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We seem to be starting quite a few at the moment, so lets keep it all in one place.

This is your centre for enquiring about/recommending/talking about any albums, songs or rappers.

Enjoy.

I'm sure, yes, although none of the songs were actually Dre songs, they all just had him featured in them or they must have been produced by him. It wasn't an Aftermath production so he won't have got all the money from it. I get the feeling that there's a record label out there doing all of these compilation albums to try and con unwary people.

To be fair though, im pretty sure Dr Dre had to agree for something like that to be released...I agree it is a con, but im sure Dre was going "che-ching" all the way to his already substantial bank!!

Well exactly, just like that Dr Dre 2005 album. It's such a con, really.

Of course it is possible that this is a new CD as you said, and that someone is trying to exploit the name, as Suge Knight does every year by releasing some incarnation of the Death Row's Greatest Hits featuring Dre, Snoop Tupac et al despite the fact that the label as it stands now is a complete shambles!

I seem to be listening to more and more UKHH these days.

It's great.

Going to see John Legend tomorrow night at the Brixton Academy, Mitchells and Estelle supporting. Should be great :-)

I got Kanye Wests most recent album Late Registration the other day and it's excellent.

He's the only real Hip Hop artist I like at the moment.

EDIT: Although College Dropout seemed to make a bigger impact on me.

Hmmm, really? It wasn't a Bad Boy production anyhow, which you would expect.

gerrid wrote:
> I also found a CD called 'JUNIOR M.A.F.I.A feat Notorious BIG', which
> had numerous songs 'Notorious BIG feat. 2Pac'. Oh how I laughed. Some
> bozo (Junior Mafia, obviously), seems to have mixed together various
> verses of biggy and tupac into new songs and is passing it off as a
> new Biggy album. How I laughed.

Im pretty sure Junior M.A.F.I.A is what Puffy, Biggie and Mace etc used to call them selves a la' G Unit! It was the name of their rap ensemble, as opposed to an actual person.

Mozzy wrote:
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> Im kinda confused, cause when I put LR onto my iPod today, it showed
> a song called I'll Be Late For That but when I look on the CD
> case I cant find it.
>
> Anybody got the same problem?
>

Haha yeah that ties in with what I was saying to gerrid. It's the hidden song right at the very end and it's easily the best song.

gerrid wrote:
> Dr. Dre 2005

I know, I saw that recently as well. What a bloody scam.