Ok, I was a little surprised to hear that Da Gangsta Dogg copies Curtis Mayfield on the song I Miss You on his new masterpiece to album. But the fact that Pass It Pass It sends associations to the Shibuya-kei giant Hideki Kaji makes it just too much to handle on one gangster recording. If you listen to Kaji's Pass the Paz from his EP Good Morning Call Song out earlier this year, you'll get what I mean.

Calvin Broadus, working on that twee-gangsta.