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i was just listenin' to this and was just wonderin' where this nikka at now? 
whatever happen to j flexx?
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who remember when him and death row made this diss record to dr. dre? 
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just found this old article from 98'
i ain't know he was the one who wrote dre's part for "natural born killaz", "keep their heads ringin'" and "california love"
Every morning when James Anderson walked down Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, he heard songs he helped write for Death Row Records blasting out of car windows. Instead of going on to bask in his success, though, he was on his way to work: scooping ice cream at Thrifty's. Something had gone wrong with his dream.
In 1994, after leaving an Army base in Maryland where he worked monitoring defense satellites, Mr. Anderson moved to Los Angeles to find success as a rapper and carry on the legacy of his father, a doo-wop singer. He arrived in Los Angeles on a Monday. That Tuesday, as he was waiting at a stoplight on the Sunset Strip, a Ferrari pulled alongside him. At the wheel was the rapper and producer of the moment, Dr. Dre. Figuring he had nothing to lose, Mr. Anderson motioned for the car to pull over, and it did. (This was before Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were slain in drive-by shootings.) Mr. Anderson gave him his tape and Dr. Dre invited him to a Fourth of July celebration he was going to.
Dr. Dre may be a perfectionist producer and a strong rapper, but he has never been known as a lyricist. This is where Mr. Anderson, who adopted the rap name J. Flexx, came in. After striking up a friendship with Dr. Dre at the party, he began writing lyrics for the rapper Sam Sneed and for Dr. Dre, and signed a contract to work for Death Row Records, the hard-core rap label under investigation by the Federal Government for money-laundering, violence and street gang connections, which Dr. Dre ran with Marion (Suge) Knight. The first song he wrote, ''Natural Born Killaz,'' became a Top 40 hit for Dr. Dre. His success didn't stop there. J. Flexx wrote the lyrics to Dr. Dre's ''Keep Their Heads Ringin' '' as well as Dre's part in a hit single with Tupac Shakur, ''California Love.''
He was living a Death Row fantasy, fulfilling the label's promise of plucking young talents off the street and catapulting their music to national success. The only problem was that he wasn't getting any credit for his work, or much money.
''On the first song, I was just dumbfounded, so happy that he was using my lyrics,'' J. Flexx said. ''To be working with my idol and the No. 1 rap label was a fairy tale. On the second song, I started getting worried but Dre blamed it on Suge. By the third song, with Dre and Tupac, I was looking to leave Death Row altogether.'' J. Flexx was telling this story in a recent interview at Monty's, a steakhouse so famous as a hangout for Death Row acts that its owner stopped by the table to ask when Mr. Knight, who is serving a nine-year sentence for parole violations, would be released from prison.
J. Flexx is one of many talented artists buried in the rubble of Death Row. His contention that he wrote lyrics for Dre is supported by his early demos as well as the word of others in the Death Row camp. When asked whether J. Flexx wrote a particular hit of Dr. Dre's, one top rapper who spoke on condition of anonymity replied, ''Yeah, but I got paid for it.''
A lawyer for Dr. Dre said yesterday that J. Flexx had been paid for the work he had done.
After Dr. Dre left Death Row to start his own record company, J. Flexx was stuck in a contract on his own. So he found a manager, Karen Chatman, and started making up for his earlier naivete. When he wrote another song for Dr. Dre, ''Been There, Done That,'' he received credit, though not the compensation he thought he deserved, which helped result in his accusatory rap ''Who Been There, Who Done That'' on ''Death Row's Greatest Hits.''
''Suge decided to capitalize on my anger and said, 'Just give me a song about it and we'll get you signed to a solo deal,' '' J. Flexx said.
But a lack of credit wasn't J. Flexx's only problem with Death Row. He had hoped that his next song, ''A Change to Come,'' a collaboration with Bahamadia, Tenkamenin, Kool and the Gang and Con Funk Shun, would set off a positive movement in the hip-hop world. He began meeting with community groups to discuss ways that rap can help curb growing street violence. But when Mr. Knight was sent to prison and the song, which is on the ''Gang Related'' soundtrack, was never released as a single, the project stalled and J. Flexx and his lawyers began working to get him off Death Row.
''I don't think they knew how to deal with an artist like me,'' he said. ''I've never been in jail, I've never been in trouble, I'm not rowdy.''
Now J. Flexx is working on a solo album, ''Billboard Dreams,'' and meeting with record labels to make a new, better deal. Judging by lyrics like ''What I learned is you get no respect/If your paperwork ain't on deck/Before the mike check'' he is definitely wiser from his experiences.
''I can't say I regret anything,'' he said. ''When you take hard knocks, you remember them.''
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THE POP LIFE; Rap Dream Is Dashed, But Not Abandoned
i ain't know he was the one who wrote dre's part for "natural born killaz", "keep their heads ringin'" and "california love"
Every morning when James Anderson walked down Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, he heard songs he helped write for Death Row Records blasting out of car windows. Instead of going on to bask in his success, though, he was on his way to work: scooping ice cream at Thrifty's. Something had gone wrong with his dream.
