Snoop Dogg -1993- Doggystyle, demos & leftovers (Death Row Unreleased)

• 1992-1993 : Doggystyle sessions.
• The Doggystyle album wasn't finished in the way Dr. Dre wanted it. The album was supposed to be ready in 94. Due to mainstream and store demand for a Snoop album, Jimmy Irvine of Interscope was threatening to drop Death Row if they didn't bring the album before the deadline...
• Sources : Death Row Legacy Video
  

 

### - WORK IN PROGRESS. There is no earlier known material sequence for the album. Many things have been said about the Doggystyle sessions, maybe some tracks and alternate versions are still to be leaked... - ###

Tracklist

1. WBLZ 187.4 FM (Original Intro) feat. The D.O.C.
2. Doggystyle feat. George Clinton, Nanci Fletcher & Jewell
   
3. Fallin' Asleep on Death Row
4. Eat A Dick feat. Mr. Malik 
5. Niggas Don't Give A Fuck (Original) feat. Dogg Pound & Dr. Dre
   
6. God Don't Like Ugly (Interlude)
7. O.G. (Original Gangsta) feat. Nate Dogg
8. Big Bitches
9. Smoke On feat. Big Hug 
   
10. Poor Young Dave (Original)
11. Murder Was The Case (Original) feat. Daz
12. Big Pimpin' (Original) feat. Daz, Nate Dogg & Big Pimpin' 
13. Every Single Day (Original) feat. Kurupt & Nate Dogg
14. Tha Next Episode (Original) feat. Dr. Dre
15. Root of All Evil (Outro) feat. Teena Marie
16. Something About The Buddha (Interlude) 
    
    Bonus Songs :
    
    
17. Dogg Pound 4 Life (Original) feat. Dogg Pound
18. 3-2-1 feat. Kriss Kross

Producer - Dr. Dre, except "Every Single Day", "O.G.", "Big Pimpin'", "Niggas Don't Give A Fuck", "Dogg Pound 4 Life" by Dat Nigga Daz

 

Unused Material 

. Doggy Dogg World (Original) feat. Dogg Pound
. Ain't No Fun (Original) feat. Nate Dogg & Warren G
. Lodi Dodi (Original)  

. Gin & Juice (Laid Back Mix) feat. Jewell & Tha Snoopadelics
. What's My Name (Daz Remix) feat. Daz
. Doggy Dogg World (Perfecto Mix) feat. Dogg Pound & The Dramatics

. Untitled Instrumental #1 ("Guitar" vibe, Dr. Dre & Tony Green)
. Untitled Instrumental #2 ("Rock" vibe, prod. Dr. Dre, Daz & Tony Green)
. Untitled Instrumental #3 ("Space" vibe, Dr. Dre & Tony Green)  

A very successful album, but kind of disappointing for some...

It is important to remember that for some reasons (mainstream and store pressure), the release of the album was advanced by Interscope. The result is that Death Row didn't have time to clear some samples on time, so they dropped some songs (like the famous "The Next Episode"), recorded some others in a kind of emergency. That could explain why Snoop re-used some lyrics from songs they couldn't release, they left unrecorded some instrumentals. For instance, the last minute "Serial Killers" was made of lyrics taken here and there. It could be a reason for Dr. Dre to have given Snoop the beat of "Gz And Hustlas" (recorded in the end of the sequence) which was maybe more likely a Warren G beat he had earlier given to 2Pac for "Animosity" / "Lie 2 Kick It"...  Warren G could be angry against Dr. Dre and Death Row, what could have led to his distancing from the label... even if he will still be featured on some songs like like "Dogg's Day Afternoon" recorded for Dogg Pound's album, of which his verse will be removed...

Another people who worked on the album were unhappy to not having any recognition for what they did... 

