LMAO....the last meal is so far off from classic...its actually garbage...it kokane did a lot to ruin it...as for paid da cost....i dont expect much from it ...atleast kokane isnt on half the album

Damn, I agree about you on the last meal being a classic. When I mean classic, not in terms of defining hip-hop, or changing the game, but a cult classic.

I was thinking of the exact same thing, taking off those tracks you mentioned, which will make the the album shoter. I personally find it difficult to listen to an album longer than an hour. Sure, snoop gives value for money by giving those extra tracks, but I just skip over them anyway (he should have released them as b-sides, or put the left-overs on a bons disc or EP).
I have to disagree with you about kokane though. Many people think he is on it too much, the chronic dre's album which ended up as a snoop & dre album. I know it's a little different, because snoop was what made that album, but I thought kokane was pretty tight, especially on hennessy & buddah. The only track I didn't like with him on there were brake fluid, because it was too long and the beat was amaturish. However, kokane did ruin bring it on, but I still for some reason sing the hook.

So, kokane is on 8 tracks:

hen & bud - he's dope
true lies - dope
Wrong idead - I didn't really see a point of him being on there since he only sang a little at the end, but does the job
go away - was dope until he got a bit excited after snoop finished talking at the end in that echoed effect.
Stacey Adams - Nice, nothing spectacular, does the job.
Bring it on - I didn't really like him on this, could have left the hook out altogether and just have had straight rapping back and forth.
Brake fluid - dope, but the beat is crap, and too long, so I skip this.
y'all gone miss me - damn, he pulled off a classic performance, and made the track want it is.

There is the potential to make it a classic, if:

1 shortened the intro a bit,
2 come off harder (vocally) on snoop dogg, but change the drum beat to the same one used on every single day (original), but still use the same samples on as on snoop dogg. Take off the part: s-n-double-o-p...., or have that in a different style (maybe scratching).
3 Cut down wrong idea a bit, and have someone else do 'I'mma gangsta' instead of snoop.
4 Cut off the instrumental at the end on go away when snoop finishes talking 'take your mide on another dimension you never thought existed' because that track was too long
5 Set it off was WACK IMO. It could be saved however, by changing the beat to something harder like some la n***a's on dre's 2001. Only have ice cube doing his part once but much calmer, ake off snoop's last verse and also nates part which didn't fit in.
6 cut stacey adamsby 1 min, it was too long,
7 take off kokane completey on bring it on, maybe replace suga free with soopafly doing the same lyrics
8 take off the skit & brake fluid
9 cut off 1 min at the end of ready to ryde which was too long
trim a bit off loosen control, which was slightly too long imo,
10 take off I can't swim, but it could be saved if snoopy collins and sir dogg was taken off, and replace that annoying sample with something similar to that used in mobb deep's quite storm bass line.
11 take off leave me alone, it wasn't wack or anything, but can be left off
12 definitely take off back up off me

Now you wouldn't have any tracks to skip, the album will be much shorter than the orininal 80 min so you can listen to it the whole way through in one go. These are just my opinions, peace.

I won't make any judgements about paid the cost.. until I've heard the retail album a few times.

it could be much doper, but no classic, i mean not in the way doggystyle, dogg food are classics... he should have taken off those bad songs ya`ll mentioned and put Purple, Back up Ho and Backtrackin on there, those 3 songs are tighter than anything on there (only Lay Low is better) , why are there so much stupid decisions made in the music industry? I mean Snoops new single choice?, it`s ok, but if he dropped "That`s the shit" it would be much bigger or that other Neptunes track (you can hear a bit in the background in Da Chuuch Video) already sound much better.

There re rumours floating on the net that beautiful (the neptunes track in the background of the chuuuch to tha palace vidieo) will be the second single, but like i said it's a rumour.

PS, from the chuuuch to tha palace has has mixed reviews on this board, but I think it's a straight hip hop track, there is some rawness in it which is missing from the commercial hip hop scene, especially in the charts (ie Ja Rule's singles, which sound identical, with an R&B beat & hook).

dont if its just me but this album will be more soft ..I wanted sum Hardcore shit with songs with message but this album will about ,Party,pimpin,and relationship

we all know that doin a long ass album reduce your chance to do a classic but it also reduce some hackers to burn the cd

yeah, those hackers certainly burn a incredibly amount of CD's..

yeah last meal was no where near classic for me, and Paid the cost isn't looking anywhere near classic.  Fucking snoop, when is he gonna make another album for the real fans who been supporting him since the begining.