★★★★★
Soundtrack albums are the schwag-weed of the rap world. They're lousy with seeds (superfluous guest spots) and stems (obtrusive movie dialogue), and no matter how tightly sequenced the final product is, they leave the impression that someone had to stretch their supply...
- www.avclub.com
2011-12-13
★★★★★
A lot of people hated on Malice N Wonderland--hell, I scored it fairly awfully upon release--but the summer it came out, I couldn't help but fall for it eventually. See, for me what works with that album is that Snoop realized Blue Carpet Treatment was sort of a one-off success, and that if he was going to reign in his Ego Trippin' impulses, he had to rethink everything...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-05-17
★★★★★
Snoop does cheesy David Guetta-assisted euro-dance ('Wet')! Snoop does Mike Skinner-esque pop-ska ('Sumthin Like This Night')! Snoop does harmonica blues ('Superman', with Willie Nelson)! For the less adventurous, Snoop also does track about weed with Wiz Khalifa, track about the superficial aspects of fame with Kanye, and track called 'I Don't Need No Bitch'. All, of course, laden with his long-patented, laconic cartoon charm...
- www.nme.com
2011-05-11
★★★★★
Snoop does cheesy David Guetta-assisted euro-dance ('Wet')! Snoop does Mike Skinner-esque pop-ska ('Sumthin Like This Night')! Snoop does harmonica blues ('Superman', with Willie Nelson)! For the less adventurous, Snoop also does track about weed with Wiz Khalifa, track about the superficial aspects of fame with Kanye, and track called 'I Don't Need No Bitch'. All, of course, laden with his long-patented, laconic cartoon charm...
- nme.com
2011-05-02
★★★★★
Snoop Dogg is more than a rapper at this point. He's a pop culture icon. He's a guest star on sitcoms and late night talk shows. He's a brand, a trademark, an identifiable product even to those who have never listened to his songs. He's the Big Snoop, not to be confused with that little one called Joe Cool who likes to steal blankets from fools...
- rapreviews.com
2011-04-25
★★★★★
To enjoy the 11th Snoop Dogg album you have to do a little surrendering to the modern world, whether you like it or not. Firstly, business is business, and pop fans worldwide are more likely to pay for specific new tracks rather than whole albums. So, for the biggest corporate unit-shifters, making an album that sounds like an album is a pointless exercise...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2011-04-18
★★★★★
On DJ Khaled's 2010 summer jam "All I Do Is Win," Snoop Dogg claims in his guest verse, "I've been running this rap game since I was 20 years old." It's a curious claim, because Snoop's remarkable longevity seems to stem from mastery of one flow: that lackadaisical, behind-the-beat drawl that sounds cool and rarely says anything...
- tinymixtapes.com
2011-04-18
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Snoop DoggDoggumentaryParlophone2011 With his television shows and football coaching, Snoop Dogg doesn't seem all that interested in the music that made his business interests possible in the first place. The 39-year-old's 11th album employs a mind-boggling 25 producers and an equally dizzying array of guests, presumably so the Dogg can let everyone else get on with it...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2011-04-18
★★★★★
Last summer, Snoop Dogg headlined the backpack-centric Rock the Bells tour, performing his classic debut album, Doggystyle, in full every night and drawing rapturous reviews. This year, Snoop will make a few stops on Charlie Sheen's continuous-trainwreck Violent Torpedo of Truth tour, performing a song that he and Sheen have apparently recorded together. That duality is pretty much circa-2011 Snoop in a nutshell...
- pitchfork.com
2011-04-12