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}} ''Tha Blue Carpet Treatment'' is the eighth studio album by American West Coast hip hop artist Snoop Dogg; it was released on November 21, 2006, by Geffen Records. Production for the album took place during 2005 to 2006 at several recording studios and was handled by Dr. Dre, The Neptunes, Battlecat, DJ Pooh, Timbaland, Danja, Mark Batson, Terrace Martin and Mr. Porter, among others. The album debuted at number 5 on the US ''Billboard'' 200, selling 264,000 copies in its first week. Upon its release, ''Tha Blue Carpet Treatment'' received generally positive reviews from music critics. == Background == The phrase ''Tha Blue Carpet Treatment'' is the album's title references for the red carpet which were used at formal events. The blue color refers to Snoop Dogg's affiliation with the Crip gang, who often wear blue than the red for their rival gang, the Bloods. The album cover has undergone several revisions. In August 2006, the first concept was revealed on his website, which features a cartoon dog (representing Snoop Dogg) displaying Crip gang signals while standing on a blue carpet patterned-like bandana. This design has been used, it would have been the third of Snoop Dogg's album covers to use the cartoon likeness of the rapper that was designed by his cousin Darryl Daniel. The updated version of his cover artwork was shown on the ''Late Show with David Lettermans'' 13th Anniversary Special on August 30, 2006, and it featured a parody of the famous Hollywood Sign, which instead read "LONG BEACH". It changed to its current version. Geffen posted this as the final cover for the album on their website. On this album, the direction was for him as a Long Beach, California native to take it back to his gangsta roots. The rapper told MTV.com about allowing him to embrace his true nature with this album; as he stated, "I went right back to the 'hood", he said of his album's production. "I took it back to the basics. I've been making a lot of pop songs, lot of R&B songs. Songs that may have made my fans feel like I wavered from what I was naturally accustomed to doing. But I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and that's what I was feeling at the time. But right now, I'm feeling like going right back to the 'hood". Pharrell said the rapper's music video, "Vato" will not only show his gangsta side, but will also tackle the issue of violence between African Americans and Hispanics at Los Angeles, California and call for racial unity. Snoop Dogg would teamed up with well-known DJs from the West, the East, and the South and released ''Tha Blue Carpet Treatment Mixtape'', which was hosted by DJ Skee, DJ Whoo Kid and DJ Drama. It contained all the rumoured tracks that had been cut from the final track listing of his studio album. It was released a few weeks before the official album came out.〔(MixUnit.com - The World's Largest Hip-Hop Store )〕 The track titled "Think About It" was composed by Frequency in his dorm room one and a half year prior to this album, while he was a student in Virginia. The material was passed to Mike Chavez of Geffen Records who gave it to Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg uses the track to show his older son– who he had not chosen him as the favorite hip-hop artist when being asked– that he can still be an old school gangster rapper regarding his style if he wants to. The track titled "Imagine" which was slated to be featured on Busta Rhymes' album ''The Big Bang''. Busta Rhymes stating in several interviews, before the release of ''The Big Bang'', that the sample for "Imagine" was still trying to be cleared. Busta Rhymes stated that he was not sure that the sample would be cleared on time for his album's release, so it had to be excluded from his album. With the sample not being cleared at the time, and it is presumable that the song was given to Snoop Dogg for his album. It was recorded with verses by Kam and Snoop Dogg (in different from the album version) while playing during TBCT Listening party. Although Busta Rhymes released the remix to "Imagine", it is presumable that his "remix" when it was actually the intended original version which did not make it on the release of ''The Big Bang''. With artists such as Nas, Adil Omar, Ja Rule and Black-Ty, where each one of them did their freestyles on this track. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tha Blue Carpet Treatment」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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