Top Dogg (Explicit Version) (1999) (Explicit Version )

Artist: Snoop Dogg
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Label: Emd/priority
UPC: 00049925005226
Release Date: 5/11/1999
Buy.com Sku: 60304979
Item#: MSR3VK
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Dolomite Intro ~ Snoop Dogg
2. Buck 'Em - (featuring Sticky Fingers) ~ Snoop Dogg
3. Trust Me - (featuring Sylk E Fyne/Suga Free) ~ Snoop Dogg
4. My Heat Goes Boom ~ Snoop Dogg
5. Dolomite ~ Snoop Dogg
6. Snoopafella ~ Snoop Dogg
7. In Love With A Thug ~ Snoop Dogg
8. G Bedtime Stories ~ Snoop Dogg
9. Down 4 My N's - (featuring C-Murder/Magic) ~ Snoop Dogg
10. Betta Days ~ Snoop Dogg
11. Somethin Bout Yo Bidness - (featuring Raphael Saadiq) ~ Snoop Dogg
12. B Please - (featuring Xzibit) ~ Snoop Dogg
13. Doin' Too Much ~ Snoop Dogg
14. Gangsta Ride - (featuring Silkk The Shocker) ~ Snoop Dogg
15. Ghetto Symphony - (featuring Mia X/Fiend/C-Murder/Silkk The Shocker/Mystikal/Goldie Loc) ~ Snoop Dogg
16. Party With A D.P.G. ~ Snoop Dogg
17. Buss'n Rocks ~ Snoop Dogg
18. Just Dippin' - (featuring Dr. Dre/Jewell) ~ Snoop Dogg
19. Don't Tell - (featuring Warren G/Mauseburg/Nate Dogg) ~ Snoop Dogg
20. 20 Minutes - (featuring Goldie Loc) ~ Snoop Dogg
21. I Love My Momma ~ Snoop Dogg



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel includes: Snoop Dogg, Sticky Fingers, Sylk E. Fine, Suga Free, Magic, Raphael Saadiq, Xzibit, Fiend, Mia X, Goldie Loc, Dr. Dre, Jewell, Mauseberg, Warren G, Silkk The Shocker, C-Murder, Daz, Kurupt, Mystikal, Nate Dogg (rap vocals); James Tre Rabb, Jimmy Roach (guitar); Shawn Dogg (background vocals).
Producers include: Dr. Dre, Bud'da, Meech Wells, Ant Banks, KLC.
Personnel: Stevie Blacke (strings).
While Snoop's No Limit debut left many long-time fans cold, his sophomore effort at Master P's label sees the LBC representative returning to form with a gang of reliable West Coast beatmakers (Dr. Dre, DJ Quik, Jelly Roll) in tow. Released some two years after the East/West beef hit its apex, TOPP DOGG represents Snoop's induction as a mainstream hip-hop icon, as the Dre-produced "B Please" garnered heavy rotation in all areas, conquering New York radio-waves for the first time. Elsewhere, Snoop parlays his trademark laidback rhyme style between aggressive, gangstafied grandstanding ("Buck `Em," "My Heat Goes Boom," "Buss'n Rocks") and smoothed-out hood love songs ("In Love With a Thug," "Don't Tell), even turning sensitive with a closing cut dedicated to his mother ("I Love My Momma"). All in all, TOPP DOGG proves that, under the right conditions, the G-Funk and No Limit eras are far from incompatible.
As time keeps on slipping into the future, it becomes apparent that Master P's greatest gift is marketing, particularly when his advertising masquerades as liner notes. Witness P's work for Snoop Dogg, once considered the brightest rapper of the '90s but now merely a general in the No Limit army. The Master began plugging Top Dogg, Snoop's second No Limit release, in the liners for his label debut, even mentioning a release date only months away. Clearly, Snoop had indeed been placed on the No Limit production line, and there was every indication that from now on, Snoop would churn out moderately enjoyable, Dirty South-lite records crammed with cameos and appropriated hooks. Turns out he had a trick up his sleeve, because Top Dogg is about as individualized an album as possible under the No Limit precepts. Since the outset of his career, Snoop has shown a fondness for early-'80s synth funk, and for the first time, he lets that form the basis of an album. And while there may be a bit too much recycling for some tastes, the end result isn't just the freshest-sounding Snoop album since his debut, it's easily the freshest-sounding No Limit album. Unfortunately, it's still a No Limit album, which means it runs way too long and is filled with superfluous, even irritating cameos, and also that Snoop is content to haul out low-rent gangsta clich?s. Since he's a gifted rapper, he makes the dope 'n' crimes, sex 'n' violence rhymes go down easily (compare his delivery to some of his guests if you have any doubts), but his lyrics just aren't as clever as they were five years earlier. But records don't have to be deep; they can be appreciated as a pure sonic experience, and taken on that level, Top Dogg satisfies. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Engineer: Dwayne Cornelius

