Finally: Snoop Dogg is rolling onto Rock Band

by Justin McElroy on Feb 10th 2009 3:26PM

With so much content in Rock Band D-L-C, it's kinda hard finding Snoop D-O-double-G. But according to a release from MTV, that's about to become a lot easier as the Doggfather brings his trademark flow to MTV's music game (alongside a few other ventures with the music giant).

We love Snoop Dogg's music as much as the three-time winners of the "Least Urban Blogging Team" award can, but is this really a good fit for Rock Band? Do you commenters have any suggestions for Snoop tracks that you'd want to rock to? And will you be singing the censored on-screen version or spitting the original, raunchy fire?

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Tags: dlc, harmonix, rock-band, rock-band-2, rock-band-dlc, snoop-dogg

Reader Comments (127)

Hahaha oh wow. At least this shitstorm is going to be fun to watch.

Who cares if it's not rock. Some of old stuff are rap classics that will be party hits. I'm laughing right now at the images of 30 something white folk breaking off Snoop hits!

I will say it will be interesting to see how, instrumentally, they make this work.

HAHAHAHAHA I don't really care for rap, but i still find this awesome.

The Doggfather isn't exactly a rock act. This will be a must buy for me.

My fiance hates Snoop Dogg but I'll teach her to like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXzg0D-cKds

I WAS GONNA POST THIS!!! Best Remix EVER!!!

This has to be one of the most legendary things ever.

That was awesome. +1

Rock Band G's Up, Guitar Hero Ho's down

No good. So the guitar will be used for?? I also foresee records being shattered globally....daily.

"Rolling down the street smoking iiindo! Sippiin' on"...(Vocals 100% +bonus!!!!)

Drums (100% +bonus!!)

Bass (see above)

Guitar *plugged out*

I wasn't excited about this until you busted out the singing. Now I can't wait!

Actually, Snoop's more recent stuff has really shifted towards funkadelic. There would be plenty to do on the guitars and bass as well. When you hit a section of the song that doesn't need either the bass or guitar, you can use them to choke a bitch (if you have the wired guitar) or simply keep em' in check. Plenty of uses indeed. ; )

half of his early stuff produced by Dre uses the guitar ya know

I know i know, i tried to make a funny and it blew up in my face...
Now raise up off my N-U-Tz, cuz you gets none o' these...

;)

I want Country back!

You did that just to get voted down, didn't you?

LOL I have nothing against it. I'll probably buy it. There's been worse.

he has that song with willie nelson, and i knew a couple people back in school who played snoop songs on guitar

Wait, what?

Seriously? Well, my Vocals career just got to be even more fun.

Can we safely assume that it's going to be a collection of re-recordings?

Most of Dr.Dre's produced tracks have older jazz and funk roots so they might translate well to instruments.

Anyway not to get to out of line here but that girl on the right has quite the backside. Yowza. Snoop is just showing his one handed Live technique where he can lose but still be the winner.

thats what I'm saying. a LOT of his stuff has guitar in it

guitar and heavy bass riffs. We all know rap music has drums otherwise there wouldn't be a beat.

not all rap music has drums, lol

Oh come now baby J, i know you, and you ONLY listen to gangsta shit!

When you toke on your bomb ass dank of which gives you the creativity and energy to write your "compositions", guitars and funkadelic are the last thing on your menu. Word on the street is your nickname Johnny#5 comes from the fact your eyes are always red, and always pack steel.

:)

Ha Ha Negatron ...

Nah man it comes from Short Circuit which was is my favorite movie of all time. I used to listen to a lot of rap music when I was in high school but now I only have a select few hip hop artist that I can tolerate. It's really only Immortal Technique, Diabolic and classic Eminem.

Immortal Technique (best lyricist and most socially relevant artist evar!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgmDAdGASuo
Albums: Revolutionary volume 1 & 2 as well as The 3rd World Mixtape

Immortal Technique Featuring Diabolic (disgusting)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imNXJItVQ2M

New Eminem actually sounds promising. The flow is there hopefully so is content.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHfe22sClHs

I think I like Eminem because I remember when he was good.

