Snoop Dogg kicked off a virtual celebration for the 27th anniversary of his debut solo album Doggystyle and gifted the internet with some hearty content and new products.
“Happy C day to my first solo record Doggystyle 27 years old,” Snoop wrote in the caption of the artwork of the album.
The Doggfather also blessed the ‘Gram with an exclusive limited run of merchandise to commemorate the milestone. The bundle includes a bomber jacket, T-shirt and boxer briefs all featuring the Doggystyle cover artwork and branding.
The legendary Long Beach MC continued the celebration with a string of posts initiated by the recent viral video of a dancing kid dubbed over Keak Da Sneak’s Bay Area anthem “Super Hyphie.”
“Doggystyle C Day mood 27 years strong,” the caption reads.
Then, with the overzealous help of sports reporter and Instagram comedian Kevin Cuenca, he reminded us all how hard his 1993 classic “Gin N Juice” still slaps.
He also shared a pair of videos sending a shout out to West Coast veteran and Doggystyle collaborator Kurupt to wish his fellow Crip a happy 48th birthday.
Additionally, Snoop shared a repost from an Instagram account featuring a supercut of 50 Cent, Wiz Khalifa and Nas sharing how they were influenced by the rap legend’s initial body of work. One clip from the video shows a snippet of a red carpet interview with Nas in which he calls Doggystyle one of the best albums ever.
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Doggystyle was released in November 1993 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The album dropped on the infamous Death Row Records, was produced by Dr. Dre and Daz Dillinger, features from Tha Dogg Pound, Warren G and spent 74 weeks in contention on the chart.
Revisit Snoop Dogg’s classic album Doggystyle below.
Straight ‘B’ …
Most underrated album of all time! People be talkin about how Illmatic changed the rap game but they clearly forgot that Doggystyle was the album who changed everything from the sound, to the lyrics and the depiction of gangsta rap.
Cant believe this is the same man smh. Went from 2OG to super bitchmade in that span. I dont even recognize this guy no more. Checked by 69, checked by bitches, gangsta to ppl he knows wont check him back. Add t.i to that list too
Snoop was involved in a murder case in the 90’s and beat it. 2pac and his song was about it. Look Tekashi I know you desperate for some relevancy considering your album flopped and u look like a unicorn fucked an oompah loompa but get it together. This album by Snoop was more successful than anything u dropped without the internet just old school gangsta rap at it’s finest. Much love Snoop and respect for a legend in the game that lived through and saw the impact of the feds pitting to coasts against each other in order to water down the influence of gangsta rap. R.I.P. 2pac and Biggie. Y’all was to real and your message scared the government. R.I.P. MLK, Malcolm X and everyone else lost to the cause.
Doggystyle done more for hip hop In respect to introducing the masses and main stream than Illmatic.
Illmatic is hip hop. It hasn’t been surpassed and unlikely that it ever will be.
This is because we will never be in the same space hip hop and the world was In 93/94.
Doggystyle wouldn’t be sh!t without Suge Knight and Death Row Records.
The most important rap album ever period. Like said it introduced hip hop to the masses.
That era was crazy. Just watching rap take over the world was cool to see. Death Row couldn’t miss for a while there because for all his faults, Suge had great quality control if you hear some of the shit he made sure didn’t see the light of day they were recording. So every album they put out early on was A-1.
Too bad they took GZ up, Hoez down off after the original press.
Couldn’t clear the Isaac Hayes sample. Good thing we got it and it didn’t sit in a vault for 25 years. My favorite song off the album.
I have a OG copy with it on and ‘The next episode‘ printed on track list but it never made any press.
When I look back, Illmatic changed my life as a teenager because I was older and could understand what I was listening to. However, growing up in the tri-state, when I was a child, all I heard and seen was Doggystyle and The Chronic. Or so I remember. Black people didn’t care about East Coast vs West Coast. Or from what I recollect. Eric B and Rakim, Snoop, Dr Dre, Kwame, Rob Base, Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince, 2Live Crew, Hammer…that was the soundtrack to many block parties. Coast be damned. It’s sad that so much nonsense has happened in the genre. The music was really transcendent at one point