how? Dr. Dre 2001 sold like 8 million. This was close to peak Aftermath
yea but those sales are pretty misleading.
most of those sales came from either:
A.) Eminem/TRL fans
B.) fans from the past who were letdown, thinking that they were gonna get another chronic.
how many of these buyers would've stuck their necks out further for an "NWA reunion" album?? a full hour of bad-back daddy rap like "chin check", the stuff ice cube was doing and the majority of dr dre 2001?? no thanks. the only one that still had sauce left was snoop, but there was a huge backlash for him being in the group.
I mean, sure they couldve rode nostalgia and the iovine hype machine to a forgettable double-platinum plaque, similar to the firm flop. I don't think they wanted that. I know dr dre wouldn't want that. it would also put a microscope back on the real-time critiques of that 2001 album, which has now gone un-checked historically to the point where I'm speaking foreign to a lot of people right now.
I tried to tell my younger cousins that Cube was THE man for a good 4 year run, my cous laughed in my face.
Ice Cube fell off so hard his reign is forgotten.
ice cube suffers from the same syndrome as ll cool j.
they both had their glory days before modern-day hip-hop history began(late '93) and instead of disappearing and becoming old fables, they stayed relevant to a fault.
shyt would have been big @stomachlines 
