Water Giver

2mo

Doggystyle to Blue Carpet Treatment from 2006 is the run + Bush in 2015.

Blue Carpet was also his last major mainstream success - Ego Tripping (the next album after Blue Carpet) is when it falls off not only in sales but also quality.

Great:

Bush
No Limit Topp Dogg
Tha Last Meal
Rhythm and Gangsta
Hard Love (group collab album with Warren G and Nate Dogg)

Good:

Paid tha Cost to be tha Boss
Blue Carpet Treatment
Snoop Presents: The Eastsidaz (group album with artists he discovered, their debut)

Ok/Mediocre:

The Game is to be Sold Not Told
Tha Doggfather

Then there's also Dead Man Walkin' which was unreleased songs from Snoop (songs he recorded in 94 to 97 iirc) released by Suge after he left Death Row to go to Master P's No Limit label as a warning to Snoop (hence the "album" title) when Snoop was talking about Suge in interviews and for leaving.

It has some good songs and bad songs, and its basically a mixtape released against Snoops will as basically a blackmail threat lol - from 98 if im not mistaken, but not considered official by Snoop.

• Edit: Dead Man Walkin' is actually from 2000 I just read, it was due to Snoop talking in depth about the Death Row era in interviews while signed to No Limit, and Suge didn't like that. It consists of unreleased vaulted songs from 93 of Doggystyle leftovers all the way to 98 when Snoop left Death Row to go to No Limit.

Bad Finger Boogie

2mo

Great breakdown, couple additional things of interest that might be worth pointing out too:

"Death Row: Snoop Doggy Dogg's Greatest Hits" was a so-called greatest hits album released by Suge after Snoop left the label, but interestingly enough like half of it is unreleased material. It's got like 6 tracks from the Death Row sessions plus an extra remix I think.

Also maybe worth looking at is uh... I think it's called "Death Row: The Lost Records Vol. 1" or something? This was released sometime in the mid/late 2000s and featured another bunch of odds and ends from the old Death Row sessions, this time including some unreleased Dre production. A lot of it's pretty simplistic though, so I imagine some of it was unfinishrd stuff.

Water Giver

2mo

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yeah i thot about mentioning the greatest hits but felt like it might be doin too much

death row has hella compilation albums full of a bunch of random s*** most of which is against most of their will lol

or were lied about, like the comp album Chronic 2000 he did which was all new material, but the hella artists involved with it thought it had Dre's blessing

it did not - and in fact Suge stole the title Chronic 2000 when he heard about it in closed doors as word that it was going to be Dr. Dre's next album title and a sequel to Chronic

Suge stole the title name as spite due to Dre leaving Death Row, which then Dre scrapped a quarter of the already made project and renamed the project to 2001 - scrapped the og in process demo version because of reference lyrics to "Chronic 2000" 💀

so Rows version of chronic 2000 is literally a double album with feats from s*** like Treach, Milkbone, Kurupt, Outlaws, Scarface, E40 etc. thinking it was all love, mixed with a few Pac vault songs after death like Who Do You Believe In - some of them even straight up Rap "Chronic 2000" in their lyrics and big up Dre

Bad Finger Boogie

2mo

lmaoo I knew the basic details behind Chronic 2000: Still Smokin' but never actually sat down and listened to it, those namedrops sound insane

Suge also dropped that ridiculous Too Hot for Radio comp shortly after that for memory, right when he was trying to sell DVDs literally just featuring his guys going up to random celebs in LA and beating them up

Lord Quas

2mo

How's it sounding btw?

Might peep tomorrow during my shift.

Water Giver

2mo

right on the intro Treach talm bout "Chronic 2000" and biggin up Dre and they even have an OG Chronic-like skit as the intro 💀- and the album is TWENTY EIGHT TRACKS 💀💀

shame cuz there is a good amount of songs that are actually dope but tied to the stain and bad image of trying to f*** over dre and tricking them all

and yeah LMAO Suge was just doin whatever

Kee

2mo

Y'all sayin this is garbage????

TRIPPIN.

This s*** actually fire

Water Giver

2mo

yeah i thot about mentioning the greatest hits but felt like it might be doin too much

death row has hella compilation albums full of a bunch of random s*** most of which is against most of their will lol

or were lied about, like the comp album Chronic 2000 he did which was all new material, but the hella artists involved with it thought it had Dre's blessing

it did not - and in fact Suge stole the title Chronic 2000 when he heard about it in closed doors as word that it was going to be Dr. Dre's next album title and a sequel to Chronic

Suge stole the title name as spite due to Dre leaving Death Row, which then Dre scrapped a quarter of the already made project and renamed the project to 2001 - scrapped the og in process demo version because of reference lyrics to "Chronic 2000" 💀

so Rows version of chronic 2000 is literally a double album with feats from s*** like Treach, Milkbone, Kurupt, Outlaws, Scarface, E40 etc. thinking it was all love, mixed with a few Pac vault songs after death like Who Do You Believe In - some of them even straight up Rap "Chronic 2000" in their lyrics and big up Dre

Water Giver

2mo

right on the intro Treach talm bout "Chronic 2000" and biggin up Dre and they even have an OG Chronic-like skit as the intro 💀- and the album is TWENTY EIGHT TRACKS 💀💀

shame cuz there is a good amount of songs that are actually dope but tied to the stain and bad image of trying to f*** over dre and tricking them all

and yeah LMAO Suge was just doin whatever

necromancer

2mo

I've heard that Dre and Jimmy Iovine were actually in negotiations to get the rights to use the name "Chronic 2000" for the album after Suge bought it, and Suge could've gotten royalties off it but then it fell through because Suge asked too high of a price

This is according to Reggie Wright Jr. but I would believe it because it sounds like a scheme Suge would do, both to f*** over Dre and make money off his music

necromancer

2mo

There's actually some good songs on this project and I can't lie, Tha Realest actually had some good songs too, he was probably the best Pac clone at the time

Bad Finger Boogie

2mo

Is Tha Realest the guy that people have theorised recorded fake Pac verses for some of the posthumous albums?

Always thought that was a bit of a stretch personally

JollofRaids

2mo

wtf is wrong with dre's mixing man the compression is insane

Kojimbo

2mo

Cap

Relapse might be his best produced album and nobody else is credited on there