“Your friendly neighbourhood Snoop Dogg” (his words) has led a pleasant life in the mainstream ever since he left Death Row records and started making records with R&B stars. On his tenth album, he casts himself as a “supergangster” in a colourful world of disaster-movie samples, clips of his kids on the phone and ever more complicated personal branding (Tell Em features a flight announcement for “flight D-O-G-G aka THA HOMIE”). Guests provide laid-back grooves — see R Kelly’s likeable Pimpin Ain’t EZ.
(Parlophone; out on Mon)