If you've thought of Tha Last Meal in the past 10 years put ya hands up! If you've made it past "Lay Low," make noise! Bought this from a vending machine at a rest stop, one of those warm relics of Eisenhower infrastructure where a man can stretch his legs and empty the tank, maybe cop a Do Or Die CD with a side of hot wings. Da 8th graders had told me to save my loot for one of those Dr. Moreau turkey legs, and I immediately regretted the purchase once I threw my whoadie's Country Grammar CD on the Discman.
15
years later and I still wish I'd got Country Grammar, but Tha Last Meal
ain't exactly the turd I once thought. True, Snoop had already ceded artistic control to the Snoop Dogg™ songwriting department, but there's still some
worthwhile contributions from the Dr. Dre™ concern, Kokane playin Bootsy, and a still chubby Timbaland, even if "Set It Off" needs to be purged of Snoop and Lady Of Rage. Yet none of them pose a question as awesomely filthy as the one submitted by Suga Free on "Bring It On": "Why did the little girl walk around with a gold fish in her pocket? So she could smell like the big girls!" Game recognize game. Snoop might flirt with the pimp persona, but he's a mere weekender in the presence of the meticulous pageantry and immersion that led a senile Robert Christgau to deem Suga Free "the Klaus Nomi
of pimp rap." If anyone can turn out Taylor Swift, it's you playa!
very happy to hear ive a fellow Last Meal/ggn news network fan. Kokane shouldve shared billing imo. You see Rappingports appearance? its v Rappingport.
ReplyDeletemost of Snoop's late 90s/turn of the century shit is unfairly talked down on imo.
Nah, I'ma check that out. Kokane was def the 6th man of this record. Seems like most Internet people dismiss later Snoop as if the man ain't a national treasure.
Deletethe too short gnn episode is hilarious your 2 perv uncles talking trash at the family reunion
ReplyDeleteBless the Internet for making such things possible.
DeleteThis and the Eastsidaz albums are very unfairly hated on.
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ReplyDeleteOooh, gotta revisit that first Eastsidaz disque.
ReplyDeletethis is one of snoop's best albums. i don't even remember people hating on this at the time. "snoop dogg" and "lay low" got hella party play as did "loosen control."
ReplyDeletebattlecat gave snoop some of his best beats on this one
eastsidaz album that came out in 2000 is equally as dope
as an overall album, this is light years better than paid da cost to be tha boss
I remember this being heralded as a return to form when it came out, but that seems to have been swallowed up by the lazy revisionism of Snoop's solo albums being trash after Tha Doggfather, not unlike the mid-'00s rap bloggers who tried challenging the conventional view of Pac as a great rapper.
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