Was Doggfather Really A Flop? When Did Death Row Realize 2pac Was A Superstar?
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Reggie Wright discusses if Snoop Dogg's second album, Tha Doggfather, was really a "flop" or not. When he knew 2pac was a megastar.
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#snoopdogg #2pac #tupac
Thumbs up for Marky Markie
Nobody beats the biz! R.i.p. makaveli Tha Don and Biz Markie. Both legends. Salute to bomb 1st
Me against the world made Pac just as big as Snoop. Not to mention his already movie career.
@@selfiekroos1777 M.A.T.W. pushed pac over the top but I think the controversy at that time pushed him too. Dude shot two cops, beat the case, then got lined up for the rape, then got robbed and shot, then went to jail. His fans that was already following him and mind u strictly 4 my niggaz his 2nd album actually went platinum so dude was no longer underground in 93. All that shit with the cops and rape came soon after. He had white america watching him at that point. Wasn't no digital social media and cell phones back then but dude was in the news at least 2x month. The press coverage that surrounded him was crazy. Dude was a star B4 deathrow. And had 3 movies under his belt B4 deathrow
Forgive Bro. Reggie Wright 😂 Y'all knew who he was talking bout
Not to be confused with Marky Mark AKA The Actor known as Mark Wahlberg 😂
I remember that era when those albums came out. “All Eyez on Me” felt like a nice summer day. The “DogFather” felt more like a cold, gloomy winter.
Soooooo true!!!!
I live in Alaska, and you hit that nail right on the head.
I remember listening to it on CD and tape with my headphones on walking to school in the snow ice everywhere slipping on my ass CD skipping batteries dying
Dog father might not have been a flop but it was certainly 🗑️🗑️🗑️
Did you have a nice system to listen to it properly or was it a little boombox because those bass lines were no joke@@fyreleomh1896
Track #15 Wake Up is the hardest track on that Album. Tray Dee came hard as always but that beat is so dope
Al Davis? Naw nigga Tracy Davis, long Beach east side greatest!"
Classic run dmc sample but yea that song and beat is dope
I'm from the east side of LBC, what I claim is DPG,every hustle in my click better get a grip, every girl in my world is considered a bih.
@@icegod4767 well Snoops version got more going on. They added they own synth and string sounds. Its way better than run dmc version
I say this all the time, Tray Deee 's flow was on point those are actually my fav verses from him
Doggfather definitely went in a different direction. I remember buying it and wasn’t feeling it at the time…it had about 2-3 cuts on it at a time when I was used to a let it ride album
Yeah it wasn't good at all. I only like 2 songs on it, Snoop changed everything... his style, beats, words, everything smh
The lbs crew cut was my fav and that was supposed to be on their album…Yup it was one of his worst albums
@@styleemusic it was good because Sam Sneed produced it. They should've had him produce the whole album but Suge gave him the beat down instead
It also didn't have the Dr Dre mix. It was mixed poorly.
@@Aj-me8mo Sam Sneed? He probably did a couple of tracks, I don't know. I don't have that album anymore so I can't view the credits in the insert but I am sure DJ Pooh was the producer that over saw that project. ©2022
Reggie you spittin 100% facts on this one. Doggfather was a massive disappointment. People wanted Snoop on Dre beats and got none of that.
💯🤣😭🤧
I thought alot of the beats was actually done by Daz?
@@Dsinkz it was
@@Takedown-Tate Wrong it was DJ Pooh
I dont even think Dre could’ve passed Doggystyle. That album was too classic!
Reggie, you went from bagging groceries to a jailer and then becoming a cop, to running security for Death Row to running Death Row records. Your life would make one hell of a movie.
And came out on Top without one scratch! 😂 that’s def gonna make ppl hate you… he became a “success” and is living the American dream, without doing the American way.
El Realest Talking like he came out the womb banging like a realest until the current day banging on RUclips, your life won't make it to nothing.
Reg you have one heck of a memory...Please continue to tell your stories of them deathrow days
Bro isn't it dope how Reggie be answering EVERYONE who comments?
U know how lucky we are to have a rolodex of info like him who's down to answer anyone's questions?
