13438300, The Chronic Posted by double negative, Wed Jul-28-21 09:30 AM
I lived in North Long Beach in the same neighborhood Snoop was from and I even went to the same jr high school he attended about 8 or 10 years after him.
I vividly remember living through that incredible run of foundational g-funk albums from The Chronic to Doggystyle to Warren G and The Twinz
I was 11 when The Chronic dropped, my neighbor had the tape and I would listen to it every chance I had. It was loud, sexualized, raunchy, angry, violent, defiant. That shit blew my mind - I already knew about hip hop and NWA, but The Chronic's sharp execution and hard impact brought the art to a new level. I got the same feeling when I first heard Kendrick's 'The Blacker the Berry'
Many other albums did a similar thing, but I wasn't living in the environment that created the work.
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