2025 March
Tag: Kurupt
audio review : WAWG [ We All We Got ] ( album ) … Tha Dogg Pound
We All We Got would’ve sufficed. The WAWG abbreviation is tacky and redundant. The album makes more sense musically; the Intro is vintage Death Row; though it doesn’t get particularly interesting till “the last record” when Snoop leaves LA for New York City. Who Da Hardest, he asks over a DJ Premier beat. Tha Dogg Pound reply with guests RBX and The Lady Of Rage as you wish the whole album sounded like this.
my rating : 3 of 5
2024
WAWG [ We All We Got ] ( album ) … Tha Dogg Pound
2024
a song from Tha Dogg Pound’s WAWG album : Who Da Hardest ( with The Lady Of Rage + RBX )
2024
Whoopty Whoop ( song ) … Tha Dogg Pound
2022
Snoop Dogg rapping with Tha Dogg Pound : Up To No Good
2011
audio review : Xxplosive ( song ) … Kurupt + Six-Two ( featuring Nate Dogg + Hittman )
The odd song structure, which starts with a hook never heard again and separates two rap verses by what itself sounds like a Nate Dogg song demo, isn’t as off-putting as it should be. In fact it works, mostly because it all sounds good. The best part, aside from Nate’s splendid vocal melodies, is the beat; a pimped-out funk-guitar loop that sounds like it was made to smoke weed and fuck hoes to.
my rating : 4 of 5
1999
Let’s Roll ( song demo ) … Tha Dogg Pound
2020
Guidelines ( song ) … Capone-N-Noreaga + Tha Dogg Pound
2020
Superstars ( song ) … Ya Boy ( featuring E-40 + Kurupt + Glasses Malone )
2009
audio review : Gangsta Boogie ( song ) … Wale ( featuring Tha Dogg Pound )
This Boogie goes from good to great near the end when the GANGSTA chant comes in. Wale says it “crank like a motherfucker” and he’s right. What he should’ve done was interpolate it, at least the main parts of it, into the other chorus sections. As is, the song, which celebrates the Cali “gangsta” lifestyle with Kurupt and Daz, is a would-be classic.
my rating : 4 of 5
2016
Since 85 ( song ) … Devin The Dude ( featuring Kurupt + Spice 1 )
2019