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Snoop Dogg: Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None)
Feat: Nate Dogg, Kurupt & Warren G
Song Producer: Dr. Dre
Album: “Doggystyle”
Recorded: 1992-1993
Date of Release: 11/23/1993
Record Label: Death Row/Interscope/Atlantic
Album Producers: Suge Knight (Executive); Dr. Dre; Daz Dillenger; Emanuel “Porkchop” Dean; Warren G
Sub-genre: Gangsta/Hardcore/G-Funk (West Coast)
**Snoop Dogg came to attention of the music industry in 1992, through his vocal contributions on Dre’s The Chronic. That album is considered to have “transformed the entire sound of West Coast rap” by its development of what later became known as the “G-funk” sound. The Chronic expanded gangsta rap with profanity, violent lyrics, basic beats, anti-authoritarian lyrics and multi-layered samples taken from 1970’s P-Funk records. Snoop Dogg contributed vocals to Dre’s solo single, “Deep Cover”, which lead to a high degree of anticipation amongst hip hop for the release of his own solo album.
-Doggystyle and The Chronic are associated with each other mainly because each prominently featured Snoop Dogg and because both contain G-funk style production from Dr. Dre. The two releases are linked by the high number of vocal contributions from Death Row Records artists, including Tha Dogg Pound, RBX, The Lady of Rage, while both contain a high density misogynistic lyrics and profanity in their lyrics. In addition, the two albums are each viewed by critics as early “G-funk classics”, and have been described as “joined at the hip”.
-Gangsta rap has been criticized for its extreme lyrics, which are often accused of glamorizing gang violence and black-on-black crime. The Gangsta rappers responded that they were simply describing the realities of life in places such as Compton, California, and Long Beach, California. Describing Doggystyle in 1993, Snoop Dogg likewise points to the album’s realism, and the extent to which it is based on his personal experience. He said, “I can’t rap about something I don’t know. You’ll never hear me rapping about no bachelor’s degree. It’s only what I know and that’s that street life. It’s all everyday life, reality.” Explaining his intentions, Snoop Dogg claims he feels he is a role model to many young black men, and that his songs are designed to relate to their concerns. “For little kids growing up in the ghettos,” he said, “it’s easy to get into the wrong types of things, especially gangbanging and selling drugs. I’ve seen what that was like, and I don’t glorify it, but I don’t preach. I bring it to them rather than have them go find out about it for themselves.” He further explained the “dream” that he would pursue after making the album: “I’m going to try to eliminate the gang violence. I’ll be on a mission for peace. I know I have a lot of power. I know if I say, ‘Don’t kill,’ niggas won’t kill”.**

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Snoop Dogg: ‘G’z and Hustlas’ – (feat. Nancy Fletcher)
Song Producer: Dr. Dre
Album: “Doggystyle”
Recorded: 1992-1993
Date of Release: 11/23/1993
Record Labels: Death Row/Interscope/Atlantic
Album Producers: Suge Knight (Executive); Dr. Dre; Daz Dillenger; Emanuel “Porkchop” Dean; Warren G
Sub-genre: Gangsta/Hardcore/G-Funk (West Coast)
*Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. (born October 20, 1971), better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg (formerly Snoop Doggy Dogg), is a Grammy Award-nominated American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of producer Dr. Dre’s most notable protégés. He popularized the catch phrase suffix “-izzle,” a slang term or infix that had been in use for decades, but not nearly to the extent that it currently permeates the pop and hip hop music industry as well as general usage.
-Doggystyle is the debut solo album from American West Coast hip hop rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, released November 23, 1993 on Death Row Records. The album was recorded soon following the release of Dr. Dre’s landmark debut album The Chronic (1992), to which Snoop Dogg contributed significantly. His musical stylizations for the album share similarity to those featured on Doggystyle.[1] Critics have praised Snoop Dogg for the lyrical “realism” he delivers on the album and for his distinctive vocal flow.[1][2] While recording the album, Snoop Dogg was arrested in connection with Phillip Woldermarian’s death; he was tried and acquitted in 1996.
-Despite some mixed criticism of the album initially upon its release, Doggystyle has earned recognition from many music critics as one of the most significant albums of the 1990s, as well as one of the most important hip hop albums ever released.[3] Much like The Chronic, the distinctive sounds of Doggystyle helped introduce the hip hop style of G-funk to a mainstream audience, bringing forward West Coast hip hop as a dominant force in the early 1990s.[1][4] As of 2008, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has certified Doggystyle quadruple platinum in sales, as it serves as Snoop Dogg’s highest-selling album. The record debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, and sold 802,858 copies in its first week alone, which was the record for a debuting artist until Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000.Doggystyle is viewed by many critics and fans as a “hip hop classic” and is included in The Source magazine’s list of the 100 Best Rap Albums, as well as Rolling Stone magazine’s list of Essential Recordings of the 90’s.*

