In practically every way, Duces is a noticeably stronger album than its predecessor - beats, rhymes, hooks, songwriting - and it features even more talent with unlikely contributions from Mobb Deep, Hi-Tek, Lil' Mo, and Swizz Beatz. Duces 'n Trays finds this sure-fire team of Cali crips returning a year and a half later, far more experienced and with a noticeably greater sense of camaraderie. The debut Eastsidaz album didn't exactly set the charts on fire, but it did garner some respectable sales and, more importantly, it set the precedent for Snoop's post-No Limit sound: Battlecat and Meech Wells laid down the beats Kokane, Nate Dogg, and Butch Cassidy sung the hooks Snoop loomed above with his sticky-icky ad-libbing and Goldie Loc and Tray Deee dropped the gangsta rhymes. Yet despite the odds, everything worked out for Snoop. After all, his reputation wasn't exactly on solid ground at the time, and his timing wasn't exactly ideal either - West Coast rap in general had faltered ever since 2Pac's death. Dogghouse records and its flagship act, tha Eastsidaz, at first admittedly seemed like a questionable venture on the part of Snoop Dogg back in 1999.
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