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Kendrick Lamar Reviews Snoop Doggs’s “Doggystyle” For XXL

blame it on JES7 November 23, 2013
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With today marking the 20th anniversary since Snoop’s Doggystyle was delivered to the World, XXL got a hold of Kendrick (who is a notable fan of Snoop, and vice versa) and asked the TDE artist to review Snoop’s debut. Read a few choice quotes below.

On the first time hearing it:

I actually listened to it when I was 6. Believe me, when you’re from Compton, Long Beach, Watts, South Central, Inglewood…that’s all they were playing around you as a kid. I couldn’t escape it. I remember seeing Snoop Dogg on this video station called The Box. Somebody kept ordering “Ain’t Nothing But A G Thang.” I watched videos a lot, so I was familiar with him.

On the influence it had on him:

I’m definitely influenced by that album. The structure. The cohesiveness. The skits. The flow. The melodies Snoop kicked. The raw raps. There wouldn’t be a Kendrick Lamar without Doggystyle.

READ: Kendrick Lamar on the Influence of Snoop’s “Doggystyle”