Tha Dogg Pound
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| Tha Dogg Pound | |
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| Also known as | Kurupt and Daz, DPG |
| Origin | Long Beach, California |
| Genre(s) | Gangsta Rap, West Coast Hip Hop |
| Occupation(s) | Rapping Producing |
| Years active | 1992 - 2002 2005 - present |
| Label(s) | Death Row Records (1992-1998) dpgrecordz (1999–) Koch Records (2005–) Doggystyle Records/Universal Records (2007) |
| Associated acts | 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Soopafly, Lady of Rage, RBX, Bad Azz, Lil ½ Dead, Tray Deee, Roscoe, L.B.C. Crew |
| Website | www.dpgrecordz.com MySpace |
| Members | |
| Daz Dillinger Kurupt |
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| Former members | |
| Snoop Dogg Nate Dogg Soopafly Lil' Style Jewell |
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Tha Dogg Pound, also known as D.P.G. (Dogg Pound Gangstaz), is a rap group made up of Kurupt and Daz Dillinger. They were signed to Death Row Records in their early careers and were key to the label's success. The group made their 1992 rap debut on Dr. Dre's The Chronic, on various songs. They also appeared on Snoop's classic Doggystyle, and the Death Row soundtracks Murder Was The Case and Above The Rim. Their solo, Dogg Food, was released in 1995. It was another addition to the controversy of rap music due to the sexual and violent lyrics and went on to sell three million albums.
Kurupt and Daz went on to release solo albums starting in in 1998. They had both eventually left the crumbling Death Row Records in 1999 after Daz left due to long-lasting internal struggles on the label after friend and labelmate Tupac Shakur's murder in 1996. Kurupt started Antra Records, while Daz started D.P.G. Recordz. In 2002 a feud arose between the two when Kurupt decided to sign back with Death Row Records, upsetting everyone involved with the group. His awaited Death Row release Against Tha Grain had been postponed several times while Kurupt was on the label, later being released in August of 2006, after he was off. In January 2005, Daz made another solo album release titled Tha Dogg Pound Gangsta LP. Tha Dogg Pound then got back together as a group and released Dillinger & Young Gotti II in November 2005. In 2006 Snoop Dogg decided to get involved and the three released their official reunion album Cali Iz Active.
An extended family, referred to as D.P.G.C. (short for Dogg Pound Gangsta Crips), has over time been made up of Snoop Dogg, Daz Dillinger, Kurupt, Nate Dogg, and Soopafly. The members of the DPGC are commonly featured on each other's albums and projects.
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[edit] History
[edit] Death Row Years (1992-1998)
Before The Chronic album came out, Tha Dogg Pound consisted of Daz, Kurupt, and later Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg & Soopafly. They instantly took the West Coast music industry by storm. When Snoop's debut album Doggystyle was released in 1993 it looked like Tha Dogg Pound was shortened to just Daz and Kurupt.
In 1995, Daz and Kurupt released their debut album Dogg Food under Death Row Records. The album debuted #1 on the Billboard 200 and went on to reach 2x platinum status. In October towards the end of the same year 2Pac Shakur had been bailed out of jail by Death Row's Suge Knight and was immediately introduced into the Death Row family and became good friends with Tha Dogg Pound especially.
In 1996, they were featured on 2Pac's legendary and widely acclaimed Death Row Records debut All Eyez on Me with Daz Dillinger producing the hit song "I Ain't Mad At Cha" among other tracks which solidifed his status as a talented and successful producer. In early September of the same year, Shakur was murdered in Las Vegas. Kurupt and Daz were deeply effected by this and struggled to release anything after Shakur's passing. 7 years later in a 2003 interview, Daz stated that he now believed Suge Knight was responsible for Shakur's murder which may have just been a shot at Death Row Records because of Tha Dogg Pound's internal beef at that time.
[edit] Kurupt and Daz leave Death Row (1999-2001)
In 1998 Kurupt left Death Row but remained in Tha Dogg Pound. Kurupt released two solo albums in 1998 (Kuruption!) and 1999 (Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha) that had Daz and the rest of DPG on them. However, in 1998 Daz was making noise of his own over at Death Row by making his own label called Mobstyle Muzik, which was his first taste of the independent scene. Mobstyle's first release Poppa Snoop Presents Mobstyle Muzik Volume 1 failed and Daz returned to Death Row. He later started up DPG Recordz along with Christopher "Big C-Style" Bowden through Death Row Records.
