It was Snoop's last release before the genre-bending success of 2008's “Sexual Eruption” (aka “Sensual Seduction”), and you can tell he was bringing his emcee game hard. Because it arrived the same week as Jay-Z's comeback album, Kingdom Come, one week after The Game's The Doctor's Advocate, two weeks before Clipse's Hell Hath No Fury and about a month before Nas' first Def Jam release, Hip-Hop Is Dead, Snoop had to settle for the very un-Snoop-like circumstance of being the fifth biggest story in rap, making it one of his few projects that got lost in the shuffle.īut it's a story that rap fans would be better off hearing. When it arrived in 2006, Blue Carpet Treatment's release wasn't one of Snoop's biggest media moments. But ask what someone's second favorite Snoop Dogg album is and things get tricky.įor us, the answer is clear: Tha Blue Carpet Treatment. One of the most visible and outspoken emcees, his prolific discography has added to his legacy as a mass-media figure - especially over the past three years, when he's branched out into funk and reggae.įor all the name changes (Snoop Lion?) and headlines, fans and critics have unanimously agreed that his finest hour remains his debut, Doggystyle.
Snoop Dogg has, for more than two decades, consistently been an icon of hip-hop.
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