Doggystyle

| Snoop Doggy Dog

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Doggystyle

Doggystyle is the debut studio album by American rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg. It was released on November 23, 1993, by Death Row Records and Interscope Records. The album was recorded and produced following Snoop's appearances on Dr. Dre's debut solo album The Chronic(1992), to which Snoop contributed significantly. The West Coast style in hip-hop that he developed from Dre's 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 1990s, as well as one of the most important hip-hop albums ever released. 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-1990s.-Wikipedia

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  • All Music

    Over the years, the pervasive influence of that record and its countless ripoffs has dulled its innovations, so it doesn't have the shock of the new either.  

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  • Sputnik Music

    The perfect West Coast Hip Hop record.  

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  • The Quietus

    Angus Batey looks hard at Snoop's now-canonised debut and questions some of its seriously problematic aspects that continue to be ignored by critics and audiences. 

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  • Dub CNN

    His smooth sing-sang rapping had the listener fascinated. 

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  • Hip Hop It's Alive

    An extraordinarily profitable career by Snoop Dogg, and to this day, it remains--and forever will remain--his crown jewel.  

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  • Spectrum Culture

    The record is high water mark for early ‘90s West Coast hip-hop, which in some eyes is the high point of hip-hop in general. Safe to say, Doggystyle is the shiznit. 

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  • XXL Magazine

    I’m definitely influenced by that album. The structure. The cohesiveness. The skits. The flow. The melodies Snoop kicked. The raw raps. 

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  • The source

    Even with a four mic rating, Source staff writer Reginald Dennis said that the album escaped the coveted Five Mic rating because he felt like it was “rushed.  

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  • Rap Reviews

    Thankfully the music on this album is everything the insipid Snoop Doggy Dogg comic strip wasn't: funny, smooth, and a hella good groove.  

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  • Backseat Mafia

    But this is where it all started, and he has set the bar impossibly high for many rappers coming through behind him. 

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  • Focus Hip Hop

    At least the production holds up. 

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  • AV Club

    No rapper of his generation has been as big for as long as he has, But it’s Doggystyle that they’re trying to sound like. 

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