Snoop is remarkably confident throughout, and he lords over the songs on Doggystyle-particularly the next-level single “Gin and Juice” and the sonic high five “Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None)”-like a proper master of ceremonies.
Dre, who crafted every beat on the album, suppressed the beef-ready hardcore of The Chronic and cranked up the rubber band bass and lollipop keyboards. Doggystyle took The Chronic’s sensibilities and jacked them up, blowing Snoop’s worldview into a cinematic wonderland. The Chronic forced the mainstream to embrace West Coast rap on a global level, and Snoop Doggy Dogg’s remarkable charisma had a lot to do with that revolution. But Da Game is not without its charms, and Snoop acts as a pretty good foil for P himself, and they’re up-the-game intensity on the claustrophobic “Whatcha Gon Do?” is as powerful as anything either has put out since. The less said about the twists on old hits (“Still a G Thang,” “Gin & Juice II”), the better. Snoop sounds like he’s having a hard time getting comfortable, and his smooth, polished flow sounds especially ludicrous when rapping next to the marble-mouthed Silkk the Shocker or machine-gun spitting Mystikal. Da Game, his first release on No Limit, suffers a bit from the culture clash, as even the most ham-fisted latter-day Death Row beats were far more polished than the low-fi thump crafted by P’s in-house Beats by the Pound crew. Dre and Suge Knight to convincingly reinvent himself. At the time, it was a major coup for both parties: P got himself a bona fide platinum-seller to help with his already-in-motion assault on mainstream radio, and Snoop got enough physical distance from his old life with Dr. Snoop’s tenure as one of Master P’s No Limit Soldiers was as odd as it was fascinating.
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