Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$
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4.0 |
Description: Despite the middling quality of his previous two albums, Snoop Dogg's sixth full-length effort firmly places this "professor of G-ology" back on top of the game. Snoop comes off surprisingly spry on
Paid tha Cost, offering one of his best-balanced albums in years. His pimpalistic style is still draped in silk and fur, especially on "Bo$$ Playa," "Suited 'n' Booted," and "Ballin'." But "I Believe in You" is an unexpectedly sensitive, irony-free love ballad, while Snoop's pairings with the Neptunes and Gang Starr's DJ Premier result in two of his hardest hitting cuts ever, "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace" and "The One and Only" respectively. Combine this with his unfettered attack on Suge Knight ("Pimp Slapp'd") and this is a Snoop Dogg charging forward rather than lazily leaning back. Taking the helm at the dawn of the new decade, this old Dogg still has some new tricks.
--Oliver Wang
Tracklist of Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$
| Disc 1 |
| 1 |
Don Doggy |
0:42 |
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| 2 |
Da Bo$$ Would Like To See You |
1:59 |
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| 3 |
Stoplight |
4:26 |
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| 4 |
From Tha Chuuuch To Da Palace (featuring Pharrell) |
4:40 |
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| 5 |
I Believe In You (featuring Latoiya Williams) |
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| 6 |
Lollipop (featuring Jay-Z, Soopafly, Nate Dogg) |
3:49 |
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| 7 |
Ballin' (featuring The Dramatics, Lil' Half Dead) |
5:20 |
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| 8 |
Beautiful (featuring Pharrell, Uncle Charlie Wilson) |
4:35 |
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| 9 |
Paper'd Up (featuring Mr. Kane, Traci Nelson) |
3:50 |
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| 10 |
Wasn't Your Fault |
4:30 |
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| 11 |
Bo$$ Playa |
5:53 |
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| 12 |
Hourglass (featuring Mr. Kane, Goldie Loc) |
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| 13 |
The One And Only |
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| 14 |
I Miss That Bitch (featuring E-White) |
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| 15 |
From Long Beach 2 Brick City (featuring Redman, Nate Dogg, Warren G) |
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| 16 |
Suited N Booted |
3:16 |
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| 17 |
You Got What I Want (featuring Ludacris, Goldie Loc, Uncle Charlie Wilson) |
3:36 |
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| 18 |
Batman & Robin (featuring Lady Of Rage, RBX) |
5:03 |
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| 19 |
A Message 2 Fat Cuzz |
1:41 |
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| 20 |
Pimp Slapp'd |
5:42 |
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Reviews:
I Paid Tha Cost For Being Stupid
Here in Brazil, rap CDs normally come with the Parental Advisory, due to its explicit contens, but it's not always. I've bought many explicit rap CDs in here without the Parental Advisory, so I've never thought the Clean Versions would come to Brazil.
I bought this CD without knowing it was Clean. I was listening this CD and I soonly found out that the songs were all censored, it made me really angry. I'm lucky that this isn't one of the most explicit rap CDs ever (with more cussing, I mean). If it was, I would be even more upset. The songs sound like if they were broken, something like that. I hate when the beats stop because of cussing. So, I hate Clean Versions from now on. This CD would probably get four stars if it wasn't for the "broken songs".
Anyway, "Beautiful" is still the best song in this CD, followed by "Lollipop", who has a great beat, "I Believe In You", "You Got What I Want".
This CD features famous rappers like Jay-Z, Nate Dogg, Ludacris and some others I haven't heard of. I miss Dr. Dre, Eminem and 50 Cent in this CD, it would be much better with them, I think. But the CD is worth you money (atleast the Explicit Version) for few tracks. I bought this CD actually to get ready to Snoop Dogg's show in my city, he's coming in January, and the show is going to rule.
The Clean version of this CD isn't worth your money, even if you want to buy it for your children and you're worried with the content, just don't. It has few cussing and it's OK for 12 and up.
Hip Hop is meant to be explicit, if you censor it, it's not Hip Hop anymore, it's fake.
I wish The Dogg would return to his classical roots
I have to say, this just doesn't compare at all to Snoop Doggy Dogg's earlier classics like "Peanuts" or "Charlie Brown and the Super Christmas Present." I mean, first of all, this is music, not a movie! And it shows a black guy on the front. My wife insisted that it was a "rappa", but I knew better, so I punched her square in the face for blaspheming the name of the Almighty Snoopy Dogg. I rented this movie for my kids, put it in the ol' trusty ol' DVD player, and before you can see "Charlie Brown is for happy children!" we were all being carried away into a world of....wait a minute...BAD LANGUAGE! LOTS OF "N" WORDS AND SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS!!
I couldn't believe it. I took out Snoop Dogg from the DVD player, snapped the DVD/CD in half, and threw it at my child. (He's still recovering in hospital, he should be OK.) I was so mad at the time, that I threw my daughter out the upstairs window. (She's lucky we live on the ninth floor, and not the fifteenth.)
Snoop Dogg, why has thee betrayed thy classical roots? And Charles Schulz - WHY HAVE YOU SOLD OUT TO THE EVILS OF MAINSTREAM AMERICA?!
Not the same
When Snoop came into the game his debute was Doggystyle which was a straight classic.But he went down from there.Now he has the Neptunes doing korny beats to his song.I want the old Snoop Dogg back working in the lab with Dr. Dre again.Over all the only songs that were good are From the Chuuuch To the Palace,Beautiful,Lollipop,and You Got What I Want.But the only song out of these I really enjoyed was From The Chuuuch To the Palace.
You have to let you go
I didn't like this album at first, but you have to be open for changes, and snoop dogg kept his style and does still HipHop, but he rhymes over new styles of beats and it's perfect while the sun is shining.