@@fruitpac It's about the delivery, Lady Of Rage was lyrically maybe better, but in terms of delivery, evoking emotions, etc. no one can match/touch Pac. Pac conjures an atmosphere in tracks that can't be imitated 🎲🎭🎱
I've said it BEFORE and I'll say it again! If the Dogg Food album had "What Would U Do?", "Got My Mind Made Up" and "For All My Bitches and Niggas" on it, then it would truly be regarded as the ALL-TIME CLASSIC that it should be, and not the criminally underrated album that it is when those conversations are brought up. Dogg Pound made some dope azz music fo' real!!
Facts but sadly they never seemed to have that same chemistry or magic of that first album when they had tried after that. Frankly, what had happened to daz's beat making and Kurupts rhyming since then?
oh my God i was soo addited to them tracks u mentioned every ,block in Lagos , Nigeria wherre blasting it back then. 90s, Kurupt was my fav at the time bar wise.
Bro she has one song two verses. 😳 legend for what? She was on death row around some of the greatest and biggest Rap stars, musicians, artists and producers and She fumbled the pack. Seems like she folded from the pressure. She was on Dr Dre time and pace. And Dre take forever!!! If it weren't for Daz & Kurrupt's quick pace and work ethic, Snoop wouldn't have come out. So you see you have workers and you have wanters..Rage was a wanter.
Damn, got some clarity on Rage album situation. Dogg Food should've had at least 2 more singles. Smooth, Dogg Day Afternoon, So Much Style, Do What I Feel and of course Reality could've been singles. Not to mention my favorite song, I Don't Like To Dream About Getting Paid
@@corysmith4293 yeah I was very impress with how the album turned out and you can play it from start to finish without skipping it and every record had a good concept and I liked the beats that daz made and his production kept on getting better and better with time since he did co produce some songs on the chronic as well as doggstyle
@@vexotimmer2675 sometimes when people work that fast is cuz they got rhymes in their rhyme bag already so just finding beats and choping rhymes and tweaking if need to be current etc...
Pac was LEGENDARY for his work ethic in the studio! Was focused in the studio and hated wasting time! After he finished a song he was on to the next! Just a beast when it came to pumping out songs! The other dudes on Death Row Snoop included were forced to step up their game because of Pac!
Mayne, I'm from South East V.A and I crank WE CAN FREAK IT at least twice a month & I follow it wit: WE CAN FREAK IT CALI IZ ACTIVE HOW WE GET DOWN by Badd Azz PITCH IN ON PARTY by Quik
Hell yeah... "Now, my rhymes are as potent as pipe bombs It takes time to concoct rhymes like mines Like land mines - all set to explode Microphones - all set to unload So, watch, that means watch the zone I'm in a temple with a million dead MC microphones And they all wanted back by they peeps Sleep if you dare, 'cause death catch niggas when they sleep" - "Dogg Pound Gangstaz"
Love the interviews with Kurupt. He speaks intelligently and answers the questions: "Behind the Scenes" about the inner-workings of Death Row. This is what people are interested-in. More Kurupt on this channel. oNe LovE from NYC
2pac was only on Death Row for 11 months and in those 11 months. He recorded nearly 120-130 songs or more, that resulted in: All Eyez On Me, Makaveli, Still I Rise, Until The End Of Time, Better Dayz albums. That's 5 albums that was released on Death Row record label. 2pac didn't come to play (music wise) he did 2-3 songs a day. And that's why I tell people. He was the best Death Row artist. I know Dr. Dre and Snoop laid the blueprint. But 2pac still put in the work. It didn't take him a month to finish All Eyez On Me. He complete that in two weeks. And don't sleep on Until The End Of Time and Better Dayz albums. Both two solid albums. With tons of hits on them
Am from Nigeria and I've loved dogg pound since 93,94 and so forth..you guys are the bomb ..Daz , kurupt , rage , Nate dog, warren g..u guys are the bomb grew up with your records
@@TosereOjeme snoop was cool until he switched sides and told stories of Tupac and bla bla lolz..don't mind me ..snoop is very cool ..he's the dogg father ..we all mimed snoops shitz nitz and gin n juice
at that time I was living in Africa too. Sénégal in 94 and moved to Mali in 95. when 2pac California love came out, he stopped the game. I was coming from France and I was surprised that nobody heard about Dr Dre, Snoop doggy Dogg or Warren G. I didn't know about DPG at that time. because I didn't speak English so I didn't understand the lyrics, the names, anything and not every album single was known overseas (at least outside the English speaking countries) since we depended of the radios and Tv... but 2pac... cali love remix version was everywhere.
@@Styliesinceninedeuce yup exactly bro. All I kept hearing back then was Eargasm was coming out,Eargasm was coming out. Thats the album I kept waiting for.
Lady of Rage and Kurupt have the most East Coast style of rapping out of everyone else that was signed to Death Row in the 90’s. Sucks that she couldn’t wrap up her project before Pac got home. And this was pre Lil Kim and Foxy and the East/West Coast Beef era so who knows how her album would’ve been received.
@@nobleman_81 Nice crew but Warren G was never signed to Death Row. He was cool with all those dudes of course Dre being his brother and Snoop and them but he wasn't signed to Death Row
Daz was also the key cause he really produced alot of the deathrow music. They had a gold mine. Imagine if Suge wasn't on that bullshit and they had Dre, Daz, and Quick producing and Mixing and Mastering. Plus, Battle Cat and Sam Sneed.
