THA ROW: Death Row's 2000s Comeback feat. Left Eye, Petey Pablo, Crooked I
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It was so shocking when Kurupt resigned with them. It came out of nowhere....shyt was like a heel a turn in wrestling. Kurupt dropped the leg on Daz 
Bizarre shyt.
Wasn't it also rumoured that Suge pretty much strong armed Petey into signing?
Bizarre shyt.
Wasn't it also rumoured that Suge pretty much strong armed Petey into signing?
Yup. Suge and his goons prolly stuck a needle into Lisa's veins too, girl looked GONE as NINA. Birdman, Irv, Suge, all some mega shady horrible power-hungry a$$holesIt was so shocking when Kurupt resigned with them. It came out of nowhere....shyt was like a heel a turn in wrestling. Kurupt dropped the leg on Daz
Bizarre shyt.
Wasn't it also rumoured that Suge pretty much strong armed Petey into signing?
It was so shocking when Kurupt resigned with them. It came out of nowhere....shyt was like a heel a turn in wrestling. Kurupt dropped the leg on Daz
Bizarre shyt.
Wasn't it also rumoured that Suge pretty much strong armed Petey into signing?
Petey would cap like hell, saying they was just friends hanging out. He had a chain, was claiming death row, talking about "I feel ike 2pac, I'm about to make the same impact he did on Deathrow, same eyez on me, etc"
Trying to save face lmao
There was just some news on this recently when they did that Lifetime doc on her.
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Despite many rumours in the 90's went around alleging Lisa slept with Pac, many people who were close to the star shut down the rumours.
According to the documentary, Lisa split up with TLC joined Suge's Death Row Records. Many rumours emerged that the two allegedly had an affair.
Suge revealed that their relationship was more than just professional. The Death Row Records owner claimed "She went to one of my high rises one time. She gave me a hug and I sat back down in my chair and fired up a cigar.
"The doorbell rings, so I get up and open up the door and they got the carts - it's all her [clothes and suitcases].And she never went home, She showed up and never rolled out"
He continued "We started hanging and she's a great person.I mean even before it was a sexual relationship, I had major love for her. But I knew [her fiance] Andre Rison, we were cool. But I cared about [Lisa]
Andre confirmed that Lisa "had relations with Suge...and that's just messy."
Also, Ray J was having cups of coffee at HQ, but this is truly not an official signing. He is recently in the news regarding Death Row with Suge putting him in charge of his life life rights, hoping to get a book or movie made, as he needs some funds while in prison.
Did a few hooks
Did a few hooks
Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
Death Row at that time just had the image to sell...they sold the fucc out of it, but didn’t have the product
to back it up.
Suge is a business guy, not a music guy - and he ran off all the music guys.
By that, I mean...they had beat makers and no producers. Nobody who could oversee a project
and give it a direction, or sound. When somebody can do that...that’s how you get 7 Day Theory with
the guys from “the wack room” doing the beats. In reality, Death Row died when Daz left...he was the last
Music Guy there but they didn’t want to pay him.
You could tell buy the few projects that did come out; most of them beats was not hitting
and the songs that did get some interest did so because they were disses.
And, they took too long to do this. It may have worked a few years earlier, but by this time the West
had kinda changed the sound up. Oh well.
to back it up.
Suge is a business guy, not a music guy - and he ran off all the music guys.
By that, I mean...they had beat makers and no producers. Nobody who could oversee a project
and give it a direction, or sound. When somebody can do that...that’s how you get 7 Day Theory with
the guys from “the wack room” doing the beats. In reality, Death Row died when Daz left...he was the last
Music Guy there but they didn’t want to pay him.
You could tell buy the few projects that did come out; most of them beats was not hitting
and the songs that did get some interest did so because they were disses.
And, they took too long to do this. It may have worked a few years earlier, but by this time the West
had kinda changed the sound up. Oh well.
DOGGFATHER96
Pro
Suge was the one picking the singles,tracklist, album art during 90s era. By the time he tried to rebrand the label he wasnt as focused like before and to add that he was blackballed.
Sure, he still had connects with Irv/Murder Inc, Ruff Ryders, Rap-A-Lot though (all run by shady mafioso maniacs too) in 2001/02/03. Suge had a small TALENTED talent pool (NINA, Kurupt, Crooked I), copycat fukkboys (Realest, Top Dogg) and subpar-at-best production crew, little to work with. Still trying to ignite/hold on to beef with Snoop, No Limit, Dre etc. karma is a bytch
not to mention Kurupt was a watered down version of himself by '02, Crook was the only one bringing heat on tracks
Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
My point stands, as you can see the results of that.
You could pick any songs off Chronic or Doggystyle to be singles and they woulda hit.
But anybody who listened to Dogg Food or Doggfather probably woulda chose different ones.
And even then, listening to some of the heat that got left off some of those is maddening.
Yes, Suge was making decisions on what to do with content - but he didn’t have the knowledge on
how to create that content, especially on the level Death Row was known for. He’s not a music guy.
vdfebduderocks
Pro
by that time, Suge's only way of holding Death Row afloat was by repackaging and re-releasing old 2Pac material, greatest hits compilations, and the occasional compilation album dissing Snoop, Dre, and others. From 97-99, any non-Pac release was basically that or the Nate, Daz, and other albums recorded in the early-to-mid 90s that were delayed due to Suge's prison sentence. I bet these album sales helped Suge in posting bail or something like that.
None of those artists on Death Row had any chance of success. By the time Suge was released from prison in '01, Dre became a huge cash cow for Interscope. Once Afeni got control of 2pac's music and moved it off Death Row after Better Dayz, the label was toast.
Crooked I was caught in the crosshairs. Kurupt should have never returned to Death Row. Left Eye was given bad advice to align with Suge.
None of those artists on Death Row had any chance of success. By the time Suge was released from prison in '01, Dre became a huge cash cow for Interscope. Once Afeni got control of 2pac's music and moved it off Death Row after Better Dayz, the label was toast.
Crooked I was caught in the crosshairs. Kurupt should have never returned to Death Row. Left Eye was given bad advice to align with Suge.
DOGGFATHER96
Pro
As for the doggfather blame snoop he changed up the tracklist after Vegas and suge didn't do anything with that because he was going through legal woes.
Reality Check
Keepin' it 100
Crooked was so fukkin I’ll back then. The flow was impeccable
Crooked I was writing for her Death Row album and if "Too Street 4 TV" was any indication, a final version of the album probably would have been heat.
Ray J wasn't signed officially because he kept running his mouth and getting his ass kicked to the point his Mom and the label he was on (Atlantic I think) stepped in and blocked future projects. Many of the tracks were rerecorded with Danny Boy taking Ray J's place. IMO one of them that wasn't rerecorded (or at least if it was it hasn't leaked) would have been a hit had it come out in 02