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Death Row versus No Limit?

© Steve Juon

I hate to be the one to start some shit if it's not true, but there's a preponderance of evidence here to suggest that (The Untouchable) Death Row is +deliberately+ trying to start some shit with No Limit.

Peep game: both _Chronic 2000_ & Snoop Dogg's _No Limit Top Dogg_ havea 1999 update/cover version of Dana Dane's "Cinderfella Dana Dane". Now I suppose you could write that off as just a fluke coincidence, but then just last night I saw the Death Row version as a video. Interesting side note about this - the MC rapping used to be known as YGD Tha Top Dogg but for +some+ reason dropped the first two words and is now only known as Top Dogg - maybe because he caught too much flack for writing that song about killing Biggie and fucking up Bad Boy. ANYWAY, Top Dogg (and keep in mind Snoop's new ALBUM is _No Limit Top Dogg_) gets to the point in the video where his "fairy Godfather" is supposed to dress him down in some fly gear so he can rock the mic at the party. What happens? He waves his wand or whatever, and suddenly Top Dogg is wearing No Limit gear and a No Limit tank. He looks at the shit in DISGUST like, "Get this fucking shit off me!" and the fairy Godfather is like, uh WHOOPS! You see Top Dogg +ripping+ the Tank off his chest just as the Godfather waves his wand again and changes his gear, which now features a Death Row pendant hanging from his neck instead (the man in the death chair).

Now you can still say this is all coincidence, that Death Row and No Limit both doing the same cover song is a fluke, that the Tank being on Top Dogg's neck was just a joke, fine. But here's something that sort of condemns Death Row for me about the song. In Snoop's version, he loses one of his fresh kicks and the Ghetto Princess comes back to see whose foot fits (this corresponds to the Dana Dane version also). In Top Dogg's version though, he says (and I quote):

"This story doesn't end with no fucking glass shoe All was left on the step was the rubber that I used"

If you ask me, that's just about one too many coincidences. It sounds to +me+ like somebody at Death Row heard Snoop's version, and they are actually ignorant enough to do a cover version also JUST TO DISS SNOOP AND NO LIMIT. Seems to me they are holding a grudge for losing their star rapper, and they can't handle it. Dr. Dre also gets several very explicit mentions on Chronic 2000, including the fact that Miilkbone uses the beat from Dr. Dre/N.W.A.'s "I Ain't the 1" and then proceeds to call Eminem and Dre faggots. Miilkbone and Naji brag about jacking his beat "right under his fucking nose" of all things.

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