Dead Man Walkin' - Snoop Dogg

...from Snop whilst on the Dead Row record label, without the artists permission. All the tracks were recorded between 1993 and 1998, so it is highly varied in style and quality.

1. "May I"

This is a massively strong way to get things goign as you have a piece of quality material from Snoop getting things going, showing that he had a lot more potentinal in him than what was released in "Doggystyle", ...
...him.

**Four Stars**

2. "C-Walkin'"

Snoop gets his Crip Walk on with this one, showing that even Gs need to boogie, even if its just to send a message out to opposite gang members. It is a funky G-Funk tune, which you are bound to like if you wre into material from "Tha Doggfather", and that time in his career.

**Four Stars**

3. "Head Doctor"
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"Dead Man Walkin'" was the 2000 release from the Long Beach California-rasied rapper, Snoop Dogg. Due to the fact that Snoop had been signed to No Limit at the time of publication was significant, as this is a compilation of unreleased tracks from Snop whilst on the Dead Row record label, without the artists permission. All the tracks were recorded between 1993 and 1998, so it is highly varied in style and quality.

1. "May I"

This is a massively strong way to get things goign as you have a piece of quality material from Snoop getting things going, showing that he had a lot more potentinal in him than what was released in "Doggystyle", and "Tha Doggfather", not that they weren't great records from him.

**Four Stars**

2. "C-Walkin'"

Snoop gets his Crip Walk on with this one, showing that even Gs need to boogie, even if its just to send a message out to opposite gang members. It is a funky G-Funk tune, which you are bound to like if you wre into material from "Tha Doggfather", and that time in his career.

**Four Stars**

3. "Head Doctor"

I wouldn't havre said that this one is anywhere near as good as the majority of the tracks on the album, however it serves a perpose within this one since it has him showing a softer side whilst performing along with Raphael Saadiq and Swoop G. It adds to the variety pf the album, but isn't that good itself.

**Three Stars**

4. "Hit Rocks"

I would have to say that this one stands far out ahead of the rest of the tracks here as the best recording off the album. The resaon for this is the fact that it has Snoop produce as N***aracci with DJ Pooh with some funky G-Funk, and then Snoop kills it with suitable drug-related raps.

**Five Stars**

5. "Tommy Boy"

You get another top-quality track from Snoop as he gets his cousin, Daz to rap with him on a storytelling tune, set in the south. This one sounds to be a very early recording from him, from the way that he goes about delivering his lines, and the content within it all, however this isn't a bad thing as his debut could be argued to be the bst time in his career (in terms of its consistency and high standard).

**Five Stars**

6. "Change Gone Come"

Suddenly, things drop down again as you get a track which unlike most of the rest of the tracks, seems to be rather out-date, and has little relavence to todays (or 2000s) Hip Hop scence, and although I was a big fan of mid-ninetes West Coast Rap, it didn't really suit the trends of that ime either

**Two Stars**

7. "Too Black"

Obvisouly, with a title liek what is given is used, he is going to come up with something significant, and he does just this as he sends out some racially-motivaed rhymes in reference to how he feels peopel in his race aren't treated as equals to any others. Despite its thought-provoking contnet, it didn't really impact me too much.

**Three Stars**

8. "Gangsta Walk"

Here is a big track from Snoop and Tha Dogg Pond (Daz and Kurupt) and the pair come up with a killer track, in which they perform on a soft, smooth beat by the lead beatmaker from DPG. It seems to stick to as if it was a single, even though it wasn't. You shoudl look out for it if you are a fan of tunes from either act.

**Five Stars**

9. "County Blues"

Snoop is knwn for his ability to do just about anything, and in this one, along with harmonic-based prodcution, he raps the Blues, without it sounding too much of a struggle. It all comes naturally to Tha Top Dogg, and adds to the diversity of this album.

**Four Stars**

10. "I Will Survive"

Thsi one is a low-energy track, in which you get him gogin on some Soopafly production, and doign it with Kurupt, and some lesser known names in Techniec & Kevin Vernado, and they are decent, but nothing special. Snoop seems to be much better than he is, due to this signifcant contrast in ability.

**Three Stars**

11. "My Favorite Color"

Snoop raps about the colour black, and all which is associated with it, and so just as in "Too Black", Snoop chooses to slow things up and almost whisper his raps, making the listener attempt to get hear the words more carefully. Since theses are thought-provoking words from him, it was a good chice to do so.

**Four Stars**

12. "Me and My Doggs"

Snoop ends things in the right way by going for a funky G-Funk recording, and it is just the type of thing you associate with Snoop's Death Row days of rapping. His matches this great production with smooth, laid-back delivery, and it makes it all come together nicely.

**Four Stars**

This compilatory album is one which needed to come out, as it uncovered lots of previously unheard quality tracks from Snoop, and you are bound to like it all if you liked both "Doggystyle", and "Tha Doggfather", however I don't support the fact that it was released just to show Suge Knight's power over Snoop, despite not being signed to his label anymore. 

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