Album Review:
No Limit Top Dogg
- Release Date: 1999
- Genre: Rap
- Label: No Limit
- Artist: Snoop Dogg
- Flags: Contains explicit content
- Rating:
- Styles: Gangsta Rap, Dirty South, West Coast Rap
- Track Picks: "Bitch Please," "Down 4 My N's"
- Similar Albums: Introduction to Mackin', Charlie Hustle: The Blueprint of a Self-Made Millionaire, Terror Squad,
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Review
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 clichés. 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, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | iTunes | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Dolomite (Intro) | Snoop Dogg | (:27) | ||
| Buck 'Em | Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg, Sticky Fingaz | (2:44) | |
| Trust Me | Sylk-E. Fyne, Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg, Suga Free, Sylk-E. Fyne | (4:08) | |
| My Heat Goes Boom | |
Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg | (3:40) |
| Dolomite | |
Snoop Dogg | (:52) | |
| Snoopafella | |
Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg | (5:22) |
| In Love With a Thug | |
Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, Johnathon J. Jeczalik, Gary Langan, Paul Morley, Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg | (3:43) |
| G Bedtime Stories | |
Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg | (2:14) |
| Down 4 My N's | |
C-Murder, Calvin Broadus, Magic | Snoop Dogg, C-Murder, Magic | (3:46) |
| Betta Days | |
Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg | (3:55) |
| Somethin Bout Yo Bidness | |
Raphael Saadiq, Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg, Raphael Saadiq | (4:11) |
| Bitch Please | |
Snoop Dogg, Nathaniel Hale | Snoop Dogg, Xzibit | (3:54) |
| Doin' Too Much | |
Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg | (4:06) |
| Gangsta Ride | Silkk the Shocker, Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg, Silkk the Shocker | (3:44) | |
| Ghetto Symphony | Snoop Dogg, Mystikal, Mia X, Fiend, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker | Snoop Dogg, Mystikal, Mia X, Fiend, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker, Goldie Loc | (5:39) | |
| Party With a D.P.G. | |
Philip Bailey, Maurice White, Calvin Broadus, Lorenzo Dunn | Snoop Dogg | (4:54) |
| Buss'n Rocks | |
Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Jim Vitti, J.S. Theracon, Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg | (4:23) |
| Just Dippin' | |
Kurupt, Bad Azz, Calvin Broadus, Hitman | Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Jewell | (4:02) |
| Don't Tell | Nate Dogg, Calvin Broadus, Johnny Burns, Warren Griffin, III | Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Nate Dogg | (4:47) | |
| 20 Minutes | |
Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg, Goldie Loc | (3:59) |
| I Love My Momma | |
Lenny Williams, Calvin Broadus | Snoop Dogg | (3:06) |
