But as a musical artist, he’s too often overlooked. So Snoop’s been doing this, at the highest levels, for three decades. His first record ever, “Deep Cover” with Dr. Snoop has recorded a reggae album (2012’s Reincarnated) and a gospel one (2018’s Bible of Love). He constantly challenges and reinvents himself. And after that? Let’s face it, it’s hard to keep track of all the Dogg’s moves. In truth, a lot of the heat off 2004’s culture-shifting “Drop It Like It’s Hot” comes from both Snoop’s and Phar.’s emergence as true solo artists and front-facing creatives. He crip-walked into the 2000s empowered, and ascended to even greater heights, on his own terms.Ī series of star-studded collaborations with the Neptunes featured Snoop at the height of his poetic superpowers. Not only did that label switch give birth to C-Murder’s “Down for My N’s” (a 1999 Southern rap classic and big middle finger from Snoop to his former boss), but Master P gave Snoop a Ph.D. Many of us thought Snoop could get killed by a California crew for jumping to Louisiana. Unheard of, in those dangerous hip-hop times. It was like LeBron James leaving the Cavaliers for the Miami Heat. He stood up to Suge Knight and left Death Row Records for Master P’s No Limit Records in 1998. beat a first-degree murder charge in 1996.

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