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Tha Doggfather
Studio album by Snoop Doggy Dogg
Released	November 12, 1996
Recorded	1996
Genre	West Coast hip hop, G-Funk, Gangsta rap
Length	73:59
Label	Death Row/Interscope;
Producer	Suge Knight (exec.); DJ Pooh; Daz Dillinger; Soopafly; LT Hutton; Sam Sneed; Arkim & Flair
Professional reviews
	Allmusic link; Entertainment Weekly B+ link; Muzik link;
Snoop Doggy Dogg chronology
Singles from Tha Doggfather
	"Doggfather"; Released: 1997; "Vapors"; Released: April 8, 1997; "Snoop's Upside Ya Head"; Released: 1997;

Tha Doggfather is Snoop Doggy Dogg's follow up to his debut album Doggystyle, released by Death Row Records in 1996.

Although the album debuted at number one in the week of November 12, 1996 with over 478,971 copies sold, it failed to match the commercial success of Doggystyle due to the lack of involvement of Dr.Dre. Still worth to note that it was released only one week after another Death Row release, the first posthumous album by slain Tupac Shakur, the The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, which also debuted at number one.

The album was re-released July 11, 2005.

[edit] Reception

Entertainment Weekly (11/29/96, p.90) - "Even without Dr. Dre behind the board, Snoop and his studio team concoct an intoxicating blend of old-school funk and gangsta cool." - Rating: B+

Muzik (1/97, p.118) - 3 out of 5 - "...a more angular, spiky, old school-influenced vehicle for the Dogg Father to strut his matter-of-fact rhymes over....you [are taken in] by the strength of the rhyming..."

Melody Maker (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #49 on Melody Maker's list of 1996's `Albums Of The Year.'

[edit] Track listing

Track	Title	Guest(s)	Producer(s)	Samples
1	Intro
2	Doggfather	Charlie Wilson	Dat Nigga Daz
3	Ride 4 Me (Interlude)
4	Up Jump Tha Boogie	Kurupt The King Pin	DJ Pooh
5	Freestyle Conversation		Priest "Soopafly" Brooks
6	When I Grow Up (Interlude)
7	Snoop Bounce	Charlie Wilson	DJ Pooh
8	Gold Rush	Kurupt The King Pin and LBC Crew	Arkim an Flair
9	(Tear 'Em Off) Me & My Doggz		L.T. Hutton
10	You Thought	Too Short, Priest "Soopafly" Brooks	Priest "Soopafly" Brooks
11	Vapors		DJ Pooh	Biz Markie, Vapors
12	Groupie	Tha Dogg Pound, 213 and Charlie Wilson	Dat Nigga Daz
13	2001	Bad Ass, Kurupt The King Pin	DJ Pooh
14	Sixx Minutes		Arkim and Flair
15	(O.J.) Wake Up	Tray Deee	Snoop Doggy Dogg and L.T. Hutton
16	Snoop's Upside Ya Head	Charlie Wilson	DJ Pooh	Burn Rubber On Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) by Gap Band
17	Blueberry	Tha Dogg Pound and LBC Crew	Sam Sneed
18	Traffic Jam (Interlude)
19	Doggyland		DJ Pooh
20	Downtown Assassins	Dat Nigga Daz, Tray Deee	Dat Nigga Daz
21	Outro	Tupac Shakur

[edit] Cut-out tracks

"Work It Out" featuring Shaquille O'Neal & Mista Grimm^[1]

"Dogg Collar" featuring Lady V. KV, Big Pimpin', 6'9, Twin & Bad Azz^[2]

[edit] Chart performance

[edit] Singles

Title	Chart positions			Video Director
Title	Eurochart Hot 100	UK Top 75	Australia Top 100	Video Director
"Doggfather" (featuring Charlie Wilson)	-	36	-	Joseph Kahn
"Vapors" (featuring Charlie Wilson & Teena Marie)	-	18	-	Paul Hunter
"Snoop's Upside Ya Head" (featuring Charlie Wilson)	47	12	44	Darius S. Henderson

[edit] Album

	Album Charts						Certification
	Billboard 200	Billboard Year-end Albums Chart 1997	Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums	Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (cont.)	UK Top 75 Albums	UK Top Selling Artist Albums 1996	RIAA
Position	1	43	1	8	15	148	2x Platinum
Date	30.11.1996	1997	1996	1997	23.11.1996	1996	04.02.1997

[edit] References

Preceded by The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory by Makaveli	Billboard 200 number-one album November 30 - December 6, 1996	Succeeded by Razorblade Suitcase by Bush

[0] DubCNN - Tha Doggfather cut-out track

[1] DubCNN - Tha Doggfather cut-out track

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