No Limit Top Dogg

by Snoop Dogg

Overview

As time keeps on slipping into the future, it becomes apparent that Master P's greatest gift is marketing, particularly when his advertising masquerades as liner notes. Witness P's work for Snoop Dogg, once considered the brightest rapper of the '90s but now merely a general in the No Limit army. The Master began plugging Top Dogg, Snoop's second No Limit release, in the liners for his label debut, even mentioning a release date only months away. Clearly, Snoop had indeed been placed on the No Limit production line, and there was every indication that from now on, Snoop would churn out moderately enjoyable, Dirty South-lite records crammed with cameos and appropriated hooks. Turns out he had a trick up his sleeve, because Top Dogg is about as individualized an album as possible under the No Limit precepts. Since the outset of his career, Snoop has shown a fondness for early-'80s synth funk, and for the first time, he lets that form the basis of an album. And while there may be a bit too much recycling for some tastes, the end result isn't just the freshest-sounding Snoop album since his debut, it's easily the freshest-sounding No Limit album. Unfortunately, it's still a No Limit album, which means it runs way too long and is filled with superfluous, even irritating cameos, and also that Snoop is content to haul out low-rent gangsta cliches. Since he's a gifted rapper, he makes the dope 'n' crimes, sex 'n' violence rhymes go down easily (compare his delivery to some of his guests if you have any doubts), but his lyrics just aren't as clever as they were five years earlier. But records don't have to be deep; they can be appreciated as a pure sonic experience, and taken on that level, Top Dogg satisfies. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	07/12/2024
Label:	Priority Records
UPC:	0602465250312
Rank:	117996

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Snoop Dogg   Primary Artist
Jewell   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Warren G   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Dr. Dre   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Sylk-E. Fyne   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Fiend   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Silkk the Shocker   Primary Artist,Featured Artist,Guest Artist
Sticky Fingers   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Magic   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist,Featured Artist
Mauseburg   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Goldie Loc   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Xzibit   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Mystikal   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Suga Free   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
C-Murder   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Mia X   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Raphael Saadiq   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Nate Dogg   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Featured Artist
Big Tray Deee   Primary Artist
Sticky Fingaz   Primary Artist
Suga   Primary Artist
Mauseberg   Guest Artist
Kurupt   Guest Artist
Master P   Guest Artist
Stevie Blacke   Strings

Technical Credits

Trevor Horn   Composer
Paul Morley   Composer
Snoop Dogg   Composer
Scarface   Composer
Maurice White   Composer
Philip Bailey   Composer
Jim Vitti   Composer
Nate Dogg   Composer,Performer
Raphael Saadiq   Composer,Performer
Mia X   Composer,Performer
Sticky Fingaz   Performer
C-Murder   Composer,Performer
George Clinton   Composer
Suga Free   Composer,Performer
Anne Dudley   Composer
Mystikal   Composer,Performer
Gary Langan   Composer
Xzibit   Composer,Performer
Regi Hargis Hickman   Composer
Calvin Broadus   Composer
Harold Payne   Composer
Goldie Loc   Composer,Performer
Hitman   Composer
Peter Luboff   Composer
Mauseburg   Composer
Lamar Johnson   Composer
Eddie Irons   Composer
George Archie   Composer
Magic   Composer,Composer
Melvin Bradford   Composer
James Eubanks   Composer
Lorenzo Dunn   Composer
Dwayne Cornelius   Engineer
Nathaniel Hale   Composer
Stephen Anderson   Composer
J.J. Jeczalik   Composer
Warren Griffin III   Composer
Johnny Burns   Composer
Brian Bailey   Composer
Jeffrey Fortson   Composer
Francisco Javier Rodriguez   Composer
David Blake   Composer
Raymond Ransom   Composer
Silkk the Shocker   Composer,Performer
Big Tray Deee   Composer
Bad Azz   Composer
Kurupt   Composer
Bootsy Collins   Composer
J.S. Theracon   Composer
Edward Irons Jr.   Composer
Fiend   Composer,Performer
Richard Jones   Composer
Sylk-E. Fyne   Composer,Performer
Dr. Dre   Composer,Performer
Warren G   Performer
Lenny Williams   Composer
Meech Wells   Composer