Snoop Dogg: Ego Trippin’ (Universal)

A full 15 years have passed since Snoop Dogg first came along as a cartoonish tabloid hate figure, trailing death threats and murder charges behind him.

A full 15 years have passed since Snoop Dogg first came along as a cartoonish tabloid hate figure, trailing death threats and murder charges behind him.

These days, he cuts a more avuncular figure, as a sort of benevolent elder statesman of rap – if not quite a man of peace, then certainly more LL Cool J than 50 Cent.

While it rolls along with the usual easy menace and caramel smooth sound ...