Articles tagged "snoop dogg"![]() Events ReviewWet Hot American Festival: Lollapalooza 2009by Drew Fortune[31.Aug.09] :. Certain things in Chicago are predictable... if it’s Lollapalooza weekend, the weather is gonna stink. PopMatters covered the fest, shooting video interviews and avoiding heatstroke. NewsSnoop Dogg may be ‘Blazed and Confused,’ but he’s still standingby Marian Liu [The Seattle Times (MCT)][21.Jul.09] :. There are few rappers as iconic as Snoop Dogg — and hardly any when you just count those who haven’t gone into retirement. And Snoop is definitely not retired. For close to two decades,... ![]() Music ReviewVarious Artists: Johnny Cash Remixedby Mike Schiller[29.Jan.09] :. Almost all of these artists spent as much energy as possible preserving the spirit of the songs that these updated versions are based on. ![]() Column: Busted HeadphonesSeven Ways to Detoxby Quentin B. Huff[19.Jan.09] :. It's 2009, and that means it has now been a full decade since Dr. Dre's last official release. Here are some suggestions for survival while you continue to await his long-gestating follow-up, Detox. ![]() TV ReviewIn Prison My Whole Lifeby Cynthia Fuchs[8.Dec.08] :. In Prison My Whole Life works through the contexts and details of Mumia Abu Jamal's experience, connecting it to other moments in recent American history. ![]() Column: Torch & TwangWho Says Country Can’t Hip-Hop?by Juli Thanki[26.Nov.08] :. Poverty, crime, disenfranchisement, sinning, saving, and no-account women: Stereotypical subjects of the average country song, or the average hip-hop song? Songs in the Key of Rapby Quentin B. Huff[23.Oct.08] :. The relationship between singing and rapping has had a transforming effect on hip-hoppers and singers alike. 311 gears up for a summer with Snoop Doggby Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)][1.Jul.08] :. Brendan Benson and bluegrass? Cult tunesmith Jon Brion and the new Robert Plant & Alison Krauss collaboration? These are the makings of the next album from the blunted groove merchants who gave... Daytime TV Goes Gangsta with Snoop Doggby Quentin B. Huff[26.Jun.08] :. Hip-hop's top dog touches down in soap opera territory for two days of music and melodrama. Snoop Dogg: Ego Trippin’by Drew Hinshaw[31.Mar.08] :. Ego Trippin' has more than a few moments where Snoop glides into the future, spicing and dicing a voice that heretofore was best served plain. Hypocrites need to clean up their actby Lisa Olson [New York Daily News (MCT)][13.Apr.07] :. There is no joy in this. The Rutgers women’s basketball team isn’t throwing a parade and most observers on the sidelines hardly feel the need to jump up and cheer. CBS did the right... Snoop Dogg: Tha Blue Carpet Treatmentby Mike Schiller[4.Dec.06] :. Snoop Dogg invites a bunch of friends to the studio, records a small army of songs, accomplishes not much of anything. Snoop Dogg: Bigg Snoop Dogg’s Puff Puff Pass Tour [DVD]by Lee Henderson[6.Dec.04] :. The filmmakers start to draw out a larger message: The Drug War was a second American Civil War, led by a racist Southern family named Bush, to re-imprison blacks and other minorities. Snoop Dogg: R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpieceby Pierre M. Hamilton[24.Nov.04] :. To say that Snoop Dogg has merely influenced the popular consciousness does him a great injustice. From his role as a purveyor of street slang to neo-blaxploitation actor, Snoop has infiltrated the zeitgeist. Playmakers: The Complete Seriesby Cynthia Fuchs[26.Jul.04] :. Much as creator John Eisendrath asserts that sports is 'colorblind,' Playmakers reveals the many ways that race creates bonds and divisions, expectations and loyalties. Soul Plane (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[28.May.04] :. Perhaps the tribulations of Snoop's home life produced the tiresome distractedness of his performance in Soul Plane. Starsky & Hutch (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Mar.04] :. Who could have anticipated that Snoop would be the saving grace of a major studio buddy flick?" Malibu’s Most Wanted (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Apr.03] :. Like most such slapdashy juggling acts, Malibu's Most Wanted can't keep all its balls in the air. The Wash (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.Nov.01] :. Snoop makes an excellent Mean Face, snarling as he guns his fantastically acrobatic low-rider's engine. Training Day (2001)by Cynthia FuchsPlausibility is plainly not Training Day's concern. It's more interested in images and ideas than practicalities. Baby Boy (2001)by Cynthia FuchsJohn Singleton's 'Baby Boy' begins with a bang. But it's not the sort of bang you'd expect from the guy whose first film was the earnest 'Boyz N the Hood' (1991), or whose last, the explosive 'Shaft' (2000), had its Armani-clad protagonist declaring, 'It's Giuliani time!' as he stalked off to blow away a few bad cops. |
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