Snoop Dogg Goes Solo on Next LP : Ego Trippin’

It may be hard to imagine a Snoop dogg album without a whole host of guest appearances, but you won’t have to imagine for long. The rapper has decided to go it alone on his next outing.

"Me and Pharrell Williams went into the studio last night, and we’re gonna start on this album called Ego Trippin’," the Dogg revealed to MTV last week in New York. "I’mma do the whole record, me by myself. I don’t want no guest rappers, no singer, nothing. Just Snoop Dogg. I want you to feel me. When I think of all the greats before me ... I bought Rakim’s album the other day for the hundredth time, no guest rappers. I bought one of KRS-One’s albums the other day for the hundredth time, no guest rappers.

"You lose focus after awhile when you’re doing an album," Snoop added. " ’Snoop, you got a new album coming out. Who’s on it ?’ I’ll be like, ’I got him on it, him on it, them on it.’ When it’s time to do the video, they’ll do the video with me, but when it’s time to do a show with them, ’Oh, I got a show in Germany,’ or, ’I got to be in Paris.’ You’re left one-legged. Now it’s time to show artists. Can you handle the whole weight ? Do you got enough to do it on your own ? Did you put yourself in a position where people love you for you — or for being associated with people ? This record, I’m seriously ego-tripping like, ’I don’t want you on my album. Nah, I don’t need you.’ "

The rapper said he was inspired to go solo after hearing Amy Winhouse’s "Back to Black" album.

"[When I’m listening], I’m learning who she is," he said about Winehouse. "But when you listen to James Brown, he did it by himself. Curtis Mayfield, by himself. Of course they did collaborations, but the [songs] that matter they did by themselves. I don’t think people have got all of me yet. Doggystyle was about 95 percent of me. But I wanted Tha Dogg Pound on my album. This record, even if this record don’t sell, that might be a blessing. It needs to get back to [letting people know] who you are. I don’t know whose record I’m buying right now because it’s so many people on it. Is it a compilation ? What is it ?"

Snoop also revealed plans to record a soundtrack for "A Woman’s Touch."

"It’s going to speak directly to some of these women who speak negatively of me and who don’t understand me," he said. "It’s going to be a movie and a record. This is something I was thinking about nine months to a year ago, but it just so happens all this hoopla is happening now. This is the perfect time to shoot it into delivery."

Snoop Dogg Goes Solo on Next LP "Ego Trippin", by malik [2008-06-05 13:59:11]

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