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Tha Dogg Pound Ft Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel & Memphis Bleek – Change The Game (Remix)

July 13th, 2011 18 comments

Tha Dogg Pound 2002 ©2001 Death Row Records

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California Love Remix Hip Hop Weekly Reloaded 14 Crooked I Freestyle

April 18th, 2011 12 comments

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Dominick Wickliffe, better known by his stage name Crooked I is an American rapper from Long Beach, California. The name “Crooked I” comes from the malt liquor beverage St. Ides, whose logo has a crooked letter “I” on the label. The “I” also stands for Intriago, an adopted gangster moniker common amongst Hip-Hop MC’s like Nas (aka Escobar) and The Notorious B.I.G. (aka Frank White). Crooked I is currently CEO of his own record label, Dynasty Entertainment, and Senior Vice President of Treacherous Records. Before he became his own boss, he was also signed to Virgin Records, and most notably, Death Row Records, where he spent four years working under the infamous Suge Knight.

It was the start of a second dynasty at the newly reborn Tha Row Records. Crooked I was joined by an incredible roster of legends such as Kurupt and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes as well as new comers such as Eastwood and Spider Loc. It is a little known fact that Crooked I was signed to the label as not only a recording artist, but a part of the Triple 7 production team as well. The team consisted of Crooked I, his god brother Jim Gittum and Tha Row’s former head of production Darren Vegas. During his time on Tha Row, Crooked I recorded over four albums worth of material including the legendary titles Untouchable and Say Hi To The Bad Guy. A notable song from Say Hi To The Bad Guy was Crooked I’s single titled So Hood which featured an appearance from R&B singer Sisqo of Dru Hill. Unfortunately, after several trips to prison, Suge Knight was never able to properly restore his record label and neither project ever saw the light of day. However, Crooked I’s time on Tha Row was not a complete disaster. In fact, Crooked I released a mixtape titled Westcoasanostra Volume 1 entirely produced by Darren Vegas in 2003. The rapper then appeared on the soundtrack for comedian Eddie Griffin’s film Dysfunktional Family (2003) as well as projects by artists such as Ja Rule, Tha Dogg Pound and The Boo Ya Tribe to name a few. Because the song was banned from major television outlets, fans were unware that a video was filmed to Dysfunktional Family’s lead single Still Tha Row. Crooked I started to realize that it was not that his music fell short in quality, but the fact that his record label was no longer welcome in the music industry. After four years on Tha Row Records and no album on the shelves, Crooked I opted out of his contract with Death Row Records.

With Crooked I’s musical future looking brighter than ever, he released his second EP Mr. Pig Face Weapon Waist in November of 2009 through Gracie Productions. The unusual title was attributed to Crooked I’s use of a pig mask during Slaughterhouse’s earlier performances. The project featured a highly publicized collaboration with Snoop Dogg which ended the two rapper’s long-standing friction. Additionally, Crooked I and director Chris Le filmed a music video for the EP’s second single titled Mr. Pig Face. Due to Crooked I’s newly found fame through Slaughterhouse, the project received much attention and proved to be a success. Crooked I has been quoted in stating that he believes the EP is a representation of his best musical work to date. In fact, Crooked I was so proud of the project’s success that he decided to release an extended version titled More Pig Face Weapon Waist in June of 2010.

In March of 2010 Crooked I began to push his movement, the Circle of Bosses (COB) to new heights. Crooked I launched the Planet COB website to promote his brand by providing exclusive music as well as official merchandise. The website produced a vigarous online campaign that was masterminded through outlets such as the Twitter social network. Due to the website’s success, Crooked I released a digital EP titled Planet COB Vol. 1 in August of 2010. The eight track project featured completely original production as well as the emcee’s highly popular single Everythang. Interestingly enough, the EP’s release coincided with the launching of Crooked I’s Hip Hop Weekly: Reloaded, a follow up the original series. Although critics were skeptical of his ability to recreate the magic, Crooked I grabbed the attention of several major news publications in less than one week.

