Snoop coming to Rock Band
- Posted February 10th, 2009 at 21:41 EDT by
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Harmonix and their flagship rhythm game Rock Band are continuing to branch out to areas that we didn't even think possible. When country was first announced for the game, which revolves around rock music, it sent some hardcore fans up in arms. Now, Harmonix is going past the banjo and tambourine into a house of hard beats and explicit lyrics with one of the legends of the genre, Snoop Dogg.
Yes, you read that correctly; Harmonix and Snoop Dogg have reached an agreement to release Snoop's upcoming album onto Rock Band for download. While this may irritate some of the original Rock Band enthusiasts, it's a step in the right direction in regard to opening the "band genre" into broadened horizons. Let's face it, Harmonix revolutionized music games completely when the original Rock Band released a couple of years ago, so who are we to judge their decision to span the franchise further than just the rock genre, despite its name?
We're looking forward to hearing the tracks Snoop plans to lay down for this title. When a sample is released, we'll be sure to update you with a little taste.
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edward_moffet |
edd- 9:45pm GMT - February 10th, 2009
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are you serious???? that's it. there's a reason why it's called ROCK band, guess it's back to guitar hero
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revsoul |
revsoul- 10:21pm GMT - February 10th, 2009
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This is good, they need to expand to reach a more balanced demographic. I love my Rock Band, but I want some Prince, some Kravitz. A lot of music generes overlap anyway. Ice Cube does stuff with the Red Hot Chilipeppers. But how in the world did somebody get "the naked brothers" into my Rock Band? Seriously....., Nickelodeon?
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DeadOnArrival06 |
DeadOnArrival06- 10:27pm GMT - February 10th, 2009
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I can understand some groups that blend Rock with Rap and make it work, but Snoop? He's all rap. I don't see how that's going to translate well with A guitar and drums.
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Sonan |
Sonan- 11:16pm GMT - February 10th, 2009
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Who are we to judge? We're the guys who bought the game and made them all their money, that's who. This has nothing to do with "advancing the genre," it's about making money.
The crap doesn't belong in the game because it's not called "Hip-Hop Band". It could work for Guitar Hero because there's nothing implying that Guitar Hero is about rock music.
It would be like having techno in Accordion Hero.
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colbyalexanderbrown
- 11:36pm GMT - February 10th, 2009
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Snoop Dogg is the new frontman for Bang Camaro. They simply decided to adopt his moniker because it is more recognizable.
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neekerbeeker
- 11:40pm GMT - February 10th, 2009
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wow, most of you are idiots. harmonix isn't forcing you to download it. do you really want everything to be the same? if someone wants to play some snoop dogg, they can download the songs. jesus, i don't get pissed off every time a band i don't like gets songs for rock band. i just don't download them.
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hatrix |
hatrix- 11:53pm GMT - February 10th, 2009
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I hope you guys realize your are not being forced to buy this. Who are you to tell harmonix what they are allowed to do ? If they want to release rap music, then they release rap music. Get over it. If you don't buy it, it doesn't affect you at all.
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bakerboi
- 12:03am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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I didn't even have to actually look at any of the comments to know that this was gonna bring the racist out in every white gamer.
"Oh that sucks! How would you put a artist who raps over BEATS in a RYTHM game!? That's Stupid Right?"
Yes, that's stupid but Ill let you figure out whether Im talking about a comment like that or the concept of the game.
Any body here ever play DJ MAX? How bout Parappa the Rapper? Dance Dance Revolution? See how that "Uh oh black man in it" thought makes the rest of yo thoughts stupid?
I could go on and on about how dumb these comments are but Im sure the next comment under mine will reply something like, "But he's not even a musician, none the less in a band!" or maybe, "They start putting more rappers in this game I'm switch brands!" even the good ol, "you're racist for thinking we're racist!".
So, I think I'll go ask Mr. Bill O'Riley for a second opinion. Toodles yall.
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PsychoMantis |
KuruptX- 12:10am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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Your wrong 18 I like snoop and I used to listen to his music in the early 90's when it was good now its all retro and crap. I'm from long beach so I listen to all those guys Snoop, Daz, Kurupt, Warren G and right next door The Game and Dre. Anyway, It could be a good thing or it could be horrible I don't own rock band so I don't care either way. Snoop has a nack for knowing whats hot and whats not apprently so it could be good.
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static-x |
liljonatl (us) liljonatl2 (jpn)- 12:58am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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im just glad its not some lolly pop song or some other rapper who is a one hit wonder. I love death metal and i still can say that i will buy snoop just because i like his songs and rhymes but i dont want to see some 2 bit hack of a rapper on my rockband if you are going to give rap do 2 pac, ice cube or snoop and thats all
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supamariobrotha |
supamariobrotha- 1:16am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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here we go you mention rap music in a video game and people start their periods early
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SignOfZodiac
- 1:19am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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I like there idea... We need more music, like Sade, The Roots Crew, Prince, The Times, The Gap Band, James Brown..etc,. If guitar Hero can have Michael Jackson why not Snoop.. I am looking forward to this.
