Snoop Dogg -1993- Doggystyle, demos & leftovers (Death Row Unreleased)

• 1992-1993 : Doggystyle sessions.
• The Doggystyle album wasn't finished in the way Dr. Dre wanted it. The album was supposed to be ready in 94. Due to mainstream and store demand for a Snoop album, Jimmy Irvine of Interscope was threatening to drop Death Row if they didn't bring the album before the deadline...
• Sources : Death Row Legacy Video
  

 

### - WORK IN PROGRESS. There is no earlier known material sequence for the album. Many things have been said about the Doggystyle sessions, maybe some tracks and alternate versions are still to be leaked... - ###

Tracklist

1. WBLZ 187.4 FM (Original Intro) feat. The D.O.C.
2. Doggystyle feat. George Clinton, Nanci Fletcher & Jewell
   
3. Fallin' Asleep on Death Row
4. Eat A Dick feat. Mr. Malik 
5. Niggas Don't Give A Fuck (Original) feat. Dogg Pound & Dr. Dre
   
6. God Don't Like Ugly (Interlude)
7. O.G. (Original Gangsta) feat. Nate Dogg
8. Big Bitches
9. Smoke On feat. Big Hug 
   
10. Poor Young Dave (Original)
11. Murder Was The Case (Original) feat. Daz
12. Big Pimpin' (Original) feat. Daz, Nate Dogg & Big Pimpin' 
13. Every Single Day (Original) feat. Kurupt & Nate Dogg
14. Tha Next Episode (Original) feat. Dr. Dre
15. Root of All Evil (Outro) feat. Teena Marie
16. Something About The Buddha (Interlude) 
    
    Bonus Songs :
    
    
17. Dogg Pound 4 Life (Original) feat. Dogg Pound
18. 3-2-1 feat. Kriss Kross

Producer - Dr. Dre, except "Every Single Day", "O.G.", "Big Pimpin'", "Niggas Don't Give A Fuck", "Dogg Pound 4 Life" by Dat Nigga Daz

 

Unused Material 

. Doggy Dogg World (Original) feat. Dogg Pound
. Ain't No Fun (Original) feat. Nate Dogg & Warren G
. Lodi Dodi (Original)  

. Gin & Juice (Laid Back Mix) feat. Jewell & Tha Snoopadelics
. What's My Name (Daz Remix) feat. Daz
. Doggy Dogg World (Perfecto Mix) feat. Dogg Pound & The Dramatics

. Untitled Instrumental #1 ("Guitar" vibe, Dr. Dre & Tony Green)
. Untitled Instrumental #2 ("Rock" vibe, prod. Dr. Dre, Daz & Tony Green)
. Untitled Instrumental #3 ("Space" vibe, Dr. Dre & Tony Green)  

A very successful album, but kind of disappointing for some...

It is important to remember that for some reasons (mainstream and store pressure), the release of the album was advanced by Interscope. The result is that Death Row didn't have time to clear some samples on time, so they dropped some songs (like the famous "The Next Episode"), recorded some others in a kind of emergency. That could explain why Snoop re-used some lyrics from songs they couldn't release, they left unrecorded some instrumentals. For instance, the last minute "Serial Killers" was made of lyrics taken here and there. It could be a reason for Dr. Dre to have given Snoop the beat of "Gz And Hustlas" (recorded in the end of the sequence) which was maybe more likely a Warren G beat he had earlier given to 2Pac for "Animosity" / "Lie 2 Kick It"...  Warren G could be angry against Dr. Dre and Death Row, what could have led to his distancing from the label... even if he will still be featured on some songs like like "Dogg's Day Afternoon" recorded for Dogg Pound's album, of which his verse will be removed...

Another people who worked on the album were unhappy to not having any recognition for what they did... 

In a sense it is the beginning of the end for Dr. Dre at Death Row... Because the album was not satisfying for the critics, people around him were disappointed... He will then concentrate on his own projects, Heltah Skeltah with Ice Cube or his Chronic 2 which will never really be on its way... He will finally give very few to Murder Was The Case soundtrack. He gathered a new team around him in 1995 with Sam Sneed, J-Flexx, Buddha...

