J One Hillz of Darkne$$

I think the real og is the version that a french was selling on ebay:

The version you have is the droptopmusic version.

The one listed on Rapmusicguide is the repress not the original.

So yes you have the repess

You can find those for $25-$40 every now and then

the cd you got was made by phillipp geibel aka indo in 2012 and he told people it's the real og first press. the one from the french collector just popped up few months ago before most people thought it's a tape only which indo adapted to cd to jack of collectors saying it's ultra rare mid90s release etc.

i wouldnt mind a repressed version of that one. not for resale, but just to have it.

lol this is exactly what i meant when i said a bootleg will end up in someones hand thinking it's the OG

I would have probably been suspicious of its date of origin just from looking at the disc itself. Not too many CDs from that era that I remember having photos/artwork printed on the disc like that. Of course there were some, but thats a more modern thing. Does the other version's disc look like this one as well? Its possible the other version is just a different bootleg as well, who really knows?

Yes, I thought the DropTop was the 1st press (on CD)... Until I saw the one popped by the french guy .. That's crazy

i doubt it, if you look at indo's release, you can tell the cover was stretched to fit the square insert size, but the other looks like a normal photo, also the bootleg photo on the disc is really posterized compared to the smooth print of the other.

Here is a message from phillipp co worker from droptop (the guy from II tight.jp) on facebook:
Ceo Droptopmusic "no he got the original cd, we repressed it later but this was not a tape only but they only made a low run of 500 or 1000 cds because tapes were more poppin"

ya ya ya...who would believe all these nonsens...again and again all these dream-stories for years.

what diggler mentioned sounds legit to me. i also saw the original tape-cover years ago and the covers from the cd-releases look stretched to a cd format from the original tape...