Snoop only comes to life on a handful of rough, club-friendly tracks, most notably "Step Yo Game Up", a Lil' Jon production that sounds just like circa-2000 Neptunes. On their respective guest spots, Nelly and Daz easily outshine him. He pretty much just talks over the beats, seemingly barely aware of their presence. Ten years on and Snoop is an MTV parody pimp. 'Kick this evil bastard out' screamed the tabloids when he visited the UK. Bursting onto the scene ten years ago, he was the self-styled OG the baddest hound in the pound, with a killers drawl and a real life murder rap. Snoop's voice is still a cool, gravelly drawl, but he doesn't insinuate himself into the beat the way he once did. Snoop Dogg's reinvention is probably one of the more startling of modern times. It sounds something like The Black Eyed Peas if they tried to make a Barry White album, but with more falsetto warbling. R&G has a unified sound, rare in hip-hop albums, but it's a sound based on tinkly pianos and noodly guitars and windchimes. The production duo laced five of this album's songs, but their fingerprints are everywhere else here. R&G is Snoop's first album for Star Trak, the label run by fallen-off hip-hop hitmakers the Neptunes, a duo who all but ruled international radio with dazzling sci-fi stomp-clap new wave beats, but who've been starving for hits ever since they switched up their style to overcooked Vegas schmaltz- all bloopy bass and shuffling drums and swooshing keyboards and unbelievably obnoxious falsetto crooning. But somehow, it's hard to take Snoop's appreciation of the opposite sex seriously when the second track on the album, "Can You Control Ya Hoe", advocates violence against women more brutally than anything he's done since "Bitches Ain't Shit". "Flip the channel to Lifetime/ You stay on my mind even when I write rhymes," he growls on "Promise I". "Everything is beautiful/ Right down to ya cuticles," he coos on "Perfect". "I want to get you alone so I can learn you a little better," he purrs on "Stay". R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece is absolutely crammed with them- a nearly endless amount (18 songs, 78 minutes).
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