Doggystyle
Album Description
Death Row Records. Digitally remastered, repackaged & enhanced classic. Enhanced portion features the classic video What’s My Name. Packaged in a jewel box in a slipcase. 2001 reissue.Amazon.com
Produced by the infamous Dr. Dre with assistance from Mr. Suge Knight, Doggy Style was the first solo outing by Calvin Broadus a.k.a. Snoop Doggy Dog. Incorporating a straight gangsta vibe into the deep funk grooves pioneered by George Clinton and his Parliament-Funkadelic ensemble, Snoop and Dre dogmatically invent the “G-Funk” aesthetic. Espousing an irreverent dope, bitches, and guns mentality, Doggy Style garnered the Parental Advisory for explicit lyrics it sorely deserved. Still, Snoop’s lazy-yet-acrobatic rap/drawl is distinctive and undeniably entertaining. With additional vocals from Tha Dogg Pound (Nate Dogg, Warren G, Kurupt, and Dat Nigger Daz), this disc is deceptively professional and musically quite slick. “Murder Was The Case” is practically an inner-city classic, while “Ain’t No Fun” is another blunted, urban-rap anthem. Woof! –Mitch Myers
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I am a nineteen year old english and art major, and I can tell you from my early expertise that this album provides no lessons in humanity and breaks no new ground in the world of music. Let me first tell you that Snoop Dogg looks like a chimpanzee. Is showing off, lyrically or visually, ones own posessions in a song or music video really art? Music is a definition of human emotion. A Cadillac Escalade is not a human emotion. “Ice” is not a human emotion. “Izzles”, “hizzles”, “izzies” and “bizzies” are not part of the native language of this country. Possibly the native language of Africa, but not America. So, to this album, and to this artist; I say one thing: If you can’t learn to respect music for what it is, or get a firm grasp on what is and is not proper grammar; then go pollute the minds of other societies in other lands, where the natives might understand your crappy lingo. “Keepizzle itizzle realizzle yoizzie.”
Rating: 1 / 5
Doggystyle
The cd is good, but definently not his best. It has a few good songs like “Gin and Juice” and “What’s my Name”, but compared to all the other gangsta 90’s westcoast thug rap, this isn’t that great.
Rating: 4 / 5
Doggystyle
This is an example of self-confidence gone too far. Almost every track on this album talkz about Snoop, and how he’s got all the girls, and how no one will ever touch him in the West Coaster Rap Wars. Don’t buy this album. Period.
Rating: 2 / 5
Doggystyle
YO dogg! dis be off da hizzle foshizzle! This be shizzle but da rap is no fizzy of da sheezzy when your hangin on da lizzy foshizbee! But snoop dogg cant rapp da shizzy of da hizzy forshizzly in the fizzy yo hizzy! Shizz da BIZZY! Seriously, he’z not da hizzy only the fizzy mizzy. now swallow this jizzy!
Rating: 1 / 5
Doggystyle
Snoop Dog was everywheres for the past few years..TV, Commerical, movies…you name it, he did it. Probably for the money because he couldnt rap about hos and weed. He is one dimensional, although he has a cool, unmistakable voice. Too bad he wasted his talent. To me he released only two cds worth listening to- Dr. Dre’s The Chronic (Why does Dre put his name on cds and its a different artist on mostly every track but a couple, anyone notice that?) and this cd. This cd was praised for the longest time. The raps are good, the beats are so so but its the same old crap over and over. Can he think of anything else to rap about? I know your name is Snoop Dog, you like sex and weed..please tell me more.
Rating: 2 / 5
Doggystyle