-WK 01: Mass Appeal
-WK 02: Bang Yo City
-WK 03: Light Up
-WK 04: If It Ain’t About Money
-WK 05: Talkin’ To Myself
-WK 06: Medicine
-WK 07: Blood On The Wall
-WK 08: Never Been
-WK 09: Paradise
-Wk 10: Boardwalk Empire Hello
-WK 11: Hard In The Paint
-WK 12: Hot Tottie or Hot Toddy
-WK 13: Black & Yellow
-WK 14: California Love Remix

Planet COB Vol. 1 (2010)
Hood Star (2010)
More Pig Face Weapon Waist (2010)
Block Obama II (2008)

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Snoop Dogg – Ain’t No Fun – (feat. Nate Dogg, Kurupt & Warren G)

May 31st, 2010 25 comments

Snoop Dogg: Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None)
Feat: Nate Dogg, Kurupt & Warren G
Song Producer: Dr. Dre
Album: “Doggystyle”
Recorded: 1992-1993
Date of Release: 11/23/1993
Record Label: Death Row/Interscope/Atlantic
Album Producers: Suge Knight (Executive); Dr. Dre; Daz Dillenger; Emanuel “Porkchop” Dean; Warren G
Sub-genre: Gangsta/Hardcore/G-Funk (West Coast)
**Snoop Dogg came to attention of the music industry in 1992, through his vocal contributions on Dre’s The Chronic. That album is considered to have “transformed the entire sound of West Coast rap” by its development of what later became known as the “G-funk” sound. The Chronic expanded gangsta rap with profanity, violent lyrics, basic beats, anti-authoritarian lyrics and multi-layered samples taken from 1970’s P-Funk records. Snoop Dogg contributed vocals to Dre’s solo single, “Deep Cover”, which lead to a high degree of anticipation amongst hip hop for the release of his own solo album.
-Doggystyle and The Chronic are associated with each other mainly because each prominently featured Snoop Dogg and because both contain G-funk style production from Dr. Dre. The two releases are linked by the high number of vocal contributions from Death Row Records artists, including Tha Dogg Pound, RBX, The Lady of Rage, while both contain a high density misogynistic lyrics and profanity in their lyrics. In addition, the two albums are each viewed by critics as early “G-funk classics”, and have been described as “joined at the hip”.
-Gangsta rap has been criticized for its extreme lyrics, which are often accused of glamorizing gang violence and black-on-black crime. The Gangsta rappers responded that they were simply describing the realities of life in places such as Compton, California, and Long Beach, California. Describing Doggystyle in 1993, Snoop Dogg likewise points to the album’s realism, and the extent to which it is based on his personal experience. He said, “I can’t rap about something I don’t know. You’ll never hear me rapping about no bachelor’s degree. It’s only what I know and that’s that street life. It’s all everyday life, reality.” Explaining his intentions, Snoop Dogg claims he feels he is a role model to many young black men, and that his songs are designed to relate to their concerns. “For little kids growing up in the ghettos,” he said, “it’s easy to get into the wrong types of things, especially gangbanging and selling drugs. I’ve seen what that was like, and I don’t glorify it, but I don’t preach. I bring it to them rather than have them go find out about it for themselves.” He further explained the “dream” that he would pursue after making the album: “I’m going to try to eliminate the gang violence. I’ll be on a mission for peace. I know I have a lot of power. I know if I say, ‘Don’t kill,’ niggas won’t kill”.**

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Tupac’s Interview About The Beef with Bad Boy Records/ Biggie, Lil Kim..etc

May 18th, 2010 25 comments

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Tupac’s Interview about the Beef with Bad Boy Records

I always say this beef wasn’t meant to be Pac over reacted at 1994 when he got shot he didn’t know who to trust. BIG and Pac should have sat down and talked about it,to squash this beef. But What can you do?

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The East CoastWest Coast hip hop rivalry was a feud in the early-mid 1990s between artists and fans of the East Coast and West Coast hip-hop scenes. Seeming focal points of the feud were West Coast-based rapper 2Pac (and his label, Death Row Records), and East Coast-based rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (and his label, Bad Boy Records).

