Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss

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Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss
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Studio album by
Snoop Dogg
ReleasedNovember 26, 2002 (2002-11-26)
Recorded2001–02
Studio Doggystyle Records Studio, Diamond Bar, Los Angeles, California
Genre Hip hop
Length78:58
Label
Producer
Snoop Dogg chronology
Death Row: Snoop Doggy Dogg at His Best
(2001)		Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss
(2002)		 Tha Dogg: Best of the Works
(2003)
Singles from Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss
  1. "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace"
    Released: October 15, 2002
  2. "Beautiful"
    Released: January 21, 2003

Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss (stylized as Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$) is the sixth studio album by American rapper Snoop Dogg. It was released on November 26, 2002, by his Doggystyle label, alongside Priority and Capitol Records. Following his departure from the No Limit Records, he later signed a recording contract to Capitol through Priority Records. The album was supported by two singles, both featuring Pharrell: "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace" and "Beautiful", the latter also featuring Charlie Wilson.

Contents

The album debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200, selling 174,000 copies in its first week, and received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). To date, it has sold over 1,500,000 copies worldwide.

Music

This album marked the beginning of Snoop's long-lasting association with Pharrell and The Neptunes. [1] The album's lead single "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace", produced by The Neptunes and featuring an uncredited guest appearance from Pharrell, was released on October 15, 2002. The song's music video was directed by Diane Martel, under the alias Bucky Chrome.

The album's second single, "Beautiful" featuring Pharrell and Charlie Wilson, also produced by The Neptunes, was released on January 28, 2003. The music video for "Beautiful", which featured Pharrell but omitted Charlie Wilson, was directed by Chris Robinson in Brazil, which helped the single to become a hit on the Billboard 's charts. In a retrospective critique on the song, Pharrell would later admit he didn't think the song would be a hit. "[Snoop] really loved ‘Beautiful.’ I didn’t get ‘Beautiful,’ mainly because I was singing on there flat as fuck and I just didn’t hear it. I thought it was a fun record. And then we put Charlie Wilson on it and I was like man Charlie sounding amazing on this, and this feels good to me, but no one is ever going to go for this." [2]

Release

It was announced to be re-packaged for the album, with six of these pre-released versions of different album covers, but only several tracks were not to be included on each. Snoop's also contains two-disc's DVD, called Boss Playa: A Day in the Life of Bigg Snoop Dogg; including the first disc featuring three music videos for "Boss Playa", "Pimp Slapp'd" (where both of them, were directed by Pook Brown), and "That's the Shit"; the second disc is a DVD, named "Doggystyle Porn", which features the song, titled "You Like Doin It Too". However, these tracks were later featured in an unreleased project version of the album.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic (76/100) [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Entertainment Weekly A− [6]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
RapReviews.com(8.5/10) [8]
Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau-dud.svg [9]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Stylus Magazine A− [11]
USA Today Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg[ citation needed ]
Vibe Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [12]

Commercial performance

Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200, selling 174,000 copies in its first week. [15] [16] In November 2004, the album sales, where it has sold 1,210,000 copies in the United States. [17]

Controversy

On March 24, 2003, a lawsuit was filed against Snoop Dogg by a man who claimed that his life was endangered after the rapper had included a 50-second phone message featuring the plaintiff's voice on the album's last track, "Pimp Slapp'd", a diss track directed at then-Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight. The man, identified only as John Doe for security reasons, had left the voice message for Snoop Dogg in October 2002, unaware of the intention of its inclusion on the album. John Doe, who was identified on the answering machine as "Jim Bob", insisted the album be recalled and cancelled for distribution in its current form, and stated in court papers that he had been threatened verbally several times and feared for his and his mother's lives due to Knight's close proximity, as both he and Knight resided in Compton, California, at the time.

On February 3, 2004, the lawsuit was dismissed for common law appropriation of voice and intentional infliction of emotional distress, under the ruling that privacy cannot be maintained while leaving a message on another's recording device. [18] [19] [20]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Don Doggy"  0:42
2."Da Bo$$ Would Like to See You"
 E-Swift 1:59
3."Stoplight"
Jelly Roll4:26
4."From tha Chuuuch to da Palace" (featuring Pharrell)
 The Neptunes 4:40
5."I Believe in You" (featuring LaToiya Williams)
 Hi-Tek 4:34
6."Lollipop" (featuring Jay-Z, Nate Dogg, and Soopafly)
 Just Blaze 3:48
7."Ballin'" (featuring The Dramatics and Lil' ½ Dead)
 DJ Battlecat 5:19
8."Beautiful" (featuring Pharrell and Charlie Wilson)
The Neptunes4:58
9."Paper'd Up" (featuring Kokane and Traci Nelson)
 Fredwreck 3:49
10."Wasn't Your Fault"
 L.T. Hutton 4:30
11."Bo$$ Playa"
Fredwreck5:53
12."Hourglass" (featuring Kokane and Goldie Loc)
Jelly Roll4:20
13."The One and Only"
 DJ Premier 3:49
14."I Miss That Bitch" (featuring E-White)
Hi-Tek3:12
15."From Long Beach 2 Brick City" (featuring Redman, Nate Dogg, and Warren G)
Fredwreck3:43
16."Suited n Booted"
3:16
17."You Got What I Want" (featuring Goldie Loc, Ludacris, and Charlie Wilson)
Jelly Roll3:36
18."Batman & Robin" (featuring The Lady of Rage and RBX)
DJ Premier5:02
19."A Message 2 Fat Cuzz"  1:40
20."Pimp Slapp'd"
Leimberg5:42
Total length:78:58
France edition bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
21."Mission Cleopatra" (featuring Jamel Debbouze)
 Daz Dillinger 3:51

Sample credits

Personnel

Credits adapted from Allmusic. [21]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [41] Gold50,000^
France (SNEP) [42] Gold100,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [43] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [44] Platinum1,210,000 [45]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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