
I Wanna Love You
Plies cut the original verses; Akon swapped in Snoop Dogg, cleaned the title, and landed his first number one.

Plies cut the original verses; Akon swapped in Snoop Dogg, cleaned the title, and landed his first number one.

Perry's West Coast answer to Empire State of Mind, the misspelling saluting Big Star, six weeks at number one.

Dre put music under Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick's a cappella original, and Snoop made the story his.

A Faustian bargain told in the first person, later expanded into an eighteen-minute film Dre co-directed with Fab Five Freddy.

A Mothership Connection sample, RBX writing Dre's verses, and the Grammy win that turned it into a hit.

The Neptunes built it from tongue clicks and almost nothing else, and it gave Snoop his first number one.

Dre and Mel-Man built it on a David McCallum orchestral cut from 1967, arranged by Axelrod, and Nate Dogg closes.

Dre stacked Atomic Dog over Parliament and Funkadelic, and Snoop's debut single walked straight into the top ten.
Dr. Dre produced it, George McCrae supplied the sample, and Snoop's unhurried drawl became the West Coast blueprint.

Dre built G-funk on a Leon Haywood sample, handed Snoop the mic, and gangsta rap reached number two.