In this episode of Brad & Lex, Lex explains the wider nostril skinny bridge theory in Snoop's vocals while displaying a confident frontal bop as Brad flexes an interested side to side sway as a happy revisit to a familiar song.
This song brings me waaaay back to ‘92. I remember this song was being played every where you’d go. The Chronic is one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Still spin it to this day.
Nirvana's "Nevermind" came out in September of 1991 and changed the course of rock. Dr. Dre's album "The Chronic" came out a year later in December of 1992 and changed the course of rap. Gangster rap and the Seattle sound were about to sink their collective talons into their respective musical genres.
what's cool to me as well, is how Nirvana had gained respect in rap (from producers and rappers alike) when Nevermind blew up. Pretty sure Nirvana themselves felt the same toward rap music. Real recognize real lol
@Ali Chaudhry if we really wanted to go there, we could go back to 82 and Blowfly's Rap Dirty with its flow and subject matter. But I wasn't trying to go all THAT deep with it. Straight Outa Compton was the album that brought "dirty"/gangster rap to the masses. Very few ever heard of Rakim, much less know of his contributions to the genre.
This specific sub genre of Gangsta Rap is called G-Funk & was born out of California. Very laid back, smooth with heavy bass lines One big influence was Parliament-Funkadelic
I used to work for a company called stage hands. when The Chronic came out I set the stage for Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg in Columbus Ohio.It was one of the most incredible shows I've ever been to. they pulled a 64 Impala out on the stage with hydraulics and started bumping it. EPIC!!
ABOUT DAMN TIME. This is the first time we hear Snoop outside of 187um on the Deep Cover soundtrack. This is one of the most Iconic Songs that exploded a genre of gangster rap along the coast wars.
I love her reaction to this. This song is a big part of my childhood too man. My older cousins having kickbacks in the backyard, grilling carne asada. Drinking beers and getting tattoos in the bedroom late night. Playing cards, dominoes. Beautiful memories. My favorite song from that era "genius of love" by Tom Tom Club. Thanks you two, this made me really happy.
That's dope. This song takes me back to playing GTA San Andreas when I was like 12 with my friends lol. And riding around smoking blunts 5 yrs later. Still a classic I learned all the lyrics within 1 month of hearing the song
5:47 she is right about that era. This song came out and it was like hip hop and rap music entered a new era. Everything had evolved. A vast array of melodies, newer crisper sounds in the beats, the lyrics got a little more complicated and... yes, the SCRATCH was used far less. Especially with anything made by Dr. Dre! Lex got an ear! edit: this came out in like 1993.
More of a Classic rock fan, but this was dope in High School. Hearing it 30 years later and IT'S BETTER THAN EVER. Classic LA rap! Luv you two! P.S. Luv the old skool pics, Brad & Lex!! Keep em coming.
This women speaks her peace and I'm here for it. I know what homegirl sayin about the rock/funk sound in rap, it's why Dr Dre is a genius! This reaction has made my day
I was a Senior in High School when this album and Snoop Doggs "Doggy Style" came out. I bought both CD's. You couldn't go ANYWHERE without hearing these songs... Great memories
Oh hell ya! Dre and Snoop. We grew up on this west coast rap in California back in the days. Good taste guys. I used to bump them hard in my old Monte Carlo rims everything jaja. Like 1990s I was a chill cool homie.
I am blind now, but I remember seeing this video. IDK if y’all noticed the little kid dancing towards the end of the video? That was Little Bow Wow. Just a fun fact.
Brad: “I heard this many times in my childhood.” Thanks for making me feel old! This was recorded during the LA riots…Dre had already been having massive successes with NWA and so he helped new artist Snoop produce a record. Even if you weren’t really into rap and hip hop, you still knew about records like this!
This record was so pervasive in the culture at the time. Everyone knew these songs, played it 109 times a day on MTV. Cool year or two to be a kid. Lots of white kids in suburbs talking about “we don’t love them ho’s”. Good times
My Mom (may she Rest in Paradise) absolutely LOVED this song. Mostly because she heard it over and over again coming from my teenage bedroom thumpin the floors. #classic!