DETAILED TRACKLIST

• Doggystyle, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). The beat of the song will be re-used for Dogg Pound's Dogg's Day Afternoon.
• Fall Asleep on Death Row, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). Snoop will reuse some lyrics in "One Life To Live" (leftover from Murder Was The Case Soundtrack), in "Hit Rocks" in 1995 and in "Never Leave Me Alone" with Nate Dogg in 1996.
• Eat A Dick, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). Snoop reuses his verse on "Doggy Dogg World". The bassline is also reused in "Serial Killers".
• Tha Next Episode (Original), prod. Dr. Dre. The song appears listed - but not in the material - in the early pressing provided to the retailers, before the release. But but they couldn't clear Les McCann's sample "Go On And Cry". Dr. Dre will release a song with the same title in 2001. Warren G will finally use the beat for "Runnin' Wit No Breaks" and later Crooked I will use the exact same beat for "Real Thugs".
• Niggas Don't Give A Fuck (Original), prod. Dr. Dre. Remixed in Poetic Justice Soundtrack (1993). It was the first song recorded for the album. Snoop reuses his lyrics in "Niggas and Bitches" which replaced the song in the album.
• O.G. (Original Gangsta), prod. Daz. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). Daz remixed the song and added a verse from him for his album Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back (1998, Death Row). Nothing is known about that original...
• Big Bitches, prod. Dr. Dre. DeBarge sample "I Like It". Snoop reuses some of his lyrics in "You Thought" in The Doggfather.
• Smoke On, prod. Dr. Dre. Sample by The Floaters "Float On" (uncleared ?). Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake).
• Poor Young Dave, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in Re-Lit & From The Vault. The song will be re-recorded in 1994 for Murder Was The Case by Lil' Bow Wow ("D.A.V.E."). Snoop will reuse lyrics in "One Life To Live" probably recorded for Murder Was The Case Soundtrack, then for "Midnight Love" for The Doggfather. Lil C-Style uses some of the lyrics for "Gangsta, Gangsta" in 1995 (LBC Crew), and RBX for "Moms Are Cryin'" in his first album RBX Files.
• Murder Was The Case (Original), prod. Dr. Dre.
• Dogg Pound 4 Life (Original), prod. Daz. Snoop reuses his lyrics in "Pump Pump". Remixed with a new Snoop verse in Murder Was The Case Soundtrack.
• Every Single Day (Original), prod. Daz. Snoop will re-use his verse for "G'z & Hustlas" (a late track recorded over the same beat than "Animosity", stolen by Dr. Dre to his cousin Warren G - or less likely the reverse : they worked at it together and Warren G purposed it to 2Pac without asking Dre...). So Daz will remake a version with him instead of Snoop, for Kurupt and Dogg Pound first album or for Murder Was The Case Soundtrack.
• Something About The Buddha (Interlude), prod. Dr. Dre.
  
• Root of All Evil, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake).
• Rock Instrumental, prod. Tony Green & Dr. Dre (?) or Daz (?) or all of them (?).
  
• 3-2-1. Supposed to be released in Kriss Kross album Da Bomb (1993), finally leftover. Snoop lyrics will be reused for "Pump Pump" and "Gz Up and Hoes Down".
• . Instrumental #1. Tony Green & Dr. Dre.
• . Instrumental #2. Tony Green & Dr. Dre or Daz (93/07/01).
• . Instrumental #3. Tony Green & Dr. Dre (93/03/22).
• . Instrumental #4 (God Don't Like Ugly), prod. Dr. Dre.
• . Something About The Buddha (Interlude), prod. Dr. Dre.

Snoop Dogg -1996- Tha Doggfather Original / Snoop & Friends (Death Row Unreleased)

• Mid 1995 - Nov. 1996 : Snoop Dogg's second album recording sessions.
  
• Material for a triple album ? probably mixed with a new LBC/Pre-Eastsiders project (after original album being shelved because of Snoop/Lil C-Style dispute)
• The album was ready to be released in September but the death of 2Pac seems to have deeply modify the project.
1. Tha Doggfather Original Demo LP (pre-Vegas "rebuild" sequence)
   
2. Corleone's Revenge : The OG Mafioso album (leftover tracks)
3. The Eastside Party (various released tracks outside Snoop's album)
   
4. Unused Instrumentals 
• Sources : Death Row DAT Inventory ; DAT Tape in auction  
• SPECIAL THANKS to Bomb1st Forum & Jay2Chill   
  

 

back cover of Tha Doggfather

said to be the original cover planned for the album

### - We chose to not follow the "Demo LP" leaked by Bomb1st Forum in 2016, what is a random compilation of demo versions of the retail songs. We thought it is much more interesting to use the tracklist purposed by Jay2Chill of Bomb1st Forum (in a thread of June 2023), trying to rebuild the album sequence of September '96, right before 2Pac's death, following newspapers, interviews and other collected info. Except that we included demo versions instead of any retail songs. - ###

Part 1 : The Original Demo LP (Pre-Vegas REBUILD Sequence) - LISTEN 

1. Freestyle Conversation (Rough Mix) (4:26)

2. Downtown Assassins (Rough Mix) * 2001 (Original Mix) feat. Nate Dogg (backing vocals) (4:24)

3. Gold Rush (Original Mix) feat. Kurupt, Techniec & Bad Azz (4:39)

4. Head Doctor (Original Mix) (5:32)

5. Sixx Minutes (Rough Mix) (4:36)

6. You Thought (Rough Mix) * Word On The Street (Rough Mix) feat. Bad Azz & Techniec (5:26)

7. C-Walkin' (Original) (4:40)

8. Snoop's Upside Ya Head (Rough Mix) * Off The Hook (Rough Mix) feat. Charlie Wilson, Val Young & James DeBarge (5:42)

9. Out The Moon (2Pac Version Rough Mix) feat. Bad Azz, Soopafly, Techniec, Tray Deee & 2Pac (5:13)

10. Change Is Gonna Come (Rough Mix) feat. Val Young (5:33)

11. Up Jump Tha Boogie (Rough Mix) feat. Kurupt & Charlie Wilson (4:31)

12. Midnite Love (Rough Mix) * Eastside Party (Original Mix) feat. Nate Dogg (5:21)

13. Too Black (Rough Mix) (5:29)

14. Doggfather (Daz Original Mix) (4:28)

15. Doin' Too Much (Soopafly Original) (6'02) **

16. Street Life (2Pac Version) feat. Prince Ital Joe, 2Pac & Val Young (5:33)

17. Vapors (Rough Mix) (5:35)

 

