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In a candid interview with XXL magazine Snoop Dogg has done the unthinkable, he's admitted to not writing one single line on his new album. Check thequote:
SO... SNOOP HAD Ghostwriters for the new album!!
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In a candid interview with XXL magazine Snoop Dogg has done the unthinkable, he's admitted to not writing one single line on his new album. Check thequote:
lurkin2long
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nuttin wrong with his money either if he can pay people to write his whole album like diddy.
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ya but it would seem real weird to listen to a snoop album knowing he didnt write or THINK the album.
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Now, didn't we just have a similar discussion about Drake
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Ghostwriting is common in all genres...except hip-hop. Hip-hop has progressed & now we have one of it's foremost artists admitting that he had someoneelse write his whole album.
Stand back. The floodgates will be completely open in a few years.
Ghostwriting is common in all genres...except hip-hop. Hip-hop has progressed & now we have one of it's foremost artists admitting that he had someoneelse write his whole album.
Stand back. The floodgates will be completely open in a few years.
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shawty redd wrote and produced sexual seduction...
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Nah. I'm ego-tripping. I was watching Diana Ross getting inducted into a Hall of Fame, and she got up there and named all these great songwriters. Her biggest songs were written by somebody else. So I'm thinking, Wow, there's nothing wrong with my pen, but I'm going to let other people write for me.
Nah Snoop...its not the same...Diana Ross is a singer....she sings so people are gonna judge here on how good her vocals are....not nessecarilyif she has good lyrics or not....
I don't even wannna listen to this CD now
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http://smokingsection.rawkus.com/TSS/?p=1624
I knew this topic had come up before, sparked by an interview w/Monch.
I don't think it's as much of thing as it would've been a decade or two ago. Puffy popped our cherry to the idea of someone successfully spittinglyrics they didn't write.
I knew this topic had come up before, sparked by an interview w/Monch.
I don't think it's as much of thing as it would've been a decade or two ago. Puffy popped our cherry to the idea of someone successfully spittinglyrics they didn't write.
flydaily
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yea snoop wanted shawty redd's song "drifter" but shawty wouldnt give it to him so he wrote sexual seduction for him
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damn that... puffy gets a pass cuz he told us flat out... im no rapper... he didnt get signed... he started the label...
i dunno i just think its VERYwack to have somebody write a whole joint for u... maybe get some help on a hook or idea or somethin but naaaah...
ill take some ghostwriter money tho...
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Dude fell off a long time ago, anyway.
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word to doggfather.... R&G was aight tho...
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i believe diddy came up wit the "take that" himself... which was originally an ad lib on a biggie track... i think
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^ Go check the sales for No Way Out and then come back & tell me it wasn't successful. If you mean artistically, to a certain degree, Puff pulled itoff so there was success there as well. And keepin it funky, cats like Dre, Puff, etc have made careers off their ear for music & sometimes delivering itthru rhymes. Hell, look @ their biggest "tribute" records - Puff's "I'll Be Missing You" and Dre's "Listen" off 2001.Neither actually wrote their own lyrics but probably had a certain amount of input involved in what was written, plus they did just fine delivering the tracks.
TW3EK - These three links might interest you...
http://smokingsection.rawkus.com/TSS/?p=3193
http://www.ascap.com/press/2008/0208_financial.aspx
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008802150402
While sales are down, royalties are still up so writers are getting paid. And in this fickle industry where money and major deals are scarce or shiest as hell,I'd take $ over the fame any day.
TW3EK - These three links might interest you...
http://smokingsection.rawkus.com/TSS/?p=3193
http://www.ascap.com/press/2008/0208_financial.aspx
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008802150402
While sales are down, royalties are still up so writers are getting paid. And in this fickle industry where money and major deals are scarce or shiest as hell,I'd take $ over the fame any day.
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Depending on who writes for you, people can consider it an honor to have someone GW for them...this is elemental in the R&B world.
IE; Jay and Dre
IE; Jay and Dre
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good lookin out on the links... and i definetly agree wit that bolded statement... id ghostwrite/produce all day as long as my money right...
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Weak!! Snoop made all the real money h was gonna make anyways. Its all downhill from here. Hope u _s are savin up!
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Wow, at least he's finally admitting that he doesn't come up with it all
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c'mon Snoop
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DOC wrote a lot of @@% for Blue Carpet Treatment as well. I give Snoop a pass on this @@%. He's put in his work in the industry. He dropped his classicalbum.
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yea i saw it on his tv show
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Snoop is an OG... hes done alot 4 hip-hop... even tho im not for the whole gohst writin thing...I think he kan aford 2 tak an album off 4rm writin
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ehh... its probably good snoop is getting writers... cuz usually he just freestyles something and because he has such a name people give him a pass for it.. atleast this will bring some effort into his work
