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Snoop Dogg looked primed to deliver some of his best work in years on Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Bo$$. Unfortunately for longtime fans, his efforts are mediocre at best. The 20-track album valiantly searches for an identity it never finds. Though sometimes a smooth rap album, more often than not it takes on R&B qualities, heavily substituting singing for rapping. This is occasionally successful, as in "Ballin’,” in which The Dramatics and LiF Half Dead combine with Snoop for an appropri ately twisted love song. But most of Snoop’s attempts at slow music fail due to subject matter totally foreign to him - monogamous love. This is Snoop’s first attempt ever to seriously tackle the topic of love and it sounds out of character coming from him. His sentiments vary wildly from those on 1993’s Doggystyle, a change most fans likely won’t appreciate. The album does have some high points, though most can be attributed to guest appearances. Jay-Z and Nate Dogg save "Lollipop" from mediocrity, and Pharrell of N.E.R.D. manages to make “From Tha Chuuch To Da Palace” and "Beautiful" excep tional songs. In a particular treat. Redman makes one of the few' east coast appearances on "From Long Beach To Brick City.” a song in which only he has a good verse. Disapointingly, Snoop's presence on these tracks is highly overshadowed. Only on "You Got What I Want” does Snoop not get outdone by a supporting rapper, as both he and Ludacris struggle through a song that shouldn’t have made the album. Snoop further distances himself from his Death Row days on the album’s last two tracks. "A Message 2 Fat Cuzz” and “Pimp Slapp’d.” in which he threatens and expresses contempt for Suge Knight, his former boss. Though Snoop continues to separate him self from Death Row Records, he has not had a hit album since he left, and Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Bo$$ is certainly no exception. 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