Leftover demo :

. Me & My Doggs (Rough Mix) (4:39) - identical, no intro

. Wake Up (Ruff Mix) feat. Tray Deee (5'14) - similar, longer mix, no intro

. Doggyland (Ruff Mix) (4'42) - similar

• Producer -  Daz (2,7,8,12,14,16), DJ Pooh (7, 8, 11, 17), Soopafly (1, 2, 6, 10, 12, 15), LT Hutton (6,10,13) Arkim & Reg Flair (3,14), Kurt Kobane (4)
• This unreleased demo material is taken from leaked DATs (raw studio material) from 11/06/96 (PO781966 : tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15), 10/07/96 DAT (PO781867 : track 16) and from Bomb1st's bootleg album (1, 16).

• * Tracks 2,6,8,12 haven't been leaked yet in an alternate form so we chose to not include them in this bootleg (because available in the official released album and in Doggumentary EP).
• ** Recently leaked. We can hear a snippet of it in Smokefest Video, at 5:28. A re-recorded version of the song has been released in No Limit, Top Dogg.
• Tracks 1,3,5,11,14,17 are close to the released version but with many different elements.
• Tracks 4,7,9,10,12,13,15,16 were not included in Tha Doggfather LP (Death Row, 1996).
  
• Tracks 3,7,10,13 have been released in a close form in SmokeFest World Tour (1998, Dogghouse) / Fuck Death Row (1999, No Limit).
  
• Tracks 8 and 9 have been released in Gridlock'd Soundtrack (1997, Death Row)
• Track 8 was included in a previous sequence of the album and would have been replaced by "Snoop's Upside Ya Head".
  

 

 

Doggfather single

The original Doggfather LP : if 2Pac wouldn't have been killed in Vegas...

In 2016, Bomb1st Forum leaked a Bootleg with a compilation of alternate mixes and unmixed songs from Tha Doggfather, and a compilation of leftover tracks. All these unreleased materials are taken from early sequences of recording of the album, mainly from circa summer of 96.

Jay2Chill, in a Bomb1st forum's thread of June 2023, shared his work of reconstruction of what could be the state of the Doggfather album, right before 2Pac's death in early September. This has been deduced from the known tracklists of the DATs and the various info collected here and there in interviews, articles... After Pac's death, Snoop notably took off songs with 2Pac, remixed some other and shelved some which will end up in the SmokeFest World Tour album. More than half of the album was totally changed. We miss only four demo songs (if there are any existing alternate mixes) and a totally unleaked one (we can only hear a bit of it in Smokefest Video - maybe somebody could put the retail vocals of the song over the original beat remade) to get that sequence. It has no interludes, what is often said as a weakest point in the released album.

With this rebuild tracklist, we can listen to a different Doggfather album. Would it have changed the destiny of Snoop Dogg and Death Row Records ?

dates and tracklists of existing sequences of the album

First steps of the album : Don Corleone & Don Makaveli

When 2Pac joined Death Row label in the fall of '95, Snoop Dogg was still struggling with his justice case (what ended in February of 96). It is said that at that time he had troubles to write new lyrics... 2Pac would even have told him that his original verses in "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" were weak, what led him to re-write and re-record his parts (some people even said that this lost original could have become "Wanted Dead or Alive"...). That could explain why 2Pac and Daz wrote reference songs like "This Ain't Livin" and "Street Life" in February-March of 96 when he started recording sessions for Doggfather.

So the Doggfather sessions really started in the end of February of '96, right after the end of the case, in the night of the 20th to the 21st. 2Pac was then recording his second solo album for Death Row (cf. Me Against The World pt. 2). After or before Pac recorded "Changed Man" with Nate Dogg (lyrics that refer to Carlito's Way could be also applied by Snoop's situation), Snoop recorded with 2Pac the freestyle song "If There Was A Cure", and maybe also the first version of "Eastside Party" with Nate Dogg, Daz & Tray Deee. Five days later, he recorded "Just Watching" with 2Pac, the Dogg Pound and Hurt-M-Badd, and 2Pac recorded the reference song "This Ain't Livin'" for him...

But this is mostly the following month (March of '96) that he recorded a first amount of songs for his album : "Gangsta Walk", "May I", "Doggfather", "I Will Survive", "Change Is Gonna Come", "Wake Up", "Come On Home", "Tommy Boy", "Never Leave Me Alone", "2001"... And Daz recorded the reference song "Street Life" for him. In April '96, Snoop recorded new songs : "Gangsta Life", "Smoke Enough Bud", "Dogg Collar", "Doggyland", "Too Black", "Poly High"... what leads him to reconsider the direction of the album. 

