Snoop Dogg - Paid Tha Cost to Be Da Boss
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Artist: Snoop DoggEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2002-11-26
Music Label: Priority Records
Product features:
- SNOOP DOGG PAID THA COST BE DA BOSS
- Don Doggy
- Da Bo$$ Would Like To See You
- Stoplight
- From Tha Chuuuch To Da Palace (featuring Pharrell)
- I Believe In You (featuring Latoiya Williams)
- Lollipop (featuring Jay-Z, Soopafly, Nate Dogg)
- Ballin' (featuring The Dramatics, Lil' Half Dead)
- Beautiful (featuring Pharrell, Uncle Charlie Wilson)
- Paper'd Up (featuring Mr. Kane, Traci Nelson)
- Wasn't Your Fault
- Bo$$ Playa
- Hourglass (featuring Mr. Kane, Goldie Loc)
- The One And Only
- I Miss That Bitch (featuring E-White)
- From Long Beach 2 Brick City (featuring Redman, Nate Dogg, Warren G)
- Suited N Booted
- You Got What I Want (featuring Ludacris, Goldie Loc, Uncle Charlie Wilson)
- Batman & Robin (featuring Lady Of Rage, RBX)
- A Message 2 Fat Cuzz
- Pimp Slapp'd
Music reviews of Paid Tha Cost to Be Da Boss
Music Review: The Boss?
Rating: 4 Stars
Snoop has changed up his style a bit for this album once again. He was into a gangsta stance in his No Limit days but he didn't have the lyrical ability of his previous Death Row days so it just didn't do much for him to be away from the greatest gangsta rap label of all time & keep his gangsta style. Here Snoop seems to have aged well moving on to a more pimped out style were he can just be creative and have fun on the record. The album takes on many different angles, the pimp, the gangsta, the lover, & the boss and he does each with as much wise grace a veteran rap artist can. He isn't in top lyrical form he and he never will be again but he still is one of the most enjoyable recognizable figures in the rap game if not in rap history. He helps mix things up with different fresh producers such as Hi-Tek, DJ Premier, E-Swift, Meech Wells, The Neptunes, L.T. Hutton, Just Blaze, Jelly Roll & Battlecat among others but disappointingly Snoop is without one of his past staples Dr.Dre, who he might be on the outs with but not much is known about that. The guests are interesting on this album, no longer is there the faceless at times annoying No Limit soldiers, and there is a heavy flow of his Dogghouse/DPG family such as Soopafly, Nate Dogg, Latoiya Williams, Goldie Loc, Kokane, Warren G, Lady of Rage, Lil' Half Dead, & RBX, but also there is notable appearances by Jay-Z, Redman, & Ludacris. The only sad part about the guests is the same with the production and that's that two of his most interesting collaborators are void from this cd, them being Xzibit & Kurupt of Tha Dogg Pound. Kurupt returned to Death Row records so the whole Dogghouse click is unfortunately looking take shots at him. Now I'll talk about what I feel the highlights of this album are.I Believe in You ft/Latoiya Williams - In this song snoops trades in his pimp cane for some kind words for his lady love and they aren't "be-otch" thsi time. What makes thsi song extra special is that snoop can be a failry believable pimp character & still manage to bust out heartfelt raps about what would be his wife. The beat is very funky and laid back & Latoiya has a great classic voice that reminds me of Death Row's songstress Michel'le but not that much in voice it's self but in the fact of her grace & power while singing.
Beautiful ft/Pharrell Williams - This is another track where Snoop raps about his special lady. It has a bouncy beat brought to your ear by The Neptunes, it has sort of an island type feel and vibe, I guess that's why in the video it was shot in Brazil. Pharrell uses his unique falsetto for the hook and does a nice job of sticking the song in your head and as the second single it does it's job. It's nice to see Snoop doing all these songs respecting the real women out there like his big hommie Pac would have liked and still telling it to the ladies of the night like it is.
The One & Only - This is my personal favorite track on the album. Snoop gets into a Eastcoast B-Boy style for this song adapting for the producer which in this case is the legendary DJ Premier and Premo flips his style to dish out one of the funkiest beats he has probably ever produced. The chorus is snoop's vocal's from "The Next Episode" where he says the only d-o-double g being scratched by premo. So all in all a great track & mix of styles & tastes.
Pimp Slapp'd - This track is basically a diss track. Snoop returns to his gangsta image to dish out scathing remarks about his former boss that he paid the cost to Suge Knight and his Death Row records. It is a pretty booming modern G Funk beat and Snoop gets pretty nasty to the record label & Kurupt in particular.
So this album is no Doggystyle but so what it's still a great piece of West Coast rap with variety. Four star worthy I believe.
Description of Paid Tha Cost to Be Da Boss
SNOOP DOGG PAID THA COST BE DA BOSSDespite the middling quality of his previous two albums, Snoop Dogg's sixth full-length effort firmly places this "professor of G-ology" back on top of the game. Snoop comes off surprisingly spry on Paid tha Cost, offering one of his best-balanced albums in years. His pimpalistic style is still draped in silk and fur, especially on "Bo$$ Playa," "Suited 'n' Booted," and "Ballin'." But "I Believe in You" is an unexpectedly sensitive, irony-free love ballad, while Snoop's pairings with the Neptunes and Gang Starr's DJ Premier result in two of his hardest hitting cuts ever, "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace" and "The One and Only" respectively. Combine this with his unfettered attack on Suge Knight ("Pimp Slapp'd") and this is a Snoop Dogg charging forward rather than lazily leaning back. Taking the helm at the dawn of the new decade, this old Dogg still has some new tricks. --Oliver Wang
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