One review of Snoop I dug up:
Calvin Broadus, now d/b/a Snoop Dogg, is often accounted a major artist because he can drawl and pronounce consonants at the same time--with "flow," mustn't forget "flow." Post-Death Row Records he's been portrayed as the confused victim of his lord and master Suge Knight. "I'm just trying to be a child of God and do the right things and make good music," he told The Source. "I love Puffy Combs. I'm trying to make a song with Puffy." Then he contributed a cameo to the supposed farewell album by his new lord and master, No Limit's Master P. "Snitches" described a rap star he declined to name--but happily labeled a "puff-ass nigga," get it?--spilling his guts in a police car. No wonder people think Calvin's confused.
It would be a pleasure to dismiss Snoop's evocatively entitled No Limit debut, Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told, as another piece of lowballing funk off the N.O. Bounce assembly line. Musically, however, this is one of No Limit's strongest albums. The lead "Snoop World" is the kind of track that can make an album, playing a disarming synth-bass hook over a real bass line and under triangles and other high elements that never hint at G-funk keyb tweedle, with a few Master P unngghs for insurance. Over the next few songs, cameos from No Limit's two best rappers, Mystikal and Mia X, clear the way for the unoriginal gangsta bull-roar of P, C-Murder, and Silkk the Shocker.
Sooner than on Mystikal's excellent CD, however, the music runs down, despite considerable input from Mystikal himself, whose deep-Delta bellow tenses powerfully against Snoop's honey-tongued indifference, adding moral weight to the usual professions of "ex-drug dealer" rectitude. And though for damn sure Snoop is just a rapper now, he would no more risk alienating his market than help a Blood's grandma across the street. Da game he's selling is sociopathic violence, and so he commits metaphorical murder, invites thugs to wave their gats in the air, cuts a biyutch improvident enough to suck his dick, and so forth. In short, he proves himself a born liar, and shows all the imagination of an ATM in the process. Anyone who thinks his flow makes him a major artist should give equal time to Mariah Carey's high notes and George Winston's magic fingers.
- xgau (also dropped the bomb on Doggystyle)
classic, obv
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 16 June 2005 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 16 June 2005 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link
"Drop it like it's hot", "from tha church to tha palace" + the other Neptunes produced tracks = also classic.
Everything else = dud.
― Ellis From Die Hard, Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link
so classic.
― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― jedidiah (jedidiah), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Classic.
― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej.., Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej.., Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― rizzx (rizzx), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― rizzx (rizzx), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link
p.s: "deep cover"!!!
― cheeses haitch christ (haitch), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej.., Friday, 17 June 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej.., Friday, 17 June 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 17 June 2005 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej.., Friday, 17 June 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I expect this is somewhat facetious, but either way: Not quite. I mean if you think shredding is great then maybe. But I'd consider it more like saying Grant Green is classic 'cause his guitar-playing is classic, or Bootsy for his basslines or whatever.
Also, Twista isn't classic and maybe this is why.
― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link
(Of course rap nerds would be the first to point out that he's gimmicky.)
― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
As far as I know, this was the only time in my life I have ever used the word 'agog'.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 26 January 2006 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 10 August 2006 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 10 August 2006 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 11 August 2006 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 11 August 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
I like Doggystyle but I'm not proud of it.
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 11 August 2006 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― The future of Rodney got a -- (R. J. Greene), Friday, 11 August 2006 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Why have I become very repulsed by Snoop Dogg's guest verses all of a sudden?
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
major dud.
Classic album=Doggystyle. Lyrically, he was somewhat catchy but he was majorly carried by Dre on that album.
He once said "Beats? So that's what makes me now?" on Doggfather and after listening to the album I had to pretty much say "yes" to that, since he was unable to overcome the poor production.
I've heard most of the albums since. Haven't heard Rhythm and Gangsta, or The Game is to be Sold Not to be Told..
No Limit Topp Dogg--seriously one of the most boring rap albums ever
Tha Last Meal--Does anybody know what the FUCK happened to the songs that were supposed to originally be on this album? Cuz they were a hell of a lot better than what wound up on it. I d/led a supposed 'leaked' version months before it really came out and only "Issues" made it to the album.
Paid the Cost to Be the Boss--good production but it didn't fit him at all. zzzzz rhymes and flow. One good song...maybe two (the lead single was nice).
