Neva Left [Bonus Track]

by Snoop Dogg

Overview

Heavily nostalgic and yet fully energized, Neva Left continues Snoop Dogg's easy whim-to-whim glide. The photo used for the cover dates back to the early '90s, taken near a sign for the California state route that shares its number with the state's penal code for homicide. A frame from tha Dogg Pound's "New York, New York" video would be just as reflective of the contents. Although their album offers a high quantity of whomping basslines played at relaxed tempos, Snoop demonstrates throughout that he still has love for the East Coast. He raps like Slick Rick as he boasts about "singing like a Tempree," gamely references Whodini, Boogie Down Productions, a Tribe Called Quest, and Wu-Tang Clan elsewhere, while the guest list includes KRS-One, Redman, and Method Man. Snoop even revisits his beeper-era nod to Biz Markie on a "Vapors" remix, one of several cuts handled by long-term associate DJ Battlecat. The cleverest beat combines coastal sources: "Promise You This," from League of Starz' Dupri, dots Too $hort-style minimal machine funk with a little "It Takes Two" as Snoop attests to being a no-talk, all-action self-starter, supporting the community through his youth football league and by putting people to work. The sinister and spacy Kaytranada/BadBadNotGood production "Lavender [Nightfall Remix]" is the best of the cross-generational tracks, which also include the neo-Neptunes "Go On" (with October London on the hook, evoking Marvin Gaye) and the trap-style "Trash Bags," the latter the only beat on which Snoop, otherwise appealing as ever, sounds out of place. [This CD edition of Neva Left includes a bonus track, "Transition."] ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	07/07/2017
Label:	Doggy Style / Doggystyle / Empire / Mood Muzik
UPC:	0888915370162
Rank:	31856

Tracks

1. Neva Left
2. Moment I Feared
3. Bacc in da Dayz
4. Promise You This
5. Trash Bags
6. Swivel
7. Go On
8. Big Mouth
9. Toss It
10. 420 (Blaze Up)
11. Lavender [Nightfall Remix]
12. Let Us Begin
13. Mount Kushmore
14. Vapors [DJ Battlecat Remix]
15. Still Here
16. Love Around the World
17. Transition

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Snoop Dogg   Primary Artist
Steven J. Collins   Talk Box
Kaytranada   Featured Artist
October London   Featured Artist
Janice Freeman   Vocals
Nef the Pharaoh   Featured Artist
Rick Rock   Featured Artist
KRS-One   Featured Artist
Method Man   Featured Artist
Redman   Featured Artist
K Camp   Featured Artist
BadBadNotGood   Featured Artist
Tray Deee   Featured Artist
Teena Marie   Featured Artist
Devin the Dude   Featured Artist
Big Tray Deee   Featured Artist
Charlie Wilson   Featured Artist
Stresmatic   Featured Artist
Bay B-Real   Featured Artist
Shon Lawon   Vocals
Wiz Khalifa   Featured Artist
Big Bub   Featured Artist
B-Real   Featured Artist
Too $hort   Featured Artist
DJ Battlecat   Featured Artist

Technical Credits

Brody Brown   Mixing,Engineer
Travis "Shaggy" Marshall   Mixing,Engineer
Jahlil Beats   Producer
Ricardo Thomas   Composer
Jonathan "JP" Chavez   Package Design
Matthew Tavares   Composer
Tracy Davis   Composer
DNYC3   Producer
Leland Whitty   Composer
Kaytranada   Producer
Louis Kevin Celestin   Composer
Kristopher Campbell   Composer
Mike & Keys   Producer
Jay Massie   Composer,Producer
Tonee Hayes   Composer
Musik Majorx   Producer
Timothy Michael Wells Jr.   Composer
Thomas Jackson   Composer
Dr. Evo   Producer
Jared Samuel Erskine   Composer
Hershey Blakk   Mixing
Quinton L Cook   Composer
John Stella   Composer
FatBoy SSE   Skit
Richard Rudolph   Composer
Rick Rock   Mixing,Producer
Reggie Noble   Composer
Ali Shaheed Muhammad   Composer
Lamar Edwards   Composer
Kendrick Lamar   Skit
John Zabba McLean   Mixing
Donte Blacksher   Composer
John Groover   Composer
Chester Hansen   Composer
BadBadNotGood   Producer
Alexander Sowinski   Composer
Michael Cox, Jr.   Composer
Snoop Dogg   Executive Producer
Soopafly   Mixing
Steve Ferrone   Composer
Isaac Hayes   Composer
Larry Mizell   Composer
Lawrence Parker   Composer
Louis Freese   Composer
Leon Ware   Composer
Roger Ball   Composer
Jermaine Dupri   Producer
Marlon Williams   Composer
Kamaal Fareed   Composer
Owen McIntyre   Composer
Minnie Riperton   Composer
Alan Gorrie   Composer
Malik Taylor   Composer
Antonio Hardy   Composer
Todd Shaw   Composer
Shon Lawon   Mixing,Engineer
Lamar "Mars" Edwards   Producer
Big Bub   Producer
Clifford Curry   Composer
David Porter   Composer
Don Cannon   Composer,Producer
Calvin Broadus   Composer
Hamish Stuart   Composer
Christopher "Brody" Brown   Composer
Frank Vasquez   A&R,Mixing,Engineer
Lee Drakeford   Composer
Kevin Gilliam   Composer
DJ Battlecat   Mixing,Engineer,Producer,Additional Production
Marcel Hall   Composer
Malcolm Duncan   Composer
Mike Bozzi   Mastering
Deborah Mannis-Gardner   Sample Clearance
Devin Copeland   Composer
Clifford Smith   Composer
Robert "Bubby" Lewis   Composer,Producer
Kyle Murphy   Engineer
Cameron Thomaz   Composer
Justin Li   A&R,Package Design