Product Description

'Tha Blue Carpet Treatment' is the eighth studio album fromAmerican rap star Snoop Dogg. Reunited with hip hop super-producer Dr. Dre for the first time in five years, the album sees Snoop Dogg's trademark G-Funk sound being updated by a whole host of guest producers including Rick Rock, Pharrell and Timbaland. Guest vocals also come from R. Kelly, The Game, Brandy, and soul legend Stevie Wonder.

Track Listing

1. Intrology - Snoop Dogg, George Clinton
2. Think About It - Snoop Dogg
3. Crazy - Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg
4. Vato - Snoop Dogg, B-Real
5. That's That Shit - Snoop Dogg, R. Kelly
6. Candy (Drippin' Like Water) - Snoop Dogg, E-40, M.C. Eiht, Goldie Loc, Daz, Kurupt
7. Get A Light - Snoop Dogg, Damian Marley
8. Gangbangin' 101 - Snoop Dogg, The Game
9. Boss' Life - Snoop Dogg, Akon
10. LAX - Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube
11. 10 Lil' Crips - Snoop Dogg
12. Round Here - Snoop Dogg
13. A Bitch I Knew - Snoop Dogg
14. Like This - Snoop Dogg, Western Union, LaToiya Williams, Raul Miaon
15. Which One Of You - Snoop Dogg, Nine Inch Dix
16. I Wanna Fuck You - Snoop Dogg, Akon
17. Psst! - Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx
18. Beat Up On Yo Pads - Snoop Dogg
19. Don't Stop - Snoop Dogg, War Zone, Kurupt
20. Imagine - Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, D'Angelo
21. Conversations - Snoop Dogg, Stevie Wonder

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23852 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Running time: 78 minutes

Customer Reviews

brilliant
this was the 1st snoop album i bought and i was not disappointed as it is now one of my favourites. The best tracks are:
- Boss' life
- Vato
- Candy
- Get a light
- Gangbangn 101
- That's that s***
- Imagine

Overall its a great album.

A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
You can look at the hard-hitting Tha Blue Carpet Treatment as a reaction to the crossover-minded R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece, an album that featured Justin Timberlake and the mega-single "Drop It Like It's Hot." Since that polished -- some would say "watered-down" -- effort put him over the top (again), Snoop was seen shilling for Chrysler and Orbit gum when he used to rep Girls Gone Wild: Doggy Style videos and that green sticky-icky you can only get on the West Coast. The time to buy street cred would be now, right? Well, Snoop's been doing some amazing things under most folks' radar, and this album is the natural outcome. While the title is a little poke at the Crip/Blood, blue/red dichotomy, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment feels like the G-funk soundtrack to Snoop's 2005 West Coast peace summit and all the positive hood moves he's made since then, like squashing all West Coast beefs and throwing some love to Cali's often-ignored Latin hip-hop community with his intentionally leaked "My Peoples" freestyle. It's the latter relationship that's responsible for the excellent "Vato," and while special guest B Real might be way bigger than 2Mex or most of the other names mentioned in "My Peoples," the Cypress Hill sideman needs Snoop in 2006 much more than vice versa. Polished efforts like the pimping "That's That S***" with R. Kelly and the strip club anthem "I Wanna F*** You" with Akon fall between Doggystyle-d gangsta throwbacks like the slinky "Crazy" with Nate Dogg and "Candy (Drippin' Like Water)," which features E-40 and Tha Dogg Pound next to lesser-known vets Goldie Loc and MC Eiht. Juggling "Candy"'s guests would be hard enough for lesser Gs, but it's a testament to Snoop that he can, and more so that he manages a full album that touches upon just about every ghetto flavor. Banger after banger, produced by everyone from Timbaland to the Neptunes, leads to a couple numbers that almost throw the album off-track: "Psst!," where Jamie Foxx woefully pretends he's Prince, and the pee-wee football anthem "Beat Up on Yo Pads," which is just out of place. Then there's the dream number "Imagine," a duet between Dr. Dre and Snoop that ponders a hood life not blessed with hip-hop, a life where the two would have never gotten "out from under." As the album exits on the positive "Conversations" with Stevie Wonder, memories of Rhythm & Gangsta's grandest moments return, and it becomes obvious Tha Blue Carpet Treatment isn't so much a reaction to that album as it is a house party celebrating Snoop's whole career. With heaping helpings of G-funk and Left Coast attitude, there's no reason any West Coast-loving hip-hopper should miss this party.

5 Stars, really???
This is not a great album, there are about twice as many tracks as there should be. The Stevie Wonder effort is absolutely atrocious, a crime to music. Imagine is a classic, great to hear Dre drop a verse. Some good tracks no doubt, but some awful filler. If you're a Snoop fan then you'll like it but it is no where near Doggystyle, although Snoop shows more maturity and perspective than ever before.