Yeah Dogg Father was 🚮 2 or 3 songs that were cool but it was TRASH
The best track on Doggfather doesn't even have Snoop rapping on it (Blueberry). Says enough.
It's not one of those albums that people think is a classic 20 years later, it's a genuine let down as a follow up to Doggystyle even if numbers wise it still did well enough.
The best track is, 'Gold Rush'.
I think blueberry was original a LBC track,i didnt like how the song started on the dogfather versus how it started on the LBC album.
That’s another standout. Not a shock that the best tracks got Kurupt on it
To me Tha Doggfather was a good solid album by Snoop that had many good songs on it. While i do like the blueberry song, i also like Freestyle conversation, Snoop Bounce, Up Jump tha boogie, Groupie, Sixx minutes, 2001, etc.
I can understand but Snoop was never the same after the Muder trail. You can see it in his eyes and on his face. His energy level was low during the rest of his Death Row era. After Dre left Snoop lost his musical mentor
@@reggiewright its true Reg, he also had his 1st son. Those 2 life events will change even the hardest G yet alone a young black man trying to make it
@@reggiewright u got me there. But maybe we can agree that his heart wasn't with Tha Row anymore?
Imagine Dre leaves Eminem after A couple years. I bet Slim Shadys albums sound much different too
November of 93' to November of 96' musta seemed like a decade for Snoop. A lot went down.
no i would say 93-94
The Doggfather was ahead of it's time. We didn't appreciate those beats until The Last Meal.
I remember clearly when DogFather came out...I defy rushed to buy it, but i genuinely remember being very disappointed
Because it was garbage and it was boring and the Beats were like from the seventies. I bought it also the day came out and I sold it back to one of those CD places that used to buy CDs like a week later lol
@@comment5398 And I'm in the UK and back then it was like £17:99 for the CD (I wasn't buying bootleg them times) 🤣🤣 Can you imagine, I was p@ssed 🤣🤦🏻♀️
@@DeeDerry lol oh trust me I know you are because I was also, it was hot garbage
but it still sold over 400k first week, and sold 2 mill.
@@DeeDerry "disgusted" You mean🤣
'Gold Rush' and 'Freestyle Conversation' are the joints
Brings back memories of my teenage years. I was a Snoop fan and one of my close homies at the time was a Pac fan...and Doggfather & Makaveli was coming out sometime close to each other....We both went together to pre-order. I was talkin big shit about how Snoop's was gonna be better. I thought it would be another legendary album like Doggystyle but nope, it was TRASH!...My homie clowned me for a while for that one cause Makaveli ended up being a classic album! 🤣
It had its moments like downtown assassins, gold rush, 2001, if they had trimmed the fat off a bit it would have been a better album. I was like you though expectations were high and it was a big let down 🙄
@@kincaid7550 Gold Rush was that shit i still bump that song til this day... Kurupt killed that beat! But the album as a whole had me upset tho because i was expecting another Doggystyle where every song was a hit record, Snoop had a certain swag to his lyrics, and the beats had that classic "Death Row" sound to them...all those elements were missing on Doggfather and i just didn't care much for it.
@@MCxSTORMx it was a decent album it was just different. we had high expectations for the album and when i heard it i was like this isnt the snoop dogg i grew accustomed to. it was a departure from his old style. From the chronic to doggystyle and up to Murder was the case, snoop's energy just seem more raw and hungry. Tha Doggfather felt like he was phoning it in, he also switch up his look too. He was more grimy and dusty in his debut, for Tha Doggfather he started going for more of a mafioso type persona.
the best way i can explain the disappointment is when i first got into Bone Thugs, they were straight gutter in their first 2 albums. then they started to get all soft and their albums just wasn't hitting the same anymore. When snoop dropped Tha game is to be told not sold i completely lost faith in him. that album was weak
DOGGFATHER WAS A CLASSIC ALBUM BUT MAKAVELI CAME OUT ON THE SAME DAY IT TOOK ALL THE THUNDER.
@@gerickhuff2084 Doggfather was garbage except for a few songs
Rest easy Pac 🙏🏾,803
"Got me up against the fence back against the wall" Pac's energy on that track was unmatched. Doggfather was a flop and anything after that, up until Blue Carpet Treatment which was a good album 💯
"No Limit Top Dogg" and the "Last Meal" are definitely worthy.
