The new release features performances from such artists as Willie Nelson, Young Jeezy, R. Kelly, the Gorillaz, John Legend and many others. The album is a conceptual follow-up to Snoop Dogg's 1993 debut, Doggystyle.
Some of the tracks have been available online for a while, but others are brand new. You can hear clean versions of the full track list now, and the album will be available for purchase on March 29.
Here's a sample of one of the newer tracks for fans:
Call us spoiled, but we were expecting something a bit more modern than a MySpace release for the web-savvy artist, whose recent forays into Internet culture have included branded virtual goods and social gaming tie-ins. Heck, Snoop's last album got the Ustream treatment, and that was back in 2009. And several tracks were released early via Snoop's "Puff Puff Pass Tuesdays" on Twitter and Facebook, a practice that was inspired by Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Fridays weekly releases.
Maybe we've been led to expect a lot by digital efforts such as the thoroughly slick, Twitter-fied microsite for Jay Z's latest release, but we were hoping for something a little nerdier from everyone's favorite rapping herbalist. Who knows -- perhaps something more impressive will be coming along with the album's official release.