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popping the bubble

Idolator Live-Blogs The "TRL" Finale: 1-800-DIAL-MTV, We Knew Ye When

Tonight brings us the finale of MTV's daily countdown show TRL, and MTV is pulling out a few stops to celebrate its end: A few live performances, a few interviews, a return to hosting duties by TRL OG Carson Daly. In some ways, this denouement was inevitable: The fizzy, sheeny, ever-expanding America that was epitomized by the rise of both the first Britney era and TRL some 10 years ago is all but over, what with a seemingly neverending bust ensuing and the concept of "popular music" being less popular than ever. But that doesn't mean we can't eulogize it, right? Full coverage begins after the jump. More »

7:45 PM on Sun Nov 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,271 views, 93 comments

Latest by derby: the show was awful when it premiered and remained awful for ten years. i applaud the show's commitment to treacly entertainment. more »

mariah's bringing ice cream

The "TRL" Finale Will Mark The End Of Pop Culture As We Know It

We've already mentioned the imminent TV return of Jesse Camp thanks to this Saturday's TRL finale, but somehow this momentous occasion keeps getting bigger and better—so much that the network tacked on another half hour to the program. (Be bold, MTV! Make the TRL finale one of those 24 hour long programs you were so fond of for awhile. Carson Daly, Fred Durst, and Taylor Swift all holed up in your Times Square studio—what's not to like?) MTV has announced that the show will feature a one-time-only (for now) performance by Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Nelly, as well as music from Beyoncé, 50 Cent, Fall Out Boy, and the Backstreet Boys. Still, perhaps the most exciting announcement is that both Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez are scheduled to appear. We're two-fifths of the way there, MTV—call the other three guys and history will be made! Lance and Chris are probably over that whole "bad dancer" thing by now. [MTV]

4:30 PM on Tue Nov 11 2008
By Dan Gibson
1,560 views, 13 comments

Latest by Halfwit: @Tauwan: Way late, but still... Next. Next. Next. more »

project x

Project X Hits the Hip-Hop Nostalgia Circuit

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Michaelangelo Matos breaks down top-ten lists from every genre imaginable. After the jump, he sits through VH1's latest TV-based listicle, 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs, and finds a few poignant moments among the MC Hammer jokes: More »

11:00 AM on Mon Oct 6 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
536 views, 14 comments

Snoop Dogg's tour bus was pulled over near Dallas yesterday, and two of its non-Snoop passengers were arrested for marijuana possession. [AP]

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what about michel'le?

Snoop Dogg Swears Dr. Dre's Detox Is Ready To Go

A lot of people wonder if Dr. Dre will ever stop lifting weights and giving tracks to other Aftermath artists long enough to release his much-awaited Detox, but after four years of delays, Snoop Dogg says it could drop any second. "You know me, I was starting to doubt it myself and then I went up in there and he played so much music for me it knocked my head off. I see what he got them waiting for, it's on and poppin'. He got records, he got heat." He also has to figure out which tracks featuring which rappers are actually worth releasing in 2008, as the game has changed many times since the release of The Chronic 2001. (Just ask The Game.) More »

11:30 AM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,705 views, 3 comments

Latest by StuntKockSteeev: I'd love to see Devin rip another Dre beat, but I certainly wouldn't bet money on it. more »

videodrone

Snoop Dogg Pimps That Country

Maybe it was too built up in reviews of Ego Trippin', but after hearing Snoop Dogg's new country single, "My Medicine," I can't figure out why anyone would look forward to hearing it unless they were being forced to review the album and pining for novelty. While it might be striking to hear Snoop Dogg talk about what a douche he is over a generic bluesy backdrop (hi, Everlast!), I never thought that Kid Rock's recent work was anything I wanted other rappers to ape. Points for getting Willie "Beer For My Horses" Nelson to appear with a gangsta, though, and if Snoop wants to cover "Square Dance Rap," I'm down. [YouTube]

3:00 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Anthony Miccio
272 views, 8 comments

