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Tha Doggfather

Tha Doggfather
Studio album by Snoop Doggy Dogg
Released November 12, 1996
Recorded 1996
Genre West Coast hip hop, G-Funk, Gangsta Rap
Length 73:59
Label Doggystyle/Death Row/Interscope
Producer Suge Knight (exec.)
DJ Pooh
Dat Nigga Daz
Soopafly
LT Hutton
Sam Sneed
Arkim & Flair
Professional reviews
Snoop Doggy Dogg chronology
Murder Was The Case Soundtrack
(1994)		 Tha Doggfather
(1996)		 Smokefest Underground
(1998)

Tha Doggfather was Snoop Dogg's follow up to his debut album Doggystyle, released by Death Row Records in 1996.

Although the album debuted at number one in the week of November 12, 1996 with over 478,971 copies sold, it failed to match the commercial success of Doggystyle. Still worth to note that it was released only one week after another Death Row release, the first posthumous album by slain Tupac Shakur, the The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, which also debuted at number one. Tupac Shakur wasn't a part of the album due to Snoop Dogg praising The Notorious B.I.G.'s music in the media, thus causing friction between Snoop & Shakur.

The album was re-released July 11, 2005.

Contents

Reception

According to SoundScan, over 8 million copies have been sold[citation needed] with 800,000 copies in the UK alone by the end of 1996.[citation needed]

Professional reviews:

  • Entertainment Weekly (11/29/96, p.90) - "Even without Dr. Dre behind the board, Snoop and his studio team concoct an intoxicating blend of old-school funk and gangsta cool." - Rating: B+
  • Muzik (1/97, p.118) - 3 out of 5 - "...a more angular, spiky, old school-influenced vehicle for the Dogg Father to strut his matter-of-fact rhymes over....you [are taken in] by the strength of the rhyming..."
  • Melody Maker (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #49 on Melody Maker's list of 1996's `Albums Of The Year.'

Track Listing

  1. Intro
  2. Doggfather (Feat. Charlie Wilson)
  3. Ride 4 Me (Interlude)
  4. Up Jump Tha Boogie (Feat. Kurupt, Charlie Wilson, Teena Marie)
  5. Freestyle Conversation
  6. When I Grow Up (Interlude)
  7. Snoop Bounce (Feat. Charlie Wilson)
  8. Gold Rush (Feat. Kurupt, Bad Azz, Techniec)
  9. Me & My Doggz (Tear 'Em Off)
  10. You Thought (Feat. Too Short, Soopafly)
  11. Vapors (Feat. Charlie Wilson, Teena Marie)
  12. Groupie (Feat. Kurupt, Daz Dillinger, Nate Dogg, Warren G)
  13. 2001
  14. Sixx Minutes
  15. Wake Up (O.J.) (Feat. Tray Deee)
  16. Snoop's Upside Ya Head (Feat. Charlie Wilson)
  17. Blueberry (Feat. Daz Dillinger, Kurupt, Bad Azz, Techniec)
  18. Traffic Jam (Feat. Daz Dillinger, Kurupt) (Interlude)
  19. Doggyland
  20. Downtown Assassins (Feat. Daz Dillinger, Tray Deee)
  21. Outro (Feat. 2Pac)

Cut-out tracks

Chart performance

Singles

Title Chart positions Video Director
Eurochart Hot 100 UK Top 75 Australia Top 100
"Doggfather"
(featuring Charlie Wilson)		 - #36 - Joseph Kahn
"Vapors"
(featuring Charlie Wilson & Teena Marie)		 - #18 - Paul Hunter
"Snoop's Upside Ya Head"
(featuring Charlie Wilson)		 #47 #12 #44 Darius S. Henderson

Album


 Album Charts Sales
Billboard 200 Billboard Year-end Albums Chart 1997 Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (cont.) UK Top 75 Albums UK Top Selling Artist Albums 1996 RIAA Certification
Position #1 #43 #1 #8 #15 #148 2x Platinum
Date 30.11.1996 1997 1996 1997 23.11.1996 1996 04.02.1997

References

  1. ^ DubCNN - Tha Doggfather cut-out track
Preceded by
The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory by Makaveli		 Billboard 200 number-one album
November 30 - December 6, 1996		 Succeeded by
Razorblade Suitcase by Bush
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