@@j2323j don't tell me why I liked Death Row. It was still gangsta cause all them were on Death Row at one point. Probably a young ni66a cause your comment sounds stupid. What gangsta got to do with music production. Death Row falling apart and PAC dying was cause ni66az wanted to be gangsta.
Daz produced the lion share of the Death Row LPs that came later. Both The Chronic and Doggystyle were done by Dre exclusively. To be honest, with him and Pooh mixing the tracks to Dogg Food. It would've never sounded not nearly as good. Daz will always gets his props as a beatmaker, but DR slowly crumbled after Dre left. I would've definitely kept Sneed around because he was thing to what Suge had in Dre.
1995 was a unbelievable year in the Rap game, Dogg pound- dogg food, Bone thugs and Harmony-Est1999, Gangsta Pat-Deadly verses, 2pac - Me against the world and Eight ball &Mjg - Space age primping all classic albums. Lord knows that will never happen again.
It should’ve been The Chronic 1992 Doggystyle 1993 Above The RIM 1994 Lady Of Rage 1994 Murder Was The Case 1995 Dogg Food 1995 All Eyez On Me 1996 Nate Dogg 1996 Makaveli 1996
1995 would've too late to drop Murder Was The Case movie & soundtrack. Murder Was The Case was one the biggest singles from Doggystyle, plus Snoop was actually going through legal trouble. You gotta strike while the iron is hot. They flipped Snoop's public controversy into more promo for the label. That was a genius move.
Rage is a beast on the mic, still kick Afro puffs today. Shout out to the homie kurupt. True pioneer in the game, still holdin it down damn near 30 years later!
One By One is the most underrated song on there. As a kid, I wrote out Kurupt's verses for that song, NY NY and Doggz Day Afternoon, so that I could practice rapping along. Good times back then 👍👍👍
I played the paint off that dog food cassette I got for my birthday in December 1995. I'm from New York and I love the New York New York track, I didn't even know they were dissing NY until months later.
Thats because they weren't dissing. The diss didn't come until the video the visuals were the diss not the song. The song was a ode to the mecca. Which is why Kurupt is the only one rapping (with him being the best lyricist of the 3).
art of dialogue you gotta invite Kurupt again. you asked good questions, and he gave good detailed answers. 4 this one he really gave us a picture of the atmosphere at death row. and even more precisions when he said that RBX and Rage were is favorites after Snoop.
It breaks my heart that Death Row fail in the end..... But low key I never expected Rage to drop before the Dogg Pound... Man I miss these times so much... These were the debates we were having back then... Who was coming out next or who's album was going to be the dopest. Great times....
I always felt bad for her rage because she was dope AF, she was actually on the chronic so she was on every death row album that came out in the early days of death row, but her album didn’t come out till 1997 or 1998 and by the time it came out, death row was pretty much over. I didn’t even know, her album came out back then until years later. There was no promo for that album at all. I never once a music video for it on MTV or BET or anything.
This clears things up more. Doing great work asking these questions. Dogg Food is my favorite album from that roster but Rage had plenty of potential for a classic album. If things didn't fall apart like they did I'm sure she would have came through.
Rage spoke about Pac actually looking to recruit her and assist her at one point. She was a little more picky than people think. Whatever it was that she was looking for probably wouldn’t have worked after “All Eyes On Me”, cause that album changed the climate and led Deathrow in another direction.
@@MrHowse-rt5bo yeah All eyez on me set the tone for late 90s rap. It had some G funk elements but for the most part it took sound in a different direction than what we were used to in the early 90s
It's still on streaming? To me, that tells me how wack it was. Snoop took down all the classic Death Row albums and soundtracks, except the 2Pac stuff he doesn't own. Snoop likely forgot about that Rage album lol.
that wasn't the case 4 me. my favorite was "I don't like 2 dream about getting paid" because the instrumental is really varied. let's play house and NY NY were the 2 I liked less from the album. because the beat was too slow and simple. my opinion 🤷🏾♂️.
Yeah they played Lady of Rage she was the coldest in the game lyrically back then she went Bar for Bar with everybody on that label, a Dr Dre produced Album she would've been on top of the world.....
I loved that "Afro Puffs" song. I even sampled it myself. I think DJ Premier did too. I wish Rage would've dropped that album back then. She eventually did drop an album in like '97 but Death Row had already fallen off by then
*Eastside Low Bottoms sh*t !* _Tappin' in from South Central LA_ I recently went back and listened to that Dogg Food CD. Maaaan I forgot how hard that album is ! I was bumpin' that in my lowrider for three weeks straight ! 🤜🏾💥🤛🏾
Tupac was rare. Imagine if Suge didn't make PAC a priority. We wouldn't have All eyez on me or Donkilluminati 7 day theory. Rage nor Kurupt could of dropped something as legendary. Maybe if they had Tupac's work ethic their projects would of been finished before Tupac arrived.
So basically it seems like he’s saying that Rage wasn’t working fast enough to get her project off the ground. She’s kind of in that Dr. Dre pace of being such a perfectionist that you basically time yourself out.