Anyway ....

*Gasp!*

Talk about a slap in the face! (jk) , i mean, i have only seen EVERY Short Circuit made.
LOL Im only 29 man, and was partially raised by TV and movies, as many 80's babies were, well um at least the cool ones :P

Weird Science,
Ferris Buellers Day Off..
All the Pee Wee Herman flicks,(First was the best IMO)
Labrynth
Willow
Mac and Me
War Games (with Matthew Broderick)
American Ninja 1 2 3 (LOL!) Micheal Dudikoff pwn Norris

*threatens*
I can go on you know lol but i will spare Joystiq random flick titles from the younger days.

This is cool. I support different kinds of genres making their way into RB, I probably won't purchase any Snoop though.

How do I set up Joystiq so I don't have to enter my email and password for every post?

Get a browser that saves passwords... ie firefox or every fucking browser out now.

I'm using one, I don't have this problem on any other sites.

Maybe you have it set to delete cookies or something on exit. Or erase form data.

I just checked, I don't have anything like that enabled. When I normally browse the site, both fields are always blank. When they email me that someone responded to my comment, and I click the link, it will fill in the email but not password.

Erase your saved password for Joystiq and try again.

Also, if you quick registered they sent you a different password that isn't the one you probably wanted. It should be in all of your "verify comment" emails.

I use the password from those confirmation emails, I just have to enter it every time I want to make a post. There is no password saved, so there's nothing to erase. It always defaults to the "Returning" tab down at the bottom of the page instead of "New Readers," and so I enter my email and password every time, and I check the "Remember me" box, and that's just how it goes. Both fields are always completely blank.

Switch to Firefox or Chrome.

I use Firefox, haven't used anything else for years.

Test, sorry for doing this. Testing my browser. I think i figured it out.

Sorry. Trying again.

I think it's a problem with Firefox. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try to figure it out, Firefox just won't remember the password for some reason. Sorry for spamming, didn't know of another way to test.

Firefox never remembers my passwords. I use the LastPass plugin. It will fill everything for you. Also, you can set it to automatically log you into sites.

I just changed a setting in my password manager (Roboform) and Joystiq works now. I don't understand why Firefox wasn't doing it, it had about 8 sites listed in its own manager. I definitely log in to more than 8 sites on a regular basis. Thanks for the various advice, dudes. Appreciate it.

I use Opera, and it's marvellous. It does everything but cook me breakfast, but I hope they release a patch for that.

OR click on your name, go to Account settings and change your password, :D

Changing my password would have had no effect on the problem.

The entire Doggystyle album would be flat out amazing. I saw snoop with 311 last summer, i do have to say he is the fucking man.

Yeah I saw him with the Chili Peppers a few years back and he doesn't disappoint thats for sure. For a "Party", no excuse me, for a more fun when drunk game like Rock Band, this is a perfect fit. His stuff would be really fun and a great way to break up those long set lists when playing with friends.

I nominate The Gourds' cover of Gin n Juice, and maybe a rock remix of Wake Up. Maybe Sensual Seduction will round out the dl pack.

snoop has alot of different sounding songs that would be great for rock band. he's not your average rapper.

What the hell? Did someone see GH add Flo-Rida to the DLC lineup and think adding rap to RB just HAD to happen? Do either of these games think the addition of rap to a ROCK RHYTHM GAME is going to light the world on fire?

This is such a bad idea. No way I'm climbing aboard this train.

Well, the "rhythm" part is certainly easy enough to rationalize.

The "rock" part just comes from the title of the game. There are a lot of genres present in Rock Band. Why not throw in a genre that is all about the groove?

Gah! The company's desire to add optional content to a game and possibly make money and other people happy is ruining my enjoyment of the game!

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