Snoop Dogg comes to Rock Band

[Caliostro]

It takes a little bit more than the ability to talk to rap like Snoop. Try rapping along with some of his older stuff with Dre. A decent sense of rhythm is a must, and then you have to make it sound good. I don't think rapping is singing, but you can't phone it in either. You have to have a little skill to sound good.

Well, as much as I would disagree with his trollish tone, I could just as easily say something like that with any musician. That's just trivializing people's talent.

Snoop is a good actor, he can be pretty funny... But he's a lousy "musician"...

I picked a music from him completely at random from youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_TcszezOVE&feature=related

Despite the fact that the videoclips is bad past the point of "hilarious" and into the point of "...Who comes up with this shit...?" (I can only imagine how that pitch went..."SO WE GOT DAWGS RIGHT...AND THEY TURN...INTO DAWGS! OHH YEAH!" It's like "Pimp my videoclip" gone wrong), let's analyze the music:

Instruments (i.e.: the actual music of the fucking music): None. Everything is done by synthesizers. It's what we like to call "music-by-the-yard". You do a 10 second sample and then repeat it for as long as it takes. That music could be 20 seconds or two hours, s'all the same.

Lyrics:

Spoiler: Lyrics to the above song

EeeyiyiyiyiyahtheDoggPound'sinthehou-owwse (the bomb)
EeeyiyiyiyiyeahtheDoggPound'sinthehou-oww-owse
Snoop Doggy, Do-owww-ohhhh-oggg (the bomb)
Snoop Doggy, Do-owww-ohhhh-oggg (Dog)

Verse One:

From the depths of the sea, back to the block
Snoop Doggy Dogg, Funky, yes but of the Doc
Went solo on that ass, but it's still the same
Long Beach is the spot where I served my cane
Follow me, follow me, follow me, follow me, but don't lose your grip
Nine-trizzay's the yizzear for me to fuck up shit
So I ain't holdin nuttin back
And ************ I got five on the twenty sack
It's like that and as a matter of fact [rat-tat-tat-tat]
Cuz I never hesitate to put a nigga on his back
[Yeah, so peep out the manuscript
You see that it's a must we drop gangsta shit]
What's my motherfuckin name?

Chorus:

Snoop Doggy, Do-owww-ohhhh-oggg (yeah yeah yeah)
Snoop Doggy, Do-owww-ohhhh-oggg (the bomb)
Da-duh-da-da-dah
Do-do-do-do, doo-doo-doo-da-dahhh! (Dog)

Verse Two:

It's the bow to the wow, creepin and crawlin
Yiggy yes y'allin, Snoop Doggy Dogg in
the motherfuckin house like everyday
Droppin shit with my nigga Mr Dr. Dre
Like I said, niggaz can't FUCK with this
And niggaz can't FUCK with that
shit that I drop cuz ya know it don't stop
Mr. One Eight Seven on a motherfuckin cop
Tic toc never the glock just some nuts and a cock
Robbin motherfuckers then I kill dem blood claats
Then I step through the fog and I creep through the smog
Cuz I'm Snoop Doggy (who?) Doggy (what?) Doggy [Dogg]

Chorus:

Snoop Doggy, Do-owww-ohhhh-oggg
Snoop Doggy, Do-owww-ohhhh-oggg (the bomb)
Bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yay, bow wow wow yippy yo (the bomb)
Bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yay, bow wow wow yippy yo yo yo yo yo yo

Verse Three:

Now just throw your hands in the motherfuckin air
And wave the motherfuckers like ya just don't care
Yeah roll up the dank, and pour the drank
And watch your step (why?) cuz Doggy's on the gank
My bank roll's on swoll
My shit's on hit, legit, now I'm on parole, stroll
with the Dogg Pound right behind me
and up in yo *****, is where ya might find me
Layin that, playin that G Thang
She want the nigga with the biggest nuts, and guess what?
He is I, and I am him, slim with the tilted brim
What's my motherfuckin name?

