snoop wrote nearly the entire chronic (far more him than doc, despite what you may have heard). what's more--dre has always been a great businessman and realized early on the value of his name as the brand, the auteur. the fact of the matter is that he was one of many hands in the album's production. the image people have of 2010-era kanye (the stage manager synthesizing the contributions of others) is essentially what was going on, and i've seen the publishing splits to prove it. warren g was a huge creative force behind the project. he was/is also snoop's best friend, so when it came time to do doggystyle, he took on an even more important role.
in 1993, snoop dogg was the best rapper in the world, including ice cube, including q-tip, including everyone in wu-tang. look at gin & juice: you have a beautifully crafted pop song with cadences (in the second verse) that had never really been used for narrative at that point in time. actually, speaking of the second verse, those opening bars are just...it's artful. it's such literary writing. he was better at nearly every facet of rapping than most of his contemporaries were at one.