With the og inmates, you could really see the family vibe they had. In the videos it seemed like they were all just having fun. But around the time 2pac arrived things looked more hectic
She wasn't marketable like that plus Pac by the time they got around to her it was starting to be the Lil Kim Foxy Brown half naked/drug sex talk era that's what they wanted plus the rhymes she was a big girl clothed no heavy makeup she did better as an actress and is equally as memorable..IMO and it was impossible in some way she should've been the first artist to come out because for that little time frame when she first put out "Afro Puffs" it was still the "Gangsta B" era when chicks was looking like Onyx even MC Lyte(Ruffneck)that was her time looks didn't matter as much as talent by 95' it was "Sex Sells"
@@melvinhhcp3615 she wasn't every female rapper at the time were established Salt and Pepa Latifah MC Lyte and commercial she wasn't ..Da Brat was the only new artist and Jermaine Dupri was Gold at the time COMMERCIALLY so she was going to take that shine again for everyone who wanted to "Bounce to this" not hear ruff rhymes the 92-93 time frame she'd be platinum the Heather B Nikki D era
Man O man!!!!! That DOGG FOOD album is Top 10 ALL TIME!!! I remember listening to that in College and THATS ALL WE LISTENED TO! LOL, those boys put it together! I was in Sac and that album played ALL OVER the West Coast! Shout out to the Pound!
He made a whole bunch of songs on death row and also did 3 movies and their soundtracks.woooow this man was a alien because it's harder to do a motion picture movie than a album,but he did all this in 9 months on death row wooow 😯🤯💥
Tupac Was Just a big Superstar on Deathrow I think only Snoop was on the same level of status as far as mid 90s era but these other guys were dope lyrical MCs thoo
thats how they used to do it to give a hint to who was coming next. Snoop is on the intro on the Chronic as well and then Doggystyle dropped. So Rage was pose to come after Doggystyle
The takeaway here: time awaits no man/woman. I hate that Rage never really got her fair shot. However, Kurupt filled in alotta blanks here that I was always interested in. Rage's "Eargasm" album entirely produced by Dr. Dre, should've been ready to go right after Afro Puffs, which was a platinum single off the Above The Rim soundtrack. She had all the momentum in the world at the time. Don't believe me? Go watch the Death Row set at the '95 Source Awards. Rage got the biggest positive reception amongst Death Row from a NYC crowd that was hatin' everything not from NYC that night. Obviously, the work ethic just wasn't there. 2Pac came to Death Row and knocked out a double album in two weeks. He changed the culture at the label. They all were obviously working like Dre, and taking forever to do songs. Artists like Rage, Nate Dogg and Jewell should've all had solo albums ready by mid to late '95, because they had buzz from the Chronic, Doggystyle and the soundtracks. 2Pac came in doing 4-5 songs every day. Hell, I'm sure there were days he knocked out 10-12 songs. That's why Suge prioritized him. Next, I always wondered why Dogg Food, which sold 2 million copies only had 2 singles. I always thought "Smooth" or "I Don't Like to Dream About Getting Paid" could've been radio singles and pushed that project to triple platinum. Great album. Imagine Dogg Food with the og version of "Got My Mind Made Up" and "For all My N's and my B's" added to the tracklist 🔥 🔥 🔥 The part where Kurupt talked about the label's formula for putting together projects was interesting as well. Sounds like almost half of Book One of All Eyez On Me were songs given to Pac by other artists on the label.
Dogg Pound really forced their way in 1995-because Dre was interviewed on the set of Murder Was the Case video and he said up next for Death Row was the next Dre album and the next Snoop album… but Kurupt and Daz were so hungry then and cooking up so much dopeness that they forced the hand of Dre and Suge and their album got green lighted
Man let me tell or cosign something y'all might or I hope rather y'all already know Lady of Rage is 1 of the best lyricist male or female! I had the pleasure of meeting & getting to see her perform bc she's from where I'm from, it's sad it feels like her career was mishandled 👀
Suge also did Jewell wrong by not releasing her album. Had he dropped both of their albums either before or after Pac, it would have taken DR to another level by reaching the female fan base.
Maybe they still wouldnt regardless if Pac came or not. Ive read that before that the distrubuters really didnt believe in Dogg Pound or much other than Dre & Snoop (and later 2pac) so it was difficult for them to get money behind the projects
The Lady of Rage did release a CD, which I owned. I liked it, but it lacked the production that "The Chronic" and "Doggystyle" both had. She is still a legend though. Especially since she survived Death Row Records.
Kurupt has a good memory for timeframes and presents a good perspective on how things unfolded. Always enjoy interviews with him.
They talk about this stuff all the time behind the scenes is they glory years. If you ever in the studios they skate stories all the time
The Lady of Rage deserved way better. She was/is a beast on the mic.
Right, she out rap pac on his tracks. Of course these stans are going to be mad, oh well..
@@fruitpac It's about the delivery, Lady Of Rage was lyrically maybe better, but in terms of delivery, evoking emotions, etc. no one can match/touch Pac. Pac conjures an atmosphere in tracks that can't be imitated 🎲🎭🎱
@@fruitpac that is true....Rage is/was criminally underrated
Definitely STILL !!!
@@ILoveTheAllCreator What track was she on with Pac, where she killed it? Please tell us!!! 🤡
The Dogg Food Album was meant straight up classic 💯
Facts.
The way he broke down why The Lady Of Rage never came out was incredible. Very detailed.
She dropped in 97. The label folded by then.
Necessary Roughness
Incredible ? All he said was Rage’s album basically got held up because she took her time at first, then 2Pac came home. What’s incredible ?
@@RatBastard701 😂
You can say pu🐈 C but other shitt gets bleeped 😅
I've said it BEFORE and I'll say it again! If the Dogg Food album had "What Would U Do?", "Got My Mind Made Up" and "For All My Bitches and Niggas" on it, then it would truly be regarded as the ALL-TIME CLASSIC that it should be, and not the criminally underrated album that it is when those conversations are brought up. Dogg Pound made some dope azz music fo' real!!
