Doggy Dogg World

"Doggy Dogg World"
Single by Snoop Doggy Dogg featuring Tha Dogg Pound & The Dramatics
from the album Doggystyle
Released	June 26, 1994(UK)
Format	12-inch single
Recorded	1993
Genre	G-funk, Gangsta rap, West Coast hip hop
Length	5:38
Label	Death Row Records
Writer(s)	Delmar Drew Arnaud Richard Fields Ricardo Emmanuel Brown Cordazar Calvin Broadus
Producer	Dr. Dre
Snoop Doggy Dogg singles chronology
"Gin and Juice" (1994) "Doggy Dogg World" (1994) "Snoop's Upside Ya Head" (1996)

"Doggy Dogg World" is the third single from Snoop Doggy 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 guest rap verses from Kurupt and Daz Dillinger (Tha Dogg Pound), 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. The title of the song presumably is a play on the phrase "[It's a] dog eat dog world."

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 and Kurupt's verse 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 :

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

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.

Chart performance

Chart	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40	19

External links

• Murder Was the Case at the Internet Movie Database
• Rap Samples FAQ