Tha eastsidaz movie 20006/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Working over a slow-rolling platter of Dre’s finest funk, strung together as a radio broadcast and punched up with skits (the classroom bit in which a young Snoop announces his adult ambition is pretty funny), the rapper flips the script on roughneck hardcore style with a quietly inveigling sing-song, musical breadth and playful persona. Dre’s The Chronic - the former Calvin Broadus paid off on the hype with Doggystyle, furthering the work begun by Dre, Ice Cube and Eazy-E in N.W.A with a distinctive landmark album that gave the West Coast a real leg up in the rap race and placed Snoop at ground zero in the subsequent political controversy over family values and the sound of music. Arriving fully strapped with unassailable street cred and hip-hop fame - thanks to a murder indictment (for which he was subsequently tried and exonerated) and his collaborative role on Dr. If Disney were to open an X-rated amusement park in Times Square, Snoop Doggy Dogg would surely be one of the young crowd’s favorite characters, serving gin and juice, passing out blunts, rapping to big-booty women and entertaining tourists with his comical gangsta caricature and tales of jurisprudence.
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