My roommate has been blasting this throughout the apartment for… weeks straight now. And, I gotta say… I don’t really mind. I mean, it’s Snoop, which frankly makes the talkbox not bad in any sort of way, and I can’t help but feel a little Frankie Knuckles love on the whistles (you know all know how I dig my house music), and as for that main synth line… well, I have to admit that really just reminds me of the background music to Tokyo Xtreme Racer for the Dreamcast, a completely underrated video game which I totally played the shit out of back in the day. So yeah, high marks on all counts.

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(download Snoop Dogg’s “Sexual Eruption”)

I like that there’s no guest appearances on the new album. From an interview:

“I’mma do the whole record, me by myself. I don’t want no guest rappers, no singer, nothing. Just Snoop Dogg. I want you to feel me. When I think of all the greats before me … I bought Rakim’s album the other day for the hundredth time, no guest rappers. I bought one of KRS-One’s albums the other day for the hundredth time, no guest rappers.

“You lose focus after awhile when you’re doing an album,” Snoop continued. ” ‘Snoop, you got a new album coming out. Who’s on it?’ I’ll be like, ‘I got him on it, him on it, them on it.’ When it’s time to do the video, they’ll do the video with me, but when it’s time to do a show with them, ‘Oh, I got a show in Germany,’ or, ‘I got to be in Paris.’ You’re left one-legged. Now it’s time to show artists.”

“But when you listen to James Brown, he did it by himself. Curtis Mayfield, by himself. Of course they did collaborations, but the [songs] that matter they did by themselves. I don’t think people have got all of me yet. Doggystyle was about 95 percent of me. But I wanted Tha Dogg Pound on my album. This record, even if this record don’t sell, that might be a blessing. It needs to get back to [letting people know] who you are. I don’t know whose record I’m buying right now because it’s so many people on it. Is it a compilation? What is it?”