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link
ban bo
― deej, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:15 (seventeen years ago) link
also delete awful thread
waaaaaaaaaaah.
seriously though he sucks. one moment in the sun that's all.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link
ts: 15 minutes of fame vs. 15 years of fame
― deej, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link
nobody denied he ain't still famous but he still SUCKS
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link
there should be a breathalyser for posting about rap on ilx except instead of breathing it would require at least 5+months of reading rolling snap
― deej, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:23 (seventeen years ago) link
although at the very least it should require having listened to rap music before the last week
― deej, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link
oh, you got me there!
Seriously, come down from the clouds.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link
you cant be real
― deej, Saturday, 8 December 2007 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link
hating snoop = hating rap
― max, Saturday, 8 December 2007 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link
even snrub knows that
― deej, Saturday, 8 December 2007 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link
haha. that's like saying hating The Jeffersons=hating television.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
seriously though deej who proclaimed you the emperor of rap? It seems anytime someone criticizes an artist you like you get huffy not because it's a difference of opinion but because you believe it's etched in a parthenon somewhere!
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Personally I like many Snoops songs, but it does seem true that his success is mostly due to getting the right producers and having patented one - admittedly likable (except for the misogyny) - persona and delivery over 10 years ago. I guess there's nothing wrong with that though, and "Sensual Seduction" at least suggests there might some new facets to be found within this persona.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 8 December 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
yea kind of a direction he's been going since he started crooning that one track on The Last Meal. dude definitely knows his stuff about vintage music, I'll give him that much.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
this is insane
― and what, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
1. "Dolomite (Intro)" – 0:27 2. "Buck 'Em" (feat.Sticky Fingaz) – 2:44 3. "Trust Me" (feat. Suga Free & Sylk E. Fine) – 4:08 4. "My Heat Goes Boom" – 3:40 5. "Dolomite" - 0:52 6. "Snoopafella" - 5:22 7. "In Love With a Thug" – 3:43 8. "G Bedtime Stories" (feat. C-Murder & Magic)– 2:14 9. "Down 4 My N'z" – 3:46 ( feat. C-Murder & Mystikal) 10. "Betta Days" – 3:56 11. "Somethin Bout Yo Bidness" (feat. Raphael Saadiq) – 4:11 12. "Bitch Please" (feat. Xzibit & Nate Dogg) – 3:54 13. "Doin' Too Much" – 4:06 14. "Gangsta Ride" (feat. Silkk the Shocker) – 3:44 15. "Ghetto Symphony" (feat. C-Murder, Mystikal, Silkk the Shocker, Mia X, Fiend & Goldie Loc) – 5:39 16. "Party With a D.P.G." – 4:54 17. "Buss'n Rocks" – 4:23 18. "Just Dippin'" (feat. Dr. Dre & Jewell) – 4:02 19. "Don't Tell" (feat. Warren G, Mausberg & Nate Dogg) – 4:47 20. "20 Minutes" (feat. Goldie Loc) – 3:59 21. "I Love My Momma – 3:06
dude, he didn't fit with No Limit at all. and that album proved it.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link
ho hum.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
^^^ also true
― max, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
OMG HATING TILAPIA MEANS YOU DON'T LIKE FISH
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Alex in NYC, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:29 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
^lolled at this
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 8 December 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link
http://deseretnews.com/photos/moronia.jpg
― gabbneb, Saturday, 8 December 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
no limit topp dogg is one of the only albums i own as both vinyl and cd
― deej, Saturday, 8 December 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link
also getting sticky fingaz on 'buck em' was genius shit
I love that spoken word part on the Doggfather where he tells the kid who wants to be like him--"don't say that little homie. When you grow up, you could be a doctor, or a lawyer, or a LAKER!"
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 9 December 2007 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Somebody put their Snoop Dogg in my One Life to Live and I'm loving it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsIc2PF6xCc
― Spinspin Sugah, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Anybody know if the UK's going to relent and let him back in?
