Last week, Baylor joined the list of 13 schools to offer rapper Snoop Dogg’s son Cordell Broadus a spot in their 2015 recruiting class. And it looks as if they have some help; Robert Griffin III sent Snoop Dogg a text asking him if he thinks his son is going to Baylor. Check out some pics above.
We previously posted a cell phone video clip of the West Coast legend at the White House….above, Snoop & Co. performing at the Kennedy Center Opera House for their Honors ceremony. Dreams do come true.
French Montana raps over a sample from Lana Del Ray’s “Video Games”, with features from Snoop and Wiz Khalifa for his latest track, set to appear on the upcoming Coke Boys mixtape compilation.
French Montana Ft. Lana Del Rey, Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa – All For You (CDQ)
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He dreamed of this moment out loud in his Reincarnated documentary.
Check out the above clip of Snoop, Shante & Cori B at the White House for the Kennedy Center for Honors event, of which Herbie Hancock was the award recipient of the night. Shoutout to John Kerry.
Snoop Dogg/Lion/Zilla puts his special touch on Elvis Prestley’s ‘Blue Christmas’, because….why not? Produced by FredWreck.
In celebration of Hip-Hop’s 40th anniversary, XXL is taking their readers down memory lane with their top 10 most influential albums and songs in the last four decades. The magazine, which comes in five covers, hits newsstands December 31st.
We just got a mixtape from the singer, and now we have a new single featuring legends Snoop Dogg and Warren G.
The album drops on the 10th (preorder here), but thanks to NPR, we can enjoy a stream of Snoop Dogg’s latest collaborative effort with Dam-Funk below.
Drizzy’s Would You Like A Tour? hit the Staples Center in Los Angeles….what makes this notable is that there was a reunion of sorts with Drake bringing out Nicki Minaj (their relationship had apparently become strained recently) for a performance of ‘Make Me Proud’.
Additional clips — including Snoop’s appearance — is below.
A couple of dope excerpts from Suge’s recent interview with Rolling Stone (below). Old habits die hard.
What do you remember most about what went into making Doggystyle?
We were able to make sure [Snoop] didn’t go to prison to make the album. We only had one song done, and then after that it was the [Philip Woldemariam] murder case and the trial. When we got ready to start the trial, $5 million had to be paid to a legal team. And at the time Snoop never sold no records. Jimmy [Iovine], Interscope, those guys were saying they’re not going to participate in trying to help keep him out of prison, because they didn’t think they were capable of doing it. Because of the simple fact that it was a murder case. If he would have got found guilty, he’d have died in prison. He’d have been there the rest of his life.What do you remember about Doggystyle’s production?
[It] was was pretty much luck. Everybody thought [Dr. Dre] would be doing the records, but Daz pretty much did the whole album. And at the end of the day, once Daz finished it, everybody wanted Andre to get the credit. Next thing I know Daz is having a meeting with Andre and them and came back and said, “It’s okay, give me a few bucks and I’ll sign anything over that says produced by Andre instead of me.”“Ain’t No Fun”… one of the homies from The Swans [ed note: the Mad Swan Bloods, or MSB, are a Los Angeles subset of The Bloods street gang] named Pooh, all them dudes already had a record done. And they came and played it for us in the studio. They played us the demo. Everybody looked at it like it was alright. And then after they left, shit, everybody was chopping that same beat.
Snoop Dogg — aka Snoopzilla currently for his 7 Days of Funk collaboration with Dam-Funk — was surprised by GQ’s comparison of TDE to Death Row Records. “They said what?” was Snoop’s initial reaction when VIBE asked about GQ’s comparison of TDE, the record label of rising hip-hop star and current GQ cover man Kendrick Lamar, to that of Death Row Records, the iconic ’90s West Coast rap label that helped launch gangsta rap and released several of Snoop’s early albums. Even hip-hop tastemakers generally agreed that GQ’s cover story on Kendrick Lamar read like “a Hip-Hop outsider trying to explain this new movement to other Hip-Hop outsiders.”
So, we asked Snoop if he thought TDE was the new Death Row Records. “No, they’re not the new Death Row,” Snoop deadpanned, “because TDE did it completely different than Death Row did it. Death Row did it with a gangsta approach.” The Doggfather breaks it down beautifully above.
XXL allowed Kendrick Lamar (who is an outspoken fan of his predecessor) to give his “review” of Snoop Dogg’s classic debut album. Check it out below.
I was coming from the skating rink when I [first heard] Doggystyle. It’s funny I remember these things. My auntie’s boyfriend was playing it while he was driving. My auntie said, “I thought you didn’t like Snoop Dogg.” And he replied, “I had to hear it a few times.” Little did I know he was just hatin’ because he was from the opposite hood.
I actually listened to it when I was 6. Believe me, when you’re from Compton, Long Beach, Watts, South Central, Inglewood…that’s all they were playing around you as a kid. I couldn’t escape it. I remember seeing Snoop Dogg on this video station called The Box. Somebody kept ordering “Ain’t Nothing But A G Thang.” I watched videos a lot, so I was familiar with him.