@@Stanlayy-em4fk facts
Not true. Paid da Cost 2 Be da Boss was a very dope album. Not classic, but a top tier 4/5 mic album, if we're going by Source magazine ratings.
@@MichaelBrown-ti1un "Don't Let Go" is a top 10 "underrated" Snoop Dogg song
DoggFather was actually a tuff CD 💿. They picked the wrong tracks for videos, and somehow there was no Pac feature. DR fumbled that album
@@reggiewright no it shouldn’t have 😂
@@StoneGone 😂😂😂
Because there's a few disses to 2Pac in that one and on the early casette version Snoop lyin flog said "finally got that lil homie killed... Snoop was jealous of 2Pac and as he a crip he probably had something to do with 2Pac's demise.
There are 6 or 7 classic cuts on that album which makes it solid. At the time it seemed to fall flat though
that’s great. Would love to hear more about the albums how they did and how hard they worked on the album and what was behind the albums.
Yeah besides the usual shit about Suge taking people into “that room” 😂😂😂
I agree with you that “B**ch Please” revived Snoop commercially. But I give more credit to Dr Dre and Nate Dogg for that song than Xzibit. Xzibit verse was 🔥 AF. But it was Dre’s beat and Nate’s hook that made that song a hit. Not snoop or Xzibit.
They all worked and made that a hit together. I can't imagine listening to that song without Xzibit's verse. X was very important for that song. That's the song that took him from backpacker status to being a star.
In all actuality it really was the Eastsidaz that revive Dogg. In a music sense
@@MichaelBrown-ti1un I can agree with that as well Fam. X DEFINITELY had the best verse on there. And it turned him to a star.
Xzibit in 1999-2000 was a monster...his voice and flow just somehow even had the corniest ppl liking rap all a sudden lol
@@MichaelBrown-ti1un bingo!
I can’t really get behind the comparison to a lot of these artists (Redman, Jay, etc. were barely touching gold and Method Man’s last project was 2 years old at that point).
Tha Doggfather was no Doggystyle but it’s clear Death Row didn’t want to maximize promotion after it’s release (hence the immediately planned follow-up EP).
ProMotion doesn’t change the content. The part that was the problem was the album itself. The Doggfather was trash.
@@adgee5401 that album was not trash lol the biggest knock was that he sounded uninspired on certain songs but that album still knocks. Now if you want to compare it to Doggystyle and call it that? I guess I can see that viewpoint.
Basuraaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
Barely? Redman was a consistent gold seller until Doc's Da Name 2000 when he first sold platinum.
@@TyG2k9 it dropped in Dec. 1996 - using Redman as an excuse as to why the project withered doesn’t work here.
yall shouldve made Groupie as a single. that was the one
doggfather in retrospective wasnt a terrible album but definetly was a flop and a weaker performance compared to doggystyle and MWTC. definetly a album only for hardcore snoop fans.
Good point
Regg i went to tha pen when tha doggfather was done i was wit snoop everyday making it i still wonder why some of tha songs he did didnt make tha album yeah i got a few stories about that
The reason Doggysyle did so well was because (1) Daz, Kurupt, & Nate were hungry.
(2) Dr. Dre. It was The Chronic 2.0.
The original Chronic did so well because of NWA. Dre was NWA.
Deathrow was NWA 2.0.
I grew up listening to Ice-T, NWA Dr Dre Tupac.
Back when music was music.
Midnight love with Raphael Saddiq and Daz was one of my favorite snoop dogg songs ever.
Doggfather wasn’t a flop it just it didn’t do what Doggystyle did. Snoop lost stem and seem unmotivated a lil after that Murder trial and then Dr.Dre left
Markk Hardaway Indeed Tha Doggfather just didn't match the five million sells of Doggystyle. To me Tha Doggfather is still a good solid album, with some good songs on there as far as i am concern from Freestyle conversation, 2001, Up Jump tha Boogie, groupie, 2001, & blueberry.
it was a flop legacy wise because years later no one ever went back to that album or viewed it as a classic. Of Course sales wise it didn't flop.
