Snoop "Doggystyle" (1993) review/The Source Magazine

[Darkwing Duck (The Reincarnation)]

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they gave it 4 mics, but the writers tone is still negative. Daz and Kurupt were "cockblockin" Snoop, and Dre's production is critiqued.. plus, they referred to Snoop as a "nigga" (professionalism in The Source Magazine's journalism improved during the years.. lol)

interesting thing bout this review, is that it confirms that the other "Niggaz dont give a fuck"-version is the orignal versoin (not the remix)..

[OG Hack Wilson]

how did the source gain cred again??   lol

[acgrundy]

thanks for this.  Interesting that at that time they knew about both the unreleased version of niggaz don't give a fuck, and tha next episode.  Makes you wonder if those songs were actually distributed in some format to magazines, dj's, etc.

[Darkwing Duck (The Reincarnation)]

well, the tape (wit 9 deathrow-demos) that recently leaked online, was available for purchase on bootleg-casettes in Swap Meats before "Doggysytle" released.. Snoop leaked them..

[Triple OG Rapsodie]

Is this the review that complains about the first verse not being Snoop? (even tho Rage spits the hottest verse on the album lol)

[EFFeX]

The funny thing is that I bet the Source would pretend this review doesn't exist today. SMH @ this.

What were they smokin? Certainly wasn't the Chronic. 

[Jimmy H.]

The funny thing is that I bet the Source would pretend this review doesn't exist today. SMH @ this.

For one of their anniversaries, they went back and gave 5 mics to this, The Chronic, and 2001. They especially apologized for their Doggystyle review since it was the least positive of the three.

[Unforgivable by Sean John]

thanks for this.  Interesting that at that time they knew about both the unreleased version of niggaz don't give a fuck, and tha next episode.  Makes you wonder if those songs were actually distributed in some format to magazines, dj's, etc.

yea, i think that this is true. unfortunately, its like so many of these early promos are just lost now...

in this day and age, any radio person would immediately save any advances they get, and leak them when the time is right (i.e. they would leak songs that were on the promo that didn't make the retail and they realized would never be released).

i heard somewhere that 'The Next Episode' was on promotional copies of Doggystyle given to the press/media before the street date.

I also heard that a song called 'God Don't Like Ugly' was an early promo copy of the album that was reviewed/previewed by ... The Source also? i forgot what magazine. Supposedly that song had a children's choir singing the chorus.

either way, i mean, i really don't know for the most part, lol. i would assume that if some of these unreleased songs were given to the press/media, that whoever got them a) lost them b) had to give the advance cd back to the label and never got to copy it or c) wants to be the only person with these songs and has zero intention of leaking it. to be quite honest, i'm  going with c). the internet has made it such that so little shit in this world is rare anymore. that creates an incentive to hang on to whatever truly rare shit you have and not just show it to everyone.

everything leaks eventually though. so we'll see.

[Portugoal]

in this day and age, any radio person would immediately save any advances they get, and leak them when the time is right (i.e. they would leak songs that were on the promo that didn't make the retail and they realized would never be released).

I think you could be mistaking about that. In '03 Cash Money sent out a few promos of TQ's Gemini album at least one unreleased song and none of that ever leaked. That one song did leak eventually when TQ started to sell it five years later.

[doggfather]

thanks for this.  

+1

[Dre-Day]

Chad Vader probably posted it a long time ago.

anyway, lol at korrupt

[HighEyeCue]

they are right in that I remember Suge made them rush the album out to capitalize on Black Friday sales

[Dre-Day]

they are right in that I remember Suge made them rush the album out to capitalize on Black Friday sales

and snoop had a buzz

[BlueSwan]

Epic fail review.

[LyRiCaL_G]

True and it still turned out to be one of the greatest hiphop albums to this day.

Snoops unique flow still aint been replicated and his funk spit on this was just on some other shit. Nigga was blazing rhymes like it was nuttin back in the day. Too many ill joints on this.

Funny thing is if hiphop was filled with alot of these white clowns for fans that are here now complaining on anything party and scared of a track for women, an album like dogystyle would probably get shitted on. lmao

All time classic lyrics like '1,2,3 n to tha 4...' and such would get hated on by a lot of these uncultured fans, shits crazy looking back at hiphop, i've been in this game for too long lol