Snoop Doggy Dogg ***Over The Counter (1991)***

Over The Counter (1991) Tape

Take a look at the tape pictured above.  Look familiar?  Well, if you were around in the early 90's and had a copy of this tape you would probably be rich for it.  It is Snoop Dogg's very first album, entitled 'Over The Counter', an album that came out on Future Shock Entertainment in 1991 before it was officially changed to become Death Row Records.  It was this album, and not The Chronic, that was intended to be the debut album for both Snoop and the Death Row brand name.  The albums were pulled off the production line and never had any official distribution project for the public market.  Instead the cassettes were shelved away by Sony Music and Time Warner for various legal reasons and to this day remains uncataloged in the Death Row history. Regardless of this fact a number of tapes were released into some record stores for retail sale before the production line was halted.  The promo tapes that were released ended up in the hands of some discjockey's and the albums were given to various groups in the music industry for private use.  (How do I know this?  Well.  I use to have a copy.)  These pressed cassette tape albums and their promo singles were the means by which Snoop gained notoriety in the music business and radio before he appeared on the Deep Cover soundtrack.  At first it was decided that Snoop Doggy Dogg would be the Death Row debut compilation of artists under Future Shock Entertainment but later turned out to be a Dr. Dre compilation on The Chronic (1992).
   Due to the fact that Death Row did not have total financial capability for supporting itself as a legitimate record label in 1991, their distributors; Priority Records, Sony Music and Time Warner, could not legally get these albums which they had pressed out to the streets.  (Although it is true that the papers for the Death Row brand name had already been formed as well as the debut release of Snoop Doggy Dogg under Future Shock Entertainment acting as the record label.)  Future Shock Ent. alone could not afford a deal with Sony that would allow for any more than a few copies to be manufactured. These were signed releases intended to legitimize the company and provide exposure for future releases to a wider public audience.  Quite ironically Warner and Death Row may have arranged what is called an "over-the-counter contract" to produce this album.  An over-the-counter contract is a bilateral contract in which two parties agree on how a particular trade or agreement is to be settled in the future.  Essentially the money was loaned to Death Row for later payment.  Over-the-counter contracts are usually done via the telephone or computer-internet and this is likely to have been the case knowing the unscrupulous contracts that both Ruthless Records and Death Row were negotiating in those days.  This theory would also explain part of the cliche to the title of the album.  Snoops first album was sort of a prototype for the making of Doggystyle (1993). 

  Promo Tape Cover with Track Listing  

About the tape cover:  Later used for the Doggystyle cover, the 'Snoop Doggy Dogg' title cartoon and lettering was designed first without the blunt in the dogs mouth - that was added later for Doggystyle ala The Chronic.   Everything on the jacket cover of the album was done with a white on black template though the promo tapes showed the original cartoon drawings copied on.  The iconic image of Snoop Dogg is robbing a liquor store for $5000 'over the counter'. This shows the first example of that icon created before Doggystyle. 

   Comic Featuring Mickey Mouse  

  

Like Doggystyle as well, the Over The Counter promo tape had a comic on the inside. The talking rat character 'rata-tat-tat' replaced Mickey Mouse on Doggystyle and one can imagine that this was made to be a slap to Disney by Time Warner. Competitive battles between those two companies have been going on for decades.

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Over The Counter (1991)