In 1994, after leaving an Army base in Maryland where he worked monitoring defense satellites, Mr. Anderson moved to Los Angeles to find success as a rapper and carry on the legacy of his father, a doo-wop singer. He arrived in Los Angeles on a Monday. That Tuesday, as he was waiting at a stoplight on the Sunset Strip, a Ferrari pulled alongside him. At the wheel was the rapper and producer of the moment, Dr. Dre. Figuring he had nothing to lose, Mr. Anderson motioned for the car to pull over, and it did. (This was before Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were slain in drive-by shootings.) Mr. Anderson gave him his tape and Dr. Dre invited him to a Fourth of July celebration he was going to.
Dr. Dre may be a perfectionist producer and a strong rapper, but he has never been known as a lyricist. This is where Mr. Anderson, who adopted the rap name J. Flexx, came in. After striking up a friendship with Dr. Dre at the party, he began writing lyrics for the rapper Sam Sneed and for Dr. Dre, and signed a contract to work for Death Row Records, the hard-core rap label under investigation by the Federal Government for money-laundering, violence and street gang connections, which Dr. Dre ran with Marion (Suge) Knight. The first song he wrote, ''Natural Born Killaz,'' became a Top 40 hit for Dr. Dre. His success didn't stop there. J. Flexx wrote the lyrics to Dr. Dre's ''Keep Their Heads Ringin' '' as well as Dre's part in a hit single with Tupac Shakur, ''California Love.''
He was living a Death Row fantasy, fulfilling the label's promise of plucking young talents off the street and catapulting their music to national success. The only problem was that he wasn't getting any credit for his work, or much money.
''On the first song, I was just dumbfounded, so happy that he was using my lyrics,'' J. Flexx said. ''To be working with my idol and the No. 1 rap label was a fairy tale. On the second song, I started getting worried but Dre blamed it on Suge. By the third song, with Dre and Tupac, I was looking to leave Death Row altogether.'' J. Flexx was telling this story in a recent interview at Monty's, a steakhouse so famous as a hangout for Death Row acts that its owner stopped by the table to ask when Mr. Knight, who is serving a nine-year sentence for parole violations, would be released from prison.
J. Flexx is one of many talented artists buried in the rubble of Death Row. His contention that he wrote lyrics for Dre is supported by his early demos as well as the word of others in the Death Row camp. When asked whether J. Flexx wrote a particular hit of Dr. Dre's, one top rapper who spoke on condition of anonymity replied, ''Yeah, but I got paid for it.''
A lawyer for Dr. Dre said yesterday that J. Flexx had been paid for the work he had done.
After Dr. Dre left Death Row to start his own record company, J. Flexx was stuck in a contract on his own. So he found a manager, Karen Chatman, and started making up for his earlier naivete. When he wrote another song for Dr. Dre, ''Been There, Done That,'' he received credit, though not the compensation he thought he deserved, which helped result in his accusatory rap ''Who Been There, Who Done That'' on ''Death Row's Greatest Hits.''
''Suge decided to capitalize on my anger and said, 'Just give me a song about it and we'll get you signed to a solo deal,' '' J. Flexx said.
But a lack of credit wasn't J. Flexx's only problem with Death Row. He had hoped that his next song, ''A Change to Come,'' a collaboration with Bahamadia, Tenkamenin, Kool and the Gang and Con Funk Shun, would set off a positive movement in the hip-hop world. He began meeting with community groups to discuss ways that rap can help curb growing street violence. But when Mr. Knight was sent to prison and the song, which is on the ''Gang Related'' soundtrack, was never released as a single, the project stalled and J. Flexx and his lawyers began working to get him off Death Row.
''I don't think they knew how to deal with an artist like me,'' he said. ''I've never been in jail, I've never been in trouble, I'm not rowdy.''
Now J. Flexx is working on a solo album, ''Billboard Dreams,'' and meeting with record labels to make a new, better deal. Judging by lyrics like ''What I learned is you get no respect/If your paperwork ain't on deck/Before the mike check'' he is definitely wiser from his experiences.
''I can't say I regret anything,'' he said. ''When you take hard knocks, you remember them.''
link
THE POP LIFE; Rap Dream Is Dashed, But Not Abandoned
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at dre bein' referred to as "alize" in the video
Piff Tannen
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i was just listenin' to this and was just wonderin' where this nikka at now?
is this the video, that Sam Sneed got his ass beat over ?
It was "U Better Recognize" from the Murder was the Case soundtrack
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nope, "u better recognize" was the video
why they whooped his azz?
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they thought the video was too "new york" and not enough death row records representation
is that who Suge nutted on?
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Banned
AYO WASSSUPPL THIS IS DR DRE
THE PARTYS GOONG ON
THANK JIMMY ITS FRIDAY
THE PARTYS GOONG ON
THANK JIMMY ITS FRIDAY
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i ain't never heard this before
i was just listenin' to this and was just wonderin' where this nikka at now?
Death Row had so much heat like this that they didn't capitalize off of. Insane.
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Who's the best MCs? Biggie, Jay-Z, and Nas
I don't know about all that but I heard he made dudes drink his piss
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i know man, it's crazy that even songs like this won't HUGE in the way that other shyt was
bruh, i done had this remix in rotation for days now
quik and g one produced the hell outta this shyt! listen to how smooth this shyt is, bruh