 

 

 

Front cover of the Bomb1stForum's Doggfather bootleg presented as :

"20th Anniversary Sessions Edition"

 

## Tracklist by Bomb1st Forum. For this second part, we give the tracklist of the Bomb1st Anniversary unofficial bootleg and not the rebuild tracklist of a known sequence of the album because it would have had a lot of tracks in common with the Original Demo LP. This gathers most of the other leftover tracks still unreleased (in their original form) that were recorded during Doggfather sessions. ###

The Sessions Part 2 : The OG Mafioso Album (Corleone's Revenge) - LISTEN

1. Gangstaz Life

2. Definition Of A Homeboy

3. 21st Street (Shhh For This Original) feat. Tray Deee & Bad Azz

4. May I Funk With You (Rough Mix)

5. Tell Her What She Wants (Interlude)

6. Pop Bloccin' (Original Quite Obvious) feat. Techniec, Kurupt & Big Pimpin'

7. County Blues (Rough Mix) feat. Unknown & Kevin Vernado

8. Dat Bumpin' feat. Daz

9. Usual Suspects (Original) feat. Deadly Threat

10. Some Other Shit

11. Eastsiderz (Soopafly Original) feat. Tray Deee & Daz

12. Get In 2 Dis feat. Charlie Wilson

13. Street Life (Original) feat. Prince Ital Joe

 

Bonus Tracks :

14. C-Walkin' (Rough Mix) (4:40) Get Up 2 Get Down (Interlude) feat. Smitty & James DeBarge

15. Vapors (Battlecat Remix) Just Watchin' (Rough Mix) feat. 2Pac, Dogg Pound & Hurt-M-Badd

16. Head Doctor (Rough Mix) (5:32) Eastside Party (Rough Mix & Alternate) feat. Daz, Tray Deee & Nate Dogg (5:05)
17. Change Is Gonna Come (Rough Mix) What's My Name (Daz Remix) feat. Daz

• Producer - Daz (3,8,13,15,16, 17), LT Hutton (10), Soopafly (4,11), Sean Barney Rubble (14), DJ Battlecat (1, 15)
  
• Tracks 1,7,9,13,15 are taken from 7/10/96 DAT
• Tracks 14,16,17 are taken from 6/11/96 DAT and were planned to be in Doggfather OG (Pre-Vegas Version)
  
• Track 15 was planned to be released in Doggumentary EP

back cover of the 20th Anniversary Bomb1st's bootleg album

Corleone's Revenge ? 

This collection of songs was gathered by Bomb1st forum for the 20th Anniversary of the release of Doggfather album. All the tracks included are leftover songs from Doggfather sessions and were then unreleased in their original forms ("Vapors Battlecat Remix" has been released one year later in Neva Left, and was initially planned to be included in Doggumentary EP).

If we put apart the four last songs (used in the Original LP), the album so organized starts by the whole story of the birth of a mafioso, and it ended in "Street Life" by these words : "Corleone, rest in peace". So the subtitle of the known bootleg of Doggfather II, "Corleone's Revenge" could be more than a random title. The Doggfather sessions has enough material to constitute that legendary Doggfather II. 

 cover of a bootleg (picture taken from the booklet of the album) 

with a selection of featurings, soundtracks...

Was the "real" Doggfather 2 a Pre-Doggfather ?

The commonly known Doggfather II bootlegs, single disc (here) or double disc (available here and there), were constituted of songs taken from SmokeFest album and from various featurings (2Pac, Nate Dogg...), compilations and soundtracks (like "Freaky Tales", "Let Me Hit Something") and some well known unreleased leaked songs (like "Lil Crip A Lot", "Last Man Standing") which are not from Doggfather sessions, but more from Snoop's late times at Death Row or just after he left...

On the contrary, the songs here have been all recorded during the Doggfather recordings (1996), before the final mix which took place after Tupac's death in September '96. They can constitute a full forgotten album, a Doggfather pt. 2 or more exactly a pre-Doggfather. But nothing indicates that Snoop once thought to release a double album or a follow-up to Doggfather album, especially because these leftover songs were about mafioso subjects, that he seems to want to give up... These songs were put aside with the progressive constitution of the album we know and would probably have been given or re-used for various projects even if Snoop would not have left Death Row. 

