Mobb Deep - Drop A Gem On 'Em

[za'kiss]

And I don't see how "Drop A Gem On Em" is a "sneak diss" or "subliminal." They were referencing well-known rumors about 'Pac throughout the rap community and ethering him with that shit. Plus Havoc basically did say his name "Too not (2-Not)" he just used some wordplay while doing it. It was blatantly a diss.

A subliminal is when no one except the nigga you dissing and maybe his crew knows what you're talking about, the shit Nas and Jay's team were trading for years until shit came to a head. To the listener, it's a line that could be taken as a diss, but could just as easily apply to anyone else in the game. Them bars in "Drop A Gem On Em" were for 'Pac and can't be reasonably interpreted as for anyone else. Everyone knew it and that's why they took the track off the radio after he died.

@"za'kiss"

Who am I talking about in my last post?

You dunno. That's why subliminals are wack

Where am I defending subliminals? They are wack.

Drop A Gem On Em was blatantly about 'Pac.

 

[5 Grand]

Stillmatic Freestyle was a dope diss and he didn't name names

Bruh...

He said "H to the Izzo, M to the Izzo" and called out every nigga in his crew by name, except he turned all their names into double entendres in a classic scheme that pretty much anticipated modern battle rap style.

So basically it was subliminal.

 

[a_list]

These niggas prolly took forever figuring out who Dre was talking about in 100 Miles n Runnin, when he said: "It started with five but yo, one couldn't take it / So now there's four 'cause the fifth couldn't make it"...lol slow ass niggas, yo

 

[BobOblah]

Bumping Hell On Earth right now. Might be coldest collection of beats ever

 

[DR. JEK]

@_goldie_ Also pac got y'all niggas gassed you know that LA LA video got shot up right

I believe you referring to new york new york gettin shot up not LA LA but you also know they had four niggas in that LA LA song and it still aint better than the way Kurupt blacked out on his right?

 

[_God_]

@_goldie_ Also pac got y'all niggas gassed you know that LA LA video got shot up right

I believe you referring to new york new york gettin shot up not LA LA but you also know they had four niggas in that LA LA song and it still aint better than the way Kurupt blacked out on his right?

Yea the ny my video, n I'm from New York only thing I liked was the hook n beat like most ppl

 

[moyo]

LA, LA was weak. The only reason people gassed the song up is because of the song title. Niggas didn't even call the Dogg pound out in the song nor did they say anything relating to the east-west beef. crazy thing about it is the fact that New york, New york wasn't even a east coast diss record. It was made to pay homage to New york and showcase Kurupt's skills, the only reason Snoop and nem crushed the buildings was because the video shoot got shot up.

 

[_God_]

LA, LA was weak. The only reason people gassed the song up is because of the song title. Niggas didn't even call the Dogg pound out in the song nor did they say anything relating to the east-west beef. crazy thing about it is the fact that New york, New york wasn't even a east coast diss record. It was made to pay homage to New york and showcase Kurupt's skills, the only reason Snoop and nem crushed the buildings was because the video shoot got shot up.

Cnn answered the record ny ny, it was a song comparison not fuel beef

 

[moyo]

LA, LA was weak. The only reason people gassed the song up is because of the song title. Niggas didn't even call the Dogg pound out in the song nor did they say anything relating to the east-west beef. crazy thing about it is the fact that New york, New york wasn't even a east coast diss record. It was made to pay homage to New york and showcase Kurupt's skills, the only reason Snoop and nem crushed the buildings was because the video shoot got shot up.

Cnn answered the record ny ny, it was a song comparison not fuel beef

I hear ya bruh, but the shit was still weak in my opinion. Plus the fact that Noreaga even admitted that Prodigy basically had to be coerced to even do the record and respond to Pac and the west after him and Havoc bragged for years that they were the only NY cats that responded when Pac, Westside connection and others were killin the east.

 

[_God_]

LA, LA was weak. The only reason people gassed the song up is because of the song title. Niggas didn't even call the Dogg pound out in the song nor did they say anything relating to the east-west beef. crazy thing about it is the fact that New york, New york wasn't even a east coast diss record. It was made to pay homage to New york and showcase Kurupt's skills, the only reason Snoop and nem crushed the buildings was because the video shoot got shot up.

Cnn answered the record ny ny, it was a song comparison not fuel beef

I hear ya bruh, but the shit was still weak in my opinion. Plus the fact that Noreaga even admitted that Prodigy basically had to be coerced to even do the record and respond to Pac and the west after him and Havoc bragged for years that they were the only NY cats that responded when Pac, Westside connection and others were killin the east.

Nah the OG version of la la prodigy had a verse where he ripped pac apart n by name too but they erased the verse bc cnn was nervous with it being they first single if that verse came out prodigy would have crushed pacs legacy and biggie wasn't happy wit them making that. Puffy was trying to keep the beef off wax bc he knew he was lining up the hit

 

[moyo]

Well that's not what Nore said, but i hear ya. If I was P couldn't no other grown man make me erase a damn thing after a nigga done talked about a serious disease I had but i digress.

 

[5 Grand]

The original version of LA, LA that was over the NY, NY beat was better than NY, NY. But the version that got released as a video and appeared on CNN's album wasn't as good.

They tore that beat to shreds.

 

[Javon803]

LA, LA was weak. The only reason people gassed the song up is because of the song title. Niggas didn't even call the Dogg pound out in the song nor did they say anything relating to the east-west beef. crazy thing about it is the fact that New york, New york wasn't even a east coast diss record. It was made to pay homage to New york and showcase Kurupt's skills, the only reason Snoop and nem crushed the buildings was because the video shoot got shot up.

