So Dr Dre saved Interscope and Warren G saved Def Jam?

[NYK Loyalist]

foh.....YOU ACTING LIKE TICAL AND THERE IS A DARKSIDE DIDNT DROP that year.....
yeah warren g sold a lil more(it was also featured on the above the rim album) but u think that bum ass album saved defjam or had more impact
did its success help sure did..... but saved

you actin like LL mr smith didnt drop right after doin the same or better numbers...
def jam dropped the show soon after .....the movie and the album but you gon tell me warren g had more impact in saving defjam than that too right.....smart dumb niccaz

None of the albums you mentioned sold anywhere near what Warren G sold. I love all those guys but Red, Meth and LL never sold anywhere near 3 million. And your arguing with cats about something that is well documented, if you were into hip hop in 94 you knew that album was huge. Jay and DMX saved them again in 98'

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Without Warren G, east coast rap as we know it would have unfolded totally different. Crazy.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Y'all so vexed over me shytting on NYC, that y'all wanna rewrite history.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

I know REDMAN saved Def Jam.... Warren G? ehhhhh.....

No he didn't. Warren G's album sold more than the first 3 Redman albums combined.

It is common knowledge that Warren G's MULTI platinum album kept the ship from sinking debuting at #2 and spurring 3 top 10 hits in 94/95.

edit: muhfukkas post Russell Simmons words saying Warren G saved Def Jam and muhfukkas are still talking about 'LIKE LL AND REDMAN didnt drop"

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

No he didn't. Warren G's album sold more than the first 3 Redman albums combined.

It is common knowledge that Warren G's MULTI platinum album kept the ship from sinking debuting at #2 and spurring 3 top 10 hits in 94/95.

edit: muhfukkas post Russell Simmons words saying Warren G saved Def Jam and muhfukkas are still talking about 'LIKE LL AND REDMAN didnt drop"

People forgot how popular Warren G was...even if you didn't like West Coast rap... you liked Warren G, just cause he made such music.

 

[Mr. Negative]

No he didn't. Warren G's album sold more than the first 3 Redman albums combined.

It is common knowledge that Warren G's MULTI platinum album kept the ship from sinking debuting at #2 and spurring 3 top 10 hits in 94/95.

edit: muhfukkas post Russell Simmons words saying Warren G saved Def Jam and muhfukkas are still talking about 'LIKE LL AND REDMAN didnt drop"

I'm not dissing warren G. I'm only quoting the XXL interview with Russel Simmons, Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles.

They all said Redman saved Def Jam.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

I'm not dissing warren G. I'm only quoting the XXL interview with Russel Simmons, Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles.

They all said Redman saved Def Jam.

No they didn't it's pure fact that Warren G did that.... stop trying to rewrite history.


how can Redman have saved the label... when Warren G outsold him?

 

[Mr. Negative]

No they didn't it's pure fact that Warren G did that.... stop trying to rewrite history.


how can Redman have saved the label... when Warren G outsold him?

you're gonna accuse me of rewriting the September 09 issue of XXL too?

But hell, I may be thinking of this Eric Sermon quote, since I can't find the issue:

"Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen thanked me so much for bringing Redman in because Def Jam was going down then."

But I could have sworn I remembered the shyt in there. The Redman quote and Russell calling Irv Gotta a "motherfukkin shark"

 

[CHITLING flavored CEREAL]

None of the albums you mentioned sold anywhere near what Warren G sold. I love all those guys but Red, Meth and LL never sold anywhere near 3 million. And your arguing with cats about something that is well documented, if you were into hip hop in 94 you knew that album was huge. Jay and DMX saved them again in 98'

the LL mr smith album went over double plat breh so your totally wrong about them not doin similar numbers.......chek yaw statz

and again i never said warren g album wasnt a success i said he didnt save def jam by himself and that he is/was total garbage as a artist minus his beats....

im not into false nostalgia..... after regulate and the spotlight that comes from having a hit single no one gave 2 fux about warren g once they heard more of his corny flow the west lucky he fooled the public into buying those 3 mill yall should be thanking micheal mcdonald for that beat....... dude has one universally accepted classic song other than that his catalog is total garbage and is as bout well known as the ingredients in kfc's secret original recipe

 

[mson]

I'm not dissing warren G. I'm only quoting the XXL interview with Russel Simmons, Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles.

They all said Redman saved Def Jam.

You're right.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

you're gonna accuse me of rewriting the September 09 issue of XXL too?

But hell, I may be thinking of this Eric Sermon quote, since I can't find the issue:

"Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen thanked me so much for bringing Redman in because Def Jam was going down then."