Daz also eventually parted ways with Death Row in late 1999 and released his first independent album R.A.W. in 2000. That was followed by the D.P.G. album from Tha Dogg Pound entitled Dillinger & Young Gotti. After Tha Dogg Pound's full departure from Death Row, Suge Knight claimed ownership of the name "Tha Dogg Pound" and any tracks recorded prior to them leaving. To avoid a legal battle at the time Daz changed their marketing name to D.P.G. short for Dogg Pound Gangstaz. In 2001, Suge Knight released a Dogg Pound album entitled "2002" which consisted of unreleased Dogg Pound tracks. Daz has been quoted as saying this album was "bullshit", and even claimed to have raided Death Row Records vaults during one of Suge Knight's incarcerations and stole back as many DPGC songs as he could find. Most of which were Soopafly's songs and featured on his 2001 solo album Dat Whoopty Woop.
[edit] Beef & Separation
[edit] External Beef
Over the years the Dogg Pound had beef with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, due to Death Row Records being embroiled in a feud with Eazy-E's Ruthless Records. The Dogg Pound made a diss towards The Bone Thugs, on the song Dogg Pound Gangstaz, with Kurupt's line "Ain't got no love for no hoes in harmony." In response Layzie Bone shot back on the track Shots to tha Double Glock with the line "Dogg Pound hoes it's on." "Krayzie Bone says "Gotta find these 'Row Hoes" in the song "Mo' Murda" off the East 99 album.The feud ended when Snoop Dogg and Kurupt were featured on Krayzie Bone's album Thug Mentality 1999 in the song The War Iz On. Krayzie Bone also features on Daz Dillinger's upcoming 2008 solo album Only on the Left Side on the song Meal Ticket.
Tha Dogg Pound were also involved in a feud with B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta. In response to Eazy-E's Real Muthaphukkin G's, Tha Dogg Pound along with Snoop Dogg made a track called What Would You Do with such lines as: "Fuck B.G. Knocc Out and every nigga down with him." Later B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta retaliated with the song D.P.G. Killa, on their debut album Real Brothas. They have since squashed the beef and released a song called Blaze it up, as a bonus track on Tha Dogg Pound's Dogg Chit album.
[edit] Internal Beef (2002-2004)
In late 2002, Kurupt shocked the entire DPGC and fans alike, when he wound up signing back to Death Row Records as vice president under Suge Knight. It is believed Kurupt was nostalgic of the former Death Row days when Shakur was alive and wished to restore that glory somehow and stay true to the Death Row persona. Daz, Soopafly, Snoop, Terry Choe a.k.a Teezy and the rest of DPGC viewed this as betrayal and took many shots and dissed Kurupt harshly for making the move. Kurupt did the same claiming they all were wrong to have turned their backs on Death Row. They declared war between both camps and that he was not the one who changed, rather them.
The rap duo heavily dissed each other from 2003 to late 2004, both recording diss albums against each other. Daz took aim at Kurupt and Death Row with his single U Ain't Shit featuring Bad Azz and another song I Don't Give a Fucc which is sung over the beat to 50 Cent's In Da Club. Kurupt responded heavily with his Originals album which featured many disses throughout nearly every song, namely the bonus track Eat a Dicc (Fucc Daz).
[edit] Reunion (2005-Present)
It was like that until early 2005 when Kurupt and Daz made a truce. The struggling Death Row failed to promote and release Kurupt's album "Against Tha Grain" and the duo began to feel remorse for one another. Kurupt left Death Row apparently along with their former "Tha Dogg Pound" alias and reunited with Daz. The duo started rapping together again and even made a new album together entitled "Dillinger & Young Gotti II: Tha Saga Continuez." After The Western Conference in 2005 the two of them agreed to revitalize the DPGC by working together once again on an album with Snoop Dogg, Soopafly and Nate Dogg, with Snoop taking over the producing and distributing tasks for it.
