Snoop Dog Doggystyle- Released 25 years ago

It’s still my favorite rap album from my favorite rap era of g-funk. The album is a masterpiece. So many great tracks that have stood the test of time. He really hasn’t put anything out close to that caliber since, but still has been able to maintain his status in the public scene since.

One for the money, two for the bitches
Three to get ready, and four to hit the switches
In my Chevy, six-fo' Rad to be exact
With bitches on my side, and bitches on back
So back up bitch 'cause I'm struggling, so get
Off your knees and then start juggling
These motherfricking nuts in your mouth
It's me, Warren G the ni**a with the clout

I was a senior in high school when Doggystyle was released...so many memories.

GenX was really lucky to live through the good days of that late-80's/early-90's period of rap music. WuTang, Death Row, Public Enemy, Biggie, 2Pac (though I'm not a fan of his), Tribe, Outkast, etc. All while the whole grunge/alternative wave was happening with a whole other genre of incredible music.

Thanks to the late 90's, the 90's will never get the credit that decade deserves for putting out nearly unprecedented quality music.

Doggystyle may not be the best rap album ever from a pure musical perspective, but it's probably the rap album that influenced me the most. And by influenced, I mean Doggystyle transformed me from a kid still not quite sure whether he was fully on board with rap as a genre, to a full-on child of hip hop.


And who else remembers where they were during this performance?

Murder Was The Case -- 1993 MTV Music Video Awards

quote:

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'Cause Snoop Dogg is Trump tight like a virgin, the surgeon
Is Dr. Drizzay, so lizzay, and plizzay
With D-O-double-Gizzay

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the fly human being see ya know i'm not european bein all i can when i put the motherfrickin mike in my hand and... er, sorry, reflex