About the music: 187 (It's On) was the first unmastered sampling freestyle that became the inspiration for the Deep Cover soundtrack. This track was part of the promo tape for which Dre was the recording artist.  It was mastered later as simply "187", now called 187um (after the rapper Cold 187um) that is now one of the late Death Row releases.  187 was a lyrical response to the Rodney King incident that occurred in L.A. on March 3rd of '91 where King was maliciously attacked by the LAPD for speeding.  "Let Em' Understand" was produced by DJ Glaze and featured the group Foesum made up of Glaze, MNM, Waniac, and Tripp Loc.  One of the song lyrics from Over The Counter that is also on Doggystyle was put on the track Lodi Dodi.  "Im only 19 go ask my mother".  Snoop was 19 in 1990 when that lyric was first recorded and 22 when it was used on Doggystyle.  When Snoop was with the group Above The Law in 1990, Cold 187um promised him a deal for a record but they're group was stalling and Snoop was getting tired of waiting for them to get their act together.  So him and Dre hooked up and also did compilations with Above The Law. This song was an intended dis to former Foesum member Domino who left the group before they managed to hook up with Death Row. "Nigga decided to leave and get his rap on elsewhere ask me if they care and I give you a sale….5000 that's word to the D.O.G".  DJ Glaze then comes in  "…and Glaze is the hommie cutting records like a villain so buy the album cuz were gonna make a killing'"  DJ Glaze produced some tracks for Over The Counter as well as Cold 187 and DJ Aladdin.  The promo tapes contained four tracks including 187, The Message, Let Em' Understand, Do You Remember, and True To The Game and one bonus track that is now a classic called 'County Blues'.

Over The Counter (Tape Sleeve in Protective Cover)

It is doubtful that any official statements to support the legitimacy of this record will ever be made by anyone who were affiliated back in those days as it was probably decided by all to keep it closed since Death Row was not yet officially a record label, it was more like a brand name of Future Shock Ent.  Thanks to controversy regarding Suge Knight and his early financiers who helped him launch Death Row and the Death Row Studios this album sort of got buried.  Either that or it was just an over the counter record released so that Suge could legalize his company and get Death Row Records into full effect.  Nonetheless the Over The Counter album did exist.  This is not a hoax nor a concocted myth.  These cassettes were in circulation in record stores long before this author began any in-depth research on the subject.  If I had never had a copy of the Over The Counter tape and if it had not been for the fact that it was unlisted, my investigations on all this would not have ensued.  As a result of it I have even become more a follower and listener of the Death Row artists and much of this fascinating history.  I myself am not a die-hard scholar of gangster rap nor a poster fan.  What I offer to those who are true scholars or followers of the music is my testimony, the truth, and knowledge.

So that's the story in a very small nutshell.  Credit is due to those who have contributed to understanding the history of this album.  Besides my personal sources and correspondences I would like to thank AnnonymousOne from thedeathrowvault and Row Rider from deathrowtapes.  I would also like to thank my buddy Rob. M for helping me put this website together as well as my text editor Linda C.

***Over The Counter (1991)***

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            <SNOOP DOGG'S "OVER THE COUNTER" RECORD>

                         THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE MYTH

<Discjockey J's Files: Snoop Doggy Dogg - ***Over The Counter (1991)***>


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Over The Counter: Inside Jacket Art

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Inside Jacket: Death Row Presents

The cover art was a black and white comic of the Snoop dog jacking the bulldog clerk at a liquor store for 5000$ 'over the counter'.  The scene is seen as a thought bubble from a dreaming dog in the doghouse.  Part of the cover comic was also shown on the inside sleeve of the tape cover alongside the track list.  I think this idea was drafted in the days when Snoop, Warren G and Nate Dogg were together in the group 213.  A lot of the tracks on Over The Counter featured 213 and their raps were hardcore cuts about robbing stores and banks 'n' shit with tracks like "211" and "Jack Em".  Other songs were more funkadelic grooves with Nate Dogg and others reminiscing about robbing stores and the consequences of doing jail time. 

Snoop Dogg's Over The Counter Album (Cassette Sleeve/Jacket)

"Play It Again Sam"

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All images photographed with a Nikon COOLPIX 2100.

