What Would You Do (Tha Dogg Pound song)
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- This article is about Tha Dogg Pound single. For the City High song see What Would You Do? (City High song).
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| Single by Tha Dogg Pound | ||
| From the album Murder Was the Case O.S.T./Natural Born Killers | ||
| EP Released | 1994 | |
| Single Format | 12" single EP | |
| Genre | Rap | |
| Song Length | 5:07 (4:12 video version) | |
| Record Label | Death Row | |
| Writer | D. Arnaud, R. Brown C. Broadus J. Caples D. Williams |
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| Producer | Dat Nigga Daz | |
| Director | Dr. Dre | |
| Tha Dogg Pound Video chronology | ||
| "Doggy Dogg World" (1994) |
"What Would You Do" (1994) |
"Let's Play House" (1994) |
What Would You Do is the introductory debut single of Tha Dogg Pound from 1994 that have appeared in various compilations. It is also the first appearance of Snoop Dogg within the group. It never went solo, though it had been embedded in the Let's play house EP, that reached the 84th place during the year 1996 on the UK Chart. It was the first EP of Tha Dogg Pound and it made a perfect introduction for the Dogg Food album with the tracks featured on both of them. It was also a part of the Murder Was The Case soundtrack which debuted number one on Billboard’s album chart. On the chorus vocals it features R&B boygroup Jodeci and Jewell. The video was shot a year later. In 2001 the track was edited into the Death Rows Greatest hits double package compilation.
It is considered to be a diss song towards B.G. Knocc Out, Dresta, Eazy-E & Cold 187um. Eazy-E responded with the tracks Ole School Shit and his own version of What Would U Do. B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta responded with DPGKillaz.
It was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group.
It was performed live at The 1995 Source Awards.
[edit] The Music Video
The introduction starts in a billiards saloon while Snoop wins a game and quits the place to have a shoe cleaning in the nearby. He is disturbed by an amateur-dancer seeking for career who tries to show Snoop Dogg his Electric Boogie skills. Then they are joined by the Tha Dogg Pound. The main plot is short and incoherent. The lyrics is about introducing the Tha Dogg Pound and disgracing the east side rappers. A street deal is shown that turnes out in a gang lynch, later followed by a car pursuit on the freeway with Daz and Kurupt escaping in a white Ford Motor Company van (probably it's a police chase). There's a party in the billiards club with women and other locals jittering the police manhunt while watching its live aircam news coverage in the television.
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