"I wanna do something freaky to you", the intro to that song was sampled for this one. Then they used the meat of that song again for sample used for "the Wash".
Ah man! I loved this album. I had friends intro me to Dr. Dre & Snoop. It shattered my ceiling and I realized I loved ALL types of music. I started listening to rap and hip hop. I still struggle with country tho.
A classic. Everyone must have a recollection of hanging out n this on the box in the bg. Mine was on long 4 week holidays at a friends place in Spain, late night chilling on the roof of the villa with my gf and friends, temperature still in the 80s, looking across the town to the sea, with a fat one n a beer.
Ahh yes, the G-Funk era. The greatest rap of all time..imho. My now love of funk music was no doubt influenced by my exploration of gangsta funk in my early teens.
Tha Shiznit is one of my all time favorite snoop songs. It was a mic check freestyle over a beat and Dr Dre thought it was so good he put it on the album without snoop knowing
As with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" changing the rock landscape so did "Nothing But a G Thang" and The Chronic. Just look at a hip hop timeline and it's literally Before The Chronic/After The Chronic. Everybody started having West Coast/"G Funk" beats, even NY rappers. Listen to BIG's albums, they were 85% West Coast beats 15% NY beats. Even R&B was using West coast beats and samples. They were wearing Khakis and Chuck's. Its arguably the most influential hip hop album ever
I'm going to have to dispute that somewhat. NY beats and west coast beats were very, very distinct in the 90s. G thang influenced the west coast, but in the east it was Wu Tang that came out at the same time that had a bigger influence. Biggie's first album is heavily influenced by hardcore east coast beats.
@@cagnazzo82 yes Wu Tang and Mobb Deep were doing grimy by beats but almost all the Bad Boy albums were basically West Coast beats. Again, I never said every single hip hop album from NY had West Coast beats rather that there was a good amount of big NY artists that went with that sound the next couple years after The Chronic but I can't think of any West Coast rappers using East coast beats.
@@FURTHER_ADO What I would say is The Chronic definitely played a role in ending 80s style rap (somewhat similar to the impact Smells Like Teen Spirit had on rock). But if you're talking about Biggie's first album I don't really hear any G-funk in it. The beats are hardcore east coast. Sounds more like Wu Tang, Smif-n-Wessun, Tribe Called Quest, etc. If you go before that early Bad Boy with Puffy producing Mary J Blige they're sampling 80s hip-hop beats.
@@cagnazzo82 Big Papa and Juicy were both very West Coast influenced. Late 80s early 90s NY hip hop was sampling mostly 70s-80s breakdowns. Sampling 70s-80s funk and R&B was very much a Dr Dre, DJ Quik innovation.
@@FURTHER_ADO That's a different story. I thought you were referring to G-funk. In terms of sampling that's too ambiguous to give a single person credit. Remember MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice's biggest hits were samples. MC Hammer sampled Rick James which is literally 80s funk and it wasn't influenced by Dre or NWA or Death Row. You have to keep in mind that entire generation of rappers grew up on 70s/80s funks. They were sampling their childhood songs. Back to Wu Tang they were the biggest in sampling 70s and 80s funk and no one would describe their sound as west coast. I think it's the structure of the music that determines the sound moreso than who is sampled. Juicy sampling 'Juicy Fruit' or Big Papa sampling Isley Brothers doesn't make it a west coast style song.
I’ve been listening to this song since I was like 13, cruising the backroads with friends and partying, and Lex has never heard it. Not sure why, but I find this amusing.
Freshman in high school when this came out, took the country by storm as much as "Grundge " did. The 90's had so much fantastic, quality and diverse music of all genres. Check out Dre Day and Deep Cover for other early collabs(non edited of course)
13yrs old and this and the chronic were my first 2 hip hop albums. Mom was pissed thanks uncle Dan. Shit blew my mind after this it was wu tang, rage against the machine, and tupac
I think the term you mean is "Boom Bap" thats how 80s rap is referred to, since there wasnt melody introduced into the production yet. The album this song is located on (The Chronic) introduced that element to hip hop production.