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Sonan |
Sonan- 1:23am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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I have absolutely no problem seeing Snoop in a rhythm game. If I had a cow, as some others have insinuated, for bands I hated being put into Rock Band, I'd complain about Metallica. Metallica fits because it's rock, Snoop doesn't fit because he doesn't do rock.
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lordAlucard |
Sympozium_666- 7:53am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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I payed roughly £140 FOR Rock Band Now how has Harmonix let this happen? I expect quality Downloadable content like Judas priest but really an horrible rapper is available for download WHY!!
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SamuraiClarke
- 8:00am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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Why is everyone taking this seriously? Don't download it, stop being babies.
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BlazePhoenix
- 8:52am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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I'll get it. If u uncultured swines don't like rap music or don't care 4 Snoop, then why waste time commenting? Nobody cares what u think. This album should be different because he's not with the same record label.
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ShawnBear13
- 10:38am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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there is alot better music and albums out there to put on rockband i think thats why we are upset, we all want our favorite music not just all mainstream
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Ocelot1987 |
METSTM- 10:50am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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The only rap I'd understand being in this game is Jay Z with Linkin Park. Stop this junk from taking over rock band! Rap takes over all the good rock stations on tv and now this.
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Y_Dawg |
Y-Dawg- 11:46am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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@7 HIP-HOP IS RAP U D*** S***, Know your talk you f** a** of white boy wid dat real lame rhyme game of yours. People like you are the ones that chat air but don't even dare to even say it too a real G's face. Keep walking with your head down white boy, you dont dare look up cause you kno what it is.
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DemonOfRazgriz07 |
DemonOfRazgriz07- 11:53am GMT - February 11th, 2009
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to all the retards saying "you dont have to download it"; thats beside the point. its the fact that they would even consider PUTTING IT ON THE STORE. as others have said, how the heck is this going to even be possible? snoop turd along with other horrible rap/hip hop artists do nothing but use samples from other popular songs and loop over and over and OVER. so how is a guitar and drums going to implement into this? just imagine walking in on some friends playing one of these songs. u cant "rock out" to it! u wont see them head bangin or enjoying themselves at all. it will be BORING.
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C0SM0NECR0
- 2:10pm GMT - February 11th, 2009
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That's blasphemy. Even though I don't play Rock band, I find that to be completely insulting. If they want to include ughhhh.......rap in a music game, then they need to rename the game "C.Rap...lack of Band". Lol. Because, really....it's not even music. I focking hate rap and hip hop with a burning deathly passion and all of it's little wannabe poser/thugs. What a bunch of walking/talking gimmicks with the mentality of a single-celled organism. The trend is dead. Pull your pants up and learn how to speak and write english properly. Losers.
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vipergts2207 |
D-Smitty- 3:40pm GMT - February 11th, 2009
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Wow first Chinese Democracy and now this. This sucks!
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bakerboi
- 4:24pm GMT - February 11th, 2009
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Y_Dawg Tag me in! *Tag*
You know guys, sayin Hip-Hop isn't music is like sayin huffin and screamin over the microphone and to make unintelligible noise over grinding, screeching, racketity chords IS. How DUMB is that right?
And ya know fellow chaps, to say all hip-hop ever does is take samples; Stop right there! That's like saying all Rock n' Roll does it do covers to popular songs and turn them into songs that only emo white kids will listen to. Just how DUMB is that!? Ok Go; an loop them over and over again. Wow...You know, I think I've heard somethin like that before. I think it's called HOLDING A TUNE, maybe?
Maybe it's called a song? You know, to play the same group notes/chords in succession to make a melody? I'm quite sure you've heard of that cause EVERY GENRE DOES IT!!! This is also applied to drumming or beating; percussion. It's the "Heart Beat" of the music some compossers say.
So c'mon if we gotta listen to how much yall hate God and love satan and how fug'd up your life has been since you had parents certainly you can listen to how much we love B***hes and not h**s and how fug'd up our life has been since we had police.
Oh and dude up above me ^^^^ said that Hip-Hop, excuse me, "the trend" is dead. You silly goose, Hip-Hop isn't a trend, you must be talkin about one of the styles in the black culture and assure you it isn't going anywhere. Infact I think your skate boardin buddies and "rocker" friends even do it don't they? Ooooooh you silly goose. You knew that.
But how about you put on a shirt, actually grow some normal hair, take the rings out of your nose, eyes, ass, nipple, lip, nipp, chin, skull, ears, etc., etc., lose the spiked bracelets/collars and take a bath, then we'll talk.
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C0SM0NECR0
- 4:52pm GMT - February 11th, 2009
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And btw bakerboi and Y_Dawg....... it isn't racist to hate rap and hip hop. Just a glorified preference to be prejudice against ignorance in sub-cultures in our society (and what a pathetic one it is.) I can still think of plenty of "real music" bands out there that I like that have black members in the band. Prince, Michael Jackson, George Clinton, Sevendust, Sepultura, Living Colour, Skunk Anansie, The Prodigy, Massive Attack, most all reggae, etc... etc.... etc..... So shut your face posers.
