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Snoop Dogg – Ain’t No Fun – (feat. Nate Dogg, Kurupt & Warren G)

May 31st, 2010 25 comments

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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2Pac – Wanted Dead or Alive – (OG) – (feat. Snoop Dogg)

May 5th, 2010 10 comments

2Pac – ‘Wanted Dead or Alive – (OG)
Featuring: Snoop Dogg
Written by: 2Pac & Snoop Dogg
Song Producer: Daz Dillinger
Album: “Gridlock’d” Soundtrack
Date of Release: 1/28/97
Record Label: Death Row / Interscope
Genre: West Coast Rap
“Wanted Dead or Alive” is a collaboration song by Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, & Daz Dillinger, released as a single from the Gridlock’d (Original Soundtrack). It was made into a video. The video showed the cops trying to catch Snoop Dogg and clips of the deceased rapper Tupac Shakur. The storyline is similar to “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted”. The video is directed by Scott Kalvert.

Gridlock’d Facts:
Gridlock’d is a 1997 film starring Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, and Thandie Newton. It was the directorial debut of Vondie Curtis-Hall, who also wrote the story and screenplay. The film’s opening was relatively low, despite critical acclaim for its powerful and gritty substance. Its opening weekend netted $3,603,049 and it finished finally at only $5.5 million. The film paid tribute to star Tupac Shakur who had been murdered several months before the film’s release.

Plot:
Set in Detroit, Heroin addicts Spoon (Tupac Shakur) and Stretch (Tim Roth) decide to kick their habit after their best friend and bandmate, Cookie (Thandie Newton), overdoses on her first hit. Throughout a disastrous day, the two addicts dodge police and local criminals while struggling with an apathetic government bureaucracy that bars their entrance into a rehabilitation program.

— In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised Shakur’s performance: “He played this part with an appealing mix of presence, confidence and humor”. Desson Howe, in his review for the Washington Post, wrote, “Shakur and Roth, who seem born for these roles, are allowed to take charge – and have fun doing it”. USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and felt that Hall had not “latched onto a particularly original notion of city blight. But he knows how to mine the humor in such desperation”. Entertainment Weekly gave the film “B” rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, “Gridlock’d doesn’t have the imaginative vision of a movie like Trainspotting, yet it’s more literally true to the haphazard torpor of the junkie life than anything we’ve seen on screen since Drugstore Cowboy … Curtis Hall has caught the bottom-feeder enervation of heroin addiction”.[ —

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Snoop Dogg – G’z and Hustlas – (feat. Nancy Fletcher)

April 4th, 2010 1 comment

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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