Musical Guests
Master P
Warren G
Dr. Dre
Mia X
Silkk The Shocker
Xzibit
Goldie Loc
C-Murder
Daz
Kurupt
Mauseberg
Mystikal
Nate Dogg
Magic
Sticky Fingers
Suga Free
Sylk E Fyne
Raphael Saadiq
Fiend
Jewell
Mauseburg

 
Compilation Appearances
Murder Was The Case (Explicit Version)
Show (Explicit Version)
Dogg Food (Explicit Version)
Death Row's Greatest Hits (Explicit Version)
Gridlock'd (Explicit Version)
Men In Black
Based On A True Story (Explicit Version)
Vol. 3-Very Special Christmas
Unpredictable (Explicit Version)
Gang Related (Explicit Version)
Born Again (Explicit Version)
Retaliation Revenge & Get Back (Explicit Version)
Ruthless For Life (Explicit Version)
Give It 2 'Em Raw 598(Explicit Version)
Recipe (Explicit Version)
Vol. 2-Hip Hop Hits (Explicit Version)
Hip-Hop
Whiteboys (Explicit Version)
Thug Mentality 1999 (Explicit Version)
I Want It All (Explicit Version)
Dr. Dre 2001 (Clean Version)
Tunnel (Explicit Version)
Methods Of Mayhem (Explicit Version)
Marshall Mathers Lp (Explicit Version)
Marshall Mathers Lp (Clean Version)
Hempin
G.O.A.T. (Explicit Version)
Beware Of Dog
Dynasty-Roc La Familia 2000 (Explicit Version)
W (Explicit Version)
Save The Last Dance
Restless (Explicit Version)
Mtv Party To Go Platinum Mix
Somethin' Nasty (Explicit Version)
Kiss Tha Game Goodbye (Explicit Version)
Baby Boy (Explicit Version)
Wash (Explicit Version)
Cocky (Explicit Version)
Music & Me (Explicit Version)
Old School Rap Vol.06
We Invented The Remix (Explicit Version)
Undercover Brother
Back To Then
N.w.a Legacy 2 (Explicit Version)
Eve-Olution (Clean Version)
Eve-Olution (Explicit Version)
Philadelphia Freeway (Explicit Version)
Down South Vol.3 (Explicit Version)
Street Dreams (Explicit Version)
The Senior
Body Kiss
Bad Boys II (Explicit Version)
Bad Boys II (Clean Version)
Jackpot (Clean Version)
Jackpot (Explicit Version)
United We Doth
Neptunes Present...clones (Explicit Version)
Chicken & Beer (Explicit Version)
Remixes
True Crime: Streets Of LA (Explicit Version)
Best of Keith Sweat: Make You Sweat
Source Presents: hip Hop Hits Vol. 7
Vol. 15-Now That's What I Call Music
Hip Hop Box (Explicit Version)
City 2 City
Tical 0: The Prequel (Explicit Version)
Kiss Of Death (Explicit Version)
Kiss Of Death [edited]
Stone Love
Hunger For More (Explicit Version)
Hunger For More
Suit (Edited)
Untouchable
Raw N Uncut,The Soundtrac (Explicit Version)
Get Lifted
West Coast Playaz 1004
Appearances (Explicit Version)
Very Best Of Death Row
Very Best Of Death Row (Explicit Version)
I Give You My Word (Explicit Version)
Vol 18.-Now That's What I Call Music
Lost & Found
Mp Da Last Don (Explicit Version)
Get Lifted (DualDisc)
This Is Hip Hop (Explicit Version)
Glamourest Life (Explicit Version)
Tp 3 Reloaded (w/ Bonus DVD) (Limited Edition) (Explicit Version)
Wanted
Charlie Last Name Wilson
Naked Truth (Clean Version)
Naked Truth (Explicit Version)
In The Mid Nite Hour (Explicit Version)
ReMix Classics (Explicit Version)
Live At The Hose Of Blues (Explicit Version)
Day After (Clean Version)
Best Of C Murder (Explicit Version)
In My Mind (Explicit Version)
World Of Black Tracks
Black Music
It Takes A Village
Dragged & Chopped Pt 5
Live At The House Of Blues(w/ Bonus DVD)
In My Mind (Clean Edition)
Emancipation Of Mimi (Platinum Edition)
Unpredictable (Explicit Version)
Duets: The Final Chapter (Explicit Version)
Duets:the Final Cha(clean
Sweatsuit (Explicit Version)
Sweatsuit(clean) 1105
All Eyez on Me
Very Best Of Death Row (DIG) (ENH)
Welcome To The Church:da Album
Idlewild (Explicit Version)
Idlewild (Clean Version)
Barrio Fino en Directo (Clean Version) (w/ Bonus DVD)
Barrio Fino en Directo (Explicit Version) (w/ Bonus DVD)
Straight Gangsta Vol 2 Screwed