Latest by Tracer Hand: This is great. It sounds like Imani. more »

mtv plays music videos, film at 8 et

Pete Wentz Brings Music Back To MTV, Keeps Network's Celebrity Glorification Quotient Intact

After a lot of buildup that stretched all the way to an Idolator reader poll, I watched Pete Wentz's effort to bring videos back to MTV, FNMTV Premieres, on DVR-delay Saturday morning. And it was... OK. Friday night's premiere didn't result in ground-breaking TV by any stretch, but it wasn't completely awful despite the musical presence of both will.i.am and the Pussycat Dolls. The biggest complaint I had, really, was that the show was full of filler; Anthony's prediction last week that the hourlong show would air seven videos in toto was actually over the night's tally by three. (A few older videos got a bit of screen time, but most of the music within was papered over by Wentz's explaining the clips and the collective "whooooo"ing of the well-manicured crowd.) More »

1:00 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,198 views, 14 comments

Latest by Superawesomerad: @Rob Murphy: Meaning she's actually 33-35. more »

art?

Snoop Dogg: A Child Of God (But Not The Child Of God, I Think)

I guess this ad for the Catholic Church's World Youth Day, which ran in the Australian edition of Marie Claire, is both an attempt to remind the children that Jesus was the biggest influence on all the good music in the world and show them that just one trip to their local confessional will wipe away any number of sins—even those involving deadly weapons!—and get one started on the path toward righteousness, stained-glass window depictions, et cetera. (Click the thumbnail for the full-size version.) [copyranter]

3:00 PM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
299 views, 3 comments

Latest by Clevertrousers: Damn. He even looks stoned in stained glass! more »

this lottery ticket plot line is really drawing me in

Snoop Courts The Lucrative ABC Daytime/Hip-Hop Fan Market

I'm not sure why Snoop Dogg appeared on One Life To Live today, but that he seems to be having a good time, performing "Sensual Seduction" at Llanview's most jumpin' nightclub and buying drinks for the bar on Bo Buchanan. Timbaland appeared on the program earlier this year as well, and I hear that Guiding Light has a call into Kool Moe Dee's agent about a guest spot next month. No matter what you think of this demographic targeting, it's definitely a better career move for Snoop than touring with 311. [MSNBC]

5:45 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Dan Gibson
94 views, 3 comments

Latest by Luke N Atmaguchi: It all comes back to West vs. East. Snoop is straight-up stealing thunder from the forthcoming posthumous Notorious B.I.G. compilation "ONE LIFE TO LIVE, ONE DEATH TO DIE," a two-disc collection of previously unreleased demos, chat line chat, and Biggie's more »

gangbangers and mash

Former Amateur Pimp Snoop Dogg Is Free To Return To Britain

Did anyone else catch Snoop leading a chant of "Na Na Na Hey Hey Hey (Snoop Dogg)" while waving a peace sign after his impressively profane Live 8 performance in London? Recently, it looked like visa issues could keep him from reprising that sterling moment, but an immigration appeals judge in England has cleared him of charges stemming from an airport lounge brawl in 2006. "It has been an appalling waste of public money to pursue this man," said Snoop's lawyer. "It is outrageous that the government is trying to exclude someone who is an innocent figure and has frequently spoken against gang culture and youths carrying guns." It could be argued he's more frequently spoken for gang culture, but hey. More »

10:30 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Anthony Miccio
493 views, 2 comments

