Six months after having released his "reggae" album and about a year and a half after having professed his conversion to the Rastafari religion, Snoop Lion returns to publish a project changing his moniker again, this time from Snoop Lion to Snoopzilla, paying homage to Bootsy Collins of whom he now claims to be an "offspring". This record is a collaborative album with Damon "Dâm-Funk" Riddick, met by Calvin Broadus in early 2011. Dâm-Funk's g-funk production is pleasant and light, it gives to the project a purely funk soul, offering Snoopzilla a robust soundscape on which he performs inspired and confidently for half an hour, sometimes rapping, sometimes singing. Steve Arrington, Kurupt and Tha Dogg Pound are the guests. It's scary how the Long Beach artist can pull off his best album of the decade without making any apparent effort. Distributed by Stones Throw, the tape is met with mixed reviews by critics and has a negligible commercial result for the rapper's discography, despite the quality proposed by the project. 7/10.
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