Track Listing

1. Dolomite Intro
2. Buck 'Em
3. Trust Me
4. My Heat Goes Boom
5. Dolomite
6. Snoopafella
7. In Love With A Thug
8. 6 Bedtime Stories
9. Down 4 My N's
10. Betta Days
11. Somethin Bout Yo Bidness
12. B Please
13. Doin' Too Much
14. Gangsta Ride
15. Ghetto Symphony
16. Party With A D.P.G.
17. Buss'n Rocks
18. Just Dippin'
19. Don't Tell
20. 20 Minutes
21. I Love My Momma

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33025 in Music
• Released on: 1999-05-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.com
Snoop's second album for the No Limit label finds him in fine form--maybe the finest since Doggystyle. On Top Dogg, Snoop has taken control of his own album; in working with a number of producers (Dr. Dre, Ant Banks, Raphael Saadiq, DJ Quick, and the Beats by the Pound team), he takes the best each has to offer and forces them to play to his own strengths. Though there are a few gangsta tracks on Top Dogg ("My Heat Goes Boom," with its "boom boom boom" chorus, is one of the album's best), the strongest songs here are the ones on which Snoop gets creative. There are a pair of tributes to Slick Rick--"Snoopafella," a Cinderella story on which Snoop aces Rickey's flow, and "G Bedtime Stories," which opens with a little kid asking "Uncle Snoop Dogg" to read him a bedtime story--and a few tracks built around classic samples (of George Clinton's "Black Hole Theme," Earth, Wind & Fire's "Shining Star," and even Brick's "Dazz"). There may not be anything here as transcendent as "Gin and Juice," but that's a minor complaint; Top Dogg is Snoop's best album in years. --Randy Silver

Customer Reviews

Snoop Dogg-No Limit Top Dogg
No Limit Top Dogg, Snoop's second album on No Limit Records, harkens back to the sound of his Death Row days while keeping a slight No Limit sound edge to it. Although it brings more balance to the album, whereas Da Game is to Be Sold Not to Be Told was No Limit's signature Beats By the Pound soundscape, it surprisingly doesn't always work as well. Standout tracks like "Bitch Please" featuring an always on point Xzibit and "Ghetto Symphony" featuring a slew of No Limit and DPG affiliated guests show that both sounds can work. The combination is interesting, but the album sputters and staggers it's way to the finish line clocking in at 21 tracks. Bad sequencing and the ever present filler tracks that seem to plague so many hip hop/rap releases over the past ten years or so fatten up what would have been a much better album had the unnecessary tracks been left off the release.

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An Excellent Effort By Snoop Dogg, His Best Work Besides 'Doggystyle'
Snoop Dogg's catalog is not the most consistent (he has good, decent, and awful albums), but we can all agree that 'Doggystyle' is a good release. 'No Limit Top Dogg' is probably his best work besides that classic album, and despite being on No Limit, this doesn't contain the cheesy production of 'Da Game Is To Be Sold...'.

The raw, dark production on some tracks like 'Buck 'Em', '. In Love With A Thug', and the excellent single 'Down 4 My N's' (which brings back good memories of better times for me) are just what the doctor ordered, and the funky 'Snoopfella' is a top-notch return to form for Snoop. Most of the album is good, especially the laid back classic 'Gangsta Ride' and the creative 'Ghetto Symphony'. Even No Limit's goons do a great job as special guests here, and Dr. Dre provides production for tracks like 'B*tch Please' which features well-known guests Xzibit and Nate Dogg. Is this Snoop's best work? Possibly. His rhymes are great here, the beats are inspired, and even the guests are great (even though certain ones drag the album down a bit). Even if you lost faith in Snoop and someone skipped over this one, check it out. It's still worth bangin' today.