Snoop Dogg Promotional Placard 1993 Doggystyle ©Christmachine.com I can remember listening to Dr. Dre’s – The Chronic and Snoop Dogg’s – Doggystyle when they were first released and I was blown away. Truly, just stunned at how captivating they were. These were brutal skills on display, and despite all the controversy, it was and still is a reflection of the dreams or lack thereofand realities of inner city minorities in overcrowded cities of the US. The E Funk or aptly rebranded West Coast G Funk Era introduced a whole new generation to the melodies and beats, to the pioneering legacy of the artist George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic and many others who had come before. The main difference, besides sounding timeless, was the resulting crossover to white and latino audiences first in the US and then around the world. One need not look far to find groups like N.W.A and Pubic Enemy, rappers such as Ice T, and farther back to Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Dj Cool Herc, and Africa Bambaataa. How much influence they had on the genre as a whole is undisputed but as to their individual influences on the artists who were at that time on Death Row Records is unclear. With that said all the artists mentioned here set in place the ground work for all of the hip hop and a lot of the popular culture that we see today. Snoop Dogg Promotional Placard 1993 Doggystyle ©Christmachine.com When I was living in San Diego, San Francisco, or traveling to Los Angeles or the world touring, I spent a lot of time with friends in San Clemente and San Pedro. I cannot remember which town I heard the urban Legend in, and at the time did not pay much attention to it but I think it was San Pedro. The story went that during the recording of Tha Dogg Pound’s 1995 multi platinum selling album Dogg Food on Death Row Records “dog whistles” were used in some of the tracks. ![]() Download the free trial version below to get started. Double-click the downloaded file to install the software. Free crack bottle eminem ft 50 cent mp3 music download. 50 Cent Crack A Bottle Forever 2009 Live. 50 Cent Takes Shot With Rick Ross' Ex Who. Sounds silly I know, and I’m still not sure I believe it to this day but we all had a laugh at the time at the ramifications of doing such a thing. What would that be? Obviously nothing major, except for the fact if you had dogs in your house going bonkers to the music whenever it was played. Snoop Dogg Promotional Placard 1993 Doggystyle ©Christmachine.com When I first heard this about the album Dogg Food, it actually had not been released yet and I remember the story being told to a group of friends in the context of heavy anticipation for the record. Anyway when it was released I remember walking down to Tower Records in San Diego and brought it back to my place and put it in the player and began to grooveI loved it right out the gate. As I was listening to it very loud something strange happened as I was lying on my bed I noticed that there was a lot of dog barking coming through the music. At first I thought it was random samples on the album but with further listening I noticed that they were not swinging to the beat or completely out of time with the music. I remember I got up of the bed and walked over to one of the windows in my bedroom and opened it. I loved that window because right outside set against the backdrop of houses and the setting sun were a few palm, blood orange, and kumquat trees. Breaking the silence was all the neighborhood dogs going absolutely nuts with their aim right at the window I was standing in. In that moment the rumor about dog whistles in the music came right back to mind. It was not just two or three dogs but I imagine as much as twenty that I could directly see and more barking in the distance. Shit was this real? So my first instinct was to stop the music and see what happens. Right after I shut off the music the barking began to stop and I watched for about five minutes to see the dogs reaction. It was obvious they went back to doing whatever they were doing before. After that five or so minutes, I turned the music back on full blast and within five seconds the dogs were losing it again. It’s like they had gone rabid, I could not believe it but there it was right before my eyes. Snoop Dogg Promotional Placard 1993 Doggystyle ©Christmachine.com So I turned the music on and off several times and the same thing happened.
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