Is Regulate G Funk Era on ths same level as the classic Death Row albums?

[TraceOneInfinite]

Agreed- It Takes a Thief is a classic album IMO. 

And to answer the original question, Regulate is an incredible album, only surpassed by three DR albums

It's right on par with the golden era Death Row albums

[Soopafly DPGC]

yeah exactly, MTV Beach House and Coolio's video at the beach with person after person coming out of the trunk to join the party is very vivid in my mind.  I even remember them interviewing him on the beach and they asked him if he knew Snoop, lol, and he drew in the sand something like "yeah, LBC is there" and then a line "and my hood was over there".  Snoop was #1 still in 94 even without having an album out he was still regarded as the #1 guy in rap.

Then; you are right, it was pretty remarkable that Coolio actually blew up even bigger the next summer.  And again, it was with a monster single "Gangstaz Paradise".  Huge crossover hit, white people in the suburbs are still singing it at Kaoroke parties at weddings.

This thread got a little derailed, but it would be interesting to start a new thread and try to objectively discuss who had the bigger impact, Coolio or Warren G.  Both debut albums released the same time, both had same career trajectory where after 3 or 4 albums, they started trailing off.

I'm a huge death row fan, so i am somewhat biased to Warren, but honestly, one could easily make a case for Coolio being the overall bigger of the two.  I'd say he probably had more mainstream hits than Warren. 

[HighEyeCue]

It's right on par with the golden era Death Row albums

yeah I agree its right there

about the only thing you could say is the guest spots are nowhere close to being as good as any of the DR albums

but at the same token it feels 100 percent like a Warren G album where the DR albums feel more of a group effort

[TraceOneInfinite]

This thread got a little derailed, but it would be interesting to start a new thread and try to objectively discuss who had the bigger impact, Coolio or Warren G.  Both debut albums released the same time, both had same career trajectory where after 3 or 4 albums, they started trailing off.

I'm a huge death row fan, so i am somewhat biased to Warren, but honestly, one could easily make a case for Coolio being the overall bigger of the two.  I'd say he probably had more mainstream hits than Warren.

and there you go again, lol, back to comparing the two albums, smh

the only comparison you can make is that a kid in those days at the record store might have actually accidently bought Coolio's album instead of Warren G.  That's the only part that is a worthwhile discussion.

But anything else is off that table, like comparing the two albums. 

Maybe you are just asking who was bigger in the summer of 94.  I still say Warren was way bigger.  Because "Regulators" was a bigger hit than "Fantastic Voyage" and then "This DJ" broke through about as big as "Fantastic Voyage".  Then, with Snoop being the #1 guy in rap, and Warren G is his right hand man.  You also had the Dre connection and Dre making the cameo in "Do You See"-- Warren rocked the whole summer.

Can you imagine a 3 month stretch of summer where you get these three videos back to back:

[TraceOneInfinite]

yeah I agree its right there

about the only thing you could say is the guest spots are nowhere close to being as good as any of the DR albums

but at the same token it feels 100 percent like a Warren G album where the DR albums feel more of a group effort

Sorry homie but I got to disagree with that.  First, Nate had, what is still to this day considered one of the greatest guest spots in music history with "Regulate".  White kids in the suburbs are still singing that at Kaoroke parties for weddings.

Then you got the 5 Footaz rocked that joint so hard they even got their own segment on the classic Show documentary:



Then, the first joint banged on the Warren G album was the Twinz "Recognize" joint.  That one went hard and was more along the lines of what I expected following Chronic and Doggystyle.

--you also got the Dove Shack "This is the Shack" is a classic and earned them their own album and record deal. 

Lil Malik did his thing at the end of the album just like he had done at the end of Doggystyle.

...only thing you can argue is that (aside from Nate Dogg) their names weren't as big as the names on the golden era Death Row albums.  But the actual tracks themselves were just as good and timeless classics.