Here you go. Puffy shows up to the studio high on a lot of cocaine, lit as hell, bothering Pharrell while he in his workspace creating. Pharrell is a nice guy so he entertains him. The song is released and Puff has a writing credit. Yes, I definitely see how he’s on the level of a Dre or JD
You're right about Dre: his credential also looks funny in the light when you take the amount of people working with him.
You think dr dre was sampling obscure records??
Dr dre and death row were abusing the hell out of 70s and funk nostalgia. You know how many casual and non-rap fans they picked up because of those samples they were using?
The samples may not have charted as high as some of the songs Puff sampled but that's mis-leading, because it was alot harder for black artists to get placement on the general chart back then, but lots of white folks still know most of that chit.
The same could be said for 90% of the big west coast records in general back then.
Also puff prolly has more hits using the more obscure samples than dr dre.
u big mad @ the fact that dre didnt sample commerically sucxesful hits??
.those R the facts 
and kids were fsmilar when a donny hsthaway sampled song kame on like 
thats my shxt from bak in the day 
.but puffs formula was diff to Dres and that was obvious
Who cares honestly? Folks want bops. All that pseudo analysis stuff turn people off. Most listeners ain’t even that far into SOUND to even know a signature change or flip when they hear it. Also most people that listen usually haven’t heard them old songs that are sampled
@ how wrong @Master Teacher is
