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

[I_ThePope_I]

I don't know how they could even BEGIN to critique the production at all. Dre completely perfected his style on Doggystyle. It even makes The Chronic sound slightly over-produced.

[Lil Jay]

LOL @ "Doggystyle is only half the album we exptected"

shit what are they gonna write about Detox expectations?

[MontrealCity's Most]

Someone need to put up this review so i can read it,

[Paul]

Someone need to put up this review so i can read it,

Check the OP

[MontrealCity's Most]

The what now

[HighEyeCue]

The original post has a link to the review

[cubedogg]

Anyone have a link to the one where tey gave it 5 mics?

[Unforgivable by Sean John]

http://rapresearcharchive.blogspot.com/2010/06/snoop-dogg-doggystyle-god-dont-like.html

that is the preview that The Source did in July 93 of the album. It references 'God Don't Like Ugly'. Maybe that song became murder was the case? who knows. someone track down whoever wrote that preview and ask them if they still have the advance cd they wrote the preview based on  . lol.

[StevenQBosell]

The ONE valid criticism I saw in that article was how to some degree it did feel like a compilation, and lmao at the line "you don't want a preview of the next niggas album" (That was kinda common on DR at the time)

[BlueSwan]

The ONE valid criticism I saw in that article was how to some degree it did feel like a compilation, and lmao at the line "you don't want a preview of the next niggas album" (That was kinda common on DR at the time)

Doggystyle does feel like a Dogg Pound album of sorts, but that certainly doesn't make it any less classic.

[OG Hack Wilson]

i wonder what the Source first gave AEOM


i know Vibe gave it a bad review saying nobody would remember it  lmao

[awol22222]

i wonder what the Source first gave AEOM


i know Vibe gave it a bad review saying nobody would remember it  lmao

The Source didn't review "All Eyez On Me", until 2002.
They gave it 5 mics.

[StevenQBosell]

The ONE valid criticism I saw in that article was how to some degree it did feel like a compilation, and lmao at the line "you don't want a preview of the next niggas album" (That was kinda common on DR at the time)

Doggystyle does feel like a Dogg Pound album of sorts, but that certainly doesn't make it any less classic.

True it does kinda feel like a Dre produced "Dogg Pound album, Starring Snoop Dogg"

Although i must say, hearing Rage on that G-Funk Intro had me pumped for her Dre produced solo... Gfunk in it's stride, and with rage rhyming over those type beats?!

But we got Murder was The Case instead...

[JohnnyL]

The ONE valid criticism I saw in that article was how to some degree it did feel like a compilation, and lmao at the line "you don't want a preview of the next niggas album" (That was kinda common on DR at the time)

 That was an idea that I believed Dre took from Ruthless when he went over to Death Row.  Ruthless did the same thing on all of their early albums, basically having a preview of their next album to come out.  Actually, I always thought that idea was ingenious.  The only problem is, the release of rap albums has become so unreliable in recent years, some of the latest times I've seen artists try this, the album that was promised never dropped (ex: Hittman, Young Zee, etc.) .

[TraceOneInfinite]

Rightfully so, we can look back and hate on the Source and use this review as proof that they were ridin East Coast dick all those years, but don't forget this is the same Source mag that just 3 short years later featured Ice Cube on the cover throwing up the Dubb, and also did a feature on Dre leaving Death Row which is the single greatest hip-hop interview/article I have ever, and will ever read... 

...So my point is, I would rather have ol' school hip-hop heads from the 80's New York generation running the magazine and downgrading the quality of classic West Coast music as was the case then... then what we have now with a newer generation of writers with no backbone pandering to Southern trash like Lil Wayne that is fucking up the industry.