Old heads.... When Pac dropped HOW DO U WANT IT.... what was it like?

[TEH]

Huh?! That wasn’t Jodeci’s second album. This was and it’s a classic R&B album.




1996, I was a freshman at LSU. I was into all hip hop. I wasn’t about to choose a Coast. I played Mobb Deep, Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie, Wu-Tang, Tupac, Snoop, Dogg Pound, MC Eiht, etc.



Anyway, All Eyez on Me and Muddy Waters by Redman were my clique’s go to smoke session albums. I can’t remember what was popular in the clubs then, but I remember when Elevators by OutKast dropped, it changed the game. That shyt got played 3 times in a row at a club one night and errrrrbody was singing the hook and vibing out.

Me personally that G Funk was tired after Snoop peaked it was more choosing a sound not a coast

 

[Brolic Scholar]

Me personally that G Funk was tired after Snoop peaked it was more choosing a sound not a coast

But A LOT of G-Funk sample sources were also used by east coast artist. So was it really the sound?






I can post numerous examples like this. No diss, but I feel like a lot of people chose a coast and tried to justify it with other reasons. West Coast dudes were spitting too, so it wasn’t that...

 

[Elim Garak]

Pop fans cared

West Coast fans cared

how are you not understanding me

Hip hop heads didn’t fukk with it

Lmao my entire point is you continued

... nevermind you know what happened not wasting my time anymore.

 

[TEH]

But A LOT of G-Funk sample sources were also used by east coast artist. So was it really the sound?






I can post numerous examples like this. No diss, but I feel like a lot of people chose a coast and tried to justify it with other reasons. West Coast dudes were spitting too, so it wasn’t that...

Until you posted that I never thought Black Moon had a GFunk style and I’m still

 

[Brolic Scholar]

Until you posted that I never thought Black Moon had a GFunk style and I’m still

I’m tempted to post more examples.

 

[Brolic Scholar]

@TreeElecHuggica

 

[Brolic Scholar]

@TreeElecHuggica

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

It was great look for Pac without a doubt. Summer of 96 belonged to a couple of songs including

 

[Brolic Scholar]

@TreeElecHuggica






I could do this all day, but I think you get the point. I purposely omitted examples where the east coast was trying to copy G Funk.

 

[3rdWorld]

It was great look for Pac without a doubt. Summer of 96 belonged to a couple of songs including

Wait, someone tried to suggest 'How Do You Want It' was the biggest track of '96

 

[Ghost Utmost]

From my recollection it wasn't like anything

In the circles I ran in a joint that was 1/2 R and B like that didn't mean a thing

I wasn't in a place where Pac was some heroic legend. He was aiight and that particular joint was one of an ocean of okay songs that were floating around out there

My folks got excited when.someone came out that could spit molten lava. Anything less was just part of the background radiation

 

[TEH]

I’m tempted to post more examples.

Please do

 

[75 Others]

That uncut video

 

[Sterling Archer]

Dude you juelzing you said most didn't care and people would be revisionist then said well real nikkas didn't care but it was number one on the billboard charts people cared lol.

Dudes just be saying shyt for the fukk of it. I lived all over this country, even back then and I aint never met a thorough nikka that didnt fukk with it.

 

[TheNig]

Toss it up was better..

Toss It Up had a more hood vibe to it.