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Despite the middling quality of his previous two albums, Snoop Dogg's sixth full-length effort firmly places this "professor of G-ology" back on top of the game. Snoop comes off surprisingly spry on Paid tha Cost, offering one of his best-balanced albums in years. His pimpalistic style is still draped in silk and fur, especially on "Bo$$ Playa," "Suited 'n' Booted," and "Ballin'." But "I Believe in You" is an unexpectedly sensitive, irony-free love ballad, while Snoop's pairings with the Neptunes and Gang Starr's DJ Premier result in two of his hardest hitting cuts ever, "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace" and "The One and Only" respectively. Combine this with his unfettered attack on Suge Knight ("Pimp Slapp'd") and this is a Snoop Dogg charging forward rather than lazily leaning back. Taking the helm at the dawn of the new decade, this old Dogg still has some new tricks. --Oliver Wang

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5 out of 5 stars

For Shizzle My Nizzle, It's the Snoop D-o-double Gizzle November 30, 2002
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

Classic Snoop, if one album can even be measured up to the kind of funk that he so eliquently dropped in '93 on Doggystyle this is the one. He has found his flow, he favors pimps and his snoop deville, over the Raiders and navagators. He has put down the joint (sad) and picked up the mic. For everyone who is hatin' on his new slow songs need to listen up to the new snoop and stop comparing him to his "doggy dogg" moniker. The kid has grown up and is finally stepping forward making this album a 1970's pimp theme song extravaganza. Taking it slow because sometimes you have to take thing slower. But there is enough head nodders in here to crack a vertabre. With beats from Jellyroll, who has taken over most of the production on this album, he stays on top and unstoppable. Premo, High Tek, and Neptunes also serve a musical inspirations. But this new cat Jellyroll has beats only matched by Dre. This bring me to my next complaint, Dre was not on the album get over it. Dre is the starter of Snoop's career without Dre there may have been no Snoop, but life goes on we can't dwell on something that isn't there. The beats sound spectacular for the most part. Snoop's flow is impressive and this album is great. With apperances by Bishop Don Magic Juan, Redman, Gay-Z, Ludacris, Nate, Lady of Rage, and RBX, the guest list is impressive. The best song on the joint are Stoplight; which is an Parliment remake of flashlight, Lollipop with gay-z, Paper'd Up with a dope fluit in it, The One and Only beat by Premo, Long Beach to Brick City with Redman(Dope), and Pimp Slapp'd with a dre like beat dissing Suge and Kurupt and Tha Row. Respect do anyone that disses these two deserves a five star. They are the reason that rap almost got ruined.
Peace-Stone

1 out of 5 stars

Garbage February 10, 2005
10 out of 21 found this review helpful

I sit here wondering just what my life would be like if those who raised me had subscribed to this kind of philosophy and had exposed me to this kind of music (in all their ignorance) at an early age. The effects on my parent's temperament would have made for a truly frightening experience for me as a kid. The scariest part of all is that I would have thought it's actually NORMAL to hear Snoop Dogg on my car ride to school in the morning telling crack stories. In fact, for some kids these days, it IS normal, yet for anyone with a bit of sense they know it's rather PERVERSE. It's actually perverse that ANYONE kicks back to this kind of perpetual negativity coming from the hip-hop community. You can almost point to the inception of N.W.A's arrival on the world's musical stage and say that is when society began breeding more vicious criminals than in any previous era. I mean, the comedian Steve Harvey put it quite well. He joked about all the talk of murder and guns, shoot them up sell crack stuff out there today - and compared it to his own generation. He was like, "Man, who wants to hear about getting shot up and murdered, riddled with 100 bullets with somebody's mom on crack? When I was growing up, we made music about MAKING LOVE! I'd rather make love than get shot up."

Snoop Dogg "Paid the Cost to Be the Boss." He had to cheat, steal, probably murder, and risk being murdered. All to "be the boss." To "play the game." What GAME? Boss of WHAT? His own brother was murdered for playing that game. You think you want to be the boss of that? You'll "get to boss the worms eating you up in your coffin" in the end. He lived a "hard life." I don't see starving kids in 3rd world countries growing up to sing about killing everybody, to sling some crack to "survive." You want to talk about a hard life, go visit one of these countries. Snoop, as poor as he may have been growing up, had 10-fold what these people in other lands have. They could "strive to be the boss" all they want, and still not get ahead. Snoop was fortunate enough to be born in a country, with all it's defects, that didn't have him starve away into nothingness. He didn't have armed militias storming into his neighborhood and downsizing his city's population from 400,000 people to 20 as is occurring in the Sudan. In comparison, he lived a life of luxury. And now, to make some money, he preaches others the path of greed and not self-reliance, but self-destruction. Count how many successful "gangsta' rappers" there are on one hand, and then tally up the amount of young people filling our prisons. Yeah, you too will pay the cost to be the boss. The boss of black A. If that's your dream, keep listening to these anthems. Keep up your life of selfish action where you and only you matter. This will ensure your destruction, not survival. Because showing others that being selfish is "cool" and "hip" actually will work against anyone who IS selfish. For then everyone will be out only for them, and when that person needs some help, nobody's there. It's all on you, "Boss." If you truly want to cultivate self-interest, help other people. Then they will be there when you need them. And stop listening to garbage about a lucrative business in the coke game already! Go out and buy some stock, and really "play the game."

