Tha Doggfather - Snoop Dogg
Tha Doggfather

Tha Doggfather is the second album from Snoop Doggy Dogg, which is Snoop’s last under that name and his last on Death Row Records. The album was released on November 12, 1996, one week after the release of 2Pac’s Makaveli album, which was his first posthumous album following his death on September 13, 1996. With the success of Snoop’s 1993 debut album, Doggystyle, the anticipation for his sophomore album was very high with people wondering how the album would sound after his acquittal on a murder charge along with the departure of Dr. Dre from Death Row around the time this album was in production. Snoop revealed in a 1996 interview on Rap City that he was still trying to include Dre in the album’s production but Death Row CEO Suge Knight told him that he didn’t need Dre, opening the door for veteran producer DJ Pooh to play the Dre role with Soopafly, Daz Dillinger, L.T. Hutton, and Snoop himself also providing production. Snoop revealed the double meaning behind Tha Doggfather title: I look at myself as Don Corleone, the Doggfather of rap – gangsta rap. And I’m also a new father – I have a son that’s two years old. So, it’s a double meaning, meaning that I’m a father as far as raising my son and as far as raising this rap to game to another level. Tha Doggfather was met with criticism over the lyrical content and production, including from Dr. Dre, who frankly said in a February 1997 Spin interview: To be perfectly honest, I don’t like Snoop’s new album. […] The first time you hear some shit, you just listen to it to get your groove on, but after that, I started breaking songs down. There’s really nothing that was said on there that hasn’t been said 50 times before. Despite the criticism, Tha Doggfather debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart and sold over two million copies with support from the singles “Snoop’s Upside Ya Head” with Charlie Wilson, Snoop’s remake of Biz Markie’s “Vapors,” and the title track.
Distribution of songs on Tha Doggfather by producer
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