I remember being 12 years old I think, and ordered this and a bunch of other cd’s from those old bmg catalogues where you could get like 12 cd’s or something foolish for less than a dollar for signing up for the subscription. But they never checked that shit so basically you got a whole grip of albums for free. I wore this album out for a whole year. This album truly changed music. Definition of a classic.
The mention of the D.O.C. - You should react to something by him. We bumped the hell out of "No One Can Do It Better" - whole album , back to front. The accident that ruined the DOC's career was a real tragedy.
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In this episode of Brad & Lex, Lex explains the wider nostril skinny bridge theory in Snoop's vocals while displaying a confident frontal bop as Brad flexes an interested side to side sway as a happy revisit to a familiar song.
"I can see why they wear big baggy suits. You can't wear skinny pants and sing that."
This is why we love Lex.
Gotta let your G nuts swang.
@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself cause they peeping creepin and creepin
This had me laughing so hard I blew my Pepsi out my nose
It was hilarious when she said that. 🤣
Damn, it feels good to be a gangster.
Damn near 30 years and nobody sounds as good as Dre and Snoop.
This song brings me waaaay back to ‘92. I remember this song was being played every where you’d go. The Chronic is one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Still spin it to this day.
Its the rizzle dizzle ma nizzle
@@annother3350 FaShizzle
Ya those were the days....the "Gin and Juice" song got me in trouble in rehab
Nirvana's "Nevermind" came out in September of 1991 and changed the course of rock. Dr. Dre's album "The Chronic" came out a year later in December of 1992 and changed the course of rap. Gangster rap and the Seattle sound were about to sink their collective talons into their respective musical genres.
what's cool to me as well, is how Nirvana had gained respect in rap (from producers and rappers alike) when Nevermind blew up. Pretty sure Nirvana themselves felt the same toward rap music. Real recognize real lol
89 was the year that forever changed rap with NWA Straight Outa Compton and 2 Live Crew's Nasty as They Wanna Be.
Good call
14 yrs old and right in the middle of it ! The great music of my high school days !
@Ali Chaudhry if we really wanted to go there, we could go back to 82 and Blowfly's Rap Dirty with its flow and subject matter. But I wasn't trying to go all THAT deep with it. Straight Outa Compton was the album that brought "dirty"/gangster rap to the masses. Very few ever heard of Rakim, much less know of his contributions to the genre.
This specific sub genre of Gangsta Rap is called G-Funk & was born out of California.
Very laid back, smooth with heavy bass lines
One big influence was Parliament-Funkadelic
Warren G and Nate Dogg. Talk about smooth, MC Serch once said on his radio show that when he died, he wanted to come back as Nate Dogg.
Vallejo and Oakland
I used to work for a company called stage hands. when The Chronic came out I set the stage for Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg in Columbus Ohio.It was one of the most incredible shows I've ever been to. they pulled a 64 Impala out on the stage with hydraulics and started bumping it. EPIC!!
I went into the wrong industry 😩
ABOUT DAMN TIME. This is the first time we hear Snoop outside of 187um on the Deep Cover soundtrack. This is one of the most Iconic Songs that exploded a genre of gangster rap along the coast wars.
Ok, Lex attempting to describe the turn-table ‘scratching’ sound at the end just made my day. LMAO.
You guys are babies. When this song dropped it was a game changer! It was played on every radio station at least 12 times a day. Straight heat baby!
"Deep Cover" is worth a listen. It's a slightly earlier Dr. Dre with Snoop collaboration for a movie soundtrack of the same name.
Oh , Yeah!! My favorite!
I love that movie
Twinz Deep Cover is better but I love the original too
That beat on deep cover is gold
It was the first collaboration between the two, and Snoop's first appearance on a record.
I love her reaction to this. This song is a big part of my childhood too man. My older cousins having kickbacks in the backyard, grilling carne asada. Drinking beers and getting tattoos in the bedroom late night. Playing cards, dominoes. Beautiful memories. My favorite song from that era "genius of love" by Tom Tom Club. Thanks you two, this made me really happy.
