A compelling artist whose private sensibilities are impossible to gauge, Snoop Doggy Dogg plays both sides of the reality fence, inviting listeners into his house and then rubbing their noses in his shit. “Aint No Fun (If the Homies Cant Have None)” - with Warren G, Nate Dogg and Kurupt of Tha Dogg Pound taking turns being crude on the mic - describes an especially offensive communal sexual ethos. Ultimately, though, Snoop’s favorite target is women, who are repeatedly treated to outrageous abuse. The surrealism of Snoop-ness becomes manifest in “Murder Was the Case,” which begins with a drive-by shooting that leaves the narrator in a coma, discussing the afterlife with a supreme MC. He issues rote threats of violence in “Who Am I (What’s My Name)?” and elsewhere shoots a rival over a woman. Dispassionately obsessed with death, Snoop shifts easily from tales of heartless nut-busting and pot-smoking to caps-busting as if they were all of equal consequence.

Working over a slow-rolling platter of Dre’s finest funk, strung together as a radio broadcast and punched up with skits (the classroom bit in which a young Snoop announces his adult ambition is pretty funny), the rapper flips the script on roughneck hardcore style with a quietly inveigling sing-song, musical breadth and playful persona. Dre’s The Chronic - the former Calvin Broadus paid off on the hype with Doggystyle, furthering the work begun by Dre, Ice Cube and Eazy-E in N.W.A with a distinctive landmark album that gave the West Coast a real leg up in the rap race and placed Snoop at ground zero in the subsequent political controversy over family values and the sound of music. Arriving fully strapped with unassailable street cred and hip-hop fame - thanks to a murder indictment (for which he was subsequently tried and exonerated) and his collaborative role on Dr.

If Disney were to open an X-rated amusement park in Times Square, Snoop Doggy Dogg would surely be one of the young crowd’s favorite characters, serving gin and juice, passing out blunts, rapping to big-booty women and entertaining tourists with his comical gangsta caricature and tales of jurisprudence.

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