5 out of 5 stars

Let me catch my breath.... March 16, 2003
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

I've always liked Snoop, just not enough to buy any of his albums. Until this one. He took a hint from the boys of OutKast and stepped it up in his funkyness. Though I am quite sick of the Neptunes, they did an excellent job on "Beautiful" and the other tracks they produced. The guest spots from Jay Z is alright, but Ludacris really did his job on the track "You Got What I Want." An incredible release from The Doggfather.

Best tracks (to me) include:
Ballin' (retro funk at it's very best)
Stoplight (George Clinton couldn't have said it better)
Beautiful (Pharrell & Charlie Wilson killed the vocals)
You Got What I Want (Ludacris did his thing on this track)
Pimp Slapp'd (a hilarious message to Suge)

Basically, this album is the best thing to come from Snoop since Doggystyle.

5 out of 5 stars Da Boss Would Like To C You! December 10, 2002
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

Snoop Dogg has definitely paid tha cost to be the boss. From his debut album Doggystyle ( best album ever created ) you just knew Snoop would be a major factor in Hip Hop for years to come. Did he have the credibility? You bet he did ESPECIALLY after his highly publicized Murder trial at the same time he released the album "Murder Was The Case" soundtrack and title track that eerily seemed to follow his case. After being found not guilty to the case Snoop Dogg cooled off. It was obvious the trial had affected his life and his music. Snoop became less reckless and more refined as witnessed on his second studio album `Tha Doggfather".

Feeling the need to separate himself from the trouble that Death Row presented, he left them and signed with the No Limit Tank. He released Da Game Is To Be Sold Not Told in 98 and I must say it was a HUGE disappointment. How can the same man release one of the greatest ( if not the greatest ) albums in Hip Hop and release one of the worst ( if not the worst ) albums in history? After that album Snoop needed a BIG comeback and he definitely got that in 99 with the release of `No Limit Top Dogg" which featured the infamous song B.... Please featuring Xzibit. Then he hit us with that Eastsidaz album in 2000 with the single G'D Up and Snoop was definitely back but this time for good. The Last Meal was the first classic Snoop album since his debut and tha Eastsidaz album that followed was more of that fie fie delish.

Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Boss is on the same level as The Last Meal. Snoop swiftens up his flow and uses different types of beats rather than just west coast beats. He experiments with different flows and his lyrics are some of his best ever. It is really refreshing to hear Big Snoop Dogg comin different for the year 2002. This old dogg has refined his game to near perfection. Songs like Ballin feat. The ever soulful Dramatics, and Suited & Booted are more of that pimp Snoop style. I Believe IN You is a stunning ode to his wife; a concept we have never heard Snoop tackle. The Neptunes produced tracks `From The Chuuch To The Palace" and Beautiful are both magnificent tracks as the Neptunes continue their hit list. Wasn't Your Fault, The One & Only ( produced by DJ Premier ) and Batman & Robin feat. Lady Of Rage are all tight songs. Boss Playa has a straight ridah beat with silky smooth rapping by Uncle Snoop. Hourglass is a swift tongued swift beat swift flow song which is pimp tight.

Snoop's most experimental track has to be "You Got What I Want". This song is so CRUNK. Produced by Jelly Roll, Goldie Loc and Ludacris guest on the song. Their flows are just that straight heat. Snoop has definitely regained that sense of urgency and the swiftness and acuteness in his flow. Ludacris also puts down a great verse. Pimp Slapp'd is the diss song to Suge and his affiliates and recognizing the fakes in the industry. Excellent track.

Snoop's new album is definitely worth the cheddar that you spend on it. Recommended!!

4 out of 5 stars He's back and its about time cause rap was almost dead November 26, 2002
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

I have to admit the biggest cd disapointment I ever had was with Snoop's second album DoggFather. In hindsight i realize he was all by himself without dre on the crumbling death row records. After that album when i heard he was hooking up with All Gimmicks, i mean no limit, I knew it was going to be all down hill. I'm from the south so I have to let everyone know that no limit records gets no respect except for their very first albums, all the rest is .... Now back on Snoop. Having finally achieved freedom from the people he is able to hook up with some of the best producers in the game and it shows on this cd. Almost every beat on this cd is the shizzle. Snoop is not known for having the best lyrics but to me it doesn't even matter as long as he comes out with his old style flow over some tight ... beats. And this exatcly what this cd is about. Snoop is back to his west-coast laid back flow. Some of the songs are slow and soft which made me give it a 4 but all the rest are either banging or funked up to sound like the g-funk is back. To me Snoop really earned the right to call himself the boss because this cd shows that he is still the best on the west coast. This cd isn't a classic but it is damn good and it is Snoop's second best behind the ever unbeatable
Doggystyle. Hell, this cd is better than the new jay-z blueprint 2 album (which might not be saying much but since some rappers claim be king while releasing personally weak albums while other rappers out do them). No bs.

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