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Maybe I do "expect too much" from one of the most iconic rappers of my youth. Like, I expect him to write his own verses, and to ... I don't know.. *RAP*
Instead, we got him trying to sing. But he can't really sing, so his voice is padded by "backup singers" singing the exact same thing Snoop's singing to mask some of that painful delivery.
But how is it really a snoop album if Pharrel wrote it, and snoop isn't even carrying the primary vocal weight himself? Might as well be a [whatever the female who matched Snoop note for note on every track's name is] album.
I'll admit, there are some truly catchy choruses on the record. Some of the songs are nice little pop gems, but this is not a snoop album.
P.S. Apparently The Doggfather is considered one of the greatest hip-hop failures of all time. Now I've never really paid attention to the press surrounding that record, but I've always liked it quite a bit. One of my favorite Snoop albums in fact.
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