Snoop Dogg and Method Man have shared their reactions to Death Row beating Wu-Tang Clan to earn the “Greatest Rap Crew” crown.
The legendary gangsta rap label was announced as the winner of the BET’s Greatest Rap Crew of All Time bracket at the 2023 BET Awards on Sunday (June 25), as voted by fans.
Snoop celebrated the win on Instagram on Monday (June 26) by posting a screenshot of an article about Death Row winning “the championship to end all championships.”
“Thank you. @betawards,” he simply wrote. “Wow.”
Method Man had no hard feelings about the Wu-Tang losing out on the title, though, as he congratulated Snoop and the rest of the Death Row family in the comments section of the post.
“Well deserved!!” he wrote alongside two fire emojis.
On the East Coast, Wu-Tang Clan defeated Dreamville, Native Tongues, Juice Crew, Bad Boy Records, Ruff Ryders, Roc-A-Fella, G-Unit, G.O.O.D. Music, St. Lunatics, Shady Records, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, the Soulquarians, Griselda, Hypnotize Minds and CMG on their way to the final.
Out West, Death Row beat out the Hieroglyphics, N.W.A, Soul Assassins, TDE, Odd Future, Sick Wid It, Dangerous Crew, YMCMB, Grand Hustle, No Limit, Rap-A-Lot, Quality Control, So So Def, MMG and the Dungeon Family.
The accolade comes shortly after Snoop Dogg presented his former Death Row labelmate Dr. Dre with the inaugural Hip Hop Icon Award at the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday (June 22).
“There is nobody like Dr. Dre,” he said. “It’s almost unfair how many times he’s revolutionized music. If Dre had only been a member of N.W.A, we’d still remember him forever. If he had only given us The Chronic, he’d still be a Hip Hop legend.
“He’s earned eight Grammys, sold millions of records, founded some of the most successful businesses in music, but Dr. Dre has never stopped working. [He] never stopped pushing the music forward. And I can honestly say that Dr. Dre has changed my life in so many ways.”
He added: “There’s a reason why I keep coming back to Dr. Dre. We make magic together. We’ve been doing this shit for over three decades, and we still at it. Trust me, the best is yet to come.”
Wu was robbed !!! They deserved it waaaaaaaay more
Yes, but Death Row’s reign was temporary and Wu-Tang is Forever.
& Death Row was not a crew, it was a rap, record label! Wu tang clan, was a rap crew!
Death Row was only a crew when it was Dre, DOC, RBX, Rage, Snoop, and the Dogg Pound. Once 2pac joined, Dre left literally a month after AEOM, and Pac and Snoop crews were literally divided in the middle. They put out masterpieces no doubt, but they were more of a business record label than a crew.
Yea death row had a good 3 year run, when Pac died it was over. Anytime you add greatest to anything longevity has to come into to play and by that requirement death row is not even in the conversation to me. Especially when comparing them to groups that have been doing it going on 30 years strong like Bone Thugs N Harmony, Wu Tang Clan, De La, Dungeon Family, Tribe. They keep trying to play us and manipulate us like come on. Yall know this category was created just to give it to death row. This is why they put greatest crew in the title, when does anybody debate greatest crew??? Is either greatest group or greatest hip hop label or greatest rapper. Death Row was a record label and they knew if they put greatest rap label in the title they couldn’t get around Def Jam. But I guess they saying people voted for this, yea I believe those numbers same way I believe in those streaming numbers. But either way it goes logically speaking if we are talking about greatest crews death row not it greatest hip hop label death row aint it, most controversial? Maybe. The Dungeon Family got guys like Future who is still one of the biggest mainstream rappers out, they got legends like Goodie Mob, Outkast, guys that are still making good stuff like Killer Mike, Sleepy Brown. Is Aftermath consider a crew? Em, 50, Dre, Busta, Game, Banks, I also would take them over death row. But yea I’m go with the Dungeon Family, Bone Thugs and a few other crews over death row. Did they Show the S.U.C any love?
