Snoop Dogg

After years of Snoop coasting by on his pimp persona, the man is back and flowing like it was 1994. Opening track "Think About It" hits you in waves. With its lilting violin and the lazy post-bop guitar line, the song's production is the musical equivalent of a sunny Sunday afternoon BBQ, while Snoop's verses are among the best of his career. Along with the sublime "Imagine" and funky "Like This," this a standout track on a surprisingly consistent album that may be Snoop's best since his debut.

Snoop Dogg may be a rap Hall of Famer, but he's been coasting for years. His last two
albums presented a familiar figure: an entertainer with friendly nizzle-fizzle pimp persona
and not much to say. Those records had enough hot beats and honeyed flows to make
them sound great in an SUV or blasting from a dorm room. But with a load of gangsta
retreads, lame love songs and duff rhymes -- "I don't know if you've been told/B... More >