Can’t forget they best song let’s play house
Oh nah it’s for sure a classic album! I always say it’s the best Death Row album IMO
Facts but sadly they never seemed to have that same chemistry or magic of that first album when they had tried after that. Frankly, what had happened to daz's beat making and Kurupts rhyming since then?
oh my God i was soo addited to them tracks u mentioned every ,block in Lagos , Nigeria wherre blasting it back then. 90s, Kurupt was my fav at the time bar wise.
What would you do was on DoggFood
The Lady of Rage eventually dropped her album in 97' called Necessary Roughness. She had beats by Easy Mo Bee and DJ Premier. Pretty solid album.
Thanks! Still got CD, only real ones know
Bought it on vinyl. Very dope album.
@@2bundlesandapound963 oh snap, vinyl version!
I got it. It was cool.
Yeah i bought the tape when it dropped. Hell i enjoyed it. Death row lost their luster by then and that was VERY unfortunate for her.
I can appreciate how Kurupt spoke clear and concise words. I understood everything he said AND he got straight to the point (unlike some folks😂)
dru down😅😅😅
@@LongLiveJoseph lmao. Yep !! SMFH😂
Older folk can't lie or waste time.. too many years on earth.. people can actually dispute what we say..
DRU DOWN THE CRACK HEAD LYING CAPPING ASS NGGA
Like yo momma
She a legend and deserves way more credit
💯
Yess she does but when u got a goat like pac she getting shellved everytime
She's ain't no legend 😆
@@kenbell3101 she was dope but didn’t get a chance to be legendary. Not sure why people keep saying that 🤔
Bro she has one song two verses. 😳 legend for what? She was on death row around some of the greatest and biggest Rap stars, musicians, artists and producers and She fumbled the pack. Seems like she folded from the pressure. She was on Dr Dre time and pace. And Dre take forever!!! If it weren't for Daz & Kurrupt's quick pace and work ethic, Snoop wouldn't have come out. So you see you have workers and you have wanters..Rage was a wanter.
Damn, got some clarity on Rage album situation. Dogg Food should've had at least 2 more singles. Smooth, Dogg Day Afternoon, So Much Style, Do What I Feel and of course Reality could've been singles. Not to mention my favorite song, I Don't Like To Dream About Getting Paid
Couldn't have said it better myself
That album did bump Dope album
@@corysmith4293 yeah I was very impress with how the album turned out and you can play it from start to finish without skipping it and every record had a good concept and I liked the beats that daz made and his production kept on getting better and better with time since he did co produce some songs on the chronic as well as doggstyle
Reality would been a good single
I don't like to dream about gettin paid is a classic but the whole record was fire 🔥 one of my all time favorite records
That Dogg Food album was hard as fuck‼️💯
New York New York big city of dreams
Crazy how pac worked so fast but still made some of the best shit. That’s what you call true talent
Word. He recorded "All Eyez On Me" in two weeks and he recorded the "Makaveli" album in one week. That nigga was a beast.
@@vexotimmer2675 facts bro shit is ridiculous
He was ahead of his time 1 of the best to ever do it his music 🎶 is Timeless. R.I.P 2pac Tupac Shakur 🙏🏾 #HailMary 🙌🏾
@@vexotimmer2675 sometimes when people work that fast is cuz they got rhymes in their rhyme bag already so just finding beats and choping rhymes and tweaking if need to be current etc...
Pac was LEGENDARY for his work ethic in the studio! Was focused in the studio and hated wasting time! After he finished a song he was on to the next! Just a beast when it came to pumping out songs! The other dudes on Death Row Snoop included were forced to step up their game because of Pac!
We Can Freak It still my shit to this day💯 . Kurupt underrated af and showcased his lyrical prowess in Dogg Food
Aye I bump dat shit till this day
Yup way underrated remember the Kurupt and CANIBUS horse men? fire
Mayne, I'm from South East V.A and I crank WE CAN FREAK IT at least twice a month & I follow it wit:
WE CAN FREAK IT
CALI IZ ACTIVE
HOW WE GET DOWN by Badd Azz
PITCH IN ON PARTY by Quik
Hell yeah...
"Now, my rhymes are as potent as pipe bombs
It takes time to concoct rhymes like mines
Like land mines - all set to explode
Microphones - all set to unload
So, watch, that means watch the zone
I'm in a temple with a million dead MC microphones
And they all wanted back by they peeps
Sleep if you dare, 'cause death catch niggas when they sleep"
- "Dogg Pound Gangstaz"
Under Pressure from TPC Sdtk.
Love the interviews with Kurupt. He speaks intelligently and answers the questions: "Behind the Scenes" about the inner-workings of Death Row. This is what people are interested-in. More Kurupt on this channel. oNe LovE from NYC
That’s dope how he explained how they all contributed to each others albums- they had to hand over the best song. Team work
More labels should follow that formula.
It sounds like Dogg Pound did most of the contributing.
That's Not Teamwork.
2pac was only on Death Row for 11 months and in those 11 months. He recorded nearly 120-130 songs or more, that resulted in: All Eyez On Me, Makaveli, Still I Rise, Until The End Of Time, Better Dayz albums. That's 5 albums that was released on Death Row record label. 2pac didn't come to play (music wise) he did 2-3 songs a day. And that's why I tell people. He was the best Death Row artist. I know Dr. Dre and Snoop laid the blueprint. But 2pac still put in the work. It didn't take him a month to finish All Eyez On Me. He complete that in two weeks. And don't sleep on Until The End Of Time and Better Dayz albums. Both two solid albums. With tons of hits on them
I see mothers in black crying. Brothers in packs dying. Plus everyone high. Too doped up to ask why
@@fruitpac / But it's us with the mental disorder, right...?? Enjoy that disease you possess...👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
@@fruitpac nigga u a bozo
2pac brought out his susspect side while on there for 11 months too 🤣
@@blackbartthepoet3820 afeni was in black cryin when they put her son 2pack in the box lol
Rage was so hard Really wish we coulda go more from her in her prime
Rage takes a month to write a verse. She said it herself that she wasn't getting help from other artists.
