Snoop Dogg - Tha Blue Carpet Treatment

No chillin' for Snoop Dogg. He goes one better than The Game by refusing to include even one solitary track devoid of the 'explicit' badge of hip hop honour. A full 21 tracks of unexpurgated filth. You go, Snoop. You go.

He's not bad at naming songs either, despite his inferior spelling skills. We get some classics on this album, including the unimprovable 'That's That Shit' and the incomprehensible 'Beat Up On Yo Pads'. I'm reading 'pads' as 'home or place of dwelling' there and I still don't get it. Why would you beat up your house? It's brick.

Snoop's also mastered the art of naming album openers. A lot of people seem to call track nine 'The Start' or something like that, which is really missing the point. Snoop knows that any kind of song title that refers to a beginning or the start has to be track one. Here we get 'Intrology' which is the scientific study of beginnings.

The last question that needs answering is what 'Tha Blue Carpet Treatment' is. As you no doubt know by now, I'm down with the kids, but even I'm a bit out of the loop on this one. However, I've a failsafe technique for interpreting what Snoop means: It's always something rude.

So there you go: 'Tha Blue Carpet Treatment' is something rude.