Lowrider 2006 Tour 0206(Explicit Version)
Hip Hop Future Hits
Mash Up Mix Vol 2
Down Souf 2 Westside 0306
Death Row's Greatest Hits: Chronicles(Explicit Version)
Death Row's Greatest Hits: Chronicles (Cln)
Laugh Now Cry Later (Explicit Version)
Laugh Now Cry Later (Clean Version)
Barrio Fino En Directo(Explicit Version)
Barrio Fino En Directo (Cln)
Blow The Whistle(Explicit Version)
Death Row Ghetto Mix / Various (Cln)
So So Gangsta(Explicit Version)
Death Row's 15th Anniversary(w/ Bonus DVD)(Explicit Version)
Death Row's 15th Anniversary
Ghetto Therapy(Explicit Version)
Now That's What I Call Music! 23
Laugh Now Cry Later:og(w/ Bonus DVD)
Doctor's Advocate(Explicit Version)
Doctor's Advocate (Cln)
Konvicted (Explicit Version)
Konvicted (Cln)
Pac's Life(Explicit Version)
Pac's Life(clean)
Alter Ego(Explicit Version)
Hip Hop Is Dead (Explicit Version)
Hip Hop Is Dead (Cln)
Professional Part 3(Explicit Version)
Professional Part 3 (Cln)
Arthur And The Invisibles
West Coast Hip Hop Vs Da South(Explicit Version)
Hood Of Horrors (Explicit Version)
Hood Of Horrors
Greatest Hits (Explicit Version)
Greatest Hits (Cln)
Death Row Archives:soundtracks(Explicit Version)
Dogg Chit(Explicit Version)
Dogg Chit
Waitin To Inhale (chopped Screwed)(Explicit Version)
Now That's What I Call Music! Vol 24
Definition Of An Ese(w/ Bonus DVD)(Explicit Version)
Get Money Stay True
Get Money Stay True(Explicit Version)
Get Money Stay True (chopped Screwe(Explicit Version)
Bangin West Coast(Explicit Version)
Bone Box:thugs For Life(Explicit Version)
Double Up
Double Up(Explicit Version)
West Coast Party Box Set
It's Whateva(Explicit Version)
It's Whateva
Ms Kelly
Hustlenomics
Evolution Duets And Remixes(Explicit Version)
Hustlenomics
Hustlenomics(DVD-A)
Guess Whoo's Back Mutha Fuck
Featuring Master P
Konvicted(w/ Bonus DVD)(Explicit Version)
Konvicted(w/ Bonus DVD)
Songs About Girls(Explicit Version)
Songs About Girls
Brass Knuckles
Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (Explicit Version)
American Dream(w/ Bonus DVD)(Limited Edition)(Explicit Version)
American Dream(w/ Bonus DVD)(Limited Edition)
Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
Best Of 2 Pac Part 1: Thug(Explicit Version)
Detox(Explicit Version)
Dirty South Hits:best In Crunk
How To Hustle
All I Need(Explicit Version)
All I Need
Greatest Story Ever Told
Best Of Devin The Dude
Lyfe Change
Gangsta Grillz 17
Hustle Hard Soundtrack
Brass Knucles
Lost Found(Explicit Version)
Greatest Story Ever Told
New West Compilation(Explicit Version)
Doll Domination
Doll Domination
G Files(Explicit Version)
Murs For President(w/ Bonus DVD)(Explicit Version)
Murs For President
Murs For President(Explicit Version)
Nova Tunes 1.8
West Coast Thugs
Alter Ego:mixtape
Johnny Cash Remixed
Playlist Plus: A Very Special Christmas
Chemical Warfare(Explicit Version)
Ball Street Journal(Explicit Version)
Ball Street Journal
Gangsta Grillz:album Part 2(Explicit Version)
Ugk For Life(Explicit Version)
Thuggin Without A Cause(Explicit Version)
Uncle Charlie
Gangsta Grillz:album Part 2
Bridge:concept Of A Culture
Bone Collection(Explicit Version)
Back With The Thugz(Explicit Version)
Westcoast Gangstashit Vol 1(Explicit Version)
Ugk 4 Life
Agony The Ex Tacy(Explicit Version)
True To The Game
Digital Master Vol 2.1
We Run Atl
Brand You Can Trust
Blueline Treatment(Explicit Version)
Diary Of A G(Explicit Version)
Cholo Skate
Drastic Tha One:100 Proof(Explicit Version)
3 Cd Collector?s Set
Legacy:best Of Big Pun(Explicit Version)
Calliope Click Vol 1(Explicit Version)
Thug Smoke Out(Explicit Version)
Funny Bidness:da Album(Explicit Version)
Let It Beat(Explicit Version)
Let It Beat
Ultimate Death Row Collection(Explicit Version)