***Over The Counter & Time Warner***

                            
                              November 9th 2010:
 Time Warner and Snoop Doggy Dogg's Over The Counter

It's November 9th, 2010 and I am starting to think about Over The Counter again and wondering if there might be a chance that anybody has come forward about it by now.  And so just for the hell of it I do an internet search to find all this new information and leaked songs from the tape floating around.  I see a different version of the album cover posted on websites and a lot of demo'ed songs from the Deep Cover soundtrack.  However there is no official discography for the Over The Counter album and many are saying that the six tracks that were leaked were mere demo recordings and that the album was a bootleg.  No, those tracks were on the tape that I had but they were mastered versions.  A few of the late 1991 Snoop Dogg songs like Ain't Nuthin But a "G" Thang were released as said demo recordings with ultralow quality sound.  Ain't Nuthin' But a "G" Thang was released on "Tha Untitled EP" in 2010 as "The Next Episode" but was originally put on Over the Counter at the last minute as a bonus track to promote The Chronic.  That particular track was obviously not a demo, it was mastered in '91 and given a second-hand recording with a microphone in a room with speakers playing.   Some of the other Glaze songs were also re-recorded using different filters.  

So my theory goes like this: Warner manufactured two separate tapes.  One was a set of intended retail albums that were pressed and ready to be sold all in their original glossy wrappers - and another set that was a demo copy with some of the albums original artwork and the albums production and registration info on the back.  Future Shock Ent. managed a deal with Priority Records in '91 and the albums that were copyrighted in '91 were legitimate Future Shock releases.  The Over the Counter album did not come out on Death Row Records, it came out on Future Shock, but it was used as an album to promote Death Row as the future record label for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.  Promo copies were also made and these were reissued in '92 after Death Row was made official.  These tapes were Death Row copyrighted and the Future Shock logo was dropped and rep;aced by the new Death Row one.  Priority had nothing to do with the promo tapes and they may have been put together by Suge Knight for Time Warner to consolidate Death Row Records.  Sometime after the consolidation of Death Row Suge sold Future Shock Entertainment to a group of L.A. producers who now go under that name.  

Another possibility is that they had several prototypical concepts at work for the making of Doggystyle; one was an album the other was an album-promo that was sent to Time Warner with the six tracks recorded to tape and the additional eleven or twelve tracks in preparation were listed as works in progress.  The distribution signatures on both tape covers, my copy and the purported demo, both say Warner Music Canada Ltd. which is the Canadian syndicate of Time Warner.  Since such a small number of tape copies appear to be existent it is possible that Warner Canada sold some of their stock 'under the counter' without having to concur with the same distribution protocol as Time Warner Inc.  Remember this album was never pressed to CD and was never intended for mass production, the tapes were shelved at Time Warner for their own personal collection.  Considering the comics as well - Warner may have contracted their own concept designers to put together something to their own liking to be included in the promo tape.  The promo tape may even have been xeroxed or amateurishly botched up since the printed albums had to be got rid of.   

Fans will recall The Chronic (Intro) from '92 where Snoop expresses his early affiliation with Suge's Funky Enough label "Word to the D.O.C. still making it Funky Enough...and Death Row Records is in full mothafukkin' effizect".  We know that Dre was eager to get Snoop's music out because him and everyone at Solar knew his talent and destiny for fame.  So they quickly rondevu'ed a contract with Warner late in '91 with plans of possibly releasing the album.  But as things progressed over at Solar Studios that particular contract expired, which was perfect because Dre by that time had even bigger plans for Snoop and Suge had bigger plans for expanding his Funky Enough /Future Shock label into Death Row Records.  Just as the printing was being finished for the album Suge managed to receive funding to complete the studio as Death Row Studios.  It was around that time that they began working on the Deep Cover soundtrack as a commercial remake of the 187 (It's On) track and 187(um) that was already listed for the Over The Counter release.  At least two of the tracks on Snoop Dogg's Over The Counter album were produced by Death Row Studios while the rest were done with what Dre had to work with that Solar gave them.

