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Snoop Dogg

Reviews 2

Snoop Dogg Presents… Algorithm

Various Artists

Full Clip: May’s Hip-Hop Albums Reviewed by Gary Suarez

Articles 7

Books

The Real Thing: Hip Hop Vs Television

Paul Rekret reviews a new book from University of Texas Press about hip hop’s relation to reality TV, *Who Got the Camera? A History of Rap and Reality* by Eric Harvey
A Quietus Interview

A Word In Your Donald: Ten Songs With Tom Sheehan

Karen Shook sits down with one of tQ's all time favourite photographers, Tom Sheehan, to discuss a lifetime behind the lens. All photographs courtesy T. Sheehan
A Quietus Interview

For Life: An Interview With Kali Uchis

The Colombia-via-Virginia singer's latest release, Por Vida, saw her refining her soul-inflected pop, coloured with the sounds of the past, to its finest iteration yet, aided by Snoop Dogg and a cast of other famous faces. With a debut album proper in the works, she talks to Mof Gimmers
Anniversary

20 Years On: Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle Revisited

Angus Batey looks hard at Snoop's now-canonised debut and questions some of its seriously problematic aspects that continue to be ignored by critics and audiences
Black Sky Thinking

NotBloc: How The Dance Community Rescued The Rave

The pragmatic and positive responses to Bloc's closure this weekend are reminders of the solidarity and community values that beat at the heart of dance music, argues Rory Gibb
Black Sky Thinking

An Extract From Dr Johnson’s Dictionary Wherein He Defines Hip Hop

Noted Twitterer @DrSamuelJohnson recently published his first new dictionary in 250 years. To celebrate this remarkable feat, we today present the section where he passes definition upon the genre of hip hop
Black Sky Thinking

Eazy Eavis – Glastonbury Finally Embraces The Urban

Melissa Bradshaw didn't think Glastonbury was for her... until the sun-blissed 2010, when Snoop, Joy Orbison and Hyperdub ruled the parched fields. Images thanks to Georgina Cook.

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 3

Baker's Dozen

My Quest for Breaking Everything: John Cale’s Favourite Music

The Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour long debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson, and makes a case for the avant-garde genius of Snoop Dogg

Baker's Dozen

Lovely Jubbly: D Double E’s Favourite Music

D Double E guides Aaron Bishop through the albums that shaped him and how the artists behind them resonated with him from Twista and Mobb Deep to Aaliyah and Shabba Ranks

Baker's Dozen

E3 Worldwide: Dizzee Rascal’s Favourite Albums

As Dizzee Rascal releases his first album since 2017, he guides Aaron Bishop through the songs that shaped him and how the artists behind them resonated with him from being the only black kid playing Nirvana on the estate to smoking with Snoop Dogg.

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