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Dr. Dre: "Puffin' On Blunts & Drankin' Tanqueray" (Death Row, 1993)

This long-unreleased video has been floating around for about a week but I'm still trying to process it.

I don't know which is most astonishing to me: that Dre looks even more awkward than his ad-libs sound, that Lady of Rage is wearing jeans at rib-height, that Daz waves around two different guns, that Kurupt looks to be about 15 or the possibility that a lot more stuff like this exists and might actually see a release. (Please, please let there be an unreleased DJ Quik album in better shape than the boot from a few years ago.)

The "Puffin' Blunts" beat always sounded to me like it was a built around an interpolation of this single, although who knows since this track was a little below the radar back then:



Robert Lowe: "Back to Funk" (Eastbound, 1974)

I've embedded the song but not posted a download link because the song is in print on Searching for Soul, the excellent Michigan soul and funk compilation that Scott Craig compiled for Luv 'n Haight a few years ago. The flip side is not commercially available, so you can have that one.



Robert Lowe: "Put Your Legs Up High" (Eastbound, 1974)