In the wake of all that has transpired in the saga of
Death Row Records
,
Daz Dillinger
and
Kurupt
are two of the only artists to come out unscathed. While
Suge Knight
was sentenced to jail time and
2Pac
was murdered,
Daz
laid low for several years after the release of their 1995 album
Dogg Food
. In 2001, with a new name and a new label, the artists formerly known as
the Dogg Pound
are back with more of that
West Coast G-funk
that made
Death Row
famous in the first place.
openly flaunts his gang affiliation on
"DPG"
while
Xzibit
makes a cameo on the stellar track
"Gangsta-Like."
For the most part,
DPG
has put together a winning package of
G-funk
that is far from fresh but still entertaining. A lot has happened since
's heyday with
, but this album proves that the more things change, the more they stay the same. ~ Jon Azpiri