Death Row vs. Bad Boy

Any hip-hop artists out there who wants to be an artist and stay a star, and dont wanna have to worry about the executive producer trying to be all in the videos, all on the records, dancing Come to Death Row! — Suge Knight at The 1995 Source Awards

2Pac vs. The Notorious B.I.G.
2Pac
Who shot me? But ya punks didnt finish, Now ya bout to feel the wrath of a menace Nigga, I hit em up.

B.I.G
Who shot Ya? Separate the weak from the obsolete, hard to creep them Brooklyn streets, Its on nigga, f*ck all that bickering beef.

From late 1995 into early 1996, 2Pac would appear on numerous tracks aiming threatening and/or antagonistic slants at Biggie, Bad Boy as a label, and anyone affiliated with them. During this time, although Biggie never directly responded, the media became heavily involved and dubbed the rivalry a coastal rap war, reporting on it continuously. This caused fans from both scenes to take sides with one set of The songs harsh content was viewed by detractors as Shakur having gone too far and taking the feud to another level. Although Biggie denies directly responding to 2Pac, many of B.I.G.’s songs can be speculated as being an answer to Shakur’s slurs.

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2Pac – Wanted Dead or Alive – (OG) – (feat. Snoop Dogg)

May 5th, 2010 10 comments

2Pac – ‘Wanted Dead or Alive – (OG)
Featuring: Snoop Dogg
Written by: 2Pac & Snoop Dogg
Song Producer: Daz Dillinger
Album: “Gridlock’d” Soundtrack
Date of Release: 1/28/97
Record Label: Death Row / Interscope
Genre: West Coast Rap
“Wanted Dead or Alive” is a collaboration song by Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, & Daz Dillinger, released as a single from the Gridlock’d (Original Soundtrack). It was made into a video. The video showed the cops trying to catch Snoop Dogg and clips of the deceased rapper Tupac Shakur. The storyline is similar to “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted”. The video is directed by Scott Kalvert.

Gridlock’d Facts:
Gridlock’d is a 1997 film starring Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, and Thandie Newton. It was the directorial debut of Vondie Curtis-Hall, who also wrote the story and screenplay. The film’s opening was relatively low, despite critical acclaim for its powerful and gritty substance. Its opening weekend netted $3,603,049 and it finished finally at only $5.5 million. The film paid tribute to star Tupac Shakur who had been murdered several months before the film’s release.

Plot:
Set in Detroit, Heroin addicts Spoon (Tupac Shakur) and Stretch (Tim Roth) decide to kick their habit after their best friend and bandmate, Cookie (Thandie Newton), overdoses on her first hit. Throughout a disastrous day, the two addicts dodge police and local criminals while struggling with an apathetic government bureaucracy that bars their entrance into a rehabilitation program.

— In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised Shakur’s performance: “He played this part with an appealing mix of presence, confidence and humor”. Desson Howe, in his review for the Washington Post, wrote, “Shakur and Roth, who seem born for these roles, are allowed to take charge – and have fun doing it”. USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and felt that Hall had not “latched onto a particularly original notion of city blight. But he knows how to mine the humor in such desperation”. Entertainment Weekly gave the film “B” rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, “Gridlock’d doesn’t have the imaginative vision of a movie like Trainspotting, yet it’s more literally true to the haphazard torpor of the junkie life than anything we’ve seen on screen since Drugstore Cowboy … Curtis Hall has caught the bottom-feeder enervation of heroin addiction”.[ —

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Snoop Dogg – G’z and Hustlas – (feat. Nancy Fletcher)