 
Associated Artists and Works
Artists, Various
Kurupt
Murder Was the Case [PA] ~ Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
The Wash [PA] ~ Original Soundtrack
Bigg Snoop Dogg Soundtrack: Raw N Uncut, Vol. 1 [P ~ Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Murder Was the Case [PA] [Digipak] [Remaster] ~ Original Soundtrack
Typhoon
Typhoon
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 05/11/1999
Original Release Date : 1999
Catalog ID : 50052
Label : No Limit Records
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00049925005226

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (6/10/99, p.120)
- out of 5 - Good - "...Snoop's finest work since his debut album...full of seductive party jams that will keep heads bobbing through the summer. Snoop has returned to West Coast G-funk with the help of some old friends...like Dr. Dre and DJ Quik..."

The Source (2/00, p.95)
- Included in The Source's "Top 10 Albums of the Year [1999]."

NME (Magazine)
(5/29/99, p.37)
- 8 out of 10 - "...the silken, sumptuous flow of yore is back, threading deluxe soul and full-bodied grooves....the cool drawl of Snoop...captivates, unveiling tales of love, thuggery, surviving and succeeding in the wild west....a certifiable return to form..."

  


Customer Reviews
Production 5
Performance 5
Composition 5
Overall Satisfaction 5
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5 of 5 Bomb Stuff Tuesday, June 08, 1999
Rob from Compton, CA  

This is one of Snoop's best albums. The rejoining of Snoop and Dre is dope. No limit soldiers fo life. This album is the best.
 
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