  

 

Promo picture

 

### This tracklist is based on Lost Sessions Vol. 1 tracklist and completed with all non-album released tracks recorded during the Doggfather sessions. ###

Part 3 : Tha Eastside Party (Snoop & Friends)

Disc One : with LBC Crew 

1. Got To Do Wrong (Too Black Remix)
2. Quite Obvious (Pop Bloccin' Remix) feat. Rappin' 4 Tay
3. Word On The Street (Heard It Through The Eastside) feat. Bad Azz & Techniec
4. The Shhh For This feat. Tray Deee
5. Hoez feat. Dogg Pound
6. Keep It Real Dogg 
7. Dogg Collar feat. Bad Azz, Lady V, Kevin Vernado, 6'9, Twin & Big Pimpin'
   
8. One Life To Live feat. Lady of Rage & Techniec
9. The Genie feat. Bad Azz & Bo-Rock
10. Funk With Your Brain (Interlude) feat. Mahallia Franklin & Kevin Vernado
11. Caught Up feat. Charlie Wilson & Val Young
12. Put It In Your Mouth (Head Doctor Remix)
13. Gravy Train feat. Bad Azz & Tray Deee
14. Life's Hard (dedicated to 2Pac) feat. Big Pimpin', K-Ci & JoJo 
15. Smoke Enough Bud feat. Jewell

Disc Two : with Various Artists

1. May I (Remix) feat. Mr. Malik
2. C-Walkin' (Remix)
3. Head Doctor (Remix) feat. Swoop G & Raphael Saadiq
4. Eastside Party feat. Nate Dogg
5. Nothin' But A G Thang (Tommi D & DJ Jam Remix) feat. Dr. Dre
6. Lil' Ghetto Boy (Julio G & Tony G Remix) feat. Dr. Dre
7. Let Me Ride (Daz Remix) feat. Dr. Dre, Daz & Jewell
8. Gangsta Walk feat. Dogg Pound
9. Eastside feat. Tray Deee & Daz
10. What's My Name (Daz Remix) feat. Daz
11. My Favorite Color feat. Big Hutch
12. Too High (Poly High) feat. Twinz, Daz & Big Pimpin'
13. Gin & Juice (Daz Remix) feat. Daz
14. Usual Suspects feat. Deadly Threat 
15. Keep It Real (Party People) feat. Mack 10, Bad Azz, Techniec, Deadly Threat & Kurupt
16. Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto feat. Daz, Bad Azz, Tray Deee & Nate Dogg

• Producer - LT Hutton, Soopafly, Daz, DJ Pooh
• Disc One 
• Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 have been released in Lost Sessions, vol. 1 (2009, WIDEawake)
• Track 7, 15 have been released in Chronic Re-Lit : From The Vault (2009, WIDEawake)
• Track 4 has been released in Gangsta Shhh 12'' (2009, DPG recordz) 
• Disc Two :
• Tracks 1, 2, 3, 8, 11 have been released in Dead Man Walkin' (2000, Death Row) 
• Tracks 4, 9, 12, 14, 15 have been released in Death Row's Snoop Doggy Dogg Greatest Hits (2001, Death Row)
• Tracks 5, 6, 7, 13 have been released in Death Row's Greatest Hits (1996, Death Row)
• Track 16 has been released in Christmas on Death Row (1996, Death Row). 

L.B.C. Crew about to become the Eastsiders ?

In the beginning of '96, Snoop & Doggystyle's project L.B.C. Crew went shelved because of Lil' C-Style and Snoop arguing about royalties. So in parallel of his album, it seems Snoop was probably thinking to record a new LBC Crew project without Lil' C-Style who does not appear in any Doggfather sessions (except if we consider that "Doggystyle 96" and "Out The Moon OG" that appear in a July DAT could have been recorded later than 95 - what is not believable). 

The group name "LBC Crew" itself was not used anymore (except by 2Pac in "Untouchablez". In late Feb. - March of 96, Snoop recorded "Eastside Party Original" with Daz, Tray Deee and Nate Dogg, "Eastsiders Original" with Daz & Tray Deee (produced by Soopafly), maybe a new version of "21 Jumpstreet" called "21st Street" with Tray Deee & Daz, "Gangsta Walk" with Dogg Pound, "I Will Survive" with Techniec & Kurupt, "Tommy Boy" with Daz, "Smoke Enough Bud" with Jewell, "Dogg Collar" with Bad Azz & Big Pimpin, and very probably "Word On The Street" with Bad Azz & Techniec...

The group name eventually changed to "Eastsiders", a first version of the group that Snoop will later form with Tray Deee and Goldie Loc. Was that name restricted to Snoop, Daz and Tray Deee or was it supposed to include other close partners for a party album like we chose to consider it. Some songs from one project moved to Doggfather and other came in.

It is funny to notice that "Eastside Party", probably recorded circa end of February of 96, starts in its final mix version (probably mid of 96) by 2Pac's voice (something like "nigga ya yop..."), the exact same mix than in the end of "Initiated Remix" (with the blow sound during the whole song) that has also been produced by Daz.

