Doggystyle

I finished the project quickly again today. Hip-hop and rap aren't music. 1/5

While it has Snoop's best songs, the album has aged rather poorly, as is the case for most 90s hip hop, but worse is that the album all in all isn't that great.

Dre's production is brilliant, but it's doesn't save it from Snoops god awful lyrics.

Also he cannot stop talking about getting his balls licked????

4
Great beats, great rapping, atrocious skits - very gangsta rap

I am really a sucker for G-Funk, I’ve come to find out. This album isn’t perfect and probably hasn’t aged the best, but the beats are so goddamn good that it doesn’t really matter. Doesn’t quite do the same for me as the other G-Funk classic, the Chronic, but it’s good nonetheless. I do find the skits interfering with the flow of the album though, there’s a few too many of them in here which makes me less eager to put the album on.

I ended up listening to this as I was buying some extra food bits for the weekend at M&S. Felt kind of appropriate because I get the sense that Snoop Dogg is more on the theme park side of rap.

That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it, which I honestly did.

Immature? Yep
In bad taste? Yep
Sexist to the point of being offensive? Yep
Did I enjoy listening to it? Oh Fo Sho

I was 12/13 years old when this came out. I was at a sleepover with my cousin and we snagged this cassette from her older sisters room. We didn't have the insert with the lyrics so we listened to this on repeat, starting and stopping it whilst transcribing all the lyrics.

I saw someone else say this is both 1 star and 5 stars. The lyrics are cringe and aged like milk. But those beats, that flow? So smooth. And that track with the Lady of Rage? Fucking sick.

This is a gangster rap album. As such, I am predisposed to hating it... And I didn't like it much. The backing music is good, the flows were good, and it was catchy. BUT...and this is a big but...the lyrics are awful. Rap is a genre reliant on lyrics, and the lyrics here are not up to snuff. Writing songs about sex, weed, and crime does not make for properly good rap. It makes for commercialized rap meant to sell a vision of a tough street lifestyle to audiences across the US and the world. It's maybe essential if you're into this type of commercialized rap, but otherwise not. It's mostly just a relic of the 90s gangster rap scene.

This album is ranked #5 of 23 albums for 1993. Other 1993 albums rated by me:
Tuesday Night Music Club(11/23)-3
Very(14/23)-1
New Wave(15/23)-1
Giant Steps(16/23)-2

Such a damn good album. Top tier G-funk. The tracks are so damn listenable. The album is also funny as hell. Clever satire but never sacrifices quality of song for a gag.

I liked this much more than I thought I would. For how ubiquitous he is, I never really listened to Snoop Dogg’s music and I quickly realized how good he was. Dre’s production was so good too

Nice swing to the music and Snopp is quite self-deprecating but the songs aren’t really about anything.

I hate the fact that some of the early rap has just stupid lyrics, kinda like how trap is right now. But nevertheless, I love the way Snoop raps, and the beats are really funky and cool. I liked the vibe of it, if it had different lyrics this would have had a higher ranking.

Two iconic hits with Gin and Juice and Who Am I (What's My Name)? but the most surprising bop was Gz and Hustlas. I hadn't ever heard that track before and it was so catchy I couldn't believe I hadn't heard it before.

Not entirely its fault but this made me think of Kendall Roy.

Fair enough Ain't No Fun is being called out for its misogyny. As a happily married middle aged man I realise I have a different perspective from Snoop and his friends, but I only half jokingly think this is the saddest song on the album. It is a succession of grown men stepping up to the mic to proclaim "I CAN'T FEEL LOVE".

The retooling of P-Funk to meet the needs of hiphop was a genius move of Dr Dre.

The second half is weaker than the first, and I thought about a 4 as a result. But 5s need not be perfect, and I’ve given 5s to other albums that faded a little in their second half. Gin and Juice, What’s My Name, Gz and Hustlas, Lodi Dodi merit rounding up.

It's good. Dre is good at producing. Some of the non-singles are more musically interesting than the hits.

'Huuu rappers rappen alleen maar over bitches en geld en drugs >:( >:('

Snoop Dogg: klopt.

Extremely ok

Yes, too much swearing - “b******,” “n******,” “who**s,” and so on - bothers me in songs! It’s one thing if they pop up once or twice, but when it’s systematic and not a single song leaves them out, that’s just noise pollution!

So, I borrowed the following sentence from another user review, simply because I couldn't have put it any better myself ;-)

«It’s both a 5 and a 1 at the same time so I’ll put a 3 and be done with it.»