April 4th, 2010 1 comment

Snoop Dogg: ‘G’z and Hustlas’ – (feat. Nancy Fletcher)
Song Producer: Dr. Dre
Album: “Doggystyle”
Recorded: 1992-1993
Date of Release: 11/23/1993
Record Labels: Death Row/Interscope/Atlantic
Album Producers: Suge Knight (Executive); Dr. Dre; Daz Dillenger; Emanuel “Porkchop” Dean; Warren G
Sub-genre: Gangsta/Hardcore/G-Funk (West Coast)
*Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. (born October 20, 1971), better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg (formerly Snoop Doggy Dogg), is a Grammy Award-nominated American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of producer Dr. Dre’s most notable protégés. He popularized the catch phrase suffix “-izzle,” a slang term or infix that had been in use for decades, but not nearly to the extent that it currently permeates the pop and hip hop music industry as well as general usage.
-Doggystyle is the debut solo album from American West Coast hip hop rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, released November 23, 1993 on Death Row Records. The album was recorded soon following the release of Dr. Dre’s landmark debut album The Chronic (1992), to which Snoop Dogg contributed significantly. His musical stylizations for the album share similarity to those featured on Doggystyle.[1] Critics have praised Snoop Dogg for the lyrical “realism” he delivers on the album and for his distinctive vocal flow.[1][2] While recording the album, Snoop Dogg was arrested in connection with Phillip Woldermarian’s death; he was tried and acquitted in 1996.
-Despite some mixed criticism of the album initially upon its release, Doggystyle has earned recognition from many music critics as one of the most significant albums of the 1990s, as well as one of the most important hip hop albums ever released.[3] Much like The Chronic, the distinctive sounds of Doggystyle helped introduce the hip hop style of G-funk to a mainstream audience, bringing forward West Coast hip hop as a dominant force in the early 1990s.[1][4] As of 2008, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has certified Doggystyle quadruple platinum in sales, as it serves as Snoop Dogg’s highest-selling album. The record debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, and sold 802,858 copies in its first week alone, which was the record for a debuting artist until Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000.Doggystyle is viewed by many critics and fans as a “hip hop classic” and is included in The Source magazine’s list of the 100 Best Rap Albums, as well as Rolling Stone magazine’s list of Essential Recordings of the 90’s.*

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Tha Twinz – California Licence Plates (feat. E-White)

March 29th, 2010 1 comment

Tha Twinz – California Licence Plates (feat. E White) . Off the 2004 album by tha twinz, titled “Tha Loccs” . This album was supposed to be released on Daz Dillinger’s independant record label “DPG recordz/Gangsta Advisory recordingz” , distributed by sony/red in 2004, but it didnt end up getting released. An advance of the album has leaked since then, but the tracks are not totally finished. some are missing third verses or choruses/hooks. Album Tracklisting: 1. Good Ol Music / 2. Down With Us / 3. P.I.M.P. (Paper In My Pocket) / 4. Smokin on Dro (feat. daz) / 5. Watching You / 6. Baby Let’s Roll / 7. California Liscence Plates (feat. E-White) / 8. Gangsta Gangsta / 9. Wit It / 10. Make Me Wanna / 11. Thats Whats Up .
Download link for album: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DGL59MKR .

Background history of Tha Twinz.

