Diplo’s steady co-piloting in Snoop Dogg’s self-reinvention into Snoop Lion continues with this Major Lazer-co-produced track “No Guns Allowed.” The Beirut-interpolating track features guest vocals from Drake, percussion from the Police’s Stewart Copeland, and, making it a family affair, a verse form Snoop’s daughter Cori B. and backing vocals from his wife Shante Broadus. Ariel Rechtshaid and Vybz Kartel’s guardian angel Dre Skull help out on production. Check it out below and tell us how you feel about the reggae rebirth of Snoop in the comments.
Snoop’s reggae album Reincarnated is out 4/23 via Vice/Berhane Sound System/RCA.
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A really nice little afternoon lullaby…
This song is pretty unremarkable sober.
But not sober…
This is personal for Snoop, because of that time his bodyguard shot a dude. He’s seen the damage gun culture can do, narrowly missing out on a lengthy prison sentence and all. But it’s personal for Drake, too, because his character Jimmy totally got shot on the quintessential Canadian High School drama Degrassi. Pretty harrowing stuff. Drake even had to act all paralyzed for awhile. Made him think about stuff, you know?
This is actual really funny, but joking aside, apparently Drake’s verse is about some friends of his involved in gun violence. I love taking shots at Drake as much as the next guy but I think I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Snoop was on a track called Homicide last year. Drake was making gun motions at Common in the Stay Schemin video.
You know Snoop’s an amoral doofus, but at all times Drake is probably the least deserving person of anyone’s benefit of the doubt, ever.
Truthfully, it only says “no guns are allowed…in here tonight”.
No Guns Allowed..
in here tonight
other nights guns allowed
let’s have a gun fight
Who’s the man with the master plan?!
I really liked the country song Snoop Dogg did with Willie Nelson for 420. He really needs to do a project that emphasizes his awesome drawl.
Like, um, Doggy Style? I’ve been wishing he would go all the way back to his slow drawl and twang on that album for twenty years.
Yeah, I wish we could get Doggystyle Snoop back, but that’s probably not going to happen. That’s why I was thinking I’d rather see him do country than Reggae, since at least that could bring out that drawl.
I like the song though I have some reservations with the sample from Beirut’s “Nantes”. Not the sample itself, just the way it was used. I think Diplo didn’t have to use the entire instrumental without really doing anything to it from beginning to end. It almost sounds like a cover of the Beirut song. That said, I think this IS a good start and, to me, it seems Snoop is fully invested in this new direction.