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r ult wa the #1 rap single pri on only to come home ent from his past work on
in 1992, "Deep Cover", and find hi girl having sex "The Chronic".
from th soundtrack of the with-hi cousin. After pull- Since Snoop is im-
movie with the same ing out a gun, he comes to mer ed controversy and
name. a conclusion that women trouble (his bodyguard
"I didn't have n thin' aren't worth ki lling. The hot a man on August 25
gain' for myself and he t ry i an old one in any while Snoop was driving
was leuiri' me stay with community, Black r the car), his album wa
him andjust lookin' out for white. long awaited. The release
me bein' down, lettin' me Rap producer Jermaine date was change almost
know he wa supportive. I Dupri ays, "The details in ten time . The wait had
was just a nigg-who knew Snoop's writing makes orne people biting their
how to rap cornin' to his people think, 'Damn, he nails shouting, "When is
house and he was makin' must've really seen that.'" Snoopy coming out?"
room for me," Snoop ays. A closer examination Finally released, it was
Snoop then appeared on into Snoop's lyrics would exactly, if not a little less
. Dres 'solo album, "The reveal more aboutthe path than what was expected. IT
Chronic ", released on that most young Black you can get past the stupid,
Dre's own label, Death man take than almost any degrading mini-comic
Row Records. Snoop other gangstarapper, And book on the inside, you'd'
wrote most of the' lyrics, for Snoop, the art form is be opened up to Snoop
rapped on almost all of the real important. "It's the Dog's world. Without the
tracks and soloed offour of way you put it down," immature sexist dialogue,
the tracks. It is the big- Snoop aid in a recent New the album would be com­
ge t- elling hardcore rap 1\ York Times interview. "I pletely digestible. The
album in hi tory. put it down with a twist. phattest track i Snoop's
One single, "Nuthin' Everyb dyinthewhole big up (respect) to Slick
But a to' Thang", old I w rid knew 'Cop Killer' Rick, hi version of "Lodi
m rethanonemillioncop- : meant kill a cop. And I Doddi".
ies. The vide , along wi th every p liceman know the Sno p has a definite fu-
Dre and Snoop's face, ap- I municipal code is 187, but I ture in the rap industry and .
pear d on everything fr m everybody in the whol I would b6 on jam if he
B T t MTV, with The world didn't kn w that. I could c ntrol his p rsonal
urce and Vi in be- "You know h w you I escapades better. But then,
twc n. A rapper Biz would ereal 'en itiveand I so could a lot of young
Markie say , "Ohh, you re delicate with a newborn I Black males in the street
a star n w." n p dcfi- baby?" noop asks. who aren't rappers. Yet art I
nit ly did om thing with "Th: t' h w I treat the beat is a reflection f life, and"
himself like th e inmates when I'm rapping: like a while Snoop mu t not es-
t Id him to. Only there ar n w m baby. yen if it's cap criticism for his 'ob-
s me who will ay that he I a hard track, what I'm say- c e nit i e san d
didn't do much, calling ing will m ve you." irrespon ibility, we must
women "bitches and I noop's voice plays 8 realize that Snoop is no.
h "committing a "1 7" II big part in his uccess. It different from a lot of
(LAPD code for homicid) has a southern twang com- young Black kids running
, n an underc. ver, an,? do- plet with a clo et full of �ild. We j�t s�e Snoop do
109 a lot f hi. work d g- undo Ther ar time 10 the media light. If par- I
gy tyle". when n op recall hi I ents, kid, and community I
stint with the hurch choir I I ader would go to the I
n me f hi' tr cks. r ot of the pr blem and
"It' a basic c nversa- I top blaming rap music as I
ban y ,uth. .the ones in t� tion," n p say� ab ut his th ource of the traged� of I
h�adltn s) 1 bee ill , 10 I • tylc. "I d n t rap, I just the Black, com�unlty, I
hi rhym , n p tell' a , talk." luti n might pop
t ry that you goua Ii ten up. n p Dog is ju t the
't . D' urf ce and list ning to hi
Hi lyrics tell how h mu ic gives in ight to
camet bc th wayhci.. what'. going n in hi
mind.
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album," Sn op ay ig­
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