The career of Snoop Dogg is something in hip-hop which boggles the mind. In 1993, he released the classic Doggystyle, a debut album which showcased an artist with an extreme amount of charisma, lyrical talent, vibe, variety, and sense of humor. Backed by superior production by the great Dr. Dre, it was one of the albums which put Death Row Records at the top of its game. Sadly, his career began to falter after this. Death Row began to fall apart, including the death of rapper Tupac Shakur and the departure of Dre, leaving Snoop to release a mediocre sophomore effort called Doggfather. The album isn't too bad, but it lacks a lot of the things that made his debut such a classic. After this failure, Death Row Records crumbled and Snoop went looking elsewhere to get signed. The first place that gladly picked him up with open arms was Master P's horrid No Limit Records. His first album on that label, The Game is to be Sold, Not to be Told was terrible and possibly the worst album in the history of mankind. After the failure, Snoop recruited Dr. Dre for production and released the average No Limit Top Dogg, which was a huge improvement, but still not the classic fans have waited for.

1. Intro (NOT RATED)
2. Hennesey n' Buddah f/ Kokane (3 Stars)
3. Snoop Dogg (Whats My Name Pt. 2) (3 Stars)
4. True Lies f/ Kokane (2 Stars)
5. Wrong Idea f/ Bad Azz, Lil' 1/2 Dead & Kokane (2 1/2 Stars)
6. Go Away f/ Kokane (3 Stars)
7. Set It Off f/ MC Ren, Lady Of Rage, Kurupt, Ice Cube & Nate Dogg (4 Stars)
8. Stacey Adams f/ Kokane (2 Stars)
9. Lay Low f/ Master P, Nate Dogg, Butch Cassidy, Goldie Loc & Tray Dee (3 1/2 Stars)
10. Bring It On f/ Suga Free & Kokane (3 1/2 Stars)
11. Game court (skit) (NOT RATED)
12. Issues (4 Stars)
13. Brake Fluid f/ Kokane (2 1/2 Stars)
14. Ready 2 Ryde f/ Eve (2 Stars)
15. Losing Control f/ Butch Cassidy & Soopafly (2 Stars)
16. I Can’t Swim (2 Stars)
17. Leave Me Alone (1 1/2 Stars)
18. Back Up Off Me f/ Master P and Mr. Magic (0 Stars)
19. Y’all Gonna miss Me f/ Kokane (4 Stars)

The album's lead-single kicks in next, called "Snoop Dogg (Whats My Name Pt. 2)".

The Last Meal begins to detetiorate with two weaker tracks "True Lies" and "Wrong Idea". Dr. Dre provides the beat for the first track, which is good, but nothing anywhere close to some of his extraordinary work we've heard before. Snoop spits pointless braggadiocio lyrics about nothing. His lyricism is poor and his subject matter is worse. Kokane's background vocals get annoying as he is sounding too much like Pharrell from the Neptunes or P. Diddy with his constant guest appearances and useless vocals. The second track is the first crew joint of the album, which comes off terrible due to the lack of talent shown by these emcees. Easily Skippable.

Skipping past the terrible "Stacey Adams", we head to one of the better moments of the album, the second single "Lay Low". Dre kicks the track off with a short intro on Snoop's answering machines, then handles the production beautifully. We get a banging track reminiscent of Snoop's older work, with that head-bobbing factor. Dr. Dre uses some incredibly hard piano loops, violins, claps and drums, along with a deep assortment of bass which is difficult to hear because it is perfectly blended with the piano loops. Nate Dogg drops by to hit us with a truly memorable hook. Snoop Dogg does an excellent job on his verse, along with the Eastsidaz and their excellent verses, and Butch Cassidy giving it a bit of harmonization on the breakdown. Goldie Loc spits a simplistic, yet memorable verse due to his somewhat funny and unique delivery: "Where that n*gga who be talkin sh*t?, He don't come around no more because I f*cked his b*tch, I made her suck my d*ck, while I was squeezin the t*ts, Then I hit it from the back, gripped tight on them hips". Hehe. Afterwards, Master P drops in, and, as expected, he is TERRIBLE and lowered the standards of what was going to be a great track. His lyricism is terrible, i mean, check this out: "Whassup pimpin? It's P and Snoop, With Dre on the beat, this ain't nuttin but loot, They call me Jed Clampett for all the bread I got, but they call me Bill Clinton for all the head I got, I keeps it real-ah, cause I'm all about my scrilla, The ladies love me cause I'm a million dolla hitta". When you get to his part, skip it.

Snoop gets introspective on this track. The beat is a nice assortment of synthesizers and rough claps. But Snoop's lyrics take the stage as he raps about the variety of problems that has hit him throughout the years and how he seems hated. Snoop plans to battle his adversaries and never falter. Snoop steps it up and gets intelligent and retrospective, as well as his flow is on-point. Granted, some of his lyricism is still cliche, its a humongous improvement over what we have heard thus-far. Snoop touches on the breaking of DPG, as well as his own future: " Dogg Pound ain't the same?, Yeah, them n*ggas split up and did they own thang and went made their own gang, Money is thicker than water?, That's f*ck up but on the real that's how it is cuz, damn the world just ain't the same?, And come to find out this n*ggas crossing out my motherf*cking name, So what am I to do?, I put it on mind continue to shine, everything fine, In G-O-D we trust, That's why ya'll suckers can't "Touch us, Touch us".

Tha Last Meal is pretty much, a terrible hip-hop album. Despite its introspective moments, charisma, and superb production at times, it falls prey to far TOO MUCH filler within it. His flow is still on-point, and hes still funny, but its lacking a lot of the feel of his older work. However, this is an improvement over his other No Limit work, but thats not really a difficult thing to accomplish. Its pretty sad to see somebody who is honestly talented like Snoop put out terrible albums, but im guessing that when he surrounded himself by fools, such as the employees No Limit Records, nothing but shit can spew from his mouth. Luckily, after leaving No Limit, he released Paid tha Cost to be tha Boss, which was pretty good and much better than this terrible, terrible album...