Doggystyle

Hilarious. I'd love to party with Snoop.

Legend

Very much a product of its time. So 90s in the best and worst ways. It’s also hilarious how Snoop Dogg’s reputation has basically done a complete 180. He used to be an actual gangster and spent time in jail and now he’s hosting stuff at the olympics and has a kids youtube channel

I've listened to several hip hop albums on the generator so far, and I've found that I've enjoyed the beats and sounds but disliked the skits and lyrics. That is the case for this album as well, except this one is pretty vulgar, more so than I'm used to. I appreciate the spirit of collaboration in hip hop music, however. So this album is okay because of the musicality, but the lyrical content really isn't my style.

His best album, never to be topped

sure, snoop dogg, why not

This cover art is about the raunchiest shit ever conceived, which is very reflective of the lyrical content within. I'm personally of the opinion that you're allowed to be raunchy as long as your music is good enough to match, and Snoop Dogg accomplishes exactly that and then some. With Dr. Dre's golden production, here we have one of 90s West Coast's finest beats, to be played loud on some car speakers in the California sun (in snowy Canada with some shitty earbuds works too).

Standouts: G Funk Intro • Gin and Juice • Tha Shiznit • Murder Was The Case • Serial Killa • Who Am I (What's My Name)? • Ain't No Fun (If The Homies Can't Have None) • Gz and Hustlas

meh

Not my first choice of a genre, but I can't say it's not great at what it wants to do. There's a reason he's one of the most famous people in the industry.

Classic 90s rap. Obsessed with sex and violence in a self-gratifying way. But very catchy, great beats, I was grooving most of the time I was listening.

why did we ever let men get away with saying awful things about women

Dr. Dre kills it, the raps are pretty good, and there's a couple really killer songs. Only problems here are its length and the repetitive nature of the lyrics

I like Snoop Dogg … but this album arrived immediately after NWA which I gave 3 stars and this just isn’t as good. Unlikely to listen again.

This one is hard. In my last review I wrote about the difference between a 4 and a 5 for me, and it comes down to whether it speaks to me personally. When I got Dre’s Chronic (which might as well be a Snoop album) I rated it a 4 because the misogyny and violence was prominent enough that I couldn’t completely connect with it (as opposed to Nas’s Illmatic where I connected with the larger story he’s telling). Okay, so by those standards this would be a 4.

But… it’s just too damn good to be a 4. When you let Snoop loose, he is just so inventive, so sly, so funny. And every guest appearance on the record is a classic too. I guess I am following my own standards because I am just so enthralled by his technique that I hear the pimps and hoes shit and I JUST DONT CARE.

Which disturbs me a bit, to be honest, because I do care, I don’t want anyone to talk about women this way. I hate that even recently he’s talked about LGBT identities as if they were a bad thing. I want there to be some kind of accountability somewhere… but… at the same time I want it BECAUSE the music is so good, not in spite of it.

Anyway, like I said, conflicted. But I can’t pretend it’s not brilliant.

Eh, this doesn't strike me as either good or bad.

The bops go hard, but the misogyny does as well. So many killer tracks and important messages, but unfortunately Snoop's particular takes on women pull this back from being the best it could be. 3.5/5 -> 4/5

Classic

Tipper Gore can lick these balls.

I am not the target audience here but the beats were good and Snoop can definitely rap

The music itself is great, but that's all on Dr. Dre. This would be a much better album with someone other than Snoop rapping over it.