I can’t call it either, snoops album was actually pretty good.

this will be the first time snoop won’t go platinum with a solo album in his entire career. Even those piece of shit albums he did on No Limit Records went platinum.

he got other people to write his sh*t.
he finally sold all-the-way-out.

when are people going to realize that:
1) sales are not always reflective of a good record. Its a shame, but ever since 50 blew up, it seems like the emphasis is not on the quality of the music but the quantity of units moved. Shit is stupid. When I was coming up, I never wondered how many records Biggie sold, I just heard it and copped it.

2) rap is no longer a profitable career path unless the goal is ringtone money or self promotion. Snoops been in this a while…and has more arrests then business ventures. 16 years…no label? No resturaunts? a weak ass clothing line and lame reality show…..i guess that good got him lazy…

snoop’s rhymes could quite possibly be the weakest in the game.

check how many times he got limewired

The answer is simple, the album should’ve dropped earlier when the single was just getting hot. the record company waited too long

Dam you ever heard of a paragraph.

Yeah people may buy into Snoop, but people are not buying his music because it sucks…flat out. He should have stopped at least 2 albums ago.

I don’t get it either. His album isn’t that great, but it aint that bad either. But I think Bol had it right about Rick Ross when he said “southern people will buy anything”

But as far as Busta, his album was total trash. I mean it was just awful. The beats were crazy though, but Busta just doesn’t have it anymore.

I honeslty feel that Ego Trippin is probably one of Snoop Doggs weakest efforts, I mean what does it tell you about motivation when you get others to ghost write half your records. It was interesting that he took certain tracks in a different direction, such as My Medicine, but if your going to create a hybrid song, it has to be half decent, say Numb/Encore. Plus, apart from Sexual Eruption, I never felt there was other stand out track. In my opinion, its not that Snoop isn’t capable, far from it, he went to great lengths with Tha Blue Carpet Treatment that he could still kick it with the best of them, but for me personally, to take a step back, because you feel that you are in a comfortable space isn’t productive for creativity. Ultimately thats what it came down to, there are far too many cuts and they just dont blend…

To me the reason I ain’t even give snoops album the time of day is cause homie strayed to far to the left with his shit. most snoop fans, the ones that were there from the beginning, are into gangsta rap now his first single is a him singing, he tells us he ain’t even write the shit, and he staring in some gay reality show. in other words the album wasn’t presented right. the blue carpet treatment was on some back to basics gangster rap shit. Ego tripping took a step back with that concept watered down uncle snoop shit, and snoop got so much money, and rap really isn’t his main thing anymore he probably doesn’t even care

Maybe because this album was awful?? “Blue Carpet” was really strong (too many songs, especially about his son’s football team) but compared to Ego Trippin, that sounded like Doggystyle. I think the Doggfather needs to hand the reigns over to somebody else…maybe Game?

The problem with his album is that he said that most of the stuff on it is written by others. So, people took that the wrong way and thought he did that his whole career. I think with this album, even tho he was trying to be creative, people felt cheated.

Once I heard that he wasn’t writing the songs on the album. I was not longer interested, Plain and Simple. And I’ma big Snoop fan too

And I also think all rappers should have some kinda limit. I mean the dude is rich and he is father what could he possibly have to rap out that interest me?

Nothing. Prolly why he had other people write his song

he waited too long to put the album out…

Snoop Dogg the entertainer is bigger than Snoop Dogg the rapper at this point. People want to see him, but not necessarily support his music in the form of purchasing it. Also, soundscan should not even be referenced when looking at how “hot” a rapper is right now. CDs and Records sales are not reflective of a rapper’s buzz or relevancy in the marketplace. Physical product has been leveraged. We need to look at more than just physical record sales. Snoop’s doing fine. Rick Ross could sell 2 million more albums than Snoop Dogg and Snoop will always bank more than Rick long-term. He’s just a bigger figure in entertainment all-round.

HE DID NOT WRITE IS OWN SHIT FOR THE ALBUM . the only song I cop was My Medicine off I tunes and I deleted it that day………… It sounds to me both whitey and snoop fell off

none of the “southern people” i know bought Rick Ross. maybe me and my circle of friends are exceptions…but please believe…”southern people” dont buy everything…there’s only like 2 or 3 cities in the south that even rank among the highest in cities with high populations…so you thank your NYCs, LAs, CHIs, etc for bolstering the sales of the BS out there, dont hold Southerners accountable for everything…you give us too much credit sometimes…blame universally dumb niggas everywhere at the end of the day.

well… for one snoop abandoned his hard core fan base(me included)to make sell out music,two he went and fucked wit some wack ass producers(teddy riley,rick rock,shawty redd,etc.),he didn’t keep it west coast(in sound and style),and the worst of all:he didn’t even write the shit!ego trippin’ is wack and whoevevr thinks other wise needs to clean their ears out.i’m no longer a snoop supporter.

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He fell the fuck off on his flow, style, swag and heart just like all the other old pop-hop cats that sold the fuck out = trash album with no real meaning, no one gives a fuck about snoop he’s not the same guy anymore but he trys to be the same, we like the underdogs on the come up not washouts that try extra hard to sell records to teenage girls. The end of the day sales mean fuck all and the games going back to the cyphers on the corner like it should be.

It’s simple.

There was too much time between the peak of Sensual Seduction’s buzz and the albums release. The SS vid dropped heavy in mid December and got played non stop. By the time the album dropped the song was dead.

And “Life Of the Party”, while a pretty dope song, was a bad choice for follow up single.

sensual seduction was garbage and snoop went soft…so he lost his fan base that he had over the yrs.

THIS IS THE PLAIN OLD TRUTH…. SNOOPS SHIT IS WACK AND NOBODY ON THE STREET LIKE’S IT NOT EVEN ME AND I BUY A LOT OF MUSIC CDS TRUST I LIVE IN LONG BEACH BORN AND RAISED..
HE NEEDS TO TAKE IT BACK LIKE THE GOOD OL’ DAYS WITH NATE DOGG ON THE CHORUS… DAZ AND KURUPT.. BACK TO THE BASICS

People don’t have the money to spend on cds. That’s it. Selling out didn’t help either.

With record sales for hip hop down drastically, the real question that people should ask themselves is “Who are the best performers in Hip Hop?” “Who would you pay money to go see perform?”

Ultimately that’s how the artists make their money so it pays to be a great performer like KRS-ONE, The Roots, Busta Rhymes, etc