That’s okay! It takes me a month to do a verse or two as well
@@91Definite no one knows you lil bro 😂😂
@@91Definite who you loc? 😂😂😂
I saw that interview. Just smh at it. She didn't have the hunger needed to blow up.
@@bgee9658 fr 😂😂 probably takes him a month cause ain’t no one trynna hear that bullshit
Am from Nigeria and I've loved dogg pound since 93,94 and so forth..you guys are the bomb ..Daz , kurupt , rage , Nate dog, warren g..u guys are the bomb grew up with your records
No Snoop?
@@TosereOjeme snoop was cool until he switched sides and told stories of Tupac and bla bla lolz..don't mind me ..snoop is very cool ..he's the dogg father ..we all mimed snoops shitz nitz and gin n juice
@@TosereOjeme if U like all this guys U almost don't need 2 mention that U also like Snoop Dogg, he's in the package.
at that time I was living in Africa too. Sénégal in 94 and moved to Mali in 95. when 2pac California love came out, he stopped the game. I was coming from France and I was surprised that nobody heard about Dr Dre, Snoop doggy Dogg or Warren G. I didn't know about DPG at that time. because I didn't speak English so I didn't understand the lyrics, the names, anything and not every album single was known overseas (at least outside the English speaking countries) since we depended of the radios and Tv... but 2pac... cali love remix version was everywhere.
My african brothet you can't mention the DPGC without naming Snoop even if you like him
the Rage album did come out in '97 and it's pretty dope but she missed her moment.
Facts bro
Yeah that wasn’t the same project that was Necessary Roughness. Eargasm was supposed to drop in 94/95
@@Styliesinceninedeuce yup exactly bro. All I kept hearing back then was Eargasm was coming out,Eargasm was coming out. Thats the album I kept waiting for.
Female Hip-hop had took whole New Ave. "Hardcore" "ILL Na Na" "Supa Dupa Fly"
Lady of Rage and Kurupt have the most East Coast style of rapping out of everyone else that was signed to Death Row in the 90’s. Sucks that she couldn’t wrap up her project before Pac got home. And this was pre Lil Kim and Foxy and the East/West Coast Beef era so who knows how her album would’ve been received.
Lady of Rage was from VA and Kurupt from Philly lol that's why
That 90's Deathrow camp was untouchable. The rhymes then they had Daz and Dre beats🔥😂
Second to Bad Boy at that time!! Bad Boy had the deeper roster of talent!
@@philb.1502 You think so? I don't think that Bad Boy camp was as tough...
@@nobleman_81 Death Row was basically Dr. Dre, Snoop, and Pac for a brief time.
@@philb.1502 Nah.They had squad before Pac even came. They had RBX,The Dog Pound, Lady Of Rage, Nate Dog and then you had Warren G
@@nobleman_81 Nice crew but Warren G was never signed to Death Row. He was cool with all those dudes of course Dre being his brother and Snoop and them but he wasn't signed to Death Row
KURUPT DEFINITELY in my top 5 of all time. I still bump ur music every day. 🤞 Respect from 🇿🇦
All time? He just about top 5 death row
@james441 nah, Kurput is underrated period has nothing to do with DR.
Daz was also the key cause he really produced alot of the deathrow music. They had a gold mine. Imagine if Suge wasn't on that bullshit and they had Dre, Daz, and Quick producing and Mixing and Mastering. Plus, Battle Cat and Sam Sneed.
Aiesha you know your shyte......
Nah we like death row because they were gangsters it happened like it was supposed to
@@j2323j don't tell me why I liked Death Row. It was still gangsta cause all them were on Death Row at one point. Probably a young ni66a cause your comment sounds stupid. What gangsta got to do with music production. Death Row falling apart and PAC dying was cause ni66az wanted to be gangsta.
Daz produced the lion share of the Death Row LPs that came later. Both The Chronic and Doggystyle were done by Dre exclusively. To be honest, with him and Pooh mixing the tracks to Dogg Food. It would've never sounded not nearly as good. Daz will always gets his props as a beatmaker, but DR slowly crumbled after Dre left. I would've definitely kept Sneed around because he was thing to what Suge had in Dre.
Naw alot of the beats came from Johnny J. Any credit given has to go to Johnny J.
1995 was a unbelievable year in the Rap game, Dogg pound- dogg food, Bone thugs and Harmony-Est1999, Gangsta Pat-Deadly verses, 2pac - Me against the world and Eight ball &Mjg - Space age primping all classic albums. Lord knows that will never happen again.
E40s In A major way 💣 album and The Clicks Game Related
Dayton family 🔥🔥🔥
@@chermainebigby5238 Game Related still bumps
Absolute facts G.
Never say never, there’s other artists out here waiting to be discovered ‼️.
It should’ve been
The Chronic 1992
Doggystyle 1993
Above The RIM 1994
Lady Of Rage 1994
Murder Was The Case 1995
Dogg Food 1995
All Eyez On Me 1996
Nate Dogg 1996
Makaveli 1996
1995 would've too late to drop Murder Was The Case movie & soundtrack. Murder Was The Case was one the biggest singles from Doggystyle, plus Snoop was actually going through legal trouble. You gotta strike while the iron is hot. They flipped Snoop's public controversy into more promo for the label. That was a genius move.
