HipHop77 said:
tell me right tha fuck now how they pissed you off.
Dante said:
you're kidding right?
edi's horrible post-production
edi and katari's terrible direction of 2pac albums
the removal of artists who "can't help 2pac's legacy"
re-recording classic verses and replacing them with poop
"repping pac" all over everything because he's their only selling point
and basically just falling the fuck off and turning into a bunch of guys who would never have had made it in hip hop had it not been for their ties to pac.
honestly, do you think anyone would have signed noble unless 2pac put his corny ass on?
THANK YOU, I couldn’t have said it better.
The Outlawz have done nothing since Pac's death but mooch off his name and legacy while contributing zero, scratch that, they have actually HURT Pac's legacy. They jump at any chance to translate their associations with Pac into some type of money generating enterprise and at this point their contribution to a song has absolutely no redeeming qualities. A good posthumous Tupac featuring the “Outlawz” track is a rare find now a days because standard procedure means they go in and trash any Pac ad-libs, re-record over any vocal intro or outtro, burn any original guest appearance (Outlawz included), revamp the entire song (courtesy of EDI’s third string quality production) then noble, napo, kasto and edi ALL drop crappy sub par verses that had Tupac been alive and heard, would have rejected and chastised them for, then benched them for the rest of the session. Honestly…
Why do you think they re-record their verses on every new releases?
Why do you think EDI produces so many "remixes"?
Why do you think they bump Pac, Yak and Fatal verses from countless songs so they can add some updated verse of their own?
Why do you think they'll vouch for an artist so they can appear on a posthumous pac release who never knew, met or associated one way or another with pac?
Why are so many creative decisions made in the direction of sales volume and exposure instead of preserving authenticity and Pac’s original vision?
They get PAID that’s why! The Outlawz re-record their verses so 1) they can keep themselves sounding current and generate interest in their OWN releases using Pac albums as exposure and 2) so they get a check. Edi jumps at the chance to remix a Pac song so he can get another check, not just one for a new verse but also hey! one for the production. And as for Pac, Yak and Fatal being bumped well that’s easy if a song originally featured Pac Yak and Fatal ...and then after a little remixing it now features Pac, noble, kastro, napoleon and Edi well then that’s another 4 checks. All the “vouching” they do for guest artists? Well when it comes time for the Lawz’s to record their umpteenth garbage record guess who’s going to get the first phone call for a feature? And lastly all the emphasis of sales volume and palatability across the board is (take a fuckin guess) money. The Outlawz want the album to generate as much sales as possible because they have a vested interest in both their wallet and their career (i.e. their wallet down the road). They have no problem remixing the shit out of a song because hey, new hook by noble = more writing credits= more money, who gives a shit if they have to trash original appearances or the song suffers or it deviates from Pac’s original vision right?
It really is despicable and I personally can’t stand the “Lawz” anymore because of all their bullshit. If you were anyone with some common sense you would be pissed off too.
