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SNOOP LION
Reincarnated
Release date :
04-22-2013
Label :
Jive
Tracklist :
01. Rebel Way
02. Here Comes The King feat Angela Hunt
03. Lighters Up feat Mavado & Popcaan
04. So Long feat Angela Hunte
05. Get Away feat Angela Hunte
06. No Guns Allowed feat Drake and Cori B
07. Fruit Juice feat Mr Vegas
08. Smoke The Weed feat Collie Budz
09. Tired Of Running feat Akon
10. The Good Good feat Iza
11. Torn Apart feat Rita Ora
12. Ashtrays And Heartbreaks feat Miley Cyrus
13. Boulevard feat Jahdan Blakkamore
14. Remedy
15. La La La
16. Harder Times feat Jahdan Blakkamore
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REVIEW
Review written by Benoît Georges
on Friday, May 17th 2013 - 11 162 views
For more than a year, Snoop had been keeping us on tenterhooks with his reggae project and his Rasta conversion. A cleverly orchestrated buzz, paced with a film and a few singles released drop by drop, of which this is now the climax: the release of an album that announces nothing less than the reincarnation of Bob Marley. Surprise: the result is neither a reggae record nor, even less, a Rasta record. In fact, "Reincarnated" is not really a Jamaican music record (if you go by the production and the collaborations), nor even a Snoop record (14 duets out of 16 tracks, most of which he did not write). Like the Jamaicans who saw him land on their island last year, and like the veteran Bunny Wailer, we are entitled to wonder: Snoop Lion or Snoop Liar?
And yet, one senses a real investment in this album, and Snoop's collaborators have not disgraced themselves, whether behind the desk or the mic. That is the main interest of an album that could have been called "Snoop Dogg & friends": varied guests who generally do better than Snoop, good ideas, well produced. But the Jamaican side is only a veneer, and the winks dropped here and there in patchwork form are not enough to guarantee authenticity. With Diplo (Major Lazer) at the helm, the production touched on the different styles of Jamaican music: early digital, dub, dancehall, one drop… Let us mention, in no particular order, the 80s synths used on the Music Works productions (Rebel way, Here come the king), the Tivoli brass band (Lighters up, one of the best tracks on the album), the tribute to the Sleng Teng (which is not enough to save Fruit juice) and the sample of Michael Palmer's Smoke the weed for the track of the same name (a good track, by the way, mostly carried by Collie Budz).
One might have thought the Dogg's melodious rap would marry well with reggae and dancehall. Except that Snoop wanted to sing and toast! In the end it is hard to judge, given how much vocal support he gets, whether from backing singers or from his own guests (Angela Hunte and Jahdan Blakkamoore handle almost all the backing vocals, even if they are not always credited). Hard for reggae fans and Snoop fans alike to find what they are looking for: apart from the tracks that had already leaked, there is not much better. Some tracks, like Get away or Ashtrays and heartbreaks with Miley Cyrus, are almost unlistenable.
As in many of his rap side projects, Snoop has not managed to avoid bragging: you can feel that he enjoyed himself, as a dilettante, but the bulk of the work was clearly done by others. Not to mention Snoop's recent statements about Bunny Wailer, this attitude risks giving fuel to those who denounced a mere marketing exercise. Curiously, the controversy has not had much of an echo in Jamaica, but don't they say a dog doesn't bite the hand that feeds it? |
Yes Gamel, en plus cette polémique avec Bunny est vraiment pathétique: en gros, c'est un mec qui vient du ghtetto(Eastside) qui reproche à un autre mec du ghetto (Trench Town) d'avoir une mentalité de ghettoman en cherchant à gratter de la thune ! Quand bien même ce serait le cas, diss Bunny comme le fait Snoop est juste intolérable wait & see
Le problème n'est pas "sa" musique puisque de toutes lui ne fait rien à aprt se pointer au studio ramasser les billets. Le problème est qu'il vient décribiliser ce qu'est RASTA ! qu'il fasse du reggae je m'en fous, mais bon vous avez compris que c'est tout sauf un rasta :) de plus il aurait pas dut se frotter à Bunny... ca va faire mal :p
il ne s'agit pas de dénigrer tout ce qui est crossover. certains projets sont réussis, celui-là non à mon avis. Et puis, c'est triste de voir Snoop incapable de chanter, se faire mettre à l'amende par ses invités. Il aurait du faire ce qu'il sait faire : du rap mélodique sur du reggae, et ça aurait déjà été bien original. La prod est bonne ok, mais pourquoi aucun big producteur jamaïcain, et si peu de big artistes locaux ? chercher l'erreur
voila ce que que j'appelle une chronique qui manque clairement d'impartialité !!! Le mépris que vous éprouvez pour le personnage à complétement altéré la clairvoyance de vos oreilles visiblement... Car ce projet musical certes très crossover mais reggae avant tout est un pour moi une vraie réussite, un classique même! les 20 morceaux de cet album sont plus éclectique les uns que les autres et vraiment bien produit. Durant ces 3 derniers week end en soirée combien de mes amis m'ont dit "ca passe trop bien ca c'est qui ca!!!" En effet snoop n'est pas transcandant techniquement parlant mais il n'en fait pas des tonnes et du coup c'est très juste, les back et nombreux featurings sont ultra bien sentis les prods vraiment lourdes. Bref amateurs de bonnes vibes tchet it !!!!
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