2.26 - Snoop Dogg Has A Ghostwriter..!!

[HEC]

This is not news at all and the fact still remains that Snoop has written some of the tightest songs in hip hop history, so he uses a ghostwriter at times, if you go back to "Tha Doggfather" where Technic, Bad Azz, Kurupt, Tray Deee are all credited in the booklet

[Sosna]

Nuthin' new.

[Mackin]

I wouldn't really even call it a ghostwriter.  He credits the writers on everything, and he's said in nearly every interview about this last album that he's letting all kinds of other people write for him on it.  What's the big deal?  Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote 1 hit.  Two of the greatest of all time. 

In hip-hop you have to write every bar, play every instrument in the song and have lived every lyric otherwise you're Milli Vanilli.

It's a rule that Hip-Hop has that many other genres don't.  Mary Wells and the Temptations had huge hits written by Smokey Robinson and everybody involved was acknowledged for the success.  That can't happen (there's only a few exceptions) in Hip-Hop because it's all about image and "being real".  It's the same thing as saying this guy is not a producer because he didn't play the flute.

On the other hand, don't call yourself a lyricist if you don't write your own lyrics.

 

True...but i think that's unfair..especially for Producer..You can have people that may not be able to play notes on the keyboard...but having a keyboard player..why sit around trying to work on sumthing, when there are people out there that know how to play the keys..
Why not to hire them??
They will always be folks out there that can play one of two different instruments in Hip hop, which is pretty Good..However they will also be other folks out there that may need a little assistance in that area, i for one don't see anything wrong with that..Be in Pop/Rock/ Or Hip Hop..

I know what you saying...but I'm looking at it from the wider angle..

[HEC]

I wouldn't really even call it a ghostwriter.  He credits the writers on everything, and he's said in nearly every interview about this last album that he's letting all kinds of other people write for him on it.  What's the big deal?  Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote 1 hit.  Two of the greatest of all time. 

In hip-hop you have to write every bar, play every instrument in the song and have lived every lyric otherwise you're Milli Vanilli.

It's a rule that Hip-Hop has that many other genres don't.  Mary Wells and the Temptations had huge hits written by Smokey Robinson and everybody involved was acknowledged for the success.  That can't happen (there's only a few exceptions) in Hip-Hop because it's all about image and "being real".  It's the same thing as saying this guy is not a producer because he didn't play the flute.

On the other hand, don't call yourself a lyricist if you don't write your own lyrics.

 

True...but i think that's unfair..especially for Producer..You can have people that may not be able to play notes on the keyboard...but having a keyboard player..why sit around trying to work on sumthing, when there are people out there that know how to play the keys..
Why not to hire them??
They will always be folks out there that can play one of two different instruments in Hip hop, which is pretty Good..However they will also be other folks out there that may need a little assistance in that area, i for one don't see anything wrong with that..Be in Pop/Rock/ Or Hip Hop..

I know what you saying...but I'm looking at it from the wider angle..

spoken like a true producer