The Sessions, pt. 4 : Unused Instrumentals -

1. Bugsy (LT Instrumental #1) (5:20)
2. Been So Long feat. Jewell (5:20) - unreleased
3. LT Instrumental #2 (1:00)
4. Priest Instrumental (4:53)
5. Hot Line (Sean Barney Instrumental) (6:03) 
6. LT Untitled Instumental #1 (0:56)
7. LT Untitled Instumental #2 (0:52)
8. LT Untitled Instumental #3 (5:45)
9. Doggfather Instrumental #1 (5:48)
10. Doggfather Instrumental #2 (5:06)
11. Doggfather Instrumental #3 (1:03)
12. Doggfather Instrumental #4 (5:31)
13. Keep It (Interlude) (1:24)
14. Dat's The Way (Interlude) (3:22)

 

 

LBC Crew -1995-1996- Haven't You Heard...? (Original) (Doggystyle / Death Row Unreleased)

• July 1994 - Dec. 1995 : first album by LBC Crew, a group of rappers formed by Snoop (also from Long Beach California), consecutively to their contribution to Murder Was The Case Soundtrack.
• Supposed to be published on Death Row's sublabel "Doggystyle". Label led by Snoop Dogg as a C.E.O. and Big C-Style as manager.
• Recorded before 2Pac started to record at Death Row, the first single "Beware of my Crew was released the 14th of November 95.
• Shelved because of a disagreement about royalties between Lil' C-Style & Snoop Dogg. Lil' C-Style would have destroyed some advanced mix of the album.
• Sources : bootleg

 

cover of the DGC bootleg edition of the album

 

Snoop Doggy Dogg presents... The LBC Crew : Haven't You Heard ?

### Official 2011 WIDEawake edition is totally unsatisfying... Firstly, it doesn't include any version of "Beware of My Crew", neither "Doggystyle '96", two absolute mega hits... Maybe even more important, it is said it is not the final mix of the songs (according to Banned from Bomb1st forum, who pretends to own an advanced mix of the album)... Instead, it includes "Doggfather's Disciple (Fucked Up)", "Jacca's Reunion", "Gangsta" and the Daz remix of "Out the Moon", probably recorded a bit later in early '96. Hopefully many unofficial bootleg editions have been leaked. The "DGC" bootleg pretends to follow an original tracklist from late '95, what could be the Promo one. ###

 

DGC's Original album (1995) - Grab it there

1. Intro 2 The Indo (by Snoop Doggy Dogg) feat. Big Pimpin'
2. Out The Moon feat. Soopafly
3. Dippin-N-My Low Low feat. Coco Loc (Low Life Gangstas)
4. Get Up 2 Get Down feat. Low Life Gangstas & Sho Shot
5. Doggy Style '96 (LBC Crew) feat. Deadly Threat, Warren G
6. Beware Of My Crew feat. Roger Troutman
7. Baby Come Home (by So.Sentrelle)
8. Flossin'
9. One 213 feat. Soopafly & Daz
10. I'll Smoke 2 That feat. Deadly Threat
11. It Feels Good 2 B D.P.G. feat. Nate Dogg
12. Funk Wit Yo Brain (Interlude) *
    
13. Indo Blueberry (Original) (by Bad Azz) feat. Dogg Pound & Prince Ital Joe
14. Hit Rocks (by Snoop Dogg) *

Rap - Techniec, Bad Azz, Lil C-Style featuring So Sentrelle, Tray Deee, Soopafly & Snoop Doggy Dogg

Producer - LT Hutton (2,11,12), Daz (9), Soopafly (1,2,4,9), DJ Pooh (2,5,6,8,11,14), Snoop Dogg (2,4,11), Dave Swang (3,7), The White Guy (3), Sam Sneed (13)

• Tracks 5, 6, 12 & 14 are not in WIDEawake 2011 edition.
• Tracks 12 and 14 were taken from Snoop's Lost Sessions Vol. 1 and from Smokefest World Tour / Dead Man Walking and could be different from what has been released (the DGC credits announce raps by Tray Deee & McGruff for the first and lyrics written by Lil C-Style for the second...)

 

 

DGC's Bonus CD (1995-1996) - Grab it there

1. Doggfather's Disciple (Fucked Up) feat. Bo Roc (The Dove Shock)
2. Out The Moon (Daz Remix) feat. Soopafly, Snoop Dogg & Daz
3. Gangsta feat. Snoop Dogg
4. I Will Survive I Don't Hang (by Soopafly)
   
5. Jacca's Reunion feat. Big C-Style
6. Gold Rush (Original) Power 106 Drop feat. Low Life Gangstas & So.Sentrelle
7. Gravy Train feat. Snoop Dogg Verbal Shots feat. Kurupt & O.F.T.B.
8. Wanna B From D.P.G. (6 Shooter)
9. Beware Of My Crew (DJ Pooh Remix)
10. Nina Ross (Super Ho) (by Lil C-Style) feat. Snoop Dogg
11. Eastside (Original) feat. Daz & Snoop Dogg No Recognition
12. Keep It Real (Party People) Cam-Am Sessions (by Bad Azz)
13. Keep It Real (Snoop) Stone Cold Corleone (by Soopafly & Techniec) feat. Bo Roc
14. Droppin' Bombz (In The Show OST) (by Tray Deee & So.Sentrelle
    
    Bonus Tracks :
    
    
15. Words On The Streets feat. Snoop Dogg
16. St. Ides Commercial (by Lil C-Style & Techniec)
17. Beware of My Crew (Original) 

Producer - LT Hutton (1,3,5,6,8,11), Daz (2), Soopafly (4,12,13), DJ Pooh (9), Dave Swang (14) 

We chose to scrap some songs which were recorded during Snoop's Doggfather sessions and could form a kind of "Eastside Party" bonus disc (cf. Tha Doggfather sessions). Tracks 1, 7, 10 and 13, without Snoop, were probably recorded at that time, when Lil' C-Style was not recording with the group anymore.

