'Da Game Is to Be Sold' to 'The Hard Way' While it didn’t perform as well commercially, it still showed that Snoop was a major-league artist. Snoop's next album, Tha Doggfather (1996), also reached the top of the charts, despite the absence of Dre, who had left Death Row over a contract dispute. Next came a short film called Murder Was the Case, the soundtrack of which went double platinum. Dre gave Snoop a sound that would resonate in the minds of hip-hop fans for generations. 1 spot on Billboard's hip-hop and Top 200 charts, based in part on the success of the singles "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" and "Gin and Juice." It built on the G-Funk template that The Chronic had established, as Cypress Hill’s B-Real later reminisced: “I think Dr. Snoop's first album, the Dre-produced Doggystyle (1993), climbed its way to the No. Hit Albums: 'Doggystyle' & 'Tha Doggfather'
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