Snoop Doggy Dogg

garysully1986

Lads, what happened to Snoop, Did he just sell out or what, Like compare sensual seduction to something like Gin n Juice or who am I?

I love old school Snoop, Same thing with Dre lik!

Look at ICE CUBE 20 years and still hasnt changed!

pragmatic1

Snoop just over exposed himself to the public. Cant agree with you on Ice Cube though. He sold out long ago. Down hill after the first westside connection album.

Nolanger

Most of his albums from the last decade have great tracks:
Hennesey n Buddah
Da Boss Would Like to See You
Boss' Life
Let's Get Blown
I Wanna Rock

garysully1986

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Snoop just over exposed himself to the public. Cant agree with you on Ice Cube though. He sold out long ago. Down hill after the first westside connection album.

Ah Yeah when it comes to Movies and the like Ice Cube just seen the dollar signs but look at Raw footage and laugh now, both lethal albums, Sad to see Snoop the way he is now, Dont rate half the songs on most albums apart from one or two good tracks lik.

iangobl

If he had preformed his new song "sweat" at one of his gigs 15 years ago the place would have emptied

mufcboy1999

iangobl wrote: »

If he had preformed his new song "sweat" at one of his gigs 15 years ago the place would have emptied

try even 5 years ago bud.

CorkMan

If he had performed it in 1992 he would have been shot.

iamstop

OP, Ice Cube slumped with that War and Peace ish a while back but regained with the recent Gangsta Rap made me do it vibe.

MoyVilla9

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Snoop just over exposed himself to the public. Cant agree with you on Ice Cube though. He sold out long ago. Down hill after the first westside connection album.

Eh. I wouldn't exactly say Ice Cube sold out, certainly not in the same league as Snoop.

Maybe Snoop was right though, he's probably the most relevant of all the early 90's crop. The music is **** but he has retained the mega-star status.

"Would you rather be underpaid or overrated?"

saywhatyousee

Off course snoop sold out its the power of the dollar were talking bout here.
Biggy tupac and easy e must be turning in the grave listening to the rap nowadays

pragmatic1

MoyVilla9 wrote: »

Eh. I wouldn't exactly say Ice Cube sold out, certainly not in the same league as Snoop.

Maybe Snoop was right though, he's probably the most relevant of all the early 90's crop. The music is **** but he has retained the mega-star status.

"Would you rather be underpaid or overrated?"

He does kids movies now. Not exactly straight out of Compton. Of course hes sold out.

PrettyBoy

Snoop has changed with the times instead of refusing to accept that the Death Row era is long gone, that's why he's still relevant today and why his music still charts. It sounds like some of you want him to think it's still 1993? In 1993 he was a teenager with a record deal and a murder charge, now he's close to 40 with a brand to sell and a family to feed.

More or less every rapper has "sold out". In Snoop's case I would say it was a very wise career move. He's one of the most popular and recognizable rappers today and has been for almost 20 years as well as an occasional actor. Look at all the rappers that have come and gone in the last 20 years. Now look at Snoop who's albums continue to sell, videos continue to get played, regularly appears as a guest on some of the biggest hits and appears in the odd movie.

Some people here really don't have a clue about the music industry and how it works.

Nicoleye

Agreeing with Prettyboy here. Most of the rappers are changing to go with what's popular like Snoops sweat song with David Guetta or Busta doing a dance tune with Tiesto. Ya wouldn't have heard of a rapper doing a dance song.

It sucks that hip hop isn't what it used to be but that's just the way it's gone ...

CorkMan

Snoop could not be making them auto-dance-singing fodder and still not be sold out. He could be making albums with 20 songs, composed with beats form respected producers and 4 or 5 from Dre. Back in 1991-92 he was being very successful and keeping an ear to the streets. You can still keep your ear to the streets and be at the top. Snoop isn't Snoop anymore, and I hope to say in the future "at the moment".

People can still make some hard ***t and be successful, people need to understand that. It's just that when the rap game was big back in the 90's commercial wise, that was it's dawn in the commercial sense. But now the record companies heard it and altered it, now every 2nd or 3rd Rap hit has to have that one from the Pussycat Dolls and the exact same beat as the last one. We won't get the 80 or 90's back, but I think a new-era could be brought in that still appeals to the Hip-Hop Heads, it doesn't have to be commercial fodder.

Blisterman

Snoop has become a self parody. His last few albums all seem to feature some moralising song about how he's learned that smoking weed and being in a gang aren't a good idea. Which would be fine, people grow up, learn from their mistakes, except for the fact that every single other song on the albums are about how great smoking weed and being in a gang is!

12gauge dave

snoop is a legend either way:D

but we just gotta accept that hip hop as we knew it is gone guys the scene has just evolved we dont have much control over it its just different times in the 90s and turn of the millenium things were still being tried and hip hop at a world wide commercial stage hadnt been cemented lots of new sounds etc but now the world is used to hip hop in mainstream so its not raw anymore alot of the original hip hop stars are old now snoop dre 50 etc and rapping about hayley,homosexuals,chrome spinners,mary jane isnt apealing to the teenagers of today it seems! and they all concentrated on their beefs too much aswell like 50 cent started arguing with everyone now he has like no street cred! i prefered hip hop when shady aftermath were king but i was a young impressionable teenager then and another factor was that the world economy was buzzing and alot of money was being pumped into hip hop on a major scale for the first time ever and talking about money fancy cars etc was in fashion! alot has changed in the last 10 years its a complete different generation of young teenagers listening these days so what is what is guys i guess

CrackisWhack

S Line

Snoop has been successful for almost 20 years and thus probably been a millionaire for most of that time. So If he was still going around kackied up in chucks, throw-in up gang signs and claimin his hood we would also accuse him of being fake because we all know that he is a millionaire husband and father who lives in a mansion.

Don’t get me wrong ‘sweat’ is pure commercial pop (Sh1e !!) and the less said for Katie Perry’s California girls the better . But at lease he is not trying to make us believe that it’s still ‘one eight seven on an undercover cop’


Snoop has been lost to the commercial pop world. He has marketed himself as a media friendly and likeable character with songs that have a great crossover appeal. This has made him lots of money and a MTV darling.

Maybe for us who like rap and who would praise west coast legends like Mc Eiht, Mc Ren and Spice 1 as more credible but I’m sure Snoop Dogg will probably not mind too much as the looks at another fat check from Dave Guitta or Katie Perry putting lots more $$$$ in his account.