It's June 04, 2024, 10:00:16 PM
I thought the Battlecat track and the Soopafly joints were the highlights!
There are two problems with "Cali iz Active". One was having Paul Wall, David Banner, and Puffy on this cd. Their styles contrast way too much with the Daz/Kurupt chemistry. If they had verses from Bad Azz, Warren G, Soopafly, and a couple people from the Cali iz Active video shoot (Too Short, WC, DJ Quik, Roscoe, Xzibit, and MC Eiht come to mind), instead of trying to go mainstream, it'd be a better album. The second problem, and the biggest one with this album is the same problem that plagued the 213 album...the production wasn't kept in house. The tracks Soopafly produced ("Throwin up da C", "Slow your roll", and "Keepin' it Gangsta") are the highlights of this album. Battlecat must have used beats he pulled out of the trash because besides "Cali iz active", his beats are garbage...he definately did not bring his A game (this case, he didn't bring his B, C, or D game either). If you have Daz, Soopafly, and Warren G produce the bulk of this album (say 4 songs each) and have Dre, Scott Storch, Jazze Pha, and Battlecat produce a song each, then we'd have the classic album that many people on here feel Cali iz Active should have been.
West coast fans aren't keeping the west down, it's artists that release trash like this and expect their fans to like it and buy it because it has the names "Snoop Dogg", "213", or "Tha Dogg Pound" on the cover.
We know why Daz wasnt on the boards, We know why Warren G wasnt on the boards with 213. Labels dont wanna pay niiggaz to rap AND produce. Labels say hey its YOUR project we are already paying you to rap, we AINT paying you to produce its simple as that. We know this shiit woulda been heat with Daz production on it. Even without it gets a 7/10.
But y'all that claim this album sucks simply because there aren't enough West Coast producers and guests are playin yourselves. The album would suck 10x worse if it had only beats and guests from Cali. If Battlecat (who used to be one of the best in the West) can't make this album sound good, why do you think Soopafly or Warren G could do much better? Pretty much all of Soopafly's shit was equally bad, and if "In The Mid-Nite Hour" is any indication, Warren G would be WORSE. Same with rappers...all them cats are just like Daz and Kurupt themselves; nobody except those in the West are checkin for them anymore cause they're just has-beens of the G-Funk era who got nothing else to offer hip-hop.
Sure they are...and you are one of them. The album is trash according to you because it didn't have in-house production and guests. That is how all West Coast fans are - if it doesn't follow the Death Row/G-Funk blueprint, it's wack. So that's what these artists do - they try and cater to the G-Funk flunkies AND reach out to the mainstream at the same time, but trying to satisfy both is impossible and always results in shit music. "Cali Iz Active" is yet another textbook example. If Kurupt and Daz had focused on improving their style and adapting themselves better to the times rather than satisfying their stupid L.A. fans, it would have been better.So yeah, the fans are keeping the West down. They need to learn that it ain't '95 anymore and that hip-hop has moved on, and the sooner they catch up to it, the better.
The features of Paul Wall, Banner and Diddy are the highlights of the album