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Theres Clearly Too Different People Rapping on this. From What it sounds like, Theres a guy in the begging, Not Q-Ball, Then Q-ball Then The other guy, Fading out... When i Look it up for like Lyrics of it, They Have Too $hort as the Rapper in the middle, and Q-ball as the begging/End guy... Very Confused now.. The Album Specifies theres a Sample Used in the song Q-Ball by Eazy-E. is it him? The other Guy Rapping? Please Answer i would Reallly appreciate it!
Hey Paul,
The song Q-Ball, featuring Q-Ball, Brad's cousin and Long Beach rapper, has the three parts. The first and last are said to be Q-Ball, and the middle section is said to be a local rapper named "9 Dre".
If the recording contains a "sample" of an Eazy E song, it may have just contained the beat or something like that; not actually Easy.
Now, who is "9 Dre"?
As far as I know, Brad and Easy didn't know one another, and remember, he says "and my nigga Brad" in the song. Seeing as he gives a direct shout out to Brad, it would seem that whoever it was, was there.
Now, considering that Eazy didn't die until March 26, 1995 & Robbin was released in 1994, your theory could be right. Meaning that it could be Easy E just as much as anyone because no one knows for sure who it actually is.
I'm not of the crowd that thinks it's "Too $hort".
However, I lean toward the theory that he was just one of Brad's cronies who was messing around with Bradley on the 4 track in the tweaker pad he was staying at. That happened a lot & he was the type that recorded everything. A lot of people came and went in those days too, for like a whole year & most were drug dealers or thugs who also liked to rap. That was his crowd, you know.
Considering that most of Robbin was just experimental messing around, I think that it's safe to bet that some dude; just like many others, was around when Brad was tweaking and recording everything that he came up with & just happened to make it onto "Robbin the Hood".
I hope this helps.
"All Sublime All The Time"
Peace,
GMan
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