@@melvinhhcp3615 that’s fair. I guess you could switch MWTC and Lady of Rage drops top of the year in 95 and Dogg food later that same year.
Murder was the Case was prefect for 1994 release because they had the market for it
Rage is a beast on the mic, still kick Afro puffs today. Shout out to the homie kurupt. True pioneer in the game, still holdin it down damn near 30 years later!
Dogg Food is UNTOUCHABLE.
From beginning to end, that is a complete album.
Still one of my all time favorite albums.
Facts that album has some of the best production I ever heard even still to this day
"Reality" & "I Don't Wanna Dream About Getting Paid" are my favorites from that CD
Zero Skips on that album!
@@heelspawn8023 I go with Reality, one by one and So many styles
One By One is the most underrated song on there. As a kid, I wrote out Kurupt's verses for that song, NY NY and Doggz Day Afternoon, so that I could practice rapping along. Good times back then 👍👍👍
Paс's words always give me hope to fight injustice💯💯💯
A rapist?
I played the paint off that dog food cassette I got for my birthday in December 1995. I'm from New York and I love the New York New York track, I didn't even know they were dissing NY until months later.
Thats because they weren't dissing. The diss didn't come until the video the visuals were the diss not the song. The song was a ode to the mecca. Which is why Kurupt is the only one rapping (with him being the best lyricist of the 3).
That intro was a clear indication they were clowning 🤡 NY rappers with that "yo god".
@@s.h.p.zfinest256 They definitely turned it into a diss record & made it obvious that it was a diss record at that time in the 90s
I loved the album!
Straight Classic!
You'd had to watch the new york new york music video to actually see them dissing
Let's be real, Pain was by far the best song on the ATR soundtrack.
Dogg pound 4 Life 4 me!
Yeah man I played tf out that Dogg Food album.
Big pimpin
@@HottaFyah94 that was #2 4 me w Afro Puffs
@@davidcampbell215 you right. I was bugging
art of dialogue you gotta invite Kurupt again. you asked good questions, and he gave good detailed answers. 4 this one he really gave us a picture of the atmosphere at death row. and even more precisions when he said that RBX and Rage were is favorites after Snoop.
Dre’s perfection n Rages perfection probably woulda made a classic masterpiece album for sure
bu t would have took 10 years LOL
It breaks my heart that Death Row fail in the end..... But low key I never expected Rage to drop before the Dogg Pound... Man I miss these times so much... These were the debates we were having back then... Who was coming out next or who's album was going to be the dopest. Great times....
I always felt bad for her rage because she was dope AF, she was actually on the chronic so she was on every death row album that came out in the early days of death row, but her album didn’t come out till 1997 or 1998 and by the time it came out, death row was pretty much over. I didn’t even know, her album came out back then until years later. There was no promo for that album at all. I never once a music video for it on MTV or BET or anything.
i think she had two videos out bet played it
This clears things up more. Doing great work asking these questions. Dogg Food is my favorite album from that roster but Rage had plenty of potential for a classic album. If things didn't fall apart like they did I'm sure she would have came through.
Rage spoke about Pac actually looking to recruit her and assist her at one point. She was a little more picky than people think. Whatever it was that she was looking for probably wouldn’t have worked after “All Eyes On Me”, cause that album changed the climate and led Deathrow in another direction.
Yea that Dogg Food album was the shit classic classic album
@@MrHowse-rt5bo yeah All eyez on me set the tone for late 90s rap. It had some G funk elements but for the most part it took sound in a different direction than what we were used to in the early 90s
I believe Suge had no real interest in pushing a female artist too. I believe that's part of the reason her career suffered
@@jackjill8129 Based on what?
Rages "Necessary Roughness" album is so underrated
Dogg Food still a classic.
Literally one of my personal top 10 favorite rap albums EVER!!!
All these songs are classics💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
If you have to say "is still", that mean it ain't.
@@AndrewQuiroz24 it is.
@@thecunninlynguist don’t say still then💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Necessary Roughness was actually an ill album. Still bump it on Spotify.
It's still on streaming? To me, that tells me how wack it was. Snoop took down all the classic Death Row albums and soundtracks, except the 2Pac stuff he doesn't own. Snoop likely forgot about that Rage album lol.
@Michael Brown it doesn't say it's from Death Row Records though. It says like "get low records" or something
To me it's missing the Death Row sound
“DOGG FOOD” CLASSIC GANGSTA PLAYA ALBUM
Damn! He ANSWERED TF outta dat question!!
"It Goes Reggie...Jay Z...2pac & Biggie....Andre From OutKast...Jada...Kurupt...Nas & Then Me" ~Eminem~
"I don't like to dream about getting paid"
"I've been dreaming too long, too long, too longgggg...."
I Miss Old Death Row Records. 💯
Rage is my favourite female MC. She hasn't lost her touch after all these decades... she had production from Dre, Mo Bee, Preemo, Daz...
Danny Boy somewhere punching the pillow listening to the lineup of who was supposed to drop. Lol
😂😂😂😂😂
An rbx album produced by Dre would’ve been crazy at that time
Dogg Food is my favorite Death Row album.
First time learning about that album.. I will search it and look it up
That “Let’s Play House” record STAYS ON REPEAT!! 🔥🔥🔥
I keep Reality and so much style on repeat!
that wasn't the case 4 me. my favorite was "I don't like 2 dream about getting paid" because the instrumental is really varied. let's play house and NY NY were the 2 I liked less from the album. because the beat was too slow and simple. my opinion 🤷🏾♂️.
