Post the absolute best Death Row leftover or rare tracks that you know of (I’ll start)

[Erratic415]

Criminal that this and Gz Up Ho'z Down was left off. I think some copies might've had The Next Episode? I've seen copies with the track listed on it. Obviously Gz Up ended up on versions.

I've wanted a CDQ version of Tha Next Episode since I first heard in back in the Napster era

G’z Up Hoes Down was on the album when it originally got released, but it got taken off later on for sample issues. Jay Z must have got it cleared a couple years later when he used that same Isaac Hayes sample for Can I Live.

Unfortunately all the versions of the original The Next Episode are poor quality. The most decent version I can find online is this

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

G’z Up Hoes Down was on the album when it originally got released, but it got taken off later on for sample issues. Jay Z must have got it cleared a couple years later when he used that same Isaac Hayes sample for Can I Live.

Unfortunately all the versions of the original The Next Episode are poor quality. The most decent version I can find online is this

I know that about Gz Up being on first presses, of course, just wish it would've still made it on all copies b/c I absolutely love that song. My statement was that it's ass that both Gz Up and Next Ep were left off (well mostly left off).

 

[mbewane]

There's the Dre - Chronic Re-Lit album and the Snoop Doggy Dogg - Death Row Lost Sessions Tape, and there's one for Tha Dogg Pound - The Unreleased Sessions

There's another The Chronic Masters or something like that which has some unreleased stuff and all the b-sides/remixes (46 videos on this youtube playlist)

Chronic intro is still one of the dopest beats

 

[Sean7]

Saw this on page one so someone already posted it, still worth a listen though so I will leave it up.

 

[Sean7]

Kurupt’s verse here is one of my favorites ever.

Kurupt absolutely killed that track, one of my fave verses I have heard on a posse cut.

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

I bought the original 1993 CD of Doggystyle when it first dropped. The Next Episode was in the track listing but not the album.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Chronic intro is still one of the dopest beats

Might be my favorite Dre beat all time

 

[Xtz23]

That last one I usedto have this track until my whole computer got destroyed along with my library. Would be dope if they open the vaults and release that shyt in cdq. I got plans to get my full library back when I got time on my new computer. Thanks for that it def helps. Tried to rep u bro but says I gotta rep 25 ppl before u.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

That last one I usedto have this track until my whole computer got destroyed along with my library. Would be dope if they open the vaults and release that shyt in cdq

Who owns the masters? Universal?

 

[JMD]

I bought the original 1993 CD of Doggystyle when it first dropped. The Next Episode was in the track listing but not the album.

same

I remember it came out Thanksgiving week of '93

Gz Up Hoes Down is on my CD

 

[Xtz23]

Who owns the masters? Universal?

I have no clue man but they need to open the vaults idk what the reasoning is for sitting on all that piff. They release a really small amount at a time which is wack because it’s been so many years. I hope now they’re in a position to do so.

 

[Xtz23]

I know that about Gz Up being on first presses, of course, just wish it would've still made it on all copies b/c I absolutely love that song. My statement was that it's ass that both Gz Up and Next Ep were left off (well mostly left off).

It’s on streaming on the 30 year anniversary. But would be dope to have it on physicals

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

I have no clue man but they need to open the vaults idk what the reasoning is for sitting on all that piff. They release a really small amount at a time which is wack because it’s been so many years. I hope now they’re in a position to do so.

Death Row vaults and RZA's faults (anything from 93-1999) I'd pay money to have leak. Idgaf if snoop and dre ever release another new song (does anyone?) but give us what's in the vaults.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Death Row vaults and RZA's faults (anything from 93-1999) I'd pay money to have leak. Idgaf if snoop and dre ever release another new song (does anyone?) but give us what's in the vaults.

G-Funk is the definitive West Coast sound to me, and has the most classic material IMO. I don't know why they abandoned it, it's ageless.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

G-Funk is the definitive West Coast sound to me, and has the most classic material IMO. I don't know why they abandoned it, it's ageless.

Everyone wants to adapt and change up to be more current. Especially artists, and especially hip hop artists from that era. Dre's style changed pretty dramatically like 3-4 different times over the years.

Same thing happened with the East Coast moving away from samples in the late 90s. RZA could've made grimy 1995 style beats forever and I would've loved it, but he felt the desire to change and try new things.

The change isn't always for the better, b/c like you're saying I could've listened to the G-Funk and Boom Bap ish forever.