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Tim Dog is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Apache Indian, Ultramagnetic MC's, Kool Keith, N.W.A and Compton's Most Wanted. Those roots explain a lot about how Tim Dog arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ultramagnetic MC's, The Lox, Boogie Down Productions, Lords of the Underground and EPMD, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Apache Indian, Nas, Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Compton's Most Wanted, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 43 connections around Tim Dog, reaching back through Apache Indian and forward to Apache Indian. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Timothy J. Blair, better known by his stage name Tim Dog, was an American rapper from the Bronx, New York, who rose to notoriety during the early 1990s with his debut LP Penicillin on Wax (1991) and the diss track "Fuck Compton". Tim had already appeared on songs with the Ultramagnetic MCs and went on to form a duo, Ultra, with member Kool Keith. "Fuck Compton" appeared in XXL magazine's "Top 25 Diss Tracks of All Time" and earned Tim Dog critical acclaim from progressive hip-hop producer Blockhead, who said Tim Dog's "The Dog's Gonna Getcha" is "quite possibly the hardest song ever made." Nas references Tim Dog on his track "Where Are They Now?" from his 2006 album Hip Hop Is Dead, and despite Tim Dog's feud with Dr. Dre, Eminem name-checked him on the track "Ricky Ticky Toc".
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Tim Dog connections
Tim Dog grew out of Apache Indian, Ultramagnetic MC's, Kool Keith and N.W.A, shares an orbit with Ultramagnetic MC's, The Lox, Boogie Down Productions and Lords of the Underground, went on to shape Apache Indian, Nas, Eminem and Snoop Dogg. 43 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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