No Limit Top Dogg

Snoop had been unsure what to do after Doggystyle, and he went through a wilderness period on his two albums before Top Dogg. By aligning himself with New Orleans’ No Limit Records, he emerges re-energized, tracing a line from his signature West Coast G-Funk sound back to its southern, pre-Great Migration roots. “Bitch Please” and “My Heat Goes Boom” are classic Snoop songs, full of sneers and paranoia. The slinking and relentless “Down 4 My N’s” shows how well he could do the southern sound, however, and it found everlasting life as a standard for HBCU marching bands years later.