Mayer Hawthorne, Snoop Dogg & Dam-Funk’s G-Mix
Straight out of an alternate utopian 1983 comes this slice of turquoise-colored funk that somehow slipped under everyone’s notice this week. Mayer Hawthorne and Snoop, remixed by Dam-Funk, who adds a...
View ArticleSnoop Vs. Nardwuar: The Next Episode
The best part of this interview is obviously when Nardwuar gives Snoop the vinyls of The Dream Team and The Posse Volume 2. The Snoop Lion guise is immediately dropped and he starts doing old school...
View ArticleSnoop Dogg Vs. Suga Free: The Intervew We Didn’t Even Know We Were Waiting for
“The pimp game is a beautiful game because you can go to bed with nothing and wake up with everything.” — Suga Free. There are blunts, Taylor Swift talk, pimp talk, and Suga Free and Snoop freestyling...
View ArticleThe Corrections: Snoop Doggy Dogg’s “Doggystyle”
Slava P wrote this while wearing Coolwater Cologne. You’re sitting in the passenger seat of a car. It’s a hot, muggy Los Angeles afternoon and you’re with your friend in his low-riding convertible,...
View ArticleYou Got What I Eat
Chris Daly would like a hot pocket. Every once in a great while, a group of talented individuals comes together for a combined, concerted effort that makes the world a better place. Julius Caesar,...
View ArticleThe Unfadeable Snoop Dogg & Dam-Funk
There’s a lot to say about 7 Days of Funk, but conversely, you really only need to say, this is some deliriously funky shit. It’s to be expected from the two funkiest men to have spent serious time in...
View Article7 Days of Funk: Dam Funk & Snoop Dogg Hit the Pavement
Chris Daly would be the highest person at the 7 Days of Funk Release Party tonight if he lived in LA. In a year largely dominated by the likes of Kanye, the Arcade Fire, and BIG DEAL, SELF-IMPORTANT...
View ArticleSnoop Dogg X Dam-Funk —“Do My Thang” Video
The video treatment is as straightforward as the message. Do your thing, which in the case of Snoop means smoking bleezies while Dam-Funk is posted up by the bar drinking Godfathers, keytar strapped,...
View ArticleTwo Dope Boys In a Cadillac: Snoop Dogg and Madlib
Harold Stallworth is infatuated with Donald Goines’ novels. “The creative geography has collapsed over the last few years in Los Angeles.” This is a sentence I wish I could take credit for, but it’s...
View ArticleWest Coast Round Up
Max Bell is starring opposite Robert DeNiro in “Meet the Flockers 2″ Last week was a long week for various reasons. Rap and reefer helped. The Cali cure is generally best. Below are some of the latest...
View ArticleUncles & Nephews: Charlie Wilson & Snoop Dogg “Infectious”
Harold Stallworth is dancing reckless. At this point in my relatively young life, I always, without fail, find myself to be either the youngest or oldest person in every bar, every dance hall, every...
View ArticleWhere Rhythm is Life & Life Is Rhythm: An Interview with Warren G
The G Funk era is eternal. Dre, Snoop, 2Pac, Nate and Warren G are the holy quintet. “Smoke weed everyday” is their sacred mantra. Thirty years after Above The Law and Dre conceived Gangsta Funk, the...
View ArticleFunk is Not a Fad: Snoop Dogg, Daz & Dam-Funk Float On
Max Bell learned the talkbox from Leonard Troutman, the younger brother of Roger. Rap doesn’t allow covers or standards. Like the imagists of the early 20th century, the genre’s focus has always been...
View ArticleMore Moves Than Simpson: Snoop Dogg’s ‘No Limit Top Dogg’
Paul Thompson is on the other side, where them cowboys at. Baby and Slim used to make Cash Money artists run laps around a parking lot outside the studio, rapping the whole time, just to improve their...
View ArticleLavender Nightfall Remix by BADBADNOTGOOD and Snoop Dogg
Chris Daly bought stock in Snoop Loops. I have to imagine being Snoop Dogg is a pretty fucking good gig. Who else hears a random track played by the studio engineer just prior to a studio session and...
View ArticleA TRU Tank Dogg: Prime Cuts from Snoop Dogg’s Albums on No Limit Records
No ads, no gimmicks. Just the realest writing. Please support Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon. Pete Hunt gets no rap with that tore up khaki suit. A few years back, I excitedly...
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