In the 15-plus years since the initial, untouchable teamup of Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre, Snoop has never found a comparable collaborator. First came Master P and then the Neptunes, but on Ego Trippin’, Snoop’s ninth major label album, he teams with DJ Quik and New Jack Swing vet Teddy Riley as musical supervisor—a dream team to drool over (on paper, at least). Lead single “Sensual Seduction” is an undeniable masterpiece of throwback funk schmaltz (complete with pimpadelic video) that proves Snoop to be a better singer than Andre 3000. And on “Gangsta Like Me,” Snoop dreams of sexing up Venus and Serena Williams.
But real talk is harder to come by. “I never fucked Superhead or Kim Kardashian,” Snoop claims on “Whateva U Do.” And on the Rick Rock–produced synth-storm “Stacks In My Jeans,” he notes, “One time I told a bitch not to come back ’til she got two thousand dollars in two-dollar bills.” Quik’s precise sonic mechanics are eargasmic, and Riley’s Vocoderstrafed production is gorgeously pristine. But Snoop’s predictable and unwavering blunts ’n’ bitches script might make you long for, at worst, his reality show Fatherhood’s hip hop homilies—and at best, the menace of 1993’s Murder Was The Case.
Snoop Dogg
Ego Trippin
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Released Mar 11, 2008
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