 

- Tracks 4, 6 have been released in Smokefest World Tour  and in Tha Doggfather's Demo 20th Anniversary (unofficial, 2016)

- Track 7 & 13 have been released in Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (WIDEawake, 2009)

- Track 11 & 12 have been released in Snoop Doggy Dogg in Death Row's Greatest Hits

- Tracks 1, 2, 3 & 5 were released in WIDEawake edition.

- Track 9 has been released in Beware of My Crew 12'' (Doggystyle, 1995) 

- Track 4 has been released in A Thin Line Between Love & Hate OST (1995), like 

- Track 14 has been released in The Show OST (1995)

- Track 8 has been released in The Ultimate Death Row Collection (WIDEawake, 2009)

- Tracks 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 15 were recorded during Haven't You Heard sessions (summer/fall of 1995)

- Tracks 1, 7, 10, 13 were recorded during Tha Doggfather sessions (1st half of 1996)

- Tracks 6, 11 and 16 are freestyles probably recorded in 1996

 

 

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Snoop Doggy Dogg presents... LBC Crew !!

LBC Crew members firstly appear in Murder Was The Case soundtrack, Tray Deee in "21 Street" with Snoop Dogg, Lil' C-Style in "Who Got The Gangsta Shit" with Snoop & tha Dogg Pound (first production by Soopafly), maybe Techniec in "One Life To Live" featuring Snoop & Lady of Rage (recently released in Snoop's Lost Sessions Vol. 1, in which Snoop re-uses verses from "Poor Young Dave"). Even the unreleased "I'd Rather Lie To Ya" by Bad Azz (prod. by Daz) could also be a leftover from that project. A project that also saw the first step to a tight connection between Daz, Snoop and 2Pac with "Life's So Hard" (cf. F.T.W. (Fuck The World) / M.W.T.C. leftover tracks), after a kind of tension when 2Pac had to scrap his Thug Life original project for having been leaked and Snoop using the same beat than "Lie 2 Kick It" in "Gz and Hustlas" : in the beginning of 94, 2Pac criticize "Gin N Juice" in "Hennessey".

After the recording of Dogg Pound's Dogg Food in Dec. 94 - April 95 (So.Sentrelle, Tray Deee and the manager of the group Big C-Style appear it it), Death Row was busy to record Dr. Dre's new Chronic 2 project album (maybe a Dre version of "Can't C Me" has been made at that time...). So Snoop Dogg founded his own subsidiary label Doggystyle Records the 6th of July 1995, in order to develop the next DPGC project. So he invited the young fellows from Long Beach, California, to form the LBC Crew. If the group is officially known to have only Bad Azz, Lil' C-Style and Techniec. It is clear that Tray Deee, So. Sentrelle and Soopafly were involved in the beginning. The recordings of the album took place between the 14th of July and the 10th of August, just before Suge payed his first visit to 2Pac in prison. So the LBC Crew album was entirely recorded before Death Row signed and freed him in October.

A superhit with Roger Troutman, one month before "California Love"

"Beware of My Crew" was released the 14th of November 1995 as a single for the soundtrack A Thin Line Between Love & Hate (published in January of 1996), as much as a promo single for their forthcoming album. At that time, Dogg Food was freshly released (the 31th of October) and 2Pac had just started to record intensively with Death Row (since the 13th of October). A few days prior this first single, 2Pac recorded his verse for "California Love", another song which contains vocals by Roger Troutman of Zapp... which will be released as a breakout single the 5th of December '95, less than one month after LBC Crew's superhit. From that point of view, maybe LBC Crew helped to the enormous success of the Dre/Pac megahit. 

"Beware of my Crew" like "California Love" were firstly recorded without Roger Troutman parts (Hurt-M-Badd aka Tyrone Wrice of B-Rezell claims he originally made singing hook for the very first version of "California Love"). Roger Troutman maybe added his parts for the two songs around that time in late summer of '96 ("Beware of My Crew" has 10th of August as a date of recording, could it be the original version ? or the remixed version with Roger Troutman ?). Anyway, Roger Troutman made LBC Crew exploding (because of the success itself) as much as he built the huge success of All Eyez on Me.

2011, WIDEAwake edition

One of the biggest loss of Death Row's golden age

It is said that Lil C-Style and Snoop argued about royalties, maybe after they played "Beware of my Crew" live at Soul Train the 24th of February '96 (here's a snippet of, there was a full video but I couldn't find it anymore)... in March when Snoop Dogg started to work on his new album whereas the planned LBC Crew album was still delayed... It ended up by Lil' C-Style damaging tapes of the album. Same kind of problems strangely occur in Death Row around that time (with first Mopreme complaining about royalties for his parts in All Eyez on Me. Then Big Syke wanted to record his solo in Death Row but finally left probably because of a disagreement with the label upon the contract. Johnny J seems to have left very disappointed upon his royalties from All Eyez On Me, which were probably mainly spent for paying the clearance of samples...). 

