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Hip-hop giant Snoop Dogg is out with a new R&B-tinged album called “Bush.” As for why he chose the title, let’s just say he likes bush.<\/p>\n
“I love trees. I love grass. I love bush,” the 43-year-old rapper said to snickers Wednesday night as he previewed his album at a Hollywood club.<\/p>\n
Bush can have multiple meanings, and the cover of Snoop Dogg’s 13th studio album offers a literal interpretation with neatly manicured shrubbery.<\/p>\n
But Snoop Dogg is also well-known through his lyricism for his love of other “bushes” — marijuana and women’s private areas. (It remains far less likely that the album title refers to the US political dynasty.)<\/p>\n
Whatever the inspiration, the album comes out on May 12 and offers an R&B-influenced dance feel to the rapper who long ago mellowed from his start as a gangsta rapper.<\/p>\n
A first single, “Peaches N Cream,” builds off a funky bass line as Snoop Dogg is joined at the mic by R&B singer Charlie Wilson.<\/p>\n
The refrain, though, is classic Snoop: “Damn her ass is so big \/ Just keep it bumpin’ \/ Peaches N Cream.”<\/p>\n
Snoop Dogg has also announced the participation of R&B legend Stevie Wonder on the album.<\/p>\n
– ‘Frankensteined’ by Pharrell –<\/p>\n
The crowd-friendly dance sound shows the influence of all-star songwriter Pharrell Williams — creator of the viral hit “Happy” — who produced “Bush” in its entirety.<\/p>\n
Snoop Dogg said that he put his full trust in Williams, with whom he collaborated more than a decade ago for hit songs “Beautiful” and “Drop It Like It’s Hot.”<\/p>\n
“On this project, I was like, you do what you want. His whole team got to Frankenstein me,” he said.<\/p>\n
Snoop Dogg said that he and Williams have developed a respect for each other.<\/p>\n
“I loved what he was doing and he loved what I was doing,” Snoop Dogg said.<\/p>\n
“We started a journey together in terms of making music,” he said.<\/p>\n
With both artists well into their careers and their 40s, Snoop Dogg said they decided artistically that it would be better for Williams to take charge of the whole project.<\/p>\n
Williams has had an active career as a producer and collaborator. He worked with French electronic duo Daft Punk on the Grammy-winning album “Random Access Memories” and co-wrote Robin Thicke’s smash hit “Blurred Lines” — which a jury controversially found to have been stolen from Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.”<\/p>\n
“Bush” is Snoop Dogg’s first studio album under the name since “Doggumentary” in 2011.<\/p>\n
The California rapper has been keeping active with side projects and in 2013 released a reggae album under the name Snoop Lion.<\/p>\n
Snoop Dogg, delivering a keynote address this month at the South by Southwest festival, announced that he will produce a television show for HBO.<\/p>\n
The show will focus on a family living in inner Los Angeles during the 1980s and will explore the effects of president Ronald Reagan’s social policies, he told the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hip-hop giant Snoop Dogg is out with a new R&B-tinged album called “Bush.” As for why he chose the title, let’s just say he likes bush. “I love trees. I love grass. I love bush,” the 43-year-old rapper said to snickers Wednesday night as he previewed his album at a Hollywood club. Bush can have multiple meanings, and the cover of Snoop Dogg’s 13th studio… <\/p>\n