... At the Speed of Life came out and he wasn't exactly on the national scene at that time so I never got put onto it. My first X exposure was the "What U See Is What u Get" video and I was on board from there.


>Thought Paparazzi was dope. And I liked What You See is What
>You Get but never thought to buy the album.
>
>When I moved out to California I picked up the album and
>thought it was real dope. Got me through a lot of late night
>coding sessions at work.
>
>I still pull it out every now and then. Most of it has aged
>pretty well to my ears.
>
>Now Restless was a let down for me, especially since he had
>just become affiliated with Aftermath. I thought the Dre
>collabs would be out of this world, like on What's the
>Difference?, but in the end I think it weakened his style. He
>was still hardcore but to me some of his humor and edge were
>lost.

I wasn't disappointed, I had kinda prepared myself for a change in his sound just cause of the new crew. But I was so onboard with everything Dre/Snoop/Em/etc. were doing at the time (plus the Chronic and west coast g-funk sound is what got me into hip-hop in the first place) that it didn't matter. And to me it felt like a perfect marriage despite the slight shift in his sound.


>Really dug Multiply off of Man v Machine. But after that I
>lost track of his career.
>
>But like you said, those first three albums were / are dope.