That's why, at the same time he started to record songs for his solo album Tha Doggfather, Snoop recorded new songs for a kind of new LBC project that could be called "Tha Eastside Party" (cf. Tha Doggfather sessions), that could as much as a follow up to LBC Crew shelved album and a first project prior to Tha Eastsidaz group in 1999 (with Snoop, Tray Deee & Goldie Loc). "My Heat Goes Boom" is edited circa June of '96, replacing Lil C-Style's part by a 2Pac's verse. The song was planned to be included in Tha Doggfather Original but Snoop changed his plans after 2Pac's death. Maybe Snoop was planning to remake the whole album without Lil' C-Style. A new solo version of "Dippin' My Low-Low" by Techniec was recorded in the fall of 96.

Connection 2Pac / LBC Crew

There are not many common points between LBC Crew and 2Pac, beside of the superb featuring of Bad Azz on "Krazy" in Makaveli, The 7th Day Theory. Bad Azz also made the original hook of "Only Move 4 The Money" aka "Three Wordz" (originally a Pac/Snoop duet). He recently explained how he insisted to record a little something for the song when Snoop didn't want him to, and finally convinced everybody with his hook (maybe recorded in April-May of '96 for Gridlock'd/Gang Related original soundtracks). This is probably after that 2Pac shot out the LBC Crew in "Last Onez Left" (cf. Troublesome, Tha Secretz of War) and planned to have them as guests in One Nation. So in the end of May, 2Pac recorded a verse for the remix of "Out The Moon" to replace Lil' C-Style (initially aimed for Tha Doggfather Original, ended up in Gridlock'd soundtrack in 1997) and Bad Azz is featured in the unreleased "Untouchablez" (cf. One Nation, Part 2) with Snoop, Kadafi and Edi. The two songs are produced by LT Hutton, clearly the home producer of the LBC Crew, who also produced some posthumous remixes like "Let Em Have It", "Pac's Life" and "Don't Stop").

Daz of course produced many songs for 2Pac. But the main producer of the group, DJ Pooh, also produced a few songs for 2Pac : unleaked "Ghost" in 92-93 (cf. Ghetto Gospel), "When We Ride" (cf. All Eyez on Me), "St. Ides Commercial" freestyles in 93 and then with Snoop in the end of 95 or beginning of 96. Like 2Pac, LBC Crew of course recorded with the Dogg Pound Gangsta Crew : Snoop, Kurupt, Daz, Warreng G, Nate Dogg, Big Pimpin'... (2Pac was also recording with Warren G for his first original Thug Life album), and regular friends like Deadly Threat. They also recorded "Verbal Shots" with O.F.T.B. The song sounds very similar to the rest of LBC album and could have been recorded around the time O.F.T.B. came to record with 2Pac ("The Struggle Continues", in October of 95) or later in March of '96 when they recorded "Better Dayz" with Syke and "World Wide" with Kurupt and 2Pac. Like the LBC Crew, O.F.T.B. is another group who failed to release their album on Death Row (cf. I Come Up Hard).

Known dates of recording  

- 95/06/?? Blueberry ft Dogg Pound & Prince Ital

- 95/07/14 Feel This (longer edit version)
- 95/07/18 Intro To Endo
- 95/07/19 Dippin In My Low Low
- 95/07/19 Out The Moon
- 95/07/20 Out The Moon (DJ Pooh Remix)
- 95/07/22 Out The Moon (Daz Remix)
- 95/07/24 It Feels Good 2B D.P.G. (Extended Bad Ass verse)

- 95/07/24 Get Up 2 Get Down
- 95/07/25 Jaccas Reunion
- 95/07/25 Flossin
- 95/07/25 Baby Come Home
- 95/07/26 It Feels Good 2B D.P.G.

- 95/07/26 6 Shooter
- 95/07/28 Funk With Your Brain
- 95/07/26 6 Shooter (Alternate)
- 95/08/07 I'll Smoke To That
- 95/08/09 Out The Moon (New Radio Remix with Daz)
- 95/08/10 Beware of My Crew (original ? Troutman version ?)
-------- New Master Compilation Album 95/08/17 ----

- 95/09-10 (~) Beware of My Crew (Roger Troutman Version) (?)

------------------------ Beware of My Crew 12'' - 95/11/14 -----------------------
--------------- Final Mix of the album - 95/12/29 ??? ----------------------------
- 96/01/07 It Feels Good 2B D.P.G. (Remix)

- 96/01/~ One 213 ft Soopafly & Daz

- 96/01/~ Doggystyle '96 ft Warren G & Deadly Threat 

----------- A Thin Line Between... OST w "Beware of My Crew" - 96/01/30 ----

- 96/02/24 LIVE Beware of My Crew at Soul Train

-------- Lil' C-Style crashed the DAT of the album - 96/03-04 (~) ------------

----------------- Snoop tranfers "Hit Rocks" for his solo album - 96/04/13 --------------- 

----------- Snoop transfers 3 songs from LBC album to his solo - 96/05/17 --------

- 96/06/31 (~) Out The Moon (2Pac added, C-Style out)