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Music Review V 2.002
Snoop Dogg
Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Bo$$
Interscope Records
With a new MTV comedy show, "Doggy Fizzle Televizzle.” to
compliment his new album. Snoop Dogg looked primed to deliver
some of his best work in years on Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Bo$$.
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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