It's May 31, 2024, 09:59:22 PM
I've always enjoyed this one.Even Quik is on there, right?Definitely one or two tracks that could've been left off.
Doggfather is his best album. Snoop says majority of his fans agree.
Here we go again.. Anyone who says this, I always know that they weren't old enough or not really into hip-hop back in 93 - because anyone who truly experienced the Chronic, Doggystyle, Murder Was the Case version of Snoop in real time and remembers what a sensation he was in the mid-90's......and then how the game had gotten really intense by the fall of 96' with Pac being murdered and the whole coast was leaning on Snoop--anyone who really remembers the mood at that time the day Doggfather dropped knows it was a huge disappointment when it dropped. It was probably the most dramatic case of Sophmore jinx in music history.
I can tell you firsthand, i was extremely disappointed. It was nothing like what i was expecting. Sounded nothing like Doggystyle first of all. No Dre production. No 2Pac guest spots. Filled with a bunch of lesser-known acts at the time. Groupie with Warren G and Tha Dogg Pound was the only song i was feeling when i first got the CD that i truly felt like was a good Doggystyle followup song. It has aged well as people like Tray Deee, Bad Azz, Techniec, Sam Sneed, Charlie Wilson are now household names but you have to remember, back in 96, they hadn't been in the limelight yet so alot of people had never heard of these guys. We were expecting guest spots like Dre, Pac, Rage, Ice Cube, DJ Quik, Nate Dogg (more than 1 song), Dogg Pound (more than 1 song as a unit), etc. And instead we got, at the time, a bunch of nobodies. And snoop switched to that quiet laid back flow and strayed far from the sampled G funk sound. I skipped school to go to Best Buy to buy the CD and i listened to it once and threw it on my shelf and took me a long time to get back into it.
I too had similar experiences as Infinite and Soopafly DPGC about "Tha Doggfather"most Snoop fans in that time period would agree that it was a major letdown...how it is viewed now does not change that fact for usI do understand that for many others "Tha Doggfather" might have been their introduction to Snoop so their feelings are different
Yeah even my son says Doggfather is his favorite Snoop album. It is really interesting how it was viewed later vs. the day it dropped. The day it dropped I even remember MTV did a special on it that week talking to people in the streetz and it was all disappointment.
I remember when they did that...one dude was asked what his favorite track was and he said "Blueberry"interesting in that Snoop doesn't even rap a verse on that track