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Cdn_Cuda |
Cdn_Cuda- 5:34pm GMT - February 11th, 2009
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Bakerboi and Y_Dawg: Although parts of your arguments are merited, you both go on to say stupid things that take away from your original points.
My question: How do you play drums and guitars to music that doesn't always use them? Perhaps there is a better form of game that could take the integration of hip-hop, rap and whatever else and make a successful game out of them.
And out of total random fact: The major buyer of hip-hop and rap are middle class white kids.... So much for racist beliefs there.
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Fingal_D |
Fingal_D- 5:58pm GMT - February 11th, 2009
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lol @ those pwning me. Rap is a part of hip hop. But most people group rap with hip hop in one genre. But if you get rid of real dj-ing, and just have some guy, get this, black or white flapping his jaws over mtv's music generator beats, then you lose the essence of hip hop. Just because I insulted your favorite grass rapper, doesn't mean I'm racist. I also h8 Jay-Z, heavy metal and other really cool music everybody loves. I h8 lots o' rap, not all o' it. If all you can rap about is how cool you are and how many hos ( females ) you own and the grass, bling and booty you got, then join the ever growing crowd of trash rappers, that lost the essence of hip hop. Rap does not equal hip hop. Sorry you had to hear this from a non OG, whitey nerd. Really don't know why an OG like yourself did not realise this: Hip Hop is a culture, within it true rap exists, without it rap fails crucially. All man was created equal. It's too bad that the majority believe otherwise and still insult culture, and color.
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bakerboi
- 8:24pm GMT - February 11th, 2009
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But see that's just the thing, and no matter how you put it it's still not going to turn out being right.
See you hate Rap and Hip-Hop because you believe it's something you don't want to see or hear that is from our particular culture, but what the fug man? Isn't that racism in this case? Hip-Hop doesn't represent the "negativity" in our culture what it does is be there for whatever you want to be expressed just like playin a fuggin guitar!!
I don't why you can't get this through your head. Are you ignoring your own words? How can our art form be predisposed to "evil" and "bad" things you so call. While all of that same isht is in Rock n' Roll and all it's sub genre's you want to point the finger at us? Remember when your folks said the same thing about our Blues? N**ga and devil music they said, Jazz "Monkey Dancers", Rock n' Roll , N**ga music once again. When we stopped doin it and moved on each to, it was all dandy then.
Don't try to shift the reason of exactly why you hate Hip-Hop to whatever problem you think we might have. Because it doesn't effect nor concern you where ever you are so why the heck does it matter to you?
Why is it that turning the comments around that people make and showing them just how stupid it sounds when put in context of somethin they like make my comment any less valid?
Maybe some comprehension is need here. But that can't be taught you have to actually TRY to understand what some is talking about.
For instance, on your last sentence you said the largest buyers of hip-hop are middle-class white kids, yes that's true. But biggot, racist whites bought n**ga music in a time passed and it didn't change their feelings on black people or their music they just loved listenin to it.
Now guess how that applies today.
Sorry nerdy white kid, I don't know where you get your information, the internet maybe(Guess who hangs out there)? But we don't seperate Hip-Hop and Rap. Like we've been tryin to tell people from the start of all this "Hip-Hop is dead" and rap bashing garbage, Hip-Hop isn't just one thing. It's everything.
Whatever the artist's intent is when he makes that song that is what Hip-Hop is. That's why it's so intertwined with the black community because it's like catalyst to bring what's happening with any of the many circles in the black community to the rest of us. But what sells in the white media market isn't what that's about. What that's about is making money and makin sure white kids, like yourself, fill up the concert halls.
What do white children love to do? Curse the parents, act rebellious, and do thing that get their parents raging mad. These n**gas here will help you do that and it doesn't even have to be contextual to whatever the artist is really talking about. A few fuggs, a b***h or two, and maybe a h*e will get them the desired effect, amirite?
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ps34lifesukaz
- 9:39pm GMT - February 11th, 2009
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ummm i like snoop but the games called rockband not hip hop something (cause you no its not a band)
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Fingal_D |
Fingal_D- 10:45pm GMT - February 11th, 2009
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good call bake. I thought I knew what hip hop was, guess I don't. And I actually don't enjoy rap for those reasons you mentioned and I see no matter what, people feel the need to stereotype everthing and insult each other. The part of hip hop/rap that gets on my nerves just so happens to be the egotistical, greedy, untalented stuff (most of what you mentioned). There is some I enjoy, but it's not tough enough to go multi plat and inspire hate. I know people like to be cool n tough, but I am not your ideal white boy so thanks for enlightening me on the present state of hiphop. I've stopped looking for new hip hop (rap) and just listen to the stuff I like and ignore the stuff all the cool people listen to. If you heard these tracks then you would be in the know. Probably not G enough for the cool kids. "La bein, la mal", "Transit ride"," Loungin'", "Sights in the city", "Take a look at yourself", "When you're near", "No time to play", "Slicker than most". These all are on the same album. If you know who or what album, good for you. If people don't know then there is the answer for where hip hop(rap) is today. And if you poke fun at this album, then I'll ROTFLOL
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