After taking a four-year break before their last album, 2006's Cali Iz Active, Tha Dogg Pound are making up for lost time by not even letting a year pass before releasing Dogg Chit.
One can wonder if it had anything to do with Active's low sales, since nobody seemed to want Tha Pound lifted out of the ghetto and onto the charts.
If the artwork's reference to their debut didn't clue you in, Dogg Chit is a return to the bleak and brutal world they explored back in 1995.
It's all convincing, going against any thought the return to form is contrived and forced, and beats are so G-funk it's only when the Game shows up that the album feels post-2000.
Paternity tests come under fire on the amusing "Dat Ain't My Baby," and "Vibe" forgets about carrying heat for a change, but the rest of the album is pure thugging and won't recruit any new fans.
Course, when they partied it up less than a year before, nobody noticed, so this traditional, almost entirely Daz-produced effort is no big surprise.
That it's so good after such little time passed is a surprise, and entirely welcome one.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get out My Way | Tha Dogg Pound | Play | 05:17 | 12 MB | 39 MB |
| 2 | I'll Bury Ya | Tha Dogg Pound | Play | 03:55 | 8 MB | 28 MB |
| 3 | Everybody | Tha Dogg Pound | Play | 04:01 | 9 MB | 28 MB |
| 4 | Anybody Killa | Tha Dogg Pound, The Game | Play | 03:58 | 9 MB | 28 MB |
| 5 | Mo Murder | Tha Dogg Pound | Play | 04:54 | 11 MB | 34 MB |
| 6 | Vibe | Tha Dogg Pound, Snoop Dogg | Play | 04:08 | 9 MB | 27 MB |
| 7 | Can't Get Enough | Tha Dogg Pound, Too $hort | Play | 04:52 | 11 MB | 31 MB |
| 8 | Dat Ain't My Baby | Tha Dogg Pound | Play | 04:30 | 10 MB | 31 MB |
| 9 | Thiz Gangsta Chit Iz Ourz | Tha Dogg Pound | Play | 05:20 | 12 MB | 36 MB |
| 10 | 1 N 1 Out | Tha Dogg Pound | Play | 04:34 | 10 MB | 33 MB |
| 45 mins | 104 MB | |||||
| 45 mins | 321 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | D. Arnaud | Composer |
| 2 | Bad Azz | Additional Personnel, Guest Artist, Primary Artist |
| 3 | R. Brown | Composer |
| 4 | Alex "Toon" Deligiannis | Artwork, Cover Design |
| 5 | Daz Dillinger | Audio Production, Producer |
| 6 | Tha Dogg Pound | Executive Producer, Primary Artist |
| 7 | The Game | Additional Personnel, Guest Artist, Primary Artist |
| 8 | Jason Gillespie | Assistant Engineer, Audio Engineer |
| 9 | Ryan Hagel | Photography |
| 10 | Ivan Johnson | Audio Production, Producer |
| 11 | Kalila | Main Personnel, Vocals (Background) |
| 12 | Jason Latshaw | Audio Engineer, Mixing |
| 13 | Kevin Nix | Mastering |
| 14 | Larry Nix | Mastering |
| 15 | Snoop Dogg | Additional Personnel, Guest Artist, Primary Artist |
| 16 | Soopafly | Audio Production, Producer |
| 17 | Too $hort | Additional Personnel, Guest Artist, Primary Artist |
| 18 | Arnold "Bigg A" White | A&R, Marketing, Promotions Director |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |