By now his sound had become less "gangsta rap" and somewhat smoother. His last album for No Limit, The Last Meal, came in 2000 and sold over 2 million copies.
He scored the top slot on the hip-hop charts with his next two albums: Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told (1998) and No Limit Top Dogg (1999). Snoop then left Death Row himself, falling out with label mogul Suge Knight and moving to Master P’s No Limit Records.
'Da Game Is to Be Sold' to 'The Hard Way' While it didn’t perform as well commercially, it still showed that Snoop was a major-league artist. Snoop's next album, Tha Doggfather (1996), also reached the top of the charts, despite the absence of Dre, who had left Death Row over a contract dispute. Next came a short film called Murder Was the Case, the soundtrack of which went double platinum. Dre gave Snoop a sound that would resonate in the minds of hip-hop fans for generations. 1 spot on Billboard's hip-hop and Top 200 charts, based in part on the success of the singles "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" and "Gin and Juice." It built on the G-Funk template that The Chronic had established, as Cypress Hill’s B-Real later reminisced: “I think Dr. Snoop's first album, the Dre-produced Doggystyle (1993), climbed its way to the No. The rapper then pointed out that hip-hop has been the most dominant genre in the mainstream over the last decade, and the fact that other genres pull influences from it in their own music to "stay relevant." Whereas hip-hop used to be a sole genre on its own, Snoop cited Run DMC as an example of artists who were able to fuse hip-hop with rock and other genres "and show that we're better together.Hit Albums: 'Doggystyle' & 'Tha Doggfather'
We should get that same love in hip-hop because we created something that's gonna last forever, it's generational." "We love their music, we love them, we respect them, we come support them, we sing their music - diehard fans. "Don’t put no time limit on how old we are or what we are, because we don’t look at the rockers and say, ‘Man, he got white hair now when he used to have black hair, and it's all grey now,’" he continued. So slow it down a little bit, and start putting some respect on our name and give us the respect for who we are." "You got rappers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You ain’t got no motherfucking rock and rollers in the Rap Hall of Fame. "They don't limit The Rolling Stones, they don't limit those other groups that do it outside of our genre," Snoop said of musicians making music at an older age.
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