My favorite records are “G Funk Intro,” “Tha Shiznit,” “Pump Pump,” “Gz And Hustlas”… One of my favorite lyrics from the album is, “You’s flea and I’m the big dog/I’ll scratch you off my balls with my muthafuckin’ paws,” from “Doggy Dogg World.” It wasn’t the most complex line, but at the time, that’s all a 7-year-old could catch. I thought it was hard.
I’m definitely influenced by that album. The structure. The cohesiveness. The skits. The flow. The melodies Snoop kicked. The raw raps. There wouldn’t be a Kendrick Lamar without Doggystyle. [What stood out about the album] was its sound. Albums that last that long have their own sound. It was nothing duplicated, that’s why it stood out. It was that G-Funk.
I listen to it every two to three plane rides a song or two rotates in my iPhone. That fact that we still discussing it 20 years later says everything about it. –Kendrick Lamar
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Snoop Dogg’s debut album hit stores 20 years ago today; the rapper sat down with MTV and reflected on his debut album, creating the tracks and revealed that he had never listened to it the album all the way through.
“I don’t believe I’ve ever listened to the whole album and I’m being honest with you. I ain’t never listen to Doggystyle top to bottom. I may have listened to songs, but I’ve never listened to it.”
Back then it meant a lot because it was being able to stand on my own two feet and put out a project for the first and to actually be heard and seen for who I am individually. Now what it means, it’s an accomplishment. Looking back at it, it was very well put together, it was standards, it showed me the way to do it, the only way to do it.
‘Murder Was the Case‘ that was kinda hard because I started writing on another beat and I was writing a different kinda story. And then once Dre gave me that beat the story came to life and it was like I’m writing a story about me making a deal with the Devil, me going to jail. These things didn’t even happen to me, then I’m writing about ‘em and slowly but surely those things began to happen to me.”
I Am King hits landfall next week (November 25th).
The below excerpt was spotted in a recent XXL feature that chronicled Kurupt best bars:
It wasn’t even going after New York. It wasn’t a diss record. It really wasn’t. “New York, New York” was a record that we made in dedication to New York. We really felt that New York created hip-hop. New York created battle rap and the whole ball of wax so what I did was a battle rap on this beat DJ Pooh did. That beat originally, DJ Pooh made it for Biggie Smalls for a St. Ides commercial.
It really got blown out of proportion through the media. It also got blew out of proportion by a lot of people from New York because we wasn’t dissing New York. Before we were knocking down buildings, Do you remember the beginning part of the video when we were in New York in the snow and having fun? That’s the original video. We wanted Nas and everybody from New York to be in the video. It was a dedication to New York but then, we got shot at it while we were shooting it.
New York felt we were disrespecting them. [Laughs] The New Yorkers wasn’t going for it. They was like “Oh, no! You ain’t gonna shoot this shit out here dissing us.” They shot at us the next day so I mean, after they shot at us. We went back home and Snoop was like, “Man, fuck that!” Then we shot the other part of the video where we started kicking everything the fuck over. That’s why we started kicking things over because we got shot at it. [Laughs]
Quick video clip and full stream below. This is pure riding music.
November 23 of this year marks the 20th anniversary of the iconic Doggystyle album! To celebrate, Snoop Dogg aka DJ Snoopadelic put together a mix of all the samples used in the album with his own commentary laid over the tracks. Watch Snoop putting the mix together with insight from Daz Dillinger.
Snoop Dogg releases the first visual from his new mixtape That’s My Work 2, hosted by DJ Drama. Kurupt and Daz Dillinger also appear in the clip.
Snoopzilla and Funk musician Dam-Funk are getting ready to drop their collaborative project, 7 Days Of Funk, on December 10th. You can pre-order the 9-track album on iTunes.
1. Hit Da Pavement
2. Let It Go
3. Faden Away
4. 1Question? (feat. Steve Arrington)
5. Ride (feat. Kurupt)
6. Do My Thang
7. I’ll Be There 4U
8. Systamatic (feat. Tha Dogg Pound) (Bonus Track)
9. High Wit’ Me (Bonus Track)
Snoop Dogg links with DJ Drama for the second installment of their That’s My Work series. Features on the tape include Suga Free, Method Man, and Eric Sermon. Tracklisting and link below.
DOWNLOAD: Snoop Dogg x DJ Drama – That’s My Work 2 (Mixtape)
Robert Glasper is gearing up for the release of his new album Black Radio 2 next Monday. Before it hits stores, he releases a record featuring Snoop Dogg, Lupe Fiasco and Luke James.
We told Snoop Dogg that he could ask the Vice President one question – any question he wanted – and this is what he came up with.
I wish Snoop would stop changing his name. The California emcee is now changing his name from Snoop Lion to Snoopzilla. The new name is apparently inspired by Bootsy Collins, and the temporary alias will be used for his upcoming album with Funk musician Dam-Funk — titled 7 Days of Funk — which hits stores on December 10th.
This shit right here is a collaboration between Snoop Dogg & DāM-FunK, and I could go for a whole lot more of this.
