Snoop was not viewed as being the kind of lyricist Biggie was (i'll give Snoop Deep Cover but this idea he was at any point a "lyricist" is faulty IMO) and Biggie being an East Coast/NY dude when a lot of us were still very biased to NY meant something...that a hardcore NY rapper could drop and go pop, could balance the hardcore crack dealer street image w/ the ladies love image cribbed from Cool J...