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Topic subjectyeah, it was a shame as The Doc was a fan of both
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127629, yeah, it was a shame as The Doc was a fan of both
Posted by Dr Claw, Wed Jun-17-09 11:04 AM
especially Eiht when he was in CMW, cats sleep on those records to this day, ITDO.

It got play where The Doc lived at the time, and he hears out here in the Midwest his albums were regarded as classic.

There was even an Eiht "beat". Like when you hear it, you know Eiht is about to rhyme over it ("Growin' Up In Tha Hood", the drums).

>"....why is the 'G' missing???"
>
>As crucial as the song was to you, it was even more sideways
>shit he said on there...like how he said "two tramp five
>sevens pointed at yo chest"....tramp is a diss for the trays
>out here, which are a subset of Crips (83's or Eight Trays
>that Monster Kody was from)...so even him sayin that on there
>had some hoods lookin at him like "nah, you gonna have to calm
>that shit down!"

that shit is in the "No Vaseline" class. And really, The Doc didn't expect Quik of cats to go hard like that.

>Eiht never really recovered...it was a case where he didn't
>make a lot of dope music after, but even politically...Quik
>ran with 92.3 tough, and was even cool with Power 106, so you
>would NEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER hear anything from MC Eiht on radio.
>In all honesty, the only song I can even think of since 94-95
>that I've heard on L.A. radio from MC Eiht is "Candy"...I'm
>sure Julio G and some other DJ's played his songs on the night
>time shows, but as far as regular rotation, he definitely
>hasn't had any or been on any singles that got play here.

Damn...