In a sense it is the beginning of the end for Dr. Dre at Death Row... Because the album was not satisfying for the critics, people around him were disappointed... He will then concentrate on his own projects, Heltah Skeltah with Ice Cube or his Chronic 2 which will never really be on its way... He will finally give very few to Murder Was The Case soundtrack. He gathered a new team around him in 1995 with Sam Sneed, J-Flexx, Buddha...

DETAILED TRACKLIST

• Doggystyle, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). The beat of the song will be re-used for Dogg Pound's Dogg's Day Afternoon.
• Fall Asleep on Death Row, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). Snoop will reuse some lyrics in "One Life To Live" (leftover from Murder Was The Case Soundtrack), in "Hit Rocks" in 1995 and in "Never Leave Me Alone" with Nate Dogg in 1996.
• Eat A Dick, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). Snoop reuses his verse on "Doggy Dogg World". The bassline is also reused in "Serial Killers".
• Tha Next Episode (Original), prod. Dr. Dre. The song appears listed - but not in the material - in the early pressing provided to the retailers, before the release. But but they couldn't clear Les McCann's sample "Go On And Cry". Dr. Dre will release a song with the same title in 2001. Warren G will finally use the beat for "Runnin' Wit No Breaks" and later Crooked I will use the exact same beat for "Real Thugs".
• Niggas Don't Give A Fuck (Original), prod. Dr. Dre. Remixed in Poetic Justice Soundtrack (1993). It was the first song recorded for the album. Snoop reuses his lyrics in "Niggas and Bitches" which replaced the song in the album.
• O.G. (Original Gangsta), prod. Daz. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake). Daz remixed the song and added a verse from him for his album Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back (1998, Death Row). Nothing is known about that original...
• Big Bitches, prod. Dr. Dre. DeBarge sample "I Like It". Snoop reuses some of his lyrics in "You Thought" in The Doggfather.
• Smoke On, prod. Dr. Dre. Sample by The Floaters "Float On" (uncleared ?). Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake).
• Poor Young Dave, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in Re-Lit & From The Vault. The song will be re-recorded in 1994 for Murder Was The Case by Lil' Bow Wow ("D.A.V.E."). Snoop will reuse lyrics in "One Life To Live" probably recorded for Murder Was The Case Soundtrack, then for "Midnight Love" for The Doggfather. Lil C-Style uses some of the lyrics for "Gangsta, Gangsta" in 1995 (LBC Crew), and RBX for "Moms Are Cryin'" in his first album RBX Files.
• Murder Was The Case (Original), prod. Dr. Dre.
• Dogg Pound 4 Life (Original), prod. Daz. Snoop reuses his lyrics in "Pump Pump". Remixed with a new Snoop verse in Murder Was The Case Soundtrack.
• Every Single Day (Original), prod. Daz. Snoop will re-use his verse for "G'z & Hustlas" (a late track recorded over the same beat than "Animosity", stolen by Dr. Dre to his cousin Warren G - or less likely the reverse : they worked at it together and Warren G purposed it to 2Pac without asking Dre...). So Daz will remake a version with him instead of Snoop, for Kurupt and Dogg Pound first album or for Murder Was The Case Soundtrack.
• Something About The Buddha (Interlude), prod. Dr. Dre.
  
• Root of All Evil, prod. Dr. Dre. Released in The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (2009, WIDEAwake).
• Rock Instrumental, prod. Tony Green & Dr. Dre (?) or Daz (?) or all of them (?).
  
• 3-2-1. Supposed to be released in Kriss Kross album Da Bomb (1993), finally leftover. Snoop lyrics will be reused for "Pump Pump" and "Gz Up and Hoes Down".
• . Instrumental #1. Tony Green & Dr. Dre.
• . Instrumental #2. Tony Green & Dr. Dre or Daz (93/07/01).
• . Instrumental #3. Tony Green & Dr. Dre (93/03/22).
• . Instrumental #4 (God Don't Like Ugly), prod. Dr. Dre.
• . Something About The Buddha (Interlude), prod. Dr. Dre.