Tha Blue Carpet Treatment

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Customer reviews

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:
- Boss' life
- Vato
- Candy
- Get a light
- Gangbangn 101
- That's that s***
- Imagine

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 R&G (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.

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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..
SONGS LIKE VATO WITH B REAL REALY JUMP OUT..THIS ALBUM GIVES ME A BIT OF BACK TO THE NINETIES FEEL..
BUT FOR ANYONE WHO LIKES RAP HIPHOP ETC..THIS IS A MUST HAVE!!!
ITS VARIAT..ITS GOT VERYTING YOU WANT A RAP REC 2 B


review by: THE rap music reviewer date: 2007-02-26 rating:
as good as doggy style??
I have bought a fair few snoop cd and most of them were crap! I loved doggystyle and placed it up there to see if he could repeat it. Well i gotta say this is the nearest he will get. He has matured and This one could easily be his best to date!! Check out boss' life (awsome) or Imagine (workin the magic wiv dre) or gangbangin 101 (brings out the best in the game). this cd is dope, fly, awsome, amazing, excellent. If you aint never bought the doggfathers cds before then go and buy this and doggystle and you will be chillin and noddin your head for a long time.

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