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Topic subjectYea good point - and that's a mistake I always make.
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3027602, Yea good point - and that's a mistake I always make.
Posted by Brew, Thu Oct-15-20 07:42 PM
>Agreed on “The Watcher”. More of that.
>
>But I don’t know about the beats being wack in 96-97. I
>think it was just the direction on the Firm album that was
>off. The overly commercial Firm Biz single, and not having
>Nas and AZ together on damn near every song was the main
>problems IMO. Thought the beats that Dre did were strong.
>Phone Tap and Firm Fiasco were 10/10 to me. In fact, not
>having enough Dre tracks was another flaw with the album given
>how much he was associated with the album. If he did every
>track and Nas/AZ were on every track, it wouldn’t be a
>“flop”.

I often forget that Dre didn't do the whole Firm album. I always associate that album with him in totality because of how loudly and how often he denounced it during the 2001 era, both on song and in interviews and shit.