Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre - Missionary (Offical Album Thread)

[kchin1977]

The 1st part of Gangsta pose is how i wished the whole album sounded. Funk.

the whole track is sick!

 

[Crumple]

R those condoms made by Lifestyles or Trojan?
I'm not trying to have a kid, Snoop.

 

[BK The Great]

 

[Dipsey Doo]

I’ve spun this record about 8-9 times this week and for me it’s gets better with each listen.

People that hate this album probably won’t change their mind. I find a lot of replay value in this album that I haven’t found with other projects in more than a few years.

Time will treat this album well IMO.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

There's tracks on here that I do like but I disagree with this take because you can make an album that incorporates the sounds of your best work and the region's heyday while ALSO sounding like it was made in 2025.... and we know that because that's what Kendrick just did with 'GNX'

 

[EastsideRio]

The production on this album is fire. But am I tripping or does Out the Blue sound like a track from 2009. Sounds dated but would probably rock out 15 years ago.

 

[EastsideRio]

Crazy just ran this today.

Hard Knocks is tough

Snoop was flowing on that joint

 

[EastsideRio]

after a few listens album is dope to me

worst tracks are the singles

and why ain't Thank You on the CD? its one of the best songs on there

This out the blue single should have been left in 2009. I thought Swizz Beats was on the production.

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Thank You not being on there is a Dre thing, when they played it on Drink Champs he mentioned that he's still working on it.

Had me because the physicals were already up for pre-order

 

[zayk35]

It tears at his soul. he's probably going back in hiding for at least 5 years.

Maybe he goes into the mythical "vault" and puts out a deluxe with the "golden beats" that are supposedly in there. That hit boy produced song someone posted in here is what I was kinda expecting the sound of this album to be. It ain't about being stuck in the 90s. You can expand on your og style it doesn't have to sound the same as 93 but it could have at least some lineage to that original sound we fell in love with. Songs with Sting and Tom Petty is not what a 46 yr old Snoop Dogg fan wants to hear from a long awaited Snoop and Dre reunion....Man just let Daz and Warren G produce him, Fred Wreck, Dam Funk etc., they've all made better music with Snoop over the last 25 years. You mean to tell me wasn't no unreleased Nate Dogg vocals laying around. Snoop is rapping good on this album whether he wrote his rhymes or not, the production on this album is what kinda sucks about it. I don't give a flying fukk about the mixing and mastering, if the beats are "delicate"

 

[El Jefe]

Maybe he goes into the mythical "vault" and puts out a deluxe with the "golden beats" that are supposedly in there. That hit boy produced song someone posted in here is what I was kinda expecting the sound of this album to be. It ain't about being stuck in the 90s. You can expand on your og style it doesn't have to sound the same as 93 but it could have at least some lineage to that original sound we fell in love with. Songs with Sting and Tom Petty is not what a 46 yr old Snoop Dogg fan wants to hear from a long awaited Snoop and Dre reunion....Man just let Daz and Warren G produce him, Fred Wreck, Dam Funk etc., they've all made better music with Snoop over the last 25 years. You mean to tell me wasn't no unreleased Nate Dogg vocals laying around. Snoop is rapping good on this album whether he wrote his rhymes or not, the production on this album is what kinda sucks about it. I don't give a flying fukk about the mixing and mastering, if the beats are "delicate"

Fredwreck is one of dres most trusted he was heavily involved in this project t and is part of dews studio and production team ICU

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

That Top Dogg vs Last Meal thread by my pawgin homie @I love Latina women got me thinking....as much as I fukks with the album, this probably ranks very mid in his discography, not even top 10 (which says a lot about how much I fukks with Snoops albums).

Doggystyle
Doggfather
Top Dogg
Last Meal
Paid the Cost
R&G
Blue Carpet
Ego Trippin
7 Days of Funk
Neva Left
Back on my Death Row shyt

Are all albums I'd easily rank over Missionary, which is at least a 7.5 for me.

 

[mrvaughn]

Good insight as to why the album isn’t as we would like it to be.

Snoop / Dre (and of course Jimmy Iovine) probably don’t want cancel culture to affect their future money making ability.

Never thought of that for some reason. Don’t know why as it’s so obvious once someone points it out,

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Damn i forgot all about this album. Totally forgettable music.

 

[Unbothered]

You could never go wrong with Snoop and Dre, so I have to give this a listen later, too, just for the nostalgic vibes these two have together.

However, I do recognize that Snoop hasn't exactly had a good album in a long time; he's kinda like Ice Cube in that they're both Hip-Hop vets releasing music over the past decade, and then some, but the majority of that hasn't been very good.

I stopped checking for Cube albums a long time ago because he just sounds awful with terrible beats, I've felt similarly with Snoop but I've honestly never listened to Snoop's discography in full like some of y'all have so I just assumed most of his stuff after Last Meal besides singles wasn't worth checking out, that's something I gotta do one day, go through his entire catalog.