and "So Many Ways," a remix version later appearing on the Bad Boys soundtrack. "Regulate" the single first arrived on the star-studded soundtrack for Above the Rim, released via Death Row Records in the spring of 1994, and sold over 2 million domestic copies in the year of its rele...
1991:Snoop Dogg got his start the way so many hip-hop stars did before the internet became the main mode of music discovery: on a tape. Snoop was featured on a cassette that somehow made its way into the hands of Dr. Dre, who was at the time presiding over a record label called Fu...
So why then are so many music artists resistant to making commercial music? The answer that I'm often given is because they don't want to "sell-out" their creative integrity by conforming to some industry version of what's popular (i.e. what's selling). It becomes very obvious to me...
AA:Terrace was finishing up “King Kunta.” So they did that, and we were just talking and chilling, and it just reminded me of the way I like to record my records. Get the vibe, and just play — and then you chop it up. They played like six or seven of the track...
at least for me. It also gave me a taste of what touring was really like. I met some cool kids too. I brought tons of mixtapes that I had planned to sell, but I ended up giving most of them away, cuz so many of these kids were so clearly starving for hip hop I felt bad cha...