One can compare the history of Snoops career to that of Bill Clinton's. When Clinton was invited to attend the Bilderberg conference in 1991 it was decided by many of the other colleagues at the meeting that this guy would be the next president and given the economic strategy between Europe and the U.S. so it came to pass; Clinton was appointed by Bilderberg and won the presidential electorate.  Now when the Deep Cover soundtrack get's released, and all it's New York listeners are shocked and astounded by Snoop Doggy Dogg, it becomes official - Snoop will become Death Rows #1 star.  And just like Bill Clinton, Snoop had his undisclosed papers worked out by 1991 with the 187um track on Over The Counter.

Snoop Dogg's Over The Counter album now a trophy of Time Warner

One must also consider this: artists rarely if ever go triple platinum or more on their first record release.  From Bobby Brown, to MC Hammer, to Vanilla Ice, all these artists had at least one or two or three record releases before they went multiplatinum.  So why would it be that Doggystyle would gain such an immediate fan response and multiplatinum status by 1993? if not for record business exec's pulling the strings behind the curtain i.e. Time Warner/Interscope.  That's because the prototypical concepts for the Doggystyle album had formerly been elicited on the Over The Counter album in 1991.  

Jimmy Iovine and Ted Fields had by that time already put-together their Interscope label.  Death Row initially sent the very first demo tape with all the early recordings directly to Interscope Records.  But Interscope could not accept a record deal with Death Row at that time partly because they had just begun to receive their own financial backing from Priority and Atlantic Records.  In those beginnings, Interscope prohibited any deal with Death Row.  Considering the explicit lyrics of the early demo, as well as the cartooning of violence, was still very taboo in our society at the time and that was a major cause for prohibition on the part of Interscope.  They could foresee problems of having their label stigmatized for profanity/unacceptable themes and how that would effect their developing relations with Atlantic and Priority.  But Death Row did, in effect, receive considerable funding from Interscope to establish their own label; the official Death Row label before it became capitalized under the name "The New And Untouchable Death Row Records".
   

Don't forget: Drugs sell, and so did The Chronic.  Sex sells even more, and so did Doggystyle.  Robbery does not sell (it robs you) and so Over The Counter did not sell Death Row to Interscope right away but deals were later arranged for Dre's album.  That in itself is similar to an over-the-counter contract.  We give you the money, you make your own label and you can put out your own shit but you gotta button down and portray it properly and make sure it's guaranteed to be saleable.  Wether or not Time Warner paid Death Row to sign them the rights to Over The Counter to keep their future contracts in check with the tape being an exaction security is questionable.  Interscope however gave Death Row all the funding they required to own the rights to their own shit.  So now they can demo whatever hardcore shit they want, with their own cash-flow, or even market the shit through Time Warner under any circumstance such as publishing criteria.
   

If I remember correctly, a couple of the tracks from Over The Counter became late Death Row releases i.e. 187um off the Death Row Singles Collection: B-Sides, Rarities and Remixes.  Many of the recordings on the tape were done in 1990 when Snoop was still an adherent of Above The Law and working with DJ Glaze and DJ Aladdin and at a time before Death Row had their own studio set up at the Solar building.  Dre was working for Suge and Future Shock while still being the main producer for NWA and Ruthless Records.  It was at some point in '91 when the beef started with Eazy-E, Jerry Heller and Dre because Dre was leaving Ruthless to work with Suge and his artists and Eazy-E and Jerry wern't paying Dre what he was worth.  So the recordings on Over The Counter ended up being sort of a mish-mash of Above The Law, DJ Aladdin, DJ Glaze and lot's of Dr. Dre and Warren G productions.  Dre and Suge planned on getting him to leave NWA and also recruited Above The Law and convince them to sign to Future Shock so that they wouldn't be tied to Ruthless anymore and Dre could still produce for Cold 187 outside Ruthless once Death Row was official.  It's not like Snoop wasn't making songs with Above The Law, he was, and with Dre even producing a few to bat.  Above The Law were the ones in fact who inspired the gangster element into Snoops lyrics as well as inspired the G-funk era.  But since their genre was at core a lot closer to the whole NWA theme they split with Dre.  After they did their recording sessions at Solar Studios under Funky Enough/Future Shock Ent. they then later asked Snoop to decide whether he wanted to join Above The Law or go with Dre's upcoming Death Row vision.  Snoop favored Dre's vision and chose to be a part of Death Row.  The story that Dr. Dre received a 213 demo tape in late '91 or early '92 and then called their group as a first introduction was not how it began.  It began much sooner and could even have gone as far back as 1990 when Funky Enough was the name Suge was working with for his artistic vision.

