Album Review: 7 Days Of Funk - 7 Days Of Funk

Tired of the ever-changing Snoop Lion/Snoopzilla/Snoop Dogg shenanigans Calvin Broadus won't stop toying with? Miss the good old days when he was Snoop Doggy Dogg, a leader of the G-Funk era? 7 Days Of Funk is for you, whether you like it or not.

The record starts strongly; Niggaz Hit D Pavement is the kinda tune an early-'90s Snoop would've been stoked on, the perfect mix of yesteryear's funk and modern hip hop. Snoop's croon on Let It Go is smoother than you might imagine, while the creepy synths that crawl all over Faden Away make it the most direct P-Funk referencing number. 1Question? featuring Slave singer Steve Arrington is a listless cut that gets tired quickly and I'll Be There 4U doesn't pick up after a promising beginning.

A trumpeted selling point for this record is that it's the first Snoop record to have a single producer since 1993's Doggystyle. That might be so, but that producer was Dr Dre, and this kind of funky hip hop was still in relative infancy; 20 years on and you need to be doing something pretty special to stand out. As such, it's hard to imagine this record reaching a large audience, but one imagines that's not a huge concern.

The old school fans might like this more than Snoop's recent material, and it's certainly better than the bulk of it, but that doesn't mean it comes close to that early-'90s work.