The albums keep coming thick and fast for Snoop Dogg with this being his 4th album in as many years. To recap there was "Bush" which was rubbish, "Coolaid" which has potential and "Neva Left" which was much more like it. Did he keep up that momentum with this next release?
We no, quite the opposite in fact. Snoop Dogg is someone who can get away with a lot of things, the 80s electro style music he was doing on "Sexual Eruption", a reggae album under the name Snoop Lion or in more recent times doing the advert jingle for a takeaway company. This album was a gospel album which is too much really.
I can't say I'm a big fan of gospel music, it can perhaps be entertaining in small doses. This however is a double album that lasts for around 2 and a quarter hours in total which proved to be quite painful.
Aside from it seeming to go on forever, Snoop Dogg himself seems to feature very little on the album. Just one track on each disc doesn't have any featured artists and it's these featured artists who do the bulk of the vocals.
Throughout listening to this album I kept having to remind myself that it was a Snoop Dogg album I was listening to such was his absence for periods of time. Maybe if he was more actively involved in the vocals and the album wasn't so long then it may not have been so bad. That is like saying I could be a good singer if I had somebody else's voice though.
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