Death Row signed Top Dogg during Snoop's trial in case they needed to replace him

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KingSol81 said:
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.
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I’m not saying loon bit mase, i’m just saying he was mase’s replacement.
 
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Nighthawk said:
I’m not saying loon bit mase, i’m just saying he was mase’s replacement.
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That's fair, but I've definitely seen ppl saying that recently. Interestingly enough Loons shelved Tommy Boy album from 96 was named Harlem World.
 
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Reality Check said:
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.
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Mine too bruh :wow:
 
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On the Bootleg Kev interview Snoop seems to not be aware that Top Dogg was on "All About U"
 
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On the Bootleg Kev interview Snoop seems to not be aware that Top Dogg was on "All About U"
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KingSol81 said:
He was added after the fact on some releases of the Greatest Hits, they added him to the music video at one point too
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Here you go i time stamped at the 4 min mark.

Lokey I like top's verse; even though Snoop rant is classic and funny asf


 
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