That's dope. This song takes me back to playing GTA San Andreas when I was like 12 with my friends lol. And riding around smoking blunts 5 yrs later. Still a classic I learned all the lyrics within 1 month of hearing the song
I actually love Brad showing Lex songs he grew up with. O.P.P., Dre, Snoop, Brads got good taste man!
Absolute classic.
This was the song that sort of introduced Snoop Dog to America. Great song.
5:47 she is right about that era. This song came out and it was like hip hop and rap music entered a new era. Everything had evolved. A vast array of melodies, newer crisper sounds in the beats, the lyrics got a little more complicated and... yes, the SCRATCH was used far less. Especially with anything made by Dr. Dre! Lex got an ear!
edit: this came out in like 1993.
More of a Classic rock fan, but this was dope in High School. Hearing it 30 years later and IT'S BETTER THAN EVER. Classic LA rap!
Luv you two!
P.S. Luv the old skool pics, Brad & Lex!! Keep em coming.
Lex has the cutest reactions ever! And I love how she's always explaining and comparing the sound to something relatable.
And then her man looks at her like she is crazy. Sad 😩
You know brad loves rap! It’s the only time I see a smile on his face😂
Real shit, right there!
This women speaks her peace and I'm here for it. I know what homegirl sayin about the rock/funk sound in rap, it's why Dr Dre is a genius! This reaction has made my day
I was a Senior in High School when this album and Snoop Doggs "Doggy Style" came out. I bought both CD's. You couldn't go ANYWHERE without hearing these songs... Great memories
You mean Snoop Doggy Dogg's Album ;)
Epic track. Not being a hip-hop enthusiast, that's one of them classics that does it every time.
That totally makes sense about Snoop's nose shape. Sista is on point. Love the analysis.
Dude, everything out of Lex's mouth is solid gold. She's the reason to watch these videos. 💯
This song is to rap what smells like teen spirit is to rock
I forgot we had Beepers/Pagers back then. Your beeper /Pager went off then you had to find a phone and have coins to talk !!!!
I grew up in Cali before moving to Florida in 94. Love it!
Time to "Regulate"
Lex is freaking hilarious , I love her reasoning of snoops voice is because of his odd nose shape Lmao. 😂
1992 the year after I graduated from high school.
Every song from the album " The Chronic " is a banger.
I remember in 8th grade winning The Chronic tape at a carnival. Was such a great album.
Just a classic, I don't know how many times I can emphasise it, classic, classic ,classic. Such a vibe, Dr Dre is an audio alchemist.
Brad you a lucky one. This girl will make sure you NEVER have a boring day. She’s so funny!
Brad, you may have to keep introducing her to the old school rap!
TOO SHORT, EAZY E, GUCCI CREW... etc.
Ice T definitely
Tribe called quest, de la soul, digable planets, the roots, lauryn hill/fugees.
Too $hort 🔥🔥🔥
@@tequila_mockingbird547 Pimpin ain't easy
Y'all crack me up. Love watching y'all's videos. Brings back old memories.
Oh hell ya! Dre and Snoop. We grew up on this west coast rap in California back in the days. Good taste guys. I used to bump them hard in my old Monte Carlo rims everything jaja. Like 1990s I was a chill cool homie.
You know that Brad loves this song cause his sway has some swag
I am blind now, but I remember seeing this video. IDK if y’all noticed the little kid dancing towards the end of the video? That was Little Bow Wow. Just a fun fact.
Brad: “I heard this many times in my childhood.”
Thanks for making me feel old!
This was recorded during the LA riots…Dre had already been having massive successes with NWA and so he helped new artist Snoop produce a record.
Even if you weren’t really into rap and hip hop, you still knew about records like this!
Omg, Lex...you're killing me! 🤣
it keeps blowing me away how many songs you havent heard that I assume every human has heard at least a hundred times
Brad has the right cool patience for Lex’s inquisitive tangents. You guys compliment each other. How much? One, two, three and to tha fo!
Would love to see you guys do more from the Chronic/Doggystyle era. Definitely the Nas/Big/Jay east coast era as well.
Because we see him so much its easy to forget how good Snoop really was. His flow just seemed so effortless. Like the John Coltrane of Hip Hop
Her energy is electric! I love heading your perspective on the music then what she says on a totally different level. I had to sub in this reaction!