Back in 96 there wasnt a lot of music to go around here in Amsterdam. All we had was copies on cassettes. So yeah, I listened to the Doggfather album a lot back then. The song that sticks to me was 'Wake up'. Tray Dee straight up killed that song.
Snoop never went back to his prime of DoggyStyle but he steadily stayed in the game for Life. He’s the biggest hip hop star in the world to this day. I don’t 2pac woulda been as big as Snoop is right now. PAC woulda probably became a giant movie star after.
The doggfather’s leftover unreleased tracks was better than the original album
Sad truth!!!😂😂😂
Easrside Party featuring Nate Dogg was better than most of what made Tha Doggfather.
I never heard of it is it on RUclips?
@@AirikErik you can find several tracks (write doggfather leftover on RUclips) but this is not a album, this is unreleased tracks didn’t choose for doggfather’s album
@@mathieumichel5139 oh ok coo thanks
Reg, Pac wasn't in wanted dead or alive. That was Gridlocked soundtrack. He was dead when y'all shot that.
Dead or Alive is a snoop/pac song from the 2pac movie GridLock’d Soundtrack. 2pac died before he could shoot the video. So they used footage of Pac from the movie…in the video.
Good to see you’re doing well Reggie! Love all the content you guys are putting out. Love from The Netherlands!
Reggie, I hope you're doing okay healthwise. You went through a lot, we all want you to be good!
Awesome interview Reg💯 and thanks Bomb1st I jus got my DeathRow East T-shirt today👍🏽💯
Bomb💣 1st and John Can't wait to see the Next Video 📸
Honestly I cannot name 1 Snoop Dogg song off that doggfather album to this day
So you dont know vapors and snoops upside your head?
Vapors bruh
@@showtime1524 honestly I don't,I started listening to snoop again when he transitioned over to no limit,the sound of that album just wasnt it for me
It kills me when people say “people don’t bump Eminem in the hood” my experience is that in the hood, ain’t nobody bumpin ANYTHING main stream. Nobody bumpin snoop in the hood or dmx, LL cool J, none of that shit. In the hood it’s all underground shit, with the exception being 2pac. I think the biggest stars played in the hood are rappers like Too$hort, Mac-Dre, E-40. Here in the bay anyways
This a terrible take
that is a great take for the Bay especially.
@@cuzlightyear6184 why? Cause u don’t know wtf you’re talkin about?
@@cuzlightyear6184 u in the hood listening to snoop dogg drop it likes it hot or some shit? 😂
@@norcaltimcaldwell3325 nah sexual seduction
I couldn't stop laughing when Reggie started impersonating Charlie Wilson 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏿♂️
I didn’t start liking Snoop again till Last Meal and that came out Christmas 2000. Didn’t like Doggfather and I didn’t like the No Limit albums before last meal.
Me too i start liking him again when thé track bitch please was released. I was not really comfortable with him being at No limit until tha last meal. I Guess 2001 and Dre has revived his West coast G- Funk spirit that every one loved. Even though je had a huge commercial success at No limit records.
I always said last meal was his best album since doggystyle
Free Suge Knight, 803
Dogg father was a solid album for me
It definitely was
Thank you💪🏿
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I still bump Tha Dogg father, but im a fan of DJ Pooh's production. But Snoop definitely needed his follow up to be with Dre and DOC helping out.
True. He really missed DOC's coaching and pen game. The rhymes and delivery just weren't sharp at all on that album. Snoop sounded sleepy on half the tracks. Dj Pooh issa legend btw. That Bad Newz Travels Fast album he did in tha era was criminally slept on.
Chronic should have been Snoop's album
@@MichaelBrown-ti1un From what I heard Kurupt wrote a number of songs on Dogg father, but a lot of that stuff was Snoop freestyling, and I hated when he started doing that Kurtis Blow style of rapping he began on "Two of America's Most Wanted", he was doing that style and very laid back on top of it which was not good at all. He stopped being aggressive.
Dogfather dropped when I was in the 12th grade I remember it like was yesterday….whole album slaps s/o DJ Pooh
Nov 5 1996 I should've bought lil Kim on that day.
Anything would be considered a flop after that first album. Plus he wasn’t with DRe so ppl didn’t really respond the same .. and also the music wasn’t as gangsta
@@reggiewright that’s true .. but dre production was on that and that shit was gangsta 🔥🔥🔥
The last song was played in the house of blues was 2 America's most wanted(gangsta party).. That was a 2pac song.
