For anyone that wasn’t counting, 16 out of 21 of the tracks on Snoop Dogg’s last album, The Blue Carpet Treatment, had features – some more than one. So why is it that the Dogg Father plans on having his next LP, the appropriately-titled Ego Trippin’ sans any guests?

“Me and Pharrell [Williams] went into the studio last night, and we’re gonna start on this album called Ego Trippin’,”Snoop told MTV. “I’mma do the whole record, me
by myself. I don’t want no guest rappers, no singer, nothing. Just
Snoop Dogg. I want you to feel me. When I think of all the greats
before me … I bought Rakim’s album the other day for the hundredth
time, no guest rappers. I bought one of KRS-One’s albums the other day
for the hundredth time, no guest rappers.

“You lose focus after awhile when you’re doing an album,” continued the rapper.
” ‘Snoop, you got a new album coming out. Who’s on it?’ I’ll be like,
‘I got him on it, him on it, them on it.’ When it’s time to do the
video, they’ll do the video with me, but when it’s time to do a show
with them, ‘Oh, I got a show in Germany,’ or, ‘I got to be in Paris.’
You’re left one-legged. Now it’s time to show artists. Can you handle
the whole weight? Do you got enough to do it on your own? Did you put
yourself in a position where people love you for you — or for being
associated with people? This record, I’m seriously ego-tripping like,
‘I don’t want you on my album. Nah, I don’t need you.’ “

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Snoop added that he was inspired by Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black, as she had no guests on her album, and he felt he experienced who she was better because of that.

“[When I’m listening], I’m learning who she is,” he said of Winehouse. “But when you listen to James Brown, he did it by
himself. Curtis Mayfield, by himself. Of course they did
collaborations, but the [songs] that matter they did by themselves. I
don’t think people have got all of me yet.
Doggystyle was about
95 percent of me. But I wanted Tha Dogg Pound on my album. This record,
even if this record don’t sell, that might be a blessing. It needs to
get back to [letting people know] who you are. I don’t know whose
record I’m buying right now because it’s so many people on it. Is it a
compilation? What is it?”

Snoop also discussed a record that will be on a soundtrack to a film titled A Woman’s Worth.“It’s going to speak directly to some of these women who speak
negatively of me and who don’t understand me,”
said Snoop. “It’s going to
be a movie and a record. This is something I was thinking about nine
months to a year ago, but it just so happens all this hoopla is
happening now This is the perfect time to shoot it into delivery.”

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