so whats the deal with the deathrow purchase?

[Will_B]

A death row box set or dre box set would be HUGE

if u disagree ur a fool

rolling stones led zeppelin beatles grateful dead hendrix etc

all those box sets sold large amounts when they dropped

death row is the music of the new era of 30s and 40s people as those other bands I listed were

Yeah these clowns are catching massive feelings of this for some reason.

A deluxe edition of The Chronic for example would have a second disc with all the b-sides collected together and maybe some previously unreleased instrumentals. If they get Dre's involvement maybe some vault stuff on there too...

Either way...It. Would. Sell.

[MUHFUKKA]

i really doubt the wideawake chronic rerelease sold much at all. and that had updated cover art and the dvd with vault songs. see will you gotta understand, most rap fans that were teenagers or whatever when the chronic came out have kinda grown up and lost interest in buying rap music, not everyone is double og will bean

[Will_B]

i really doubt the wideawake chronic rerelease sold much at all. and that had updated cover art and the dvd with vault songs. see will you gotta understand, most rap fans that were teenagers or whatever when the chronic came out have kinda grown up and lost interest in buying rap music, not everyone is double og will bean

Marketing.

Universal got that shit on lock for the Marvin Gaye releases etc. They even do 90's albums you've probably never heard of too.


'Seminal' albums get re released ad infinitum. A homie who works in the industry told me rap albums don't because of small imprints and rights issues.



Stuff like this gets pushed in specialty outlets and sells.

[MUHFUKKA]

they marketed the chronic rerelease pretty heavy. not even comparable to the other ones. i remember even seeing tv commercials here and there. i can see it happening with indie rockers with crazy cult fanbases and older stuff that didnt even come out on cd originally but not rap albums that came out in the 90's. they tried it and it didnt work, if it did they would still be making money off it

[tonyscarbones]

Nah they did that relit chronic wrong

the non rap bands reissues sell cuz they do them right

if they did deathrow rereleases right, they would sell

them bonus tracks are not what a fan wants

a fan wants

hoe hopper
ratatat og

[Jimmy H.]

Well, to be fair, they can't legally put those out.

Wideawake's big failure was in not dealing with the quality issues after Snoop Lost Sessions. They released some pretty cool tracks in mediocre quality.

[Kashif mirza]

Wideawake made so many  mistakes with the catalogue  the way those albums came out  with no mixing or mastering involved shitty artwork lack of artists involvement .

[tonyscarbones]

If theyre not gonna put out stuff like
 hoe hopper
next episode og
ratatat og
etc vaulted joints made by DRE with the main artists rappin on them

then yea its a waste of time

[V2DHeart]

LOL @ 'dubcc aint the world'



You're telling me aside from a few people on here, no one in the real world remembers the Chronic?


Jimi Hendrix had a no 2 album this year. I guess you're telling me they made a loss on that too

Wth are you talking about? Are you mentally ill or something?

What i clearly meant is that dubcc doesnt necessarely represent what the demand for it is like out in the real world, based on a few of you in here saying that you "know many people who'd be interest in it". Also, most people interested in The Chronic already have it, it has been re-released before & they might fuck with it from time to time but they aren't into it as much as this niche here.

Smh, comparing Jimmy Hendrix with a Chronic album - extremely bad analogy.

I was discussing in a business sense. First off, Jimmy Hendrix is dead. The hype that has surrounded that name based on that will always add extra fanbase, ala 2pac, Biggie material. Jimmy Hendrix is not a rapper. His fanbase would definitely be more wider & for a market a little bit older & possibily more financially stable. It's also 2 different genres were talking about here.

Then you have an album that has already been re-released. We were clearly, or so i thought, talking about if they re-released it again (!) & how well it would do.So it has nothing to do with people not liking The Chronic as an album but we're talking business here. You're letting your little small dubcc world & your own want for it cloud your mind into believing it would be a profitable investment for any investors if they decided to put alot of stocks in. They would not get a big return, which was my point.

You're only half right.  Dr. Dre is arguably bigger than Jimmi Hendrix as far as popularity goes

That's a good "get out" clause right there 

I don't think any producer, or a producer who's an artist/producer will ever outshine a dedicated artist. Dr Dre is respected and certainly a stronghold name for 'success' or business but no where near the iconic status that Hendrix has outwith the normal boundaries of music. Hendrix, like Lennon, like Bob Marley are not just legendary and iconic of specific genre's of music, or even music in general, but rather entire "era's". Dr Dre is, and probably never will be anywhere near that level. But again, it's opinion.

Just look at Quincy Jones. The man is a living legend, has produced entire albums. Off the Wall & Thriller, even producing some of the biggest names in music ever, Sinatra, Fitzgerald etc. and by rights has more musical talent than Dre because he can play more instruments as well as produce in the studio, but even he won't have the iconic popularity of the figures previously mentioned. Dr Dre will always be known and respected, just not that timeless iconic status that will be of any symbolic use (like on T-Shirts 30 years after he's gone)

[Kashif mirza]

I wanna hear the following albums that are in the vault  crooked i untouchable, say hi to the bad guy, nina , eastwood born to be hated, doggpound westcoast aftershock, lets hope e one can release some of these next year .

[adi760]

Yea release Untochable would be so dope 
WideAwake fuked up on almost every lv.
1. Every album had terrible mastering & mixing
2. Sam Sneed's album - seriously? Half of songs are newly recorded and half is original from 90's
3. Chronic Re-lit no more available; they lose money cuz Dre's lawsuit. And these bonus tracks could be played only on PC :/
4. 20 to life - some songs were already released on offical release and mistaken discription (artists, producers).
5. Kurupt - Dwon & Dirty - this supposed to be Against the Grain re-release. But they cut some of tracks so WTF.
6. Snoop Doggy Dogg Lost Sessions - mastering...
7. Crooked I Hood Star - why the fuck they didn't put out just original album like Untouchable or SHTBG

[donfathaimmortal]

Yea release Untochable would be so dope 

Perhaps Darren Vegas gonna leak every track from Untouchable album

[adi760]

Thx to those leaks we didn't get many offical releases. Seriously something has to change in internet and piracy: this should be not allowed and punished.

[NIBIRU]

i've 35 years and i m fan of DEATH ROW RECORDS , the time is long .

 I want the unreleased death row , all artists , maybe in the web i tunes or amazon but . plz ,must be released!!

[Kashif mirza]

I want to hear deathrow  unreleased tracks aswell hopefully soon.