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...that Snoop Dogg runs the most successful rent-a-thug service in hip-hop (see “Buttons”), why does he need to bother releasing an LP? While he could get real paid and even more famous by dropping more guest verses, he has cut another full album. This reason may be respect, money, or some contractual obligation, but it’s certainly not the music itself...
...most part, the new disc finds Snoop trying to step his game into the realms of MCs that still matter to the record buying public, which seems to be mostly middle-class white boys. Ironically, only the thugs Snoop contracts for the occasion save the album from being completely awful...
...Snoop also shows he can get down with the new breed. The illuminating “Gangbangin’ 101” features The Game. You’d think shit would go down, since The Game is a well-known Blood, and Snoop incessantly references his Crip heritage. But you’d be wrong. The song is a plea for the two gangs to combine into an even more fearsome force. Their peacefulish, emptyish sentiment is neatly summarized by The Game with this lovely couplet: “I’m Martin Luther King with two guns...
...peaceful gangbangin’ is exacerbated by the strangest yet most awesome track on the album, “Imagine,” featuring Dr. Dre and D’Angelo. It begins with a claim by Snoop that the album is so gangsta, that the tone needs to be settled down a bit. This is inaccurate. But the track bangs anyway, with Dr. Dre actually singing a verse about hip-hop being a mostly positive force for black Americans...
...Snoop Dogg feat. R. Kelly “That’s That” Dir. Benny Boom The Sears Tower pops up in the background of Snoop’s new video, “That’s That,” and, along with it, an important question: why the hell is the Doggfather in Chi-town? Snoop doesn’t seem to have an answer. He looks too stoned to even care. But there are some possible explanations for his Midwestern sojourn. The most obvious gloss? R. Kelly kidnapped him. He?...