Snoop Dogg - review

As law & order valiant Ice - T and are we there yet? Star Ice Cube, Snoop dogg is proof that a generation of the corrupter of morals is the national treasure of the next. The erstwhile "evil bastard" (Daily Star, 1994) is now a warmly ubiquitous pop presence, buried to the neck in sand (video of California Gurls by Katy Perry) or Pare as Admiral insurance advertising (Gorillaz' Welcome to the world of the plastic beach). Approaching 40, Snoop is almost as soft as his namesake comic.

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Still thin cadaverously and germination braid of its trade mark, it makes light of her former prominence. "I have yet to make a crime in the United Kingdom", he smirks. "I ain't fucking with your efficient and shit." His subsequent chant of "fuck the police!" feels elections because Snoop has never been particularly defiant. Or a hard gangsta, a cultural striver as Jay - Z or a psychological as Eminem car crash, it is a pleasure-seeker, pure and simple: little more complex that the figure he presents Gin and juice, pleased with a drink and a smoke and "my mind on my money and my money on my account." Its laidback, almost feminine delivery hinders his lyrical machismo. Even a song also deeply questionable as ain't no Fun (if the Homies can't have none) is the number of women in the audience cheerfully sing.

Essential superficiality of the Snoop means its recorded output has traced a classic trajectory of descent from Doggystyle in 1993, but it makes him a reliable showman. Hip hop shows are notorious for sound songs, truncated muddy and purely fictious blurry, but Snoop has raised his game. First such success that cover deep are dynamic and fat beautiful showcases for his lazy stream, lizardy and his signature, a "yeeyuh" sleepy exclamation, elongated. And it does not just mine its own past but hip hop in General, with of tributes to Tupac, Biggie and his late friend Nate Dogg and a powerful breath of evergreen Jump autour House of bread.

It is as much, because the most recent material is rotten. Seduction sensual lewd self-parodically could be a flight of the Conchords collaboration, and sweat is just as catastrophic as can be expected to be a song written for night deer of Prince William and remixed by David Guetta. Perhaps this is considered his first crime in the United Kingdom. He quickly restores goodwill by ending the old favorites Drop It Like It Hot and what is my name and a gushing profession of his love for the "london, England. East London love back? Yeeyuh.

Snoop Dogg considers the launch of the version of hip hop of The X Factor

Smokin' '... Snoop Dogg. Photography: Robert Vos/AFP/Getty Images

Rapper Snoop Dogg announced he wants to produce an x television program of the factor-style to find the next hip-hop star.

Singer, aged 39, who is in the United Kingdom to promote the launch of her 11th album studio Doggumentary, said that although he thought X Factor and American Idol "big shows", he felt there was space on the market for a "straight" televised talent contest conducted for the hood... the people with no argenttalent just "."

He said: "I seek agreement for a network to find America's hottest artists hood."

A asked what he thought of the pop star Cheryl Cole, who has recently signed up to be a judge on the U.S. version of the X factor, Snoop Dogg replied: "it alright." It does its thing. She has a little bit hardcore, a little edgy. ?

Snoop Dogg, former member of the Crip himself is no stranger to the nervousness. In possibly the most politically incorrect press conference, never seen on these shores, the rapper kept journalists gathered in the club of the gentleman private in London Centre waiting for almost an hour, before appear on stage in clouds of smoke and a multitude of skimpily clad at the pole dancers.

Sipping a drink identified a cup of the Union Jack, Snoop Dogg, born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr, wore sunglasses throughout that he submitted questions.

Earlier this month, the rapper has released a collaboration with Charlie Sheen called Winning, featuring some of the infamous slogans of the troubled actor. "Charlie Sheen was my friend before," said Snoop Dogg. "I do not judge my friends." If it is my friend, it will remain my friend. He called on a session... must be real people maintained by him. ?

In recent years, Snoop Dogg has successfully branched in cinema and television. In London, he insisted that his plans for the domination of the world did not stop there. "I want to open a supermarket chain," he said. "But I shall call Snoopermarkets."

Snoop Dogg played the Forum, London NW5 Tuesday evening.

New music: Snoop Dogg and Charlie Sheen - winner

Here's what Charlie Sheen had to say about his collaboration with Snoop Dogg: "well, the genesis of the song is," you know, winning. It's just all in life. I think that Snoop has done a very good job to wrap the whole vibe of, you know, the movement. ?

Sensible stuff, you agree to. Now, unless Sheen has a jurisdiction hitherto unknown of drum programming, it is not clear exactly what he had to do on this point, other than sit in the corner with a doob, brandishing of cue cards bearing the many slogans. Snoop throws tiresomely them any low - violent torpedoes of the truth, blood of tiger etc - as a voice of robot croons "win" sounds attractive, elegant of a 1990s big beat remix. It is Snoop, rap is quite fabulous, but it would be difficult to argue that EC is not a new low for popular culture. Still, winning at least is song of SEO-friendly to most Snoop since what he did with Katy Perry.