Dr. Dre at Solar (1991)

It is for this reason that many of the songs probably can't be re-released as Death Row recordings from the Death Row vault.  However there may still be a chance that the new Death Row company WIDE Awake Entertainment Canada could release them in some other form (if they were even given those recordings) and without any reference to Over The Counter because that album was more of a Future Shock/Above The Law deal and as far as Snoops discography is concerned it was suppose to of been started on Death Row once major stardom came to pass. That is when all the private Future Shock Entertainment records started getting buried under the history of true success.   But it is obvious that Death Row was already a brainchild of Suge when he made Future Shock Ent.  I can picture Suge holding up a tape reel and one end of his big cubans and setting fire to those recordings.  Well.  Maybe not. 

***Over The Counter & WIDE Awake Entertainment***

Did Warner Music Canada Intentionally Distribute a Few Copies Under The Counter as Part of a Corporate Agenda?

In January 2009 Death Row Records was pulled from it's 2006 filed bankruptcy claims for an 18-million dollar bid on behalf of a Toronto based media company called WIDE Awake Entertainment Group.  Their company apparently won the bankruptcy auction for most of the Death Row recordings and publishing rights which they are now distributing under a new programme to resurrect the legacy of the infamous hip-hop record label.  WIDE Awake, then a new and obscure entertainment development company, even outbidded Warner Music by several million dollars and now operate Death Row Records in a partnership with Suge Knight as curator.  The two in charge of the new Death Row franchise are WIDE Awake's founder Lara Lavi and former Death Row studio engineer John Payne.  Payne is the CEO/Vice President to the company which has it's shares in Death Row with Lavi being it's convex President. 

It is difficult to imagine Suge Knight bargaining off his archive of recordings to just anyone even for a larger sum of money.  He always protected those recordings at all cost from ever being released or leaked in any way.  If something was leaked without his authorization at say inexact moments or a day before it's official release he made sure the snitchers payed a price.  Even for himself to make a profit off of selling CD's of excess recordings was not on his agenda even though he could have made a shit load by exploiting late Tupac material.  And why?  Because for one, Suge is a man with a big heart.  He treasured all of his artists works, not just the profit, but the respectability and sentimentality of Death Row Records and the Death Row family.  Ultimately he would have wanted Death Row to continue on as it had, signing new West Coast rappers and keeping with the regimen and gangster image he himself had helped establish. 

So why has the new Death Row franchise not come forward with all of the earliest master recordings from Over The Counter or bothered to catalog any of the original publishing data from Sony and Time Warner for that album?  There are two possibilities I can fathom one being that if the auction itself was not a business dealing or a set-up then Knight failed to curate his companies inaugural record material.  In the latter case it may be that WIDE Awake embezzled their acquisition of Death Row through a subtle form of blackmail.  If this is true one can imagine that the object of blackmail would be that they're company possessed a copy of the original Future Shock Snoop  recordings and then kindly informed Suge Knight asking him to sell them the rights to Death Row (with a very kind price-tag attached to it!).  Of course we are forgetting to mention that going public with these Over The Counter recordings could have placed an even heavier debt on Death Row as they would provide proof that Death Row was partly funded by O Harris drug money, misrepresentation of artists, and probably a host of other allegations and infringements would follow suite.  If this is true then Death Row Records/WIDE Awake would not catalog or go public with that material.  As has been mentioned in some of my previous blog entries the album version, with all of the mastered recordings, were never leaked in the US by Time Warner.  It is believed to have been a mishap of Warner Music Canada of not following the same protocol as Warner Inc.  This may be the reason why Death Row was bought out by a Canadian company.  