― La religion est une fatigante solution de paresse (Michael White), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw this in the store the other day:
http://hiphopwired.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/westcoastblueprint.jpg
1. Introduction To The West Coast Blueprint - Snoop Dogg2. Eazy-Duz-It - Eazy-E3. Act A Fool - King Tee4. No One Can Do It Better - D.O.C.5. Pay Ya Dues - Low Profile6. La Raza - Kid Frost7. Interlude (# 1) - Snoop Dogg8. Alwayz Into Somethin' - N.W.A.9. You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo - Yo-Yo Featuring Ice Cube10. Check Yo Self - Ice Cube11. Playaz Club - Rappin' 4-Tay12. Interlude (# 2) - Snoop Dogg13. Foe Life - Mack 10 featuring Ice Cube14. I Got 5 On It - Luniz featuring Michael Marshall15. The Evil That Men Do - Ras Kass16. Gangstas Make The World Go Round - Westside Connection17. 4 Tha Hustlas - Ant Banks18. Nothin' But The Cavi Hit - Mack 10 & Tha Dogg Pound19. Trust Me - Snoop Dogg Featuring Sylk E. Fine And Suga Free20. Check Yo Self Interlude - Snoop Dogg21. Check Yo Self - Snoop Dogg Featuring The Hustle Boyz
Interesting track list. Some good stuff.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
<3
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldabrmHlAc1qzbyryo1_500.jpg
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Sunday, 12 December 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
would wear the shit outta that sweater
― k3vin k., Sunday, 12 December 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
this guy just seems a total caricature to me, and has for the last 15 years. His history of endorsements that have nothing to do with anything seems comically long.
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Sunday, 12 December 2010 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"Hack is Wack" - Promoting Norton AntiVirus.[56]
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 12 December 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
so far I like Doggumentary quite a bit, although it's not gonna make any best of lists or anything. 3.5 stars or so. it starts out better than it finishes for sure. and fuck that Willie Nelson song.
― San Te, Thursday, 31 March 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this is so fun, mostly for snoop's singing/toasting/rapping over the top
https://soundcloud.com/snoopdogg/sets/doggystyle-the-samples-20th
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 22 November 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
cool
― Spottie, Friday, 22 November 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
the three Quik produced tracks on No Limit Top Dogg are so damn good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_NCA3F3ZM
― check out this insane slothroprhymes yall (Spottie), Friday, 15 May 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3vzQXDIRgE^^anyone check out snoop's tv show? double g news network, too good!
― niels, Sunday, 24 July 2016 08:33 (eight years ago) link
new album is surprisingly good.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link
"And Jimmy Iovine was like (bad Italian american accent) 'Snoop, I wanna get you guys on the cover of the Rolling Stone's magazine, you guys are like Mick and Keith. I'm like' Who the fuck are Mick and Keith, nigga? Fuck the Rolling Stones magazine, nigga! I wanna be on the Source Magazine cover, nigga! Don't you know that that is hiphop supremacy?" 'No no no, the Rolling Stone's magazine…' 'Nan Nah, Man I don't even fuck with the Rolling Stones! I couldn't tell you one of them nigga's songs, man! Fuck them!!!'
"And that motherfucker blew up, nigga; that motherfucker was everywhere. I started going on tour and it was just white folks coming up to me left and right, like 'Oh my god, we love you, Snoop Doggy Dogg, all around the world. Damn Jimmy Iovine, I ain't never had so many white people coming up to me in my whole life, cuz. Thank you; I appreciate that."
― veronica moser, Friday, 25 August 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
haha, that's good
― niels, Friday, 25 August 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
that Jimmy Mod post upthread one of the most o_O things I've ever read, even with it being in relation to Geir
― Neanderthal, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link
Neva Left is pretty bumpin'!
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 April 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
like the Slick Rick chorus callback on Moment I Feared
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 April 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
I’m no connoisseur but I swear I’ve heard that Neva left backing loop on a ghostface track
― calstars, Saturday, 25 April 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
yup
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 April 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
i realize now Neva isn't the latest album, but from 2017 but i don't care, it's new to me
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 April 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
7 days of funk is a good album 🎶
― calstars, Saturday, 25 April 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
Top 1% XBox gamer this year
Time 2 flex 👊🏿 💪🏿 Tha Dogg top 1% in the world n clocced 1300 hours of Xbox this year 😆 🎮 ✅ @Xbox Year in Review https://t.co/Re2vnKhQ5g 🔥🔥🔥 real gamer yadigg #xboxpartner #xboxyearinreview pic.twitter.com/BXfOjxI75j— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) December 5, 2024
― StanM, Thursday, 19 December 2024 06:40 (three days ago) link