Yea I think it was unintentional bait ,like when a homie you cool with is fighting Someone you f with it heavy on his 1’s and the first homie you cool with says I got no beef with you but F your homies and if you want it you can catch it too.
Firm weren’t Day 1s and not a “gang” like the unit , it would’ve been different if he said F braveheartz...
Do you look at it also as a shot to Dr.Dre
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Nope. First of all Dre produced on that very album. Dre's voice is also on the song. No disrespect to SOS Band but Dr Dre's chronic is largely the world's introduction to Kurupt. Ho a housewife appeared jointly on Streetz is a motha and 2001. Kurupt was on next episode. Dre also produced on Kuruption. Kurupt also plainly says some people representing New York ain't shyt in New York. NOBODY from the west was dissed in calling out names.
The firm was one of Dre's acts...not a group that included Dre as such. In the same way Eminem is not a member of Slaughterhouse.
AZ is practically Nas' Sauce Money or Royce. Nas put AZ on the map. I swear before Affirmative action (on Nas' It was written) there was...basically no firm. Cormega was kicked out and Nature was added because it's Nas' group (well I think Steve Stoute but Stoute and Nas are arguably like Eazy and Heller (rest in peace).
Foxy...practically didn't even exist beyond an I shot ya remix feature pre Firm
The firm is not some super group made up of previously established stars like Slaughterhouse, HRSMN, Riflmen etc. It was Nas and people associated with him. This is why Nore (who wasn't even a member but was always around them) asked Nas how they formed and Nas basically said that he felt everyone had a crew and he needed one.