Snoop Dogg - No Limit Top Dogg [2LP]

No Limit Top Dogg finds Snoop Dogg shaking off a tricky few years and sounding hungry again, now pressed as a handsome 2LP set.

Released in 1999, this was his second album for Master P's No Limit Records, and it arrived at a turning point. Snoop had left Death Row behind, and while his first No Limit outing leaned heavily on the label's Southern bounce, this record pulled him back toward the West Coast sound he helped define. 

There is plenty to dig into across 21 tracks. Buck 'Em rides a menacing, slow-rolling beat, and Trust Me glides on smooth, late-night funk. Snoopafella flips the Cinderella fairy tale into a laid-back neighbourhood fable, and Gangsta Ride cruises low with that familiar drawl doing all the steering. Throughout, his flow sounds effortless, that unhurried delivery making every bar feel like a conversation.

It is a fun, sprawling record from an artist rediscovering his footing at the close of the decade.

Tracing the line from Doggystyle into the 2000s, this double vinyl fills in a crucial chapter, and it still knocks hard.