@@reggiewright hi Reg, how are you doing? I hope everything is going fine. I've been reading, seeing pics and videos of you for years. This is the first time I'm receiving a reply from you. Love from Malaysia.
@@reggiewright But 2pac song(but produced by Daz) closed the Show. Imo that was right, 2pac was bigger than Snoop in 1996, but Snoop built Death Row with Dre, and Daz contributed to all eyez on me, so Snoop and Dogg Pound had the right to play their set after 2pac.
Wanted dead or alive was originally supposed to be on Doggfather, but it was moved to the Gridlockd Soundtrack.
It does have that DoggFather sound. It should've been the debut single.
@@prayermadepatna8439 probably was gonna be if pac wasn't killed.... Wanted Dead or Alive was Gangsta Party Part 2
How? It wasn't a finished track
@@A_Dubb618 wanted dead or alive was recorded before 2Pac passed, it wasn't released until after he passed. It wasn't a made up song.
@@KornbreadTVOMR I know this sir. I said it wasn't completed
Yes, it was a flop for me. On the East nobody was really listening to Doggfather. It didn’t hit like other Deathrow albums. You could tell shit was different.
Snoop's Upside Ya Head was a big hit.
Not really they just played it 24/7 on MTV like it was.The only other rapper from the west getting any video play from them were Coolio and Too Short.They never played Quik bcuz he didn't go platinum or mainstream after his first album but he was still hitting in the streets wit a gold album.Mtv actually helped Snoop bcuz like I said nobody was bumpin that album except kids in the suburbs
I loved Tha DoggFather album. Still do. Can’t listen to it on Spotify no more though. Glad I bought it on cassette in’97. 😅
Doggfather late 96 460,000 1st week sales. In my lifetime 97’ 138,000 😢
All Eyez on me sold 566,500 first week and that was double album, so it went platinum first week 566,500 x 2.
Makaveli did 665,000 first week.
The doggfather was a good album. It was missing that west coast vibe but snoops upside ur head is a classic along with some songs that hit hard like wake up.
Doggfather was the best song on a slightly above average album
Well that’s basically a Dre album… with all those features and skits with just beats that u want to bump in ur car. The DogFather was something u can play in ur house or when ur hanging out. It’s not a commercial or mainstream album, it had no radio singles but it’s a great album. For it to have no single and still be great says something.
@@siner2442 pretty sure snoop up side yo head had a radio single. I actually have the cd single.
2 mill is never a flop
@@reggiewright all depends on the budget
I didn't really care for the Doggfather LP. The Gridlockd and the Gang Related soundtrack were my fav albums around 1997 .
After that imo , I don't think anything was or sounded quite the same.
Reggie is right the only radio play Tha Doggfather got in the UK was on Westwood, and I never heard a track off it in a club. Wanted Dead or Alive I remember seeing on a TV show that aired at 2 in the morning called Club Nation.
Reg was Doggfather been recorded when Tupac was alive and he was supposed to had been on there? Or was it completely recorded after September 96?
@@appieLol ok ok! Thanks!
Dogfather was hard. It's appreciated now more than ever.
I got the chance to see Snoop when he came to Syracuse, it was monumental because I got to see a part of rap history.
Doggfather was def a critical and commercial flop. I bought the album in real-time, and although I liked most of it, there wasn't a single track on there on par with anything off of Doggystyle. To all you people who say Daz is a better producer than Dr. Dre (which is ridiculous btw), Daz was co-lead producer on that album along with Dj Pooh. Sonically, the album was a step down from Doggystyle. Snoop never performs anything off that album at his live shows, so that should tell you what he thinks of that album. Up Jump the Boogie with Kurupt was the best song on there imo.
Nah...Groupie or Blueberry was...
@@deezerbee81 two of the better songs off that project. Agreed. I always liked Gold Rush too, but I understand alotta people didn't really like that song and thought it was wack.
Iate '95 California love tupac had major radio play in l.a. that's when he was on top
Snoop's 1st album set the bar too high for him to top. Sophomore Jinks no doubt but that 1st No Limit album was my favorite Snoop album ever!. It put the south in the game in a major way but doesn't get the credit.