 
So that's a rap folks.  And don't forget to pick up some new Death Row merchandise while your at it, CD's, thongs, and hoodies. Yeah!

Over The Couner? (How Do I Know?)

 The year is 1994.  I'm at home and I turn on the radio and there's this wicked song being played with Ice Cube on it.  So I quickly pop a blank tape in my stereo and start recording.  After the song is finished the radio announcer says "that was Snoop Doggy Dogg from Murder Was The Case".  In those days Snoop Doggy Dogg was all the word and I was really trippin' off this song (the song was Natural Born Killahz from the Murder Was The Case Soundtrack - 1994)  So that same night I decided I had to have this dope shit right away.  So I went to a local mall to have a look around in the record stores.  There was only one record store open; a small shop which had been around for a long time that also sold a lot of imported music and boxed CD's.  I think local DJ's use to get their stuff from them sometimes back in the day.  Strangely enough that record store was also shutting down and selling a lot of stuff on clearance the night I was there.  

At the time I had no idea what CD the song was on only that it was Snoop Doggy Dogg and so I went flipping through tapes in the rap section and found the tab for Snoop Doggy Dogg.  There was only one Snoop Dogg tape in stock called Over The Counter and for a second I thought this could be the one so I checked the back of the tape for the year and it said 1991.  Now I already listened to a lot of Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Ice-T,  Run DMC etc (did not know about NWA in 94') but that was back when I was shit broke.  And so based on my knowledge I thought this 1991 tape couldn't possibly have that wicked-evil rap on it because it's old school.  Based on the tracks on the back of the tape like 'County Blues' I was pretty sure this was going to be old school rap.  But I wanted to hear Snoop Dogg so I bought it anyways and I think it was like 25$ for the tape (and that was their clearance price!).  When I got home and played the tape I was disappointed over the production and beats, and, being the suburban kid that I was; I wanted to hear that hardcore gangster murder rap!.  A week later I went to a different record store and bought Dr. Dre's Chronic tape, Snoop's Doggystyle, some MC Eight stuff and some South Central Cartel.  None of those tapes had the Natural Born Killahz song and it wasn't until a week after that that I finally found the CD in the new releases section of another record store downtown.  

 

For a long time the Over The Counter tape just sat, I didn't listen to it much but I remember playing County Blues a few times on my ghetto blaster at school and to the dismay of my teachers.  The lyrics on the tape were considerably hardcore and explicit for 1991 and I thought it would be a cool collectors item someday.  What sucked the most was when I had left the cassette in my parents car along with my Murder Was The Case CD, my Doggystyle tape and The Chronic and when they took the car to be cleaned at a carwash all our tapes and CD's got stolen by the cleaners.  This happened in 1996 and we never got any of it back from the gas station.  I began to learn more about Snoop Dogg since then (I even got Tha Doggfatha tape as a stocking stuffer) and, well, I just assumed that Over The Counter was Snoop's first album from back in the Deep Cover with Larry Fishburne days. 

  

It wasn't until 2002 that I found out that this tape apparently never existed.  I did an internet search on it and found absolutely no indications of it anywhere.  That's when I decided to send an email to Death Row Records and ask them about it.  Death Row (Suge) told me that he had no idea what I was talking about but that the tape would be worth a lot of money and that if I had any more information about it to send it to him.  This I thought to be oddly mysterious so I went into the official Snoop Dogg forum to see if I could ask Snoop himself about it.  Nobody frequenting the Snoop Dogg forums had any knowledge about the album and many of these peeps thought I was a liar.  A few months passed and, by word, other peeps began talking about it in a few other forums.  Those forums whent on for awhile and then interest died out.  See not until recent years the public were led to believe that Death Row started in 1992 but my research on one of it's major sponsors (Harry O Harris) had confirmed that, from what Harris had told early interviewers, that it was actually founded in 1991.  So the first thing that came to my mind was 'Cover-Up'.  But then as soon as I started posting about conspiracies the forums began to get real heaty and for whatever reason they had to shut down the Snoop Dogg forum along with all the blog history.  After that the case was closed for me and I just forgot about the whole thing for a very long time.  It was just some mysterious thing I had encountered in the past and who the hell knows how it got there.  All I have is the album cover and some theories.  I blanked it out of my memory because apparently it never existed; de facto de facto.

