Snoop Dogg recently sat down with Sucker Free to talk about what’s going on in his doggy dog world. In part one, Snoop talks about the video for “Sensual Seduction,” the first single from his forthcoming ninth solo LP, Ego Trippin, set for release in March 2008. Some critics have indicated that Snoop sounds like he’s going for some T-Pain stylings with the sonic direction of the song. He’s quick to dispute that notion though. He had this to say:
“The song and the video is just the way I’m feeling right now. I wanted to have some fun. I wanted to do something that was sorta kinda like throwbackish to where it wasn’t the same girls, the same cars, the same look, the same everything in the videos that I’m so used to seeing right now, and we’re so used to seeing. So what better way than to have a video where I could reflect back on some of the guys I was inspired by- Roger Troutman, Prince, Rick James. These guys influenced me. So this video is just showing love to them and what they done. …. I actually showed the Talkbox because what T-Pain is doing is not Talkbox. His is Auto-Tune, which is you sing and then they make your voice sound right in the computer. What I did was I played the notes through the Talkbox, that’s why I have the tube in there. And that tube that I’m using is a piece that goes to the keyboard which Roger Troutman was known for.”
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
This song is crazy! Snoop really showin’ a new side with this. Its a damn shame most kids dont know about Roger Troutman and Zapp man…
December 4th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
that song is awesome! when I saw the vide i think it was an old video but when I hear the song i realize what i was hearing a sensual seduction
one of the best son ever
December 23rd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
snoop reinvents himself again, and that’s why he is still relevant in modern day hip hop, when so many other stubborn originators have turned themselves off to change…
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
The video is awesome but he’s not really using a talkbox on the record. It’s just auto tune.
January 15th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
The Talkbox is the dopest piece of musical equipment ever RIP Roger Troutman & Roger Troutman II, right now “Zapp” Troutman is doin his thing for Zapp in replacement of Roger
January 17th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
hey that song is the best song i ever heard and i love it so much i can listen to it all day
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 am
[...] you at least know Roger from the hook to Tupac’s “California Love”.) Snoop even even explicitly credits Troutman in an MTV interview, along with the much-more-obvious nods in the video to Prince and Rick [...]
April 9th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Snoop laid dat’ track down fo’ sho’. Nothin’ less than spaceage. I damn’ sure would luv’ to get my hands on that keyboard.