Doggystyle Wikipedia. Doggystyle is the debut studio album by American rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg. Snoop_Dogg.jpg' alt='Snoop Dogg Biography' title='Snoop Dogg Biography' />It was released on November 2. Death Row Records and Interscope Records. The album was recorded and produced following Snoops appearances on Dr. Dres debut solo album The Chronic 1. Snoop contributed significantly. The West Coast style in hip hop that he developed from Dres first album continued on Doggystyle. Critics have praised Snoop Doggy Dogg for the lyrical realism that he delivers on the album and for his distinctive vocal flow. Despite some mixed criticism of the album initially upon its release, Doggystyle earned recognition from many music critics as one of the most significant albums of the 1. Much like The Chronic, the distinctive sounds of Doggystyle helped introduce the hip hop subgenre of g funk to a mainstream audience, bringing forward West Coast hip hop as a dominant force in the early 1. Doggystyle debuted at No. Billboard 2. 00, selling 8. United States, which was the record for a debuting artist and the fastest selling hip hop album ever. Doggystyle was included on The Source magazines list of the 1. Best Rap Albums as well as Rolling Stone magazines list of Essential Recordings of the 9. About. com placed the album in No. The album was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA. By November 2. 01. Calvin Cordozar Broadus Junior, bardziej znany jako Snoop Dogg ur. Long Beach amerykaski raper, piosenkarz, aktor i malarz. Snoop Dogg Biography' title='Snoop Dogg Biography' />United States, and over 1. ConceptioneditBackgroundeditIn 1. Snoop Doggy Dogg came to attention of the music industry through his vocal contributions on Dr. Dres The Chronic. Take That Download Back For Good. That album is considered to have transformed the entire sound of West Coast rap by its development of what later became known as the G funk sound. The Chronic expanded gangsta rap with profanity, anti authoritarian lyrics and multi layered samples taken from 1. P Funk records. 4 Snoop Doggy Dogg contributed vocals to Dres solo single, Deep Cover, which led to a high degree of anticipation among hip hop for the release of his own solo album. Doggystyle and The Chronic are associated with each other mainly because each prominently featured Snoop Dogg and because both contain G funk style production from Dr. Dre. The two releases are linked by the high number of vocal contributions from Death Row Records artists, including Tha Dogg Pound, RBX, The Lady of Rage,7 while both contain a high density of misogynistic lyrics and profanity in their lyrics. In addition, the two albums are each viewed by critics as early G funk classics, and have been described as joined at the hip. Doggystyle also marked the debut of Death Row vocalist, Nanci Fletcher the daughter of jazz legend Sam Fletcher. Gangsta rap has been criticized for its extreme lyrics, which are often accused of glamorizing gang violence and black on black crime. The Gangsta rappers responded that they were simply describing the realities of life in places such as Compton, California, and Long Beach, California. Describing Doggystyle in 1. Signed to Dr. Dres Death Row label, former teenage drug dealer Snoop Dogg a nickname coined by his mother caused a stir in the US with his debut album Doggystyle. Snoop Dogg is a West Coast rapper who evolved under the tutelage of Dr. Dre, and has received fame for albums such as Doggystyle, Tha Doggfather and Reincarnated. Rapper and producer Dr. Dre helped make gangsta rap and Gfunk popular. The West Coast native also launched the careers of rappers Eminem and Snoop Dogg. Buy Snoop Dogg tickets from the official Ticketmaster. Find Snoop Dogg tour schedule, concert details, reviews and photos. Snoop Doggy Dogg likewise points to the albums realism, and the extent to which it is based on his personal experience. He said, I cant rap about something I dont know. Youll never hear me rapping about no bachelors degree. Its only what I know and thats that street life. Its all everyday life, reality. Explaining his intentions, Snoop Doggy Dogg claims he feels he is a role model to many young black men, and that his songs are designed to relate to their concerns. For little kids growing up in the ghettos, he said, its easy to get into the wrong types of things, especially gangbanging and selling drugs. Ive seen what that was like, and I dont glorify it, but I dont preach. I bring it to them rather than have them go find out about it for themselves. He further explained the dream that he would pursue after making the album Im going to try to eliminate the gang violence. Ill be on a mission for peace. I know I have a lot of power. I know if I say, Dont kill, niggas wont kill. Recordingedit. Snoop Dogg formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg pictured in 2. Doggystyle while in the studio. Doggystyle was recorded in early 1. Death Row Studios. It was produced in a style similar to The Chronic some critics called it a carbon copy. Snoop Doggy Dogg collaborated with two music groups, 2. Tha Dogg Pound. Daz Dillinger, of the latter group, accused Dr. Dre of taking sole recognition for producing the album and alleged that Warren G and himself contributed substantially to the production of the project. Death Row Records co founder Marion Suge Knight stated in 2. Daz pretty much did the whole album, and that credit was signed over to Dr. Dre for a fee. 1. Snoop Doggy Dogg said Dr. Dre was capable of making beats without the help of collaborators and addressed the issues with Warren G and Daz, stating They made beats, Dre produced that record. He discussed the track Aint No Fun, mentioning that Daz and Warren G brought Dr. Dre the beat but Dre took that muthafucka to the next level1. Bruce Williams, closely affiliated with Dr. Dre, discussed the recording process during Dres time at Death Row Records, stating Dres going to be the first one in the studio and the last one to leave. Hell start messing with a beat. As the beat starts pumping, the guys start filtering in. Everybody will get their little drink and smoke in. Soon enough the beat starts to make a presence. Youll look around the room and every cat that was a rapper from Kurupt to Daz to Snoop will grab a pen. They would start writing while Dre is making a beat so by the time hes finished with the beat, they are ready to hit the booth and start spittin. To see those young cats they were all hungry and wanted to make something dope. The atmosphere that was there, you couldnt be wack. Williams said the album was never finished and because of the demand for the record, the distributors insisted the album be completed, otherwise they would cancel the albums orders. This resulted in Dr. Dre mixing the album and inserting the skits within 4. Rolling Stone writer Jonathan Gold described how Dr. Dre produced a beat from scratch to complete instrumental Dre may find something he likes from an old drum break, loop it and gradually replace each part with a better tom tom sound, a kick drum sound he adores, until the beat bears the same relationship to the original that the Incredible Hulk does to Bill Bixby. Gold also described how the track progressed with other musicians adding to the song, stating A bass player wanders in, unpacks his instrument and pops a funky two note bass line over the beat, then leaves to watch CNN, though his two notes keep looping into infinity. A smiling guy in a striped jersey plays a nasty one fingered melody on an old Minimoog synthesizer thats been obsolete since 1. Dre scratches in a sort of surfadelic munching noise, and then from his well stocked Akai MPC6. Beastiesrecord Let me clear my throatand the many layered groove is happening, bumping, breathing, almost loud enough to see. While recording Doggystyle with Dr. Dre in August 1. 99. Snoop Dogg was arrested in connection with the death of Phillip Woldermarian, a member of a rival gang who was shot and killed in a gang fight. According to the charges, the rappers bodyguard, Mc. Kinley Lee, shot Woldermarian as Snoop Dogg drove the vehicle the rapper claimed it was self defense, alleging the victim was stalking him.