agreed that Death Row wasn’t exactly a crew, more of a label of all stars assembled at the top of their game with a short time at the top. I look at a crew as coming up in the same circle, their longevity, impact to the game, and the amount of classics they produced. I don’t think Bone has has many classics collectively or individually to top Wu. Wu is still selling out arenas. People still wear Wu shirts. During election time, you see Wu signs in peoples yards instead of politicians. How they didn’t win is beyond me…
Google 1998 American Music Awards and see who won Best group. Bone Thugs beat out Wu. As times move on people try to change the story or move it around. In the 90’s Bone was just as big or even bigger. The East Coast bias just made Wu tang seem like the bigger group. You gotta do your homework. I remember the 90’s. You saying Bone Thugs n harmony didn’t have many classics is just you dismissing them maybe because you’re a Wu tang fan? But Bone has more platinum and gold singles, more platinum albums. Bone Thugs First 3 albums combined to sell more than Wu tang first 3 albums. I’m not knocking you if you feel Wu is the best group ever in your opinion I wouldn’t knock that. But I would knock you for saying another group that also has rights to that argument is dismissed in order for you to lift your argument.
What you are saying make absolutely no sense. First off, if you do it by record label and go with this example you just stated saying if Deathrow would have to go up against Def Jam, they wouldn’t stand a chance. Now the problem with this argument is even many of the crews that were listed wouldn’t be applicable. (I.e. Wu Tang, All of their members weren’t all signed to the same label). Same thing with other artists that were signed to these labels or more than one label throughout their careers. Secondly your argument actually works against you. You say that “Deathrow had a good 3 year run” yet in that time span they made more classics and shifted the culture more in that time than any of the other groups/crews that you listed regardless of having less time to do so. You are comparing a crew with a man that put more work in and dying at 25 (Tupac) than many of the groups you even listed combined in their long spanning careers, and more classic and culture shifting records than them, all done before dying at the young age of 25. Biggie died at 25 too and has a fraction of the body of work Pac had. An impeccable body of work none the less but the amount of it is nowhere near as much in that short life span. You have Dr. Dre that revolutionized the industry over and over and over before and following that. Not only impacting the West Coast but breaking and/or elevating some of the biggest culture shifting artists in the majority of the coasts. (N.W.A., Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Ice Cube, Eminem, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, The Firm, The Game, Rakim, Busta, Tha Dogg Pound Eve etc. The list goes on and on. Even artists like Mary J. Blige that origins are from Bad Boy, and Eve from Ruff Ryders yet has some of their biggest records/ if not arguably their biggest records produced by Dre. Not only the impact that the members and artists on Deathrow had on the culture at the time when they were spankin everybody ass with the numbers, yes, even Bad Boy, go check the states, but all of the impact they had on the artists to come. Without the artists coming out of Deathrow and what hand they had in the progression of the game following, there would damn near be none of the artists that came afterwards that were groundbreaking or culture moving. Even their peers at the time were influenced by what they were doing. We’re not talking just individuals here. We’re talking whole labels, crews, and coasts that were impacted by the Deathrow movement. Stop the bullshit. I rate a lot of who you mentioned, Bone Thugs (one of my favourite groups of all time. I studied their records) They definitely don’t get the credit they deserve but they’re not fucking with any thing Deathrow accomplished when it comes to shifting/influencing the whole culture. Neither is the Dungeon Family. You mention Aftermath as a crew yet that all stems from Deathrow even existing and Dre elevating from DJing, to producing and rapping with N.W.A, Deathrow, Aftermath and what happened with that had him start Aftermath which had the same kind of impact on the next generation of artists on Aftermath and furture generations to come. Without Em’ there is no Odd Future. Without 50 there is no Pop Smoke. Without but without Deathrow there is none of that at all, and definitely no Kendrick. You can’t say that the future generations of Artists don’t exist the same way with the other crewa you named. No other crew has had a bigger impact on the culture, period. They got it right. That’s why Meth even said “Well deserved 🔥🔥”
Bone Thugz and Dungeon Family
One group is still rocking out to sold out arenas the other is welp “Death row”
Bone Thug would have gotten the nod from me
The funny thing is most Wu-Tang “fans” can’t even name half the members in the crew.. I asked a wu-tang ” fan” who was wearing their shirt to name me 4 members and she couldn’t lol.. most their fans fake and don’t really like their music but go with the trend that Wu makes then “cool” Bone Thugs fans however have the most loyal fan base I’d give them my vote.. but when Death Row was at its peak they were untouchable and had the game on lock
Their is some truth to that. Most people wearing wu tang shirt aren’t really real fans or even fans at all
Yeah. Same goes for most people who wear Nirvana shirts. “Name 2 albums”. Can’t do it lmao. But yeah, WuTang is trendy to like.
