(ThyBlackMan.com) When I think of West Coast rap, I think of palm trees swaying, lowriders cruising, and that unmistakable G-funk groove riding underneath it all. And right in the heart of that sound?

Last Sunday marked the 10-year anniversary of Snoop Dogg’s seventh studio album, R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece. A slew of thinkpieces and retrospectives about the album did not flood the ...

Snoop Dogg burst onto the hip-hop scene in the early 1990s and quickly ascended to royalty thanks to his iconic persona and ...