Doggy Dogg World

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"Doggy Dogg World"

Single by Snoop Dogg featuring Tha Dogg Pound and The Dramatics
From the album Doggystyle
Released	June, 1994^(UK)
Format	12-inch single
Genre	G-Funk
Length	5:38
Label	Death Row Records
Writers	D. Arnaud Richard Fields R. Brown C. Broadus
Producers	Dr. Dre
Director	Dr. Dre Ricky Harris
Chart Positions	#32 (UK) #19 (Rhythmic Top 40)
Reviews
DubCNN's Doggystyle album analysis from track by track
Snoop Dogg singles chronology
"Gin and Juice" (1993)	"Doggy Dogg World" (1994)	"Murder Was The Case" (1994)
The Dramatics singles chronology
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1989)	"Doggy Dogg World" (1994)	"Try Love Again" (1996)
Tha Dogg Pound singles chronology
	"Doggy Dogg World" (1994)	"What Would You Do" (1995)

Doggy Dogg World is an 1994 single, the third one from Snoop Dogg's debut album Doggystyle. It is the first European-only release with an American video TV-play. It features '70s funk band The Dramatics, with cameo rapping from Kurupt and Daz Dillinger, and chorus singing by background vocalist Nancy Fletcher. It samples Richard "Dimples" Fields's "If it Ain't One Thing, It's Another" from his 1982 album Mr. Look So Good.

1 Video
- 1.1 Casting
2 Remixes
3 Trivia
4 External link

[edit] Video

This retro style video takes us back to the world of seventies. It presents Snoop as a pimpish owner of an old fashioned music club where a Dramatics live concert and party is going on. The video is also 5:38 long but with the ending vocals shortened in order to insert a minute long intro with director Ricky Harris in the role of "the host for the night" meeting Snoop and his women entourage in the V.I.P. section, while silhouettes of dancing girls can be seen in the background and Parliament's "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" can be heard as an incidental music (from their 1976 album Mothership Connection). The video is a 1994 winner of an MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video. It was released as a segment of the video compilation VHS called Murder Was The Case in the same year. It has a numerous cameo casting :

[edit] Casting

by Anissa Williams
In order of appearance

Snoop Dogg as Silky Slim
The Dramatics as themselves
Antonio Fargas as Huggy Bear
Ricky Harris as TaaDow
Fred Berry as Re-Run
Fred Williamson as The Hammer
Kurupt as Small Change Willy from Philly
Dr. Dre as Fortieth St. Black
The Lady of Rage as a dice gambler
Rudy Ray Moore as Dolemite
Pam Grier as Foxxxy Brown
Daz as Sugafoot
Ron O'Neal as Supa Fly

[edit] Remixes

A Trance remix called Perfecto mix done by Paul Oakenfold appeared on the re-prints of the single and on an 1995 compilation album called The Perfecto Album.

[edit] Trivia

Snoop played Huggy Bear in the 2004 remake of Starsky & Hutch.
Snoop co-starred with Pam Grier many times including in films such as Bones or the series The L Word.
The character of Dolemite is recurring often in interludes on Snoop albums like on No Limit Top Dogg.
Snoop worked once more with the Dramatics for his song Ballin' in Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$.
The character of Silky Slim originally comes from the 1974 movie Uptown Saturday Night starring Sidney Poitier and is played by Calvin Lockhart.
Every famous actor appearing in the video is playing the career characters they are remembered for.
It is rumoured that Halle Berry is casted for the role of Foxy Brown in the modern remake of the 1974 film coming out in 2006.
Ricky Harris worked with many west side artists during the early 90's on such albums as G-Funk Era and Dogg Food, not to mention Doggystyle, where he did the WBALLZ interludes, then he disappeared for ten years to finally come back on Snoop's first track on R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta) The Masterpiece and to star in related DVD Boss'n Up.''

[edit] External link

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