Classic grew up bumping this bass box in the back 🎶 great review 👊🏼
Should check the reference in the song, The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
This record was so pervasive in the culture at the time. Everyone knew these songs, played it 109 times a day on MTV. Cool year or two to be a kid. Lots of white kids in suburbs talking about “we don’t love them ho’s”. Good times
6:10 she literally described the boom bap sound, which was the hip hop sound of the 90's. And dude knows Jack about that.
I absolutely LOVE Lex’s laugh! Makes me smile 😊
I've never felt more old...
When the young lady said “you can’t wear skinny jeans and sing that....”, I promise you I flat lined twice from laughing so hard.....😂😂😂😂
My Mom (may she Rest in Paradise) absolutely LOVED this song. Mostly because she heard it over and over again coming from my teenage bedroom thumpin the floors. #classic!
Wow I have never heard this before. I'm a Grunge, hard rock girl but loved this. I like this old school sound
This blew Snoop up along with a couple other songs on the album.
For most of us in the 90's this was our first introduction to Snoop.
"I wanna do something freaky to you", the intro to that song was sampled for this one. Then they used the meat of that song again for sample used for "the Wash".
"I think the right answer is yes"..... LMAO!!! Nice one Brad!
Ah man! I loved this album. I had friends intro me to Dr. Dre & Snoop. It shattered my ceiling and I realized I loved ALL types of music. I started listening to rap and hip hop. I still struggle with country tho.
I just had a flashback of the skating rink boogie skatin like no other!!
Skating rink squad for life, my G!
Kinda brings me back to the Warren G - Regulator days. I used to listen to that album non-stop.
A classic. Everyone must have a recollection of hanging out n this on the box in the bg. Mine was on long 4 week holidays at a friends place in Spain, late night chilling on the roof of the villa with my gf and friends, temperature still in the 80s, looking across the town to the sea, with a fat one n a beer.
One of the best songs period, i saw the title and thought there's no way you haven't heard this!
U 2 are my favorite reactors. Keep rocking the tunes.
Lex...never stop doing you! And Brad, never let her go!
I got this tape for christmas the year it came out. Listen to it on my Walkman on repeat.
This is great! Y’all need to listen to more rap from around the time this came out. 🔥
Ahh yes, the G-Funk era. The greatest rap of all time..imho. My now love of funk music was no doubt influenced by my exploration of gangsta funk in my early teens.
Classic song. Love the reaction!
I like like the laugh when lex says 1 2 3 and to the 4 I love the smile and the laugh 🤣😂😂awesome
I was a puny white suburban 13 year old metal head when i first heard this song in 1992. It is still amazing 30 years later.
LMAOOOOO.. His nose shape!!! 😆😂🤣🤣😆🤣😂😊 .. OMG. Best thing I've heard all week!!
time for a classic hip hop stream if your fanbase can handle it!
Lex imitating Snoop is the best thing I've heard in a WHILE. LMAO!
3:39 Can't imagine people not being amazed at that lyrical brilliance
Tha Shiznit is one of my all time favorite snoop songs. It was a mic check freestyle over a beat and Dr Dre thought it was so good he put it on the album without snoop knowing
One of my favorites! This is good for karaoke too
Snoop Dogg has an iconic voice, nobody in hip hop sounds like him
that noise Lex is doing is called "scratching", it is when they move the record back and forth on the turntable
As with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" changing the rock landscape so did "Nothing But a G Thang" and The Chronic. Just look at a hip hop timeline and it's literally Before The Chronic/After The Chronic. Everybody started having West Coast/"G Funk" beats, even NY rappers. Listen to BIG's albums, they were 85% West Coast beats 15% NY beats. Even R&B was using West coast beats and samples. They were wearing Khakis and Chuck's. Its arguably the most influential hip hop album ever
I'm going to have to dispute that somewhat. NY beats and west coast beats were very, very distinct in the 90s. G thang influenced the west coast, but in the east it was Wu Tang that came out at the same time that had a bigger influence. Biggie's first album is heavily influenced by hardcore east coast beats.