Easy. People wear shirts with artists name all the time, without knowing members, albums, songs…and it’s mostly this generation. A perfect example are kids rocking Nirvana tshirts (which I’ve noticed more lately). They don’t know Kurt Cobain, name an album, their music, history. It’s bc the logo looks cool and mashes with whatever funny color scheme they rocking for the day.
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I’m glad no limt or cash money didn’t win!
Bone Thug would have gotten the nod from me
Best crew is Bone has down.
Juice crew. Bone Thug n harmony. Dungeon family
Death row? That doesn’t even count. They didn’t ever have a crew. A rap crew is Black Hippy, WuTang, G Unit, Tribe Called Quest, and so on. It’s like saying Eminem, 50, and Dre were a crew, and they weren’t. Just sane record label. And id argue the run of Em, 50, and Dre at that time was bigger than Pac, Snoop, and Dre.
Juice crew. Bone Thug n harmony. Dungeon family
A lot of nonsense in here. WU Tang is the greatest group of all time, period!
Death row is a lable wu tang was a group. Big difference. How can it be a crew when pac came Dre was gone asap. They didn’t have years worth of collaborations. For all the bone thug clowns comparing them to wu, in 97 wu tang dropped forever the most successful selling hip hop album ever until 50s get rich dropped. NYC is about 20 percent the population of California. 30+million people supporting western coast artists vs 8 million that’s a huge demographic difference. Everything in LA can be sold more, get more attention and have larger crowd followings especially in an erra where east and west were segregated during wu/dre/snoop/pac days. Yet wu still outsold every artists in the game to ever do it when Forever dropped. And they did it with hardly any raido play(hot 97 incident). Their body of work from 92/2001 is unfuckwithable.
In 1997 Wu dropped wu forever and Bone dropped Art of war both albums are 4x platinum. You said it was the most successful selling hiphop album until 50’s. You’re
one of those Wu fans that live in alternate universe cause y’all definitely be making stuff up. Pac, hammer, Biggie even Bone previous album E99 was more commercial successful. They weren’t out selling ever artist in the game. This is about facts, wu doesn’t have a song bigger than crossroads, a album more commercially successful than Eternal or better collabs than Pac, Big, Eazy and Pun.
Voted by the fans? BS! Created narrative for a premeditated win to avoid pushback. Who voted? Which online polls? You mean BET polls? That nobody but shade room, tmz, careesha, Akademiks followers voted visit? Eff BET!
Snoop aquired death row recently and has an album with dre coming out haha I don’t believe anything anymore period it’s a fake world full of punks
Death Row wasn’t a crew. Death Row were more of superstars put together. They were the Miami Heat losing to the Mavs.
As others said, Death Row was not a crew like Wu Tang Clan, NWA, G Unit, The Lox and others. Death Row was/is a label.
Death row is a label wu tang is a culture no comparison death row is past tense wu tang is always relevant
Death row is a label wu tang is a culture no comparison death row is past tense wu tang is always relevant