>true too....But he didn't set dre off though ...dre was
>already known, but he did help dre go to the next level and
>really put west coast on a high level ...

This was exactly my point. I definitely wasn't tryin to say that Snoop put Dre on the map or anything. Just saying that the hype surrounding the album was that much greater with Snoop in the mix after Deep Cover and how he came in "bow wow wow..." and all that.