Im Jahr 1995 war einiges los an Westküste der USA. The Lady of Rage, however, continues to impress on her one outing. Big P Delemound (who?) absolutely ruins the outro of one track with his blabbering all over it, the radio skits which had once been funny and concise and now painfully drawn out, and the one time where Kurupt actually builds up some steam ('New York New York') he's inexplicably cut out mid sentence. Plus, this album introduces the first 'bad ideas' into the Death Row stable. Kurupt had proven himself to be one of the most promising young rappers of any locality based on his brutal appearances on 'Lyrical GB', 'Stranded On Death Row' and 'For All My N and B' but he's mostly actually pretty average here. The production by Daz and DJ Pooh will please fanatics of the genre but there are absolutely no surprises like, say, that fantastic organ line in 'Tha Nit'. The Chronic and DStyle had been tight, slick, inventive masterpieces, and the soundtracks to Above the Rim and Murder Was the Case had provided many highlights, but Dogg Food was the first Death Row release that was simply just 'another West Coast gangster rap album'.

This was the beginning of the end for Death Row Records or, I should say, the moment where Death Row returned to the pack of West Coast gangster rap.

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