Cnn answered the record ny ny, it was a song comparison not fuel beef

I hear ya bruh, but the shit was still weak in my opinion. Plus the fact that Noreaga even admitted that Prodigy basically had to be coerced to even do the record and respond to Pac and the west after him and Havoc bragged for years that they were the only NY cats that responded when Pac, Westside connection and others were killin the east.

Nah the OG version of la la prodigy had a verse where he ripped pac apart n by name too but they erased the verse bc cnn was nervous with it being they first single if that verse came out prodigy would have crushed pacs legacy and biggie wasn't happy wit them making that. Puffy was trying to keep the beef off wax bc he knew he was lining up the hit

you really believe that too don't you? smdh

 

[moyo]

The original version of LA, LA that was over the NY, NY beat was better than NY, NY. But the version that got released as a video and appeared on CNN's album wasn't as good.

They tore that beat to shreds.

Never heard that shit, But I'm glad that U admitted that the released version of LA, LA was shitty. Yall can try to re-write history all y'all want, but Mobb deep and the east got shitted on heavily during that period and yall know it.

 

[_God_]

LA, LA was weak. The only reason people gassed the song up is because of the song title. Niggas didn't even call the Dogg pound out in the song nor did they say anything relating to the east-west beef. crazy thing about it is the fact that New york, New york wasn't even a east coast diss record. It was made to pay homage to New york and showcase Kurupt's skills, the only reason Snoop and nem crushed the buildings was because the video shoot got shot up.

Cnn answered the record ny ny, it was a song comparison not fuel beef

I hear ya bruh, but the shit was still weak in my opinion. Plus the fact that Noreaga even admitted that Prodigy basically had to be coerced to even do the record and respond to Pac and the west after him and Havoc bragged for years that they were the only NY cats that responded when Pac, Westside connection and others were killin the east.

Nah the OG version of la la prodigy had a verse where he ripped pac apart n by name too but they erased the verse bc cnn was nervous with it being they first single if that verse came out prodigy would have crushed pacs legacy and biggie wasn't happy wit them making that. Puffy was trying to keep the beef off wax bc he knew he was lining up the hit

you really believe that too don't you? smdh

Tragedy said it, and nore did check the story of Queensbridge

 

[achewon87]

The original version of LA, LA that was over the NY, NY beat was better than NY, NY. But the version that got released as a video and appeared on CNN's album wasn't as good.

They tore that beat to shreds.

lol @ the song that cues up at the end...

 

[5 Grand]

The original version of LA, LA that was over the NY, NY beat was better than NY, NY. But the version that got released as a video and appeared on CNN's album wasn't as good.

They tore that beat to shreds.

Never heard that shit, But I'm glad that U admitted that the released version of LA, LA was shitty. Yall can try to re-write history all y'all want, but Mobb deep and the east got shitted on heavily during that period and yall know it.

Emphatic Nosign!

The mixtape scene in New York made the entire West Coast look like a hick town with one record label. Mixtape DJs in New York were putting out mix tapes so fast that by the time an album in New York was released the material was old.

Doo Wop Tapes alone >>> Death Row's entire discography.

People on the West Coast were so slow they didn't even have mix tapes.

Then when you factor in S&S, Mr Cee, DJ Clue, Kid Capri, Action Pac, Silva Surfa and all the other mixtape DJs, Death Row couldn't compete.

 

[moyo]

The original version of LA, LA that was over the NY, NY beat was better than NY, NY. But the version that got released as a video and appeared on CNN's album wasn't as good.

They tore that beat to shreds.

Never heard that shit, But I'm glad that U admitted that the released version of LA, LA was shitty. Yall can try to re-write history all y'all want, but Mobb deep and the east got shitted on heavily during that period and yall know it.

Emphatic Nosign!

The mixtape scene in New York made the entire West Coast look like a hick town with one record label. Mixtape DJs in New York were putting out mix tapes so fast that by the time an album in New York was released the material was old.

Doo Wop Tapes alone >>> Death Row's entire discography.

People on the West Coast were so slow they didn't even have mix tapes.

Then when you factor in S&S, Mr Cee, DJ Clue, Kid Capri, Action Pac, Silva Surfa and all the other mixtape DJs, Death Row couldn't compete.

But that goes back to my original point that I made earlier in this thread. Locally in New York yall probably heard a lotta shit that the rest of the country didn't hear. So of course in y'all minds thats gonna make yall feel like Mobb deep and the east wrecked shit in that battle. But to the rest of the country from what we heard and saw Pac and the west killed all them niggas. It's almost like in World war I when Germany thought that they were killin shit only to sign the Treaty of Versailles and be proven otherwise. lol

 

[_God_]

The original version of LA, LA that was over the NY, NY beat was better than NY, NY. But the version that got released as a video and appeared on CNN's album wasn't as good.

They tore that beat to shreds.

Never heard that shit, But I'm glad that U admitted that the released version of LA, LA was shitty. Yall can try to re-write history all y'all want, but Mobb deep and the east got shitted on heavily during that period and yall know it.

Emphatic Nosign!

The mixtape scene in New York made the entire West Coast look like a hick town with one record label. Mixtape DJs in New York were putting out mix tapes so fast that by the time an album in New York was released the material was old.

Doo Wop Tapes alone >>> Death Row's entire discography.

People on the West Coast were so slow they didn't even have mix tapes.

Then when you factor in S&S, Mr Cee, DJ Clue, Kid Capri, Action Pac, Silva Surfa and all the other mixtape DJs, Death Row couldn't compete.

And the la la song was meant to be the bad boy mixtape but puff ain't want that attention

 

[nex gin]

Was listening to this cd a few weeks ago. DAGOE was one of my favorite joints on the album.