I just think can be greatest rapper. If u don't have the right producer it's shit. Same goes for Rock stars or any musician..The music has to come 1st meaning the sound. The chronic and doggstyle / deep cover mase snoop period. Funny how snoop supposed to be so tight with Dre and never did a full album with him again since 94.
I feel like Pac was bigger than Snoop before Deathrow. Pac was in 2 movies and had hits before Deathrow. Snoop had Dr. Dre and the Chronic was such a big record it laid the foundation for Snoop. And not to mention Deathrow was the biggest black label at that time. Pac did have Interscope Records but they really didn't back Pac like Deathrow backed Snoop. Pac had the number 1 record in 95 while he was in prison.
Yea, I have the same feeling that 2pac was even a bigger enemy to the mainstream media than snoop, but snoop was a bigger star when it came to rap in 93-95, rap wise Snoop was bigger, but even before Death Row i think overall 2pac was as famous as snoop or even more so.
Pre-96, 2pac being in movies made him big, but none of it was blockbuster level. Snoop first album, made Snoop like the Eminem, 50 cent of the early 90s. It was only in 96 when Pac blew up more than Snoop.
@@Melly662 learn how to listen and interpret what you hear. The question was about Pac and Snoop not Nas,Wu Tang,Biggie and the whole rap industry.
Was kool album wish him an Dre could’ve jus dropped one more around that time
Yup. I know Dre sittin ona bunch of Fire Deathrow beats still from that Time. And Daz gave all his beats 4 All Eyez on Me which I think was suppose to be on DoggFather.
@@JacobStayViben yea I think snoop missed his window due to timing DOGGYSTYLE was so big the Nigga ran wit that shit like 3 years straight. Waited to late in my opinion
@Reggie. You talkin that talk on this right here. Cant be mad at facts. Well u can, but theyll still remain facts. Good shit man
"DMX...that nigga rufff rufff'n everywhere!" Lmao
Oj Wake Up “ Is My Favorite Song Off That Album Best Snoop & Tracy Davis Collaboration, He Did His Best Verse ,Too Mee On That TracCcC JacCcC ThoOoOo… much luv 2 death row
Wanted dead or alive is one of my favorite songs I still listen to it , it was on the gridlock'd soundtrack
What I don’t get is why Reggie said it was the first snoop pac song, it’s not. It’s second after 2 of America’s most wanted.
My name is Trenton Jenkins. Most of the people bought that album because they thought that 2pac, the Outlawz and Dre was on it...we thought that they actually recorded songs together before 2pac die and Dre left...but Brother Reggie is 100% Correct..some of us wasn't really feeling "tha doggfather" album like that tho😁 you can tell that it was missing Dre and 2pac....😁
Snoop did just fine without Pac. Dre was the missing link
@@GladiatorWC right but at first before 2pac sign to D.R tho. Snoop was bigger then Pac on D.R at first because D.R was Snoop's label and Snoop had better promotion and he had radio play but he wasn't bigger than 2pac as a hold because 2pac had the streets more than Snoop did. well, least where I'm from but remember......2pac wasn't just a artist but he was also a activist for the Black and Brown Community......a lot of people actually forgot about that except for true Pac fans... big difference between the two...
Thanks for being so transparent Reggie it's hard for a lot of little kids born after the 90s to realize that Rap music was not what it eventually became with the internet streams and commercialization etc.... Even the kids that was born in the late 80s and grew up in the 90s need to stop making comments like we was actually around and knew what was going on at 10 11 12 years old
Never knew about Wanted Dead or Alive. I had to do some research and RUclips it. The 1st name that pops up was Bon Jovi then 2pac. Your always dead on right Reggie 👍.
What I don’t get is why Reggie said it was the first snoop pac song, it’s not. It’s second after 2 of America’s most wanted.
