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...Gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg's debut album Doggystyle (Death Row/ Interscope) is by all odds the most anticipated release in the brief history of rap. Snoop, 22, was first praised by the critics for his performance on several tracks of rapper Dr. Dre's triple-platinum 1992 album The Chronic. He landed on the covers of Rolling Stone, Vibe and The Source even before turning out his first solo album. Snoop drew more attention, not to say notoriety, when police accused him of being at the wheel on Aug. 25 when his bodyguard shot another man from...
...best, however, when he tries to go beyond the gangsta posturings. The most impressive track on the album is a classic story of a near-death experience leading to spiritual insight. In the song Murder Was the Case (Death After Visualizing Eternity), Snoop is gravely wounded by a gunshot but hears an otherworldly voice offering to change his life. "Will I be the G that I was?" Snoop asks. "I'll make your life better than you could imagine or even dream of," the supernatural voice answers. Snoop recovers, showers gifts on his family and tries to turn peaceful...
Onyx, House of Pain and Kriss Kross (I won't even get into the whole West Coast "gangsta" genre) have little to offer to people who think hip-hop means more than just wearing baggy pants and jumping around. And when Cypress Hill's latest album Black Sunday marked their full transformation from edgy hip-hop innovators into cartoonish potheads, A Tribe Called Quest seemed to be one of the last hopes for the hip-hop nation...
...rapper who began to sour on the gangsta image when one of his associates was killed, says rap felons are proof that "you can't sweep society's problem children under the rug. When you look under that rug you're gonna get blasted in your face." But Eazy-E, a former member of N.W.A., thinks that, if nothing else, self-interest ought to persuade them to cool ! off. "A lot of rappers are trying to live a fantasy," he says. "They have careers, and something stupid could end everything that's goin' good...
...Does gangsta demand rappers who are nasty by nature...