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Tha Twinz – California Licence Plates (feat. E White) . Off the 2004 album by tha twinz, titled “Tha Loccs” . This album was supposed to be released on Daz Dillinger’s independant record label “DPG recordz/Gangsta Advisory recordingz” , distributed by sony/red in 2004, but it didnt end up getting released. An advance of the album has leaked since then, but the tracks are not totally finished. some are missing third verses or choruses/hooks. Album Tracklisting: 1. Good Ol Music / 2. Down With Us / 3. P.I.M.P. (Paper In My Pocket) / 4. Smokin on Dro (feat. daz) / 5. Watching You / 6. Baby Let’s Roll / 7. California Liscence Plates (feat. E-White) / 8. Gangsta Gangsta / 9. Wit It / 10. Make Me Wanna / 11. Thats Whats Up .
Download link for album: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DGL59MKR .

Background history of Tha Twinz.

For those that dont know, The Twinz, known individually as Wayniac & Trip Loc, are a westcoast rap duo from the Eastside of Long Beach, in the LA county, California. The same place where Snoop Dogg was born and raised. The Twinz went to high school together with Snoop Dogg at Poly High, long beach, and has been homeys with snoop since. They first started rappin in the late 80’s with a group called “Perfection” , with other longbeach rappers Domino, Foesum (Dj Glaze, T-dubb, MnMsta). The Twinz are first cousins to T-dubb from Foesum, and former doggystyle records artist from longbeach E-White. In the early 90’s (1992-1993), they were hangin with snoop and warren G in the begining of deathrow records, as part of snoop’s entourage. The twinz can be seen with cameos in the film clip to dr dre’s “Lil Ghetto Boy” song in 1992, off dr dre’s chronic album released by deathrow records. Warren G later formed own label “G funk music” , and signed a deal with Def jam to release his debut album “Regulate G funk era” . Warren was initially going to released his debut album on death row, but was told that his album would come out once a whole bunch of other death row artists release their albums first, so he didnt want to wait so long to release his album, so thats why he inked that deal with def jam. Warren G then signed the twinz as his artists on his Gfunk music label, and were featured on warren G’s debut album in 1994 “Regulate g Funk era” . The next year in 1995, The Twinz release their debut album “Conversation” on warren G’s gfunk music label through def jam. The album was all produced by warren g , except 1 track which was produced by soopafly. The Twinz featured on a track from death row records in 1996, with snoop dogg and daz dillinger, titled “Too high (poly high) , which ended up being released on “death row’s snoop doggy dogg – greatest hits” in 2001. The Twinz were featured on warren’s second album on def jam, “take a look over your shoulder (reality)” in 1997, and the twinz were to release their second album in 1998 on def jam, which was rumored to be titled “Ringers” , but the album never came out.
In 2000, the twinz was featured on a track off snoop dogg’s eastsidaz group album, which they were known as “tha locs”. In 2003 & 2004, the twinz were featured on a bunch of tracks with snoop dogg , on his “welcome 2 tha chuuch” series of mixtapes. In 2008, the twinz were featured on snoop dogg’s compilation “Christmas In Tha Dogghouse” released as a digital album sold on Itunes. In 2009, The Twinz were featured on another compilation of snoop dogg’s, called “bacc to tha chuuch” , which was also released digitally through Itunes. Also in 2009, the twinz released in EP that was released digitally, and was also titled “tha loccs” , but with “snoop dogg presents” in front of it, and was produced all by Niggarachi, which is snoop dogg’s alias as a producer. The Twinz are also members of the dogg pound crew/family (DPG/DPGC)

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