Snoop Dogg top 3 are Doggystyle, No Limit Top Dogg & Tha Last Meal album. His slept on joints are Da Game is To be Sold, Not Told and his Doggumentary album
Eminem really saved Dre and aftermath
The eastsidsz saved snoop plus snoop and Dre hooking up for chronic 2001 have the west coast a good comeback plus Nate Dogg started doing more colabs with different artists along with snoop, xzibut and Dre hooking up with 50 cent was genius
it was a decent album it was just different. we had high expectations for the album and when i heard it i was like this isnt the snoop dogg i grew accustomed to. it was a departure from his old style. From the chronic to doggystyle and up to Murder was the case, snoop's energy just seem more raw and hungry. Tha Doggfather felt like he was phoning it in, that double vocal ab lib stuff he started doing, he never did that in his old albums. now he doing it all the time. he also switch up his look too. He was more grimy and dusty in his debut, for Tha Doggfather he started going for more of a mafioso type persona. The only song i really like from that era was the Snoop Bounce remix with Rage against the machine and that wasn't even on the album
the best way i can explain the disappointment is when i first got into Bone Thugs, they were straight gutter in their first 2 albums. then they started to get all soft and corny. And they switched up their styles a bit. When snoop dropped Tha game is to be told not sold i completely lost faith in him. that album was weak
no limit top dogg and the last meal were decent albums lol both better then doggfather ironically
@@anatorres-ym8ke you aint like that "game is to be told" no limit debut album? 🤔 those beats was nice nobody talks about that album
2Million was still Good for Snoop to be come off a fresh murder trial & all the other controversy surrounding Death Row. Shit if anything he sold less when he went to No Limit 🤦🏿♂️💯🤞🏿
Reggie.... In 96 Jay-z wasn't doing Doggfather numbers.... That's when Reasonable Doubt dropped and it took that album like 7 years to go Plat.... Meth and Red never did numbers like that either. Nas had comparable numbers with It Was Written in 96....Fuggees did big numbers around that time, Pac and Biggie were the only rappers really bigger than Snoop in 96 if we being real
Also Coolio had a big song out from that movie sound track
Thank you. I've been saying that about Reasonable Doubts for years. Jay fans don't realize Jay got big in 98 after BIG n Pac died.
@@theodorebelmont7922 yup, he needed that song sampling Annie to get big.
Correct, tho I "get" what reggie was getting at. Jay-Z was a nobody in '96, and not a factor. But in the following years, Snoop did get passed up commercially by the likes of DMX, Ruff Ryders, Jay-Z and Cash Money etc. They were all doing bigger numbers than Snoop, but their music was more commercial.
I don't think Biggie was bigger than Snoop in 1996. As far i remember hottest rappers in 1996 were, 2pac, Coolio, Snoop, Bone Thugs n Harmony.
Got luv for Snoop, but that Doggfather album was not a hit. To be honest that Snoop No Limit album was better then that.
True big dog… Once I heard that song Gold Rush I didn’t listen to the album again. But it’s how you finish and Snoop remains one of the greats.
Reggie can we get more insight on artist like CPO boss hog, prince ital Joe ones like that ?
The production on Tha Doggfather wasn't the best all throughout.
Snoops Upside Ya Head is a VERY UNDERRATED song
I love Pooh but for some reason his production didn't fit. But the singles like Doggfather are pretty dope
I play Snoops upside ya head at parties and it bumps hard
Was streetlife supposed to be on doggfather? Cant believe that track nevef got released. Its one of my fav.tracks ever.
Yes it was.
Snoop had a murder case and tried to go positive. DoggFather sold 478,771 copies the first week and debut #1 on the Billboards top 200.
Reggie, your confirming Faison Love on Snoop being the biggest rapper in the world at one point but recent interviewers thought he was nuts! lmao...hell i thought he was too I admit.
Groupie on the Doggfather is a classic, Reggie if u see this, can you speak on the JD and Dabrat lookalikes on What Would U Do? It seems like Suge was talking about JD at the Source awards even though people say Diddy
They killed that "Bitch Please" at one of them award shows!...that shit was live as hell
I still stand by snoop being special but 2pac didn’t need Dr Dre to guide him. Snoop needs guidance and still does, even with those later albums they weren’t as tightly compiled as Doggystyle. But Dr Dre aside if Snoop took off some of the weaker songs and kept Gangsters life and Homeboys etc and compiled the album better could’ve been a bit better and have the Joe Cool/Riskie Art on the front
Couple of his records on no limit weren’t bad no lie
Tha Firm iz a classic album where I'm from.
