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Snoop Dogg ft. Pharrell & Stevie Wonder – “California Roll”

May 20, 2015

Snoop Dogg has been on a futuristic funk wave his entire career. He began as a G-Funk pioneer alongside Dr. Dre and the like on the West Coast in the 90s, sampling George Clinton often on his tracks while offering a hypnotically smooth flow to groove to. Though he’s been relatively experimental in his career, Snoop has maintained the funk influence from his Doggystyle days through his latest album Bush, from which we get “California Roll.” The track features music legend Stevie Wonder on the harmonica and background vocals and Pharrell (who produced the entire album) on hook duty. The video is a Jetson-esque look into the future from 1946, with curious appearances of Egyptian symbols and landmarks. Stevie, Snoop and Skateboard P are decked out in black and gold, and Snoop’s slow-motion c-walk might be the coolest thing captured on video. Check it out below.

Snoop Dogg – BUSH

May 12, 2015

Snoop Dogg sure is having one hell of a late-career rediscovery. After more than two decades in his revered gangsta rap persona, the D-O-Double-G reinvented himself as a peace-loving, rastacap-wearing reggae crooner for 2013’s Reincarnated. After that he had a brief stint as SnoopZilla, for his one-off 7 Days of Funk album with Dam-Funk, and a longer stint as DJ Snoopadelic, a phase which pretty much explains itself. For his latest project, BUSH, the unlikely hip-hop chameleon teamed up with Pharrell Williams for an upbeat set inspired by old-school funk, disco, and modern EDM music. Think Kanye’s 808s filtered through the jazzy funk amalgam of To Pimp A Butterfly’s production. What you end up with is the funnest, most-focused set of Tha Dogg’s career. The record opens with “California Roll” – a piece of sunny, Golden State-loving funk set over the bass-line and rhythms of “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” It’s[...]