I have Snoop Dogg's latest prank "Doggumentary" pretty soon bought after its appearance, as in Germany but almost exclusively the low-pop single "Wet" (known as Sweat, censorship-rage of music stations ... thanks be) on TV was to be seen and I count myself among fans of "real" hip-hop (Dr. Dre, NWA, 2Pac, Biggie Smalls), I was more than skeptical at first. I can inspire me for (well-done) Electro Music and New School (The Game, 50 Cent) or even rock and jazz, this nondescript mush, one gets currently served by the many David Guetta, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga but I can not get anything. My fears, Snoop would end the same way, have not been confirmed at this album fortunately. At the first trial hearing in the store, I noticed immediately how calm and cumbersome failed the beats. Especially "My Own Way" invites with slow strings, organ and chilligem background vocals for lounging with headsets. "The Way Life Used To Be" is a little more energetic, but Snoop sounds consistently quiet and circumspect than before. Who hardcore West Coast-bombs like anno expected here in 1992 will be disappointed. Thanks to Dr. Dre, who was sitting in the studio on the podium, but the pieces are incredibly varied. Big names such as Kanye West, T-Pain R. Kelly and even the "Gorillaz" on the album "Plastic Beach" he raps the theme song support, active. Kanye West raps with Snoop on a not uninteresting Guitar Beat, I like it quite well, even if the name Kanye West makes on a Snoop Dogg album under old-school fans certainly an outcry. Very good, I like the lyrics, especially in "Peer Pressure" (German: peer pressure), a song, including a young girl, that in our modern society and its dark side will be too fast in size ("baby girl wanna be grown, she got a Facebook page and a cellphone, her daddy gettin 'money, her mom on the go, she movin' to fast, but she really do not know "). It is faster to in "I Do not Need No B ****", a typical piano Dr.Dre Beat. Here Snoop and Devin the Dude complain about bad habits of womankind. "Boom" and "Platinum" sound more like pop (T-Pain his eternal Stimmgezerre can not resist) as to West Coast. In Chill Track "We Rest In Cali" helps vocal acrobat Larry Troutman. "El Lay" (LA) is an ode to Snoop's hometown of Los Angeles, California (Long Beach to be exact), very chilling. A real piece of gold in my opinion is "Gangbang Rookie". A sizable collection instruments blows the boxes through, energetic rap almost like in the good old days. At the end of Snoop tries some politicians teach ghetto slang, very amusing. Plan follows the funky stoner track "This Weed Iz Mine". In "Wet" I do not dwell on well. Simply skip the hearing. In the American version can be found, incidentally, the original version, the one we Europeans simply cocky withheld (for whatever reason). Too bad, but if you like Lil Wayne, Drake and the rest of them, is also hereby have been thrilled. Oldschooliger it comes to with rap legend Too $ hort in "Take U Home" among others. It's about Snoop's favorite topic next to "Weed": women, most scantily clad in the next best "club". The track "Sumthin Like This Night" with Gorillaz is a creative mix of genres, a matter of taste. Just "Raised In Da Hood", with a lot of echo, Scratching and a somewhat monotonous beat. More power "Da Only Thang" ago, a great beat to toe-tapping. The end of the album makes Snoops Looking back on his career in the form of the track "Cold Game". Conclusion: Old School? No. New School? For the purposes of equitable Pop with Ex-rappers à la Lil Wayne on the cover? Neither. In my eyes, a successful development, just a more mature album (not only as regards the liberal use of swear words) with much RnB and electro. Who expected that Snoop still failing to provide the same pace as ten or fifteen years ago, waiting in vain. We will provide any younger. But times Erlich: ten absolutely identical Gangsta Ghetto fuss albums would also eventually boring.