Facts
@@bigomar777 the production on "respect" is very underrated too
@@jackjill8129 I really love that one two. Respect his a great production with many different sound and the back voices from funkadelics
I still can’t believe 2 pac was only with death row records for 7 mos. He did a lot in that time frame.
Just think he did 5 albums and 6 movies in a 5yr span thats insane 91-96
11 months
They should have dropped her album right after afro puffs. She was on 🔥. Still one of the greatest female MCs.
Yeah they played Lady of Rage she was the coldest in the game lyrically back then she went Bar for Bar with everybody on that label, a Dr Dre produced Album she would've been on top of the world.....
That new Kurupt & C-Mob collab album is fire 🔥. I would have never thought those Two would link up to do music together.
Yeah, I like C-Mob. He's featured on a lot of Strange Music (Tech N9ne's label) albums. I would love if he were able to sign to Strange Music.
Rage DID drop an album in 1997 and it was dope. Very under appreciated album.
Dogg Food is a classic 💙
I loved that "Afro Puffs" song. I even sampled it myself. I think DJ Premier did too. I wish Rage would've dropped that album back then. She eventually did drop an album in like '97 but Death Row had already fallen off by then
You're right Premier did. If memory serves me correct it was on Boom by Royce Da 5'9
Without Kurupt and Daz, there would not of been that Deathrow magic. One of my fav mc and producers hands down
This is the best Kurupt interview I’ve ever heard. You are asking the questions the real death row fans want answered
Lady of rage was definitely a beast on the mic she did deserve to be utilized more
I dont like to dream about gettin paid...is the best song of death row to me.
That and let’s play house
Nate Dogg killed that hook. I think it came from NWA if I remember correctly, just like Cyco-Lico.
@@melvinhhcp3615 which song are you referring to?
@@rafa7622 I don't remember. It's on Straight Outta Compton. It's been awhile since I listened to that album.
I always wonder why she never blew up. She was one of the best imo....
Great interview with Kurupt. I will watch the full interview because at that time Death Row Records was legendary with the talent roster. Salute!
It was all worthy. All eyes on me because a timeless classic
One of the best Kurupt interviews ever. A lot of golden era history!
That’s prolly how kurupt felt at the time but that Dogg food album is a #1 classic album the whole CD go up from start to finish
"For All My Niggaz and My Bitchez" was the f'n joint! 🔥🔥🔥
*Eastside Low Bottoms sh*t !*
_Tappin' in from South Central LA_
I recently went back and listened to that Dogg Food CD. Maaaan I forgot how hard that album is ! I was bumpin' that in my lowrider for three weeks straight !
🤜🏾💥🤛🏾
Tupac was rare. Imagine if Suge didn't make PAC a priority. We wouldn't have All eyez on me or Donkilluminati 7 day theory. Rage nor Kurupt could of dropped something as legendary. Maybe if they had Tupac's work ethic their projects would of been finished before Tupac arrived.
So basically it seems like he’s saying that Rage wasn’t working fast enough to get her project off the ground. She’s kind of in that Dr. Dre pace of being such a perfectionist that you basically time yourself out.
She probably had writer's block
If she was smart she could have paid pac to write for her
2pac Is The Greatest. 💯
With the og inmates, you could really see the family vibe they had. In the videos it seemed like they were all just having fun. But around the time 2pac arrived things looked more hectic
THE REALITY SONG 🎧 FROM THE DOGG POUND WAS 🔥🔥🔥TRAY DEE’S VERSE WAS A MONSTER 👹!!!!
I'm glad he clarified everything. I've always wondered what happened with Rage
Dogg food album did 2million ..that was a classic
Nah more like 3.5 in 95,96
@@shawtyeatemup1352 even better ...I think kurupt got his timeline messed up ..that album was will established before pac came
@@snoopbell1 I bought it December 95!!! 2pac dropped February 96 I remember that album cost over $20 but I didn't complain
@@shawtyeatemup1352 💯💯same here..I miss them days
Dogg Food is definitely up there with The Chronic and Doggystyle
Dog Food would've been a bigger classic with those songs. That's crazy
Rumor has it she still working on her album
Shout to Rage, Lady Luck, Bahamadia, Mia X, Chat, Boo and the rest of the female lyricists that never got their true shine!!!
Love your comment I hate the insults now days that female rappers have become
She wasn't marketable like that plus Pac by the time they got around to her it was starting to be the Lil Kim Foxy Brown half naked/drug sex talk era that's what they wanted plus the rhymes she was a big girl clothed no heavy makeup she did better as an actress and is equally as memorable..IMO and it was impossible in some way she should've been the first artist to come out because for that little time frame when she first put out "Afro Puffs" it was still the "Gangsta B" era when chicks was looking like Onyx even MC Lyte(Ruffneck)that was her time looks didn't matter as much as talent by 95' it was "Sex Sells"
Lady of rage would had chance if she would of sign with No limit.Sure Master P with of bring the best out of her.
She was very marketable !! She didn’t have to be anyone else but her. SEX wasn’t the only thing selling.
Bruh, in 94 Rage was very marketable, especially coming from Death Row. If she dropped back then, she would've went plat easily.
@@melvinhhcp3615 she wasn't every female rapper at the time were established Salt and Pepa Latifah MC Lyte and commercial she wasn't ..Da Brat was the only new artist and Jermaine Dupri was Gold at the time COMMERCIALLY so she was going to take that shine again for everyone who wanted to "Bounce to this" not hear ruff rhymes the 92-93 time frame she'd be platinum the Heather B Nikki D era
Pac wore girl clothing and heavy makeup the best out of them..
