No Limit Top Dogg [Clean]

• Artist: Snoop Doggy Dogg
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• Release Date: May 11, 1999
• Type: Contains explicit content
• Genre: Rap

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. [Top Dogg was also released in a "clean" version, which contained no profanities or vulgarities.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Dolomite (Intro)		Snoop Dogg	(:27)
Buck 'Em	Calvin Broadus	Sticky Fingers, Snoop Dogg	(2:44)
Trust Me	Sylk-E. Fyne, Calvin Broadus	Snoop Dogg, Suga Free	(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	(4:10)
Bitch Please	Snoop Dogg, Nathaniel Hale	Snoop Dogg, Xzibit	(3:54)
Doin' Too Much	Calvin Broadus	Snoop Dogg, Big Tray Deee	(4:06)
Gangsta Ride	Silkk the Shocker, Calvin Broadus	Snoop Dogg, Silkk the Shocker	(3:45)
Ghetto Symphony	Snoop Dogg, Mystikal, Mia X, Fiend, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker	Snoop Dogg, Mystikal, Fiend, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker, Goldie Loc, Mia X.	(5:39)
Party With a D.P.G.	Philip Bailey, Maurice White, Calvin Broadus, Lorenzo Dunn	Snoop Dogg	(4:55)
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	(4:03)
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	(3:57)
I Love My Momma	Lenny Williams, Calvin Broadus	Snoop Dogg	(3:04)

Credits

Def Jef (Producer), Master P (Executive Producer), Sticky Fingers (Performer), Dr. Dre (Performer), Snoop Dogg (Main Performer), Warren G (Performer), Ant Banks (Producer), Ant Banks (Mixing), DJ Quik (Producer), Jimmy Roach (Guitar), Meech Wells (Producer), Mystikal (Performer), Suga Free (Performer), Raphael Saadiq (Producer), Raphael Saadiq (Performer), Nate Dogg (Performer), Fiend (Performer), Jelly Roll (Producer), KLC (Producer), C-Murder (Performer), Silkk the Shocker (Performer), Bud'da (Producer), Lupe Ceballos (Project Coordinator), Colin Jahn (Cover Art), Goldie Loc (Producer), Big Tray Deee (Performer)