Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss

Review

(Priority/Capitol)
Release Date: 11/26/2002 12:00

Snoop Dogg says he’s given up weed, but he hasn’t forsaken the pimp-and-hustler fantasies he’s lived for years. On his sixth solo album, Snoop is still a loquacious street raconteur, toasting the virtues of women (“Hourglass”), power (“Ballin’ ”) and, well, himself (“The One & Only”). While the production wizardry of Dr. Dre is absent, it almost doesn’t matter: On “Beautiful,” Snoop wraps his cashmere voice around the skeletal jig of the Neptunes, while Jay-Z turns “Lollipop” into a cooing ’70s sex rap. He may still ache for the herb (“I Miss That Bitch”), but not since his debut has the Doggfather been any higher.

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