***Over The Counter*** (Track List)

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Over The Counter (Demo)

SIDE ONE

Snoop Dogg - Let Em' Understand    
                     Featuring - DJ Glaze, Foesum, Snoop Doggy Dogg
                     Produced by - DJ Glaze
Snoop Dogg - The Message    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg
                     Produced by - DJ Glaze
Snoop Dogg - Do You Remember   
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, George Clinton
                    

SIDE TWO

Snoop Dogg - True To The Game    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg
                     Produced by - DJ Glaze
Snoop Dogg - 187 (It's On)   
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, Lady of Rage w/vocals by Dr. Dre
                     Produced by - Dr. Dre
Snoop Dogg - County Blues    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg
                     Produced by - DJ Aladdin

(Note: additional album tracks listed on the demo could have been for promotional purposes but may not have actually been recorded to the tape.)

 

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Over The Counter (Album)

SIDE ONE

Snoop Dogg - Over The Counter
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, w/vocals by DJ Glaze & Dr. Dre
                     Produced by - DJ Glaze
Snoop Dogg - Dogg's Life    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dr. Dre, Warren G, Nate Dogg
                     Produced by - Dr. Dre & Warren G
Snoop Dogg - Jack Em' (Over The Counter)   
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, Cold 187 w/vocals by Dr. Dre
                     Produced by - Dr Dre
Snoop Dogg - 213: Dope Slang    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, Nate Dogg, Warren G (213)
                     Produced by - Warren G
Snoop Dogg - Knockin' Off Everything    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, w/vocals by D.O.C.
                     Produced by - Dr. Dre & written by D.O.C.
Snoop Dogg - Blast For Cash    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, Cold 187 w/vocals by Dr. Dre
                     Produced by - Dr. Dre
Snoop Dogg - Let Em' Understand    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, DJ Glaze, Foesum 
                     Produced by - DJ Glaze
Snoop Dogg - The Message    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg w/vocals by DJ Glaze
                     Produced by - DJ Glaze

SIDE TWO

Snoop Dogg - 211    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, Nate Dogg
                     Produced by - Warren G & written by D.O.C.
Snoop Dogg - Signed And Detected    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg w/vocals by MNM
                     Produced by - DJ Glaze
Snoop Dogg - Bank Roll    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, Go Mack, Cold 187
                     Produced by - Cold 187
Snoop Dogg - 187    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dr. Dre
                     Produced by - Dr. Dre
Snoop Dogg - C.O.C. Kingpin    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, Go Mack, Cold 187, w/vocals by Dr. Dre 
                     Produced by - Cold 187
Snoop Dogg - Welcome To Death Row    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dr. Dre, Lady of Rage
                     Produced by - Dr. Dre
Snoop Dogg - True To The Game    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg w/vocals by DJ Glaze
                     Produced by - DJ Glaze
Snoop Dogg - County Blues    
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg
                     Produced by - DJ Aladdin
Snoop Dogg - Ain't Nuthin' But A "G" Thang(#1)
                     Featuring - Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dr. Dre
                     Produced by - Dr. Dre

(Note: the track Do You Remember may have been a promotional song but it was not listed on the album version.  Jack Em' was a redaction of the title track and on the album was listed as Jack Em' (Over The Counter.)  Ain't' Nuthin' But A "G" Thang was thrown on as a last minute bonus track listed on the inside credits, it was later rewritten and produced as Nuthin' But A "G" Thang on The Chronic))