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>>When he left and went back to Death Row, he declined for >>sure. > >I agree that was when the steepest decline happened, but he >was still more hit or miss in the late 90s than he was when he >started. Every Kurupt verse from 92 to like, 96 or so was must >hear. From that point on it's been a rollercoaster IMO. > > >>But he actually made a decent adjustment from being a >>strong lyricist to making actual great songs, especially to >>L.A. heads. > >Yea that's totally fair. I've liked a ton of his music >throughout his career, I didn't mean to imply that he hasn't >made any good songs, he has ... and I still check for all his >work (was just listening to "Yessir" with Pete Rock this past >weekend, in fact). Was strictly talking about his lyricism.
Yea, basically he's had flashes, but his lyrical dominance definitely came to a cease right before his solo career started.
>>Shockingly, over half of the L.A. natives I know >>prefer Streetz is a mutha over Dre 2001. > >You'd obviously know better than me, but I'm actually *not* >shocked to hear this haha. Chronic 2001 is an incredible >album, a classic, no doubt about it. But I'd argue that a good >chunk of the tracks, specifically the singles, were sort of >multi-regional in terms of the production; the beats had a >more universally appealing sound, rather than a strong, >obvious West Coast/g-funk feel throughout, if that makes >sense. Obviously that doesn't apply to the entire album, >there's several beats with a more West Coast feel (Let's Get >High, Fuck You, Some LA ******, etc.) but it certainly >meanders in and out of other sounds (which is a good thing). >Meanwhile, Streetz was an unapologetically West Coast album >with front to back, prototypical West Coast production IMO. So >it's fitting, at least from where I sit, that your folks in LA >would have a soft spot/preference for Streetz over 2001.
Yep, that's EXACTLY what it is. And you know what's funny? The song that gets the biggest reaction with a Black L.A. native crowd from 2001 is NOT Next episode at all...it's "Let's get high." We loved the album for sure, but it was meant to be a bit more transformative than truly L.A. like Chronic. ------------------------------
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