The Dogg Pound have recently released a joint venture reunion comeback project called Cali Iz Active under the aegis of Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle Records with the main single "Cali Iz Active" featuring Snoop Dogg and a wide range of new producers throughout the album. Their next album, entitled Dogg Chit, was released March 27, 2007; with the single Vibe also featuring Snoop Dogg. This album goes back to their G-funk roots with a reminiscent style similar to Dogg Food and features Daz back as the main producer on almost every song.
In August 2007, it was announced that Tha Dogg Pound (Daz & Kurupt) had signed to Birdman's Cash Money Records. Their next album was expected to be entitled Westcoast Aftershocc but has since been postponed in favor of the 100 Wayz album due to, in short, Cash Money not being able to raise the required money for the project. The contract had since been apparently ended but in a later interview Kurupt stated the deal is still on the table but only postponed. Daz Dillinger did however leak the singles entitled "Ch-Ching" and "Mystic River" which would have promoted the new deal and album. The deal with Cash Money and the Westcoast Aftershocc album is still on the table but is on hold as the duo pursues other projects. The single "Ch-Ching" was later released along with other unreleased tracks on Tha Dogg Pound's online iTunes album entitled Let's Ryde 2Night EP. Mystic River is now likely to be the main single off of Kurupt's upcoming new solo album History of Violence.
100 Wayz features Pharrell Williams on the lead single "Cheat." Daz will be producing most of the album but also features producers such as Pete Rock and Swizz Beatz. Recent information posted on the group's official website promoted a new song "They Don't Want It" featuring Soopafly. A release date for the album is aimed at the summer of 2008.
Tha Dogg Pound is also working on a collaboration album with Pete Rock with the current title of "Pete Rock & Tha Dogg Pound."
[edit] Discography
- Further information: Kurupt discography and Daz Dillinger discography
[edit] Albums
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Dogg Food
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Dillinger & Young Gotti
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The Last of Tha Pound
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Dillinger & Young Gotti II: Tha Saga Continuez...
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Cali Iz Active
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Dogg Chit
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| Let's Ryde 2Night EP |
100 Wayz
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Pete Rock & Tha Dogg Pound
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[edit] Singles
- Tha Dogg Pound - "What Would You Do" (feat. Snoop Dogg & Big Pimpin' Delemond)
- The Click - "We Came To Rock Your Body: (feat. Tha Dogg Pound, Snoop Dogg & Nate Dogg)
- Tha Dogg Pound - "New York, New York" (feat. Snoop Dogg)
- Tha Dogg Pound - "Let's Play House" (feat. Nate Dogg & Michel'le); # 45 US
- Tha Dogg Pound - "Because of You Girl" (feat. Tha Realest, cameo appearance by Heather Hunter)
- Tha Dogg Pound - "Nothin' But the Cavi Hit" (feat. Mack 10); # 38 US
- Tha Dogg Pound - "Just Doggin'" (feat. Nate Dogg and Michel'le)"; # 99 UK
- Kurupt - "Who Ride Wit Us" (feat. Daz Dillinger)
- Kurupt - "It's Over" (feat. Natina)
- Kurupt - "Its On (On, On Site)" (feat. Daz Dillinger)
- D.P.G. - "Coastin"
- D.P.G. - "Hittin Donutz In The Streetz"
- D.P.G. - "DPGC Muzic"
- D.P.G.C. - "Real Soon"; # 49 AUS
- Tha Dogg Pound - "Cali Iz Active" (feat. Snoop Dogg)
- Snoop Dogg - "Candy"
- Tha Dogg Pound - "Vibe" (feat. Snoop Dogg)
- Tha Dogg Pound - "Where U From" (feat. Bad Azz)
- Twiztid Feat. DJ Quik & Tha Dogg Pound - "Hurt Someone"
- Tha Dogg Pound - "Ch-Ching"
- Tha Dogg Pound - "Cheat" (feat. Pharrell)
[edit] Awards
- Grammy Award nominations
Tha Dogg Pound has been nominated for one Grammy Award but has not yet won an award as of 2008.
| Category | Genre | Song | Year | Result |
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| Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group | Rap | "What Would You Do" | 1996 | Nominated |
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