Daz Dillinger Made Peace With Snoop Dogg For New Dogg Pound Album
Daz Dillinger and Kurupt—collectively often known as Tha Dogg Pound—had been someplace in Canada mid-tour with Snoop Dogg after they hopped on Zoom. With weed smoke wafting by means of the air, the longtime duo chopped it up about their new album, W.A.W.G. (We All We Obtained), their first launch on Dying Row Information since their 1995 debut, Dogg Meals, and their ever-evolving relationship with Snoop Dogg.
The 14-track mission, which boasts eight collaborations with Snoop Dogg along with visitor verses from RBX, The Woman of Rage, Butch Cassidy, DaBaby and extra, bumps with nostalgia whereas concurrently ushering in one other chapter for the bona fide OGs.
Now of their 50s, each Daz and Kurupt know the way lucky they’re to nonetheless be doing what they love, particularly in an period of microwave rap. Actually, Kurupt admitted he’s considerably stunned by the constructive suggestions they’re getting on the mission.
“I used to be fairly shocked on the response,” Kurupt instructed AllHipHop. “Being in our 50s and other people nonetheless appreciating our music is nice. We love the love. We love the individuals. We love the truth that they nonetheless driving with us.”
Daz Dillinger and Kurupt mentioned it took simply 4 days to finish the album, a miraculous feat in itself contemplating Snoop Dogg is a modern-day renaissance man, who appears to be in every single place without delay.
“When Snoop mentioned go, it was a stable go,” Daz mentioned. “He was becoming it in his schedule. And as soon as he acquired round us, he wouldn’t allow us to go. The chemistry by no means left.” Kurupt added, “We was pulling down 45 data a day! Dogg has this aura about him. We Snoop’s first group ever, Tha Dogg Pound, so Dogg already is aware of the place to go together with us. All he requested was for us to only observe his lead.
“Daz ain’t produce a document on there, and that was very tough for Daz ’trigger he’s a producer. That is what he does. And Daz mentioned, ‘I’m following your lead, Dogg.’ I’m very happy with Daz for doing that proper there ’trigger he by no means offers up that place, however he did for the Champ and for the crew. And the Champ led us to the championship. He had concepts, he’d lay ’em and me and Daz executed them.”
Daz and Kurupt have come a good distance since their early days at Dying Row. After Dogg Meals debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Tha Dogg Pound had been featured on 2Pac’s Dying Row debut, All Eyez on Me. Kurupt appeared on “Obtained My Thoughts Made Up” and “Verify Out Time,” whereas Daz produced “2 of Amerikaz Most Needed,” “Ambitionz az a Ridah” and “I Ain’t Mad at Cha.” Additionally they made an look on Snoop Dogg’s album Tha Doggfather. However amid mounting tensions inside the label, Daz and Kurupt wound up leaving on their very own accord in 1998.
Unexpectedly, Kurupt took an government producer function at Dying Row 4 years later, which Daz, Snoop Dogg and the remainder of the DPGC considered as a betrayal. From roughly 2003-2005, Daz and Kurupt routinely traded photographs on wax. Daz took purpose at Kurupt and Dying Row on “U Ain’t S###” and “I Don’t Give a Fucc,” whereas Kurupt introduced the warmth all through his 2005 Originals album, together with the bonus observe “Eat a Dicc (Fucc Daz).”
Quick ahead to 2024 and Daz had practically given up on rap. “I used to be doing building. I used to be going to retire from rap. We reached the head of rap. What extra may I do?” However in March, Kurupt swung by Snoop’s studio and seen a man sitting within the nook along with his hat down low. He went to say what’s up and didn’t initially notice it was Daz. For sure, he was shocked to see him there.
“I mentioned, ‘You huge head muthafucka, what the s###!?” Kurupt mentioned. “I take a look at Dogg, he on the board. He simply rotated and smiled. All we did was smoke up. Dogg mentioned, ‘It’s DPGC time.’”
Finally, everyone was capable of make peace. As Daz defined, “It was up and down at first, however then we acquired it collectively. We’d been feuding for a bit bit, however we again—you realize, household s###. Me and Snoop are first cousins, so it’s up and down. We’ve been doing this s### on daily basis for the final 15 years. However we by means of with it now. We simply proceed to mash. We see the place we’re going. We see what the individuals is. And hey, the cash flowing over right here at Dying Row and alternative flowing.”
Daz did admit, “I used to be anti-Snoop at one time, so in the event you checked out him or breathed on him or something, I might block your ass. I checked out it prefer it was a distraction.”
However Kurupt shortly concluded, “That’s the place the household are available at, as a result of all of us butt heads. If we was simply mates, it might be damaged, however household will all the time recover from the hump.”
W.A.W.G. (We All We Obtained) was launched as a Gala Music unique and is at present out there on all DSPs. Highlights embody the title observe, “Favourite Colour Blue” and “Home Occasion.”
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