@@cagnazzo82 yes Wu Tang and Mobb Deep were doing grimy by beats but almost all the Bad Boy albums were basically West Coast beats. Again, I never said every single hip hop album from NY had West Coast beats rather that there was a good amount of big NY artists that went with that sound the next couple years after The Chronic but I can't think of any West Coast rappers using East coast beats.
@@FURTHER_ADO What I would say is The Chronic definitely played a role in ending 80s style rap (somewhat similar to the impact Smells Like Teen Spirit had on rock). But if you're talking about Biggie's first album I don't really hear any G-funk in it. The beats are hardcore east coast. Sounds more like Wu Tang, Smif-n-Wessun, Tribe Called Quest, etc.
If you go before that early Bad Boy with Puffy producing Mary J Blige they're sampling 80s hip-hop beats.
@@cagnazzo82 Big Papa and Juicy were both very West Coast influenced. Late 80s early 90s NY hip hop was sampling mostly 70s-80s breakdowns. Sampling 70s-80s funk and R&B was very much a Dr Dre, DJ Quik innovation.
@@FURTHER_ADO That's a different story. I thought you were referring to G-funk.
In terms of sampling that's too ambiguous to give a single person credit. Remember MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice's biggest hits were samples. MC Hammer sampled Rick James which is literally 80s funk and it wasn't influenced by Dre or NWA or Death Row.
You have to keep in mind that entire generation of rappers grew up on 70s/80s funks. They were sampling their childhood songs. Back to Wu Tang they were the biggest in sampling 70s and 80s funk and no one would describe their sound as west coast.
I think it's the structure of the music that determines the sound moreso than who is sampled. Juicy sampling 'Juicy Fruit' or Big Papa sampling Isley Brothers doesn't make it a west coast style song.
First heard this when I was 70. Great stuff! 😎
Lex that sound you tried to make was the record being rud back and forth by the DJ making that scratching sounds. great reaction 🤣
I’ve been listening to this song since I was like 13, cruising the backroads with friends and partying, and Lex has never heard it. Not sure why, but I find this amusing.
Listening to this song on the Alpine back in the day.
Nose shape for snoops voice lmfao that fucking killed me. Good one lex
This was a golden era of hiphop
Ahhh, I remember driving around with this pumping through my JLs.
Love the actual video ----- this is a badass tune
One of the handful of songs I can sing along to from memory.......
Freshman in high school when this came out, took the country by storm as much as "Grundge " did. The 90's had so much fantastic, quality and diverse music of all genres. Check out Dre Day and Deep Cover for other early collabs(non edited of course)
Between grunge and gangsta rap we were all depressed in the 90s...until the Spice Girls came out. What a time to be alive lol
This is one of the smoothest songs of all time! cheers!
13yrs old and this and the chronic were my first 2 hip hop albums. Mom was pissed thanks uncle Dan. Shit blew my mind after this it was wu tang, rage against the machine, and tupac
I think the term you mean is "Boom Bap" thats how 80s rap is referred to, since there wasnt melody introduced into the production yet. The album this song is located on (The Chronic) introduced that element to hip hop production.
Lex reaction was priceless lol much love guys 💯💯💯💯
love lex breakin down snoops nasal'ly voice
Hell yeah! Ya gotta check out some Gang Starr, Wu Tang Clan and Cypress Hill
Her first time hearing dis!!!🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard this!
Still not sure how anyone has Not heard this song. Without trying I hear it once a week accidently.
I remember being 12 years old I think, and ordered this and a bunch of other cd’s from those old bmg catalogues where you could get like 12 cd’s or something foolish for less than a dollar for signing up for the subscription. But they never checked that shit so basically you got a whole grip of albums for free. I wore this album out for a whole year. This album truly changed music. Definition of a classic.
The mention of the D.O.C. - You should react to something by him. We bumped the hell out of "No One Can Do It Better" - whole album , back to front.
The accident that ruined the DOC's career was a real tragedy.
Funky Enough is still one of Dre's best productions, and DOC just murdered the track in one take.
Should check out Warren G and Nate Dogg- Regulators if you any of you haven't heard it.