Trill Talk
You right Reggie Exhibit did save him
Doggfather is a CERTIFIED CLASSIC! shit was on heavy rotation when I dropped NO SKIPS..
Wake up and You thought (feat. Too short and Superfly) was the jam on doggfather album.
As of today it’s got some nice track… “Doggyland” with DJ Pooh was always my shit
I aint even know Snoop had a second album until i seen a documentary on tv. Haha VH1 behind the music. I remember hid first album on No Limit.
Reggie always does a great job at explaining things… he likes to dumb himself down sometimes like he doesn’t know anything. But he knows everything and def smarter than he exacts. He knows how to connect the dots and knows how to read ppl. I don’t know why ppl always label him as “Head of Security” he ran a whole label for decades, he needs to get his respect as a BOSS!
Question for Reggie. On the Death Rows Greatest Hits Album song Pour out a little Liquor (the $&@ the coopers) was censored. I always wondered why ?
It also had Ice Cube’s “No Vaseline” on it. Couldn’t tell you why. It wasn’t a DR record.
That Gin N Juice remix on the other hand was 🔥
@@reggiewright No lol I never bought any albums from Walmart of Kmart. I got it from Virgin Records store in Sacramento Arden Fair Mall in December 96 it Non censored album however that song didn’t have the beep censored it had that remix type of censored
@@richworld1979 yup I remember that the Jew was censored
@@reggiewright Oh ok makes since on ice cube song understood
Wanted Dead or Alive was on either Gridlock or Gang Related soundtrack
Snoop's Bounce and 2001 were my favorite tracks on Tha Doggfather
Wanted dead or alive was the shit snoop had that suit with the long coat. PAC wasn’t in the video
I had Tha Doggfather album. It wasn't as good as the Doggystyle album, but it was ok. Death Row tradition was albums selling two million or more. There was a lot of drama surrounding the label at the Time. Pac got killed, Kadafi got killed, Suge went to prison.
When Suge came out DEATH row was only putting out old Dre, old snoop and pac. Death row had a awesome talented stable, crooked I, kurupt, Nina, Eastwood, spider loc. etc. They were new and hungry and just starting so they don’t cost as much, you break a new superstar could rebuild Death Row again.
Doggfather was slept on that albums was not trash he went a different direction with it
Trash
😂😂😂 the doggfather was absolute trash. Especially more so because it came after Doggystyle. The bar was set too high and he never got back to the height of Doggstyle.
He was able to rebound and change his career, but the Doggfather was trash, trash, trash.
As a fan that shit was trash cause he needed Dre badly for that album
That shit was doodoo juice
@@adgee5401 he had better albums after that for sure
I remember the video! They was kicking door in at Snoop house!
I want to know how the Change the Game remix from DJ Clue's album got on the 2002 Dogg Pound album?
To be fair to Snoop, Death Row released Tha Doggfather a week after the Makaveli album and Dr. Dre didn’t produce Tha Doggfather album. Both of his No Limit albums went platinum. With Top Dogg album featuring his return with Dr. Dre production. Not to mention, this was in the middle/ending of Death Row vs Bad Boy records beef. I’m sure that played a part too. And Tupac died. Album still went double platinum.
Nahh bro that album just wasn't good
@@generalkhan5569 No don’t get it twisted, I 100% agree Tha Doggfather sucked. What im saying is maybe it sucked because Dr. Dre had already left, they in the middle of East Coast vs West Coast beef, and Pac death. Sophomore albums are hard enough already, so imagine all that other sh*t happening on top of that.
Dj Pooh is a good producer but tha Doggfathers not Doggystyle
@@EverybodyHatesChrisNow that album didn’t suck. It was a solid album, but of course people finna say it sucked if you steady compare it to Doggystyle.
@@LankyJay601 Compare it to his other albums it's still not in his top 5 and im not even talking bout all the garbage he dropped from 2010 to the present.When he dropped that Sexual Seduction around 2008 and jumper on the autotune bandwagon he officially was irrelevant.But he always jumped on bandwagons and chased the hottest producers no matter where they were from and didn't care about keeping a west coast sound.Thats one of the reasons I never respected him