Chorus:

Snoop Doggy, Do-owww-ohhhh-oggg (the bomb)
Snoop Doggy, Do-owww-ohhhh-oggg
Snoop Doggy, Do-owww-ohhhh-oggg (the bomb)
Snoop Doggy, Do-owww-ohhhh-oggg (Dog)
Da-duh-da-da-dah
Do-do-do-do, doo-doo-doo-da-dahhh! (the bomb)
Da-duh-da-da-dah
Do-do-do-do, doo-doo-doo-da-dahhh! (Dog) (the bomb)
Bowwowwowyippyyoyippyyay, bowwowwowyippyyo (the bomb)
Doggy Dogg, Doggy Dogg, Doggy Dogg
Bowwowwowyippyyoyippyyay, bowwowwowyippyyo (the bomb)
What is, his name? Snoop Dogg, and the Dogg Pound
(Dog) (the bomb)
Ohhh, Snoopy Dogg, Snoopy Dogg, Snoopy Dogg (the bomb)
Yeah yeah (Dog) I know his name
C'mon Snoopy, c'mon Snoopy (the bomb)
And the Dogg Pound
Snoopy Dogg (the bomb) Snoopy Dogg
Snoopy Dogg (Dog)
(Dog, nasty dog, doggy dog)

Note: http://artists.letssingit.com/snoop-dogg-lyrics-who-am-i-whats-my-name-zklkz8h yeah...It's a real song... I wish I was kidding.

Ignoring the fact that he writes like a twelve year old that declared war on grammar... what...the...fuck? Honestly, what is the music about? Dude has ADD... He can't keep a coherent thought through ONE rhyme...

I mean Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit [http://artists.letssingit.com/nirvana-lyrics-smells-like-teen-spirit-6c6dw1q] had some pretty fucking atrocious lyrics and even that made more sense than this... it also had the advantage of having some music played with it and being written in correct English and not some unholy bastardization of the language, which goes a long way to help it's credibility...


Rap has it's place, I like some rap myself (Run DMC, Eminem, Rage Against the Machine (if they can be considered rap), Cypress Hill (borderline, but still), Public Enemy...etc)... But I love music, I love all kinds of art, I can't honestly place rap on the same "level" as, say, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, The Beatles, The Who or even Beethoven and Pachelbel... It's like comparing a Lamborghini with a Fiat... I mean, they're both cars, and they're both good as a method of transportation... But one is still a Lamborghini and the other is still a Fiat...

BUT, for the sake of argument, even if you think Rap is the one true music style and everything else is crap... How in the living fuck does rap fit Rock Band? Rap barely fits Singstar (trust me, I tried... The rap songs are the ones we all look awkwardly around going "...right...") which is a game about SINGING...Let alone a game played based on playing instruments!

 

[GenHellspawn]

Rap has it's place, I like some rap myself (Run DMC, Eminem, Rage Against the Machine (if they can be considered rap), Cypress Hill (borderline, but still), Public Enemy...etc)... But I love music, I love all kinds of art, I can't honestly place rap on the same "level" as, say, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, The Beatles, The Who or even Beethoven and Pachelbel... It's like comparing a Lamborghini with a Fiat... I mean, they're both cars, and they're both good as a method of transportation... But one is still a Lamborghini and the other is still a Fiat...

Thing is, you've forgotten about the fact that people have different opinions. You can't just make up a scale for "talent" and then measure various people on it, you have to realize that different things will sound more appealing to other people, and using your opinions as the gold standard is just asinine.

 

[zen5887]

Oh man, what a hi-larious thread.

I love watching people ***** about somthing they are not forced to use/buy. If Snoops name has tainted Rock Bands good name then stop playing - everybody wins =D

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I'm not into rap music, but whatever. A song is a song, and if you don't like it, don't download it.

 

[Steelfists]

IM SORRY BUT YOU ARE ALL FAR TOO WHITE TO BE COMMENTING ON THIS TOPIC.

MOVE ALONG PLEASE.

 

[new_age_reject]

Singer does this ^

Drum and bass players play.

Guitar player rolls the joints.

Amen brother.
But seriously, there can't be exciting parts for the instruments.