Question...I was only 13-14 back when All Eyez on Me and Life After Death dropped, so I didn’t think of things the same at the time...but back then was it apparent or obvious to many that the “Notorious Thugs” beat (as great a song as it is) was pretty much a rip of “No More Pain”?
No,...not in general speak in about two decade or more.
As ruthless records has come to run the world now.
So anything in and encompassing ruthless records.
supersedes hip-hop culture and all of its businesses attached to its pillars like a emo gangsta virus. ap.
So bad boy being is a jiggy MCA way.
dj hollywood hiphop sellout deviant based label.
That was a habitual cultural line stepper.
as well as death row.
So, they would have had numerous sonic similarities.
trying to covertly and/or.
one up one another.
as just commercial pop industry practices more akin to rnb and hair metal rock driven labels.
Which are taboo as bitin' n in hiphop culture and rap.
Where yes,.. Bad boy and death row as pop gangsta rap jiggy taboo culture thief labels. Are and were guilty of biting. Plus both guilty as far as biting.
Plus and using gay gateway disco as a back drop sonically as a pop disco studio audiophile selling point. So badboy and death roewould have always flirted. or just plain crossed the cultural threshold and line beyond repair to the actual fabric of hiphop culture. In every possible way from lack of cultural direction. dress to anything else directly against the mores and norms of hiphop culture. By gangsta gank'n anything it ol school way of thought wanted to. As well as with using, interpolation, and sampling. of what ever could be deemed as culture based thievery, misappropriation, to biting. In everything badbay created. To attempt to alienate hiphop culture brazenly and belligerently. In the most culture theft thirst manner as possible. to gain a fake toy large volume pop jiggy following. Plus to gain the most pop sonically and to appease audiophiles as a draw as well. So in that,...your ear to pick that up is keen as fukk. Plus and yes,.. That comparison has been made by me in online. Around 1999-2000-ish. When this community had more culture based awareness. Incomparison to now.
where this board has a gateway pop rnb sports driven community-based new media ideal now.
So,...very keen ear and take. Not many would make publically make.
So brave and keen ear.
Plus the machismo to ask.
Art Barr
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Dirt off Your Shouder and Hola Hovito are solid too. 