But I could have sworn I remembered the shyt in there. The Redman quote and Russell calling Irv Gotta a "motherfukkin shark"

No you didn't.

Let's Raise a Glass for the Underrated Warren G - Los Angeles - Music - West Coast Sound

After Snoop and Nate accepted deals from Death Row, Warren G went solo before eventually signed to Violator Records who -- following a purchase by Polygram -- got his 1994 debut Regulate... G Funk Era distributed by Def Jam. With Def Jam in the midst of its darkest hour (notoriously investing in horrorcore flop Flatlinerz), Warren G pretty much saved the label, moving some four million units worldwide.

Warren G: The G-Code | Rappers Talk Hip Hop Beef & Old School Hip Hop | HipHop DX

DX: Speaking of Bishop, on his Gorilla Pimpin 5008 track from last year you spit, A livin legend every rapper on the west should thank/East coast too, ask Russell hell tell the truth.

Warren G: [Laughs] And he will tell the truth! Its basically saying I put it down and I put all of these people in the game. I put Snoop Dogg [click to read] in the game. I put Nate Dogg in the game. I put Daz [click to read], Kurupt [click to read], RBX, Bishop LamontI put these people in the game. They all got put in the game by me. And then Ive helped out people fromIve worked with Dr. Dre and brought him Snoop Dogg. That changed the whole west coast. When I dropped my [first] album, that changed the west coast musically. And then, in New York when Def Jam was in a hole [in 94] guess who saved em? Warren G. Warren G saved em. They made 100 million dollars [because of me]. Thats what it is. Thats all Im talking about [in that verse]. I aint dissin nobody. But I would like to get a thanks from some of the artists out there, at least a call like, "Hi Warren, are you okay? You should be straight for life."

even if you look at all the books done on Def Jam, it was Warrens album that kept Def Jam afloat, not any of those other cats...

Warrens album is probably the most underrated hip hop album ever in terms of impact.

 

[Still Benefited]

you're gonna accuse me of rewriting the September 09 issue of XXL too?

But hell, I may be thinking of this Eric Sermon quote, since I can't find the issue:

"Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen thanked me so much for bringing Redman in because Def Jam was going down then."

But I could have sworn I remembered the shyt in there. The Redman quote and Russell calling Irv Gotta a "motherfukkin shark"

Just stop and take a deep breath and think for a second.....which is more likely to be true?Redman who ain't sell near what Warren did saving Defjam?based on a quote u can't find?

Or Wareen singlehandedly openin up his flannel Clark Kent style,lettin u see just a piece of the W before swoopin in and saving Deffjam like Superman....sumthin that many quotes in this thread pretty much verify? They mighta meant Redman helped out quality wise cuz the roster stank,and he bought sum quality back....but Warren G and Nate Dogg did the heavy lifting....and yea I'm givin Nate Dogg a credit for savin Defjam too,as what is regulate without Nate Dogg?I can't even imagine... at nikkas gettin layed down left and right like Warren G til Nate showed up in this thread "damn what's next"

 

[DANJ!]

The Cali dudes are riding way too hard for Warren's catalog, and at the same time some of the others are trying too hard to deny Warren's popularity.

Now, HE as an artist may not have saved Def Jam, but that album definitely did. Redman did well, and his career speaks for itself but in '94, Def Jam was literally in peril. The other albums they were coming out with around that time- Public Enemy, FLOPPED. Nice & Smooth, FLOPPED. Flatlinerz, FLOPPED. Slick Rick, FLOPPED. And I'm sure there's more but a lot of their artists weren't even cracking Gold. A lot of their artists had passed their prime by then, and the new ones weren't doing much better. Def Jam was hanging by a string and their consistency wasn't what it used to be. Then that Warren G album sold 3 million and proved Def Jam still had legs, at least enough to get a new distribution deal and stay afloat. Later that year, Redman's shyt dropped which did the Redman gold standard, and Method Man ended up going plat in '95, then LL did like 2 mil with Mr. Smith after that- all this was Def Jam in a rebuilding period, and even then there were still albums flopping. Def Jam didn't go back to being THE label until about '98 when damn near everything that came out that building was selling big units. But they were dry in '94 outside of that G Funk Era album, no denying that.

 

[Taadow]

Wholetime...


...nobody disputing the Dr. Dre comment...

 

[DANJ!]

Wholetime...


...nobody disputing the Dr. Dre comment...

No need to. Interscope was a fledgling label distributed by Atlantic. In '92 prior to the Chronic, they had put out a 2Pac album that didn't do great numbers and albums by Gerado and Marky Mark that had zero hits. Death Row over the years made it a huge label that could stand on its own.