Doggystyle, Snoop Dogg's seminal Billboard-topping debut album, turns 25 years young Friday.
To celebrate, Snoop has been filling up Instagram with a series of retrospective posts. First, Snoop shared an old Source review of the album, noting that the album's 4/5 mics rating "should [have] been 5." At the time, Snoop noted, "the West wasn't fully respected." Of course, in the years since its release, Doggystyle has achieved classic status and is regularly discussed as a hugely influential entry in the Snoop catalog and beyond.
See more of Snoop's Doggystyle-celebrating posts below.
The anniversary arrives just days after Snoop got himself a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Speaking to the crowd when accepting the honor, Snoop used the moment to remind everyone of who most deserves thanking when acknowledging one's success: the self.
"Last but not least, I wanna thank me," Snoop said. "I want to thank me for believing in me. I want to thank me for doing all this hard work. I want to thank me for having no days off. I want to thank me for never quitting. I want to thank me for always being a giver and trying to give more than I receive. I want to thank me for trying to do more right than wrong. I want to thank me for just being me at all times. Snoop Dogg, you a bad motherfucker." Dr. Dre, Quincy Jones, Pharrell, and Jimmy Kimmel were also on hand for the ceremony.