For those that dont know, The Twinz, known individually as Wayniac & Trip Loc, are a westcoast rap duo from the Eastside of Long Beach, in the LA county, California. The same place where Snoop Dogg was born and raised. The Twinz went to high school together with Snoop Dogg at Poly High, long beach, and has been homeys with snoop since. They first started rappin in the late 80’s with a group called “Perfection” , with other longbeach rappers Domino, Foesum (Dj Glaze, T-dubb, MnMsta). The Twinz are first cousins to T-dubb from Foesum, and former doggystyle records artist from longbeach E-White. In the early 90’s (1992-1993), they were hangin with snoop and warren G in the begining of deathrow records, as part of snoop’s entourage. The twinz can be seen with cameos in the film clip to dr dre’s “Lil Ghetto Boy” song in 1992, off dr dre’s chronic album released by deathrow records. Warren G later formed own label “G funk music” , and signed a deal with Def jam to release his debut album “Regulate G funk era” . Warren was initially going to released his debut album on death row, but was told that his album would come out once a whole bunch of other death row artists release their albums first, so he didnt want to wait so long to release his album, so thats why he inked that deal with def jam. Warren G then signed the twinz as his artists on his Gfunk music label, and were featured on warren G’s debut album in 1994 “Regulate g Funk era” . The next year in 1995, The Twinz release their debut album “Conversation” on warren G’s gfunk music label through def jam. The album was all produced by warren g , except 1 track which was produced by soopafly. The Twinz featured on a track from death row records in 1996, with snoop dogg and daz dillinger, titled “Too high (poly high) , which ended up being released on “death row’s snoop doggy dogg – greatest hits” in 2001. The Twinz were featured on warren’s second album on def jam, “take a look over your shoulder (reality)” in 1997, and the twinz were to release their second album in 1998 on def jam, which was rumored to be titled “Ringers” , but the album never came out.
In 2000, the twinz was featured on a track off snoop dogg’s eastsidaz group album, which they were known as “tha locs”. In 2003 & 2004, the twinz were featured on a bunch of tracks with snoop dogg , on his “welcome 2 tha chuuch” series of mixtapes. In 2008, the twinz were featured on snoop dogg’s compilation “Christmas In Tha Dogghouse” released as a digital album sold on Itunes. In 2009, The Twinz were featured on another compilation of snoop dogg’s, called “bacc to tha chuuch” , which was also released digitally through Itunes. Also in 2009, the twinz released in EP that was released digitally, and was also titled “tha loccs” , but with “snoop dogg presents” in front of it, and was produced all by Niggarachi, which is snoop dogg’s alias as a producer. The Twinz are also members of the dogg pound crew/family (DPG/DPGC)

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2Pac ft Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight (Only Fear of Death)

December 14th, 2009 15 comments

2Pac ft Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight (Only Fear of Death)
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Philip David Charles “Phil” Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951)[1] is an English[ singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.

Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis. His singles, often dealing with lost love, ranged from the drum-heavy “In the Air Tonight”, to the dance pop of “Sussudio”, to the political statements of his most successful song, “Another Day in Paradise”. His international popularity transformed Genesis from a progressive rock group to a regular on the pop charts and an early MTV mainstay. According to britishhitsongwriters.com he is the forty-eighth most successful songwriter in U.K. singles chart history based on weeks that his compositions have spent on the chart.[5]

Collins’s professional career began as a drummer, first with obscure rock group Flaming Youth and then more famously with Genesis. In Genesis, Collins originally supplied backing vocals for front man Peter Gabriel, singing lead on only two songs: “For Absent Friends” from 1971’s Nursery Cryme album and “More Fool Me” from Selling England by the Pound, which was released in 1973. On Gabriel’s departure in 1975, Collins became the group’s lead singer. As the decade closed, Genesis’s first international hit, “Follow You, Follow Me”, demonstrated a drastic change from the band’s early years.

His concurrent solo career, heavily influenced by his personal life, brought both him and Genesis commercial success. According to Atlantic Records, Collins’s total worldwide sales as a solo artist, as of 2002, were 150 million. He has won seven Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and two Golden Globes for his solo work.

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac (or simply Pac) and Makaveli, was an American rapper. He has sold 75 million albums to date and is one of the best-selling music artists in the world.[3] In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a promising actor[4] and a social activist. Most of Shakur’s songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, problems in society and conflicts with other rappers. Shakur’s work is known for advocating egalitarianism. Shakur was initially a roadie and backup dancer for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground.]

Shakur became the target of lawsuits and experienced other legal problems. He was later shot five times and robbed in the lobby of a recording studio in New York City. Following the event, Shakur grew suspicious that other figures in the rap industry had prior knowledge of the incident and did not warn him; the controversy helped spark the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry. Shakur was later convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to one and half to four and a half years in prison.[8][9][10] After serving eleven months of his sentence he was released from prison on an appeal financed by Marion “Suge” Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records. In exchange for Suge’s assistance, Shakur agreed to release three albums under the Death Row label.

On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He died six days later of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest at the University Medical Center.

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