Tha Blue Carpet Treatment

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Customer reviews

review by: Luzh date: 2008-12-01 rating:
Everybody loves Snoop and Snoop loves everybody
I can't decide whether Snoop keeps getting better with age or whether my expectations for a Snoop release have gradually decreased over the last 13 years. Whatever it is I still enjoyed Tha Blue Caret Treatment br / br /As with Nas critics and fans alike can't seem to get over his debut album and the fact that there will never be another Doggystyle. In '05 however, it seemed Snoop finally exorcised the Doggystyle demons with the release of his hit "Drop It Like Its Hot." Although the song had some gangsta elements it featured Pharrell and had a beat that is closer Snap music than anything else. Finally, everyone could groove with Snoop on a track wasn't gangsta. br / br /He took full advantage of his now accepted `laid back gangsta status' with the release of The Masterpiece. However after a positive response initially the critics began to question the `Pop Gangsta' image and The Masterpiece proved to have very little staying power even though it had a few successful commercial singles. br / br /Fast forward to '06 and Snoop has an answer for those critics. If anything, with this album Snoop proves that he can make Doggystyle II if he wanted to, but he chooses not to. On the opener "Think About It" shows that the butter smooth flow he became renowned for in '92 - '94 is still alive. On the 1st single "Vato" he shows that he can still get his gangsta on over one of Pharrell's hardest beat outside Hell Hath No Fury. What makes "Vato" interesting is the fact that he uses it to spread a positive message about unifying the west coast (a la the gangsta rap of old). "A B**** I Knew" resurrects the freaky tales error of Luke and Too Short. "Gangbangin 101" with blood brother The Game and "10 Lil' Crips" add to the gangster feel of the album. br / br /Snoop balances the hard with the laid back cuts that you know he really enjoys. From the soul sampling "Think About It", to the classic west coast cut "Crazy" complete with a Nate Dogg hook, to the showstopper "Imagine" a dream collaboration between Dr. Dre, Snoop and D'Angelo (which caps Dre's most active year in a minute). br / br /However with 20 songs, 21 if you include the intro Snoop leaves enough room for haters to take shots. The easiest targets being the Little league football dedication "Beat Up On Yo Pads" and the Biggie sampling Ice Cube collaboration "LAX". The former will leave you scratching your head (its scary that it could become an anthem)and the latter will remind you why you never missed Battlecat. br / br /Overall the album's definitely dope (for a Snoop album and for a hip-hop album in general), a little too long but on the other hand it definitely has something for everyone. Snoop has finally carved out the niche in rap that he has struggled to his whole career. He did this by finally giving the people what they want without compromising his own artistic ambitions, so now the comparisons to Doggystyle can be finally laid to rest.

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review by: date: 2007-12-26 rating:
brilliant
this was the 1st snoop album i bought and i was not disappointed as it is now one of my favourites. The best tracks are: br /- Boss' life br /- Vato br /- Candy br /- Get a light br /- Gangbangn 101 br /- That's that s*** br /- Imagine br / br /Overall its a great album.

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review by: s.vernon date: 2007-08-15 rating:
A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
You can look at the hard-hitting Tha Blue Carpet Treatment as a reaction to the crossover-minded RG (Rhythm Gangsta): The Masterpiece, an album that featured Justin Timberlake and the mega-single "Drop It Like It's Hot." Since that polished -- some would say "watered-down" -- effort put him over the top (again), Snoop was seen shilling for Chrysler and Orbit gum when he used to rep Girls Gone Wild: Doggy Style videos and that green sticky-icky you can only get on the West Coast. The time to buy street cred would be now, right? Well, Snoop's been doing some amazing things under most folks' radar, and this album is the natural outcome. While the title is a little poke at the Crip/Blood, blue/red dichotomy, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment feels like the G-funk soundtrack to Snoop's 2005 West Coast peace summit and all the positive hood moves he's made since then, like squashing all West Coast beefs and throwing some love to Cali's often-ignored Latin hip-hop community with his intentionally leaked "My Peoples" freestyle. It's the latter relationship that's responsible for the excellent "Vato," and while special guest B Real might be way bigger than 2Mex or most of the other names mentioned in "My Peoples," the Cypress Hill sideman needs Snoop in 2006 much more than vice versa. Polished efforts like the pimping "That's That S***" with R. Kelly and the strip club anthem "I Wanna F*** You" with Akon fall between Doggystyle-d gangsta throwbacks like the slinky "Crazy" with Nate Dogg and "Candy (Drippin' Like Water)," which features E-40 and Tha Dogg Pound next to lesser-known vets Goldie Loc and MC Eiht. Juggling "Candy"'s guests would be hard enough for lesser Gs, but it's a testament to Snoop that he can, and more so that he manages a full album that touches upon just about every ghetto flavor. Banger after banger, produced by everyone from Timbaland to the Neptunes, leads to a couple numbers that almost throw the album off-track: "Psst!," where Jamie Foxx woefully pretends he's Prince, and the pee-wee football anthem "Beat Up on Yo Pads," which is just out of place. Then there's the dream number "Imagine," a duet between Dr. Dre and Snoop that ponders a hood life not blessed with hip-hop, a life where the two would have never gotten "out from under." As the album exits on the positive "Conversations" with Stevie Wonder, memories of Rhythm Gangsta's grandest moments return, and it becomes obvious Tha Blue Carpet Treatment isn't so much a reaction to that album as it is a house party celebrating Snoop's whole career. With heaping helpings of G-funk and Left Coast attitude, there's no reason any West Coast-loving hip-hopper should miss this party.

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review by: date: 2007-05-22 rating:
5 Stars, really???
This is not a great album, there are about twice as many tracks as there should be. The Stevie Wonder effort is absolutely atrocious, a crime to music. Imagine is a classic, great to hear Dre drop a verse. Some good tracks no doubt, but some awful filler. If you're a Snoop fan then you'll like it but it is no where near Doggystyle, although Snoop shows more maturity and perspective than ever before.


review by: SIMON B date: 2007-04-10 rating:
exelent
SNOOP IS BACK ..AND HOW..THIS RECORD IS BY FAR THE BEST RECORD OF SNOOP I HAVE HEARD . ..IT'S ONE OF THOSE RECORDS WITH NOT single bad TRACK.. br /SONGS LIKE VATO WITH B REAL REALY JUMP OUT..THIS ALBUM GIVES ME A BIT OF BACK TO THE NINETIES FEEL.. br /BUT FOR ANYONE WHO LIKES RAP HIPHOP ETC..THIS IS A MUST HAVE!!! br /ITS VARIAT..ITS GOT VERYTING YOU WANT A RAP REC 2 B

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