All eyes on me was a death row sound
One of my favorite albums DPGC 4 LIFE
Man O man!!!!! That DOGG FOOD album is Top 10 ALL TIME!!! I remember listening to that in College and THATS ALL WE LISTENED TO! LOL, those boys put it together! I was in Sac and that album played ALL OVER the West Coast! Shout out to the Pound!
Kurupt spoke nothing but facts
He made a whole bunch of songs on death row and also did 3 movies and their soundtracks.woooow this man was a alien because it's harder to do a motion picture movie than a album,but he did all this in 9 months on death row wooow 😯🤯💥
I remember getting that Dogg food album I stole it from a record store in the mall
Tupac Was Just a big Superstar on Deathrow I think only Snoop was on the same level of status as far as mid 90s era but these other guys were dope lyrical MCs thoo
Tupac brought down the label with his studio gangster bs then snoop build it back up years later
@@taheemc tupac couldve focused on making the labels money but no he took the studio gangster route that gave suge a long sentence too
Got damn he's right.. I had to think for a min.
Rage really was the first rapper to rap on Doggystyle before anybody.. including Snoop.
thats how they used to do it to give a hint to who was coming next. Snoop is on the intro on the Chronic as well and then Doggystyle dropped. So Rage was pose to come after Doggystyle
I still want to hear the 90s Rage ❤
Unnecessary Roughness
@@fruitpac Vlad owns this channel too?
The takeaway here: time awaits no man/woman. I hate that Rage never really got her fair shot. However, Kurupt filled in alotta blanks here that I was always interested in. Rage's "Eargasm" album entirely produced by Dr. Dre, should've been ready to go right after Afro Puffs, which was a platinum single off the Above The Rim soundtrack. She had all the momentum in the world at the time. Don't believe me? Go watch the Death Row set at the '95 Source Awards. Rage got the biggest positive reception amongst Death Row from a NYC crowd that was hatin' everything not from NYC that night. Obviously, the work ethic just wasn't there.
2Pac came to Death Row and knocked out a double album in two weeks. He changed the culture at the label. They all were obviously working like Dre, and taking forever to do songs. Artists like Rage, Nate Dogg and Jewell should've all had solo albums ready by mid to late '95, because they had buzz from the Chronic, Doggystyle and the soundtracks. 2Pac came in doing 4-5 songs every day. Hell, I'm sure there were days he knocked out 10-12 songs. That's why Suge prioritized him.
Next, I always wondered why Dogg Food, which sold 2 million copies only had 2 singles. I always thought "Smooth" or "I Don't Like to Dream About Getting Paid" could've been radio singles and pushed that project to triple platinum. Great album. Imagine Dogg Food with the og version of "Got My Mind Made Up" and "For all My N's and my B's" added to the tracklist 🔥 🔥 🔥
The part where Kurupt talked about the label's formula for putting together projects was interesting as well. Sounds like almost half of Book One of All Eyez On Me were songs given to Pac by other artists on the label.
Rage from NYC thats why she got that off at the Source Awards aswell.
2PAC GREATEST RAPPER OF All TIME 💯💯💯💯💯👍👌😎
The gayest to bring down such a iconic music label
@@lmiko okay 👌 slow person
@@AnthonyJohnson-hl1ru you not faster than me 😁
🎶Now I'm hittin MC's like Hoo-yu-ken!
Ain't no doubt about it, I'm the undisputed.🎶
Dogg Food '95 that album was one of my favourite albums from DEATH ROW after Doggystyle and ALL EYEZ ON ME
Makaveli
@@melvinhhcp3615 of course "The Don Killuminati"
Dogg Pound really forced their way in 1995-because Dre was interviewed on the set of Murder Was the Case video and he said up next for Death Row was the next Dre album and the next Snoop album… but Kurupt and Daz were so hungry then and cooking up so much dopeness that they forced the hand of Dre and Suge and their album got green lighted
Man let me tell or cosign something y'all might or I hope rather y'all already know Lady of Rage is 1 of the best lyricist male or female! I had the pleasure of meeting & getting to see her perform bc she's from where I'm from, it's sad it feels like her career was mishandled 👀
Greatest era in the history of rap music.
Yes it was big time
Daaammmn straight!!!
Smh....disagree heavily but whatever, I'm from the beast coast and we have many great eras...🤔
Kurupt's verse on Smooth 🤯🤯🤯
Shows you need to always have a sense of urgency with everything you do
Suge also did Jewell wrong by not releasing her album. Had he dropped both of their albums either before or after Pac, it would have taken DR to another level by reaching the female fan base.
I always wondered why the Dogg Food album didnt come out with more singles.
Not enough time.
Maybe they still wouldnt regardless if Pac came or not. Ive read that before that the distrubuters really didnt believe in Dogg Pound or much other than Dre & Snoop (and later 2pac) so it was difficult for them to get money behind the projects
2 Pac messed up death row
Controversial Time
- Rap Blacklash
- West/East Coast Rivalary
- 2Pac joins the already packed Roster
@@terryjohnson1376 Suge messed up Death Row. If he had've paid Pac correctly, everything would be ok.
Man she serving alot of men even nowdays her style is like a thick curvy model that goes hard and she represented her state& city .
Damn that's why RBX on Em album. Always loved the record, the connection jus never made full sense to me. I'm bumping RBX today ! Thx Art
The Lady of Rage did release a CD, which I owned. I liked it, but it lacked the production that "The Chronic" and "Doggystyle" both had. She is still a legend though. Especially since she survived Death Row Records.