I’ve thought of this recently in pretty much the same terms
When it becsme available Puffy should’ve acquired Death Row
Death Row signed Top Dogg during Snoop's trial in case they needed to replace him
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When it becsme available Puffy should’ve acquired Death Row
Aje
All Madden
We need a super-group with Top Dogg, Tha Realest, Guerrilla Black, Loon, and Sacario (IYKYK). Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis can make the beats.
raoulduke187
All Star
lmaoooo
somebody post a Suge Knight gif
somebody post a Suge Knight gif
1-8-7-Skillz
Superstar
To the people that are old enough to have seen this in real time:
How was the reaction to that dude and tha realest being pushed on those compilations etc ? I can’t imagine anyone actually taking this serious
How was the reaction to that dude and tha realest being pushed on those compilations etc ? I can’t imagine anyone actually taking this serious
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
Is his feature on All about u even a real feature?
Dynamite James
The Main attraction
That version was only on the greatest hits album right??
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
Yeah sounded tacked on, like AI snoop
Reality Check
Keepin' it 100
To the people that are old enough to have seen this in real time:
How was the reaction to that dude and tha realest being pushed on those compilations etc ? I can’t imagine anyone actually taking this serious
As someone who was (and still is when leaks come out) a Death Row stan, even back then I thought pushing Tha Realest was a mistake. In the moment, it was evident that Tha Realest was trying to be like 2pac to the point that supposedly a few of his songs are rumored to be songs 2pac wrote but never recorded (i.e. "They Wanna Be Like Us" where that verse describes 2pac to a t). In hindsight it says a lot that outside of appearances in "Unconditional Love" and "Cindafella", they never spent the money to produce a video for any of his tracks.
At the time, IMO Top Dogg actually could have had some success had they not leaned into the Snoop comparisons. To me he never sounded identical to Snoop; I thought he sounded more like a cross between CPO and Too Short. DJ Quik actually gave him one of my favorite Quik beats of all time with "We don't love em" and he actually had some tight songs with "Goin' Back 2 Cali", "Me & My Boyz", "If you can't take the heat", and "Dope Money".
To me that Top Dogg/Tha Realest era ended with Too Gangsta 4 Radio. I think a lot of DR fans felt the same way that Crooked I blew everyone else out of the water and he should have been a fukking star much earlier in his career. That's probably the feedback Suge got which is why after that album, they bushed the both of them to try rebuilding the label (in summer 2001) around Crooked I, SKG, PB, J. Valentine, Eastwood and Above the Law.
Dynamite James
The Main attraction
This shyt is comparable to Vince McMahon having a fake Razor Ramon and diesel after leaving WWF 
skokiaan
African original
This shyt is comparable to Vince McMahon having a fake Razor Ramon and diesel after leaving WWF
Did this happen..stopped watching wwf when I was 12
Solomon Lurke
My Boys Dey Be Lurkin...
Suge basically was recasting him
I've seen this in a few other threads recently that Loon bit Mase, but how can this be when Loon had music out and was coming off his 2nd record deal when Mase started appearing on records??
How can Loon be the one stealing style when Bad Boy was taking his old records and reworking them for other Bad Boy artists like Black Rob??
And if he was stealing Mase persona why would Mase have him in his group??
Make it make sense brehs.