2005, 11:02:38 AM
The actual truth of the incident was that Doc was driving home from doing a double music video shoot (Beautiful but deadly, the formula).  He didn't actually fall asleep, Dre said DOC was legally drunk (way above the limit) and crashed like Trauma said.  Dre said that D.O.C. was the inspiration behind "don't drink that wine - MAAD( motherfuckers against drunk driving) on EFIL4ZAGGIN.  The accident definetly cut short the career of one of the best rappers (in my humble opinion) EVER.  Dre has said that him and DOC had a better chemistry than anyone he has ever worked with.  Hope this helps answer your question a little more specifically. 
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Post by: Pushinbigbody00 on February 10, 2005, 11:31:10 AM
^^yep..

DOC got the be the coldest rapper to ever come out of mu city.. DALLAS TEXAS..

he so damn cold, he wrote the ENTIRE Nobody Does It Better in 2 WEEKS!!
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Post by: C-Swift on February 10, 2005, 11:36:07 AM
^^yep..

DOC got the be the coldest rapper to ever come out of mu city.. DALLAS TEXAS..

he so damn cold, he wrote the ENTIRE Nobody Does It Better in 2 WEEKS!!

Yeah D.O.C. reps the Dirty for the West in a talented way!
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Post by: SHOTGUN on February 10, 2005, 12:18:25 PM
yall niggas have no idea what happened to D.O.C.. What really happened was D.O.C. walked into Ruthless offices and Eazy-E handed him his yearly check and all of a sudden the nigga lost his voice.
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Post by: xover on February 10, 2005, 12:23:47 PM
lol... nice summar.. he doesnt use it as an excuse.. but he said something like it fucked him up and made him depressed n stuff for many years.. so he drank a lot and did a lot of drugs..
i cant blame him.he must have been gutted.its like a footballer fuckin his leg up ...
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Post by: smoke562 on February 10, 2005, 03:08:49 PM
yeh, he has a car accident , n his larynx got crushed.
i remember hearin a year ago that he was gonna get some sort of voice box implated in his throat to give him his voice back, then that was the last i heard of that...
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Post by: Pushinbigbody00 on February 10, 2005, 03:26:43 PM
lol... nice summar.. he doesnt use it as an excuse.. but he said something like it fucked him up and made him depressed n stuff for many years.. so he drank a lot and did a lot of drugs..


unfourtunatly he is still doin alot of drugs..i see him around every once in a while.
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Post by: i love men who take pictures with their booty's out on February 10, 2005, 04:00:14 PM


wasnt doc's 1st appearance on a record since his accident was on..

nwa...efil4zaggin he was on 1 of those skits right....

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Post by: westkoastanostra on February 10, 2005, 06:23:57 PM
yea he was on "dont drink that wine" funny ass skit lol
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Post by: _That_Cracka_J on February 10, 2005, 08:21:39 PM


wasnt doc's 1st appearance on a record since his accident was on..

nwa...efil4zaggin he was on 1 of those skits right....



Actually I think his first appearance after the accident was on the EP "100 Miles & Runnin".  I think he was on "Sa Prize (Fuck the police pt.2)".
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Post by: Pushinbigbody00 on February 10, 2005, 09:28:41 PM
it wasnt the first..but cant forget 20 Sack Pryamid.
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Post by: SlickPants on February 10, 2005, 11:49:00 PM
no he's not

what the fuck is that supposed to mean
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Post by: Elevz on February 11, 2005, 04:56:53 AM
Thanks for all your replies, I really appreciate it.

I wonder if having another voice box implanted would help getting his career back on track... He'll probably never sound the same again, but let's just hope he can get back to recording tracks with Dre again one day...
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Post by: Don Seer on February 11, 2005, 06:43:37 AM
^ uhh he already did with Dre on Deuce...
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Post by: -Euthanasia- on February 11, 2005, 07:07:59 AM
no he's not

what the fuck is that supposed to mean
you might like him, but he's far from your favorite rapper