The 2018 BET Awards ended with a full-fledged tribute to the inimitable Snoop Dogg on Sunday (June 24) in Los Angeles.
Beginning with a nod to the 25th anniversary of Tha Doggfather’s debut album, 1993’s Doggystyle, Snoop ran through a medley of a few of his hits, including “Who Am I (What’s My Name?)” and Dr. Dre’s “The Next Episode.”
The O.G. Long Beach rapper sealed up his tribute by flexing his versatility with songs from his gospel album, Bible Of Love.
Dressed in a pulpit robe, the D-O-Double-G commanded the mic like a proper preacher would. In the background, choir singers donned in black sang along as Snoop gave it up to his heavenly father. [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
Finally, host Jamie Foxx took over vocal duties and brought the show to a close with, “Give it up to my friend, Snoop D-O-Double-G.”
25 years already… Classic album.
They don’t make them like they used to.
If the Dogg condensed all his albums into 3 or 4 albums he’ll be the top dog
Wow. Everyone celebrating the racist TV awards. SMH. If there was a “white entertainment television” channel with garbage ass shows that featured crap Caucasian actors, I have a feeling people would be offended. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Well there’s a reason why bet isn’t even a thing in every other country in the world
Stfu. You sound stupid, and bitter, over something 20 yo. White ppl want to bitch bout anything at all. We goin call u bet bradly.
Yeah white folks do.. it called CMT and it stands for The Country Music Television Duhhh it’s your white only station enjoy
Doggy style is snoops only great album to date. Closest things to good he’s done since was Tha blue carpet treatment, Doggfather and Tha last meal. But none of em are more than average, mostly filler. Dude could have retired a legend with $200 show tickets, instead he dropped 10 bad albums in a row, and has $25 concert tickets.
Dr. Dre was the sole reason for the success of Death Row. Without his beats, the label was garbage. Take a look at life without Dre. Doggfather, Lady of Rage, RBX. Every album any of these “artists” did without Dre flopped miserably, because they are terrible. Snoop has become a joke, releasing 3 trrrible solo projects per year.
B.S…Snoop was on some next level shit back in 1993. Aftermath (1996) was abysmal bar a handful of tracks. Those albums you mentioned are Death Row underground classics. Suge Knight and The D.O.C was the reason for Death Row’s success. Without those guys, Dr Dre quite possibly may have never released another album. But yes, Dre was the driving force in the studio, no doubt.
Lol bro, Daz Dillinger made the majority of the beats. He made more of the beats on Doggystyle and Chronic than Dr Dre did. More on Tupac album. More for DPG…
I agree the artists like snoop became jokes, but Dre wasn’t responsible for the death row murder beat sound. Daz and others are.
Dre produced 2 songs on All Eyez. So you’re kind of overlooking that. If anything, Pac saved that label when he got there because I remember people saying all that shit was played out by late 94/early 95 when Snoop was going through his shit and Dre was dropping okay shit like Keep their Heads Ringing but nothing special and terrible projects like Murder was the Case where he had a hand in all aspects of. The thing that did in DR was Suge going to jail because the flunkies running it when he was gone weren’t qualified to run a label. They still had dudes who had heat who used to produce for Dre like J. Flex and Barnie Rubble after he left.
Nobody is underrating him. I’m just giving you the facts of what was going on at the time. If anything, leaving DR may have relit his fire. Do you remember the King Tee album? Yeah, neither does anybody else because it got shelved. That First Round Knockout shit? No, because it was wack. Truth is that Dre always had people that helped him a lot (go look up with the dudes that didn’t get credit on Doggystyle that even Daz and others have admitted did a lot of work), and we all know Pac was an entity into himself. J. Flexx, Stoobie Doo, and Barnie Rubble were damn good on beats and helped Dre more than you think just like Mailman later, but the label was in disarray.
Who ever put Daz in Dre’s league? But Pac could put out heat with anybody on a track and make it sound good is the facts, and Dre had little to nothing to do with it. If anything, leaving DR might have relit Dre’s fire because he was trending towrd irrelevant with that First Round Knockout shit and that King Tee album that got shelved that were supposed to be the first Aftermath albums before he stumbled on Eminem.
Snoop is basically the Gene Simmons of hip-hop, had some bangers back in the days but nowadays it’s all about the Snoop DOgg brand not so much the music