During the newest episode of Snoop Lion’s web series, Double G News Network (GGN), the rapper revisited the past with help from fellow emcee Kurupt. Together the two former Death Row Records artists spoke on their first time meeting, battling other emcees, and the numerous rap names they went through before choosing a final name.
According to Kurupt, battling with rappers years ago was so intense that Death Row Records founder Suge Knight was willing to hand out label deals to any artist able to beat Kurupt.
“I remember Death Row was giving out deals if you could serve Kurupt,” the rapper revealed. “Remember we was out of town? Three niggas came up and these other two niggas. ‘Nigga if you can serve Kurupt, you can get a deal.’”
“Suge Knight was notorious for that,” Snoop added.
Minutes before ending his latest episode of GGN with a fitting freestyle from Kurupt, Snoop spoke on his first encounter with the rapper, which happened to be a nearly 45-minute long battle he referred to as “some magical shit.”
“So, when I bumped into you, I know I was fresh out of jail. I was turning to the Dogg,” Snoop explained. “I had the brim on with the all black and gray coat. And I’m watching you serve all my homies…I’m laying up against the wall like a Chinese karate movie nigga. This nigga cutting everybody. He just dropping all the homies…We going at it like 45 minutes strong nigga. Whoever make it out of us two, nigga it’s our responsibility to put us back together again cause this is some magical shit.”
The full GGN episode can be seen below.
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i bet in the freestyle snoop spelled out his name like 30 times
Only 30? It was 45 mins long you’d expect at least 135.
I heard these cats got raped true story Suge had dudes bent over and was takin turns on they ass
Strange that you even think you know anything about that. Beyond the music who cares. Stop gossiping hoe.
Agreed, but you have to understand that people say dumb shi& on the internet because their life is a waste. Working a Pick & Serve with no ambition and no future. What do we expect?
Kurupt was always a better rapper than dat nigga Daz
Daz was more the producer, creative guy
daz was a good producer
Bitch you dont know shit!!!
some funny shit
Let it be known Suge ran Eazy-E the fuck out of L.A.
thats y when eazy met suge knight….suge tried pulling eazy to the side and punk him and eazy boys ran up with that burner and punked suge out of giving him a percentage of record sales of death row……y you think eazy says, but dre day only met eazy’s pay day….do ur research u clown…u must be a youngster south san diego ca in this bitch
Eazy got points off Dre’s Chronic album after he put out a lawsuit against Death Row, and that’s the real story. Both you clowns need to lookup the court documents, and stop gossiping like little bitches.
i watch the whole thing blazzeeddd, sht was funnnnnnny!
Peep Doggy Fizzle if you haven’t already, funniest shit in the world…when blazed of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBgl_LdgH-s
Lol Eazy made money off every single thing that death row put out.. Suge is a dirty muthafucka he even had his own artist on his label shook
Eazy got points off Dre’s Chronic album after he put out a lawsuit against Death Row. That’s the only album he ate off of since Dre wanted to get out of his Ruthless records contract.
Not even btnh?
bone was on ruthless not death row
CROOKED-I WILL SERVE ALL THEM! #COB #SLAUGHTERHOUSE!
Both actin like bitches, lol
Who is the girl at 9:54?
Maya Michelle Rew
You can say what you want but Lord G was better than all of them when he was with Death Row… and still is… maybe that’s why he ghostwrote for the Death Row camp.
I’m the S-N-Double O-P
The D-O-Double G, you see (and rhymes that sound similar to this)
they should release some gems and diamonds they got stashed in the vaults i heard that doggy and PAC track IF THERES A CURE FOR THIS
never heard that b4 classic shit PAC and SNOOP freestyling
to them internet geeks out there you need to start leaking tracks from the death row days
heard theres at least another 10 songs left to leak with SNOOP\PAC thats some amazing shit
Imagine the looks on all them niggaz faces, if Slim Shady in his prime approached them and ripped Kurupt to shreds.
wuda been a dope battle
and then imagine Canibus coming at all of them.
haha dude said canibus. then ja rule and papoose would’ve popped up and killed it, right?
YOU GUYS HAVE NO CLUE. KURUPT WOULD HAVE COOKED EMINEM EASILY. MANY OF YOU GUYS SPEAKING ON EMS BATTLE CAREER HAVE NO CLUE. EM WAS A GOOD BATTLE RAPPER, BUT HE TOOK MANY L’S IN HIS CAREER. IF YOU WERE THE FAN (STAN) YOU WOULD KNOW THIS ONE ALREADY. IF YOU WANT MORE DETAILS, GO ORDER SOME OLD SOURCE/XXL MAGAZINES. IN A FEW OF THEM, HE DETAILS HIS BATTLING CAREER. SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT COOKED EMINEM ARE:
SUPERNATURAL
PACE WON
RAH DIGGA
BREEVEEVAFLOWING
RHYMEFEST
CONSIDER YOURSELVES EDUCATED NOW. THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING!!!
Reading these comments, I see it must be a lot of young niggas and niggas who just wasn’t up on what was going on. The people who think Snoop couldn’t freestyle and are looking at his style later once he became older and the game changed.
SNOOP WAS RIDICULOUS.
He freestyled a lot of the classic material he became known for. Songs like “The Shiznit” was a complete freestyle. Dre used to turn him loose and beats, real freestyles, not stopping and punching in when you mess up. For real.
100% agree. finally somebody with brains
kurupt was a monster back in the day! everything he spit on back then he destroyed! i remember smokin blunts and sippin on tangueray on that dre single. that shit was like 12 minutes and kurupt and them niggas was goin in! him and rage were the most lyrical on death row back in the day!!
these were the days… i miss this shit
it was soooooooo much better than the wack bullshit thats out today
KURUPT ONE OF THE MOST UNDERRATED RAPPERS EVER. TOP 10 WITHOUT QUESTION
VERY TRUE. KURUPT IS AN ALLTIME LYRICIST. THE ONLY THING THAT HELD KURUPT BACK WAS HIMSELF. WITH THAT SAID, HE IS STILL AN UNTOUCHABLE LYRICIST.
kids stay away… this real hip hop not wack tyler shit lol
Tyler The Creator is far from wack.
Fuck suge, niggaz still want deal from this robbin ass nigga after what he did to tupac and even vanilla ice.