Latest by Job: Excuse moi? more »

videodrone

I Cannot Get "Butternut Reduction" Out Of My Head

The first part of this cartoon, involving a phone conversation between Akon and T-Pain, is cute enough, but it's Snoop Dogg's "~~Buttermilk~~ Butternut Reduction" that's had me going back to this thing all morning. "And then we roast it slow...surround it with escargot..." I don't know, maybe I've been watching too much Top Chef.
Akon Calls T-Pain [Superdeluxe, via Notes From A Different Kitchen]
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12:45 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,053 views, 5 comments

projecting the charts

Rick Ross, I Might Owe You An Apology

Mr. Ross, I assumed after your 2006 single "Hustlin'", you'd disappear from the charts, never to be heard again. The tracks with DJ Khaled last year threw me off a bit, but still I stuck to the idea that if you did put out another album, it wouldn't make much of a splash. For one week, at least, Rick Ross, I was wrong, and I'm sorry. I should never underestimate the musical power of dudes with beards. Oh, and there's projected chart news beyond the moves of bearded Floridians. More »

11:15 AM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Dan Gibson
515 views, 5 comments

Latest by rad_matter: HITS loves men with boobs. Just sayin'. more »

Snoop Dogg is getting his own Comedy Central cartoon; XXL reports that "the as-yet untitled show will chronicle the adventures of a 15 year-old Snoop growing up in 1980's Long Beach." So a continuation of the heartwarming back-in-the-day reminiscences of the Wonder Years and Everybody Hates Chris, but animated and high? [XXL/Photo: AP]

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the last word

Snoop Dogg Gets An Extra Letter Grade For A Time Cover

Nearly every week, we used to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's triumphant return is for the album with the song for that video you liked a few weeks ago: Snoop Dogg's Ego Trippin', which hits shelves today: More »

1:45 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Dan Gibson
645 views, 2 comments

recaps

What We All Missed At Monday Night's Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Awards

• Slightly incongruous attendee George Lucas, there in support of his main squeeze and probably spending the evening mentally toting up that Crystal Skulls money/plotting from his seat on how much more interesting awards shows would be with CGI'd Ewoks and explosions.
• Jim Jones being incoherent.
• Ciara referring to her brain as a "memory stick," while failing to note its maximum read/write speed.
• A casual Friday Pharrell comparing honoree Snoop Dogg to the Redheaded Stranger before noting that we should not condemn the man for his weed intake. (Why on earth would we condemn him for that?)
• Snoop himself torpedoing Pharrell's good intentions by making a rolling papers joke before claiming to be mentoring 2,500 kids by proxy in his after-school football program, because the pimp-turned-televised family man is for the children. [NY Daily News/ Photo: Getty]

11:30 AM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Jess Harvell
213 views, 3 comments

Latest by sparkletone: There's nothing worse than seeing two Al's fighting. Actually. A George Lucas/Rich Boy album might be worse than that, so I take it back. more »

One-time pop singer and Jay-Z look-alike Aaron Carter was pinched by Texas patrolmen for pot possession on Thursday, earning himself a court appearance earlier today. In somewhat less surprising marijuana-related news, Snoop Dogg got busted for smoking the demon weed while lamping in front of a New York club on Wednesday, receiving only a fine for his trouble. [MTV/Photo: AP]

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What's this? An album with a release date that's actually being pushed up, and not back? Yes, indeed: Snoop Dogg's Ego Trippin' has been moved up to a March 11 release date in the U.S., thanks to the success of "Sensual Seduction" and its attendant degraded-VHS video. It was originally slated to come out in May, a good six months after "Sensual" debuted. [Reuters]

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noooooo

Dear Universal: Nobody Puts Robyn In The Remix Corner

So the Swedish kook-pop princess/Idolator patron saint Robyn is finally going to have a proper release of her album in the States, only three years after she initially self-released it after breaking free from Jive's early-millennium teenpop clutches. This is very exciting news, not the least because she's actually going to be playing shows within the country's decadent coastal enclaves over the next couple of weeks. But yesterday, i observed a somewhat troubling development regarding how Robyn the artist and Robyn the album might be marketed on this side of the world, and it involved her playing second freaking fiddle to Snoop Freakin' Dogg: More »

5:30 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,424 views, 15 comments

Latest by StuntKockSteeev: Isn't the bigger tragedy here that Snoop is still recording?? more »

What Use Are "Best Of" Lists, Anyhow?

Posts Tagged “Snoop Dogg”